I haven’t been one to dabble in different religions throughout life, but whilst I attended Catholic Secondary College I accumulated much experience with the Catholic Church, and in my senior years my interest in the many differing religions brought me to undertake a subject called the Study of Religion.
Whilst I could always see the similarities between the array of religious and spiritual beliefs that inhabit our world, I always felt that they were only bringing part truths but perhaps missing something, or missing the whole.
I wondered how we could all be equal if some are excluding of others? And how is it that people can preach certain rules or disciplines but not actually live them for themselves?
I also had to ask: if God is Love, how could there be any discrimination against people, degradation of women or even a lack of self-love and true care within our very homes if we considered ourselves to be love and so-called religious?
Because God is Love, there can be no punishment, no judgement and certainly we won’t be sent to the fiery depths of hell for not being perfect, when perfection doesn’t even exist!
Through Esoteric Connective Tissue therapy with a highly qualified Universal Medicine practitioner, I have been able to connect back to God and the fact that God is with me, in my body.
Through this modality I claim the light that I am and feel a freedom or expansion in my shoulders that feels like I have wings. Right through to my feet there is a fullness of the natural flow and rhythm that my body’s connective tissue just knows how to be – every cell within me feels like Divinity.
When I connect to myself and to the very core of my being, which I call my essence or my Soul, I know exactly what it feels like to be held in God’s love and I am reminded that I am held in grace and absoluteness at all times. I sense the very glimpse of what it truly feels like to hold everyone else as equal Sons of God too, whether they choose to know God or not.
I cannot help but feel that we are brothers and that this makes us all one and the same.
In my Esoteric Connective Tissue therapy sessions I am fully supported to feel the lightness and acceptance of who I am as a Son of God on earth, and this forms a marker to carry with me wherever I go.
Whether I feel aches, pains or tension in my body or get caught in the tension of my day, nothing changes the fact that my body knows how to naturally align to love and flow accordingly.
As we know, the universe naturally moves in cycles and rhythms all of the time, and as our bodies are made up of the same particles as our universe, I realise I have this same opportunity to choose to live with awareness of my own cycles and rhythms every day. I can accept and let go of that which does not feel supportive for me, choosing to honour my body, my delicate exquisite connective tissue, to choose to align to God and embody love once more.
My body and the way that I live, is Religion.
I live religiously each day through the choices I make to connect deeply to myself and thus to God and his love.
With this understanding, and thanks to the teachings and presentations of Universal Medicine together with the many healing modalities I have studied, I now know the true and whole meaning of religion on a very personal level.
Religion resides in my very own body, in the graceful way in which I choose to live, to move and in the choices I make to reconnect to the love that I am. It is then through this quality, which I bring to my every movement, that I can consistently confirm my connection back to God and Religion.
In deep appreciation to Serge Benhayon and Kate Greenaway (physiotherapist and Esoteric Connective Tissue therapy extraordinaire) for their consistent and supportive approach in inspiring many to reconnect to the wisdom held deeply within our own physical bodies.
By Cherise Holt, 32, Nurse, Australia
Further Reading:
Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy
Connective Tissue Therapy – Connecting to my Tenderness
My Connection to God and Finding Real Religion
The Truth about Universal Medicine 
The Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy modality is a modality that does indeed support us to connect with our inner-heart and from there the universe. It is definitely a modality that helps us to know the universe through our bodies.
What comes up for me when connecting with my experience of Connective tissue therapy throughout the years is: space. It communicates to me: It is ok and safe to surrender to all that I am. With no effort whatsoever just being and allowing the universal flow in my body.
I never cease to be amazed at the level of healing that occurs with this incredible modality, not just on a physical level, but on a mental and emotional level as well. And even with the physical it goes so much deeper than simply supporting the basic function of the body. The power and depth of what is offered here is quite remarkable.
In the support of connective tissue sessions, where I feel supported to come back to an inner stillness I also feel connected to the more, to the divine and to myself.
The Connective Tissue modality is a physical connection, the practitioner holds your arms or your legs, but much more happens energetically inside your body. It brings a deep feeling that is not physical at all, a connection to the inner self where we can experience a completely different place we may have long forgotten but always known was there.
After a session of Esoteric Connective Tissue I always feel much lighter, much more connected to myself and when I feel the lightness and stillness in my body I feel connected to God.
When I have a connective tissue session there is a gorgeous sense of returning more to myself. It is a reminder of how I can live every day, connected to the natural flow that is there, and I can choose to allow that spaciousness in my movements and interactions. The sessions are a reminder of what we can choose.
“Perfection doesn’t even exist!”- this is fundamental wisdom that everyone needs to know because so many of us are caught up in trying to be perfect in one way of another.
I would put my hand up for this. It is very important to examine where the perfection sneaks in, then gets us into reaction of not having done it right or accordingly acted out to the picture /ideal we had, instead of taking in everything a situation is offering us to evolve from. Which is the only purpose the situation occurred in the first place.
“When I connect to myself and to the very core of my being, which I call my essence or my Soul, I know exactly what it feels like to be held in God’s love and I am reminded that I am held in grace and absoluteness at all times” – I love this statement because in this we are all held as one, no one less no one more, All Sons of God.
I LOVE Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy, I find it brings me back to myself to a deeper level, the connection to my body that is sacred. My cells in my body could not agree with you more “what it feels like to be held in God’s love and I am reminded that I am held in grace and absoluteness at all times”.
I connected back to God in reading this today, thank you.
Esoteric Connective Tissue really allows us to feel the true flow of the light of the Soul through our body when we truly surrender.
Connective Tissue sessions allows us to connect deeper to the light of our Soul, it is a beautiful way to deepen and surrender with our body.
‘My body and the way that I live, is Religion.’ This is key Cherise – our connection to our divinity and how we live that every day.
So many religions with a variety of rules that we must follow to stay on the good side of God or else. The wrath of God notion never sat well with me when I was a child and even less so nowadays – just seems to be a way to control the masses.
To consider our relationship with our body as a religion really turns religion on its head! Yet it makes total sense. When we live religiously we are honouring the body that inhouses our soul, it helps us get from A to B. We need to honour it, to nurture it and to ensure it is fit for life and for work.
This here…”I wondered how we could all be equal if some are excluding of others?”….is a great question to be asking and quite simply blows a hole in organised religion right there and right now.
Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy connects us to the energy of love that flows through the tissue of our physical body.
Beautiful way to put it, it connects us to the energy of love that flows through our tissues.
” to reconnect to the wisdom held deeply within our own physical bodies”, the level of wisdom held within the body is absolutely unfathomable and yet we treat our bodies with criminal disrespect.
Cherise what you share here “my body knows how to naturally align to love and flow accordingly” is absolutely pivotal because what it’s saying is that left to it’s own devices our bodies would naturally align to the Divine BUT and it is a massive but, we don’t allow our bodies to follow their own instincts, in fact we manually drag them in the opposite direction! Hence the excessive and rampant levels of illness and basic unease amongst the world’s population.
This exquisite modality helps us realise on a very physical and tangible level that there is an interconnectedness to all that lives and breathes in the vast universe we are a part of – the plants, trees, animals, people, organisms, stars, moons, planets etc. and that there is a way to move where we can either be in accordance with this flow of life or in discordance to it.
Very important, to recognise that divinity is within you and, that it is a tangible quality that can be felt in your body – making it something that will always be and has always been there.
It never fails to touch me every time I feel we are a part of the universe’s rhythm that every one of my particles know this truth and they are responding to it.
‘Whether I feel aches, pains or tension in my body or get caught in the tension of my day, nothing changes the fact that my body knows how to naturally align to love and flow accordingly.’ I could judge myself for having pains and aches or tension in my body which was not very helpful, so what you are presenting feels very supportive and makes it clear there is the choice for us to be present in our body and align to the rhythms of the universe.
I love having connective tissue sessons, they are so gentle but very powerful in a gentle way, I feel my whole body light up as the energy flows and connects every part radiating out its warmth.
I am blessed to be part of a practitioner team for a practice trial for Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy. The results are truly awesome with clients being free from many years of chronic pain.
This modality is truly Heaven sent.
It is very humbling to feel the true flow of our body that is unmistakably felt during an Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy session.
Yes, it is humbling, because you realise that regardless of the merry jaunts you take your body off on, regardless of the substances you consume that make it work over or under its optimal flow, it still stays steady waiting for you to come home and appreciate it.
The choice in quality is obvious in every person, there is either a complete lack of care for self and others and a very poor quality of movement and expression, or a deepening love held for self and ultimately all, that inspires a level of integrity and honour in the quality of movement and expression.
We know what supports our body in every moment… it is a question as to which type of energy – fire or prana we align to that determines whether we are connected to our body or not.
Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy connects us with the light in our bodies.
Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy brings me the most beautiful awareness of how connected and Godly I am.
Esoteric connective therapy – a modality that supports us to feel our connection with God, how awesome is that?
I also can’t say enough good things about connective tissue therapy, I love receiving it, and I love giving it and anything that can bring us closer to God and our true way of being is simply golden.
Re-connect to our essence through our bodies and we can re connect to the essence of the all.
Bringing it back to the simplicity of reconnecting to our essence through our body.
Religion, if you understand it to be a re-connection to the essence of who we are, and Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy certainly work well together as they are both about re-connection.
It is interesting how there is the word or the concept of love in almost every religion, but there are varying descriptions of what this love is and how it can be lived. So what comes then when love is brought about by way of an esoteric life? How much does this change the meaning and living of this word?
What I love about connective tissue therapy is its simplicity: it just connects me back to my body through the simplest and smallest of movements. It reminds me of the natural and innate sensitivity and delicacy of our bodies – and how amazing it feels to live and move with those qualities.
Religion is simply a reconnection back to that which we originally withdrew away from. From this space we begin to feel once more the interconnectedness of all things and understand that even when we live in disconnection to ourselves and thus all others, this tiny isolated fragment (spirit) still belongs to a far grander stupendous whole we know as Soul.
It is beautiful to make that connection between the body and divinity and how these can both be in the same place at the same time, because ultimately that is the truth of life.
Living religiously has nothing to do with buildings and dogma etc and everything to do with how we approach daily living and taking loving care of ourselves for this is how we share the love of God in our daily reflections to others.
Discovering the flow of energy within my body through Connective Tissue has opened doors to understanding of myself, how I am with others, what a day of flow feels like (the outer flow as a result of the inner flow), and what that means about my connection with others, and even with the universe. Wow what a revelation.
Flow is a natural part of every aspect of life and yet we have tampered with life to such an extent that everywhere you look there is stagnation.
We have tampered with life so much and effected the natural flow. It is up to us to bring true flow back into our everyday life.
Thankfully we can only ever scribble over the top of Life, we can’t actually stuff it up completely. The flow is always there for us to slip back into when we’re ready to fez up to having made one massive mistake in the first place and that was choosing to walk away from God.
Without Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy I simply would not know my true connected flow or vitality. I adore how this therapy is so subtly, tangibly felt and profoundly deepening of the body’s light.
Religion could not be more simple, as you share it is to reconnect to the love you are, and to the love God is, and live from that love. This is how we truly get to know God, it’s in the surrender to ourselves as Sons of God, as equal reflections of his love. Talking about religion and treating it as knowledge is not working, it’s in the living of true religion that we restore harmony and love to ourselves and others.
Religion has been at the centre of so many arguments. What you show here is the simplicity of our connection with God or the Universe or whatever name we give to it.
Every moment we can choose to move in love, or not. Movements in love deepen our surrender to the body and we can feel our divinity.
Yes it is very clear when we move in love or not, and how our body responds, either in surrender or contraction.
I feel it is an important point to make, that most people have a sense of their own true divinity and thus know God. The only thing therefore that gets in the way of this being expressed is the hurts we have all experienced through living on this earth. To come back to God is therefore a journey of letting go.
Beautifully shared thank you Cherise, I love Connective Tissue Therapy, it is so gentle but so very powerful in opening up our awareness to the divine connection we have with God in our bodies. As the energy flows from my feet I get a sense of all the dots through out my body being connected by this beautiful divine flow of love.
“Whilst I could always see the similarities between the array of religious and spiritual beliefs that inhabit our world, I always felt that they were only bringing part truths”. I feel we keep accumulating religions partly because none of them do the whole job they are supposed to do and partly because we the consumers don’t want a religion that delivers everything because that would mean responsibility and evolution.
The connective tissue in our body is so super sensitive and delicate, and will register any impact, assault, or roughness that we experience in any way shape or form. And so to support this intricate network in our body, to relax again and return back to its more fluid and maleable state is a healing and an immense blessing. So many of us hold so much tightness in the body and it is not necessarily muscular tension, as it can be the accumulated hardness in the connective tissue itself. And so it is that when we learn to let go of this tension, we have much greater access to what lies deep within us all, our essence, our connection to divinity, to God.
A very beautiful & profound experience of Esoteric Connective Tissue. It deepens all the layers of tissue in the body and helps to truly let go of the hold tension and contraction in our body. I am learning how esoteric connective tissue works and how much it is benefitial for all.
Religion for me to is about the way that I live each day – how I am with myself in every way and equally how I am with everyone else; something that I can continually, refine, deepen and evolve with…
It is the same for me, the way I live daily, how I am with myself and others daily. I am continously refining and deepening as I evolve with it.
We live in a world today where lovelessness and abuse is our socially accepted culture as consequence of not living the culture of God, through our disconnection to our bodies and Soul. However it is through our bodies our inescapable relationship with our Soul, who we are in essence, with God is known. And it is also through our bodies that we can live our Godliness here on earth. As such developing a loving, honouring and relationship with our bodies is fundamental if we are as a civilization, to return to live the culture of God, the culture of Love.
“…Religion resides in my very own body,…” This is a very true statement when one has, and continues to, develop their relationship with self-care & self-love.
“… I am fully supported to feel the lightness and acceptance of who I am as a Son of God on earth, and this forms a marker to carry with me wherever I go.” What all healing modalities should deliver, anything that does not bring us home to God within is just smothering our inherent divinity.
‘Whether I feel aches, pains or tension in my body or get caught in the tension of my day, nothing changes the fact that my body knows how to naturally align to love and flow accordingly.’ This is a beautiful reminder Cherise, often we can let these things overwhelm us and we forget the simplicity and flow that is continuously being offered to us through our connection with our body.
Universal Medicine modalities support in ways that one would never imagine till you’re in a session and open to whatever comes up.
Everyone has a different experience in the sessions, being open is the key, allowing for the truth to be shown.
“I also had to ask: if God is Love, how could there be any discrimination against people, degradation of women or even a lack of self-love and true care within our very homes if we considered ourselves to be love and so-called religious?” A very pertinent question in current times. So many atrocities are carried out in the name of God and religion, when this feels to be the absolute opposite of a true God – whose very essence is love and understanding, not judgement.
The Way to God is found in connection to the body, and with this comes a great knowing. How can God be argued about, be misunderstood and be a source of great squabble amongst human beings when the truth lives in its simplicity within each and every one of us.
‘Religion resides in my very own body…’ The beautiful observations in this blog confirm the kingdom of Heaven truly does lie within, and our bodies are indeed temples. Religion is a lived and felt experience, not a rule or institution. We are religion.
How beautifully simple… that a simple movement and connection can bring us back to be in touch with the ineffable oneness…. Ahhh… the simplicity of the Divine.
There is a way to move our body from and in connection with it, and to deepen that connection as we move, and when I consciously choose that kind of movement, it exposes other movements that are in disregard or actually against my connection and it opens up space for me to come back in.
“if God is Love, how could there be any discrimination against people, degradation of women or even a lack of self-love and true care within our very homes if we considered ourselves to be love and so-called religious?” A very valid question, if God is Love than why are we living so lovelessly? Why are we fighting other human beings in the name of God?
Many of our systems and institutions are devoid of Love; the emptiness felt is palpable. We are not designed to live less than love yet to date for many of us this has been our existence.
“I live religiously each day through the choices I make to connect deeply to myself and thus to God and his love.” thank you Cherise, so simply and beautifully expressed, we all hold this love within just waiting for us to connect to and live from that space.
My most profound learning has been that my connection with God, my essence, my soul is not something I can think myself to. It can only be felt through my willingness to be still and in my body. This is the one aspect of life that most religions neglect to share. Only the religion, The Way of The Livingness, has reminded the world of this simple fact.
Its reminds me of a saying what goes around comes back around. In fact there is a truth to that. As we choose a type of energy in every moment , this energy bounces back through the body. So what we choose – comes always back. Also it can be said that whatever you choose , which is karma, comes back to you to. And the big revelation is hereby : that everything exists out of cycles – nothing is linear.
Esoteric Connective Tissue therapy supports me to surrender deeply helping me to expand and claim the power that resides within me.
Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy is an amazing therapy that really allows you to let go in the body and totally surrender. I find that this is the greatest way in supporting myself to connect to what is deeply inside of me and to start to build a relationship with my true self and from there let go of the pictures and patterns that don’t support this.
Thank you Cherise, it’s a great conversation on what religion truly is, a whole body experience with God within, not “out there”, and each Son of God with equal divinity and authority. This is a great line “nothing changes the fact that my body knows how to naturally align to love and flow accordingly” as the true study of religion comes from the inner heart and body, not the mind studying words. It’s a living energy – and it’s there to be connected to and lived and moved with.
It’s in the name – “Connective”, the change in the body after these exercises is just huge.
The denizens of the catholic church would do well to take note of what you’ve shared here Cherise – your words lay to waste such controlling notions as “fiery depths of hell” and restore us to the true Sonship light that lives within us all (and not ‘only one’).
The words “fiery depths of hell” expose the fear and control in religion and attitude to God being punishing, whilst the words “fiery depths of love” speak volumes of who we truly are as Sons of God and the source we come from. Rather than religion telling me I can never be enough I prefer to connect to God and the truth I can never not be love as a Son of God. The Way of The Livingness is so simple as it’s the unfolding path of living as a Son of God in daily life and it comes from within, from my own relationship to God
Very powerfully said Melinda – would love to read a blog expanding on the “fiery depths of love”, as you’ve brought us here. Reading this has been a high point in my day!
“Religion resides in my very own body…” What music to the ears, and what a blessing that such a true knowing can be experienced with the support of a modality such as Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy.
Practising Esoteric Connective Tissue exercises in my daily rhythms has been a great support for me to deeply connect with my body. When I experience this connection, I also feel connected to everything and feel that I am much more than a body as a human being. With this tangible experience I can say that Love, that is, God, lives inside of me.
Thank you Cherise, this was gorgeous to read, in fact my body responded quite strongly and felt very light and spacious as I read your words! This is such a powerful line “Religion resides in my very own body, in the graceful way in which I choose to live, to move and in the choices I make to reconnect to the love that I am”. It’s so very simple, the temple is already there in the body, and so is the love and wisdom in connection to the inner heart, no books or buildings needed as we ourselves are ready made packages of true religion. We are living Sons of God and always part of God’s body.
Connective tissue at first was challenging for me to experience, because I had been so used to controlling the flow in my body and Connective tissue therapy is offering a flow which is far deeper, expansive and harmonious for the body – which I had not been living on a day to day basis. But I could not mistake that I felt like a new born when I hopped off the table and was truly amazing and en-lightened.
Beautiful Cherise, connective tissue has been an incredible support for me also. I had a couple of month where I was having an incredibly sore shoulder and wrist on the same arm. I had had a connection tissue session and chakra puncture session on it which brought up my connection to god and the lack of support I felt. From then on I was committed to letting God in and feeling what support was on offer continuously that I was choosing not to feel or accept. I used connective tissue exercise daily during my day focussing on my shoulder and wrist. What came of this has been life changing. My connection to God has deepened, and continues to expand as I accept the support on offer. I still continue to use these exercise they have become part of my living way.
I feel that religion must encompass an understanding of people and a willingness to bring compassion and care as the foremost qualities. I just see very little of this in the practiced religions of the world. We know how much better life is when we care for one another, so we should really ask what corruption we have allowed in the dominance of certain religions over our way of life and whether this is deeply harming us. Religion must not be a word to be feared, but our current religions bastardised as they are appears to certainly make us wary at the very least of the idea that we are all religious in our own personal way.
Stephen maybe that’s the catch?
“but our current religions bastardised as they are appears to certainly make us wary at the very least of the idea that we are all religious in our own personal way.”
The fact that we are wary of religion actually keeps us away from knowing true religion which is a living way naturally known in our bodies if we but give permission. I know I can feel true religion in my body now but I had to work hard to reestablish the connection by discarding all the ideals and beliefs that were in the way.
God (still notice I have an issue with the word God while writing this!) is love, it is us that has bastardised that love. Great you came back to feel the truth of this through your body.
I whole heartedly agree with you Cherise, Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy is absolutely heavenly to receive!
If we could only truly understand that God is pure love and that there is not an ounce of judgement only space for us to come back to our soul, then we wouldn’t buy into all these dogmas from religions which only keep us away from our true power and connection to the Divine.
Cherise you beautifully describe how it feels when we connect to what we are made from. In this connection all are one and we feel the divinity we can chose to emanate with our every move.
Many of us struggle with accepting God as anything other than how most mainstream religions portray him – it has been a revelation to learn that we can access God through our own body.
Indeed thanks to Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy I am now able to connect more deeply to my body than I have been able ever before. The delicateness I now can connect to I never have felt before and was not even aware of that I had that in me. This connection makes me feel that I am so much more than only flesh and blood and my thinking, that I am part of something much grander than me and that, like the symbology of my connective tissue, am connected with all people I live with and even beyond, with all people in the world.
In my experience there is a big difference between thinking and feeling. As Cherise shares here she ‘cannot help but feel that we are brothers and that this makes us all one and the same.’ When I go into what I feel, I feel the same way – there is an instant connection with everyone. But if I go to my thoughts, then I can start to perceive differences and believe in separation. These thoughts though are part of a conditioning from life itself not something that arises from the innateness of who I am and hence when we rely on our mental structures, we perpetuate this conditioning rather than express what is felt within.
Esoteric Connective Tissue therapy is simple and life-changing – feeling the reconnection to the truth of who we are allows us clear sight of the many destructive patterns and behaviours we run that is anything but the truth of us. Awareness is the key to truly changing, so slugging it out at the coal-face of drugs, domestic violence, abuse, bullying and corruption is necessary only because we have allowed ourselves to lose that connection to our essence, and have brought up generations lost to who they truly are. The ills need to be addressed on all fronts, but to start with the original ill, would render all subsequent powerless and without foundation.
Sure Annie, we have to address it at the root first otherwise anything else we develop would be lacking foundation and doomed to fail as can be seen so clearly in the way we repeatedly are trying to improve our lives but avoid to go to the root of the ill first.
Reading the words ‘God is Love’ in this blog, brought up an instant response, clearly a memory from my own religious experiences. This was to add the words ‘but we are not’. This was one of my understandings from the messages of the Anglican church growing up. Yes, God is love, no argument there…but we are the problem here because we are not love. What it seems we are not readily told is that we can choose love from within where ‘the Kingdom of God’ is in us all – so we can be love too.
