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 
“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 is beautiful to read Cherise. When we define religion in its true meaning the old paradigm/s disappears and it feels easy for me to connect with God again.
This is a great question
“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?”
Mainstream religion doesn’t make sense to me because it does discriminate especially against women, it does encourage us to be unloving towards ourselves and each other.
Mainstream religions do not treat us as equals, ‘I wondered how we could all be equal if some are excluding of others?’
“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.” It’s an amazing insight, we would have to say that such a therapy is sourced from the divine if it takes you back to the divine source :). I have also recently begun to open up to this way of relating to others, it’s very beautiful and like any relationship it begins with knowing and feeling this in ourselves.
I must have needed to listen to this blog again because I read it as if I had never read it before!! I am so struck by the magic of a therapy that reminds us where we are from. In my sessions I feel like I re-connect to a stillness that is always within me but not quite as often moved. It feels like coming home each time, and then in between sessions I am reminded not to stray too far.
Lucy I know what you mean I had a session with a qualified Universal Medicine practitioner and in that session reconnected deeply to the stillness that resides un noticed within us all. I wasn’t able to stay with the stillness as I allowed myself to be pulled out of it. I do know that there is a deeper quality to me that needs to be explored more and if this stillness resides within me, it must be within us all?
I deeply appreciate what you share about religion being in our bodies. The connection to God is within not without and it is in a connection with the being that is so much more than the physical body. The busy-ness we have subscribed to in life disconnects us from that relationship and makes it a box-ticking exercise as opposed to a relationship. There is so much more we can connect to if we choose to deepen the relationship with ourselves.
God and religion, two sensitive topics. Why is it that we cannot be open to hearing other people’s views when we are so dogmatically stuck?
Having decided to be ‘perfect’ so I wouldn’t receive criticism growing up and coming to feel how I put myself in a man made prison all my life, it’s really great to read that perfection doesn’t exist. I have invested so much in it existing that I notice it’s hard to admit my efforts were a grand means I used to avoid myself and get exhausted and ill – another way to avoid shinning brightly. It’s great to see where perfection is sold to people so they are always striving, always potentially feeling they never measure up etc. And to know it is a simple choice to see through the illusion of perfection and return to appreciating and accepting who we truly are.
Stunning and so true. The need to be perfect and not do anything wrong puts the focus outside of ourselves for approval and that is a never-ending cycle of need that is so draining.
The exhausting need to be perfect, ‘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!’
“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.” This is gorgeous, wow what a modality hay!
This is amazing, what a modality, ‘I have been able to connect back to God and the fact that God is with me, in my body.’
I had a connective tissue session yesterday and the body just knows what’s coming and surrenders deeply. The session has given me the opportunity to look at my movements and to feel into what I have been choosing.
I love connective tissue therapy. At the completion of a session I always feel both deeply rested and refreshed, ready to start anew.
That is how I feel Suse, settled and revitalised after each session. I find it is a bit like counseling in the sense of a reduction in trauma as well. It’s like a beautiful, warm hug from the inside out for every part of me.
Melinda the connective tissue therapy does leave us feeling settled. A family member had a connective tissue session the first one ever and she said she had never felt anything so profound in her body, she went so deep within herself it took her a while to come back, but when she rested for a few minutes, the vitality in her body was huge she said she never felt so settled and well in her life before. That was just one session!
Esoteric Connective Tissue therapy offers so much, ‘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.’
This therapy supports in many ways, ‘I have been able to connect back to God and the fact that God is with me, in my body.’
Connective Tissue therapy offers a depth to surrender to that is such a deep nurturing and healing for the body, as most of us experience a lot of tension and stress in parts of our body, or carry past trauma in our body.
Our natural flow and rhythm gets activated which is such a divine support.
Being connected to God is a whole body experience.
In this world there has to be a place where people find the space and the freedom to feel themselves again, with no borders, limitations, expectations or pictures that dictates what’s right and what’s not. Love having access to every course from Universal Medicine because I can feel by myself the fact that I’m certainly a son of God and my body knows how to naturally align to this Truth.
