566 thoughts on “The Outlier – Thanks to The Way of The Livingness”

1. These photographs are undeniable testament to the benefits of being an ‘outlier’ as a result of practicing the principles of The Way of The Livingness.

2. I love the way you talk about responsibility here Joel that it is not just about taking care of numero uno but also about considering the bigger picture of how our actions or way of life is affecting everyone else and everything else on the planet.

3. Each of us have a feeling of what an outlier is for him/her. This feeling is the other side of the coin to what an inlier is. All of this means not much in principle. Yet, it gets interesting when outlying only means excelling in true wellbeing.

4. When we follow our truth we might be an outlier but this does not mean that it is abnormal to our natural way of being.

5. Even denial is a relationship, now that has me smiling for there is truly no no really … we just say yes to something else. And here’s to being an outlier, and for more to join.

6. It is crazy to see what the ‘norm’ has become – it reminds me of the movie Wall-E. Everyone is overweight, floating around in chairs making no effort to exercise, watching the TV screens, all entertainment provided and drinking oversized sugary drinks. Why as humanity would we want to settle for that as an existence?

   1. A great question to ask ourselves and truly take stock of what we feel or wish life to be, to then to be able to endorse what truly supports us and renounce all that is not.

7. What my normal is today is totally different to what it was 10 years ago, and even 1 year ago, thanks to the Way of the Livingness. When we start to embrace life in a way that reveals to us how our behaviours and patterns impact on our health and society in general, it becomes clear that we constantly have to review how we are living and make adjustments to support ourselves as our bodies change.

8. “It makes little sense that we would choose to ingest poisons (alcohol), smoke, over-eat or do a myriad of other things that modern science knows leads to poor health, but we do.” – This is a question I have been asking myself about a lot recently, especially in regards to making those self-sabotaging choices myself at times when I am actually feeling quite steady, centred, and joyful. Why would I want to intentionally disrupt those feelings? Well, to me it must have something to do with not wanting the responsibility of living that all the time in full and not standing out as the incredibly sensitive, tender, and caring man I know I am. This can really hurt, but having the honesty of why we are making these self-harming choices is key to healing them, as Joel has indicated here so well.

9. Thank you Joel, I loved everything you wrote but I could not stop smiling at your photo, so filled with joy, a bit of cheekiness, and the gorgeousness of simply being you. The cuteness and purity of a little boy and the wisdom and power of a man. Welcome back home to yourself!

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11. I love what you shared here Joel, “And while science is consumed with trying to cope with the ever-increasing rates of obesity and other lifestyles diseases, here I am, the outlier – thanks to The Way of The Livingness – feeling very normal, but hardly a blip on the radar of conventional science”. This is such a true statement, we need to be explored for sure, we have much to share and we are a testament to The Way of The Livingness.

12. What a joy Joel to be an outlier – I join you. You are an inspiration to me – a walking miracle. I am the same. I have gone from the depths of a tyrannical torturous abuse I played out on myself – not an ounce of appreciation in my bones. Now I walk appreciation from all the love I feel in my body and from God within. Talk about science – investigate and analyse me! The Way of The Livingness is the truth, love, harmony, stillness and Joy of God no doubt about it!!

13. As an outlier sometimes I can feel a desire to be part of the norm, to fit in. Yet when I really look at that there is nothing there that is greater than what I currently live now. When I did live that life was challenging, I was tired, I was overweight, there were moments of ‘fun’ but in truth this was just relief from the tensions of life. I can say that I do not want to be part of that again.

14. Changing our choices from those that actually harm us for example alcohol, overeating, or drugs to making more loving choices is all part of taking responsibility for ourselves and understanding that the choices we make really matter, and through the process of this I found the real me.

15. I love the ‘marriage’ of religion, science and philosophy in The Way of The Livingness and feel very enriched that my life is not purely about being human, but that God and multidimensionality are leading in it.

16. “appreciating the fact that while my life has a practical quality, it also has an energetic quality as well.” I really got this aspect of The Way of the Livingness. Both are incredibly logical and should be considered as being interchangeable if we are to truly live the love we are from.

17. “So my NORMAL has changed,” The ripple effect of my ‘normal’ as a student of The Way of The Livingness is changing the normal of those around me.

18. Currently ‘normal’ is constantly being refined downwards and the students of the Way of The Livingness deserve to be studied as they are bucking the current increasing ill-health trends by simple and practical choices in the way that they live that have transformed many lives including mine and supported me to become a much more productive and loving member of my community.

19. The simple building blocks that have been ignored for many of us, for many many years. Its such a practical simple platform you describe Joel, and the proof is in the sparkle in that last photo. Its a true way and that is obvious to see.

20. Many greats point made here Joel and this one spoke loudly today ‘…even denial is a relationship.’ We are constantly in a relationship with ourselves, our bodies, with others, with God and the universe. So the great question is what is that nature of our relationship and is it a relationship that embraces, honors and represents all that we really are, guided by our connection to our truth from within? With eternal and heartfelt thanks to The Way of The Livingness I walk beside you Joel and many others, now knowing what it means to live in a way that may not as yet seem ‘normal’ by today’s ‘standards’ but without a doubt feels absolutely natural as is reflected through my body, well-being and vitality.

21. Knowing our value and that we matter is key to undertaking any assessment in how we are and how we live. In my experience The Way of The Livingness comes from a basis that we are it all already, but we may not be choosing to live it, and then it’s a matter of looking at any hindrances we may have, so rather than trying to attain something outside of us, we’re looking at letting go all those things which do not support us to be who we naturally. To be supported and held in an understanding that we are whole already is amazing and as Joel notes here, and I can say my experience is similar, it’s changed my life, and continues to do so. There is another way and it’s accessible to us all.

22. “You only need to visit the before and after project on UniMed Living, to see that I am not alone. In fact, people from around the world have begun to replicate these changes, across gender, age, race, income and demographics.” Witnessing the changes people have made over the years is truly astonishing. Your before and after photos say it all Joel. Love your blogs…..

23. Thank you Joel I am also an outlier too, having worked shift work for over 28 years now I cope better now than I did in my 20’s and 30’s, and I know it is because of The Way of The Livingness showing me there is a different way to live and move in the world that supports me to experience life with more love, vitality and true wellness.

24. There really is no rocket science or anything remotely exciting about choosing to live by these very simple, practical principles you describe here. Yet, what we are seeing in these three photos tell us that the difference is a life apart. You do not even look the same person in the first two photos. Totally unrecognizable in many ways.

25. When the outliers become the norm and what they do is the ‘normal’, outliers become those who rebel against the ‘normal’ and go one way and those who embrace themselves who go another way. The ‘normal’ feed the ‘rebels’ and are confirmed by them to be ‘normal’. The problem is those who embrace themselves. They do not fit well in the picture because in truth they are and represent the normal even if they are perceived by the ‘normal’ as abnormal.

26. I’m an outlier too Joel. As a woman with a chronic thyroid condition I should, statistically speaking, be a lot less healthy than I am. Not only do I have wonderful medical support, thanks to The Way of The Livingness, I have an equally wonderful prescription for life that I joyfully choose to take.

27. And what a handsome Outlier you are Joel… Bringing your wonderfully refreshing words of wisdom to humanity on such a regular basis for which we are all grateful.

28. Gorgeous Joel, to feel the joy and playfulness with which you live and write. The real gem among many is that the changes you’ve made can be done anyone, they’re simple, accessible, observable and repeatable .. and the other key aspect is to look at the underlying reason for our behaviours and choices as that supports us to truly understand and see what we are doing and consider what may need to change.

29. My body says that The Way of The Livingness is the healthier way of living. It doesn’t matter if I’m an outlier, but I definitely worth it!

30. What can I say but true rebels rock, how do I know this? Because I am one!

31. I have joined you in being an outlier and I am so glad as it is so life-enhancing.

32. Yes, to often we also shift the bar of what is normal. When recently looking at some portraits of people 50 years ago- the state of their health and their bodies were very different to the bodies you see today. Yet we have shifted the bar and normalised what would have been considered unhealthy in those days to just be the norm now.

33. For too long we have accepted the abnormal as the normal and it is time that collectively we made the shifts in our ways to correct this fact.

    1. I agree Suse, it is very obvious that the current accepted normal in our society is actually harming us and the new normal is in fact accessible to us all, to live in harmony with our body and it will guide us to a much more healthy, light and joyful life. If we are in disharmony with ourselves this naturally affects how we are with others, hence why we have a world that is in huge disharmony. It is certainly overdue for us all to change what is not working.

34. Joel, this article is Gold. I love the line “Over time I have begun to accept the fact that I can and do have a very personal and real relationship with Divinity and that life has a sacredness that is worthy of respecting and honouring in my movement and actions.”, this resonates deeply with me.
    And the photos share it all – the joy, light and sense of fun in your most recent photos is beautiful and gorgeous to feel. Thank you.

35. Your outlier status won’t be so for long Joel… I am joining you too! The fact is there is proof from lived experience of many now that shows that change is simple when Love is the purpose and founding Way and this is something science is sorely missing.

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37. You say it so well Joel, the outlier speaks very clearly and very succinctly, and shows that we all can choose the same. Your line ‘So my NORMAL has changed … ‘ is key, it’s saying it’s not a matter of being special, having special abilities or genes, but the willingness to look within, get honest and make choices that truly support.

38. The Outlier says it all! The only person we need to listen to is ourselves! Our bodies hold the wisdom we need to follow and our innermost love is a Son of God.

39. I never really enjoyed science at school, but now I absolutely can’t get enough of it. It’s exploring all the fine details of our daily lives and how we move express and nourish our bodies that brings the outlier truly out into the world and seeing just how joyous it can be to live and share in this way. The inner wisdom we hold in our bodies is the true science and one that allows us to continually deepen and explore more and more of what makes us tick. Thank you Joel and thank you Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine.

40. Very sweet and very inviting and so very simple.

41. What I find with The Way of The Livingness is the simplicity that it starts with us choosing to be honest. No one is telling us what to eat, what to do – but by being very honest I have learnt how what I used to think I ‘love’ was really not supporting me or in fact actually very harming to myself. And it became so clear how our ‘normal’ is actually not natural to us. It’s been a quite incredible, humble yet totally self-empowering process.

42. I love how you have presented that that there is more to life, that we are in an inescapable relationship with science, religion and responsibility, that we have access to a greater awareness than just following the ‘norm’ so to speak. We all have a sense of what is true and what is not yet we are choosing to not engage this. Understanding why we choose to avoid our responsibility to live from our inner-most has been nothing short of empowering. I have found that The Way of The Livingness has supported me to no end to re-discover that within me, and us all, is our guide to knowing all that is truly our normal, and to explore my relationship with humanity, God, the universe and as such living my Divinity in the world.

43. “This energetic quality is about the way in which I define my relationship with God (where even denial is a relationship).” Great point Joel – we can’t escape the relationship to ourselves and to God because we are in constant relationship with everything, even if our perspective is isolated to just our thoughts or wants.

    1. The understanding that we have a constant relationship with God, with everyone and everything means it is very difficult to avoid taking responsibility for our choices. Because, every choice we make impacts all our relationships and no matter where we are in the universe, we are in constant relationship with everything and the ALL.

44. I like that The Way of The Livingness encompasses all aspects of life. I will be visiting my doctors later on this morning because I am not feeling well. In the past I would probably not have gone and made an assumption about what I had and decided on what medication to take. These days I feel I am taking greater care of myself and part of this responsibility is about checking things out with the doctors. The Way of The Livingness really is a holistic approach to life.

45. This blog is enormously supportive for anyone wanting to bring change to their current way of living, so many in our current society are settling for a reduced way of living that lacks any vitality, commitment, energy, or true health. The Way of The Livingness is a complete package that offers the body a different way to live and to make responsible and loving choices that support your body to truly heal and to live as an ‘outlier’ and experience the many benefits that come with embracing the body as a living science.

46. The beauty of living from our own choices and responsibility within those choices is how it connects every facet of not only our lives but of everyone else’s too. Every movement within our choices has a ripple affect on the all and that is something worth pondering on how and why we live as we do today.

47. I love reading this blog. The part about our relationship with God stood out for me today. This is one relationship I have given my least attention to yet it is one that will support me in all my other relationships. Huummm interesting to notice this and a note to myself to start paying more attention to developing my relationship with God and to be more aware of when I tend to avoid this and why.

48. Brilliant Joel – I especially loved the science part and I have found that GPS and health professionals are very supportive of the choices I’ve made inspired by Universal Medicine. In fact sometimes they seem surprised that a patient is taking full responsibility for their health. This is interesting as it tells me that many people go to the doctor wanting to be ‘fixed’ rather than truly looking at what they need to do to support themselves. I know that’s what I used to do.

49. We are here to set a new normal in the Way of our Livingness, where self love takes the place of self abuse, where taking responsibility for the choices we make in understanding that every choice and the quality of that choice affects not only us but all mankind, instead of us living with shame blame and guilt, our new normal is to learn to live from the love that we truly are.

50. It says a lot about the general state of our humanity when someone stands out for being truly healthy, joyful and vital!

    1. True Fiona, great point. It is almost unheard of in today’s society to be truly healthy, joyful and vital. Most people are in disbelief when they meet someone who reflects true health because this is not what we are seeing in our current population. It is a sad state isn’t it how far our collective health and vitality has dropped?

51. “The religion part of The Way of The Livingness involves appreciating the fact that while my life has a practical quality, it also has an energetic quality as well.” Coming to understand and feel the energy in everything has been the greatest revelation for me and has been the inspiration to be aware of the choices I make and the effect this has on myself and everyone else.

52. I love what you offer here, Joel, that there is another normal to the accepted normal, and that you are part of it, and that you became part of it through the choices and changes you made in your life; so this is in fact accessible in anyone, you do not need to be special, just committed and willing to be honest, and see what does and doesn’t work in your life and take responsibility – it’s isn’t rocket science but it is science, the science of our relationship with ourselves and with God.

53. The Way of The Livingness sets a new marker of what normal is, one that is based on a true foundation of care of the body for self and others and a connection which is spherical with everything there is in the universe.

54. Normal is a disease in itself as it condones ill behaviours that suits a lifestyle of the majority. We often don’t question what you know is not supporting our body and life if we look around and see the same unloving choices reflected back to us. It confirms our ill ways and gives a seeming excuse to continue to make those choices. That’s why our reflection is so important. Us outliers need to be reflecting what true change looks like and give normal a new name and image.

    1. Rachael, could it be that we tend to use what we think is normal as an excuse to not take responsibility for our choices, our health and the care of our body? I definitely used to do this but not anymore, thanks to The Way of The Livingness I am living like an outlier, setting a new normal.

55. ‘The fact is, I matter in the world and my choices affect me and others’. This does bring a responsibility to be clear and honest in the way we live and to be free of judgement and expectation that others live a certain way. I too, am an Outlier and today my connection to who I truly am and Gods presence in the world will be celebrated and confirmed.

56. Thank you Joel for another great read, We seem to in the past have joined the masses and become part of what is considered normal even though it means abusing our bodies, being irresponsible with our choices and blaming others. We are now indeed blessed to have The Way of The Livingness as the truth of Science Religion and an understanding of what Personal Responsibility means as our new normal.

57. “The Science Part of The Way of The Livingness – involves studying the science of my body more closely and observing the repeatable experiences I have with certain foods, moods and lifestyle choices and how they affect me. It also involves respecting and working with my GP and other health practitioners to monitor my health to ensure I am not deluding myself.”

    The paragraph above should be apart of our mainstream education, the amount of diseases that are lifestyle related is disturbing, as they are preventable. A lot of people don’t realise that it is actually very empowering to get involved with your body in this way and if you love your body, there is a high possibility that it will treat you well too, giving you plenty of warning signs when something is out of balance.

58. ‘The Science Part of The Way of The Livingness – involves studying the science of my body more closely and observing the repeatable experiences I have with certain foods, moods and lifestyle choices and how they affect me.’ Well said Joel, it is a simple choice to listen to the body’s wisdom and be guided by what feels supportive or not, and when we do the changes in our health and well being can be quite amazing as your experience so beautifully confirms this.

59. Too amazing for the world of science to even see – a blip, this made me chuckle for at some point – the tipping point will be reached and The Way of The Livingness will be known for the amazing extra-ordinary that it has always been.

60. Hello Joel and I have said it before, I always love reading what you write. This is pretty simple and clear, “The Personal Responsibility Part of The Way of The Livingness – involves knowing that if I am choosing to eat or live in a way that is harmful to me or others, I need to look at why.” It would be great to see this trend catch on and become the norm. As hard as it is at times or may seem, what we see in front of us is chosen by us in some way or at some point even though it may not make sense at the time.

61. What I have observed is that sometimes science can be used to keep our comforts in place, to not challenge things and to justify certain choices or behaviours. In time we often start to see through this as the truth exposes itself.

62. I love this Joel . . . ” I have learnt that I do not need to be beholden to a particular person or congregation, but rather have defined success as the honesty of my personal relationship with God, as it defines everything else.” . . . yes this is a great reminder of the deepest relationship we can possible have that defines and deepens all other relationships.

63. Ooo Ooo, include me as an outlier! (insert raised hand emoticon here)
    The responsibility that comes with living true to ourselves and not up to what is seen as ‘normal’ today is very important, we need to understand that there is in fact another, truly well and far more healthy way of living and that it is possible. The reflection is needed amongst us all.

64. Being responsible does matter, especially as our choices affect myself and others, ‘if I am choosing to eat or live in a way that is harmful to me or others, I need to look at why.’

65. It is fascinating what we accept as normal without questioning it- we just accept a mundaneness to life and a level of function. I myself wasn’t aware that life could actually be joyful everyday until I started to break out from what was normal and live what was true- they are two very different things.

66. When I was a teenager, I was obsessed in being a rebel, I never wanted to be a sheep that conformed to society. Ironically, doing drugs and dropping out of school was just another way of conforming, it might of looked like rebellion but in truth it was reaction to something, it was just the other end of the same seesaw.
    Joel, in this article you have summed up what I was actually looking for when I was a teenager, I was looking for another way. What I didn’t realise then, was that I was joining the masses of other teens that were checking out with drugs and alcohol and in fact I was not unique in my choices, in fact, I was like a sheep, prescribing to the same escape the rest of the world was. Now I find myself studying Universal Medicine, a school or teaching that explained that life can be medicine, that our choices affect everything, I am now an outlier too and proud of it, choosing to embrace and not escape from all there is to learn from in this world and beyond.

67. Cute… sitting out there on the edge of what is statistically normal. Most of my life I’ve been uncomfortable with that because it has felt lonely and I want to be in with the crowd. As I develop a better sense of myself I’m able to just be me and no longer get pulled along with by everyone else… and interestingly these outliers offer an alternative to the bell end of the distribution curve that perhaps there is a different way?

68. Funny how what was normal is no longer so – for example as you have said Joel, it was the norm to not be overweight or obese, whereas in today’s world, it is the norm to be overweight. This means that ‘normal’ weight people are now seen as being abnormal or ‘outliers’! Crazy how our world has changed…and what we have allowed with regards to the change in the meaning of words.

69. Beautiful Joel- when we are part of the norm we are left alone when we step outside of this it rattles the apple cart but is well worth it as when you live honouring yourself then life starts to become lived not survived.