It’s pretty crazy when you consider the way we marvel at science shows that display microscopic views or our body, that we celebrate when we can launch a probe into a new part of space, but all the time we have 24/7 guraranteed, unlimited access to the complete wisdom and knowing of God, just through connecting to our cells. It is like being given the ‘book of life’ and reading every other thing that has ever been published. It’s perverse, almost like we don’t want to know the truth. We can’t help but see it in the end as its written in large letters in everything. Thank you Cherise, for sharing how Esoteric Connective Tissue has helped you return to the simple wisdom that lives inside me and inside you.
‘my body and the way I love is religion’ – this is awesome and so powerful and absolutely brings me an understanding of how powerful connective tissue is.
How powerful it is to have a marker in your body for what it actually feels like to be connected with your innermost essence and with God, so that it’s not a mental construct but a known quality.
Yes Fiona, this quality you write of is so tangible once we connect. I am shocked by how easy it is to feel it more and more every day!
This is such a beautiful sentence, Cherise, that I just had to read it over again – “Religion resides in my very own body, in the graceful way in which I choose to live, to move and in the choices I make to reconnect to the love that I am.” If everyone learned from an early age that true religion was so natural to us, there would no doubt be much less conflict in the world.
“I live religiously each day through the choices I make to connect deeply to myself and thus to God and his love.” I love what you have written here as it makes religion very clear and simple. It is not more complicated than that.
We have seen and are still seeing so much unclarity about God, religion and what they both mean. We have groups, communities and whole countries pulling against each other in the name of both of these. Years ago I would have given you an opinion on this, well, to be honest, I would have shrugged my shoulders and possibly just changed the subject. I’m saying I would have put it all in the too hard basket and not wanted to get into something I didn’t understand. This was how school was and growing up with these two words I remember wanting to know more but felt like I should have known and then I always felt silly whenever I asked questions with the answers always making me more confused. It seems like there was a never-ending trail of questions that then lead to me turning away altogether.
As the article states I was looking outside for answers that were already with me, all I needed do was connect to them. As a note; we have a perception of what answers look like, they should be written, on paper and be a certain way. What I am saying here is that the answer comes in many forms and in many ways, we only need be open to hearing or seeing them. What I have seen time and time again is that the quality I am in directly controls how the ‘answers’ are seen, or at times not seen. We have far more responsibility in all this then we see and it all comes from the quality we are in every step.
I very much relate to putting some of the more controversial subjects like God in the too hard basket, but I think when I was a teenager I figured out if swapped the word “god” for “the universe” it all seemed easy….’trust the universe’, ‘the universe will take care of me’, ‘the universe will provide what I need.’ It all sounded great but of what quality was it? And why was I avoiding the GOD word? What was so bad about this word, one could ask was it because I was hurt by it….but I grew up without Religion, so how did it hurt me? One might say it was past lives, which could be true… One could say the word “God” has been misused and many have bastardised its true meaning, yet so has the word “love” and I still use that.
What about the stigma, one might argue there is stigma around God. I have Gay friends and there can be stigmas around being Gay but that didn’t stop them getting married. Could it be that God brings up stuff for everyone because if you truly connect to what he is offering, it reminds you of how far you have strayed? Allowing yourself to surrender in a session is nothing short of a miracle.
Remember here we are merely talking about the word ‘God’ and we haven’t even discussed God himself. There is something directly related to how this word and this being has been represented that we are scared by. As has been said it’s directly with this word and being because there are other words that have more then one meaning and we still use them and don’t directly avoid them. So what is it with God, the word and being that has us so withdrawn? It’s a great question to ask ourselves and consider.
‘My body, and the way that I live, is religion.’ Beautifully expressed Cherise. When we live in connection with God and the Masters we cannot but fail to live true religion.
Having a session of Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy is like feeling the truth of how we once lived freely in our bodies as young children – before the assaults and impositions of the world molded us into a restricted and contracted way of living that is what we know ourselves to be today but is actually very far from what we truly know ourselves to be.
It is awesome that we have a modality such as esoteric connective tissue therapy that can connect us to our (w)holiness. Our bodies are sacred and to feel this from inside is a great gift . This is so powerful because the practitioners of Univesal Medicine follow a code of ethics that is second to none and take responsibility for the quality of energy In which they live.
Well said, Elaine. I have always called Connective Tissue therapy ‘God’s work’, because in every session I cannot deny the connection to my (w)holiness.
“I cannot help but feel that we are brothers and that this makes us all one and the same.” This modality is profoundly healing for humanity.
It really does seem quite amazing that people will commit themselves, as I have done in the past, to ‘religions’ that are so contradictory and as you so rightly expose Cherise, It is such a joy to encounter a religion, The Way of The Livingness, that ‘walks the talk’.
The more we realise and surrender to the love we are within is where the oneness God is known, the more we will understand that religion is a livingness which can only truly be experienced through our movements in connection to our love. Love is the Soulful quality that we all equally hold within our bodies, by virtue of the fact that we are living beings here together on earth. As you have wisely shared highlights how our relationship with God and religion is always available, we only need to surrender to it – ‘Religion resides in my very own body, in the graceful way in which I choose to live, to move and in the choices I make to reconnect to the love that I am.’
I continue to feel each day how every choice I make impacts my body. To appreciate this level of sensitivity is a surrender to grace that at one time I would never have believed to be possible for me. Now it is simply, my living way. It feels to me, that as Cherise shares above, I am living religion.
Someone posted once that the Buddha wasn’t buddhist, and Mohammed wasn’t moslem – and it makes sense of why we can feel there is truth spoken within religions, but the whole package of religion doesn’t bear any resemblence to truth. The true teachers have presented the wisdom down the ages, but those not living that same alignment have taken the words and created everything that purports to be of truth but which instead glorify and give power and dominance to false creation of men – in order to serve the individual purpose.
You have clearly identified here, Annie, that the accepted religions are interpretations of what the original teachers taught and therefore not the Truth of what they taught. To truly represent what they taught it has to be lived.
So true Annie, I have always found Religions hard to fully relate to but have loved some of the wise and humble teachers over the years. For me, true Religion comes like a movement, it is all of what it says and more: in a living breathing package, not part of what it promises and less in a suppressed and guilty prison of its own making.
The loving wise words in this blog feel like a healing balm for my body Cherise. Thank you so much for this.
In life we experience life changing moments, dare I say The Connective Tissue modality is a modality that has life changing affects.
Beautifully said and very true Cherise, the Esoteric Connective Tissue Modality is an absolute gift to everyone.
If you have ever had a Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy session you will know how without a doubt this modality is Divine. It is so simply yet equally powerful, delicate and healing all at once, while not relieving or trying to support you escaping from the intensities of life. I have found that offers the foundation instead within oneself to go back out into life and embrace it in full with the connection with ones true self.
“Whether I feel aches, pains or tension in my body or get caught in the tension of my day, nothing changes the fact that my body knows how to naturally align to love and flow accordingly”. This is a significant realisation that you can have an illness or disease in your body but still maintain that the love and flow in connection to your soul or essence. I know people who live this and it is the opposite of what I see in most people who have chronic illness. It feels very important for people like you to share what is possible.
I think of the tenderness of a new born baby and and how we remain that way while we are young, and then think of how I was when I was a teenager – hardened, small aches and pains, short temper and an underlying anxiousness about all things, how can this be possible when we were once so complete and tender. When I had my first Esoteric Connective tissue therapy session I felt what it was like to just ‘be’ again, because rarely in the demands of life are we offered a space to feel that we are that.
How simple, to know God, is to be with our body. Does this not but confirm the words spoken by Yeshua “The Kingdom of God is Within You”?
“In my Esoteric Connective Tissue therapy sessions I am fully supported to feel the lightness and acceptance of who I am as a Son of God on earth” Awesome Cherise when we surrender to our own body and allow the mind to let go we can feel we are connected to the bigger picture the bigger plan and ultimately God.
Feeling light and easy in our movement is our natural way and we must always question our own lifestyle choices if this is not what we are feeling. We definitely set the bench too low in terms of what we see and experience as well-being and when considering the array of ailments and illnesses that afflict the global population. It is time we explored what well-being should really be representative of; clarity, energy, joy and a feeling of lightness, not what we have come to accept, which is far from this abundance.
When I was small, in fact up till the age of around 8 I had vivid memories of being in the womb, and the only way I can put that experience into words is to say I felt universally held, and complete. When I had my first Esoteric Healing session, I experienced the very same, and that was when I first recognised what Serge Benhayon called Fire, or the light of our Soul. And it sparked a recognition in me, for I had felt it before – of course.
So beautiful and freeing to know, feel and live with an inner connection to God within my inner heart, for so long I had searched for God outside of me. I love Connective Tissue Therapy feeling the Divine pulse flowing through every part of my body.
I recently had a facial with an esoteric practitioner which ended with a facial release. As I was coming back at the end of the session I felt as though I had just been taken to Heaven. I had been in the hands of Heaven. The esoteric modalities are super powerful.
How can there be this divide in religions, when all the petals of the flower are connected to the same stem. The reason is that we identify with our particular truth, embellish our petal with trappings and lies and look at the other petals with different shapes and colours and see something different. We are hooked by the small bit of truth, but remain blinded to the rest that is not.
What a gift to have Esoteric Connective tissue therapy which can assist to allow us to move our bodies in a graceful way, feeling the bodies natural flow.
When I deeply surrender during an Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy session every cell within my body feels Divine and confirms my responsibility to choose to live as a true Son of God.
Having had four operations this year I can most definitely vouch for the extraordinarily supportive and regenerative effects of C T T …. It really should be there for everyone in the wards of all our hospitals.
All I feel to add is praise to what you have shared Cherise, for I also find Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy is an amazing modality.
“My body and the way that I live, is Religion.” This is a new concept and understanding of Religion but it makes sense to me. The way we live, if not from love has a detrimental affect on our body and then ultimately our health. If we are not loving or caring towards ourselves, or to others, there is a jarring on the body that stops the flow of life. Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy is great at getting the flow back in the body and reconnecting and re-aligning us back to God.
There is here, a beautiful cycle of confirmation and activity, playing over and over again, as you continue to grow and learn more about yourself as a son of God.
There is no doubt about the truth of God and relgion when you feel the deep support and healing this modality offers and take into your life as a natural approach to everyday experiences.
Esoteric Connective Therapy is on one hand a very scientific and precise method of addressing the physical body and its many ailments; on the other hand it offers, as you so aptly describe, an enormous expansion and lightness that cannot as yet be measured by any instrumentation we presently have. And thus, it will be doubted and might even be decried – nevertheless, it is a regular occurrence in these sessions and one that reconnects us back into the all we are part of.
The angle and slant you have presented the truth of religion and your relationship with God goes against the current grain of thought, but once experienced in the way you have described there can be no doubting of the “… fact that God is with me, in my body.” I too have experienced this through the stillness and expansion I have felt from Connective Tissue Therapy.
Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy modality is such a powerful and profound technique that I Love receiving and practicing. Most of the time the client (me included) lets go pretty much immediately and what it feels like is you are receiving a very gently internal massage that is so exquisite you can’t but drop and melt into the table. When you get off the table – wow you feel like you have gone to somewhere special and came back. You can never underestimate the power and flow our connective tissue and what this modality offers us. This level of connection in such a honouring and committed way allows for magic to happen.
Awesome, this also makes the Science of God pretty easy. To know God we have to allow that fiery flow in our bodies. It makes sense and it is my experience also.
Thank you Cherise for sharing this.. It is by our connection to our body we know the way. That’s why so many people who have come across Universal Medicine have re-connected to their way – just simply by meeting their body and connecting to their truth of what they know. It is no rara or any fluff, simply Universal Medicine offers tools how to connect with yourself (your body and being) and how to continue to grow from there in life – by living your Way.
Religion for me is a living way too, one where ritual and ceremony can be a part of our everyday – as in a quality in the way we do things and relate to one another, something that we live from our innermost out.
‘Religion resides in my very own body, in the graceful way in which I choose to live, to move and in the choices I make to reconnect to the love that I am.’ Beautifully said Cherise, and esoteric modalities such as the Connective Tissue Therapy and Esoteric Yoga are amazing supports that allow the body to truly surrender and be open to a deep connection with ourselves and God.
We are all religious in one way or another, the question is just what is it that we are religious with…
Connective Tissue Therapy is amazing, it allows us to connect to such a deeper level within us, it allows our body to expand and the lymphatics to feel the true follow of energy throughout the body. When I have a session I can feel how quickly my body surrenders to a deeper state of stillness.
As Yeshua said ‘The Kindgom of God is Within’, which is so true the connection to God and our Soul is through the body. We will never find anything if we seek outside of ourselves only emptiness. The Sacred Esoteric Healing modalities including Esoteric Connective Tissue therapy beautifully support the body to reconnect to this and let everything that is not love or does not support us go. I have recently felt how, for whatever reason .. through hurts or just not wanting to feel absolutely lovely! Somehow I have built a diversion in my body, it is like a diversion from the main beautifull path/road within that is connected to all. This is great to feel as I can now literally change the flow of this by choices, actions and movements to come back to truth and love within as you said ‘nothing changes the fact that my body knows how to naturally align to love and flow accordingly.’
Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy, allows us to feel a true settlement in our bodies, one that reflects the expansion of the universe within us all and our connection with the divine.
I love how you say Cherise that religion resides in your own body – through the way that you choose to move and live and so it is something that comes from within you rather than something held outside or separate from you.
It is very beautiful to feel your words, Cherise. Many of us may have had a glimpse of what it might be like to be held in God’s love, and making a conscious, continuous choice to honour that connection in the way we live makes it a religion, a committed way of being. And our very own body is a gateway to that connection.
I hadn’t really connected god and connective tissue therapy but it makes sense, anything that connects us more to the feelings in our bodies is naturally connecting us more to god. God being a feeling of oneness with ourselves, now that seems a very loving and harmless religious way of living, and allows for the equalness with all others that is how we are made to be.
I have likened my sessions of Esoteric Connective Tissue therapy to what I would imagine what it feels like for a baby being in the womb. It feels so light, expansive and as though I am no longer an individual, but part of the whole of the universe yet held and contained in love.
We would not need connective tissue therapy if we lived life how we all have lived it before, which is to live in a permanently surrendered state.
I love the fact that we have healing modalities that allow us to feel the truth of God in our own bodies. When we feel it for ourselves there can be no denying that we are by our very nature divine.
“Whether I feel aches, pains or tension in my body or get caught in the tension of my day, nothing changes the fact that my body knows how to naturally align to love and flow accordingly.”
I have had very few Esoteric Connective Tissue sessions but I can relate to this so well in that the moment I reconnect to my body it just knows how best to move and flow.
My own experience of Connective Tissue Therapy has been one of feeling my body reconfigure and realigning itself and I am left with a beautiful feeling of space and connection.
This is a gorgeous sharing Cherise on the power of connective tissue to support you to connect more deeply to you and God. The exquisite feeling in the body after an Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy session is deeply healing for the body on many levels.
The amazing gentle movement in the body and the feeling of lightness and flow it brings in Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy is a sign that our bodies are made to reflect a divine quality and once felt, why would you not want to live it every moment of every day?
I love what you shared about our body’s wisdom and ability to know how to let go of any tension and align naturally to a flow that is in line with that of the universe… supporting us to remember to live the magnificence of what we are made of.
A beautiful confirmation of a modality such as Connective Tissue supporting us to feel the connection to God already in our body. Definitely Heaven sent for us to know we are also from this Divinity.
How it would be if everyone who practices the religions we have today chose to connect with their own body through Connective Tissue Therapy and exercises. It might well change the world view of what religion and god is and bring it back to our connection with ourselves first and foremost, and not a spiritual worship of something that leaves us unequal and searching for answers.
When I receive Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy I feel a flow of delicate energy/lightness through out my whole body, I get a sense that I am not my body that in fact I am from this light, this connects me to a greater source of which I am part of God. There is no doubt that Universal Medicine Modalities, of which Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy is one of, comes from heaven.
Recently I have felt a renewed dedication to living in a certain way and that way is religious in the sense that it is reconnecting me to a feeling of being connected to everyone and everything and in a quality that is no less than divine. This is not how I have been living up to this point and there are pockets where I have been living a long way from this. Reading your blog reminds me of sessions of Connective Tissue Therapy that I have had that have allowed me to feel far more than ever before, increasing my awareness hugely and bringing a huge appreciation for my body and the innate wisdom that lies therein.
Thank you Cherise for exposing what religion is not and confirming what it is; in the true meaning of the word we are all deeply religious at heart, every single one of us knows deep down we come from something far greater then what we are currently living.
There is a oneness that is experienced in my body when I drop the ideals, the beliefs and expectations that are so easily everywhere in this world, and this oneness is my connection to God and the divinity that I am in each and every moment. Now to move in this quality is to hold myself and my religious presence throughout my day and really, truly, deeply appreciate just what a presence I am, that this brings to the whole world around me. It’s easy to see what comes towards us from the outside world, but to realise the full potential of what we bring back to this same world, by living and simply moving in a way that is connected and loving of who we are ~ boy does this show us how powerful we really are! ..and that’s still only the beginning of it!
Incredible Cherise – thank you , really , very much for sharing this with us: My body and the way that I live, is Religion. I live religiously each day through the choices I make to connect deeply to myself and thus to God and his love.” A honest revelation that religion is something truly lived from a place that is love which resides in the body and is the expression of Our Soul. And so living towards that is religion, and so the true meaning of religion is described.. Whatever one chooses as their inner-truth , is their religion.
Religion, the terminology, meanings and the differing communities brings up a lot for everyone; but what I love about this blog the most is that it has nothing to do with any of that. It is simply about being with oneself and exploring the personal and unique meaning of religion for you. When this is explored, it doesn’t even matter what anyone else thinks or possibly reacts to around the word ‘religion’ in general; what matters the most is that each and every person has a right to discover true religion for themselves and for me it has been about getting-to-know myself again as a deeply religious person. My religion is who I am and it is my knowingness of my divine nature, well before I make any other choices in my life and this is something that I will cherish within my body for a very long time to come.
I love how you have put words to the amazing feeling that can come with Esoteric Connective Tissue therapy sessions… THere are days when life can be a bit intense and we lose our connectino to ourselves, and therefore we cannot feel our light and connection to our Soul, but ECTT can bring us that amazing full experience of our bodies expanding once more towards our natural fullness. It can give us a very real experience of the Divinity that we are truly from.
Connective Tissue therapy is such a powerful and supportive modality. It is such gentle, subtle and simple movements that deeply connects us to stillness in our body and therefore connects us to God’s love.
What you illustrate here is what I have always found so illogical about religion, that my experience is so often of religion being judgemental, and a lack of walking the talk. It is so lovely to come back to feel in every cell how God is love.
I have the same experience with the Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy that it helps bridging the energy of my soul into my physical body. We often hear about the words mind, body and soul but too often the words are just words and soul for most is just that something extra about us we cannot really explain but have a feeling is something good. Soul for me is absolute and not just something vague or flimsy and this is what I love about the teachings presented by Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine and its practitioners.
I wonder how many children are confused by the contradictions of how religion is taught and exercised. I too was very confused growing up at how God was said to be love but had hell and eternal damnation, and how many people who preached this also judged and condemned, didn’t equally respect all people but separated people by gender, sexuality, race etc. We live in a world where we demand children lose their inner knowing and exchange it for narrow mindedness. In doing so we lose equality and the voice that says, hey, this doesn’t make sense!
I know I chose fitting in over connection with God. I chose not to believe in God because I disagreed with who he was according to what was taught about him. It’s beautiful to return to the truth of God and religion. I can let go of the fight because what I was fighting was a lie all along and it never actually existed except in stories.
‘My body and the way that I live, is Religion.’ Religion is me in connection with my essence. I love the clear connection between the particles in my body being in constant communication with God (they are made from God) and how Connective Tissue modality supports this awareness.
There is something profound about letting go of the control we wield over ourselves and our own bodies and letting ourselves fall naturally back onto a natural rhythm and flow that is always possible. Being religious is a personal relationship to have and it supports us immeasurably as a platform to support the learning and growth that we can be open to throughout life.
Connective Tissue Therapy is a beautiful way to feel and confirm our relationship with God, which is religion.
Your words resonates deep within my body “Religion resides in my very own body, in the graceful way in which I choose to live, to move and in the choices I make to reconnect to the love that I am.’
It was awesome to re-read this article/blog.
Religion is a sacredness to respect and have a relationship with life in all its ways, known and unknown to us. It is the ability to be a conceding student of life, not submissive, with the willingness to be love and open your heart to people and the world.
Connective Tissue Therapy as taught by Universal Medicine does help us claim in my experience, ‘the light that I am and feel a freedom or expansion in my shoulders that feels like I have wings. Right through to my feet there is a fullness of the natural flow and rhythm that my body’s connective tissue just knows how to be’, it feels divine.
its incredible to consider that the body does indeed know how to align to love and it always wants to return to being in a flow. I am so glad to be offering this to my body and to other peoples bodies due to my commitment to deeply understand how to live with this appreciation of life.
I agree that connective tissue therapy is deeply supportive for the body and for unleashing the wisdom held within the body. We have to concede there is much more to what we know about the body, life and indeed the universe. I am so glad i have the chance to explore and know this modality deeply and enjoy it to the full.
Esoteric connective tissue is such an amazing healing modality- very gentle in its movements, but very powerful in its effects in realigning the energetic flow of the body bringing it to a homeostasis.
And deep within our body we can feel our divine connection with God.
I remember long conversations with my best friend from childhood who became a very passionate born again Christian. We would stay up late into the night discussing the religious experience he had had, what it meant, how it all worked. The experience sounded amazing, a feeling of connection with something so much larger than ourselves, so warm and loving. Yet I could not reconcile this to his teachings, and in particular there was the image of the goat herder, high up on a mountain pass who had never come across any religious teachings per se and yet if my fried was to be believed, he could not have a connection to God. That just never made sense to me… we carry these feelings, this divinity, deep inside every one of us – it is what makes us equal, and it is what makes it accessible to us all.
“Whether I feel aches, pains or tension in my body or get caught in the tension of my day, nothing changes the fact that my body knows how to naturally align to love and flow accordingly.” So often we are not able to see or feel past the pain or tension in our body, and we allow these symptoms to be all consuming. I am learning through the Esoteric Healing modalities that I am not the ache or the pain, and that underneath the pain there is so much more to connect to, and with the support of Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy I can let go and surrender my body, and feel the love of God deep within me.
Through Connective Tissue Therapy sessions I have come to reclaim the light that I am and in that light I know that God resides inside of me. A modality offered from heaven to humanity so that we can remember where we come from and who we truly are.
‘my body knows how to naturally align to love and flow accordingly’ So listening to my body is something I am realising cannot be ignored. So if I get stiffness or whatever to take the time to connect to what is going on and not discount things or let things slide because my body is the communicator with God and the universe.