After just completing one day of a three day course in Connective Tissue therapy I feel amazing compared to the day before and I’m really looking forward to the next couple of days as I know by the end of it I’m going to feel even better.
The more I remember that ‘Because God is Love, there can be no punishment, no judgement’ the more I allow myself to make mistakes and not think I need to be perfect. The trying to be perfect and not make a mistake is truly exhausting and something which effects a lot of us.
Yes very true and it is exhausting because it never actually completes. The fear of getting something wrong can colour how we see, hear, think and experience life offering us a warped sense of self.
It is crazy Lucy how it can also stop us from actually starting something or doing something we would love to simply because we may get it ‘wrong’ or ‘fail’ at it, so we do not even give it a go.
We can learn a lot from making mistakes, ‘the more I allow myself to make mistakes and not think I need to be perfect.’
Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy has been shown to work well with musculoskeletal pain but it may also have a wider effect as described here.
It is crazy that we have accepted this over the years and not called it out for the lie it is ‘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 love what you have shared here ‘My body and the way that I live, is Religion.’ So could it be that studying religion has nothing to do with reading over text books but instead re-connecting and studying the relationship with our body. The Kingdom of God really does reside within.
Vicky we are witness to this everyday with politicians in particular they are constantly getting caught out in the lies they spin, where they expect everyone to follow the rules they dictate but do not follow them themselves as though they are above the laws set down for common people.
I hate hypocrisy, and yes it is very prevalent in mainstream religion, ‘ how is it that people can preach certain rules or disciplines but not actually live them for themselves?’
When you are offered only part of the truth, as we are with religions, you do not get that locking in, ‘ah that’s it’ feeling in your body. I love the way our body, when we feel it from connection and stillness, lets us know exactly what is pure true and what is a cheap replica.
Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy connects you to the flow of love that is forever passing through your body.
And what I love is it helps reestablish and boost the flow in your body so then when you get up off the table you keep deepening with the flow.
This therapy can support us to return to being divine, ‘ 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.’
Connective Tissue Therapy makes it very clear that we are divine as the stilnness what can be felt in the body reminds us our connection.
“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” – I agree with you and for me I feel the lightness I am and my body is – it brings feeling-attention to the light we are made of and in this realise just how truly delicate we are.
I can so feel the connection between connective tissue and religion/ God because neither religion or God are what the world has called them to be. My understanding is that each and every one of us has access to the truth of these words within our own bodies, in the little moments of everyday life.
“God is with me, in my body” – this is my experience as well, and this is what the institutionalized religions world over have been trying to hide from us all along. No wonder they make no sense when being put under a microscope for closer scrutiny.
Very true, Fumiyo. Very true.
I love the gentle but very powerful healing that Esoteric Connective Therapy offers, with this gentle movement I feel my whole body light up with the most gorgeous feeling ever, allowing me to feel the divineness of my being.
WOW after reading your testimony who would not want to give Esoteric Connective Tissue a go!
I remember when I first had sessions with Kate Greenaway when she used to come to England on a regular basis. The awareness that was awakened in my body in these treatments was awesome and inspired me to take care of myself, to listen to and honour my body like I had never done before.
“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?”
These are such great and pertinent questions to ask in any situation where this may happen, and is something I have often wondered throughout my life, certainly when it came to religion. There are many who simply do not walk their talk.
Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy is transformational in the way that it returns the body to the pulse or flow that is already within it. Nothing is given or taken away, there is just a return, and what’s more, is that this pulse or flow is in line with that of our true divine self, our true origins. And so when we allow Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy to really facilitate a re-alignment back to this place of harmony, we are in fact returning to ourselves as the living Universal Gods of old, who know exactly what it is to be here on this earth, what this place is for, and why we are here.
“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.” It is indeed beautiful and profound how these small, subtle and delicate techniques can offer such a depth of healing and connection to the ‘human being’.