70. Many great points to consider here Joel, it is crazy to think what we consider ‘normal’ in life is actually contributing to higher levels of illness and disease. The Way of The Livingness offers us a way to live that is responsible, loving, and brings true healing to the body, and hundreds of students lives have benefitted enormously such as yours, through the simple, practical, self-loving tools that truly work.

    1. This is a big comment, that is worth paying attention to… the fact that what we consider normal are often things that contribute to ill health.

71. Mmm really interesting Joel and well worth understanding when the rates for overweight and obesity, coupled with poor mental health, are rising at rates that will not be sustainable by our current health system.

72. Our choices have a huge impact on not only ourselves, but those around us and more, ‘The Personal Responsibility Part of The Way of The Livingness – involves knowing that if I am choosing to eat or live in a way that is harmful to me or others, I need to look at why.’ Do I make choices that support and honour myself, or do I make choices that are harmful to myself and indirectly to others?

73. I love that The Way of the Livingness ask nothing of us, allowing us to observe and choose what is true for us to live. We are worth the depth and level of relationship with ourselves that can be lived when we choose to honour responsibility in our movements.

74. Yes, I’m in! When you look at how your life has changed for the better, why wouldn’t you?

75. Universal Medicine empowers you to empower yourself. To live a purposeful and loving life.

76. How crazy that living a healthy, clean and joyful life is considered abnormal, or not fitting within the accepted range. Who decides what is normal and what is acceptable?

77. Maybe mathematics should come into play too: Science + Religion + Responsibility = True Living.

78. Amazing Susan – thanks for sharing. Proof that there is another way to live.

79. ‘My NORMAL has changed’ – that sums up what I’ve been trying to say for ages. When something no longer fits in my life anymore, it’s not because I’m depriving or starving myself of it, it’s because I’ve evolved to the point where it no longer serves me. I no longer have a need for it – and this is my new normal.

80. The responsibility part of The Way of The Livingness is something that I have found to be really life-changing for me. I, like so many others, spent a lot of time searching for the answer to all my issues in books, other philosophies, drugs, etc etc etc. Not until I came upon Universal Medicine did I realise that the answers to the things I was struggling with was up to me to address within myself by my own choosing, not by someone else solving it for me.

81. Gorgeous piece of writing Joel, there is so much to study on living The Way of The Livingness and the people living it in their every way. It is incredible to see the changes in people’s lives, and in turn saddening to see that this vitality is far from the norm.

82. Nothing could support conventional medicine more than exploring the principles of The Way of The Livingness as presented by Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine. Conventional medicine would find themselves with responsible willing participants in their own healing, taking responsibility for themselves with nourishing food, rejuvenating sleep, developing a supportive rhythm to assist in the healing that medicine is also assisting – a doctor’s dream patient.

83. Here is another example of how students who are living life according to ‘The Way Of The Livingness’ are making extraordinary changes to their lives, this and many more cases would make great examples of how there is another way to live, a way that is loving and supportive for all. See http://www.unimedliving.com/before-and-after.

84. I live day-to-day as an ‘ outlier’ alongside someone who lives the normal way and it’s my job to respect and support that person’s choice to continue to live that way. It is interesting to observe how attitudes towards my choice to eat a certain way (gluten, dairy, sugar, caffeine, carb free) have changed. Once seen as depriving myself, missing out, boring, now there is acceptance, curiosity, and enjoining in my own meal choices. Holding my own has at times proved challenging in an environment in which all the foods I’ve eliminated from my diet are present in abundance. By simply being myself, and continuing to live my way, I reflect that there is more than one way to live.

85. My choices affect me and others, so I have a responsibility in what I choose, ‘if I am choosing to eat or live in a way that is harmful to me or others, I need to look at why. It makes little sense that we would choose to ingest poisons (alcohol), smoke, over-eat or do a myriad of other things that modern science knows leads to poor health, but we do.’ The question is why do we choose to live in a way that is both harming to ourselves and others, but is also lacking in responsibility?

86. Why do people do things that are harmful to our bodies, ourselves, just because everyone else does it? What is it saying about us as a humanity that this has been the norm?

87. This is truly remarkable to see how the way we choose to live has a huge impact on our physical body. Living The Way of The Livingness is living in a way that is in harmony with us as Divine beings, which is reflected in our physical and energetic quality.

88. Right with you Joel, and enjoying life more and more.. looking younger every year, feeling more and more of the abundance all around me, and with more capacity to appreciate myself and everyone else as I deepen my awareness of the livingness.

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90. Living a “normal” life has become a bit of a cop out as it means we do not have to take responsibility but just do what everyone else is doing and everyone is affirmed by this because the majority are living like that.

91. Says a lot about the way humanity is living when to be living a full, healthy, joy-full, loving life means you also are a statistical outlier.

92. I am pretty chuffed to be a statistical anomaly right now but look forward to when being an outlier is the statistical norm!

93. This blog really highlights for me the power of our own choices and day-to-day way of living. No one could put the level of health and wellbeing that you now have Joel just down to ‘good genes’.

94. The fact that you have made a list of some alarming health issues that are so common in society they are now seen as ‘normal’, alongside another list of the amazing changes you have made that go against the trend – and the fact that you call yourself an outlier, shows how crazy the world has become.
    Any institution interested in health ought to be flocking to people like you to deepen their understanding and relationship wit true health and well being.

95. What you propose here Joel is a truly scientific way of approaching life observing and understanding our whole energetic being and working with our relationships with different parts of life.

96. I wonder what sort of intelligence are we relying on when it is normal for us to overeat or need to drink coffee or alcohol to get us through life. There feels much more support into feeling into what is underlying these everyday practices than looking to statistics to explain what needs to be changed or bettered in life.

    1. Yes. Being honest about the behaviours we adopt and then looking behind them for the cause is the way to truly heal and move on, rather than trying to modify the behaviour without understanding, which is the classic sticking plaster over a canyon syndrome.

97. I have always loved the term outlier in statistics, understanding that in many ways statistics has re interpreted the constellation of our interdependence with the concept of ‘normal distribution’ under a bell curve. The outlier shines out for me like a distant star that is reflecting the truth of who we are and the call to come home.

98. We could offer a new normal to the world, and then the statistical outliers, those not in the obese, diabetic, kidney/ liver failure, alcoholism, heart disease, depression etc cohorts could become the statistical norm. – how would that benefit our health budgets, country’s economy, not to mention an abundance of well vital people, working full time and engaged in our communities.. hmm to me that must be worth a scientific pilot trial.

99. I love how blogs like these expose the fact that although the majority may enjoin in certain behaviours or ideals, it doesn’t necessarily make them normal. When we normalise ill behaviours it indicates how much we have given up on what feels true to us even though it is always felt. I agree with Adam above – that fact that we choose not live what is true for us is indeed a tragedy.

100. Could it be possible that what is happening around the world at the moment would be what I could call an ‘outlier’? What you have described as living in a way, which brings a healthy way of living, is normal. Before I became a Student of The Livingness as presented by Serge Benhayon, I was a self-destructive ‘outlier’ like the rest of humanity. As part of the social dilemma that is so-called normal, but is actually an ‘outlier’ because it has lead to the ills and disease that are out of control. The truth as presented by Serge Benhayon will never be an outlier but a foundation that will stand the test of time!!

101. Correct Joel. Here science has the perfect opportunity to explore a different way of approaching living and the results that it brings… if science returned to open enquiry, free from bias, corruption and dogma, then much could be learned and true good could result.

102. what a tragedy that this story is a of a statistical anomaly, rather than a normal way of being.

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104. Your story Joel is a scientific case study in itself and proof that we do not have to give up on our health and wellbeing believing it is all down to our genes or family history but that real changes can be made in our lives simply through those little daily choices that we all make every day.

105. As Joel says… Any science researcher worth his salt would, upon coming across even one of these people, could not help but to investigate deeply what is going on in their lives that would reflect such an extraordinary difference… Let’s face it… The health care systems of the world are not in a good place, and here we have the potential for such change.

106. Interesting that living in accordance to our natural rhythms means that we are discordant to the majority of humanity and are then the outliers. This offers a clear reflection of the degree to which we as humanity have lost our way.

107. Appreciating the inner and outer workings of the amazing vessels we call our bodies is something I have begun to love more and more lately. Uncovering the web of hurts and beliefs locked into our ways of being can help us heal and regenerate so very beautifully too. Thank you Joel.

108. Isn’t it ridiculous how as a society to keep ourselves in comfort we make our poor lifestyle choices and dysfunctional live style choices the “norm” to keep us in comfort. Everyone else is doing it, eating drinking it, using it so its ok. It is this attitude that is leading to dis-harmony in our bodies which deepens to become illness and dis-ease. None of this is “normal” and the new and true “normal” will become the current outliers, thanks to The Way of the Livingness, as more and more of us reflect a healthy and vital lifestyle.

109. It is ridiculous to think that normal is being obese and being dependent on sugar is normal. The notion of normal indeed needs to be questioned particularly given that it is so easy for us to become complacent around behaviour because it seems that everybody else is doing it. As a society we do need to question if what is appearing as ‘normal’ is it harming or healing? If it is harming, then it shouldn’t be normal.

110. Yes please, Joel. An outlier I am too – increasingly willing to explore responsibility in its finest detail and realise it is one of the greatest blessings bestowed on us.

111. Thank you Joel for your gorgeous words – they make such sense of a world that no longer makes sense. We seem to have lost the true meaning of the word normal and it now encompasses how the majority choose to live, rather than being the way of life that is innately natural and aligned to the whole Universe. We have separated so far away from ourselves and one another that we have lost our way. We are now being offered, by The Way Of The Livingness, a way back to connect to what is our Divine path in the world.

112. By not Looking at our choices and the reason we chose to make them is the underlying foundation we all live with. So, why do we choose not to go there? Perceived hurts are a great place to start!

113. Hi Joel, I have joined you in being an outlier to science that is trying to cope with the increasing rates of an array of lifestyle related illnesses and diseases. What in particular is important to me is my relation with God, that part in me that is my connection with that grander whole we all are part of, and I am becoming more intimate with. I am not simply an individual here on earth, I am part of a grander whole, influenced by it but also an influencer of it. So everything that I live in service of the whole will be available to all of us and eventually will come back to me. That said, it makes a difference to all of us in how I conduct my life and how I deal with certain situations in life, as that way of dealing with things will then become available to all of us as a choice in life one day. That is the responsibility I have, not only for my own life, but for everybody I live with on this planet earth.

114. Fellow Outlier what a fantastic blog telling it how it is. How it can be the choices we make that has a difference in how our quality of being is and our health and well-being. Your pictures say it all, classic though until we have evidential proof of how things have changed then we believe. I totally agree that the students of The Way of The Livingness need to be studied, we are defying the normal trends.

115. The ‘science of my body’ has been something that I have been looking into for the major part of my life.
     When I was young family members were dying like leaves falling of a tree.
     So from a young age I looked at quality of what I put into my body as relevant to my health.
     My father died sitting next to me on a couch when I was nine, at eighteen one father figure had seven coronary bypass surgeries and another uncle had a massive stroke that left him unable to speak for over twenty-five years until his death, all of which made me look very closely at my own health.
     I lived in a way that these events were always in the back of my mind and this has given me an awareness of feeling when what I was putting into my body, and what has been presented to my body since attending Universal Medicine events, has only contributed to my well-being!

116. At a restaurant the other day, I made my requests to the waitress regarding food choices and someone on the table then commented to the waitress – “I am not difficult like some people, I only eat normal food”. I playfully asked what the marker is for what is considered the norm for food that is true for individuals or groups of people to eat – there was a pause along with a rueful grin in reply.

117. It’s amazing what is widely considered as ‘normal’. To be overweight, hungover and dependent on caffeine. It is ‘normal’ for many to abuse the body in this way. How absurd! Much better to carve out our own normal by following the body, what is best for it and what helps it feel vital and alive.

118. I agree, there is so much that has become normalised that is in truth deeply destructive to individuals, communities and the whole of the world – yet we have become ‘comfortably numb’ in allowing its prevalence. It is overdue to wake up to the terrible ill we are perpetuating in the world by things we have allowed to become ‘normal’ and the impact they are having – and to understand there is a different choice.

119. The outlier in mainstream science today is excluded from research findings, but what if nothing was random and this abnormal result was not to be glossed over or dismissed? what if going against the trends meant that the normal wasn’t the place to be or the place we should accept? Just because alcohol is accepted as normal doesn’t make it any less of a poison to the body, it just means that en mass it has become acceptable to poison the body. The Way of The Livingness is creating an outlier movement in society but gaining mainstream results in those who choose to live by there bodies responses to the best of their ability. This is something worth studying.

     1. So true Leigh, the outlier in some research is the points to be removed that do not fit with the majority pattern and yet how can you just remove something from the whole. Energetically you can not ever get rid of energy it can only change form.

120. It is ridiculous how we can redefine what normal is simply through allowing poor choices. Normalising obesity, normalising violence, normalising pornography, normalising obscene language and I could go on and on. None of this should be normal, however when we make poor choices as a society and as humanity then this does become normal. I look forward to when there is a new normal and the current outliers who are healthy and vital become everyone’s daily experience.

121. You expose the word “normal” here and how it has become what a majority of people do, regardless of how harming, unhealthy or downright hostile it might be; “normal” strikes me as a handy excuse for not taking responsibility for ourselves and our actions.

122. ‘Hello, I am an outlier, why don’t you join me?’ Joel I’m very ok with being an outlier, because it has become my normal thanks to The Way of The Livingness, and I feel so much more healthier now than I did when I was living a very different lifestyle.

123. These pictures Joel, wow – from puffy, with a hint of glossing over life (may I say, knowing it well myself 🙂 – to the extraordinary connection, clarity and joy you exude in the recent photo. Really this speaks volumes about the kind of change that you are describing!

124. Being outside what is happening to the normal trends of society is often felt to be that we have lost our direction or are doing something incorrect. But anyone’s regular pattern of life is normal for them, and you really show here, how your normal suits you and it can be felt how great this is for your body and your health. When anyone lives in this way, we are a reflection for others whose rhythm of life is out of balance, so we are living models, an example of how life can be everywhere we go, thanks to the quality of the Way of the Livingness teachings.

125. I was recently having a conversation with someone about alcohol and I explained to them why I didn’t drink – that I didn’t want to knowingly harm or poison my body and that for me drinking wasn’t worth the compromise. They replied that almost all adults drink that ‘they’re all fine’, and it occurred to me that we hear VERY little about the statistics surrounding heart disease and alcohol related illnesses, so much so that people have forgotten that drinking can lead to such problems and millions of people are affected by them because of it.

126. Surely when the medical professional themselves are saying “Becoming overweight or even obese is becoming normal.” we must realise we have a major problem? Even 30 years ago this statement was not true, yet today we accept it. When I read it I don’t flinch as I know it’s a reality.

127. “I work with consistent energy throughout the day around the house and in my job.” It seems such a simple statement Joel and one I can relate to now, but there was a time in my life when my energy levels would be all over the place and I relied on many a cup of coffee to get things done. Addressing the quality of my daily choices, like yours has completely turned this around and now I have a steady energy that enables to work consistently throughout my day, never feeling like anything is too much or a drag. Since ditching the caffeine, sugar and alcohol the quality of my sleep has improved a thousand fold and whereas before I felt I had to drag myself out of bed, these days I feel replenished and ready to enjoy the day, regardless of what I am doing – a profound miracle that I appreciate every single day of my life.

128. To be an outlier – and what a beautiful word it is – feels like a badge of honour and honourability, thank you for making this so clear.

129. “I wake up without an alarm early in the morning, ready for the day after a solid night’s sleep.” Over the last few months my body has been waking me up without an alarm clock, I am rested with a good night sleep. This is so great as I use to suffer from exhaustion. I do get tired sometimes but not exhausted. All because making more loving choices.

130. “……while my life has a practical quality, it also has an energetic quality as well…” agree Joel, and i found that when this is known, and connected to on a deeper level, that it instigates the c-change in lifestyle choices… for me this was alcohol which i felt to no longer consume, not because somebody told me not to, but feeling the effect of consuming this liquid on my body, but also to another’s – because of me, was enough to call it a day and i ended up not ever drinking, or feeling that way inclined. When the energy is considered, then there is a whole new level of integrity and responsibility that comes with it, and so life.

131. The behaviour and trends of the majority become what is considered normal and then unfortunately socially acceptable to some level or another. However what is normal to an individual is only what is their way of life in their own rhythm of living, therefore it is a simple choice of what you want to be normal for you.

132. Once every couple of years I have a full medical check up. The full monty. The nurse who was doing the check up and I got chatting. She asked me how old I was. I said “what do you think?”. She had all the info in front of her; more info on me than anyone else who has asked this question has ever had, she had been testing me for an hour or so…”28″ she said. I’m 45. Guess that makes me an outlier like you Joel?

133. You are right Joel Levin – our definition of the word normal is not really normal and the facts you give us in this blog confirm this. To be honest our new normal is way off the mark if you ask me.
     This pre-diabetes thing is huge and having done some research, it is serious stuff and you are a living science, proof of how to change that.
     It really is time to stop listening to evidence based stuff, get real and get back on track. We have lost the plot and our world is in a mess and that is official. There are people like you out there living another way and this needs to be studied and shared so others equally KNOW that the teachings of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine are the real deal and they work.

134. What if the behaviour of an outlier were actually normal, and the behaviour of what is currently considered normal, not in fact normal at all? Or maybe the question is ‘what’s natural?’ because not having caffeine, sugar, gluten and dairy is actually very natural but the opposite has become the norm.

135. ‘The changes were founded on the principles of The Way of The Livingness, a uniquely and truly holistic approach to life that presents a combination of science, religion and personal responsibility that is, in my experience, both profound and unique in the world.’ – Absolutely unique, because The Way of The Livingness asks only for one thing – Self responsibility and true Love every step of the way.

136. “I live without eating or craving sugar, caffeine, refined carbohydrate, salt or alcohol.” This alone is a subject of huge study Joel and your photos testify to the benefits of these life style choices. What a massive difference we could make to our national health statistics if the general population were encouraged to make the same choices.

137. If being normal was the way then humanity would have not nearly as many problems, if any, as it currently does. Being an outlier is not to be shunned or put down at all. It indicates the possibility of true change

138. “The fact is, I matter in the world and my choices affect me and others. So personal responsibility is looking at the choice and the reason for it.” Yes totally agree Joel and love how you said also that it is a perpetual choice; we are making choices all the time and by bringing our awareness to this we can take more responsibility for the kind of choices we are making.

139. Thank you Joel, this is a great study. In todays world being an anomaly, as you describe yourself, is a truer normal, when it comes to our well-being and health and in regards to our bodies, than anything we have made normal today.

140. It’s better to belong inside, than to belong outside any day 🙂

141. Living without chocolate, sugar, alcohol, gluten, dairy, late nights, caffeine and TV I could be considered an outlier too. Yet for me now this is so normal that to live in any other way would be abnormal. I love feeling more healthy, vibrant and purposeful from making the changes I have…Joel I have definitely joined you! I’ll be an outlier any day of the week.

142. The difference in you is astounding Joel. The pictures speak for themselves…

143. Joel how strange is it that today you, being healthy and not addicted to so many things as most people, are considered an outlier. Yet after speaking to a few people in the medical community the range of normal keeps being changed to accommodate the more extreme sizes, weights and activities. To this end its clear that those who are outliers and many who’ve been inspired by Universal Medicine, are simply returning back to what is truly normal.