“In my Esoteric Connective Tissue therapy sessions I am fully supported to feel the lightness and acceptance of who I am as a Son of God on earth, and this forms a marker to carry with me wherever I go”. I know what you mean, I found this therapy to be the one that truly allows me to surrender into my body with the true connection to God. Once the surrender has happened the body has felt light, allowing the acceptance of being the son of God.
Esoteric Connective Tissue therapy is a truly divine therapy, when I have a session it feels like my body is melting, ‘Through this modality I claim the light that I am and feel a freedom or expansion in my shoulders that feels like I have wings. Right through to my feet there is a fullness of the natural flow and rhythm that my body’s connective tissue just knows how to be – every cell within me feels like Divinity.’
My body and the way I live is true Religion and the reclaiming of this is transformational in every way . A beautiful blog with such felt wisdom and understanding of true Religion, our bodies and all we feel in all dimensions of life. The complete picture and foundation of who we are is expressed here so lovingly. No punishment, judgement or perfection, only love and Connective Tissue Therapy as a gift in our return to who we really are inside.
Within the connective tissue lies the pulse that we can feel the love of God and that he is within us. Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy is a tool to support us to feel this pulse, our true connection to our body and thus to something much grander – that our particles are part of the Whole.
So I guess treating our body as a sacred isn’t as far out as mainstream society makes it to be. Instead holding that connection as the key to many of the woes we currently have.
A beautiful exploration of religion. Mainstream religion always jarred with me too, I liked parts, but some parts just did not feel right to me… Like God condemning people. It always seemed like though they had a touch of divine, God was essentially given attributes of the lower human nature. I’ve only just begun to explore religion again but what I’ve come to realise is having a connection to something hugely grand and majestic is something we can develop every moment of the day, my religion already lives inside me – it’s simply a matter of exploring the truth and divinity of what’s already so beautifully there.
That word ‘religion’ comes so loaded that sometimes it is impossible to feel what it actually means. Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy is one of the ways that I have experienced being able to understand the word religion. The flow of warm love that spreads through my body on receiving a session of ECTT reminds me of the connection I can have with myself and with the divine, and that this is our natural state of being. Our bodies can be open in this way and can allow God’s love to flow through them. We can take this into life.
My experience with connective tissue therapy is that is brings the body in a true state of harmony. It gives you a sense of what it means to live in a body that is actually relaxed and surrendered, without the hardening we tend to use to protect ourselves.
The body provides us with a direct path to the divine – more reliable than the mind for we cannot think our way to heaven but feel it as a lived truth.
When it was said ‘the kingdom of God lies within’, it was truly meant. Therapies like the one described above activate the kingly body.
‘When I connect to myself and to the very core of my being, which I call my essence or my Soul, I know exactly what it feels like to be held in God’s love and I am reminded that I am held in grace and absoluteness at all times.’ It makes total and practical sense of the phrase, ‘The Kingdom of God is within us’. When we connect to our innermost, we connect to God. When we live from this connection live in a Godly way – a truely and deeply religious way. The more we move religiously, the greater our capacity to be Love and be a loving reflection for our Brothers, to remind them of the Love they too are.
I agree Cherise, with Connective Tissue Therapy – and indeed all of the Universal Medcine modalities – I too have felt divine. Not on all occasions, as some sessions have been working with with what is not divine, but on many. It is beautiful to feel what the body holds.
“Religion resides in my very own body, in the graceful way in which I choose to live, to move and in the choices I make to reconnect to the love that I am. It is then through this quality, which I bring to my every movement, that I can consistently confirm my connection back to God and Religion.” Cherise this is awesome in one paragraph you have summed up the true meaning of religion.
It’s pretty groundbreaking to consider that religion might be something we can feel in our bodies. But it makes sense – if we are Sons of God, we are divine and we are in physical form. What a lovely thing to know and understand.
Having a Connective Tissue body session, reveals that, it is through the body, is the kingdom of God (Love). No chapel or special building required. Simply connection within the body. There’s the religion… ‘re-turn’ to the body (of love).
There is a self empowerment that comes through the connection felt within your body, during a connective tide body treatment. A confirmation of an innate knowing that there is more about life than just a superficial day to day existence.
Connective Tissue Therapy seems to ignite the deep wisdom we hold in our bodies. We become so much more in tune with ourselves and want to act in a way that is harmonious for our bodies and therefore ourselves.
The Esoteric Connective Tissue modality has been a “God send” for me. It brought me alive in my body in a way that is difficult to describe. It created an awareness of being alive into my body, and what I really loved is its not something the practitioner gave me, but an activation of more of me in my body. These days I also have little exercises I do to support my connective tissue each day.
“I live religiously each day through the choices I make to connect deeply to myself and thus to God and his love”. It is only through our connection with our bodies and ourselves that we can know God. When I was little and connected to the joy of being in my body, I knew God so well. It was as I got older and I disconnected to myself that I noticed this connection fade and started to doubt it. Now that I have returned to my body, my knowing of God is stronger than ever.
Equality or the lack of is a big problem with the organised religions. How can they all espouse love, yet see some people as less worthy of that love than others? Feeling what true religion is in your body, you know that we are all one all equal, including God. The beliefs that promote a lack of equality only serve to keep us small and believing we are separate.
Cherise, you have captured how many of us feel about the institutionalised religions. They have some truth but not the whole truth, leaving us needing to have faith to deal with the ‘questionable bits’. Experiencing connective tissue therapy, you never need to have faith again. God, divinity, the universe are all known as an absolute, incontrovertible fact and an intrinsic part of our being.
This is a beautiful and accurate testimony to a profoundly healing modality. To understand connective tissue, the way it hardens and contracts or releases and allows the feeling of space within the body is a fabulous marker to understand the effects of our every choice on our body and being.
Cherise your article here really does nail what true religion is, and is a great reminder of how exquisite and powerful Connective Tissue therapy really is, and I really can’t wait until my next session.
Me too Kev; totally inspired to support myself to deepen my connection with Connective Tissue Therapy!
“…the fact that my body knows how to naturally align to love and flow accordingly…” Absolutely, in my experience, there is a phase during the initial part of a connective tissue session where the body is adjusting, or clearing an excess of activity. Then it clears where i then can feel a delicate and natural flow, that has its own rhythm, or pulse happening under my skin. Super delicate and spacious. This feeling within gradually expands, feeling grander than the confines of my physical body. It has been at this point I recognise that theres more to the human body, and yet, it is through the body, i am able to connect to a deep, rich and joyful love that actually lies within the body the whole time. Its just that, in life, with all the distractions, busy-ness and taking on of stuff, the body has not ben given moments of absolute stillness to reconnect. And this is why connective tissue session is so restorative for the body, as you are given the space to stop, feel and connect, and for the client, to remember that there is more to life.
Cherise, I love how you describe the relation between the connective tissue of our bodies and the Universe and with God. Through your writing I am able to feel that connection too and now my connection with God and the Universe is very tangible to me. Thank you for giving me the inspiration to allow myself to feel this divine connection and it shows me how important it is that we all share our divine origin with all who we meet and that in this everybody’s contribution is equally important as they all give different insights to the grander whole God and the Universe is.
Esoteric Connective Tissue is a truly transformative technique, the way it helps my body flow and pulse with the rhythms of the world is quite amazing. It helps reconnect me to m natural flow and rhythm, the rest then takes care of itself – starting with connection 1st this is the key. In my experience whilst addressing the body, the results are simply a byproduct of the quality of flow the body is then set free to move and live with.
My experience of religion is also that it is a connection found within us, something that is not dependent on performing designated rituals or rites or conforming to set doctrines. Our whole life can be a divine ritual when we are connected to our innermost and bring this into our everyday living and all our relationships.
If only people of all religious faiths could read and fully understand what you are saying here Cherise, we could do each other no harm, we would be one brotherhood and getting back to our divine origin would be speed up beyond imagination.
I felt God reading this blog. I felt his holding of us all. I felt the connection. I felt the spherical nature of God. And I loved this line “nothing changes the fact that my body knows how to naturally align to love and flow accordingly.” What a way to start the morning being reminded of God’s love and how it is in us every day -waiting for us to live it.
Could religion simply be about how we live and relate to self and others?
‘My body and the way that I live, is Religion.
I live religiously each day through the choices I make to connect deeply to myself and thus to God and his love.’
Learning that the true meaning of religion means to re-tie, re-bind, reconnect gives the lie to the version of religion that many of us have grown up with, with the various factions and separations and the ‘my religion is the best’ talk. Connective tissue therapy, as the name suggests, connects all our parts and particles in the most beautiful way. I now know that God is inside me, reducing the need to find him out there and give away power to the man-made interpretations of any so-called religious institution.
Very very beautiful Cherise, this is so true. Love is religion and religion is God. And God says not : you are right or wrong, that is how we made created it.. Interesting , and very well exposed.
If the wisdom was told about connective tissue in our schools, homes and at dinner tables, our lives wouldn’t be the same. The truth about tattooing and its evil would be seen. We feel it anyway, but it would be less easy to ignore it.
From growing up in the indoctrination of the Roman Catholic Religion teaching one to look outside of ourselves for God and love as a way of living in a coldness, hardness and disconnection from our very knowing and being felt sad and added to a feeling of emptiness unworthiness and neediness. However on meeting Serge Benhayon and being presented with true love, Universal Medicine has inspired me to reconnect to my body, my self and God. I too have found that “Religion resides in my very own body, in the graceful way in which I choose to live, to move and in the choices I make to reconnect to the love that I am. It is then through this quality, which I bring to my every movement, that I can consistently confirm my connection back to God and Religion.
The true meaning of religion, being ‘return to God’ is within us all to do simply that. It is beautifully simple. The Esoteric Connective Tissue Techniques and exercises are a beautiful support to feel this in the body bringing us back to our natural flow.
‘I cannot help but feel that we are brothers and that this makes us all one and the same’. I had an experience recently which on the surface was an everyday incident that most days I would brush off and just get on with things. But on this occasion I obeyed an impulse to ‘look’ more deeply into what had happened and what I was really feeling. What I found was that this knowing that we are all the same, all equal brothers had been ‘trampled on’ and it felt deeply ‘offensive’. It wasn’t an emotional reaction on my part but something much deeper – something that allowed me to be aware that we are brothers in this life and that we are here to restore ourselves to that brotherhood. I feel this awareness is within us all waiting to be reasserted – when we choose it.
It makes perfect sense to me that God is immanent – despite teachings that suggested otherwise from my childhood. There are some things that my whole being says ‘Yes!’ to, and this is one of them. This whole body Yes! is for me a marker of truth and can be trusted absolutely when felt.
‘My body and the way that I live, is Religion.’ The simple truth of this is profound.
I find the Connective Tissue exercises that have been taught by Kate Greenaway a very effective way to connect back to my essence. In doing so reduces my anxiety levels and I establish a natural flow in my movements
Gorgeous blog Cherise. I have been christened, attended Sunday school and even got baptised in a baptist chapel to find later on in life it was no longer for me. Institutionalised religion never made any sense to me as I began to question it, feeling the abuse and allowing myself to feel and sense truth. Religion to me is my connection to God that lies within, to my essence, my soul and to live in a way that expresses this divine connection, a reflection of who we all are to every one and every thing.
To recognise and accept that our bodies are made of the same particles as the universe is the biggest game-changer; most of us go about our days thinking our bodies are the mere flesh,blood and organs it is made of. We then reduce ourselves to the mere physicality of life forgetting that who we are is so much more than our physical body and that our body has a very precious role to play in how we relate with all of life. This ancient teaching has been buried for a long time but now it is re-emerging, as more and more of us reconnect to this and let it be integral to how we live.
‘My body and the way that I live is Religion’. Stunning Cherise and I can relate completely.
We need to teach and live this, “Because God is Love, there can be no punishment, no judgement and certainly we won’t be sent to the fiery depths of hell for not being perfect, when perfection doesn’t even exist!” So often I still find myself having an expected perfection on things when all I need do is walk deeper within me to find everything I’ve ever ‘looked’ for. Thank you Cherise.
Hello Cherise, from this, “My body and the way that I live, is Religion. ” to this, “Religion resides in my very own body, in the graceful way in which I choose to live, to move and in the choices I make to reconnect to the love that I am.” Simply showing religion is something that belongs to us all and isn’t owned by the few. It maybe a while before this is seen but in the meantime those with this awareness should continue to live this unchangeable fact.
“In my Esoteric Connective Tissue therapy sessions I am fully supported to feel the lightness and acceptance of who I am as a Son of God on earth, and this forms a marker to carry with me wherever I go” How many people can say they have had this offering and this experience? Not many. We are truly blessed to have this modality available to us, and anyone who has experienced it will without doubt second what you have said.
The way we live is a religion, whether we know it or not. The choices we make create a cycle and rhythm that becomes our own personal way, and through this we live our own religion.
Cherise reading your line ‘Whilst I could always see the similarities between the array of religious and spiritual beliefs that inhabit our world, I always felt that they were only bringing part truths but perhaps missing something, or missing the whole’ made it clear to me that when something is only bringing part truth then it must by default be missing the whole, which begs the question ‘what fills the gap which the missing part of the truth has left?’.
“My body and the way that I live, is Religion.” I love the simplicity of this Cherise, with no dogged belief systems or indoctrinations. Just a willingness to make choices that lovingly support the body to be vital and clear, so that it/we can do whatever is needed to truly support humanity. Connective Tissue Therapy is a blessing sent from Heaven, to support us all to do the same.
I love the fact that we are made up of the same particles as the universe and so simply by honouring our cycles and rhythm we are also aligning to the rhythm and cycles of the universe. We are Universal – literally, physically and energetically.
The Connective Tissue modality, as with all the other modalities offered by Universal Medicine practitioners, supports us to reconnect with our bodies in a way that I have never experienced before. The Connective Tissue Therapy introduces back the natural flow and rhythm that the body innately has and knows, but which can get interrupted for various reasons. And with it comes the opportuntiy to reconnect to our own divinity, which is equal to the divinity of God. This too has been a revelation for me, to realise that I hold religion in my own body, and don’t need anything outside of me to tell me otherwise.
Our bodies are made up of particles which are part of the universe and therefore part of the universal flow and order which holds the universe as one – harmonious and forever expanding. The way we currently live tends to be in opposition to this divine order and generally speaking is a more reduced, contracted form of this flow. So it is easy to forget that we have a connection with the universe and that life is about much more than physical life and the 5 senses. What I love about Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy is that it re-connects us to the universal rhythm that is constantly flowing through our bodies via the connective tissue (whether we are aware of it or not) and reminds us that life is much more than the 5 senses and physicality.
We like to look outside of ourselves for the answers and assume that organised religion can provide them or that even God will take care of everything for us. But what if God is in each and every one of us as we are in God? That is a game changer of epic proportions!
I agree having experienced it for myself, that the Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy brings a lightness and flow and order to the body that can only be described as divine.
Brilliant, Cherise, from a mental construct that actually makes no sense and has left many of us wary of religion, but you have brought this word back to its true meaning. It is a re-uniting, first with ourselves as the foundation, and then with a bigger picture that incorporates everyone in the world regardless of creed, nationality, gender or skin colour.
Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy, like many of the Universal Medicine Therapies, is a wonderful tool to support us to reconnect to our body and once we are reconnected we feel our divinity, our purpose and our love of God and humanity and we are impulsed to serve as a vehicle for religious expression within the world. This means that we then live with integrity and harmony, not as an ideal, but as a practical marker for us to guauge whether we are in fact living that, and we do so to the best of our ability.
“Religion resides in my very own body” Cherise, what you say here gets rid of the need for us to seek outside ourselves for God. We don’t need a church or a priest, just a true connection with our body which will show us the way to live in honour of ourselves as Sons of God and vehicles for divine expression.
With most of us when we are children there is no us and them, and we do not experience a separation from nature, the Universe or God. But this separation starts building as we get older and harden our body with the hurts we pick up and store along the way and the many ideals and beliefs we start to accumulate. And we start living and acting as if we are in fact separate. Esoteric connective tissue is a wonderful support to let go of such debilitating patterns and start feeling the tenderness, connection and divinity from within our bodies once again.
“I live religiously each day through the choices I make to connect deeply to myself and thus to God and his love.” This is such a claimed acceptance and appreciation of the true source of where we do come from. When connecting with the direct source of divine love the word religion is simply the truest word to describe a choice of living a connected life. It feels wonderful to be totally at home with the absolute truth of this word.
“My body and the way that I live, is Religion”. It would be amazing if we were taught to feel our bodies from a very young age. We would live in much more responsible way with our bodies supporting us every step of the way. Religion would then be a lived experience and not something we seek for relief or have imposed on us.
Cherise I felt like coming back to a point in your article that really hits home for me, a point where I can say before Universal medicine I had never considered this. the point is “My body and the way that I live, is Religion” that changes everything I ever was told about religion. Yet is the complete truth.
Yes, this is super powerful David because of the self-empowerment it supports. To know who we are and to know ourselves deeply from within as opposed to looking externally for the answers or salvation is a massive realisation; as one way confirms us continuously and unwaveringly and the other leaves us out in the cold, not enough until we arrive ‘somewhere’.
The name ‘connective tissue’ says it all, doesn’t it? It holds our body together.
When I see people on the street walking I am shocked about our way of living that leads us to a walk that is hard, reflecting our pain/limitations and not in flow at all. We live in a way that is limiting ourselves and ECT Therapy does support us to come into flow again, to connect again. The question is: how do we go on from here? Because if we do not change our way of living we can’t hold this new flow, because it is not confirmed.
So the Session, the Therapy-Session gives us an amazing offer – will we take it and go on from here?
Cherise this is so beautiful to read. I’m opening myself up to feeling how I move can be in God’s flow, the harmony and order that connects us all my body’s particles are of. Or I can be anti-myself, fighting my body’s natural flow and be against God and religion creating harm with each step I take. What’s wonderful is deferring to the wisdom of my body and allowing this to express in how I move again.
This is beautiful Cherise and so true. How is it possible to fight about religion when we have this understanding “Religion resides in my very own body, in the graceful way in which I choose to live, to move and in the choices I make to reconnect to the love that I am. It is then through this quality, which I bring to my every movement, that I can consistently confirm my connection back to God and Religion.”
Every time that I experience an Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy treatment or give one to another person I know that God is not something that is outside of us but is actually within us. The flow of energy that is felt is absolutely divine in nature and so very tangible. This divine flow of energy is not selected to a few people but can be felt in everyone proving that we are all divine, equally so.
Beautifully said Elizabeth , reading this graceful and sensitively loving blog from Cherise and your comment shows me how deeply you both feel the delicate nature of our connective tissue and how it is what supports us and allows us to feel we are way more than just flesh. It is a divine irony that is it our flesh that helps us feel we are way more than flesh. In my experience of body work and healing in physiotherapy for 30 years it is Esoteric Connective Tissue therapy more than another modality I have worked with in the past that helps anyone and everyone to feel their inner silky loveliness, the love inside them that is God inside them.
“Religion resides in my very own body, in the graceful way in which I choose to live”. What a beautiful claiming of your lived experience as a divine being, Cherise. This is such a supportive blog because it helps us to consider and articulate our own relationship with God and what that feels like on a day to day basis.
Thank you Cherise, your description of how the body feels during an Esoteric Connective Tissue treatment is spot on… “feel a freedom or expansion in my shoulders that feels like I have wings. Right through to my feet there is a fullness of the natural flow and rhythm that my body’s connective tissue just knows how to be – every cell within me feels like Divinity…” which shows us that our body is very much a part of the whole spacious universe.
The beauty of the esoteric modalities is that it affords us the opportunity to feel the essence of God. Now, we may not register the fact, but that is either (a) because we have developed a body that is not able to feel the fact or (b) we do not recognise it for its simplicity because we have preconceived ideals as to what the presence of God should feel like.
In an Esoteric Connective Tissue Session we have an opportunity to reconnect to the natural rhythm and flow within the body. When I move and express from this connection I feel connected with divinity within and around me. This is my sort of religion.
Thank you Cherise, “My body and the way that I live, is Religion.” Having studied and practiced different ‘religious’ philosophies over the years I have also found that divinity is within me, and all of us equally and religion for me now is the relationship I have with everything in my life. My body is my temple.
Cool, Victoria. You have taken a phrase that has been used as a humorous one liner and given it back to common sense and its true value. ‘My body is my temple’. As in my guide, unwavering advisor and ally and something worth taking great care of so that it can go on doing its job without hindrance.
Religion is then very much about relationships and relating, starting with our own relationship, and from that one, our relationship with everybody.
Cherise for me you bring an other perspective to the word religion. How you described it and lived it I like so much more than the one I learned at school. “Religion resides in my very own body, in the graceful way in which I choose to live, to move and in the choices I make to reconnect to the love that I am.” It feels so beautiful open and loving that I only can say that I am religious too.
When I read this blog about the connective tissue and the flow it provides what comes up is the blockages that stop this flow. Presently I am ill and have been for a number of days and whilst I feel good in my body, there is ideals about being sick or what I should be doing are there to stop the flow.
How do you connect to the flow if you don’t know it? Signing up to experience this amazing modality is one way to definitely feel it and as Cherise explains you have a marker in the body that you can move towards and claim for yourself. The body is the key to connect to it and the quality of flow is attainable through being intimate and open to yourself and be seen for that (what an opportunity while I am sick), and the flow is not there if you do not choose to be with God or others.
“My body and the way that I live, is Religion.” This way of living is a far cry from the religion that I grew up with which was always seeking for God outside of myself. Through the modality of Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy, I too have come to know that God is within and it is through Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy sessions and also by deeply honouring myself in the way I move my body in between the sessions, that I have come to learn to live and move in a way that honours my essence (that which lies deep within) and that my essence comes from God.
Kate Greenaway is an amazing woman, an incredible practitioner, super solid, practical, straight to the point, and holds people in such deep love and care.
I can absolutely attest to this, for me it has been through Esoteric Connective Tissue Exercises ” with a highly qualified Universal Medicine practitioner, I have been able to connect back to God and the fact that God is with me, in my body.” last night I had a session with Kate Greenaway and on one the movements in particular I could feel God in my body, in my chest, a very physical solid feeling, this is now a new marker in my body as which to live by every day, knowing I have God within me always. I have always known this, but to feel it physically is a completely different ball game from knowing it.
I too went to Catholic school and church too and felt a real emptiness about how religion was presented and something that I could not relate to, which seemed such a shame because there were some things that felt true, but not quite. I too struggled with why were some people regarded more highly that others such as men and not women, heterosexuals and not homosexuals. This didn’t sit quite right with me as I could feel that this lack of equalness was not part of who we are. What I love about your sharing Cherise is that through getting to know our body, listening to it and it’s movements we can actually to connect to our own truth about God. Getting to know God is not an intellectual exercise at all. In fact this is our signal that we are off track.
“Getting to know God is not an intellectual exercise at all”. After years of indoctrination from the Catholic faith, I left it all behind. The disparity between the doctrine and the way life is actually lived baffled me. Universal Medicine and its many modalities bring us back to our own body where God does indeed resides.