‘My body and the way that I live, is Religion.’ And this is a religion I can connect to and feel, for our bodies make the truth and in living deeply connected to them and honouring of that connection we allow ourselves to know and live the truth we are.
“I cannot help but feel that we are brothers and that this makes us all one and the same.” the more we let go of who we think we should be, and instead let out who we really are, we know this statement to be of absolute truth.
I also often pondered especially before becoming a student of Universal Medicine on what another was doing in order to live what they preached. How and who were they inspired by? How were they growing and developing? And when there were no answers I became very curious. It confirmed to me that what I was sensing – the preaching without the livingness was not it and so I had to walk away.
We are the reflection of God’s love, for as Souls in this plane of life we are in essence love. With Esoteric Connective Tissue therapy sessions, you really get a tangible sense and marker of how this innate quality of being feels and flows through our body, and how we naturally we can be guided to move with this quality through our willingness to surrender and connect. As you have so beautifully shared every breath we take and all we do when moved by this quality is a religious one, and one that offers the reflection of the truth we all are in the world we live.
“…the Study of Religion” – is the study of ourselves; the study of ourselves in love where we find all others are from the same place as us and there is no difference in this.
Very true Zofia, seeing religion as this turns a lot of what we commonly think of as religion on its head, and makes it very simple and practical and throws out the notion of being subservient to others, as I found the case to be in the religion I grew up under.
God is indeed in me and around me, and not only knowing this from an intellectual perspective, but feeling that is absolutely amazing. And Connective Tissue Therapy does support in feeling that.
This is beautiful, and simple, ‘God is with me, in my body’.
The body will always remind us of our divinity and that is because our particles are divine.
Yes Elizabeth, wisely said – and wise it is for us to reestablish and deepen an honoring relationship with our body, where the truth who we are and if we are living all that we are, is always reflected to us and all.
If we are Love, and God is in each and everyone of us, it makes you question what we have done to ourselves to block all that beauty.
‘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’ This is very beautiful, Cherise. Connective Tissue Therapy is the most gorgeous support for the body to let go, surrender and for us to connect more deeply to ourselves.
Without self-love we cannot claim to be religious but we have to re-awaken to the true meaning of self-love and what these words actually mean to live by in our daily life.
The sense that I feel in my body through connective tissue is not like anything I have felt before. It wraps me in warmth from the inside out.
I attended an Esoteric Women’s Group last night where we spent about 20 minutes doing Esoteric Connective Tissue exercises, there were incredibly simple exercises but I noticed quite a profound change in my neck tension from doing these exercises.
“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.” It really is extraordinary, the levels that we are able to go to with Connective Tissue Therapy.
The body is a marker of all truth and when I go through my day and feel any tension slipping in I can immediately feel it in the body. As you say even though in that moment I have chosen to be in that the flow and rhythm of Love is in me no matter what so I have in that moment a choice to come back. Connective Tissue Therapy is a remarkable modality of Universal Medicine’s to feel the inner pulse of Love.
As long as we hold discussions just in our head, we may think anything is right. It’s only when the whole body is involved that we get the truth loud and clear from every cell.
Very true Joseph, it is through the connection to our body that we re-awaken to truth. There is a vast difference between listening to the mind as opposed to listening to the body and what I am finding is that by following the mind I abuse my body but listening to my body I cannot but support it and by doing so I support my health and well-being.
“How Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy Connected me back to God and Religion” – yes through the stillness and deep rest that is felt with such a session, I always feel during and afterwards totally connected with myself and also everything else that is God.
“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.” How beautiful that it is possible to reconnect ourselves with God through something as simple and deeply relaxing as this modality of Connective Tissue Therapy.
How little is the world prepared to help us to deepen our religiosity is truly appalling, particularly given that the vast majority of humans see themselves as religious.
‘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 what I experience too Cherise. It is only when I disconnect from my body that thoughts can come in that makes the aches, pain or tension worse and almost unbearable.
Thank you Cherise, with what you have written is deeply felt.. resounds within — feeling that we all are God and we know the moment we connect to our body, it is heaven we feel on earth.
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.