144. If you are living proof of what an outlier looks like Joel, it is worth spreading your example far and wide. What we accept as a ‘normal state of health’ and how we are in our relationships with each other today is really quite alarming. There is so much for us to learn from the simple truths of the teachings of Universal Medicine, and if chosen to be integrated into our way of life, then many more people would have similar pictures to yours. It is deeply inspiring.

145. Being an outlier looks pretty darn good Joel – where do I join? The before and after pictures here show what is possible with life changes which support the body!

146. It is quite disturbing really what we now see as normal and are ok with it, especially when it comes to how we are with each other and how easy we can be abusive towards each other. Count me in as an Outlier because the abuse we dish out is not ok.

147. Sooner or later Science will see that The Way of The Livingness is presenting miracle changes for hundreds if not thousands of people making lifestyle changes, healing emotional turmoil and connecting and living the Divine Love that we are. In the mean time as Joel said the ‘before and after’s’ on Universal Medicine website sums it up pretty well.

148. One of the things I noticed when I started to read was that I haven’t set my alarm in years. There’s no need to, I wake up hours before I ‘need’ to get up anyways.

149. Interesting, that taking deeply healing choices for the body is something majority in society does not do. It is the question how responsible we feel for our health and wellbeing as a society. In the moment it seems to be the job of the doctors and insurance companies, that we maintain our health.

150. Anytime there is a choice that is made to honour a truth we hold, one that is about loving self then you become an outlier. The reactions from others also come spiked with envy, jealousy and judgement. Regardless of what has come at you Joel you have held steady in what feels true – what an amazing and supportive reflection for all those open to feeling and seeing what is offered.

151. It is astounding that someone who is the picture of health and vitality at 47 years of age is now a statistical outlier. What an amazing transformation and inspiration.

152. Without these reflection of what is possible through self-respecting loving choices it’s too easy to say it’s too hard to make these choices. I know I’ve often tried to say oh it’s easier for so and so but I know without a doubt this isn’t so. It’s amazing to open the door to being ourselves whoever we are regardless of the situation. It’s amazing to realise we have created whatever situation we find ourselves in and to decide to no longer keep re-creating it.

153. I love your blog Joel, it’s totally inspirational and very inviting for people to join you in the amazing way you choose to live. The Way of The Livingness absolutely ROCKS. I too am making loving choices inspired by Universal Medicine and people like you.

154. I am joining you in the outlier crowd Joel – thanks for the invitation, the clarity of your writing and the tenderness of your recent photos.

155. How could anyone refuse such an invitation after seeing your before and after photos Joel…..what a gorgeous, truly tender, beautiful man you have become.

156. “The Personal Responsibility Part of The Way of The Livingness – involves knowing that if I am choosing to eat or live in a way that is harmful to me or others, I need to look at why.” It seems to me that it is this level of self responsibility that seems to make many so called ‘normal’ folk very shaky and at times very angry.

157. I love seeing the joy in your face in the last photo Joel, it is gorgeous.

158. Thanks for the invite Joel, looking at your before and after photos I am definitely in!

159. Dear Joel, what a difference a choice makes! Well several choices really. You have chosen the Way of the Livingness which you describe very well as to what that is and the effect is outstanding. I realise looking at your before photos how ‘normal’ you look…..it is normal for us to be puffy from overeating and eating the wrong foods of our bodies, it is normal to dress in a way that does not show off the awesomeness that we all are. Thank you for showing us a new normal is possible.

160. I love the Science part – where we are our own experiment and we can repeat as often as we choose, for example, if we eat something that is not nourishing, our body will give us feedback on it. Every time, if we allow ourselves to listen. If we speak in a way that is aggressive, our body will feel it first before the other person does. Everything we do affects us first, so, conversely, if we appreciate ourselves, our bodies will respond.

161. Joel, your before and after photos tell a story. Your after photo speaks volumes of the man that you are – bright, light, wise, humorous, tender…and very handsome 🙂

     1. The Way of The Livingness is bringing spunkiness back in spades ..oh yeah!

162. I love how you describe the science part of The Way of the Livingness as a study of your own body basically which is something I myself do. Observe what affect certain behaviours or foods have on me, and making adjustments as needed to maintain a certain way I feel that allows me to do what is needed without feeling sluggish, sleepy or out of sorts.

163. The Way of The Livingness is absolutely a remarkable approach to life that is in every way a joy to apply to my own life.

164. Having caffeine is normal these days. I find people are surprised when I say no thanks to the coffee run at work and say I don’t drink coffee. Walking through the city at any time of the day, many people are holding their takeaway coffee. The problem is that the coffee consumption for many is masking an exhaustion they feel, and the caffeine keeps them going. When I stopped drinking coffee about 15 years ago, my body couldn’t function and I fell in a heap. I was so exhausted and had adrenal fatigue and the coffee (even just 1 weak one a day) was just enough to keep me going.

165. I recently saw a statistic that 8 out of top 10 causes of death are lifestyle related. Say what! That’s an insane statistic and says that some health conditions are preventable meaning that changing how we live, what we eat and drink, how we are in our emotional lives can prevent some illnesses.

166. We are rapidly heading for a situation where to actually be well in mind and body is going to be a rare thing. It is actually in the near future going to be normal to be sick not well. How did we let things get to this stage and are we prepared to do anything about it?

167. Who really decides what is ‘normal’? Our minds which are susceptible to bias from outside ideals and beliefs of society or our bodies? Currently we are living according to our mind normal rather than our body normal at great expense to our health.

168. My goodness Joel you look like a completely different character. I love how you break down and define The Way of The Livingness and what it means to your way of life. I also love the word outlier, I haven’t heard this term before but I would also use this for myself as the way we live at the moment is definitely outside the norm of today.

     1. I agree Kevin the obvious transformation in Joel is undeniable. Strong evidence that by taking responsibility for our choices we can make a real difference to our health and wellbeing. The Way of the Livingness is great medicine.

169. The fact is, I matter in the world and my choices affect me and others. ‘ To deeply understand that we matter in the world, that we are powerful, that how we live, eat, work has an effect on us, our wellbeing and health and on our surrounding and the people we know is a process which leads to deep understanding of oneself and as such we can discover the deep love we have for ourselves and for others.

170. An outlier, as in something that is chosen by a minority now, but in truth we are all the same and what you have shared Joel is our natural and true expression.

171. It is so beautiful to read what you shared about life having a sacredness that is worthy of respecting and honouring through both our movements and actions… We, and those around us are absolutely worth making choices for, that reflect this sacredness and that which is found equally within us.

172. Despite the enormous breakthroughs in medicine, we are not healthier
     Despite the increase in education, we are not wiser.
     Despite new technology, higher buildings and faster cars, we are not more joyful.
     Should we be satisfied with measuring ourselves against the benchmark of today’s ‘normal’?

173. Joel this is so revealing that what we now consider normal is so abnormal, when those that are not overweight or taking drugs are seen as the outliers, the anomalies in today’s society. I for one will continue to make choices that feel loving to me and supportive for my body. I don’t mind if this makes me an outlier or an anomaly.

174. These cultural norms you mention Joel as very true. I had a conversation with someone just the other day which typifies that normality when the conversation turned to coffee and that she is not needing coffee at all and it does nothing to affect her, she just has one or two a day because she likes it. On being asked when was the last day or two she did not have a coffee she said she could not remember. This is how ‘normal’ works. Things work and there is no desire or need to change, until there is. Having been involved in the health services for many years, you can see how that change is clearly motivated by rising illness and disease related to lifestyle choices that are seen for many years to be normal.

175. We see natural outliers in nature all the time – in fact the evolution we observe in the animal kingdom is only possible because there is an animal with a trait or genetics that are different and don’t fit the trend, but help with survival and therefore get passed on. And yet as humans we discount that which is outside of the normal or preconceived parameters – is it possible we miss so much by doing this?

176. When I heard this and felt the truth of this my life changed “The fact is, I matter in the world and my choices affect me and others.” How can I mope, feel like a victim, suffer and blame when I am responsible for everything I choose. True liberation, freedom and empowerment, comes from this word, responsibility. I am still learning the power of it, the consistency of it and the lived quality expression of it, but I now know it and my life is enriched profoundly from this knowing.

177. I know I am very practical, much what what I feel is divine is really a natural order in life, an ease and flow, I am learning to honour more that this ease comes from a connection, and this connection is God, is a lived religion:
     “The Religion Part of The Way of The Livingness – involves appreciating the fact that while my life has a practical quality, it also has an energetic quality as well.” I was at a tube station yesterday and I looked over at the platform going the other way. I first saw people, issues, withdrawn, checked out faces, clothes, hair etc and then I made a choice to feel and sense their essence rather than the physicality and what issues where there, the platform shined with love and I felt it in me and felt the reflection. So often our perception tells us that we are only physical, but everything else in the universe is telling us that we are truly from energy. How else could I choose to perceive other people in another way, the only choice was through a choice in the energy from which I choose to live from.

178. I feel soooooooo much better than I did a decade ago, a long term friend actually said to me, you are like you where when I meet you, when we where teenagers, what are you doing? He wanted to talk about diet and yes there have been some great choices made in this area that have brought some change, but that is not really it, it is my choices in the energy I express from that has brought the big changes and this is what I shared with him.

179. There is no other way of living or religion that I have ever come across so far that includes and marries philosophy, true religion and science as one so well as The Way of The Livingness.

180. I am with you “I am an outlier, why don’t you join me?”, what is considered normal is only a group perception, a reality created through common experience and choices. Your body and choices are ‘outlier’s, but here are your normal, something here to genuinely research and study.

181. This is a gorgeous and very real and down to earth description of the religion of The Way of The Livingness. Love your work Joel!

182. You are an inspiration Joel, keep shining.

183. This is amazing and inspiring Joel. I love how The Way of the Livingness asks us to take responsibility, true responsibility, and look at all aspects of our life. It does not shun the mainstream medical advice, treatment and guidance but rather adds to it in asking what type of body do we present to our doctor? How are we caring for ourselves in our health? Are we taking responsibility for our choices or are we presenting a body that we have broken and asking for a fix?

184. Let science accept and reflect the normality of a way of living with loving care for oneself and others in the not too distant future. Let it become the normal that is so badly needed in our world today. The numbers are growing.

185. How much easier it is to push someone and their way of life to the fringes, to see them as the outlier, the anomaly so as to be able to ignore the reflection that they offer that anyone can make the same loving choices.

186. An amazing transformation, and the most amazing thing is that we don’t even need to achieve anything, we only need to let out what is naturally already within.

187. Joel every word you write shows the glorious man you are. Outlier for now, but not for long when people start to cotton onto the gold you are offering.

188. What is so beautiful about this is that being an outliner may look like a choice – to improve ourselves and our life, but it actually is a responsibility to reflect the true light, to build a body to house that light so many are missing out. Thank you for sharing yourself, Joel.

189. Joel you are amazing and the changes you have made to come back to you and change the way you live are very inspiring and a joy to see. The way of living currently in the world is very harmful to our selves and others and The Way of The Livingness shows another way that really is true and who we all are. Thank you for sharing yourself and offering a choice that can be felt and known.

190. What is it about this puffiness that creeps up on so many people as they go into their 20’s and 30’s? I know it happened for me… a gradual giving up on myself and letting the needs and things to do out there slowly get absorbed in my body. Similarly my introduction to, and studying with Universal Medicine has been life changing – I feel better for it and the quality of what I do, and my relationships with people is completely different. Thank God!

191. My sense is that we are all outliers (and we know it); we just pretend not to be from a young age and try to ‘fit in’ with others; and thus we all end up pretending to be what we are not – hence the unnatural levels of disease and illness.

192. The before and after project on UniMed Living is a marvellous catalogue of outliers indeed. The results achieved by these students of The Way of the Livingness needs to be examined and explored. At the very least, what we are doing to live with the vitality we do – in sickness and in health – would save our medical system billions of dollars and millions of lives if adopted globally.

193. Joel you look amazing now, it’s hard to believe those photos are you of just some years back. Now when we have proof like yours how simple choices and a way of life can change ones life, why is it not in the papers, this is life changing stuff everyone needs to know.

194. The offer of inspiration to not be a part of the global trends of illness and disharmony currently so prevalent for humanity.

195. ‘And while science is consumed with trying to cope with the ever-increasing rates of obesity and other lifestyle diseases, here I am, the outlier – thanks to The Way of The Livingness –feeling very normal, but hardly a blip on the radar of conventional science.’ – A much needed study for sure!

196. For a part of my life all I wanted was to belong – to be normal – now I am very joyful about being an outlier for what is considered the normal way of being simply does not work and is far from what would be normal if considered from an energetic point of view.

197. The abnormal has become the normal to such an extent that daring to change todays normal is very abnormal.

198. Joel your livingness and your pictures speak volumes, the love that your smile and your eyes emanate is inspirational.

199. I’m with you bro’ and loving every moment!

200. Through attending the presentations by Serge Benhayon and the consistent way in which he and his family live 24/7, I am re-discovering the simple and profound truth that Life is Religion, which is simply a true living way that is transparent and loving, without any need for protective hardness. In choosing to return to The Way of The Livingness, we simply are Religion.

201. It was something I always found fascinating at school, how in chemistry if we got a result that was not expected or varied we just ignored it – how was this experimenting! How was it a true result when you ignored some of it because it wasn’t what you wanted? And how this so applies to life, where we ignore the life changes and choices people make because we don’t want to see that it is possible.

202. True Religion – From being deeply inspired by the Ancient Wisdom teachings, as presented by Serge Benhayon, it has been possible to make a choice to return and re-connect within and re-member that I am (we are) energy first and foremost. The quality of energy in which my body moves is now vastly different from what it was a few years ago and this continues to refine as choices in my daily living way become more consistent. The relationship with God, my (our) divinity and sacredness continues to deepen and evolve.
     “The Religion Part of The Way of The Livingness – involves appreciating the fact that while my life has a practical quality, it also has an energetic quality as well. This energetic quality is about the way in which I define my relationship with God (where even denial is a relationship)”.

203. This article is an invitation and inspiration to have a careful review of how I am living and the impact of my choices – I certainly want to be an outlier rather than a statistical norm.

204. ‘…even denial (of God) is a relationship (with God)’. Yes it is. Atheists, agnostics and sceptics beware! Another gold observation, thank you Joel, and one that seems to suggest that although we might vehemently deny there is a God, that fact he gets a mention at all points to the fact that there is a God, otherwise it wouldn’t even be a conversation we would have. It’d be a bit there being no point saying “I don’t believe in cats”. If there actually were no cats, saying you don’t believe in them wouldn’t be necessary. So if someone were to say they don’t believe in cats, they’re acknowledging they exist simply by nominating them. If cats didn’t exist, they wouldn’t even be a thing and there’d be no name for them. So that we even talk about God, whether we think he exists or not, is to acknowledge there is God. As pointed out here, we are just not having a relationship with him.

     1. Awesome observation Victoria.Thank you, I love it.

205. Hello fellow outlier. May we meet one day when our way of being is not so far outside the bell curve of what is considered normal.

206. ‘…working with my GP and other health practitioners to monitor my health to ensure I am not deluding myself.’ Brilliant Joel – this is a super-important step because it is possible to do exactly as you describe and neglect the physical being doing the deluding. I do the same thing to obtain a balanced perspective. This is responsibility!

207. ‘…a combination of science, religion and personal responsibility that is, in my experience, both profound and unique in the world.’ I love the phrase ‘…in my experience’. Evidence-based research would have it that the anecdotal evidence, the experiences of people – what they feel – do not count as real, hard, rational science. But our experiences are the evidence! How can what we experience not be as real as the temperature we can measure? Just because science doesn’t know how to measure, say, joy in life with a ‘joyometer’ doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. Either way, what so many of us live is measurable because there is plenty of physical evidence of the changes we have made. And there are ways of assessing perceptions of quality of life through questionnaires, etc which have credence in social sciences and even scientific arenas such as psychology. But as I said above, the experiences of people is evidence in and of itself. How could it not be?

208. In qualitative research – that mode of research used by social scientists and often considered the ‘poor cousin’ of empirical, evidence-based quantitative, ‘pure’ research – the outliers are considered particularly interesting and worthy of further investigation. In statistics they just get ignored. For me, this says a lot about the so-called value of quant research.

209. Joel, your photos speak a thousand words. It does not take rocket science to see the changes in you. So much of society is at the place you were 12 years ago but the subsequent years do not fare them well. You are but one case of what could and should be studied. It is not a miracle but something that everyone is capable of.

210. Some normals are not normal at all. Would it not be normal to live as yourself in vitality and giving your all to life? Yet this is not so normal.

211. I find it amazing how something that is widely accepted, prevents us from even questioning why we are doing it. For instance coffee is now just a normal part of life. When I was younger I would have 6-7 cups of instant coffee a day and think nothing of it. This is so normal that I didn’t even stop to consider why I needed to drink them or what it was doing to my health

212. More and more I am realising how harmful our reliance on ‘normal’ is to our individual and societal health and wellbeing. As history has repeatedly shown, relying on looking around and seeing what everyone else is doing to decide if it’s ok can have disastrous effects. And are we really that sheep-like? We seem to be gradually sliding down a slippery slope. It seems we are already a long way down the slope and have lost sight of our point of origin, our natural way of being.

     1. True, hanging on to pictures that we think are normal are very damaging. I can see that has inhibited me and harmed others and prevented me expressing and living life fully, whenever I choose a picture of what I think is normal rather than expressing how I truly feel.

213. Results like these show how important our personal experiences are to share, for our lives to be the proof rather than waiting until there is a statistically proven trial. Reading something like this is much more inspiring and humanity needs it right now, not in 10 years time when research finally comes out. Yes, research is useful but let’s never undervalue these personal accounts.

214. I loved reading this blog, but my goodness do pictures say a thousand words! The contrast in your photos is enormous. If anyone was asked which one they would pick as the way they would want to look and feel, I don’t think there would be anyone on this planet who would pick the former, younger you. It is in your eyes that the biggest change can be seen. They smile with such warmth and love of life. This is what is missing for so many, so bring on the Way of the Livingness that each of us has waiting inside for us to live.

215. I remember when as a child and growing up being accepted and fitting in seemed so important and although I have moved on from this to some degree I can feel that I still do not want to stand out from those around me more than I feel comfortable to, but I have to ask why am I holding back when I know that I am otherwise living less than I truly am?

216. We are all one, but we are not the same. Science as we know it is an attempt to reduce us to a singular, predictable set of rules and behaviours. It tries to wipe out the uniqueness of our expression in the name of accumulation of knowledge. We are only known truly unto ourselves, not by a text book, not by our placement on a graph or chart of statistics. We are known by our way, and our choices upon that way.

217. When I was younger I searched for the answers to many of life’s dilemmas through studying science, religion, and philosophy and found that there was something missing in all three. When I came across The Way of The Livingness I knew I had come to the right place because it brought what I had always felt was the missing ingredient of love into science, religion, and philosophy. With love comes the ability to take personal responsibility and when we take personal responsibility we become accountable for the enormousness of how we impact the world around us, one choice at a time.

218. When people get to feel and see the vitality and lived Joy in a person they cannot but be reflected that they have a choice because everybody’s body knows it’s the same as everyone else’s body!