‘Whether I feel aches, pains or tension in my body or get caught in the tension of my day, nothing changes the fact that my body knows how to naturally align to love and flow accordingly’ Yes this is a great point Cherise, one well worth remembering when very tired and aching all over. In fact all the particles of the universe, no matter how chaotic their state, are moving to return to harmony; as harmony is their/our natural state. I learned this from a brilliant science course presented by Dianne Trussell, a very brilliant and extremely interesting scientist.
I did not find God in a Church or a synagogue. I did not find God in books or thesis. I realised one day that he is always there within me, waiting for me to connect to my innermost… and it reminded me that he is available to all of us, in every moment.
Beautiful Simon.
We are all the sons of God and this is an unchangeable fact. The only way we can deny this is by not operating from our own essence and making sure we live in a way that keeps this disconnection going. Tension and hardness in the body is a great way to stop us from connecting deeply and surrendering into the body. Connective Tissue Therapy supports us to let go, open up and drop into our body. Once there it will be undeniable that we do not only know God but we are part of God.
In being supported by this god sent modality we can surrender to our essence at our core which is from God and is the same in us as in all others, we know and can feel the one, the stillness, love, joy and truth.
I too studied Comparative Religion, as a very mature age student, it fascinated me to see the core similarities between the various religions, all with their own dogmas and beliefs tacked on. But none of them showed me how I could connect truly to the God that they each spoke of. All these religions told me that I had to believe things that were served up to me. It took me until I met Serge Benhayon to realise and feel deep in my body, that the God that I was seeking was there deep within me all along. I did not have to go outside myself to seek God, I am already a son of God myself. This was a huge realisation, but something that I could deeply feel the truth of in my body, and in my bones, not something that was in any way a belief. What a relief it is to not have to believe anything that someone else serves up to me. The very simple, mechanical Gentle Breath Meditation that Serge introduced is key to us connecting to our own breath, and when we feel it deeply, we feel and know it is the breath of God that we breathe. For me now, this is true religion, no beliefs, no dogmas, purely connection to the divine with my own breath. Then it is up to me to live that from the knowingness that is within my body.
“Religion resides in my very own body, in the graceful way in which I choose to live, to move and in the choices I make to reconnect to the love that I am. It is then through this quality, which I bring to my every movement, that I can consistently confirm my connection back to God and Religion.” Wow, Cherise, that is a truly powerful statement. I love it. Yes, that is true Religion, religion is to be lived, it is how we live, move and the choices we make in our daily lives. This is the Religion that is true to me, no beliefs, dogmas, have to’s etc. Connect deeply to oneself and know how to live, and live this, this is the connection to God.
“I wondered how we could all be equal if some are excluding of others? And how is it that people can preach certain rules or disciplines but not actually live them for themselves?” Cherise I too often struggled with this concept, and questioned it many times. Belief systems can become so engrained in us that they actually begin to take on a very real quality so much so that there can be no room for any other ideas. However Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon have shown many people including myself that these ‘ideals and beliefs’ are just layer upon layer of untruths, that are covering up who we truly are, like old heavy blankets.
When these layers start to come off, the true light within can really start to shine out!
“if God is Love, how could there be any discrimination against people, degradation of women or even a lack of self-love and true care within our very homes if we considered ourselves to be love and so-called religious?” This is the question I always asked regarding religion. Anything that is not love simply does not make sense. If God is love there would be no judgement on anyone. Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy helps us to drop the judgement on ourselves and accept love in our own bodies.It is religion embodied. It is God embodied. It is love embodied. This makes it a reality, not a concept or belief. When we have love flowing through our bodies it is impossible to judge. Judging thoughts simply do not arise unless we actively choose to disconnect. We are in pulse with God in a very real way. From this place it is possible to look out and feel how far mainstream religion has strayed from the natural pulse of God.
‘Religion resides in my very own body, in the graceful way in which I choose to live, to move and in the choices I make to reconnect to the love that I am’. The simplicity and power of this statement, exposes the falseness of all established religions. True Divinity lives within us all.
I have grappled with religions at times throughout my life, feeling that there is a seed of truth in them somewhere. With some, I could feel moments of truth but these were coupled with a sense of ‘something is not quite right here’. With Universal Medicine, and ‘The Way of the Livingness’ I have come home – in religious terms, to a way that feels absolutely true, where my body says ‘Yes’ in full without reservation. It has been one of those real ‘aha’ moments in life – a confirmation of what I knew all along in my being. Yes we are all equal, we are all Sons of God and He is not remote, distant and aloof – but with us all the way, immanent, sharing every moment with us intimately.
The belief in a loving God who ‘punishes, judges and sends his children to hell’ does not ring true with me. God is more responsible than this and asks us to live equally responsibly too. Why would God create children, give them free will and then punish them for using it? Makes no sense to me at all.
‘Perfection doesn’t even exist’…To me, perfection is an image – a picture we have created in our minds of how we think things should be and that we all too often strive to reproduce. Such images are a sure fire way of removing us from any sense of acceptance and appreciation of who we truly are, for something apparently better. But who we are is glorious already and reaching out for an image of any kind is a negation of our true beingness. The connection with our true self is real religion, and through this we make a true connection with others.
Our connective tissue is the fine sheath that covers our bones, organs and pretty much our whole body. It is no coincidence that life has been set up to keep us out of our bodies when it is our bodies that are the gateway to God.
It’s always beautiful to feel the reawakening of ones love and connection back to God and true Religion. Connective Tissue Therapy offers a profound opportunity to surrender to the natural rhythms of our own body and feel our unchanged truth within.
I love the power of your blog Cherise and how you share with us all that true religion is in the surrender to our body, the way we live and the choices we make. As every moment is either a moment with God or against God.
‘nothing changes the fact that my body knows how to naturally align to love and flow accordingly’ it truly is that simple and that beautiful. Our body is constantly and consistently working to reading to the universe. It is us in our minds, ideals and beliefs, protection and solutions that get in the way. I am always still in awe at how much my body knows and what can be there when I truly surrender to it.
Not that the body would be made in God´s image but for sure it is capable of experiencing God as it is made of particles that belong to him. The Universal Medicine Therapies are unique in supporting such experience and thereby offer healing in a multidimensional way.
When we die highlights this. The life has left and the shell remains. Interesting that this is the time that we revere the body and not during life when we have the opportunity every day to honour the body.
There has always been a sense that religion, God, divinity is something inside, a connection, a knowing, but only since the presentations of Universal Medicine and the very down-to-earth approach and very real and practical way of living this has become a direct experience and thus ascertained truth whereby the body is the instrument through which the divine is lived.
“My body and the way that I live, is Religion.” Religion not as a faith or dogma but a living way directly experienced by the person practising such way so that we know and don´t need to believe – The Way of the Livingness.
After centuries of religions that consider the body as the opposing element to our divine nature, there is now a healing modality that connects us back to our innate divinity via the body – that is a revelation.
Cherise on re reading your article today I was once again taken aback by your beautiful sharing and once again reminded that connecting to God is a very practical and indeed accessible thing. It is not for the select few but for us all and we will all return to the body of God through our own earthly bodies.
Beautiful to read your blog today Cherise. Your words about love and “this quality, which I bring to my every movement, that I can consistently confirm my connection back to God and Religion.” really made sense to me. Religion is in our livingness, our daily choices to be connected to love and in this, be in our relationship to God.
It has always been clear to me that all Religions ultimately say the very same thing but have lost their way, becoming separated and justifying ill-behaviour. To know that Religion is simply about connection to all that we are and with each other, and to feel and live this in my body and in my life is the greatest gift and awakening; and for this I am forever humbled and with gratitude for being stopped in my tracks down the wayward path I was walking.
Dear Cherise,
You have beautifully described the feeling of expansion that we receive by honouring our very delicate connective tissue system in the way that we move and especially in receiving a connective tissue therapy session. My clients are consistently moved by this technique and it enables a great expansion of awareness to be held in the body; a sense that we are so much more than just this physical body, it enables us to feel our spherical, multi-dimensional nature.
I love that you have linked this to the true meaning and experience of Religion; of oneness and the divinity that we are.
Cherise you pose a very big question that made me stop and really look at this as is it asking is how responsible are we truly when you say “how could there be any discrimination against people, degradation of women or even a lack of self-love and true care within our very homes if we considered ourselves to be love and so-called religious” This has nothing to do with God and everything to do with the choices we are making in everything and every moment of our lives.
‘My body and the way that I live, is Religion. ‘ What a new and awesome way to view religion. Religion is so often considered something we join, or endorse, or something outside of us, instead it already being within us… what if our religion is our relationship to life?
Connecting back to ourselves through the modality of the Connective Tissue Therapy is a very profound experience, to realise that we are divine, have everything already within us that we will ever need. Feeling that freedom of not needing to do anything or be anything else is huge. I now know the Love of God from this awareness from within my body. .
I couldn’t agree more, Cherise. I remember commenting to Kate Greenaway after having a session with her that the Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy was ‘God’s work’. I was humbled by how subtle movements of the technique could re-connect me so simply yet profoundly to the natural flow of the divine through my body.
Knowing God through my body was something far and distant to be developed according to spiritual practices I was involved with. It was thanks to Universal Medicine healing therapies that this knowing became profoundly simple and obvious again. I state again as it felt like coming home to God and that in this connection we are part of a greater oneness and purpose. Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy as with other Universal Medicine Therapies are so empowering in this way.
The feeling of letting go of any tension and tightness in the connective tissue through connective tissue therapy gives such a feeling of freedom and expansion in the body that makes it easy to connect to feeling we are innately divine beings and put a lot of effort to not have this in our awareness.
Almost everybody feels something is not right and not complete when another sets rules and disciplines without living them themselves. The same goes for an advice given that the other is not living, it doesn’t offer the required energetic foundation for the other to make a different choice.
The Esoteric Healing Modalities are truly from Heaven. Although I had believed there was more to life than just this existence I had given up on the concept of God. Through the experience of the Esoteric Healing modalities and the loving support of Serge Benhayon I now KNOW there is God.
What an amazing modality that connects us back to God! Where is this truly happening on earth, for sure not by going to church. True healing is to walk the path of return and heal whatever is in the way back to who we truly are.
This is beautiful, to realise that we are made up of the same particles as the universe. All is interconnected, showing us we are part of the whole, and we ought to live in a way that is in accordance to this all. It is a great revelation to have and feel the truth of religion in our body, the reconnection with god, and thus with the all.
Cherise whenever I’ve had a Esoteric Connective Tissue session, no matter what I step into the session with, my body feels expanded when I leave, it feels free and I always ponder on the fact what I was putting up with not feeling so free before, it’s like I was driving in the wrong gear compared to the ease at which I feel after the session. I feel connected to me.
Wow Cherise, what a great article I tried many different religions and spiritual practices and always felt this, ‘I wondered how we could all be equal if some are excluding of others? And how is it that people can preach certain rules or disciplines but not actually live them for themselves?’ I noticed how the spiritual teachers I was taught by did not live what they taught, there seemed to be a harshness that did not feeling loving about the way they related to students and so there was an inconsistency. it is amazing to have come across Universal Medicine and to meet people who run the workshops who are truly loving with the students not holding them as less but holding them as equals and nobody is excluded, they open to all.
This statement is worthy of some very deep reflection and contemplation. “Religion resides in my very own body” – that whole concept that divinity is within, is not new, yet, what you are sharing about establishing that connection through the body and through a willingness to reconnect to a light that is already innate, just stifled in its flow is significant.
Thank you Cherise, connecting to God through our body, which is connective tissue makes perfect sense and is so simple when using Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy as presented by Serge Benhayon.
For more on Serge Benhayon, Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy or for another perspective go to;
http://www.unimedliving.com/search?keyword=SERGE+BENHAYON
Learning and understanding what Religion truly is was life changing for me. I had clearly been sold and or influenced by what religion has been made or created to be and fallen for it at some time. I can now claim that I am indeed religious and the connection to the truth of this is through my inner heart.
Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy has been lifechanging in its powerful ability to present a space into which I can release the tensions and configurations I have entrenched into the body and expand with more of who I naturally am. The difference when I walk out of a session is truly amazing – and it allows the body to once more move freely – free from all those old patterns, and thus a choice to choose a new way to move.
‘Whether I feel aches, pains or tension in my body or get caught in the tension of my day, nothing changes the fact that my body knows how to naturally align to love and flow accordingly’ Thanks for this great reminder Cherise.. we all have an innate wisdom inside if we only stop long enough to reconnect back and allow its wisdom to prevail.
What’s more….whilst religion remains an intellectual or emotional practise, we will forever defend our version to the max. Our human pride, arrogance and emotional hurts force us to. In essence we HAVE to believe. Because if we were to admit that we had got it wrong or that ‘our way’ was not ‘the way’, then we would be opening ourselves up to those hurts. And for many, that is too much. Thus we continue to defend our fortress. The power of the Connective Tissue Treatment is that the client gets to feel God in their body; religion is no longer an intellectual exercise or an emotional bomb-shelter…and there is no way that a true body would ever lift a gun, blade or abusive word against another. True equality, harmony and brotherhood thus arises.
In my experience of Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy, in each treatment session I have been given the most beautiful opportunity to feel the light that lives inside of me, regardless of what issues or what dramas may be happening in my life at the time.
One day we will all know, feel and talk of this true religion. There will be no conflict, no different versions, no bastardisations of God’s word and work because we will all feel it in our bodies. And once felt, it cannot be denied. Whilst it resides in the minds and emotions, then religion can be twisted into an infinite interpretations.
Beautiful confirmation of our divine origins through hands-on healing in the form of Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy – it is indeed a heavenly technique and brings much expansion and ease to the body.
Your words: “As we know, the universe naturally moves in cycles and rhythms all of the time, and as our bodies are made up of the same particles as our universe, I realise I have this same opportunity to choose to live with awareness of my own cycles and rhythms every day” – this is huge Cherise, in other words we have the universe living inside or within us through our cellular structure. And so what we do to ourselves we do to our universe. This knowingness carries with it the most enormous responsibility… no wonder so many of us choose to not feel or know this universal fact, let alone live by it, and the natural universal laws that govern both human and divine life.
Esoteric Connective Tissue, is perhaps one of my favourite modalities, it is profound at the most subtle of levels offering felt expansion and lightness within the body. To feel such flow and spaciousness, is to feel the spaciousness and flow of the universe, of which and as you share Cherise, we are an inter-connected part of.
The Esoteric Healing modalities opened up a relationship with my body that I knew was there only because prior it absence was felt so longingly in my body. Each day is a new opportunity to develop this relationship with my body and see what is possible.
I too have experienced the deep healing and reconnection that is available through the modalities Serge Benhayon has delivered to humanity. These modalities such as Esoteric Connective Tissue reconnect us to our bodies and the Source where all is known and all are one. That reconnection is true religion.
“…, nothing changes the fact that my body knows how to naturally align to love and flow accordingly.”
I agree Cherise the body leads the way to our own salvation, which makes you wonder why there is so much emphasis placed on the mind in our society… there is a deliberateness in distracting us away from the truth.
Connective Tissue Therapy brought me back to a love and deep respect for my body that I had hitherto ignored and for that I immensely appreciate Serge Benhayon and Kate Greenaway for her awesome sessions.
Connecting to god, what does it mean? For me now it means a greater connection to my own body, an ease in making eye contact with others, a full awareness of what is going on around me and a willingness to be there taking part in life, not hiding in the corners. The Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy is something I have found hugely supportive in creating this connection.
Connective Tissue Therapy is an amazing healing modality that simply allows us to feel the pulse and expansion of God and the Universe in our bodies in connection and flow and living this is true Religion. Thank you Cherise for a beautiful blog.
We are divine beings. As simple and truthful this fact is, we have forgotten and lost our bearings. It has taken Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon and modalities such as Connective tissue to reconnect us and re imprint the illusion of us not from divine.
It is one thing to know in your head that we are one with the universe, quite another to feel it in your bodies cells. Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy is as you say Cherise the most sublime and unique way to reconnect to this feeling. It helps us see that this connective tissue does not stop inside our physical body but exists in everything and connects you and me in the deepest way.
Wow – I deeply enjoyed reading of your experience of connective tissue therapy and feel inspired to surrender more deeply to the connections within myself to these qualities.
I also had to ask: if God is Love, how could there be any discrimination against people, degradation of women or even a lack of self-love and true care within our very homes if we considered ourselves to be love and so-called religious?”
This is a great question, since I was a child I was always confused by the concept of someone saying that they were a “man of god whilst doing something destructive, like smoking a cigarette”
In American movies I watched growing up there were lot of hard thug style gangsters that praised the lord but packed ‘heat’, a 9 iron (gun) on their waist. It seems like sometimes God’s name is used in order to feel better about ill actions, like some sick fantasy that they are carrying out God’s will?
Hello Cherise, I didn’t choose to study religion further at school but I did go to a catholic school and a lot of what I saw didn’t make sense. There was always questions, even from a really young age. I wanted to understand more but I kept getting to the same point, it all really made no sense. I couldn’t see the balance in what was being taught to me about religion, God, people etc. I walked around with this confusion into my adult years and it wasn’t until Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon that I finally saw sense in all that had been said to me. As you are saying Cherise, we are ‘God’ there is no separation and religion is how we are. This was the single most freeing thing for me to see and possibly one of my greatest angsts.
‘I also had to ask: if God is Love, how could there be any discrimination against people, degradation of women or even a lack of self-love and true care within our very homes if we considered ourselves to be love and so-called religious?’ If everybody would ask this question sincerely, the world would look differently.
Connective Tissue Therapy is a God send, no other way to describe it. Not only does it bring immense health benefits, and a feeling of being alive, once you are aware of your connective tissue, you can activate it any time. Living a busy corporate life I find taking a few minutes to “boost” my connective tissue flow makes all the difference.
“Religion resides in my very own body, in the graceful way in which I choose to live, to move and in the choices I make to reconnect to the love that I am. It is then through this quality, which I bring to my every movement, that I can consistently confirm my connection back to God and Religion.” And this is what you offer the world Cherise. Wow! What a reflection you are for us all.
Returning religion to its true meaning, this article opens my body up to feeling the pulse and rhythm in life that is always there, just often shrouded by beliefs and distraction. Accepting this innate knowing and belonging to unity, is like surrendering into the arms of a loving hug.
The feeling during an Esoteric Connective Tissue session is an ever expanding sense of cells. What I become acutely aware of is that I didn’t actually know I was living with a tightness and constriction in the flow of my body before the session and it was only after the session I realised the disconnection. How applicable is this experience to everything in life? We need reflections to share with us that our normal is perhaps a fraction of what we could be living and that we have the power to expand and readjust our normal by reconnecting to the space within our cells.
Every time I either receive an Esoteric Connective Tissue session, or give one, I cannot help but feel the presence of divinity. Through the connective tissue, it is possible to feel that we are all the same, irrespective of how we appear on the outer. This brings a great sense of equality not only with each other but with God.
‘Religion resides in my very own body, in the graceful way in which I choose to live, to move and in the choices I make to reconnect to the love that I am. It is then through this quality, which I bring to my every movement, that I can consistently confirm my connection back to God and Religion.’ Beautiful Cherise, in our everyday movements.
There can be no separation when we talk about God the fact that is all that is created when we look at traditional religions they actually turn a lot of people off having a relationship with God, I know I didn’t want to use the word or be associated with religion in any way, not until I realised I am religious and have a relationship with God every day in every moment – whether I want to honour that or not is up to me.
It is true words don’t really do justice to how I feel when I receive esoteric healing and connective tissue, but expansive and connected to something expanding and bigger than myself as the universe is what I feel and it just is so consistent and familiar that it seems impossible that we live most of our days in opposition to that feeling. So amazing to have modalities that remind us of who we truly are.
I love that our bodies bring a wisdom with them that reaches far beyond the ends of the Universe. From a connection to their quality and an enjoyment of simply just being inside them we can not only do anything, reaching our full potential, but whatever it is that we do we bring our quality and our true enjoyment to it all. How easy it is to see that this brings with it a true way of living with consistency and clarity but also a way that feeds us back with a precious and expanding vitality.
There is a rhythm that I can feel in my body that I know is the rhythm of God. Esoteric Connective Tissue continually allows me to deepen my connection and the depth is always felt from my body. It is no wonder that it is very easy to dis-connect from our bodies, for it is only through our connection with our body that we can feel the absolute love of God we are held in.
Connective Tissue along with the other many healing modalities offered by Universal Medicine most surely help with connection to self and god
I have also felt that expansion you mention Cherise in my shoulders as if I have wings in Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy and a lightening and warming of my heart as though a great weight had been lifted. It is truly a modality sent from heaven.
Cherise it’s a really great reminder when you share that no matter what has gone on the body naturally aligns to love. Whenever I’ve had Esoteric Connective Tissue treatments I’ve had the same experience, no matter what has gone on or how caught up in things that have happened, after a session it feels like these so called problems don’t exist and my body feels at ease with itself.
I find it amazing that a healing modality has the power to reconnect one to God. There are some modalities who claim this, but the reality is: few really do! What I observe with Universal Medicine practitioners is that they carry a level of connection to God themselves on a very practical day-to-day-level. Therein happens the magic and the tools and techniques don’t stand in the way, but support that connection to be!
Thank you, Cherise, for the truth you have shared here – “Religion resides in my very own body, in the graceful way in which I choose to live, to move and in the choices I make to reconnect to the love that I am. It is then through this quality, which I bring to my every movement, that I can consistently confirm my connection back to God and Religion.” It is really dawning on me that we can all feel God in an instant, and it is our choice whether we do so or not.
The feeling of being deeply connected within your own body after a Connective Tissue treatment, certainly lives up to the true meaning of the word ‘religion’ which means to ‘re-turn’ or re-connect back to’ … The spaciousness, warmth, and wholesome feeling is truly Devine. To recognise that you can feel this connection within your own body makes self care and self love a non-negotiable act in your day.
I agree Cherise, like you describe, Connective Tissue is something which brings me into a state where I feel very intimate with myself and in this state, I feel close to God. and his eternal love.
Cherise following sentence was such a good reminder how to be with my pain: “Whether I feel aches, pains or tension in my body or get caught in the tension of my day, nothing changes the fact that my body knows how to naturally align to love and flow accordingly.”
I have had some amazing connective tissue experiences. During one of the sessions that I have had, I could feel God like I have never before, and realising that I can live in a way that I feel this everyday, in every moment.
You make a very good point here about Cherise about the discrepancy which is felt from many religions ” how we could all be equal if some are excluding of others?” This just doesn’t make sense at all. The Way of the Livingness is a religion where every single person on this planet is seen as the Son of God. For many, perhaps we haven’t come to this realisation as yet, but at the core of what this religion shares is this truth.
I find it amazing and inspiring that what would normally be considered a physical treatment for one of our physical body’s systems can allow us to reconnect to the divinity that we are from. It blows out of the water, the common paradigm of medicine and the truth of what our bodies are.