219. This is fantastic Joel, you are living proof that self responsability is worth it.

220. There are two forms of science that seem to be the complete opposite of each other. Modern science and the “science part of The Way of The Livingness”. They completely differ. The first is based on control and the other one is based on life experiences. The first feels quite narrowing, where the second one feels open to always expand. Modern science has a desire for a certain outcome, where as the science part of The Way of The Livingness has a wonderment and curiosity in it, in life and in people. How would it be if we would find a way that they could ‘marry’ each other. If the strengths of both are used, this would be a very loving and very much serving way of practising science.

221. No matter where on earth, the change to become who you are can be experienced by everyone, everywhere and anytime. The loving principles of The Way of The Livingness are simple and written in a universal language to be understood by all of us, love.

222. There’s nothing more simple or health giving than living with this relationship to your body, it’s a science that we can all become masters of.

223. Loving your succession of photos here Joel…it’s so true “Becoming overweight or even obese is becoming normal. Being dependent on sugar or caffeine is normal. Using alcohol or other recreational drugs is normal.” Great to see though what going against the normal trend looks like! It evidently looks and feels amazing.

224. “I have learnt that I do not need to be beholden to a particular person or congregation, but rather have defined success as the honesty of my personal relationship with God, as it defines everything else.” Awesome line and so well said. This is how I felt as a child when I was with nature; I lost my way, doubted myself but can now re-claim my own personal relationship with God.

225. I hear my kids often say to me, things such as ‘ but my friends eat this all the time …’ or ‘it’s normal for all my friends to watch this’ …’but they all stay up until….’ – the new norm’ is totally abnormal. But as a family living with a similar lifestyle to yours Joel, we are the abnormal ones. My role as a parent is to support my kids to observe and stand within this and discern the difference. They can then make their own choices.

226. I find it increasingly shocking as to the levels of ill we have in society that we accept as normal. I remember going to Bondi Beach in Sdyney in 1992 after having been on a trip round America. I was relieved to be there because all the people I saw looked normal and healthy in weight. I had been shocked at 21 to see the levels of obesity in the States and was glad to be somewhere where ill health was not on every street corner. Fast forward 20 years and sadly what I saw in America is now everywhere, including Europe and Australia… what is being shared here is invaluable and needs to be known about.

227. Love the before and after photos Joel! What a difference! Dare I say how simply gorgeous and sexy you look in the after photo? If this is the result of being an “outlier” then it is something we all need to be seriously considering…

228. Isn’t it odd that to be throughly dedicated to looking after ones self is not considered normal.

229. The proof that living in accordance to “..the principals of science, religion and personal responsibility..” can have benefits on our health and well being, can be clearly seen and felt in your photos. You will make being an outlier the new ‘normal’.

230. What I have found with The Way of The Livingness is me. I no longer doubt or second guess myself, I no longer wallow in emotional turmoil. I know personal responsibility and it took me awhile to do this and I am letting go of judgemental ways. This has vastly improved my thoughts and my health. My diet is what my body responds best to and this is something I keep defining. The joy that I feel is awesome and is something I wouldn’t trade for fitting into the world or keeping others happy because they are unchallenged. For me, being me is the best medicine and the best religion.

231. From whatI see this is very true, ‘it would seem that there are many things in the world that we consider normal but point to a world that is not doing well.’I observe in my day to day that ‘normal’ seems to be kids eating sugary snacks everyday, at school pick up this is ‘normal’, that kids watch a lot of T.V and play violent video games, that the adults I meet are tired and do not particularly enjoy their work, looking forward to Fridays or Holidays, this is the ‘normal’ I observe which doesn’t feel great, I love what you are sharing with this article Joel, its time to take an honest look at what we consider in society as being ‘normal’.

232. I feel I had been waiting patiently all my life for Universal Medicine to come into my life and present The Way of The Livingness as it feels so natural to me to live my life based on the principals science, religion and personal responsibility. It is indeed work in progress as to live this way requires a loving dedication and commitment to oneself but I certainly wouldn’t go back to how I was living before Universal Medicine. It is and has been life changing as it has been for Joel and many, many others.

     1. Well said Caroline. I wholeheartedly agree with all you have expressed here.

233. I agree with you Joel – what a difference the ‘Science Part’ of The Way of The Livingness has made to to my own lifestyle choices. My body is an amazing personal science laboratory filled with a wisdom that was long ignored. As I have returned to listening to the communication it offers, my body soon let’s me know if something I have eaten affects me in any way. No slimming diets required – my weight has remained 7stone less for 8 years now.
     “The Science Part of The Way of The Livingness – involves studying the science of my body more closely and observing the repeatable experiences I have with certain foods, moods and lifestyle choices and how they affect me”.

234. We have been driving ourselves so fast, that it has become the normal, that we can not read the signs on the road that say, warning bridge out ahead? We require stimulants to get moving in the morning and then top that buzz up all day then something to slow us down to unwind at the end of the day just to sleep and repeat the whole process tomorrow. The fuel we run our bodies on is like our lifestyle, fast. Everyday life is getting faster and where is love? We are real outliers that have stepped off the new, improved, faster than before; un-merry-go-round of what life has become.

235. I love the way The Way of The Livingness focuses our attention on the three important subjects of life, empowering us to re-align, to observe and to resume responsibility of the quality of life we choose to lead every day. Despite many years in the field of alternative medicine and a good bit of soul searching, I never found anything that delivered it all in one package in the way The Way of The Livingness does. This combination of Science, Religion and Philosophy offers the student simple, powerful tools to transform what commonly happens back into what should normally happen and more. We are re-defining what ‘normal’ is, so much so that any deviation from feeling bright eyed and bushy tailed all day long can be immediately spotted and dealt with. There is so much more to us than we commonly believe and it was not until I gave up all the alcohol, caffeine, sugar, drugs and stodgy foods did I realise just how much these dampened me down and made me life a drag.

236. The Way of The Livingness’ unique combination of science, religion and philosophy teachings have inspired me to take responsibility for my health and my life. The future way of living is here and I am fully embracing it because it works, it’s extremely supportive and simple. I love it and would never look back.

237. The fact that we do choose to ingest poisons – and large-scale as a society – says to me that we are deeply in trouble. The most ‘intelligent minds’ still partake, knowing full well the damage occurring to their bodies… With rates of cancer, diabetes, heart conditions and more at such alarming levels, one would think it sensible to take far, far greater care of our own bodies, but that we do not do. With the exception of ‘outliers’ such as yourself Joel.
     The change you speak of – and I can very much relate to sharing a similar experience – is one not based upon denying oneself or harsh discipline… it is rather, a change that has occurred due to the presence of love in your life. A re-connection to your own love, the love of God, and a love for all that knows deeply, the responsibility of living such love, that others too may step out of their own giving up on such love and true care, and rediscover the wealth that is actually within – as the Way of The Livingness holds in its very foundation. We are all equally born of God’s love – it is no less within any one of us, and yet hold and treat ourselves as less we so often do.
     Thank-you for this blog, for it is an awesome statement of all that is possible for humanity. We needn’t descend into ever-spiralling levels of disease, ailments and indeed conflict. There is, just so much more…

238. l never realised that it was my absolute responsibility to appreciate myself, everyday, wholeheartedly, and to live that and share that with all whom l am met by, easy times and difficult, same quality, different day. This is also what it means to be an ‘outlier’, embracing all. What a joy-full existence.

239. Your reality – the ‘normal’ you live everyday Joel – is today lived by many, many people, inclusive of myself, through a continued learning about life, our body and responsibility with it. This is so much of what The Way of the Livingness represents, our own personal responsibility in the way we live our lives, founded in a deep connection (or re-connection we could say) to our own Divinity and relationship with God.
     The astounding thing – which can indeed become very, very ‘normal’ (though it does not clearly fit the alarming societal trends such as those you’ve mentioned), is that such changes do occur, and often.
     I would never have even been able to comprehend this a few years ago, i.e. that I simply would reach a point where alcohol, sugar, salt and many other foods and substances simply no longer held any ‘pull’ for me whatsoever. I can truly look a piece of dark chocolate mud cake in the eye and nothing in me yearns for it whatsoever – nothing, there is no wrestle, denial or angst.
     Such changes – transformations even – speak of deep energetic change within the self and one’s own body, change that deserves to be studied and known about, for trends are indeed being bucked here.
     Thank-you for sharing your own ‘outlier’ story here Joel. Imagine if many more do join you, and the energy, vitality and zest for life and people you hold becomes the actual ‘norm’ – phew, that would be amazing, but the reality is, it is already occurring…

240. “The Personal Responsibility Part of The Way of The Livingness – involves knowing that if I am choosing to eat or live in a way that is harmful to me or others, I need to look at why.” Yes, yes,yes! And it can be as simple as walking around with frustration in my mind and body. This is felt by all around me. This is hurting us all.

241. “life has a sacredness that is worthy of respecting and honouring in my movement and actions.” The sooner we own up to this the better our world will be. What’s the delay for you?

242. “The fact is, I matter in the world and my choices affect me and others. So personal responsibility is looking at the choice and the reason for it.” Today, thanks to esoteric practitioners, l have received a deeper realisation of what l mean to this world. The light just got slightly brighter. Did you notice? lf you feel you missed it. Go look in the mirror and appreciate deeply that awesome person looking back at you.

243. Gradually the outlier in this case, will become the norm Joel… and the more willing those who already walk in this way are to show it, the faster this will occur. Thanks for being willing!

244. So much of humanity is on the verge of facing these conditions you mentioned Joel, or is already experiencing them. The fact that this is not alarming enough for every newspaper and media outlet in the world to be printing it in BOLD CAPITALS is evidence that humanity has settled for a comfortable existence, where living with chronic conditions or burdens is normal.

245. When I was younger, I thought that rebelling was smoking weed and not conforming to ‘society norm’. I didn’t want to be trapped in a relationship that wasn’t love or forced to live a corporate ‘sell out’ job I didn’t believe in. Ironically I was selling out, just not in the way I thought, I was just another teenager numbing and running from their full potential, unable to have true love with another for I didn’t love myself and not contributing to society there for not bringing any real change. I am proud to say that I am a true rebel now, an Outlier, making small changes inside that impact the whole, one choice at a time.

246. Joel, yet again another divine blog, straight from heaven. Your picture and how you express your livingness here, is a huge inspiration for so many. Telling it like it is, for everyone to feel. Thank-you.

247. “The Personal Responsibility Part of The Way of The Livingness – involves knowing that if I am choosing to eat or live in a way that is harmful to me or others, I need to look at why.” This is something that most of us would rather ignore than actually choose to question, and I was one of those people until I came across Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon. It is thanks to learning what it really means to take responsibility for myself. The way that many of us now live our lives is not considered ‘normal’ to the majority of society, however the benefits of living this way speaks volumes, as we can see in your photos Joel, and like so many others the Way of the Livingness is now our normal way to live.

248. How simple is it to choose a sensible, scientifically proven way of living to improve health and wellbeing? Yet the normal is to go against this way. This speaks to me of the importance of addressing what is true religion, seeing ourselves as sacred, others as sacred and life as sacred. Then we can place health and wellbeing in its true perspective and quite simply defy the statistics.

249. Joel just from you smile and your eyes we can feel the radiants in you, your a great living example of change through choices. It just goes to show we have the key to our own healing,

250. One day I am imagining that being an outlier today will be tomorrow’s normal…taking care of ourselves in the way you describe Joel just makes plain common sense!

251. The eyes have it Joel – your vitality is glowing and I can see and feel you really want to be here, living, sharing and emanating your amazing light. I have to say being an ‘Outlier’ really works.

252. Much appreciation should be shared on behalf of everyone living on this planet, as the fact that you’re not showing up in statistics is in fact a compliment in itself and could be considered a miracle. The facts that you share with us:
     – I live without eating or craving sugar, caffeine, refined carbohydrate, salt or alcohol
     – I am on the lower side of the normal weight range for my height
     – I wake up without an alarm early in the morning, ready for the day after a solid night’s sleep
     – I work with consistent energy throughout the day around the house and in my job.

     … could be considered the ‘normal’, yet rather than being studied, the opposite is the truth. When I really let sink in what you’re sharing here above, I can feel an enormous amount of appreciation and joy that people like you show – by example – that there’s indeed a different way. Thank you outlier Joel.

253. The Way of The Livingness if a religion that I too follow. My life has also had a 360 degree turnaround in that I have more energy than ever, I look younger and I am more joyful than I have been before. The tenants of The Way of the Livingness are super simple. To live the real you, that is to connect with your inner-most and live from this place rather than looking to the outside world to validate who you are.

254. Sometimes, the way I live is such a normal thing to me that I almost forget how worlds away it is from how most live – the ability to get up, work long hours with no caffeine or sugar, and feel vital, healthy and motivated for the day. It is not a case of I’m better than anyone else, I have simply chosen a way of life that supports me to live this way and needs to be studied and shared.

255. How is it that true normal, as presented here by Joel, is not studied by science? Perhaps it is because whoever were to study this anomaly would have to look at how they are living their own lives, and that would be too confronting for some… and yet there is an amazing opportunity to heal oneself and to support humanity in this study – anyone up for it?

256. This is certainly something to consider… “..here I am, the outlier – thanks to The Way of The Livingness –feeling very normal, but hardly a blip on the radar of conventional science.” Where are we as a society, how are we truly living, when true normal is no longer recognised as normal?

257. Working with consistent energy throughout the day is most certainly not the norm. Really pausing to appreciate how this is lived I feel is important if I am to live this. So to give every move I make equal attention and quality – no to the up and down of stressing about a task and once it’s over slumping into relief and rewards for having done said task. So not skimming on paying attention to life, no switching off, hanging up my care at the end of the day. I’m inspired to observe the little roller coasters I create in my day that halt consistency.

258. Throughout history we have had many ‘outliers’ who were prepared to stand up and be the first ones to break the consciousness that held humanity captive, although they were rarely thanked at the time. We sure need to snap out of so many trapping and diminishing false ideals and beliefs at this time. Thank you for choosing to love humanity enough to stand and show a different way Joel.

     1. Well said Golnaz, why continue to celebrate and commemorate events and those in history who have brought misery through brutality and force? For we all have the ability and opportunity to be the one, the Son of God who stands out. It is time we appreciate every outlier, who comes to out the lies with which we live.

259. The fact is that ‘personal responsibility’ has been dumbed down to fit this topsy turvy way of living we have all been hoodwinked to know as our normal. As is presented in the text living in a way that is not this is hardly seen, if at all on the radar of the world and its new normal boundaries of how life is. Not so gently pushed and prodded to keep on fitting the ever changing landscape of illness and disease. Personal responsibility is not stopping yourself from getting behind the wheel of a car after a few drinks. Or choosing not to empty your credit card at the roulette table. Personal responsibility is how I clean my house or how I fold my clothes after lovingly washing and drying them. Personal responsibility is cleaning my teeth with the same commitment and dedication as I bring to my daily work. Personal responsibility is choosing how I am going to be in each and every moment – not just when I am ‘seen or out in front of others. The list is lengthy and varied and surprisingly covers every tiny facet of life – there is no escape, each one of us is personally responsible for what we bring and what we allow. And this is where it can get mighty interesting because then we have to all admit we have a choice, and are personally responsible for all of our choices and how we close to live. I thank Serge Benhayon for bringing my awareness to the fact that I was not living responsibility at all, and for inspiring me to choose this ever expanding responsibility every single day to the best of my ability.

260. There are so many ‘normals’ in society and we have lost touch so much that we are driving ourselves to early graves, then being propped up by pharmaceuticals to keep us going… this is no way to live, it is simply cheating life, but with huge consequences.

261. Joel, your photos speak volumes about what you’ve changed and how you live now. Your current photos show a man who has a sparkle in his eye, you look healthy, joyful and have a wisdom that shines through.

262. Your lifestyle choices are obviously working Joel

263. “Being dependant on sugar or caffeine is normal.” – it is considered normal to have coffee these days and as I don’t, I stand out as being different, but this is back to front, not drinking coffee is normal. Normal is not needing stimulants to get through the day, or even start the day. So the question needs to be ‘why has drinking coffee become normal and why do people need it?’.

264. Science has already confirmed that genetics really only play a very small part in the continuum of illness and disease through generations. When more of us begin taking greater responsibility for our personal lifestyle choices we could reduce the instance of illness and disease dramatically.

265. The joy in your face speaks volumes. To me the restoration of this joy in yourself, which can be easily seen when comparing with the earlier photos of yourself, is absolute gold. In a world where the state of well being is in general declining as witnessed by higher and higher illness and disease rates, social unrest including wars and terror and general unease within so many, this change is ENORMOUS.

266. Outliers are good. For science they mean that either something went wrong or that there is something interesting to find out.

267. When we use normal as a guide to how we should live and then use anything outside our perception of normal as being odd or weird, we automatically close off to the possibility that maybe normal is actually harming us. Is there such a thing as normal, Maybe it is a word we could discard from our vocabulary?

268. Going by your photos being an ‘Outlier’ is definitely the way to go, after all it makes no sense to abuse ourselves to the point of getting overweight, feeling ill and disillusioned with life.

269. The Way of The Livingness has positively transformed my life; I look and feel younger, I am healthier, I have more energy and my life has a purpose, a simple purpose of just being myself and committing to life, committing to expanding and evolving by being in service to others and giving back all that I have received, for I have received so much.

270. Joel how back to front is it that drinking poison, being overweight, feeling unhealthy/sick and not enjoying life is the normality? And where have we got to that most of us accept this as the way it is? When it is very much not our truth, something we know and feel as a child?

271. The beautifull thing with the personal responsibility part of the Way of the Livingness, especially with foods, is that as we start to truly evolve it needs to continually be refined asking us to be all that we are. It’s a very personal relationship that brings a greater love, depth and understanding when adhered to .. still work in progress for me (it will always be) but it’s lovely to feel and appreciate the changes it brings, which includes a greater awareness of all that is around us.

272. What has become completely normal is not being very happy, let alone joyful. We have relegated being joyful to childhood and accepted the highlight of our week to be a glass of wine and a movie. When you consider that we are each an equal spark of God.

273. Today’s approach to science doesn’t yet fully embrace this kind of evidence Joel, but what you’ve presented is science itself. Undisputable, because it’s lived.

274. ‘Hello, I am an outlier, why don’t you join me?’ A powerful invitation Joel, and confirms a choice so many people could be making, and are not. This blog should be broadcast on all media, a powerful testimony of how lives can be transformed and truly newsworthy, so much of what we read isn’t.

275. I love the playfulness and simplicity in your blogs Joel. An ”outlier’ is the perfect word for anyone living outside of the current norm.

276. “An outlier, a statistical anomaly that does not exist in today’s approach to science.” What a great way to describe those of us who do not partake of so many of society’s common activities yet buck all the present trends regarding health, approach to work and the whole general attitude to life.

277. Being normal today is like wearing all the clothes you own, at the same time! We carry so much rubbish with us and living surrounded by stuff outside of us we apparently can’t live without. I am proud to be an outlier, and we are not an experimental error or statistical abnormality… we are just who we all truly are!

278. My normal now couldn’t be more different, than it was twelve years ago, back then it was normal for me to be at the pub everyday of the week and get drunk nearly everyday as well. I went to a pub recently to meet some friends for the first time in years, not so long ago and the thing I noticed first was how bad alcohol smelt and the next thing that I realised was that I didn’t have the slightest urge to have a drink, which was just superb. Without the Way of The Livingness I’m not sure if I would have ever stopped until liver failure or something like that.