“I live religiously each day through the choices I make to connect deeply to myself and thus to God and his love”.
This feels so simple, Cherise and makes religion for me a practical but very self loving choice and reflects how I am inspired to live every day. Of course there is no perfection in this and sometimes I live less than I am because of the choices I make. I also can make a choice to reconnect to my innermost – this is my religion.
What your sharing is that it is possible to live a deeply religious life in a way that is not reliant on going to a place of worship or reading a text or doing a ceremony – it is simply your personal relationship with god from your body out to the world around you and it is lovely to read.
Religion, in the true sense of the word, for me means to re-align or re-connect to what is already inside me, in essence a Son of God, and Connective Tissue Therapy does just that. It brings me to such a feeling of stillness and it is through this stillness that I can connect to this essence, in such a delicate and tender way, awesome modality.
It makes such sense when we know we are all equal sons of God and the Connective Tissue therapy shows us through the physical connection to our Soul. It is phenomenal.
It is impossible to describe the feeling of divinity when it runs through your body following an Esoteric Connective Tissue therapy session. Words that come are: warm, open, flowing, yummy, loving, embracing, present, delicate. I have experienced my body go from a contracted and held state to what feels like claiming my full potential in height, space and presence. After one of these sessions I know what is possible. It is then about living it.
Thank you for a great blog Cherise, I love that religion is not something outside of us a set of rules so to speak , but a living day by day experience of living from our inner heart of love, not just our relationship with ourselves, but our relationship to everyone on the planet, knowing that every though word and deed is felt by the all.
“if God is Love, how could there be any discrimination against people, degradation of women or even a lack of self-love and true care within our very homes if we considered ourselves to be love and so-called religious?” A great question, Cherise, and so simple to answer, there can be no discrimination against others, denigration of women and if God is love, then we are beholden to also be living in a self-loving way with each other in our lives. We need to be living love in all that we do, we are love too as God is.
I too Cherise was not involved very much with religion for much of my life, but there was always a thread there within me I now see, which questioned why there were so many religions, and feeling the hypocrisy that I could see, a big gap in what these religions were teaching about God being love, and how people were living, which so often not at all loving, even within their own families. Quite a number of years back I too undertook a study called Comparative Religion, which exacerbated this feeling. “Whilst I could always see the similarities between the array of religious and spiritual beliefs that inhabit our world, I always felt that they were only bringing part truths but perhaps missing something, or missing the whole.” I see now, a very big thing that is missing is learning how to actually connect to this religion, how to truly live it, the living together in brotherhood, and accepting the fact that we are all equally the Sons of God. Very much missing, many man-made rules and dogmas that have nothing to do with true religion, the division between male and female and the role women can play within the organisation. Women have in most religions been regarded as second class citizens, sometimes unclean, often denigrated and seen as there is no true equality in many of them. How different this is to Universal Medicine, where we are all treated as equal Sons of God, with no differentiation, other than on physical strength needed for some jobs, which we all accept and respect.
Cherise, this is a truly beautiful blog, there are so many gems within it, especially the following, “When I connect to myself and to the very core of my being, which I call my essence or my Soul, I know exactly what it feels like to be held in God’s love and I am reminded that I am held in grace and absoluteness at all times.” Yes, this describes beautifully how I feel when I am deeply connected to myself and just let myself truly be, this is true religion, this is a deep knowingness of who I truly am, a Son of God. When I connect deeply this way, I feel myself held in a beholding love that is what God is. This love never imposes, it just lets me be and be guided by a knowingness of what is to be done. This is true religion. I realise now that this was what I was seeking through much of my life. I have so much to thank Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine for, through the modalities they have made available and the practitioners of them, and yes, connective tissue therapy has been a very important avenue for me being able to connect deeply with myself. It allows me to drop very deeply to feel the true me.
God is Love & Love is God. 🙂 🙂
One thing that I have come to appreciate thanks to Universal Medicine, is that religion is something we live and express, it’s in our every movement and every breath. It’s something that I finally feel I can embrace, and not feel controlling as I once had thought but instead offers love and expansion.
Just gorgeous Cherise, a beautiful blog that took me straight to the truth that God lives within us all. Having treatments has been a major contribution for me allowing God and religion into my life also. They allowed a space where I could feel how we pulse and move with the same movement as the entire universe.
It is the only religion I have ever felt to be true, without dogma, or rules, but full of love, expansiveness, equality and understanding.
Its the same for me too Heather. I always felt there was something missing in the religion that I was brought up with, and it wasn’t until I understood what true religion was that everything fell into place, as it is as you say, “without dogma, or rules, but full of love, expansiveness, equality and understanding.”
A great blog Cherise ,highlighting our individual relationship with god and how we access this through our particles in our bodies , in connection to god ,the universe and the all . It seems a far cry from religious dogma being imposed by churches and religious assemblies with all the seperative teachings that have hurt mankind , with constant wars ,rape and abuse was a result of teaching separation between another . The esoteric healing modalities are amazing with helping us to connect back to ourselves and the divine through stillness and connection in our bodies . Embodiement
There is a feeling I get in connective tissue therapy and movement that I liken to a very fluid and smooth energetic flow through my body, which is very spacious and open. I was walking up a steep hill recently, after having walked in a way that allowed me to feel this smooth flow in my connective tissue and I noticed how easy it was to walk the hill. Sometimes the hill feels like hard work, but this particular day I was realising that my connective tissue played a big part in determining how walking up a hill actually felt in my body. It was quite amazing to make the connection.
“My body and the way that I live, is Religion.” What simple yet profound statement, which I can feel comes from real lived experience and an acknowledgement of the divine in every breath and movement. Thank you, Cherise.
“My body and the way that I live, is Religion.” this is so true Abby and exposes the way religion has been made up to be something outside ourselves when it fact it is our connection within and with the all.
“Religion resides in my very own body, in the graceful way in which I choose to live, to move and in the choices I make to reconnect to the love that I am”. This religion makes perfect sense to me and is accessible to everyone.
Connective Tissue Therapy offers such a profound and deep reconnection to the body. In feeling this quality, it opens up a deepening relationship ourselves and with love.
Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy is a beautiful modality that does indeed connect one back to God and Religion. I feel it has also given me a better chance of living a more healthy life. Thank you Cherise.
For me it’s as simple as being in my body, from here everything is very simple and very clear. It’s the stillness that I feel inside my body and in the space all around me that allows me to connect to God.
“Whether I feel aches, pains or tension in my body or get caught in the tension of my day, nothing changes the fact that my body knows how to naturally align to love and flow accordingly.” This is massive and one of the answers to the worlds problems.
Beautiful.
I like this Cherise, “…My body and the way I live is Religion…” This allows a religion that will never be exclusive of anyone for as long as we all have a body. Every other religion is exclusive because it required people to believe in something because we are told to, regardless if it feels right, real and true or not. But our body won’t lie and hence will always be truthful. Certainly a new understanding of what religion is in our present, modern day western society.
Esoteric Connective Therapy is a modality that is gifted from heaven, so that our earthly bodies can be reminded of who we are and where we come from.
Beautifully expressed Donna.
Connective Tissue Therapy has helped me to truly understand that God is not outside of me and that it is through the flow and openness of my body that I feel in a Connective Tissue Therapy session that I come to know him.
It shows how institutionalized religion is separating and not unifying, it is about joining and belonging and not living with God, but by some man-made rules that supposedly come from God. God would never put one higher than another and this already shows the untruth that is in institutionalized religion, that is more about power than love.
‘ [institutionised religion] …more about power than love’ these few simple words expose the level of corruption that exists in the majority of religions in this world. They may start with an impulse to connect to love, to God, but the human spirit cannot stand by and let an opportunity to gain power for itself go to waste, and so the original impulse towards brotherhood becomes bastardised into an individualistic and reductionist version holding none of the glory of true religion.
What a beautiful way to start my day by reading your blog Cherise. There are so many beliefs and dogmas as to what religion is and means that exist in the world today mostly based on, the things we do is what determines how religious or close to God we are or will be after we die. Yet all the while as you have so exquisitely shared we have to opportunity to know and feel our connection to God through our very own bodies, at any time whenever we choose to surrender to the sacred connection to ourselves. “My body and the way that I live, is Religion. I live religiously each day through the choices I make to connect deeply to myself and thus to God and his love.” – beautifully said. This is my kind of religion.
The phrase that came to me when reading your blog, Cherise, was “the body is my temple”. But it is not the temple where I go to worship, secluded from the world. It is a place of holiness where, given the chance, God has the opportunity to express divinity through me.
Gorgeously expressed Naren. It is through our union of our body and Soul that we are in connection to the Divinity that we are here to live.
Indeed, Carola! There is no other place that the expression of our divinity is going to come through than that joyful marriage of body and soul.
What an inspiring way to look at religion: “My body and the way that I live, is Religion”. I can feel the responsibility in this, which for me is lacking in all other religions.
Loved what you shared about religion Cherise “I always felt that they were only bringing part truths but perhaps missing something, or missing the whole.” and how “Because God is Love, there can be no punishment, no judgement and certainly we won’t be sent to the fiery depths of hell for not being perfect, when perfection doesn’t even exist!” great points. and I whole heartedly agree about connective tissue. It allows me to feel a beautiful ease. and reminds me of how natural it can be to live this way – with god.
I have found Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy sessions very powerful – its like they unpick all the tension I had been carrying and I am left to surrender very deeply into my body. Some sessions have felt more rejuvenating than sleep.
‘When I connect to myself and to the very core of my being, which I call my essence or my Soul, I know exactly what it feels like to be held in God’s love and I am reminded that I am held in grace and absoluteness at all times.’ When we are connected to our essence we are connected to God.
I love the beautiful simplicity in how you describe religion, “I live religiously each day through the choice I make to connect deeply to myself and thus to a God and his love.”
Thank you Cherise, I really love your expression of true religion, something so beautiful and universal that any one can relate to, and yet it is deeply personal at the same time.
I agree Janet, Cherise very beautifully, clearly and with absolute understanding states very simply what true religion is. “Religion resides in my very own body, in the graceful way in which I choose to live, to move and in the choices I make to reconnect to the love that I am. It is then through this quality, which I bring to my every movement, that I can consistently confirm my connection back to God and Religion.”
This is true religion and absolutely worth living.
I love your expression also Janet that in true religion there can be no separation with ourselves, with each other or with the universe.
Growing up I could never understand religion, how it was seen and taught. That there is a great God that we are all indebted to, that in the ‘name’ of God it was okay to kill and start wars, that because of their status some people were more important than others .. all that was taught never made sense to me but I could feel there was also something far more than what and how we are living our lives, a bigger plan and purpose. Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine have claimed and are re-presenting what true religion is and I can feel this truth within my body it is like finally there is something (someone) out in the world that is reflecting back to me exactly what I feel and know deep within. Reglion is a way a living, it is how we live in accordance with the divine law. There is an order, knowing and harmony that is far greater and grander than what we see and what we live currently in the world today. Religion is about true love, and re-connecting to the innate essence that lives within us all equally. This makes sense to me, this I know to be true.
I was brought up with church and religion in the form of christianity and even writing that word I can feel the incompleteness of the message that is delivered. While christianity introduced me to many well meaning people as I grew up and an intention to do good and care for other people from around the world, there was something missing that I found quite obvious and made me stop attending church as soon as I was allowed. The religion of the Way of the Livingness embodies the all, and it makes perfect sense to me that our religion is carried in our bodies and expressed from the way we live, a connection to god that we accept or not but that we can never avoid having.
I used to shy away from the word religion, to me it felt oppressive, and full of holes, so much of it didn’t make sense. I knew God but I could not accept religion. To hear that ‘My body and the way that I live, is Religion,’ feels absolutely true yet no religion other than The Way of the Livingness has ever mentioned this. Knowing that the way I live and how I look after my body is religion brings a responsibility that is not asked for in truth outside of the religion, The Way of The Livingness.
This is so beautiful and true..”Religion resides in my very own body, in the graceful way in which I choose to live, to move and in the choices I make to reconnect to the love that I am. It is then through this quality, which I bring to my every movement, that I can consistently confirm my connection back to God and Religion.” I was never taught this at Sunday school, hence the reason I rejected going to it so fervently.
Your amazing blog gave me the feeling how simple true religion can be Cherise – Thank you for sharing your wisdom.
This blog made me realise that it has been far too long since I have had a Connective tissue session and the importance of every tool we can use to assist us in our realignment back to God.
Connective Tissue Therapy is such a beautiful modality, Kev. I have found that it really opens up my body so much to the flow of life.
Thats a great marker Kev as life can be like a 24/7 Connective Tissue session, living re-aligned to God. Wow that is true vitality!!!
Through my connective tissue sessions I know that “Whether I feel aches, pains or tension in my body or get caught in the tension of my day, nothing changes the fact that my body knows how to naturally align to love and flow accordingly.`’ This is a remarkable and very beautiful feeling and discovery and thanks to Universal Medicine this is more and more available to us all to connect to for ourselves.
Cherise you wrote: “Whether I feel aches, pains or tension in my body or get caught in the tension of my day, nothing changes the fact that my body knows how to naturally align to love and flow accordingly.” That is such a powerful realization! With that there is only one thing to do and that is to deeply surrender to our bodies . . .
Very beautifully qualified Esteraltmiks, yes there is so much more going on in our bodies if we care to listen deeply to them, consistently. This inspires me to get out of my head and into my body.
Beautifully said Ester and a great reminder. Our bodies do know how to align to love naturally so, and it is only we who go out of our way to prevent this from happening. If we simply choose to allow ourselves to feel this natural, innate quality that we all have within us and to surrender to that, then everything would flow harmoniously in our bodies and consequently in our lives.
Life is fire, and it does well from time to time to be reminded of this fact.
“….I now know the true and whole meaning of religion on a very personal level.”
Wow, how many people in the world can say that for real?
Inspirational Cherise. Thank you of sharing.
“….my body knows how to naturally align to love and flow accordingly.” I know this to be true from my experience too Cherise. Our job then is to remove any obstacles that inhibit its natural alignment and flow. This enables the universe to communicate with and through our bodies and the all that resides within us.
Absolutely Stevie. We all have the same opportunity to choose the degree in which we live in connection to bodies, ourselves, and the universe, by virtue of the fact we are all born into a body that only ourselves are responsible for.
What you share about religion is the only explanation that makes sense. Even in my teenage years when I attended church, I could not accept that God would favour one group over. I could never fathom that God, who is Love, could judge, punish and condemn. However, I never ever doubted the truth of God, only the not-so-true version I was being sold.
I too have found Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy a great way to fully connect to my body, its particles and God’s energetic field that is not only in me but surrounds me in all the space I see and feel.
Finding the light at the end of the tunnel has turned my life around. For me the light was on but no one was home until I attend a work shop by Serge Benhayon, and although I was in the arrogance that I had a grand knowing about all that Serge shared it was only knowledge, which had not one once of lived wisdom. Finding that “religion resides in my very own body, was a humble blessing, which was a huge step in reclaiming the glory of being the Son of God! The light that resides within had never left; my tunnel vision or the presumed light at the end of the tunnel was just waiting for me to reconnect.
Absolutely relationship with true religion lies with in us, it is our realignment with God.
My body and the way I live is religion… What a profound statement, so simple, and yet it would shake the establishment to the core, the course makes divinity accessible to each and everyone of us and also brings a level of responsibility where we make the choice as to whether we live in heaven or somewhere else.
Thank you cjames2012 Just what I needed to hear this morning. ‘the course makes divinity accessible to each and everyone of us and also brings a level of responsibility where we make the choice as to whether we live in heaven or somewhere else.’ I can choose to live in Heaven any time I like, it is up to me and I never have to bow down to what is happening outside of me.
Well said, religion is a living way a livingness that comes from the responsibility to choose to live in heaven 24/7 meanwhile being absolutely committed to life.
Yes I agree Katie, a very powerful line that exposes many of our so called religious practices as lacking any true connection or alignment to the immense Love of God. The lack of love for humanity does not come from God, it comes from our own lack of love towards ourselves and one another.
In my first Connective Tissue Session I felt like my body expanded and opened and that I was visiting heaven. It was truly life changing.
I can relate to this feeling Kathryn. I would add that I felt like I was walking on a cloud after my session, such lightness and space.
It is a truly heavenly modality Kathryn I agree, immensely nurturing, deeply stilling and magically delicate modality that turns up the volume so to speak of the spark of life within. Esoteric Connective Tissue is life changing, it re-introduces us to an innate fragility and power that we have neglected to honour and supports us from the inside out to transform our lives simply and lovingly in alignment with our inner spark.
Gorgeous Rowena. And being in line with our ‘inner spark’ sure is key when it comes to truly living.
‘My body and the way that I live, is Religion.’ A beautiful expression Cherise. I could feel my body expand as I read your words. Thank you.
Kathryn ditto power and simplicity in one.
Agreed Kathryn. There is much wisdom offered in this statement that calls us to ponder on the degree in which we have accepted our responsibility to truly live all that we are.
The word responsibility is transformed into something that is loving, rather than something that is hard work.
I never liked religion and cringed when I heard the word God or religion but that was because I never knew the true meaning of the words. Now I see God and religion and understand what it is all about and have a completely different view point than the one I had as a child. It is interesting that we take on others beliefs and question them yet go along with them as that is what everyone else is doing.
It is so true what you share Cherise, we get to choose every moment whether we hold tension or not in our bodies. Connective Tissue Therapy is an amazing modality for supporting our bodies and allowing us to feel how delicious and freeing it is to be in our bodies. When we feel this we know we have a choice to support ourselves to honour our bodies and move in a way that supports the flow to continue. The tension will return any time we choose to be reminded that the connection back to us is slipping or slipped away. But it only takes a moment to come back once observed and acknowledged.
What is gorgeous about Connective Tissue Therapy and the other Universal Medicine modalities is how they help us connect to our core within and truly feel that the various layers that debilitate us are not our innate essence – for me these were emotions, hardness, self-diminishing thoughts, images I though I have to live up to, movements adopted in order to protect and many more. And the beauty of it is feeling what has always been hidden underneath it all, what remains is the true me which feels so divine that it makes me smile ear to ear – and my indisputable joyful connection with all people and with God.
“Whether I feel aches, pains or tension in my body or get caught in the tension of my day, nothing changes the fact that my body knows how to naturally align to love and flow accordingly”. When I first had the realisation that my body ‘belonged to the Universe’ a paradigm shifted for me. Up until that point I’d always had trouble reconciling that I had a physical body at all and felt like its prisoner. When I understood that my body was the gateway to God through honouring it and letting it show me what my choices were then my world changed – it opened up and became very accepting. When I allow my body to let go I know I am surrendering to myself and therefore to God and when I am present within myself and with my body I know I am in connection. In that connection my body has an ease and a flow that feels seamless and expansive.
Thank you Michelle – your comment – ‘When I understood that my body was the gateway to God through honouring it and letting it show me what my choices were then my world changed – it opened up and became very accepting’ – calls me to take responsibility for a gift that has been bestowed on me, one I have not fully acknowledged. Your choice of wording has brought through something very profound for me and deepened my truly loving and caring for my amazing body of wisdom. Thank you.
You are welcome Christine. It was an utterly profound moment when I finally welcomed the fact that I had a body and that there was a whole encompassing divinity and plan with it. Our route back to soul is through the body and it deserves to be cherished and nurtured. Even my tiny glimmer of understanding about the particles contained within my body, and how they are connected with universal light, and how they expand and what that expansion feels like in my body supports me to appreciate the bigger picture and to appreciate divine order and the divine plan.
This is beautiful Michelle, ‘my body was the gateway to God through honouring it and letting it show me what my choices were then my world changed’, wow this really makes sense and makes me realise that I do not fully honour my body in the way that it deserves, thank you for your words of wisdom.
Great comment Michelle – very much appreciated. There was a time that I thought I was the only one who felt imprisoned by my body and wondered how long I could endure it, but that is no longer the case. Life does have an ease to it when I am with my body, which is a far cry from how life is when I am not. Knowing what I know now makes me wonder how on earth did I ever get through my days.
Julie I am sure most of us have felt/feel this way but what an education to learn the real science of our bodies and to not be held in the ignorance of the bigger picture! I also wonder how I got through my days (but I do know really ). I was in constant tension and anxiety, my shoulders were permanently tight as I was in nervous energy and hard because I was in constant protection but trying not to feel it, numbing it all with food and TV!
I have had many CT sessions and always have felt so expanded and connected to my body, and while reading your article I was able to connect so much more deeply and claim the light that I am. So beautifully encapsulated and amazing that this modality is available to all to feel and experience.
“I live religiously each day through the choices I make to connect deeply to myself ” – This is a religion I can sign up to…
Actually to be connected to one’s inner heart feels so fulfilling, that in truth we do not want to leave this place again. And this deep connection to myself and to God for me is religion. The feeling of this connection gives me the marker when I am not connected, which leaves an emptiness and then I can observe which behaviour has separated me from my connection.
Absolutely, I can sign up too!
Well said Joel, you can sign up too, because there is nothing to be signed up to as it is you who is making the choice to re-connect. That is true religion.
So when I sign up, I am saying yes to me…but I can’t sign by way of declaration or ceremony but only ever through my ongoing choice.
Yes Joel, I too can sign up for this religion as all it asks is for us to re connect to who we are and to then live from that which we know to be true.
Signed up Joel, and also what this brings is that through self love and dedication, God is known, and that demonstrates we are all one.
Me too. It doesn’t make religion about looking up to something or giving power away to something outside of ourself but instead makes it about how we live through our choices and connection to our body.
How simple this is, this too, is a religion I can sign up to. Thank you Joel, simply put.
There are so many beliefs and dogmas prescribing how one must live to get to know god. It is refreshing and simple to feel here that you are getting to know god (love/space etc) from your body.
How true Abby. It’s actually as simple as feel your body and there is God. How exquisite to do away with all the complication.
Well said Abby. There are indeed many blurred truths and dogmas surrounding how one can ‘find’ God, but what’s amazing about this blog is that it talks about KNOWING God through your body, movements and in the appreciation of nature/life, rather than having to search for something outside of ourselves. It’s a very different approach.
Through Universal Medicine the approach of connecting to the inner in order to know God has been a “godsend” for many.
Yes, there is so much power in knowing God because you live in connection with him each day through every breath and movement. No need then for someone to tell you who God is and lay down the law on his behalf.
So true Abby. It is beautiful to hear. How it is all so simple and super love filled / gorgeous to feel.
Very true Abby, getting to know God through the body is truly living it and not talking, preaching or believing in it.
What a relief that is to walk the walk, rather than talk the talk! No preaching needed!
This is a great comment Abby, and so true. We are led to believe that in order to believe in God we have to worship him as some sort of Deity, whatever form or name that may take depending on the religion that is being followed. Whereas what you are presenting here is so beautifully simple and the exact opposite of what is generally accepted as ‘normal’. To know God from our body, as a part of us that naturally resides within, in exactly the same way as all of nature is a true and direct reflection of God, brings a completely different approach to our understanding, and one that makes complete sense.
Gorgeously expressed Abby and so evident in Cherise’s blog that true religion begins within.
When I was a child I thought that to get nearer to God you had to join a convent and be a nun or some other form of religious figure, or go to church regularly. I used to wonder why it was that nuns devoted the lives to the church and ‘married’ God so to speak and secretly I was quite envious of their devotion and wanted to understand their motivation. So like you Abby, realising the truth of where God actually resides is the most amazing realisation I have ever had and answers many questions about the true meaning of religion. And now I can devote my life to God, by re-connecting to the divineness within ME (and no need to join a convent 😉 )
Hear hear Abby it is super inspiring that there is a direct relationship with our body and God. That through this connection and surrounding to the potential that this is I can’t help but feel goose bumps all over me. Nothing to do or no place to go to or someone that will take you there just us, our bodies and our connection. Simple yet the most powerful way I have ever felt God inside of me. Universal Medicine modalities has been the supporting techniques that has assisted this to be my daily connection.
For me too Natalie. And to understand that our bodies and its language is the access to God, or our feeling deep inside, our true nature is amazing.
Yes, Abby, these varying beliefs and dogmas are all man-made, but when one connects deeply with one’s own body, one does not feel any beliefs or dogmas, what one feels is one’s own divinity. How different and simple this is, a deep knowingness of ourselves and of God and a deep feeling of love that increases, the more deeply we connect with ourselves. It is beautiful to get to know God in this way, and his beholding love, the true way for me. This is my religion.
I love what you say Cherise about feeling God in your body. It is what I now know to be true as well and connective tissue has been key to me reconnecting, firing up my lymphatics and realising they are divinely designed to pulse with the entire universe.
What an enormously wonderfull question to ask! “if God is Love, how could there be any discrimination against people, degradation of women or even a lack of self-love and true care within our very homes if we considered ourselves to be love and so-called religious?” It exposes something that had always puzzled me as a child – there was my knowing of God within myself that did not equate to the (in-truth) love-less representation of religion I grew up with. Religion now for me is the most beautiful and meaningful, since connecting with Universal Medicine this amazing word holds the meaning of life and our connection to divinity and true beauty.
This is so true ‘My body and the way that I live, is Religion.’ Reglion has nothing to do with ideals or beliefs but instead about how we live.
I will never forget my first Connective Tissue course either Doug, what stood out for me was how much my body can surrender, it took a while but I will never forget how it felt.
‘Through this modality I claim the light that I am and feel a freedom or expansion in my shoulders that feels like I have wings.’ This has also been my experience of Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy and reading your blog I can feel this expansion now.
For so many of us we strive for perfection, for the ideal image that we each hold about perfection. In the case of God and religion I certainly felt as I grew up attending a Catholic school that I had to be someone more than I was, I had to be perfect and to not be was a failure. As you say though “we won’t be sent to the fiery depths of hell for not being perfect, when perfection doesn’t even exist!”. It’s knowing and feeling what connective tissue offers and feeling connected to myself and God that helps dispel the myth of perfection.
In my studies, I attended a masters degree in the study of religions because somewhere I was looking for the fact that everyone is equal. What I discovered was that there are many different ways of viewing God and each other, perspective is everything when it comes to God and our relationships with one another.
Beautiful Cherise, it is profound to feel this flow within the body during Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy sessions I agree, while at the same time it feels completely natural. What this does is make me realise how I have been feeling was not as natural (or normal) as l’d thought. In that sense it not only serves as a remarkable reminder of where we come from and what naturally flows through us when we allow it, but also of the chasm that generally exists between this and the way we usually feel in the body. It is a great reminder that we settle for far less than is possible in our sense of wellbeing, and the flow on effect of this to our general health.
To have divine markers in one’s body supports so much to interact in life. As soon as someone wants to engage in emotions or reactionary drama, my marker stops me, I can connect to my divinity, don’t allow the drama, hence, the other person gets a healing, too!
When we know who we truly are, we also know what we are not and then can discard what we are not over time. Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy is a great way to feel who we truly are and that is so amazing that words become quite inadequate.
It is a great experience receiving an Esoteric Connective Tissue session to feel as you say Christoph who we truly are and then feel supported to acknowledge parts that where there is an absence of flow or space in our bodies and what we are holding there of what we are not.
Yes, Doug, the compelling feeling that they can’t possibly be true never went away and it was a choice for the least untrue or to reject them all.
Absolutely Christopher and Doug, I can very much relate to what you have both written, ‘the compelling feeling that they can’t possibly be true never went away and it was a choice for the least untrue or to reject them all.’ I went for the religion that felt the least untrue, but still there was so much that did not make sense and the people in the organization did not feel loving, healthy or harmonious, there was much that rang alarm bells, now with The Way of The of The Livingness it is so simple, makes sense and feels natural and true.
A very inspiring experience Cherise that is a game changer to many mainstream religions. All this searching and worshipping everything outside the human body is futile, we can only know God through the particles of God, our body and our light. It’s all there waiting to me realised and lived. I never got into forms of so called religion in school and was never devoted to a higher teaching or power, but I observed it when presented and realised that it was never about us, the people and our bodies. It seemed mythical and fake and never pulled me to a movement. After studying with Universal Medicine and reading experiences like your Cherise I feel confirmed in the fact that we all know true religion, the activity of re-connecting to our divinity through the body.
I agree Doug – my body literally re-aligned, felt lighter, freer and open. The wisdom of the body given the space and supported by the practitioner heals itself. This is the essence of God at work within.
It sure is Christine, Esoteric Connective Therapy works with the body and in my experience as well does wonders. It helps reintroduce and deepen my connection with myself.
Gorgeous Christine ‘This is the essence of God at work within.’
It is interesting how we can fight through life without any awareness of how deeply exhausted we are on a daily basis. Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy has supported me to feel this exhaustion and change the way I live to such an extent that I no longer need to rely on caffeine to get me through the day.
Esoteric connective tissue therapy has the most extraordinary settling effect on the body. It is one of my favourite modalities as you can literally feel tension in your body melt away.
Yes it is extraordinary in its effect on the body fionacochran01, having received it many many times, and also practising it as a modality in clinic, I can attest to its profound settling effect on the nervous system and any anxiety. It literally melts away as the body resumes its natural flow, showing that these states of tension are not our natural states, and hence should not be accepted as such.
“In my Esoteric Connective Tissue therapy sessions I am fully supported to feel the lightness and acceptance of who I am as a Son of God on earth, and this forms a marker to carry with me wherever I go.” – A marker like this is priceless and something that I too have been supported with through Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy and in fact all the Universal Medicine Therapies. It’s a knowing and a guide from which to re-evaluate how we are living.
Thank you Cherise for sharing such a beautiful appreciation of Connective Tissue Therapy. I could feel the connection flow in my body as I read and that to me shows that we are all one with the rhythms and cycles that flow through us all, connecting us to God.
“Whether I feel aches, pains or tension in my body or get caught in the tension of my day, nothing changes the fact that my body knows how to naturally align to love and flow accordingly.” This is such a great reminder as it is easy to get caught up and only focus on the physical body which of course is important and needs support but remembering and continuing to live as the divine being we are is what truly supports us.
Yes, I agree Jsnelgrove36 a great reminder to listen to what our bodies are reliably telling us rather than to focus on what we do not want to feel.
“My body and the way that I live, is Religion.” Simple and available for everyone, thank you Cherise. It shows how very much we have made life about not God in the name of God.
So true Esther – we’ve made God and the process of connecting to Him very complicated and exclusive, like only a few deemed worthy are able to communicate and actively be with Him. But, in truth, the simplicity of being with God is as simple as connecting to our bodies, to nature and each other. Knowing God in the eyes of a child or the song of a bird, He is available 24/7 in all ways.
Exactly Rachael, we have complicated connection to God to the point of inaccessability… which is fascinating in itself when connection is actually the simplest thing possible.
Beautifully expressed Rachael Evans. God “is available 24/7 in all ways”, to all of us equally.
Absolutely Esther, I agree, God is so amazing words now fail me. One thing I can express is that as a Son of God the choice to reconnect to God has never left, it was me who lost sight of him. Now in reconnection to the truth of who God is, with undeniable thanks to the presentations by Serge Benhayon I feel that undeniable deep connection again!
“My body and the way that I live, is Religion. ” This makes so much sense to me, Cherise. There is a beautiful simplicity in feeling that how I express every day is my religion.
YES Doug, what stood out for me is that after my first session, after I stand on my feet again – I felt totally different, my walk felt different, and my body felt less heavy and more light. At the same time I felt more aware of how I felt in my body, and I could actually feel my feet – more then my head. Crazy, but a truly beautiful feeling. I am now a step closer to my Soul and have found the tool and support to connect to my body. All by the grace of Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy ; I love it!
Reading your comment Danna made me remember the last Esoteric Connective Tissue session I had. It was so beautiful to feel my feet and legs afterwards as well as the way I walked / moved. Before this particular session I had many others sessions and I pretty much gave up on the fact that I could walk with me and with my Love flowing through my legs and feet… But now, I can feel how natural it is. Thank God for Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy and all these amazing practitioners around the world who are able to reflect a deep knowing of the Love of God so I can surrender to it as well. Deeper and deeper. Wow.
Yes Katie, how simple but very extravagent a Esoteric Connective Tissue session can offer us – and how much we can benefit from it. As it is a tool that offers us to return to how it is to be connected to our body and walk and live in it!
The more we connect to our body and allow it to flow in its natural rhythm, the more we can feel our divinity and that we are all living breathing sons of God. And as you share Cherise, the Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy is an amazing modality to support that experience.
“My body and the way that I live, is Religion.” Before I knew the Way of the Livingness I could not use the word religion, it was loaded with so many beliefs and hurts of the past, a misuse of the word religion. Thank you Cherise for writing about religion in such a pure and innocent way. And thank you Serge Benhayon for starting to present about the true meaning of religion.
‘Because God is Love, there can be no punishment, no judgement and certainly we won’t be sent to the fiery depths of hell for not being perfect, when perfection doesn’t even exist!’ This is such a simple truth why do we not connect to this, do we not want to see we are all an equal part of God.
It is quite extraordinary that bought into the idea that God punishes us and we are sent to hell. This never added up to me as a child as I knew the love of God.
Me too Fiona. I could feel God as my equal and that his love was all encompassing, so why would he ever judge or punish anyone?
It is gorgeous reading you share Cherise about the simplicity of your connection to God and religion. No rules, no doctrines, no having to placate someone judging you, just a simple connection to the deep awareness and love within our own body. Delightful.
So, if my connective tissue flow is disturbed or obstructed my connection to God is as well… It is like when you Skype with someone and the connection is madly of inferior quality – what you say and what you hear and see is distorted. But hey, if that is all you ever had have and the only connection you know, you think this it. Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy lets us experience a stage of being in our body which maybe different to what we know till now. The world will change with this offer of clearing connection – we are more able to have conversations with God without interference…an interesting time is ahead of us, I say!
Makes so much sense that ‘connective’ tissue does hold our connection to God as well… 😉
“…the wisdom held deeply within our own physical bodies…” This is key, as through the stillness connected to through Connective Tissue Therapy, a deep knowing of something so grand and expansive can be felt.
Reconnection to the original meaning of religion changes the whole way I feel about it. When it is about my relationship with my body and my dedication to living in connection – I would happily say I am deeply religious.
‘I would happily say I am deeply religious’ Me too nicolesjardin and those are words that before I was introduced to the Way of the Livingness religion I never thought I would hear come out of my mouth!
Likewise Helen something i would have run a mile from.
I am much the same in learning the true meaning of the word religion I realised we are all religious as we all have a relationship with everything we do, ourselves and everyone we meet.
Great point Abby it hadn’t occurred to me that we are all religious as we all have a relationship with everything we do – That shines a spotlight on responsibility!
Yes nicolesjardin I only can agree – to feel it like this is an invitation to expand and to discover more . . . no boundaries at all.
Profound… and blows out of the water that being religious is to prey to something outside of your body…”Religion resides in my very own body, in the graceful way in which I choose to live, to move and in the choices I make to reconnect to the love that I am..” A beautiful blog Cherise, thank you
If someone said that my religion is my body you would look at them funny. In retrospect, is it overly out there to consider. We get feelings from our body and isn’t this a connection to something higher in itself?
If someone would say to me ‘my religion is my body’ I would think he/she means that they do a lot of sport, fitness and Yoga or so to have a beautiful body and that they are after perfection (respectively the image we have from this). But here is the body realized as connected to God and to the Universe, its true purpose is exposed: reflection/reminding us where we are coming from and return back to. If Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy can support us here – as I experienced like Cherise as well – this is such a blessing!
Yes isn’t it interesting Luke, that so many religions attempt to renounce the body or negate the body? Makes you wonder what their true intent is!?
Yes, some religions have gone as far as to cause the body pain in self-flagellation. The body is somehow seen as dirty and sinful and not worthy of God. How opposite this is to the divinity that can be felt in the body with the help of Connective Tissue Therapy.
Yes Rebecca, growing up I was never taught to honour and cherish my body, it was more something I had to overcome. And God was something outside of me, no one was ever able to reach up to him.
Universal Medicine offers us such a different approach here, which is so deeply confirming and healing.
Excellent thought Judith, as you are right many rituals around the world, try to make the body subservient to traditions and texts.
‘My body and the way that I live, is religion.’ Love this Cherise. When we connect deeply with ourselves we can connect with each other and with God. Choosing connection, a no-brainer.
The greatest wisdom is not what we think, but what is held in our bodies.
Yes Hannah, the mind in fact has no access to God, it is the re-connection with the body that delivers us to his door.
Yes Judith, in re-connecting to our bodies we realise that we are one in the same.
When trust the wisdom within the life starts to flow far more easily.
Well said Hannah, simple but true.
Beautifully expressed Hannah, what is lived in the body is felt and real, and no amount of head driven images (no matter how hard we try) can counter. I know when I fully feel something in my body and speak from that there is a simplicity in what is shared and an acceptance of what is shared and how the other and the world is no matter what. I now know it’s through the body that I access truth.
I agree 100% with what you have so gorgeously expressed here Monica. I too know that “…it’s through the body that I access truth.”.
Hannah this wisdom can change science immediately.
Yes esteraltmiks, if lived it can change science, religion, everything – and life as we know it becomes incredibly rich, simple and full of beauty.
I didn’t want a thing to do with religion until I had it presented to me that religion is found in our connection to our own senses, our own body, and from there a connection to the all. It needs no buildings of worship, just a commitment to caring and loving for oneself and from that love taken out to all. Esoteric Connective tissue therapy is a very practical source of supporting this quality.
Cherise, this line today caught my eye ‘nothing changes the fact that my body knows how to naturally align to love and flow accordingly.’ and reading it I got to understand and feel that no matter where I’ve been and how much I feel I’ve erred, my body knows the way back and it’s about finding ways to support it as it does so. This also shows the lie of religions such as catholicism with their preaching of penance and punishment – our way back is not through punishment but love and lovingly supporting our bodies which are of God to express this love in and through them.
Accepting and appreciating the body’s wisdom and supporting its natural flow with Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy sessions has expanded my awareness of the love of God and the support that we are surrounded by. This is in stark contrast to those religions that preach separation from each other and our bodies.
“Through Esoteric Connective Tissue therapy with a highly qualified Universal Medicine practitioner, I have been able to connect back to God and the fact that God is with me, in my body.” This goes to show the absolute gold this heaven sent modality is, the outstanding training and commitment of Universal Medicine and their practitioners, and the willingness of you to come back to your truth Cherise.
“My body and the way that I live, is Religion.” I love this Cherise. My religion is the way I live and care for myself and then by extension all those around me. A living expanding communicating religion. No one and nothing to worship. Simple, loving, beautiful.
Yes I love that too Lee – a totally natural and innate expression of religion in our everyday lives, not something that we have to ‘live up to’ nor a set of beliefs and ideals to take on.
Well said Lee, it blows out of the water what we now commonly believe religion to be and takes it right back to its roots and true meaning.
The simplicity of religion; a connection with God through your body. Super Cherise.
I love how you’ve encapsulated Cherise’s blog so perfectly in one line Debra, “The simplicity of religion; a connection with God through your body” – Super indeed!
Through Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy we feel how to surrender to the living pulse of God in our bodies. It is a true joy to experience and a sense of ‘coming home’.
Thank you for bringing the simplicity of religion to us through your writing Cherise.
Yes I agree Jane, the beautiful simplicity of connecting to the body and its natural rhythm, that when adhered to can reveal so much.
Wow Jane that is so true thank you for highlighting it with the simplicity of one sentences.
Cherise – I really appreciate you sharing on what religion is to you. Likewise, I had felt that religion was a very separate external practice that had extreme beliefs, conditions and followers. But the way you have shared what God is to you -this is very beautiful and personal. ‘Right through to my feet there is a fullness of the natural flow and rhythm that my body’s connective tissue just knows how to be – every cell within me feels like Divinity’ – We seem to miss a trick here that God and Religion are as simple as a connection and divinity we hold within our own bodies, and that Religion is the way we live. Thank you for sharing this – very real and inspiring.
Thank you for sharing this Cherise. I have always found that the idea that God ‘judges’ you and that you will be sent to eternal hell or eternal heaven based on your decisions for a lifetime on Earth quite frightening and intimidating – it feels like a way to convince people that in order to avoid eternal misery they need to tick specific boxes during their lifetime, be it by joining a certain religion, following their ‘guidelines’ and dedicating yourself to something that (currently) separates you from the rest of society.
Yes Susie, I have also found this concept very strange, its like the idea that if you don’t go to confession you will not be free of your sins, it makes little sense. Do what ever you like and the confess, where is the responsible in that.
True Sarah, and in essence this is actually encouraging disregarding, reckless and abusive behaviour as it offers the perfect ‘quick fix’, without bringing focus to the RESPONSIBILITY we have not to make unloving decisions as it has an effect on other people and everything around us.
You nail it with the word RESPONSIBILITY as we have stepped so far away from the true sense of this word as a society. What I love about Universal Medicine is that it expands on what our role in energetic responsibility actually is. I have not seen any organisation to date go into the detail and care that is brought by Serge Benhayon on the subject.
Absolutely no responsibility Sarah, which is why the religions which propagate this concept of “sin” and “redemption” or “absolution” simply do not work.
There is so much responsibility in Esoteric Philosophy and The Way of The Livingness and I feel it could be the reason that some are so threatened by the organisation. There are many different teachings and Religions with different outlooks on life but I am yet to come across any with the type of everyday practical responsibility that is presented by Universal Medicine and that in itself is a huge pill for some to swallow.
I agree Sarah it makes no sense and dissolves you of all responsibility. Plus it is extremely disempowering asking someone to ‘take away your sins’.
Yes I agree it is disempowering position to put yourselves in and it could also make those who you are confessing to feel superior in some way. Plus it seems to breed secrecy and shame, I mean a dark little room, back in the day both identities could be concealed, it feels more like a relief of a guilty conscious to me than anything else.
I could not agree more Sarah, the whole confessional thing is bizzare and more for relief then anything else. It also drums into us that we are inherently bad and have sinned. But to have sinned means there has have been a judgement made and love does not judge.
It is a very threatening way to achieve compliance with a certain way of living. There is so much more space and acceptance in the love I am learning to reconnect to.
Learning to honour the natural cycles and rhythms in our own bodies within the earthly and universal cycles brings an appreciation of the natural intelligence, flow and order of life and beyond. As we share the same particles as the universe there is a responsibility in how we move and treat our bodies as this affects the greater whole.
I felt a deep joy when I read this comment Cherise, ‘When I connect to myself and to the very core of my being, which I call my essence or my Soul, I know exactly what it feels like to be held in God’s love’.. because I feel exactly the same. And the more we reconnect to it, the deeper it feels it goes, but in truth, we are allowing ourselves to more deeply feel the connection that has always been there.
What a beautiful true clear understanding of religion thank you Cherise, I love it and know it too. “My body and the way I live is Religion”. How simple, and it brings all responsibility back to ourselves.
“My body and the way that I live, is Religion.” No doctrines, no holy buildings, no greater god only the testament of our cellular body – the truth within.
Beautifully encapsulated Lucindag… The simplicity of this is immense to consider; our body being the vessel, the channel, the everything for us to be in union with God and the all.
The opening up and feeling of space and lightness and warmth is undeniable and brings a whole new feeling to my body that is a joy to behold. When I truly connect to this and allow myself to surrender I know God instantly, there is no question or doubt just an absoluteness. I have felt this with many of the modalities from Universal Medicine including Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy.
Cherise, this is gorgeous, ‘Religion resides in my very own body, in the graceful way in which I choose to live, to move and in the choices I make to reconnect to the love that I am’, I can feel how religion is taught in society as something so different, something that is about a God that is unreachable, that is judgmental, that is outside of us, I love reading about the truth about religion and God in your article, it exposes all of the lies we have been sold.
I agree, Rebecca, Religion for me had nothing to do with being delicate, in fact martyrdom is celebrated and I know people who delight in walking barefoot on stony paths feeling they are ‘doing it for humanity’. It is only through appreciating and honouring the delicacy in our bodies that we will truly find God and re-connect with each other as equal Sons of God.
I agree Rebecca – Cherise’s words allowed me to feel true Religion, and as you say it does expose so much of what we have all absorbed through religion.
‘Religion resides in my very own body, in the graceful way in which I choose to live, to move and in the choices I make to reconnect to the love that I am.’ Cherise, this is beautiful and so true. There is nowhere to go but to return and to express from the love that lives within us.
I found these particular lines very beautiful and inspiring, My body and the way that I live, is Religion.
I live religiously each day through the choices I make to connect deeply to myself and thus to God and his love. This lived in truth is certainly a key to the gates of heaven.
So true Kevin, and that key to open the gates of heaven you are talking about is simply within us, nothing special. We only have to find it once again through living in connection with the all through our body that in naturally connected with the grandness of the Universe that we live in and are an integrated part of.
Thank you Kevmchardy. Something resonated deep within me as I read your comment and I realise how I can side step this connection to God and live less than who I truly am and that is not a choice I truly want to make.
As the particles our bodies consist of belong to the universe and through which we are in constant communication with the universe, which to me is divine in its constellation, religion does simply resides in each of us, just in our bodies and is nothing to strive for from the outside. Through the connection with my body I connect to the universe and with that to the divinity of all that lives and am part of. How simple and beautiful life is and this makes me question how on earth have we ever have given ‘religion’ away to be something to be dictated from the institutionalised self proclaimed authorities that nowadays call themselves as the religions of the world?
Indeed Nico, there can be no greater self empowerment than to know God through connection with our every fibre, our very being.
Serge Benhayon talks about prana and fire, and fire being our true source of energy – this is actually something that in time can be physically felt if we are willing to stop numbing ourselves and redevelop a body that is again sensitive to the fact. Modalities like Chakrapuncture and Esoteric Healing enable us to feel a level a fire we would not ordinarily allow ourselves, not because it is not there to feel, but because we ordinarily live in such a way that numbs our awareness to the fact. In this way the modalities assist us to remind ourselves of what our bodies can feel like if we choose to honour that which we feel.