279. Choosing to study the Way of the Livingness has been the most pivotal decision of my life, one that has lifted me and my health out of the norm into the outlying regions of what is currently happening in our society. It has been and continues to be a simple yet expansive journey; a Way that has re-united me with science through the observation of the effects of my daily choices on my body, with religion through empowering me to re-align to my sacredness, with philosophy through the study of energy, relationships and our true purpose in the world. And so a great deal of the normal patterns of living have simply dissolved, leaving in their place a steady, committed and simple approach to life, one that nourishes me from head to toe. Had I not made this decision I too would have been one of many relying on all the usual stimulants and prescribed medications to make it through each day – there is another Way to live and those of us who are living it need to be studied, because its a Way that if we choose holds true resolutions to the very big and ‘not going to just disappear on their own accord’ problems.

280. We have repeated the same stuff so many times down the ages that to be an outlier is actually the new “cool” in today’s society. What would be even cooler if this being an outlier becomes our societal normal rather sooner than later as it makes such a tremendous difference to our quality of life.

281. “The fact is, I matter in the world and my choices affect me and others. ”
     This little sentence stood out for me – this is something that needs to go onto everyone’s fridge, that “I matter”. I feel if we really acknowledge and feel this truth, that already has the potential to revolutionize or lives and in fact the world as there are so many people today, succumbing to the thought that they do not matter and that nobody is noticing them anyways.

282. What I find really beautiful about The Way of The Livingness is that you don’t need to sign a contract to be its student, you don’t need to be baptised, you don’t need to take a vow, read a book or participate in courses. The moment you live what Joel so accurately has outlined as three parts of The Way of The Livingness you are a student.

283. If I leave my health to my genes only I am really lost as with that I am unable to change. That would be an awful feeling as I would be at the genes mercy. I love it so much more to know that it is my way of living what effected my body and thereby my health. This is liberating and give me my power back to me.

284. “I matter in the world and my choices affect me and others” – what a beautiful claiming of power and responsibility. So simply stated.

285. Great sharing Joel! How much more loving it is when we treat our bodies with respect and honouring the resilience it has after all most of us have put it through. So to be an ” Outlier” surely is where its at! The Way of The Livingness is a true blessing for mankind.

286. The self responsibility, the observation and bringing an energetic understanding to choices and life, really is a holistic way of living and from the before and after pictures, it is very clear that the body and your health benefit hugely by living in this way, The Way of the Livingness.

287. We have let normal become a very distant thing to what is truly well-being for the body. It is not normal to down pizza, coke and a packet of timtams for dinner (even if it does taste great), it is not normal to prop yourself up with several cups of coffee just to make it through the day, to drink loads of alcohol 3 or 4 nights – just ask your body, that has to wear the effects of this kind of assault on it. If we knew how much we were sabotaging our natural lightness, clarity and awareness with these actions we might make a different choice.. unfortunatly one of the first casualties of dulling our bodies like this, is the awareness of how it might be different.. but it is definitely worth giving it a go and to feel the difference.

288. If we continue to make the same choices we will continue to experience life in the same old way. Making different choices that are not the usual ‘norm’ can feel different but great, and can contribute to amazing change in our lives.

289. The choices you are making and the remarkable differences in your well-being, along with everyone else who is choosing these life style choices for them selves – myself included, should be a very large boom on the radar of scientific health. Everyone knows what doesn’t work, it is time for people to see, hear and feel what does truly work, with really simple changes. It’s the choice that is going to transform the health crisis of our nations.

290. If we attribute health just to ‘good genes’ we are dismissing so much the power and responsibility we each hold in the way that we live our lives. This is a great example of how much of a difference we can make to our wellbeing through our daily choices.

291. “defined success as the honesty of my personal relationship with God”, what a beautiful, solid and strong claim state is given to us here. I needed to re-read the sentence a couple of times before I really understood what was written here. What I got from it is a humbleness and an understanding, that my succes is never a success on my own, but a success that only would have been possible due to surrendering to the love and wisdom of God. God as a ‘partner in crime’, wow – that sounds really cool and I instantly feel a lot more equalness. As if we’re both hard working from the same impulse – uniting everybody based on energetic laws that are to obey by every single one of us.

292. ’Becoming overweight or even obese is becoming normal.Being dependant on sugar or caffeine is normal. Using alcohol or other recreational drugs is normal.’ It is straight out scary to see the reality laid out like you have done here – just 10-15 years ago obesity was still very far from normal. So what will ’normal’ look in 10-15 years from now?

293. I’m with you Joel – being an outlier is very ‘in’ in my books – Love it!

294. I am as well an Outlier : grain-, dairy-, drug-, coffee- and sugar free – ‘but’ mostly joyful and playful. Love to work. Love people. Taking responsibility with grace and see it as a blessing. … What shall I say…I am on the Way of the Livingness.

295. This is great, to acknowledge that you are an outlier is confirming the truth of how you live. It is truly remarkable when we see what is a normal way of life today, keeping ourselves awake by consuming stimulating substances can’t be normal. But it is seen as normal as everyone lives in a way that is not supportive of the Divine beings that we are.

296. The before and after says it all…what has this guy been up to…The Livingness.

297. Brilliant Joel

298. As a Student of The Way of The Livingness I would also be cast an outlier. And the way the Students are being treated is something more akin to being an outlaw or out-cast. Really is truth so difficult to handle that outrageous lies have to be told by some to dull it down or cast dispersions on it!

299. It’s an incredible transformation you have shown Joel in these photos. You can’t miss the vitality in your eyes now. What is not normal has become our normal in society now – illness, disease, exhaustion – and it is important that we have people such as yourself showing others that they can live a vital life.

300. It is great to highlight the ‘why’. Looking at the ‘why’ of my lifestyle choices has for me been important to consider before any rules.

301. Personal responsibility – two words that are missing from our medical system. From the outside looking in, it would be easy to look at an esoteric student and think that they had a regimented diet based on discipline. And yes, discipline is needed, but there is a reason so many esoteric students have are so successful at making healthy lifestyle choices. They are dedicated to dealing with their issues. So much of the modern diet is based around wanting to numb ourselves from what we are feeling. In other words we eat according to our emotional mood. It therefore makes a lot of sense – be willing to deal with your stuff, and the cravings for food that is clearly not good for us actually start to lessen, and in time disappear.

302. Oh how I love to be an outlier – to buck the trends and show that there is another way, so that people get an opportunity to question what is normal, that perhaps we have accepted a level of normal that should be abnormal.

303. ‘Becoming overweight or even obese is becoming normal, Using alcohol or other recreational drugs is normal’
     Reading this I’m sure some people would argue that these things are not ‘normal’ or acceptable because most people know they are damaging to our health, however when you look at society and how much we are addicted/reliant on these intoxicants or foods it’s evident that we need to address this issue as it is so ‘normal’ to consume these substances on a regular basis.

304. I loved your article, Joel. I am a joyful outlier too … to me, my life is ‘normal’ as I can’t imagine living it any other way, it’s deeply disturbing to acknowledge how extra-ordinary our lives are compared to the current lived ‘norm’. Humanity thinks it can ‘get away’ with being irresponsible, as did I, but our bodies are showing otherwise, loudly and clearly and will continue to do so until we all stop and listen.

305. What I have experienced since becoming interested in the Way of the Livingness and becoming an outlier is that I no longer need the holidays, or the time off, because making simple healthier choices that make me appear less normal, have allowed me to become more of what truly normal actually is, in the context of supporting our bodies being the most normal way to be. It is very empowering to be governed by a knowing that just because the majority are doing it, doesn’t mean its healthy or right for my body.

306. ‘while my life has a practical quality, it also has an energetic quality as well. This energetic quality is about the way in which I define my relationship with God (where even denial is a relationship)’ ….. I love what you share here, Joel. Whilst I’ve always believed in a power greater than us on earth, before listening to the teachings of Universal Medicine, it was separate to me, I hadn’t accepted my relationship with God, truly allowing his presence in my life. There is a beautiful honouring of myself that has developed in my acceptance of my own divinity within my relationship with God.

307. Your gorgeous photographs say it all, Joel. You are so vital and present in your last photo, looking into your eyes, I can feel you right here with me.

308. Personal Responsibility is a term we cower from, thinking its heavy and a pressure on ourselves, whereas it’s actually nothing like that. In taking personal responsibility knowing that everything we do, say and think has an impact on everyone and everything means we get to remove our own made shackles that keep us reduced into the tiny shells of man. Responsibility is akin to brotherhood. We cannot get to the latter without the former.

     1. This is a brilliant revelation Katerina.
        Much love to you.

309. The Way of The Livingness takes us back to living our grandness. And there’s no rah-rah in this, there is a humility and simplicity in this living way that is like no other and at the same time it’s so natural because deep within, we know this simple way inside out. We remember who we really are, and gently take back the steps removing the veils of illusion that have kept us in false identities and restrictions for so very long.

310. Love this Joel, and I’m an outlier too — with more vitality, joy and a commitment to engaging in life whereas years before I was withdrawn not wanting a bar of basic responsibility. Everything in my life has changed enormously and in amazing ways thanks to The Way of The Livingness. In essence, I now know who I am, from my essence and more and more, I live from this gorgeous knowing every day.

311. “I have learnt that I do not need to be beholden to a particular person or congregation, but rather have defined success as the honesty of my personal relationship with God, as it defines everything else.” I find this to be very profound Joel – our relationship with everyone and everything else stemming from the purity of that primary relationship we have with God providing a marker for the quality of every interaction.

312. Taking responsibility for our choices is one of the most important things that we can do. It is time to wake up and face up to our collective irresponsibility and take the steps needed to embrace our responsibility for ourselves and for others. Our health and our bodies literally depend on it.

313. Seriously, who would not want what you have described here Joel!. It is what everyone is looking for, a deep connection with yourself, a life of purpose where you know that you matter and a commitment to bring all of yourself to every relationship and interaction you have and be able to do all of it without having to be propped up with alcohol, sugar etc. This is glorious.

314. How you have transformed your health and wellbeing is surely worthy of study by any true scientific researcher and the fact that previously you were pre-diabetic must be of particular interest given the explosion of diabetes around the world. That we could turn this statistic around by simple but profound lifestyle changes has to be a wake-up call for anyone with a genuine interest in changing the current trajectory of where humanity is headed.

315. I’m in Joel, happy to also be an outlier. What you have presented is absolutely going against the trend of what and how people are living life. The fact that people are indeed becoming more obese, that they are drinking more, that coffee intake is going through the roof, just so people can get through the day. But the way of the livingness does provide another way, should people feel to understand this, I have and will never look back.

316. Joel the thing that amazes me the most, is that in the before photo you were successful and many people would have looked up to and wanted the life you led. That to me is the incredible part – yet in the after photos you clearly see a far more open, content and purposeful person that is indeed an outlier.

317. I understand that it is common practice in statistics and science to ignore anomalies and only to go with the majority of results, and what science is missing out on is that sometimes those individual anomalies are significant. That is the case here – an ‘insignificant’ number – a few hundred people out of 7 billion are embracing The Way of The Livingness and finding that their health, their relationships and their lives are improving enormously. Not only that, they are making huge contributions in their local communities and to humanity in general. As the people around them notice the difference and ask questions, so change can happen, a few hundred can become thousands, a few thousands can become millions and eventually all. But that will take time, because everyone is free to choose, there is no imposition, no rules, it is up to us to live in a way that inspires not insists. Joel is one such man, he inspires us all through the way he lives and through the way he writes.

318. This is true science exposing what is the true normal for us all amongst the backdrop of us living an abnormal way of life where we hurt and destroy ourselves buy the very way we are living as humanity currently. Beautifully and clearly expressed and shown to the world thank you Joel for sharing the science of the livingness with the religion that we are all from.

319. I love how you bring Science, Religion and Responsibility to your day to day life through the teachings of The Way of The Livingness Joel. That science is how our body for instance reacts to certain food, that how we connect to our divinity day to day and within ourself is religion and that responsibility is there to review our choices and to make choices that present a true deep loving version of ourselves to and for all we are with.

320. When things are classified as ‘normal’ they encourage complacency and the fact that nearly everything that is wrong with us as individuals and increasingly as a race of people is now classified as ‘normal’ is actually of great concern.

321. Joel I am wondering about this particular line ‘ In essence it is perpetual choice to either respond or ignore the Science and Religion I am still discovering’ and what I am wondering if this is pretty much the basis for life for each and every one of us regardless of whether we know it or not?

322. The things we have come to see as normal are slowly killing us and as we look around we see many many people who are living a very dull and dreary existence and unfortunately feeling unwell has become our normal. The Way of the Livingness is the total polar opposites to what society sees as normal, so actually must stand out like a sore thumb to some, as you can’t help but see and feel the vitality of a person who is choosing to not live societies normal.

323. What you are writing here is full of love for humanity. Calling out the normals that should not be normal at all is something many might say is judgmental yet it is saying ‘hey, we are so much more than we are currently accepting as normal come on and make loving choices for yourself’. Which is something we all should claim.

324. Joel, I love this, how wonderful to be an outlier and to stand boldly as someone who is not considered ‘normal’ because you look younger than you did 10 years ago, feel more well, and are not reliant on coffee or alcohol or sugar, it is great to stand up and show how there is another way to live, where we can be well and feel joyful and not be another statistic of people getting more ill and less well as they age.

325. “And while science is consumed with trying to cope with the ever-increasing rates of obesity and other lifestyle diseases, here I am, the outlier – thanks to The Way of The Livingness –feeling very normal, but hardly a blip on the radar of conventional science.” It is odd that science isn’t studying what true normal should be… healthy, vibrant, joyful in life. Thanks to Way of the Livingness I too feel very normal. With hundreds and hundreds of people who have changed their lives, like you Joel through The Way of the Livingness it should become a study!

326. Eating for comfort rather than health is the nations’s biggest problem. We are constantly fed a diet of food on all media channels and it has become the nation’s obsession for all the wrong reasons. Food is used to dull the hurt felt by so many people. And when children as young as five are already being diagnosed as obese, things have become desperately bad.

327. Yet again, Joel, you have taken ‘a sideways look’ and by doing so brought a great insight. Here you explain so eloquently the qualities of The Way of The Livingness for what they are; practical common sense and THE natural way to live.

328. It is shocking how we have changed the definition of ‘normal’ to suit our own ends, that we use the word ‘normal’ when we should be saying ‘common’. Its ‘normal’ to feel vital, healthy, steady, joyful and tender, but this is not a common condition in humanity. Its very ‘common’ these days to be overweight, sick, depressed and dependant on a myriad of false stimulants and drugs to get through the day. I am very, very appreciative of being empowered to restore normality to my life and my health via The Way of the Livingness, it feels the most natural thing in the world. And its very normal to meet thousands of other people looking more and more fresh and alive as you do Joel year in, year out at the Universal Medicine events. Our scientific studies need to be very consciously defining the difference between these two words because our mis-interpretation of them is killing us.

329. The Way of The Livingness offers simple tools to live life harmoniously, aligned to nature’s cycles and having utmost regard of self. The opposite of this is when we experience life as constant struggle and emotional reactions which turn into daily abuse as many reach out for the false supporters: alcohol, tobacco, drugs, sugar and over eating.

330. Joel what you share and your story is the very antithesis of sleep walking life, unaware the commonplace life style choices kills or makes us incredibly ill. The Way of the Livingness, is a proven path to super conscious living and true health.

331. When the health services are struggling to cope with the dramatically increasing numbers of multi-symptomatic and complex cases walking through the door, you would think that the medical profession would at least be intrigued by the consistently amazing and life changing stories from students of The Way of The Livingness, such as this one. It is only a matter of time until doctors will be so overwhelmed that they will have to open up to there being another way to approaching health and well being.

332. Here we have it, black and white what it takes to be an Outlier.. I never new that this word existed but I am honoured to be one walking along side you Joel. The Way of The Livingness has been a way of living that I have brought into my life over a period of 12 years and I can honestly say I have never felt so amazing, looked as bright, vital and joyful than ever before and most importantly living in connection with a depth that I never new was possible and feel like that I am only scratching the surface. Outlier is the new black!

333. Joel so well said and so simple, what are we trying to find solutions for if the answer is right in front of us and just a matter of choice.

334. Joel you present very basic science and responsibility here, something that health professionals should apply with every client that turns up with whatever illness, disease or lack of wellbeing. The first question that should be asked is the question about the way they live and the fact that “if I am choosing to eat or live in a way that is harmful to me or others, I need to look at why.” That would be true medicine.

335. The very things that are considered normal are killing mankind, even war is so common in our history than it seems to be normal human behaviour and to want someone else’s land or disagree over religious beliefs or something that if true love and harmony were added would not matter anymore. The Way of The Livingness is the way back to love and is the definite prevention and cure for illness, disease and conflict.

336. It is inspiring to read how you have incorporated God and divinity in your life. That it is just a very personal and normal aspect of us being a human, living on planet Earth and that in that there is no need to be part of a certain congregation or institution.

337. It is actually great to be an outlier Joel in today’s health statistics and in that you are an role model for many to see that there is another way of living, The Way of The Livingness, that serves the human body and mind to return to it’s original state of being.

338. Being unwell has become pretty normal. Attending Universal Medicine Events, I got used to people looking better and better. The more they became aware of loving and caring for themselves, the more amazing they looked. Everyone of course has their moments where they are unwell or working on an issue, but overall, people look vibrant.
     I attended a function at a church and was struck by how unwell most people looked. It was actually hard to find someone who looked well. I began to notice that in most places there are few people who look vibrant and most people look as if life is hard and that they are struggling. I notice people’s eyes that refuse to connect with others and view the world as something to be very wary of.
     This makes me very aware of not falling into this. It is important to be alive and vibrant and connected. It is important as human beings to love and care. It is important to live our lives and be light.

339. And thank you for re-framing what ‘normal’ actually ought to be… we have allowed this to become something so far short of where we could be and in doing so, settled for a life that is severely lacking in true love, joy and truth.

340. Yet again I love it Joel, you are a masterful story-teller. And what you’ve shared is something the world needs to know, and that one day science as we know it will catch up with. In the meantime, you are your own science that has proven the fact that The Way of the Livingness is humanities way forward.

     1. And I love what you have shared here Jenny: we are our own science! And in this is the living proof that is needed, lived with consistency, to build the trust in order to show the way.

        1. Yes key things Henrietta, and consistency is definitely key in building trust again for those who have given up on life being about the love of the Soul…

341. Joel, I am impressed by the way you describe your religion and your relationship with God. “Over time I have begun to accept the fact that I can and do have a very personal and real relationship with Divinity and that life has a sacredness that is worthy of respecting and honouring in my movement and actions.” It is personal, and I find you are either connected to your sacredness or your not. That relationship is nothing, like you say, to do with anything outside of you. I am joining you Joel Levin as is termed as a Outlier but this is just a scientific term and not who I am and who we all are – Sons of God.

342. I read an online news article about doctors in America recently. It explained how some doctors were now working with their patients to reduce their weight from obese to overweight (but not trying to get to a healthy bodyweight), as the marker for what a patient would do and for what was now considered “normal” or acceptable had shifted. Obesity has now been named “Globesity” because it’s a huge global health issue. Even though we have more information about nutrition than ever before this is where we are at. What The Way of the Livingness offers is a return to simplicity via a true reconnection to ourselves in our innermost heart and to the body, and when we feel and understand the divinity and sacredness we are all a part of, making loving choices becomes a way of life. No diets needed because we eat living in and honouring the science of what the body communicates.

343. What an amazing article Joel. I looked up the meaning of outlier as I hadn’t heard it before, so, so appropriate. I can claim to be an outlier myself for pretty much all of the same reasons as you have outlined. All due to the application of science, religion – in its true meaning – and personal responsibility, AKA The Way of the Livingness. Having anything less than harmony, love and joy in our lives is not normal.

344. ‘ … my choices affect me and others.’ They most certainly do. Choosing to be aware of how they do inspires responsibility.

345. Beautiful Joel, yes to being an outlier. Your pictures say it all, and show the results very clearly of how you live. One thing in how you describe your journey popped out load and clear ‘The fact is, I matter in the world and my choices affect me and others’ – this is deeply significant for all of us, and if we all lived with this in mind our lives would be significantly different and so would our world. Change starts with each one of us.

346. Amazing, prefer being an outlier than staying in the comfort of misery and despair. What an incredible powerful blog – simply because it is real and not comfortable! Can you imagine if we start to thing and life like this – the world would be instantly more aware, more healthy and more joy-full. Thank God for Serge Benhayon, and thank God for Joel Levin.

347. Hello, I am an outlier, why don’t you join me? ‘I AM IN’

348. Joel it is such a joy to read this blog and see who you were, when you were living ‘normal’ to now as an outlier, you are like 2 different persons. Now you are shinning with joy, and emanating ’tis a pleasure to be alive and live my daily life, with religion, science and responsibility!

349. What is normal? It seems to be about the way the majority are living and therefore makes it okay. When it is challenged, we are then open to criticism, judgement and so forth because we do not fit the ‘norm’. However what is ‘normal’ is not benefiting us but it is like a group agreement that if we are all doing it, it must be okay and we can justify our way of life.

     Could we add to the definition of ‘normal’, that it benefits us and everyone, where we are constantly evolving as a group and not deteriorating as a society where our ways are actually harming us and others?

350. I had to look up the word ‘Outlier’ as I have not come across it before, and Joel you have expressed that to a ‘T’ . Normal does not mean it benefits us, it simply seems to be what the majority are doing and how they are living. The key for me is the way I am living, “Am I being responsible?’ As Joel stated ‘The Personal Responsibility Part of The Way of The Livingness – involves knowing that if I am choosing to eat or live in a way that is harmful to me or others, I need to look at why.
     The Way of the Livingness is the relationship I live with myself and with the world, and it does not fit ‘normal’.

351. Eventually being an outlier will become the new norm after reading your story Joel. Eventually the struggle will become too much and we will start to question the lovelessness and disharmony in our lives. Offering love and understanding along with our loving reflection offers humanity the grace of a loving space to reconnect with their true self and re assess their livingness.

352. Being over weight, addicted to sugar, caffeine and using alcohol and other recreational drugs being seen as normal raises great concerns and questions about what is really going on that this is the pattern within our society. Whatever happened to seeing a normal life as free of these things? The statistics of illness and disease have risen and if the numbers are done, I would suggest that these statistic’s have risen along with the increased use of alcohol, drugs, sugar, caffeine and other foods that cause increased obesity. It is time to look more closely at the choices we are making because the life we live is the choices we make. Thanks Joel for this honest and true blog.

353. If we all embraced the ‘The Personal Responsibility Part’, as you are Joel, we would see our current normal turn around and we would be living our ‘natural’.

354. I have not heard the word ‘outlier’ before but I love it already, it feels powerful enough to be a movie title
     ‘The Outliers” a motion picture or documentary coming soon, I nominate Otto Bathurst for Director!
     You transformation, like the man, many others around the world is news worthy.

355. I always resisted what I saw as being normal, it seemed so dull and boring to me, and devoid of truth. The Way of the Livingness is my kinda normal; a life lived with a depth of connection, love and joy.

356. Yes you will see my name through these comments a lot and why not, I love how this man writes and where he writes from so I will support it. I was just looking at the header photo this morning Joel and there looks like there is two of you and at 34? You look younger 10 years later, go figure that one out, The Way Of The Livingness.

357. Joel your pictures tell us the story. You look and feel absolutely amazing, a testament to The Way of the Livingness being the way of living in the future. At some point humanity is going to have to start really asking the question – what is going on to have such high rates of illness and disease and could there be another way? The answers lie within the way we live and the choices that we make and The Way of the Livingness supports us in making those choices.

358. That’s crazy town Ariana, complete crazy town isn’t it.

359. When I saw your after photo, I just beamed and beamed and beamed.You are so so so gorgeous Joel and so scrumptious. And then I kept scrolling up and then down just so your photo could jump off the screen again. Then I scrolled further up to see your before photo and you are almost unrecoginsable. And thank you for such a great description of the Way of The Livingness, it was a joy to read.

360. It takes a lot of courage to stand up and be seen for the person that you are, because essentially no one is the normal that normal has become. Today’s normal is imposed upon us when we are children and, so beated down by it, we adhere to its dogmatic rules eventually, and eventually turn in to the adults that perpetuate the sadness we raise our children in to – with no one feeling that it is right, but very few feeling supported enough to stand up and be seen for we really truly are. The Way of The Livingness supports anyone who wants to just live as themselves, without the burdensome weight of acceptable normal.

361. Even if your normal is something healthy and awesome, still you cannot rest there as life is constantly evolving so what may have been normal and even healthy for you last week, may no longer be so healthy for you this week. Therefore, it seems there is a stagnation in normal if it not evolving in which case one would have a constant new normal. The usage of this word is rather peculiar and contradictory and needs reassessing and redefining – a clear candidate for Unimedpedia – http://www.unimedliving.com/unimedpedia

362. Normal is such a weird word when so much that is deeply harmful or ill has become labelled or statistically classified as normal. Weird because we have somehow mixed up normal with meaning something is ok or acceptable and normally normal is not at all!

363. Beautiful Joel. I love how you explain the science, religion and personal responsibility of The Way of the Livingness. The science of the repeated self experimentation to see what feels true for oneself is a reimprinting of the scientific approach. This is how science began, observation and repeated observation, is the observed reproducible? When doing this for ourselves we can feel what is true for us, therefore, while you might be an outlier to the broader population, you are right where you should be for you.

364. Then I am an outlier too and thats what I call normal then. Following a mainstream that does not support us in our truth can never be called normal, it can be said that it is the majorities choice, but not normal.

365. Normal should be defined by absolute joy and harmony, not by what most people do or think.

366. As ill conditions such as those you mentioned Joel become more common it’s like they get more accepted and brushed off as ‘that’s just the way it is’, encouraging a kind of giving up on what we actually know – that something is seriously amiss.. But having people like you and a growing number more who are genuinely showing that there is another way is offering an awesome reflection to others to remember that they too can make a change.

367. What a poignant fact this is : ‘In a world where normal is defined by the number of people that experience a certain behaviour, condition or lifestyle, it would seem that there are many things in the world that we consider normal but point to a world that is not doing well.’

368. The before and after photos are incredible. It’s not just the physical weight that you have dropped which is obvious, you can see in your eyes the joy you have simply being in your skin. The photos from previous years don’t have the same sparkle. And here lies the difference between someone developing love and appreciation in their body, which allows their body to naturally let go of unnecessary protection in the form of weight and somebody losing weight in the consciousness of wanting/needing to look better and feeling badly of themselves.

369. As always, a lovely piece of writing Joel that speaks directly to the centre of all of us. Your experience is nothing short of amazing and something worth investigating and documenting! I’ll join you.

370. Basing what is normal in life from within us rather than looking outside to all those around us has most certainly changed my entire approach to life. As you’ve shared Joel, the normal of the world today is not healthy so the ‘strength in numbers’ perception needs to be questioned. We strive so hard to fit in and be normal but what is the quality we are accepting in this alignment and agreement to following what the outside deems as normal? Accepting the inner barometer of normal rather than following the crowd has been the only way I have ever felt settled in my life and able to be more truly connected with people. Normality is a poor substitute for the connection we are seeking.

371. I am hugely touched by the humbleness you present here Joel for I know you are our future, past and present , the outlier walking amongst us, an ordinary, extra-ordinary man turning the tide with each and every divine step.

372. “And while science is consumed with trying to cope with the ever-increasing rates of obesity and other lifestyle diseases, here I am, the outlier”. There you are indeed Joel, and so many others too – the science of The Way of The Livingness is right under our noses, right here to be studied.

373. Very true Joel, there is a whole community, allbeit in many different countries around the world, that have embraced The Way of The Livingness and the responsibility you describe who show, across age/gender/race/demographic that the New Normal is not only possible but that it’s on its way, and well worth living.

374. “Any genuine scientific researcher would look at this change and want to study it because the changes I made were not ‘rocket science’ but observable, repeatable changes” Before long this research will be carried out and the results will speak for themselves. I have witnessed student of the Way of the Livingness who in the 10 years i have known them have defied the ageing process, there skin is softer, fuller, their bodies sexier, more vital and their relationship with themselves is so sound that it is impossible not to be utterly inspired.

375. The “out” in outlier implies the setting apart, someone outside of the norm yet the outlier that you describe undresses this translation and presents an ordinary outlier, that brings into question the very system that painted the outlier.

376. Fascinated by this word “outlier” Joel, i have never heard of it.
     I am struck by how absurd it seems to have words like normal or outlier, for on whose or what scale is this measured? Yes, we are outliers but there is such a familiarity for this differing quality is a new beginning towards an old way of being.

377. You looks so joyful, Joel. You are a great advertisement for an outliers’ way of living. Count me in!

378. How crazy is it that we define what is normal by what the majority are doing – is it any wonder that we end up with the abuse and issues humanity faces, for it only takes a few to get the ball rolling towards a harmful behaviour being accepted as totally normal. Then outliers are often ignored as flukes or random, rather than studied as a possible way of re-harmonising the balance of the world and what we see as normal.

379. It is crazy to know that world wide we spend enormous amounts of money on fighting obesity and other lifestyle diseases, when there are countless living testimonials that reveal how to deal with it. Question is, do we truly want to come out of misery?

380. Science should indeed study your mind blowing changes Joel – therein lies the answer to the worlds biggest woes and challenges at the moment.

381. I am an outlir too. Thank God I have been presented to the Way of the Livingness – THAT is my normal.

382. Thank you Joel – this is very true, facts shows that as humanity we are straying further and further away from who we truly are, that we are fighting it and instead applying what is making us more and more disharmonious. Illness and disease is flourishing worldwide – and we have made it our ‘normal’.

383. It is quite astonishing that us as humanity have become so obsessed with, and proud of our ability to manage and cope with ill situations, that when there is suggestion that it could be possible to do without these ill situations altogether people do not flock to find out if it is true. It seems that by and large we tend to be content to trudge along and make do with what we have settled for, until our back is truly against the wall. Well with the escalating ill health due to our bodies clearing, and the devastating weather incidents due to the earth clearing, large sections of us will be having our backs against the wall more and more frequently. It would be so much wiser to not treat as an ‘outlier’, those among us who seem to have something to share, but to actually study the possible validity of what they are reflecting.

384. You look amazing Joel, testimony that Way of the Livingness brings about profound change in people’s lives when they choose to live life outside considered ‘ norms” . I’m an outlier too and stand with you all the way.

385. I have never heard of the word outlier before! Also how exposing is the definition of normal!! ‘normal is defined by the number of people that experience a certain behaviour, condition or lifestyle’ Does it mean domestic violence, cyberbullying and addiction to name a few are normal? What has it come to that we ignore these things or worse have accepted them! Today I watched the a web broadcast of The Way of the Livingness where Serge Benhayon shared it used to be we had starvation as large numbers but it’s now obesity .. we have gone from one extreme to the other and not healed anything. I have never considered that denial is a relationship but it makes sense, it is similar to how not making a choice IS making a choice! Conventional science is really just smoke and mirrors because it’s not about making true changes or healing it’s about, (in most cases) especially with the pharmaceutical companies, making profit. This was recently outed by a scientist in Canada where he found a really inexpensive compound that decreased the size of tumours and cancerous cells yet no one wanted to back it because they wouldn’t make any profit! The Way of The Livingness is everything I stand for .. Truth, Joy, Stillness, Harmony, Love, Brotherhood, Relationship, Responsibility, Integrity, Oneness, Equality, True Evolution, that we are more than our physical body and it is not about just ‘us’ on this planet and that how we live and the choices we make matter. So Awesome, become a blip on conventional sciences radar and let others join you. It’s time to wake up. It is time for true healing.

386. It seems that normal nowadays is, at a deep level, being disregarding of one’s body and of life in general. Looking at it like this being an outlier is an obvious option if one wants to be healthy and live a vital life style staying aware of what is going on and feeling the joy that all this brings.

387. Delighted to join you as an outlier Joel and buck the trends of what is considered by so many as normal today including abusing the body by what is eaten and drunk and through lack of restorative sleep and excess of stress etc. That a growing group of people are showing that it is perfectly possible to live a different and joyful way of life is surely worthy of being studied so that others can be offered the choice to find a new ‘normal’.

388. Our relationship with normal can be a complex one from desperately wanting to be normal to rebelling at any cost to be anything but normal. As it turns out normal is a moveable bench mark and changes to reflect where humanity is. alarmingly at this point in time normal is not great. Maybe the Outliers are showing us what the other options are?

389. Ah ha! Thank you Joel! I have learnt a new word today that sits very well with my chosen way of living now. The word feels easy in my mouth and resonates throughout my body like a homecoming call to that which is true. Yes, it feels glorious and harmonious within to claim “I am another ‘Outlier’ standing up to be counted right along side you and countless others”.

390. The before and after shots really say so much. Why is it that many of us live so disconnected that for example we do not stop and question that we may be 8 times larger than we should be or that our numbing and distracting tools have increased in frequency, or that we get through each day but are no longer vital or truly happy etc etc? Why could we not be the ones to do what Serge Benhayon has done and unfold life back to present a way of living that is real and honest and going against all health trends and statistics? Serge Benhayon is so far away from the rest of humanity, an outlier, but one that is calling us all to come and join him and slowly many are joining him and soon you will be an outlier if you stay away.

391. I haven’t come across ‘outlier’ before, thank you Joel, I am learning something new everyday. I am definitely joining you as an outlier. This is a brilliant blog. Your before and after photos show an incredible transformation, the spark in your eyes and your face says it all. What is normal in society I have come to realise is in fact not normal at all, and your blog exposes this false perception of normal. Reading this made me realise the quality of living many people accept as normal is harming our health. By bringing more awareness, sharing our observations and experiences is key to supporting us to learn and evolve.

392. Today’s ‘normal’ is killing people, literally. The WHO recently published a statistic that lifestyle related conditions is the reason for something like 85% of deaths. And today I heard that 8 out of 10 causes of death are lifestyle related. Incredible!

393. From the state of the world’s general health nowadays I would accept being an outliner any day.

394. It is so great to see these photos of you Joel. Welcome back to the true normal.

395. Such anomalies exist because Heaven is under a microscope with a blind scientist peering in. That is to say that the science of today has no measure for a truly universal way of living in which we remain connected to the Whole (God/the Universe) and not existing as an isolated fragment of it. Divinity cannot be measured, it can only be lived. If you want to study it, study those that live it but choose a method that allows you to see what is there to be seen and not a method that only lets you see what you want to.

396. I’m with you Joel…I am an outlier for sure. The quality of my life now at 51 is a complete contrast to what it was 10 years ago. Sure I’ve made diet and lifestyle changes but that alone does not explain how I wake early in the morning without an alarm, work on community projects for 2-3 hours before I begin to get myself ready for a very full day in a corporate environment in a major Australian city. My vitality and energy for life is 10-fold of what it was 10, 20, 30 years ago….there is something in, this The Way of the Livingness!

397. How incredibly normal has being unwell become and conversely how incredibly unusual is it to have great health.

398. Joel a gorgeously light and yet serious call to all people to join you in true health.

399. More and more people cannot but sit up and take note because the evidence you offer, i.e. Your personal transformation is just too amazing to be ignored. In fact the return to health and vitality of the total Universal Medicine student body, including the changes I note about myself, need to be celebrated in their fullness because they seriously ‘buck’ the frightening global trend.

400. Brilliant Joel – my life, my livingness, my choices- these are my religion- my way of being with myself in the world – The Way of the Livingness.

401. Wow Joel – what an amazing before and after this is – the difference really says it all – that choice is what is behind change. And as you say so well – ‘The fact is, I matter in the world and my choices affect me and others. So personal responsibility is looking at the choice and the reason for it.’ – How many of us make the world about what we do, the comfort of food and entertainment and socialising well before we ask ourselves ‘Am I worth taking care of?’. You live with responsibility first and this is a role model to all.

402. Joel I love this blog, and stand next to you as an outlier. I was speaking to a midwife the day before yesterday asking about a baby’s redbook, I understand in the UK this is something all babies get. I asked when it was last updated and she advised recently, the charts get updated as kids keep getting bigger. So it seems rather than having too many kids abnormal they change the scale of what normal is. The result – we are not being honest about what is going on and why this is happening – babies that were normal in the past are now underweight simply because others are overweight (now considered normal).

403. Science deeply and thoroughly investigates the intervention, the treatment and may not sufficiently investigate the influence of the patient. Why do some patients respond much better than others and is it connected not just to their genes or is it connected to their lifestyle choices and, if yes, how much? Are there systematic reviews of such studies?

404. “I have learnt that I do not need to be beholden to a particular person or congregation, but rather have defined success as the honesty of my personal relationship with God, as it defines everything else.” This is an absolutely beautiful description of religion Joel. In fact it helps me to understand all you have presented here as it shows that you have broken free of the belief that there is a right and a wrong way to do or be. Instead you show us the result of living what you feel is true and that is one cool science experiment that has the capacity to bring about great healing for anyone that chooses to feel what it communicates.

405. If you’re a outlier Joel, what makes an outlier? And what does it actually say about science in modern days. Science nowadays is based on ‘facts’, but ‘facts’ from the outside, rather than the inside. The word knowing is important to me in this regard. As true knowing for me is wisdom, which is lived life. Because through living life, we actually learn about life and about ourselves – if we so choose. When we ‘know’ it from the inside, there’s nothing that can shake that knowingness. Where as ‘proving’ from the outside (modern science) goes towards a fixed point and is often quite empty. So science should support us to connect to our knowingness inside. The study Joel’s sharing here with us, is such a science. And, it’s a joy to read.

406. Very cool Joel, I’d love to see the day, and I’m sure I will, but perhaps not in this life time that the Way of the livingness will be the new normal and we won’t be outliers any longer. With the state of the overall health of people and the cancer rates,obesity diabetes and the never ending list of other illness and disease, the world is crying out for change, but at the moment it is normal to not take responsibility for our choices and leave it to the possible cure instead of us taking responsibility and therefore preventing these things from occurring.

407. It is odd to consider that living in a healthy way is abnormal in today’s world. ‘The proof is in the pudding’ so to speak as your photos share volumes about the changes you have made to your life. Who wouldn’t want to live with greater spark, vitality and a greater sense of wellbeing? You show that by making simple life-style changes and applying the teachings of The Way of the Livingness how this is possible.