There are of course those who have a session and claim they feel nothing – which is fine and understandable – but what needs to be asked in those situations is not necessary the authenticity of the modality but perhaps what of the way the person lives. If you drink every day, hold youself in the hardness of anger, live in a sea of mental stimulation with no regard to feeling what is going on from the neck down, then it stands to reason you will not be able to discern what happens in a session – at least it stands to reason when you stand on the other side of the fence where you do dedicate the way you live to opening up, being more tender, respecting your body, honouring your sensitivity with everything from physical senses (ie admitting when you feel cold) to acknowledging what you feel emotionally. When you truly live such a way, feeling energy and the fact that there are actually two types of energy is not so intangible.
Great point Adam, just because we cannot feel what is going on when receiving an Esoteric Connective Tissue treatment does not mean that the modality does not work. We need to take greater responsibility and look at how we are living. If we choose to live a life where we are disconnected from our body and dull awareness then, of course, we will not be able to feel the fineness of Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy.
So true Adam… for many the head rules and the body follows without there being any regard for how or what the body is feeling, and therefore we are pretty numb to life – I know thats how I lived before attending Universal Medicine workshops and presentations by Serge Benhayon, where what was presented made so much sense, and over time has come to feel so true – like coming home.
Even reading your blog Cherise I felt like I was having an Esoteric Connective Tissue session… my whole body feels more relaxed and still now… then I was when I sat down to read this. I’ve always found ECTT treatments to be very powerful and healing because I get to feel how I’ve been living, in my body, how I’ve been walking, working, resting, pushing. And then feel the difference when my body stops and lets go of anything that is keeping me hard and squished tight.
Equally what strikes me about Connective Tissue Therapy is the delicate unimposing way it is delivered, for in the minutiae of these movements we are offered a spacious opportunity to feel our bodies on a cellular level, to appreciate the grace of our being and a window of awareness that rebinds us to the all.
So true Aimee and reading the title of this blog I am struck by the fact that what brings us back to God is a healing modality! The common belief is that it’s an external miracle that will bring us back to God, something wondrous out there will make it happen, whereas the real miracle is in returning to the absolute stillness within us and the delicate, powerful pulse of life that fires up our bodies.
I am having a little giggle because I have been reading and commenting on this blog on the train and loving how my body is expanding as I am reading and commenting. Then the woman in front of me starts doing all these stretches, then the man behind!! Heavens, we have to see what a gift this is for more than just ourselves.
That’s awesome Lucy. So much is being communicated in the space that our particles share, more that we may ever realise.
Yes it is beautiful to recognise what a liberating effect we can have on our neighbors, if they also choose to align.
What was making me giggle though was that no one had to say anything, our particles are forever responsive to the particles in the Universe, that is their natural way. It is us that gets in the way by choosing to dull that connection. There is so much more at play that we can choose to acknowledge.
So true and that spaciousness, that heaven is with us all the time if we choose to stay with that feeling!
I find it sad that the mere mention of God and religion would have had me turn away from this blog a few years ago. Yet through the connection developed with my body through Esoteric Connective Tissue and for me Chakra-puncture, I have discovered the connections are all inside. Your blog is so important to open the conversation about this connection being inside as opposed to outside and through anyone else.
This is true for me also Lucy. I found it hard to say the word God, unless I was putting down world religions for what I felt was their hypocrisy. I was in reaction to all religions and so did not see how I could be religious. By developing my connection to my body I have discovered that I am deeply religious and I can claim that without ever having to go near a church. My connection to God is within me.
How wonder-full is that? Magical, and to know it is within us all…divine design.
We have so many words, that prescribe and place an object as, they say this is you and that is something else, making us like islands in a sea. These words and terms have the habit it seems of slashing and denying, blacking out and blocking the simple truth that lives underneath. That everything is energy, particles, and atoms and so are we. And beyond this there is an essence a quality, a Soul that is inside you and me. If we just let ourselves feel this connection at long last, surely we would need a large set of tissues to wipe away the tears that may come from seeing just how long we have striven to be individual, when it is from this connected place we are one, we are strong. Thank you Cherise.
Claiming back the light and love that is within us all is such a precious and divine feeling. Recently I deeply felt this light and love through a beautiful connective tissue session with a person who combines conventional physiotherapy and Esoteric Connective Tissue techniques.
Your blog Cherise is powerful and confirming, thank you for sharing your light and love.
Cherise the feeling of expansion and lightness in my body after these sessions is undeniable and connects me to the essence that what all share. An in-body experience that embraces the All. To me that feeling is the essence of God and religion.
Cherise the feeling of expansion and lightness in my body after these sessions in undeniable and connects me to the essence that what all share. An in-body experience that embraces the All.
What a deeply beautiful and inspiring blog Cherise. Yes there are modalities now here on earth that can bring us back to the truth of life and God and you have stated it in a nutshell: ‘My body and the way that I live, is Religion’. Connective Tissue Therapy is truly one of the most divine educating modalities available to humanity. It is playing a huge role in my own and in the lives of thousands as we make our way home, back to Soul and God.
“I cannot help but feel that we are brothers and that this makes us all one and the same.” I love this connection to brotherhood Cherise. We are all equal, we all express differently and reflect different aspects of this, that is, we all look different and sound different, but there is a shared equality that is fundamental to all.
Hello Cherise, thank you for reminding us all that it is so simple. I loved your comment – ‘Whether I feel aches, pains or tension in my body or get caught in the tension of my day, nothing changes the fact that my body knows how to naturally align to love and flow accordingly’, and that all we need to do is allow. This blog is beautiful in its simplicity.
Wonderful to read your appreciation of Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy. I too have felt how by embodying this healing modality it has supported me to be more connected to myself, to God, and to being aware of how my commitment to my movements, genuine care and being responsible for myself also has an effect on everyone and everything around me. Such simple gentle techniques with such profound effects.
When I have Connective Tissue (CT) or give a session in CT I can feel the particles aligning to the Universal flow and all becomes one sea of energy, with this alignment is your connection to God
Thanks Cherise you have described religion in a way that is tangible and very accessible to all.
I agree marylouise, Cherise has put religion back into the trust of our own hands.
To ‘know the true and whole meaning of religion on a very personal level’ is to me, the greatest marker we can have in this world we live, yet sadly is so very rare, which clearly highlights the enormity of what you are sharing here Cherise. I thank you for doing so as I know for myself you have beautifully captured my own sentiments exactly.
Your gorgeous words Cherise help to confirm a truth we each hold deep within our every cell – that we are the millions of fiery sparks that come from the one great body of light that is our Father we call God. We are the many Sons (suns) of this great being and as such we have a responsibility to reflect this truth back to the world in a very temporal sense, in and through our human bodies. When we are connected to the love of our Soul, we feel light and alive and our whole body sings. In disconnection to this we feel dense and dull and our bodies feel bludgeoned and mute. Thus, our bodies are forever the markers for the degree to which we choose to live or not live the love that we are.
Beautiful blog Cherise.”My body and the way that I live, is Religion.” Religion is my relationship with everything in life… my body, others, nature and the universe. Reconnecting to the quality of love and essence within I see it reflected in life all around.
I too have experienced Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy and felt the amazing ability this modality has to open up a spaciousness in our bodies and connect us to God.
It’s not something you can say about every form of therapy, as more often than not they are focused on returning us to an improved function of something we have broken. But in that Connective Tissue Therapy is different. My personal experience is that while the functional improvements are there, the deep connection and stillness in the body is profound and so raises the question of is there more. And when you hop off the table you cannot help but feel that deep connection in your body, and all the love that comes with it.
Thank you Cherise, this is a powerful blog. ‘Because God is Love, there can be no punishment, no judgement and certainly we won’t be sent to the fiery depths of hell for not being perfect, when perfection doesn’t even exist! ‘. I absolutely agree, this exposes the lies around religion and who God is. I was never part of any religion for this exact reason because I felt judgement was definitely not part of God, there was something missing and it did not make any sense to me until I found The Way of The Livingness, God is Love.
‘My body and the way that I live, is Religion’ Beautifully put, Cherise, and very different from the imposition we get from traditional organised religions. As Dr Rachel says above, it is not a ‘feel-good’ way of being but a reminder that there is more depth for us to explore.
‘the universe naturally moves in cycles and rhythms all of the time, and as our bodies are made up of the same particles as our universe, I realise I have this same opportunity to choose to live with awareness of my own cycles and rhythms every day.’ When we look at life at a particle level, it unites us, our beings and bodies with the universe and all that is. It therefore makes total sense that what is a cycle and rhythm in the universe is happening at the same time in us.
There is much to consider here in way of religion and what this truly means – rather than religion being all about the outer and what we do, presenting that it is more about living in a religious way within ourselves, connecting to our essence, our Soul and who we innately are, and thus living in a way that is joyful and harmonious with everyone.
Current religions are so focused on all that is outside of us with ritual and ceremony, rather than bringing ritual and ceremony to the way we live and our relationship with ourselves, thus deepening our connection to who we truly are.
Yes, I love that description Marika, “like floating in heaven”. I also liken the feeling to the loveliness of residing in the womb, the warmth, the spaciousness, the feeling of being loved and held.
Awesome description Donna, being held in love is great if you are equally confirming that is who you are too. Its being in a relationship with you and meeting yourself in that space of being held and not being comfortable relying on the other to bring that love to you.
Through moving in a way that is connected and graceful we invite space into our body. And it is in that space that we come to know God.
This is extraordinary to consider. There are modalities that help us to feel better…relaxed and relieved of pain, a moment taken for ourselves out of a busy life….but Godly? Religious?
A lot of the people who have never experienced Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy might be mystified at such a proposition in reading this blog. Those of us who have experienced it smile at its truth, having felt the quality it reveals in every session.
It is not a feel good moment (although it feels incredibly good), rather a reminder that there is more to us than the eye sees and an extraordinary depth to us that life rarely if ever considers.
Yes Rachel, through this modality you can feel the fact that each particle within your body is actually aligned to the flow of the universe.
I know and have experienced Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy and can smile at its truth that it reconnects me of the fact that I am Godly indeed. And to my experience it is, as you say Rachel, not only a feel good moment, but these session work on a very deep level in our bodies in such a way that it changes the way I move and in that the quality of my thoughts, and the quality of my being in all that I do during the day. Through the Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy I am now able to live the divine quality that is naturally in my body, that divine quality in me that was waiting to be reignited and being lived in full once again.
Beautifully said Rachel, this has also been my experience. Something I noticed that I feel in these sessions is the sense that I am so much bigger than my body and how does all this ‘space’ fit inside such a tiny frame? I leave these sessions feeling so expanded and light, my body left to move unencumbered by the ‘denseness’ I otherwise impose on it by way of not connecting to the love that I am. While this feels gorgeous at the time and shortly thereafter, I find it is not long before I start to feel small and constricted again. Thus, the key now for me is to choose to move in a way that supports this expansion and never ever hold back the love that I am. This is a choice that must be made with every breath and taken with every step. Consistency is the key.
Beautifully expressed Rachel, from spending our days focused on the physicality of matter to getting up off the Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy table and feeling the eternal space within and around us.
I just adore how you brought true religion back to the simplicity of being in connection with God and with all. It is nothing more than this. It is ironic because all the moments when I was at church while I was growing up I never truly felt the connection I now do with God. It was like religion was made to be about all that was taking place, the rituals, ceremonies, prayers etc. But never truly about the innate connection that is always there within us
That is an amazing revelation Joshua. Religion is made very complicated yet it is very simple as you share: “being in connection with God and with all.” We all can do this and actually innately have this in us. All the things that are often said you have to do to be in religion and relationship with God, like having to pray, going to church etc., are simply a distraction away from this fact of our connection simply being there because we are innately deeply connected with God.
Yes well said Lieke. It is all in contrast to the fact that there is already a connection there within us with God. We don’t in-truth need to find Him, we simply need to re-connect
This is what we have reduced human life to, the outer frame without true connection. Life is full of rituals and ceremonies, but it’s all about the structure and it is absolutely empty. We live by the form, this is the biggest bureaucracy ever!!!
It’s absolute madness when viewed in its truth.
Religion, God and heaven shine through all that has been written here and I especially love the following “Religion resides in my very own body, in the graceful way in which I choose to live, to move and in the choices I make to reconnect to the love that I am.” Thank you Cherise for a beautiful and confirmimg blog for everyone.
I love this part jsnelgrove36, it is magical to feel this in our body and live it with our absolute knowing that God is within in every moment.
“My body and the way that I live, is Religion”.
There is such simplicity in this truth, Cherise. Thank you for bringing this gorgeous blog to me this morning, a perfect start to my day.
Cherise, this is so beautiful, ‘I have been able to connect back to God and the fact that God is with me, in my body.’ Wow, this shows how very powerful Esoteric connective Tissue Therapy is, amazing!
“Our bodies are made up of the same particles as our universe”, this means our particles hold the same information as the universe and as I understand physics our particles align automatically with other particles, there is always a harmonious flow, there is never chaos or disorder. This means then that all what we do as human beings that is not impulsed by our particles is then in disorder with the universe and therefore makes us dysfunctional. Connective Tissue Therapy re-aligns the body and its particles to its natural flow or movement and with this brings us function back, but only as a side affect of having aligned to the true source, not with the focus on function. Very amazing!
Love this big picture thinking Rachel – it brings a very different perspective to illness and disease, and an opportunity to reflect on the why things happen to us which can lead to a true healing.
Rachel, this captured it beautifully ‘.. .that all what we do as human beings that is not impulsed by our particles is then in disorder with the universe and therefore makes us dysfunctional.’ And we know and feel this but rather than address it we attempt to make the dis-function work – it cannot ever work and our bodies show always, and that is amazing, that we cannot run completely amok without the universe pulling us back via our bodies, truly the magic of God.
Absolutely Monica, we have settled for less by settling for function, but functioning is not true as it is not evolving and this is what we are shown by the rise of illness and disease, that the more we reduce ourselves to functioning the sicker we get. The universe is just so absolute in its reflection!!
Rachel, ‘functioning is not true as it is not evolving’ I love the absolute truth of this and how always we are shown this – hearing it expressed so starkly brings home even deeper the truth of it and how loved we are – imagine we live in a universe where we are asked to be more than function to be truth to be love – isn’t that amazing.
Beautifully described rachelandras. Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy re-aligns the body and its particles to our one true source and our movements can flow naturally in alignment with this re-connection.
Yes and this is all what we have to do/learn on earth, to re-align to our one true source and Universal Medicine offers great support to start moving in our true movement aligning our particles to the universal order.
Great summing up Rachel, it reminds me of when magnets repel or attract to each other…. when we are living in chaos, drama, arguing, jealousy and separation, energetically aren’t our particles repeling the particles of the universe? And then wouldn’t this result in illness and disease? It makes sense to me and I agree is very amazing.
Yes beautifully said Aimee we are making the disorder and living with the consequences. The biggest disorder is that we deny to be part of a universal order and that we are not from earth but on earth!!!
It’s like the universe is knocking on the door everyday and we refuse or turn away from opening it up and seeing the big part we all play… believing that life is just how it is.
That is so well described. Putting us in context with the divine order of the universe also reminds us we are never alone, never were, and never will be because our particles are part of a greater whole.
“I wondered how we could all be equal if some are excluding of others? And how is it that people can preach certain rules or disciplines but not actually live them for themselves?” Exactly Cherise – this way of being within the church exposes organised “religion” for what it is – a man-made construct devoid of the true meaning of the word.
I felt the same. This separation leads to such devastation as we reject God and our relationship with that love as opposed to the reinterpretation.
What I can feel from your blog Cherise is that religion is having a relationship with ourselves.
Absolutely Deborah. It is a re-turning back to the love that we are. If there is no love, there can be no true religion.
Deborah this very simple truth about religion is one that will eventually help change the worlds entire relationship with the word “religion”. At the moment it is commonly understood to be a myriad of things, many paths so to speak, yet as Cherise and you have said and from my experience Religion is about our relationship with ourselves first and foremost and in that our relationship with God.
Beautiful to know that there are modalities that support us to re-connect to our body and through this to God. Feeling God in my body is something I lost while growing up and it is very empowering to not be told about it but to actually feel it.
Exactly Rachel, God cannot be experienced just by us talking about him but by living embracing his love and feeling it in every part or our body in every particle expressed through the way we live and move.
Yes beautiful Rachel. God is there to be felt in us all and not something to be preached about.
Gorgeous blog Cherise, religion is something that is lived, not thought of. But living in the knowing that we are connected to god and see that our body is deeply connected to this, our soul.
Couldn’t have said it better Marika, that’s a gorgeous description of the heavenly modality that Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy is. I always feel reconnected and the glory of the soul that is the core of our being. It is incredible to feel and see that trough a practising a livingness of religion we can feel this all the time.
Connective tissue therapy is one amazing modality – of many brought through by Serge Benhayon. Feeling the energy flowing through my body and connecting deeply to myself during a session is a gift truly given from heaven.
It is such a subtle and fine feeling that it actually requires all the focus to be in the body rather than letting the head gallavant off. When the head and the chatter carries on it is made so obvious which inspires change.
‘Whether I feel aches, pains or tension in my body or get caught in the tension of my day, nothing changes the fact that my body knows how to naturally align to love and flow accordingly.’ Cherise, I love how you honour your body to the bone, not by identifying with the distractions, the aches and the pains – but simply by acknowledging that your body naturally aligns to love when you surrender and that there is nothing to be done or fixed.
That is a great point Eva, it is so easy to identify with the distractions and the aches and pains which feels horrible, but equally so we can surrender as Cherise has expressed.
Throughout all my involvement with other religions and endeavours to connect with God, the focus was always to connect with something outside of myself. This was even in meditation, for it was but the vehicle to reach a state of being so that one could then make that connection. As you share so beautifully, Cherise, what we re-discover through Esoteric Connective Tissue and all that Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine presents is that the Divine is within us; it is us, if we only surrender to ourselves.
I always knew there was more to life than just this physical existence. First in the Church of England and then Tibetan Buddhism I sought answers and initially thought I found them, particularly the latter. However, after a while I still had the same feeling that there was something missing. Like so many, on encountering Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine the searching ceased and through the Esoteric Modalities and Universal Medicine practitioners, as you say Cherise, “I have been able to connect back to God and the fact that God is with me, in my body.”
It’s amazing to feel that my body is my religion because the way I live, the way I treat myself, the way I move and the way I value myself, the way I know that God is within me and all others equally feels so strongly in my body. All these things flow on to others and because of the Universal Medicine healing therapies I really feel that light lives within me. The Esoteric Connective Tissue therapy brings this awareness of this light. I feel so blessed to be able to have these healing modalities. There is nothing better than feeling like me.
Well said. And it inspires me to give back. I didn’t know there was another way to feel (think jaded, constantly tired and a subtle longing for life to be about something other than what I was living). It is such a gift to have been given it would be wrong to stay living it just for myself.
“It’s amazing to feel that my body is my religion because ………..” Beautifully expressed Amanda. Our relationship with our body is our relationship with God.
From the many Connective Tissue Therapy sessions that I have had I too have come to the undeniable knowing: “that my body knows how to naturally align to love and flow accordingly.” To feel the flow of the energy through every part of my body and my body’s gentle response is nothing less than magical. My relationship with my body has grown exponentially since having my first session and the changes in my body and my life are nothing short of miraculous.
I agree Ingrid, the esoteric sessions are very powerful and allow us to make changes in the way we move and the way we are so that we can grow into and accept more of the amazing beings that we already are.
Call it God / Love / Space / divinity / a deep ease etc. etc. the fact is it is possible to feel a connection with something worth cherishing from our bodies. Connective tissue supports me to reconnect with this.
I too have found the same experience. Connective Tissue Therapy is literally divine as it supports me to come back to myself in stillness; in that though there is no epiphany, or eureka moment just a beautiful simple expansion and a complete ease within myself.
That feeling is priceless and irreplaceable – a real gift should we choose to accept it.
So true Abby. I have found this therapy to be deeply connecting.
The lightness that Esoteric Connective Tissue provides the space for us to feel (because from experience we can have these sessions and choose to remain hardened in our bodies) does bring about the connection with God in a way that is different yet interconnected with what the other true esoteric modalities bring – a connection to our essence and who we truly are. What esoteric connective tissue and this blog brings is that a feeling of being connected to God and all others is a very natural way to be in our bodies. Thank you Cherise.
This blog is a true writing on God and religion. It just shows how simple religion is when we take religion back to its essence.
I absolutely agree Elizabeth. When we surrender to God’s love our whole body and connective tissue comes alive. This feeling is in our body is so very precious and our body constantly shows us how to live in accordance with this unlimited source of love and light.
Yes Vicky and what I love about Connective Tissue Therapy is that it gives us a very practical feeling in our body of what the love and light actually feels like so we can have a reference of what is our natural state.
Yes, Elizabeth- the term ‘religion’ has been bastardised and actually means “relationship with something”, and Esoteric Connective tissue is such a simple yet power-full healing modality which reconnects the natural flow in our body and provides spaciousness so that we can feel the essence of who we are.
Yes Elizabeth, the complication of most modern day religion is man-made and the perfect distraction for taking us away from the divine simplicity of God and true religion.
Absolutely Angela. It takes us humans to really complicate something that is simple and clear. The more we over think things and step away from our connection to our body the easier it is to become complicated.
Thank you, Cherise, for this great blog. Esoteric connective tissue does exactly what you describe; connect us to God in the body. As far as I am concerned once we experience esoteric connective tissue we cannot deny that we come from God. It is that tangible.
Your blog is deeply healing I could feel this in my body as I was reading because everything you have expressed is a truth you have felt in your body and given yourself permission to be. As I was reading it was as if my body was being given permission as well and it let go of so much anxiety it was holding onto. Thank you.
I felt that too Vicky. I have experienced Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy and have felt what Cherise has shared with us but there is a hesitancy in claiming the full effect of it like Cherise has done so powerfully. Thank you for the inspiration Cherise and for the healing as well.
It is amazing how we can connect to another’s lived experience expressed in truth. This shows that we are all connected and can all share in healing. What is true for one is true for all.
How Beautiful Vicky. Your words made me go back to the blog and feel deeper of what’s been offered here. To really feel how Cherise allowed herself to feel and accept that she’s a Son of God is indeed very Precious. And as I’m writing this I can feel the Grandness of it in me as well. And also how natural it actually is. How Amazing is the support we get from each other when we Truly allow each other in. Thank you deeply both Cherise and Vicky!
I love it when I am in a session or walking the streets or lying in bed or talking to someone and I can feel my lymphatics lighting up, it is a felt sensation of warmth and expansion occurring, this is my religion!
I love that feeling too Vanessa. I have come to realise that connecting to God is not something I do through my mind, but that I am connected automatically through every particle of my body. When I am in line with God through my expression, or movement my lymphatics and whole body quietly lights up and expands.