408. I love how you combine the science of knowing our own body and what lies beneath our illness but at the same time being very sensible and working together with doctors and health practitioners. Our responsibility lies in both.

409. The change in Joel shown by his photographs is remarkable. Yet, if one visits the ‘before and after project on UniMed Living’ and the Before and After photo gallery on http://www.universalmedicine.net/before–after one can see that he is not alone in making this fabulous change. What is more that there are hundreds, if not now thousands, of more people that are not depicted on these 2 websites but who are also living testaments to the veracity of The Way of The Livingness.

410. ‘Any genuine scientific researcher would look at this change and want to study it’ this is spot on Joel, if there was a genuine search for true health we have a student body of multiple hundreds of people who defied the trend in health and wellbeing and have found a way of living that is not only amazing for themselves and those around them but would take a huge pressure of our healthcare and economic systems. This is gold for research.

411. Thanks, Joel. Personal Responsibility… that is the clincher. Humanity in general seems to hit a bit of brick wall when it comes to looking at the day to day choices we make. There is much justification of using food, alcohol, drugs etc as coping mechanisms to help us through life, but what we don’t want to see is that it is ourselves who are making life a struggle, and that it does not need to be that way. Once we are prepared to see our part in it all (without judgement), our lives can change dramatically.

412. Surely it is time for us to really examine what we are doing with our scientific research. Collecting data that is reflecting a change in the norm is telling us that our lifestyle habits are changing and changing for the worse. 50 years ago it was normal to be slender and not normal to get cancer. Today these norms have changed and the majority of our populations are becoming over weight and getting cancer. So surely the way to address this is to look at the minority who are not following this trend as there must be something different in the way they are living that prevents them from following this trend. It is not luck, genes or random chance that there is an ever widening group of people bucking the trend, turning their health and well being around. The Way of the Livingness is empowering people to resolve their emotional, mental and physical issues and live vital lives and as a consequence offers true scientific data that can support humanity to address the very intense health issues we are currently facing. As Outliers we are very worthy of Scientific study.

413. The Way of the Livingness changes your whole perception of life and opens your eyes to the multitude of choices we make which go against our natural rhythm of our bodies, so it makes sense that when we correct those choices our bodies respond accordingly.

414. Joel, I can relate to what you have written here, ‘Being dependant on sugar or caffeine is normal. Using alcohol or other recreational drugs is normal.’ I have noticed that in society these things are considered very ‘normal’, it is rare for someone not to drink alcohol and overeat, as someone that does not drink alcohol, that goes to be early, loves work, feels well generally and am gentle with myself I stand out as NOT ‘normal’, I often get questioned because of my ‘strange’ behaviour, with looks of disbelief, this feels very topsy turvey that I am the odd one out for living a healthy, loving life.

415. I’m an outlier and I say bring it on – I welcome the distinction for it will prompt others to see there can be another ‘normal’ that is full to the brim of health, wellness and vitality.

416. ‘Normal’ is only ‘normal’ because it is familiar to the majority. In that case I am not ‘normal’ either as I experience life as you do Joel. I too am an ‘outlier’!

417. A lot of food for thought in this blog. Its such a big question, why do we undertake behaviours we know harm our health. That is the question that always gets brushed under the carpet, we like our food and our beer and our fags and our many lifestyle addictions too much to give them up. But living without them gives us a vastly superior quality of life. So what is it we are really avoiding, that is the question that the Way of the Livingness addresses and does so superbly. We surely all want to feel as consistently great as Joel and many others do, so it is worth addressing the deeper reason for indulging in poor health choices, it seems like there is nothing to lose in doing so. As so called intelligent human beings it really is the only way to be genuinely intelligent.

418. If we look at humanity and our behaviours as a whole, what are we expressing when we need to eat to excess, take drugs, drink alcohol and copious amounts of caffeine? What are we expressing when we choose to abuse others through racist comments or actions, or through selfish behaviours? What are we expressing when our levels of ill health are increasing alarmingly? Something is amiss here and rather than seek temporary fixes though the ingestion of substances, maybe we need to look deeper – and to look at the reflection of people whose lives are bucking this trend. Maybe these ‘outliers’ do know something that could benefit us all?

419. Joel, what a difference and truly awesome to see and feel the difference in you now and prior to becoming a student of The Way of the Livingness. It goes to show that by taking responsibility for ourselves and our lives we can all change and return back to the love that we are, we essentially have absolutely no excuse not to!

420. Great definition of what we all have the power to choose and become Joel. Many others and I have a seat on the bus with you as we all travel to every new day and what it presents to us.

421. in bucking the ‘normal’ trend of disregard of our body in the way we eat, sleep, move and interact with others it is proving the point made by health authorities that the way you live and your lifestyle choices is the underlying cause of much illness, disease and dissatisfaction with life. There has to be another way? There is: The Way of The Livingness.

422. We need to be very careful with the word normal don’t we? Today it can mean being overweight, if not obese, to take drugs, to be on long term medication, to self-harm and to post abusive messages on the internet. These things were most uncommon when I was growing up in the 1970’s – but now they are a regular part our way of living. Normal doesn’t necessarily reflect what is truly wise or natural for our bodies and our lives and we must not make this ‘normal’ a goal or a god.

423. Much fun, an ‘outlier’ setting the new normal, the future comes to town . . . I am so with you Joel!

424. Hi Joel, the developement which is shown through your photos is enormous. It is a living testimony of you having gradually taken responsibility for your life. Very inspiring to see..

425. What a beautiful blog and confirmation of the way of the Livingness and the true and amazing changes we can make in our lives our health and our relationship with ourselves God and everyone . Your photos show it all and the sparkle in your eyes is everything . This is solid prof that there is another way to live that is normal joyful and full in every aspect and is true religion in its true meaning and not seen anywhere else.

426. “Any genuine scientific researcher would look at this change and want to study it because the changes I made were not ‘rocket science’ but observable, repeatable changes.” I Love this Joel so true – science is not just about chemical reactions and physics as I once thought, life itself is definitely science and we human beings too. With the currents high rates of illness and disease (that are kind of getting normal too), your transformation is absolutely one to be objectively observed, studied and analyses and put into a very practical conclusion for everyone who wants to change to understand and work with.

427. Thanks god for the outliner as they can change the world – to leave a normal is the only way to feel that I was trapped in it before.

428. One thing I’ve come to learn about the Way of the Livingness is how these three components all work together. For example, it’s one thing to learn about the science of food and develop deeper awareness of how eating various foods feels in my body, but that in itself is not enough. Lasting changes come as a result of me also accepting and committing to the sacredness and preciousness that is an innate part of my body (the religion part), as well as getting to the root cause of why I want to eat foods that I know do not support me to live the fullness of me (the personal responsibility part).

429. Joel Levin, you do look absolutely amazingly joyfull at 47 – a huge turnaround from you at age 35! Anyone who looks at your photos – or any photo in the UniMed Living Before and After Project for that matter – would say ‘I want what he’s having.’

430. “The changes I made were not ‘rocket science’ but observable, repeatable changes” – this is such an important point highlighting that it is available to anyone and everyone, it simply is a matter of personal choice and responsibility.

431. When you experience joy, lightness, meaning and genuinely love life and work through committing to changes that support you and your body, and not support the ‘popular’ ‘accepted’ ‘normal’ view that the majority follow (because they are the majority), you may stick out and become unpopular, seen as ‘weird’ subject to attack even…though when you see those 2 distinct lives as your photos show Joel, then who or which life is the weird life? The photo says it all, and importantly the body talks.

432. And what i’ve found with The Way of The Livingness is what you share too Joel, and that things, life, relationships, work, home [literally everything] becomes deeper, richer, purposeful and more steady – a hugely important aspect for any of us plagued with levels of anxiousness. Ten years ago, i lived life full of emotion, reaction and dramas, today i live life with feeling, sensitivity and connection – this is what’s given me a steadiness in life.

433. Joel your before and after photos are a clear testament to the remarkable benefits of being an Outlier.

434. I thought what on earth is an Outlier and within a few seconds it registered and I soon realised that I am one too and can highly recommend it. From my experience there is no sugar on this planet that tastes as sweet to the Soul. Vive la Outliers!

435. What we offer from our way of living is a reflection of what is our normal and this offers others inspiration to find there own normal too. From one fellow outlier to another I say thank you Joel.

436. Love this Joel and like you I am claiming that I am an “outlier’, and celebrate regularly that I am one. Gone are the days – well almost – when I chose to delude myself that all was well in my world but really it was far from it. These days, thanks to The Way of The Livingness, I live a life in which I take total responsibility for my health and well-being, unfortunately most would consider this not to be normal, whereas I consider it absolutely normal and definitely life changing.

437. What’s lovely to appreciate after reading this article is how my normal today is very different in many ways from my normal a few years ago. What’s also lovely to claim is what I was considering as becoming my norm are actually already my norm as I choose them consistently. And those things I’m working on with their consistency will be my norm at some point.

438. I am an ‘Outlier’ too Joel and I agree that science would benefit greatly by turning its focus towards the substantial amount of qualitative evidence that ‘The Way of The Livingness’ holds volumes of significant answers to reversing the alarming world health statistics. In the light of the abounding sufferings of humanity it is impossible to know the truth about how to live well and not want to share it with all – how to do that is my question?

439. Hey Joel, gorgeous blog – the joy and sparkle in your eyes is exquisite and clearly confirms the amazing you and life you have chosen.

440. Considering the state of the worlds health, science would do well to study The Way of The Livingness. The before and after project is an amazing testament to this, and there are thousands of testimonials on many blogs sharing the changes that have come about through living this way.

441. Wow- you look awesome Joel- vibrant, joyous and tender, felt in your after photo.
     What a fantastic reflection you are for other men around you; listening to your body instead of overriding it, claiming your connection to God, and taking responsibility in the quality that you are in, moment to moment.

442. If we were to honestly ask our bodies “which way of living would they want to live?” they would unequivocally say what is presented here as the outlier way. We all feel the stress and tension going on in our bodies and the exhaustion that comes with that but we ignore that feeling, override it and push on, and our bodies cope with that until they reach a point of illness – and then we are surprised! Our bodies want and need what supports them to function in an optimal and vital way – that is how they are made to be. And when we live in a way that honours our bodies needs in each moment then we are honouring ourselves.

443. Brilliant. Tipping back the scales between an outlier and what is considered ‘normal’ – The Way of The Livingness is truly restoring heaven on earth.

444. What you present about some of the changes you have made seem like common sense and so simple, yet many struggle with letting substances like smoking, sugar, caffeine and alcohol go…. realising this part is great “I matter in the world and my choices affect me and others. So personal responsibility is looking at the choice and the reason for it” this would help a tonne, looking at whats going on behind what we do.

445. When we are disconnected from our essence, from who we truly know we are, we will engage in whatever others are doing to be recognised, accepted or appreciated to feel better about ourselves. Whereas living The Way of The Livingness comes from our essence, living who we innately know ourselves to be, and therefore there is no need in us to seek or engage in anything that is not true to that knowing. It is a way of life that is most definitely worth studying – by science, by everyone.

446. Gosh Joel, what a difference – when you make being an outlier look this good, the world will soon come to realise there is no love in disregarding how our body speaks to us- only struggle, which we all get tired of in the end.

447. I existed being led by the belief of deemed ‘normality’ for many years and can say from experience that it is so overrated, under underwhelming, debilitating and confining in every way in contrast to the awe-inspiring, ever-expanding, exuberant and simply magical way of life that comes from living the true normality that is guided by my(our) truth within.

448. I don’t feel the term ‘normal’ has ever been a good thing, like, it was normal in the 50’s to not be allowed in the cinemas with people of white skin if you had black skin or if you were a woman you had different rights to a man. Normal has been something we have hidden behind, a brush off so we don’t have to deal with the poison we are living as a society. I wonder what the true sense of normal really is and are we, the students of The Livingness creating a whole new normal?

449. If being an outlier makes you look much much younger when getting other… Who doesn’t want to be an outlier?

450. I’m with you Joel and have become as you say an Outlier, thanks to Universal Medicine and The Way of The Livingness. It’s a far more loving, responsible and simple way of living and its possible in time it will become the normal way when people accept the effects that their lifestyle choices have on their state of health and willingly change to truly caring about themselves and others.

451. That students of The Way of The Livingness might be called outliers says everything about our approach to life, in the sense that most of us in society approach life, or more accurately, live life from the outside, in. Where as Joel – and so many others – actually offer the possibility of a true life from within. Outstanding blog Joel. Pure science.

452. Seeing the photos of you Joel is such a blessing – what a transformation, not just in weight and obvious health but the Joy and sparkle in your eyes says to me that you are living True Love on earth.

453. Breaking the consciousness of ‘normal’ is so needed in the world where many are so checked out and or numb to what is truly going on that such disregard is not seen, let alone felt, as wrong or abnormal. We need many more of these conversations to wake humanity up.

454. I love how you write Joel, always very informative and I always walk away seeing something differently. I enjoyed how you shared this part, “The changes were founded on the principles of The Way of The Livingness, a uniquely and truly holistic approach to life that presents a combination of science, religion and personal responsibility that is, in my experience, both profound and unique in the world.” It makes sense when you are looking at something big like this that the approach is well rounded or “holistic” as you call it, thank you.

455. There is an enormous amount of depth and consistency available to study, of how there is another way to live, yet there is an equal amount of resistance to being open to honestly looking at what is not working and letting go of the comforts that we hold on to so dearly. When we begin to be honest about what we are truly searching for, comfort or truth, we will then begin to see that the answers are already being presently lived through the life of Serge Benhayon, and through the many lives of the students of ‘The Way of The Livingness’.

456. Being also a student of The Way of The Livingness, I remember going to my GP and he expressed a bafflement in seeing the changes my body has gone through. 5 years ago I visited him and had depression and anxiety and now I am present, confident and in joy with myself and with those I am with. When I observed his genuine surprise of seeing this reflection, I jokingly asked him, “may be you would like to study me?”

457. I had not heard of the word ‘Outlier’ before, but I love how you have introduced it here – it seems to be that an outlier may perhaps be more normal than what is considered normal in today’s society! I also love how you have eluded to there being 2 types of normal – the normal that becomes a so called normal because of the numbers of people choosing to do this behaviour or way of living, and a ‘true’ normal which represents something that actually serves and is beneficial and a something a person does or chooses over and above what is actually harmful to the body.
     IT also goes to show that everyone seems to have their own version of normal, depending on the choices they have made or are making in life – and if this is so, what if there is an actual true normal, one that is normal because it is natural to the body? And that this actual natural normal is everyones REAL normal, and not the normal they think/thought is normal? Ha – this is food for thought!

458. When bringing together these aspects into our own life – religion, science and responsibility – we bring an order to the body that supports it to flourish. This is living medicine.

459. Hi Joel, your level of vitality is far from normal we could say; but the way you are now living is much more true to the normal and natural rhythm of your body.

460. The before and after photographs blow me away every time I look at them. You see I didn’t know many of them until after they had been students of The Way of The Livingness for a while and when I look at the photo’s pre-universal medicine I find it hard to believe they are the same person.

461. I am an outlier too, a totally different woman than the woman I was 8 years ago. No longer depressed, but healthy, I love working full-time next to different project and I love the connections with people I have in my life. I wouldn’t want it any other way.

462. Beautiful definition of “The Way of The Livingness, a uniquely and truly holistic approach to life that presents a combination of science, religion and personal responsibility that is, in my experience, both profound and unique in the world.” The combination of science, religion, philosophy and medicine is certainly unique and awakens a knowing we all have inside. Choosing to live the responsibility The Way of The Livingness give life purpose.

463. “people from around the world have begun to replicate these changes, across gender, age, race, income and demographics.” Yes, I see people around the world that are not part of what turned into normal and they are healthy, fit and active members of society. Living according to The Way of The Livingness has this effect on people.

464. I love and agree with your statement :“The fact is, I matter in the world and my choices affect me and others. So personal responsibility is looking at the choice and the reason for it.” I matter too and because we are all connected to each other every choice I make effects all of us. Quite a responsibility to have.

465. I’m really loving my new normal and the more I live in tune with what my body asks for the more I realise just how abnormally I was living before.

466. A vibrant Light on the so called ‘outer’ where the way you live shines the Light of truth of who we, and that all that we are here for is to deepen our relationship with our inner-heart, our Divinity, God and the universe we are intrinsically a part of together. This may be called being an ‘outlier’ but to me this is the place to be, to be who you truly are. I stand beside you and the many others that also walk knowing that in truth we defined by the Light we are and the Light we live together.

467. I am with you Joel on this one, your pictures tell their own story, The Way of The Livingness is the only way as so many changed lives can attest to its truth in their livingness.

468. The statistics are getting higher and higher each year so throwing around the word ‘normal’ has needed to change and morph into something that keeps the majority content to be in the norm, and not question ‘well what does that mean?’ or ‘is it working?’. We can offer each other so many excuses and reasons to stay living the way we are especially when we look at others who are so called worse off than we are, or continue to shift the ‘there is a problem’ stick further along. How would many lives and choices look if we applied the different principles of The Way of the Livingness to them? Thank you for being an Outlier Joel and reflecting this as the norm.

469. Great blog Joel, I would say you are living the life of a wise ‘in’-lier having re-connected to a way of living that truly supports yourself, others and society. This living science is worthy of taking a deeper look at.

470. Joel you are so brilliant, not only in that way you stand for truth but also in that way you know that there is no other ‘normal’ other than living in truth. And the truth is that we have accepted a state of supposed ‘normally’ that does not serve or support us as a humanity. This is evident, observable by everyone and is repeatedly established through science that we are a society that is existing in increasingly ill-health and well-being. Yet because the ‘majority’ are existing in what it is deemed as a ‘normal’ way or our range of ‘normal’ is a sympathetic reflection of this and not a true indication of the true potential that we were born to live.

471. Joel you have come alive as shown in your most recent photo! You have presented the recipe for such change very simply.

472. Joel I love your photos, as they really show your change and its great to be able to share this with anyone who is pre diabetic of which I know a few. What I love about The Way of The Livingness is that it is not about going off and being on some mountain top meditating for 6 months, or doing boot camp or extreme exercise or going on any diets. It is just a simple way of living, that you choose what works and does not work for you based on your body and how it feels. It is science and you are your own science project.

473. It seems to me, Joel, from your sharing here, that to be ‘normal’ nowadays is actually being irresponsible. That might come as a shock to many people who regard themselves as normal, but if they are not willing to truly look after themselves, eat and drink what is really good for their bodies, rest as and when the body needs, rather than trashing themselves with entertainment at all hours of the night, then it must be accepted that they are being irresponsible. Could being irresponsible now be regarded as the new ‘normal’.

474. The word normal always gets my attention. What one considers normal is so not normal for another and would vary around the world but it is so normal these days to be obese that many do not even realise that it is a health condition that is serious and that it will have an impact on their life and health in so many ways and it does impact those around them. Why does normal become okay even if it is harmful?

475. I love what you’ve expressed Joel about how in this case the ‘outlier’ (you living as a truly healthy and vital man) is the normal and the results that match ‘general trend’ should be the ones to look at and re-address. It’s important too to not discount anomalies, for in cases like these there are gems hidden in those results that don’t fit the pattern that we can all learn from.

476. I haven’t heard the word outlier before, but from reading your blog I can see that I too am an outlier.
     I don’t drink, I am not overweight, and I don’t eat what is considered normal these days, however I used to and I so appreciate that I came across The Way of The Livingness and was inspired by friends to make some small changes to my diet and lifestyle as that has resulted in so many awesome changes in my life and how I live it.

477. A beautiful claiming of your truth, Joel, I love it. Your photograph says it all, what an amazing light there is in your face, such a joy you obviously live now. It is amazing how we can turn our lives around with such simple changes, but how absolutely worth while it is. I so relate to your statement, “Over time I have begun to accept the fact that I can and do have a very personal and real relationship with Divinity and that life has a sacredness that is worthy of respecting and honouring in my movement and actions”. So beautifully expressed, and it reflects the basis of how I have also been able to turn my life around. When we connect to our divinity within, how simple life then becomes, and so beautiful and joy-full it is to live this way.

478. Joel, I am absolutely thrilled to also claim myself as an outlier to the normal world that we live in. I too have made enormous changes to my way of life and how I now truly look after myself. I am a completely different woman to the 69 year old of 10 years ago. At 78, here I am at the computer before 5 am, and have been here for an hour already, fully refreshed after a good night’s sleep. I could not have done this 10 years ago. And as you have shown in your inspiring blog, how simple it is to make these changes to our lives. I have learned to listen to what my body needs in the way of true sustenance, I no longer rush around, I give myself time to ‘smell the roses’ and get to know myself, and I have taken full responsibility for myself and my health. I feel and look younger than I did 10 years ago, and I love being with myself, I know how beautiful I am. Why would I not make these changes? I don’t want to be what is now regarded as normal, being normal does not make sense to me, being normal is not healthy.

479. Sorry Joel I should have also mentioned how dramatically you have changed with the formula you wrote about. When you look at the photos alone it’s enough to make you ask more questions but then when you list the changes this is very dramatic and way against what I see is the norm. It’s a credit to you, your choices and Universal Medicine, thank you.

480. I’m also a person who is choosing to live life by caring for myself and health with what I eat and the quality I do things in with the understanding and appreciation that the quality is my responsibility. This is normal for me and I’m not shy about living this normal with whoever may observe my choices.

481. With the dismal state that the world is in with the increase of illness and disease such as cancer and diabetes, ongoing wars and relationship breakdowns, we have to question how is it that we have been living? Science, religion and personal responsibility is the future being lived now through The Way of The Livingness. This is my new normal and the way forward.

482. I’d gladly join you, Joel. Especially as an outlier myself who kicked a drug habit without going to rehab, or just settling into a life long social addiction. The Way of The Livingness shows us the truth that lies within, the science that we are living every day and how we are forever living an experiment. One that has a most personal and direct impact.

483. Hello Joel and I had never heard of the term ‘outlier’ and so I looked it up online. There are many definitions but generally it is, “In statistics, an outlier is an observation point that is distant from other observations. An outlier may be due to variability in the measurement or it may indicate experimental error; the latter are sometimes excluded from the data set”. I thought the last part was interesting that it is sometimes considered an error and so maybe excluded. Makes you wonder what the quality of any of these studies are if before the results are given they are already culling some of the information ‘they’ don’t see fits.

484. Students of the Way of the Livingness choose to not drink, smoke, take drugs, or do a myriad of other things that modern science knows leads to poor health and by some we are deemed, abnormal, a cult and not to be trusted….mmm this does not make sense to me really.

485. Great Blog Joel, you are looking younger as you get older in age. There are hundreds of other outliers all doing the same thing, they are all students of The Way of the Livingness, there must be something to this religion as I have not witnessed this in any other religion.

     1. To pick up on your comment about Joel’s photos – you really can feel the difference. He looks and feels younger!

486. Brilliant Joel just brilliant. Outlier needs to become fashionable!

487. Wow the changes in your photos are incredible!! What really stands out to me more than the weight loss is the true sparkle in your eyes now and the vitality that shines through. Thank you Joel for sharing this and how accessible to all the changes that you made are.

488. Our ‘normal’ has changed across every area in life and this has not been questioned, in fact all of our normals have deteriorated to the point where we only really comment on something that is extreme. Extreme behaviours, extreme weight gain, extreme alcohol and drug use etc. I used to be hooked by the ‘everything in moderation’ saying, which I pretty much lived. I can say definitely that this does not bring good health either, for everyone’s moderation is quite different.

489. Living simply, in good health and with great joy. How sad that has come to be seen as a statistical anomaly when it ought to be our natural way.

490. The norm cannot be our standard or point of reference anymore as it is devastating where we are and where we are further heading towards may it be economically, politically, socially or health wise. People making choices that are in healthy contrast to the general trend and that deliver positive and tangible changes need to be taken seriously and be studied, they are living evidence, simple and real and it doesn´t take a master in science to understand how it works, it is common sense.

491. This highlights how the notion of outliers in statistics can outcast truth if the majority is not living such truth. It then turns the truth into an anomaly, an exception to the norm, when we can say that today it is normal to be diagnosed with a heart, lung or eating disorder and it is almost the norm to be diagnosed, if not associated, with someone who is diagnosed with a form of cancer. If the true level of health and well-being is the measure of statistical analysis on our health and state of being, we would all be outliers except for those such as yourself Joel who are proving what is possible when truth and love is lived.

492. The true and real relationship with God or what we know to be divine or universal by its very nature allows us to know the laws and principles that govern a harmonious life and thus the science of living in a way that honours our body and being – that is The Way of The Livingness.

493. The key to true change in life – the willingness to take responsibility and putting to action what we know to be truly good for our and everyone´s overall well-being.

494. Our lives as students of The Way of The Livinness are indeed worth studying as the simplicity, the practical and very common sense approach to every aspect of life is self-evident and thus based on the evidence lived.

495. I love the way you describe this Joel, like we are all chief scientists continually conducting experiments with our body and life. Far from being freak results, what you are experiencing is showing us all something very important and very worth testing further. The Way of The Livingness – it works!

496. It is truly astounding that we can have such high rates of illness, drink excessive amounts of alcohol and eat so many sweet, salty and dense foods and consider this as normal behaviour. The “before and afters” photos are evidence of the amazing changes that are possible we we choose to live in a way not considered normal by our society. I am definitely an outlier!

497. “. . . the changes I made were not ‘rocket science’ but observable, repeatable changes” and these changes are also occurring in the lives of many others who practice The Way of the Livingness. It is not the fact that we are doing better that needs to be heralded but the fact that we are dedicating our lives to living with a greater purpose beyond one’s individual needs.

498. Strange the non-normal behaviour in our society has become to make choices which are in regard of and promote our own health whilst those to contrary have become more accepted less questioned and the norm by comparison.

499. Joel, your list of what is normal brings it home to us how far we have strayed from living a truly fulfilling life. Something is not right with the world otherwise why would people want to dull, numb or hype themselves up with food and drugs.

500. Normal is a deadly comfort. Joel, ‘outliers’ like you and me and many people I know are not liers, we are just living a new way outside the norm which connects us to a more harmonious way of being and shows people that it is possible to live as joyful as we were as children.

501. The Way of The Livingness is a religion that is lived by the responsibility and connection I take with my own body and the quality of movements I choose each moment, it’s simplicity is amazing yet the benefits are beyond anything we can imagine to be.

502. I love how you have broken down the physical science, the experiment and the responsible way to do that…by questioning and getting medical support to ensure you are not deluding yourself. I love the connection with religion and how there is more than simply the physical to consider, it seems illogical not to consider both as one really. I love the self-responsibility, what a vital gift that has been missing from our education.

503. This really is something that science would love! A replicable intervention that is working and is cost effective!

504. When presented like this, life is very simple.

505. In a world that creates so much complication, you have simply presented the way to live to completely turn around every single life and the mess the world is in.

506. You have laid down and live the truth of true religion, simple for all to see.

507. Historically it has always been about disconnecting us from the body, as the body is the marker of all truth. The Way of The Livingness brings this truth back to humanity and with this true simplicity of life and unheard wellbeing and vitality. If we keep on relaying on the “loveless-mind” we will face more and more misery until we take the responsibility and listen to the body.

508. This is an incredible blog, I’m already in.

509. The Way of The Livingness is role modeling true science as it studies the body and listens to the evidence presented by the body. We can sit in the ivory tower and research the body and how to avoid the health system’s bankruptcy due to increasing illness and “normalized” situations of exhaustion and general not being well, or we can actually live by the body and listen to it and learn in a very short period of time all that we need to know. It is a simple choice. The evidence is in the body, not in what people think about the body.

510. Greatly shared, thank you Joel, living a healthy, vital and joyful life due to personal choice of lifestyle and not because of circumstance or genes.

511. How often do we consider Science, Religion and personal responsibility as being a way of living, yet they have remarkable and profound results especially in the health and well being and vitality of the many that have chosen to make the necessary changes in their life and live to the principles of the Way of the Livingness.

     1. That’s right, Alison. And the Way of The Livingness actually redefines those three important words: Science, Religion and (personal) Responsibility.

512. To not accept it as “normal” when your day-to-day life is not full of joy, is the beginning of The Way of The Livingness.

513. ‘Normal’ is what we accept as a society. So, these are great questions – what do I, what do we accept as normal? And why?

514. Love it Joel and you should be very much the centre of a Scientific study, because you are a completely different man shinning out of the photo at 47 years of age to the one struggling through life looking lost and overweight at 35. The change is quite staggering. We spend all this time gathering data about the norm at the great expense of the truth that sits out there on edge gently and steadily pointing us in the right direction. I too have moved from the norm to being an Outlier – my experience is very similar, pre-diabetic, overweight, depressed and given up. The Way of the Livingness has empowered me to unite the worlds of science, religion and philosophy with equally astounding results, as proven in the “before and after project on UniMed Living”. What Universal Medicine offers is solid answers and true resolutions to our ever increasing rates of illness and disease. Science would do well to shift its focus to the periphery of society and look at what the minority are doing – these Universal Medicine Outliers have a great deal of wisdom to share.

515. Well, as one of those who are also on the ‘before and after’ project on UniMed Living, I can sign this blog off course. What is ‘normal’ for me, what mean what I accept, has changed enormously since I am on The Way of The Livingness. But what I whole like to highlight is that I am never ever did waive on something I love to do, express or eat. What I’ve done is not longer deceive myself, I did become more honest with myself and I made clear decisions. I realized that I feel a lot but also do a lot against to be aware of this feeling. I did start to take responsibility about my choices and chose to accept that and what I feel. From here other choices did follow and my life changed to a better. But that was not enough. One better life (mine) in a world of chaos, diseases, disharmony and separation will never be enough. The Way of the Livingness is a religious way and it is always connected to every single one of us on this planet. So as long it is not an amazing life for all of us – my job is not done. And that I have this job, a divine employment so to speak is for sure. That is a part of The Way: to accept and appreciate this job and how incredible great I can do it.

516. From a fellow outlier thank you on behalf of us all for delineating so clearly and eloquently the normality and benefits of being one.

517. I love the science part of The Way of the Livingness. When I started to pay attention to how my body reacted to certain foods or the time I went to bed, I was able to implement small changes and monitor their effect. This was the start of me becoming an outlier. I too have a new normal that has me feeling fitter, healthier, younger and more energetic.

518. The before and after project is inspiring – reflecting how it is possible to make changes to ones life – and the result shows in the bodies and amazing after photos.

519. I’m an outlier too and feel much healthier for having made many changes in my life – inspired by the Way of the Livingness – such as omitting alcohol, dairy. gluten and refined sugar from my diet , Great blog Joel. Strange how parameters change in society to reflect what most people do – and this then becomes normal. Apparently obesity is now more prevalent than starvation in the world today. This feels shocking, when still so many go hungry. We need to wake up to what we are putting into our bodies. How many feel vibrant and energised on waking in the morning without the need for coffee to get and keep going?

520. Thank you, Joel. The ‘Before and After’ project is simply the most inspiring showcase of miraculous life changing stories from around the world, of individuals who have made the firm commitment to take responsibility for their everyday choices. The one thing they all have in common is that they have all said YES – to life and to love, living the fact that we are all divine.

521. It can be very easy to be pulled along by popularity, peer pressure, shoulds and expectations which the effects are quite well defined by now, not just statistically, but visually. Choosing a path in life that, at this moment in time, is not being chosen by many, but enough to prove that by listening to their voices and seeing it in their eyes, that there is something quite remarkable about The Way of The Livingness.

522. Joel here another outlier as I am a woman 56 years old post menopause feeling more vital and joyful than in any other period in my life. I have gone through menopause being a Student of the Livingness with nearly no symptoms and this is pretty awesome to say the least.

523. Top blog Joel, and I am definitely with you in being an outlier. Thanks to the presentations of Serge Benhayon on The Way of The Livingness over the last 9 years, I have gone through some incredible life transformations. From being heavily dependent on sugar, caffeine, alcohol and dairy, losing a huge amount of weight, having all my relationships improve, changing my outlook on how I view life and taking note of what is going on in the world, and most importantly, starting to have self-worth. Knowing that I am important and that what I say does matter is very empowering. The way I live now is seen as abnormal by most people but I would rather be seen as abnormal than go back to the way I was living or, what would be more appropriate, is to use the word ‘EXISTING’ rather than living.

524. Well I’d never heard of the term Outlier until now. Thank you Joel Levin. I had to go to the dictionary just to check it out. You are certainly bucking the trend as are a number of people who are truly living in alignment with The Way of the Livingness. The Way of the Livingness is a True Religion that has no doctrine, but invites us to live in alignment with that energetic quality you speak of – if we feel that it is true. I have found that just simple things like paying close attention to my body and how I move and whether the ease and connection that I feel within is sustained when I move, makes me much more responsible in the way that I am in the world, because if we abuse ourselves and treat ourselves roughly this does have an impact on those around us and our environment. Thank you for a sterling blog and it has certainly inspired me to write about how The Way of the Livingness has changed my life. The more that we write about this the more that other people get to see that there is another way to live.

525. The Way of The Livingness is science that makes clear that science is not enough to really get a grasp on us and our potential. Pretending to bet everything on science is reductionism.

526. The Way of The Livingness holds the power to transform for the better, life as we know it to be.

527. In an ‘old’ article that I have used for my ph.d. dissertation, sociologist Jeffrey Haydu argued that it is possible to treat different periods as if they were independent cases and analyse them using causal analysis. This is important. As an important part of science does, we have to start vindicating case studies as a scientific way to shed light on what we want to better understand. Case studies are great to understand in great detail what is at stake in a particular case. At the same time, they are great to test the value of an approach (in this case, for example, why ‘the’ normal produced a human being that was in range with the norm but clearly abnormal from the point of view and the feel of today’s Joel). The ‘un-photoshopped’ pictures presented in this blog say it all. The difference between them is striking. This brings us to what is this person doing differently that permits him to look and feel so different. This is worth studying through an inter-temporal perspective.

528. The principles founded on the Way of the livingness are a truly holistic approach to life, absolutely Joel. This is our natural way.

529. If we have all of these problems like obesity, sugar, caffeine and drug dependency than how can we call ourselves an intelligent society? Thanks Joel for demonstrating a way that works, and by the way you look fabulous!

530. ‘The normal’ will always be there and will be what it is. Yet, ‘my normal’ will always remain mine and will be what I choose it to be. If my normal brings me to live differently and out of the general traps of the normal, via reflection, my normal may lead the way. Without it, the normal is the only thing we are left with.

531. The fact that we normalise so many things which we know are totally awful is a reflection of how much given up we are as a race. Phrases like, ‘what can I do if this is the way things are?’ shows that we are not claiming enough the way it is. In what can I do, we are lost in a stream we feel we are powerless about. In the other, we have the opportunity to lead the way. It is a choice.

532. An outlier with a real spark in his eye.

533. Your story is told so simply but it is a story of mammoth proportions – especially when multiplied by the hundreds of people who are starting to be able to tell their own version of this same story. It’s a beautiful thing and worthy of medical journals. Thanks for starting the story telling here.

534. Wow Joel, even before reading your blog, I have to comment on the stark difference between your before and after photos. Your eyes are truly smiling and you look great.

535. Hi Joel, not knowing what an outlier was until I read your sharing, I can say that I too am one! It is by far the best decision I have made ! The connection to Universal Medicine and the teachings of the Ancient Wisdom Presented by Serge Benhayon have inspired myself and so many others to make changes for the better in every area of our lives, changing the way I relate to the world and my equal Brothers.

536. “Hello, I am an outlier, why don’t you join me?” love the last line Joel, evidenced based medicine in science has the upper hand what we call intelligence and non-intelligence in our modern day society and you have said it all, proving that a living way is very tangible and should not be dismissed by science!

     1. Life can be like one of those magic eye puzzles (from the 90s Harry, you might have to Google 😉 !!)- you look at it everyday and just see a mix of patterns. But if you look carefully there’s something more happening. And then it becomes obvious. And this is how I feel today – it’s seems so obvious to me, but most of the world either chooses not to look or denies they see anything.

537. I love this and it is so true. The world has a list of so called norms which are population averages. But just because majority of society are generating such readings or numbers it does not mean it’s normal or natural. In fact The Way of the Lovingness has shown me that most of what I had expected to be normal in life is so so far away from how we are truly capable of living.

     1. That’s right – I’m the original, but one day to be seen as the new norm. I’m the less than 1% if we had to put it statistically. And for all of this to happen, I need to recognise the science and religion elements to the Livingness- and of course, my great responsibility.

538. If that’s what being an outlier is Joel, then I am definately one too 🙂
     I can see by your stunning after photo that you are a living example of The Way of the Livingness, there is no doubt they’re, simply glorious.

539. Wow Joel, your before and after photos show a spectacular turn around, in both the physical and in your attitude to life and the feeling of what you are now bringing. The visible and invisible realms of you have both transformed into something really stunning to behold. If your religion can show this, then I cannot imagine anyone not wanting to join straight away!

540. This is such an inspiring and moving blog Joel. It presents the best evidence of the truth of The Way of the Livingness that anyone with eyes to see and ears to hear could ever want to see and hear. Through this awesome religion we are learning to take responsibility for all our choices, and how our life is turning out. There is no one to blame and point in hiding! We are IT – and thank God for that.

541. Hear hear Joel – I am joining you as an outlier! The Way of The Livingness is not rocket science and you don’t have to have a masters degree to understand or live it… it’s simply a way of living where science, religion and personal responsibility are all one…

542. Bucking ‘so-called normality’ in 2016 Joel Levin, good for you! This is the answer to first, second and third world health systems. I heard recently that diabetes alone is likely to bankrupt the UK medical system, leaving no room for ANY other illnesses by 2025 (or thereabouts) so something drastic needs to be done. The thing is, it’s not the government that needs to make the changes, it’s the people, at the grass roots level. The before and after project certainly shows that many people have done as you have.

     1. These are shocking statistics, and are not limited to the UK medical system – because the strain and impending collapse of health care systems across the world are endemic. When is the world as a whole going to stop and take note that throwing more money at the problem is not going to fix this – and realise that, as you say Suzanne, that true change requires all of us at the grass roots level to begin to take responsibility for the way we are living.

543. I’m with you Joel, as an outlier, having made similar changes thanks to the teachings of the Way of the Livingness over the past few years. We can all change our normal so the outlier becomes the normal, that will be a day to look forwards to,

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