“I also had to ask: if God is Love, how could there be any discrimination against people, degradation of women or even a lack of self-love and true care within our very homes if we considered ourselves to be love and so-called religious?” I agree with this wholeheartedly, Cherise, I have experienced so much hypocrisy from so-called religious people, and have seen the degradation that women have experienced from their ‘religious’ partners. And I have seen and heard of quite cruel punishment suffered by young children from their parents in the name of discipline. So much of this is condoned and supported by some of the religious organisations. It feels to me to be so important for us all to start with learning to establish a true love of self, to first experience what love truly is, by learning to truly care for ourselves. This is the best way to finally establish true relationships with others, taking that love out to the other, with no expectations on the other, no neediness of the other, but sharing their deep love with each other.
Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy supports the flow around the body and releases blocks that have built up through our own disregard of ourselves and our bodies. In connecting to this flow we have the opportunity to feel how we are connected to the whole of the universe which brings a whole new level of responsibility but also the deep joy of feeling one is coming home.
“I have been able to connect back to God and the fact that God is with me, in my body”, this makes total sense, that from this knowing we can relate to ourselves and life, and know that there is religion in everything if we care to have that relationship with it.
In this sense religion is a very real tangible thing that we can experience simply by connecting to our bodies. Connective Tissue Therapy reminds our bodies how connected and flowing they can be, and we can choose to take this with us into life. Yes, this is religion – expressing the love of God through our bodies.
With so many versions of God, Religion it is easy to get lost and confused. They all however have one thing in common, the fact that someone has the answers for you. Like you Cherise what I loved about the modalities of Universal Medicine is how I feel so much deeper connected to myself and with that I start to have true religion with myself, my connection to me and in that my connection with God. The meaning of religion to me is slowly changing and no longer associated with the dogmatic institutions I once held it to be, for I am understanding a version or interpretation of what anything is i.e. religion is not the truth of what it is.
I too went through the Catholic system, very little of which made any sense at all, to the point of dabbling with being agnostic. Through Universal Medicine and the various modalities you actually get to know God and not just believe in him.
Lovely expression Marika “Receiving Connective Tissue Therapy is like floating in heaven” and I agree, it is like that for me too. In fact the joy I feel by let myself floating in the ocean or in a warm pool, I can feel in my body when my connective tissue is free to flow.
What a very beautiful piece of expression Cherise, it really felt like it came from your soul . Your body and the way you live being your religion is such a great way to live, for in this way we are truly connected to God and everyone else.
Connective Tissue Therapy is like a re-introduction to God, and all the grace I know is naturally within me but perhaps don’t yet live on a daily basis.
Through Connective Tissue Therapy sessions, I am reminded that I can walk as the grace of God. It gives me a marker in my body that is a place I know I am returning to through the way I choose to my move my body and in the choices I make in how I live.
So true – it reminds you that movement can be truly beautiful.
So true Meg sign me up, I have not had a ECT session of late and I am booked in soon to experience this amazing modality. I’m going to take this into my next session and feel God and me.
After reading “I’m held in grace and absoluteness at all times” It reminded me of how I felt from my very first Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy session with Kate Greenaway. Once experienced, never forgotten. I’d never felt so held in such gentleness before – no pressure to be anything or do anything other than to just feel and surrender, letting go of ‘some’ of the held tension I’d been carrying. Bringing such awareness to inside my body and much less focus to the outside. Something I had not felt for a very, very long time. Like so many I feel a very deep appreciation for the gift of this amazing healing modality and the many other Esoteric healing modalities that support us to align back to feeling our true essence and reconnect to the love we truly are.
Connective Tissue Therapy is my favourite of the Esoteric Healing Modalities, it is quite different to any other treatment I have ever received and so deeply healing. It really has to be experienced to appreciate the depth of support it offers our bodies.
Cherise, this is an amazing blog, it really highlights how other religions are missing out on the truth of what true religion is. I have never heard of any religion save that of ‘The way of the Livingness’ that asks us to connect to our body and live within the cycles and the rhythms of the Universe as a way of connecting to God. This is why the modalities of Universal Medicine are such a powerful tools to get us back to God. Knowing it is through my body and my particles that we connect to God, the Universe and find true Divinity has been totally revelatory and one that I am cherishing every day.
This is a beautiful blog showing the gift of Connective Tissue Therapy to our bodies and the true knowing of this flow harmony and exquisiteness of who we really are that comes from this simple healing modality. I too have found true Religion to be inside me all along from the way we live in connection to the all. The Way of the Livingness is Religion and Science all as one in our natural flow, rhythms and cycles of the Universe as seen in nature all around us in connection to God and part of all of us.
Cherise your ability to make God practical and at the same time awe inspiring is an absolute gift.
Yes this is what I love about this blog too, the practicality of God – nothing far out or insisting we can only live in this way so long as we go to a special place once a week. It is inspiring!
“I cannot help but feel that we are brothers and that this makes us all one and the same.” For all of my life, I have had an innate knowing that we are all equal, should be living in true brotherhood, as you have also shared you now feel. I have felt devastated at times to see how people treat one another. It just seemed to be to be natural that we should be living in deep harmony with one another. But I have come to understand that at this point, humanity is not ready to accept this, but it is up to those of us who do have this knowing to live this way to the best of my ability, at least to show that there is another way of being in this world. Over time, maybe more and more see the truth in this, and we can turn the world around. Thank you Cherise for a truly beautiful blog here, much food for thought, and more comments to come.
What a wonderful personal description of religion and its true meaning.
What a gem of a blog Cherise – through experiencing Connective Tissue Therapy you have re-connected to the Divine within and have the choice to live your expression on earth from this Living Way.
“My body and the way that I live, is Religion”.
“Whether I feel aches, pains or tension in my body or get caught in the tension of my day, nothing changes the fact that my body knows how to naturally align to love and flow accordingly.” Such a great line Cherise, so true our body knows how to align to love and flow. We only have to listen to its guidelines of how to move and what choices to make to feel this.
I love this Cherise. The relationship between the macrocosm of magnitude and grandness of the Universe straight into the microcosm of our body – how re-assuring that we cannot escape our Divinity, it is already known, for it is part of us through the particles in our body. These truths are the bedtime stories I would love to have heard as a child simply confirming what is true, rather than getting lost in the fantasy of prince and princess type stories!
“As we know, the universe naturally moves in cycles and rhythms all of the time, and as our bodies are made up of the same particles as our universe, I realise I have this same opportunity to choose to live with awareness of my own cycles and rhythms every day”.
Cherise, this needs to be made into bumper stickers and fridge magnets; ‘I live religiously each day through the choices I make to connect deeply to myself and thus to God and his love’.
Thank you Cherise for your blog. I always love reading and commenting on religion for since meeting Serge Benhayon I have allowed myself to make a deeper claim that I am a very religious person with a sensitivity for the Universal Order I am part of and can live in accordance to.
“I am a very religious person with a sensitivity for the Universal Order I am part of and can live in accordance to.” Such a gorgeous claim, thank you for sharing Katinka.
Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy as presented by Universal Medicine allows us to feel the flow of energy within our own body and as we surrender to the flow we feel the connection to the essence of our being and the flow of love that connects us to everyone, the Universe and God. No rules, no dogma, just a Divine re-connection to the Love of God that resides within the inner-heart.
I have to say that Kate Greenaway is an amazing Practitioner on so many levels, deeply supportive, solid, and dedicated to humanity.
“I can accept and let go of that which does not feel supportive for me,” this feels an amazing way to live and be, there is such a joy in letting go of things that do not support us anymore, it creates so much more room for space and expansion in our bodies.
“I sense the very glimpse of what it truly feels like to hold everyone else as equal Sons of God too, whether they choose to know God or not.” I have felt this too, from Esoteric Connective Tissue Exercises, and sharing with the kids in class – the stillness it brings to the room can be felt instantly, the lessons start from being in our bodies.
I love this ” Whether I feel aches, pains or tension in my body or get caught in the tension of my day, nothing changes the fact that my body knows how to naturally align to love and flow accordingly.” we can get so caught up in the minor little things and go into our heads, when the truth is all along we are being held constantly so, to return to love and God – our bodies are offering us this constantly. It crazy when you stop and think about it, it’s really simple all we have to do is listen to and honour our body – it shares with us everything we need to know.
“When I connect to myself and to the very core of my being, which I call my essence or my Soul, I know exactly what it feels like to be held in God’s love ” I too know this place, and it’s the most divine normal place to be and live from.
“I have been able to connect back to God and the fact that God is with me, in my body.” this is the most incredible and natural place to connect to and live from, so clear.
Reading this blog makes me really appreciate the simplicity of all that is being offered to us – that the very physical body we reside in is the gateway to, and a reminder of our connection to God, that there are cycles and rhythms in which we are being carried through – and all we are ever being asked to do is to surrender.
Surrendering to our body is something so far fetched for many of us. I love how you describe our body as the gateway to our connection to God. It is so very true and I love the simplicity of knowing God through our body.
So beautifully expressed Fumiyo.
I love the feeling of God being through our connective tissue, thank you for sharing this. Growing up in Catholic schools and church God was presented as this mysterious character from an ancient book. I was never once encouraged to feel him or connect to him, just pray to him high in the sky and trust he was there. Universal Medicine and all esoteric healing modalies including esoteric connective tissue were the first to inspire me to feel the preciousness and sacredness of my body and my being in this and through these my relationship with God.
I escaped being brought up in a Catholic school and church, so had a little less of the dogma and fear that was engendered there, but there certainly was some of that in the protestant upbringing I had. Other than for a christening or occasional wedding, I had little to do with church once I was married, and have little memory of the sermons, lessons etc. that were presented. But I have always carried such a great love of Jesus, as the Son of God, and felt so very connected always to him and the way that I felt he had lived. The emphasis on love was key here. And now, especially through the various modalities that I have experienced through Universal Medicine, I have come to feel the presence of God in me, and through practising Sacred Movement, I have come to feel the deep sacredness and preciousness that is held within my body and being. I too have become deeply religious, but I have no beliefs or follow any dogmas, it is a deep knowing within me. This is such a beautiful article that Cherise has shared with us here, I love it.
This was my experience too Danielle, growing up as a Catholic, God was always taught as somewhere outside of me and I was always looking to attain his approval. It was through the Universal Medicine Therapies that I have come to truly understand and feel for myself that God is not outside of me, he resides within and I connect with him through my body.
“My body and the way that I live, is Religion” – superb, Cherise. This really defies what we get told religion is completely.
I like what you say here Cherise, that “our bodies are made up of the same particles as our universe” and to me therefore our bodies are continuous connected to that universe and because the universe is a constantly interacting between al of its particles, we are interacting with the universe too and are part of all the cycles that take place in that grandness it is. Realising this fact, that I am part of a grand interactive and highly intelligent system, which you could call divine, makes me humble and in that I have to acknowledge that I have only one choice and that is to connect and adhere to this grandness I am part of or not.
Thats awesome Nico, Our bodies are made of the same particles as the Universe, so living in a Universal way is the true way to live.
Awesome it is Harry, we are an integral part of the Universe and not just the observers and inhabitants of it. All what we do has its influence on the whole we live in and with so we either bring harm or healing. It is up to us, because of our free will, but there is only one choice that is wise to make and we eventually all will return to.
Connective tissue therapy is an amazing healing modality -“Whether I feel aches, pains or tension in my body or get caught in the tension of my day, nothing changes the fact that my body knows how to naturally align to love and flow accordingly.” Connective tissue therapy assists in this process. So gentle and supportive to the body, allowing it to feel more spacious.
Cherise, I felt so clear and cleansed just by reading your blog as it offered me a feeling of being totally connected with my inner heart/essence. I felt the power of the energy that your blog came with, as particles met particles, and my connective tissue seemed to respond to the loving reflection of your expression. I too feel the oneness of us all while receiving an Esoteric Connective Tissue treatment from one of the Practitioners of Universal Medicine Therapies. To repeat some of the words of Kellyzarb above “Our bodies really are amazing and what they show us everyday is much to appreciate.”
The same particles that comprise the universe are the same as those that comprise us. If we consider the universe to be a work of divine majesty how then can we be anything but divine?
Wow, Victoria, I love your expression here, it is absolutely beautiful. And it all makes complete sense what you have said. How can we be anything but divine, when the particles that comprise us are the same as the particles that comprise the divine universe? My body is tingling all over.
Beautiful logic, I love it. So simple. Thank you Victoria Lister.
Gorgeous Cherise, thank you for this beautiful articulation of what it means to be religious and deeply connected through the Esoteric Conmective Tissue Therapy. I too have learnt, via this and other Esoteric modalities, that heaven does indeed reside in the body – that it is embodied in us.
We champion ‘the internet highway’ connecting us to information at super speeds, yet wow this pales in comparison to the connection we naturally have. Every cell, every particle of me and of you is here in this world, interlinked, joined up like so many dots constantly communicating energy. So how crazy is it that we ever think we are separate, individual or cut off some how? How odd is it that we draw barriers and walls between us all? How doolally that we choose not to feel our very own body and that we in fact are part of God? How beautiful it is as you share Cherise that our very fabric is constantly telling us the truth.
Well said Joseph Barker -as you say about the ‘internet highway’ – we ‘think’ there is nothing faster or greater and this is it! How far from the truth this is when we are linking with the All and naturally part of God through our particles, all of the time! It is impossible to be separate and isolated as we are ‘conditioned to think’ that we are.
‘How beautiful it is as you share Cherise that our very fabric is constantly telling us the truth.’ – Love how you have said this Joseph, and I can feel the truth of it in my body as I type this comment. A confirmation of the forever communicating energy that we are all part of.
Exquisitely said Joseph “…our very fabric is constantly telling us the truth.” And there are many influences in the world that are constantly telling us the opposite of this so it is hugely beneficial to develop a greater awareness of our body and feelings and from that develop a deeper understanding of what really feels true to us in all our relationships.
Religion does truly live inside us as a Livingness. This is why The Way of the Livingness is a One Unified Truth. There is nothing to be found outside of us, just within, and we each have it equally.
So beautifully expressed Melinda. To finally know this undeniable truth has been life changing, with the long and fruitless search for something outside of me to make some meaning of life ending when I found my way to The Way of the Livingness, a way of living that I discovered has always been inside of me.
Thank you Cherise, I agree, our rituals, “movements”, expression, “cycles and rhythms” all become part of our Livingness, which definitely return us to the natural divine being we all are, when we bring the true understanding of how the energy of love works through our bodies.
Yes Greg I agree, I love how the Way of the Livingness brings us home to our natural rhythms, restores connection to the quality of our movements and the grace of our expression, bringing our awareness to the detail of life and the choices we make. Everyday becomes a day of religious study, one that provides us with ample opportunities to claim more and more of the divine that resides within us, with no judgment or criticism, just observation, learning and the opportunity to bring grace to all we do, feel and express.
So well expressed Rowena, I agree, love holds “no judgment or criticism” and brings the joy of living in the grace of who we are.
Yes Greg and the continual development of these in our lives is the lived religious experience, everything then is religious when acted with this level of awareness.
Through Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy sessions, I have come to reconnect to feeling the amazing light that I am and the light in which I come from.
Connective Tissue Therapy is a modality sent straight from Heaven to assist our particles to realign with the natural order and divinity of which we come from.
Beautifully expressed Cherise and very true from my own experience.
Religion is not something that exists outside of ourselves in a building or sect, but a connection and feeling that we belong to something deeply loving within.
The fact that you express this so clearly in what you share is deeply healing for humanity.
Amazing Blog Cherise, connective Tissue therapy is a heaven sent modality. I too was amazed at how tangible the flow is through our body, and the delicateness which our body truly is. It wasn’t until I experienced this modality that I became aware again hat there was a way to live and move your body that isn’t hard, protected and aggressive, which is how I had previously been living.
Good point Harry – similarly as a result of getting a different marker when we slide off the table after a treatment, it starts to highlight other harsher behaviours and ways of living and poses the question of can I live differently.
I enjoyed reading your process around questioning what religion is Cherise and felt really touched by/agree with what you wrote in the sentence ” Religion resides in my very own body, in the graceful way in which I choose to live, to move and in the choices I make to reconnect to the love that I am. It is then through this quality, which I bring to my every movement, that I can consistently confirm my connection back to God and Religion.”
I love that sentence too Alexandra, “Religion resides in my very own body…” God does not belong to a select few, God is within all of us.
God is equally within each and every one of us. There are no chosen ‘ones’ we are all ‘the ones’ and the Universal Medicine Therapies such as Connective Tissue Therapy offer us an opportunity to feel this for ourselves so that it doesn’t remain a mental concept but something that can be lived and felt from our bodies.
After being raised in the traditions of the Catholic church and then shunning them in adult years, it has taken me some time to find a way of understanding God and the true meaning of religion. It is a concept that has certainly been grossly tampered with over many years and by many people and institutions. Yet since attending Universal Medicine presentations and courses and having sessions with practitioners, I have developed an understanding that makes a lot of sense to me and that is that God is both in and around me. I represent God in every cell in my body and through every movement I make. How strongly I want to make that connection is up to me but I have certainly found that when I am open I find the magic of God constantly in and around me. Connective Tissue Therapy supports this relationship as it is a wonderful pathway to opening up my body to experience all that is there waiting to be confirmed and lived.
Wonderful Helen “God is both in and around me.” Being open and allowing this truth to be is where I have become unravelled. But to note that it is a choice we can change that anytime and return, its but a movement away.
“Whether I feel aches, pains or tension in my body or get caught in the tension of my day, nothing changes the fact that my body knows how to naturally align to love and flow accordingly.” I love this Cherise. Our bodies really are amazing and what they show us everyday is much to appreciate.
What a powerful statement Cherise ‘My body and the way that I live, is Religion’. This changes all our ideas of what the body is and how we live, to live fully in and with our bodies is the ultimate expression of God and religion.
It changes our notions of religion too. We have thought of it as something outside ourselves – as a church, an institution, a prayer or priest. Understanding God and ourselves are one and the same brings religion to a place of personal knowledge – and responsibility.
Yes Monica, very powerful and very exposing in a world where we value the intelligence of the mind so much more than the wisdom of the body.
Yes it sure is a powerful claiming of Cherise. To have such a dedication and Love for ourselves which has a rhythm we live to that supports a direct relationship with our Divinity to God is Powerful on all accounts. No perfection, simply allowing ourselves to deepen with this is beautiful.
Agree it shows so clearly that the body is a vessel and that religion is aligning this vessel to its true source and live what is sent out by this true source.
Religion is aligning our vessels, our bodies to it’s true source – this turns all false definitions of religion on it’s head – our bodies are part of religion and to live religiously is to fully embrace this.
I love your comment Monicag2, reading it really brought more awareness to how I move and to be aware of my choices. I feel that nothing in life really is an issue when I connect to the fact that I am continuously connected to God and that everything I do is an expression of him. This is so humbling and magnificent to feel.
Goosebumps arise when reading this blog – I love how you combine the science of our particles and religion.
Exactly Carmel, as science and religion are one, they both can bring us to the divinity we belong to and are part of. I am curious what the science behind the goosebumps is.
I would say it is space Nico. By having goosebumps our skin does spread and enlarge. Also a part of our skin does seeking to rise – it is following the pull 😉 .
Yes not separate subjects but one and the same, the science reveals the magic of god. I have just recently learned through presentations on science by students of the Way of the Livingness that have expressed the beauty and love that is in science, how majestic and divine we are, and nature. Such a wonderful way to learn about what we actually already know but have chosen to play blind.
Yes Vanessa, science and religion are one and the same, interwoven with one another, looking from different angles but both coming from the same source. How far have we strayed away from the truth that is there waiting for us to be rediscovered again as is now happening in the presentations on science by esoteric students. As is the science of the particles, that our particles are of the same make as in all the objects on earth and in the universe. The fact that the universe is continuously expanding means that we equally are expanding too because we are made of the same particles which are in constant communication with one another. As you say Sandra the goosebumps are the physical evidence of the equally continuous expansion of the particles our bodies are made off in the response to the continuous expansion of the universe.
Thank Cherise, I too never really understood how we can have all these differing religions that exalt one group of people above another or see God as vengeful and punishing, it never really made sense. As a consequence I have always taken a step back from joining one, up until the day I met Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon. What was presented here made absolute sense and I could feel how my body agreed. The delicate, tender healing modalities have also enabled me to re-connect to God’s love inside me, warm, deep still, all encompassing. The depth and power of the love Serge holds within himself is awesome, a firm confirmation to all who meet him that we too have that power within us. What an immensely beautiful statement this is to claim for yourself “Religion resides in my very own body, in the graceful way in which I choose to live, to move and in the choices I make to reconnect to the love that I am. It is then through this quality, which I bring to my every movement, that I can consistently confirm my connection back to God and Religion.” This is true religious education, a lesson in religion that we can practice everyday, all day, deepening the grace of our movements, the caring quality of our relationships, nurturing our moral integrity. True religion from the inside out that knows we are equal Sons of God as a fundamental truth and our connection to God is inherent within us all with no exception.
I agree Rowena “this is true religious education’ imagine if this is what was taught in schools, how to be connected to your soul and from there every movement is either loving or not and the responsibility of that. Incredible that we can reduce education to maths and english and science all compartmentalised and in no way connected to our bodies. We have much to bring back into our true education.
So true Vanessa. Education is about so much more than maths and English and the more we talk about it the more it will inspire change. Perhaps not on an education board level just yet but with teachers in classrooms. Those on the front line.
This is true religion, the very personal expression that is, at the same time, wholly universal. So beautifully expressed Cherise, “Religion resides in my very own body, in the graceful way in which I choose to live, to move and in the choices I make to reconnect to the love that I am. It is then through this quality, which I bring to my every movement, that I can consistently confirm my connection back to God and Religion.”
I also really love experiencing the Connective Tissue Therapy and I appreciate seeing your interpretation of the experience Cherise, I had not managed to find words for it – I particularly loved it when you said: “When I connect to myself and to the very core of my being, which I call my essence or my Soul, I know exactly what it feels like to be held in God’s love and I am reminded that I am held in grace and absoluteness at all times.” Thankyou for sharing this.
Cherise I love how you say – “Religion resides in my very own body, in the graceful way in which I choose to live, to move and in the choices I make to reconnect to the love that I am.” This to me is religion too – bringing that connection into my everyday and knowing God from within me, no need to go anywhere ‘special’ to connect or be religious. In my experience The Way of the Livingness represents true religion in its entirety; no repression, oppression, division, no contradictions just true love, pure and simple.
It is the only religion on the planet that lives this spherical equality.
‘no repression, oppression, division, no contradictions just true love, pure and simple’ – super well said Fiona. Having found exactly that in the Way of the Livingness it is irresistible.
Yes Fiona, and as you say one that is lived anywhere, anytime… no waiting for the right time of the day, or being with certain people or needing to prove that your good.
I love that to Fiona its a true representation of religion so simple and in the heart of every man.