644 thoughts on “Religion is my Everyday”

1. I love how religion is part of everyone of our lives regardless of our association or hurts around the word, However very few things that are called religion are truly religious. It begs the question if religion is part of our very fabric of life how come we do everything to not honour that religion?

2. The esoteric brings choice back to us. It gives us the option to choose something that is true. What we do with this is up to us.

3. Esoteric Yoga has been the most supportive modality in my reconnection to me, to my body and to God. It offers me the space to truly feel the amazingness I am and how I also am intrinsically connected to everyone else all of the time. It is an integral part of my religious way of living, a way that I never imagined I could be living, a way that I choose to live in every moment, without perfection.

4. “Esoteric Yoga has been an evolving practice where I have been able to feel my relationship with my body and choose movements that are more gentle and tender and to feel how this choice can affect my body” – yes, and also, when you start to do Esoteric Yoga and get used to feeling and appreciating the inner pulse and quality of stillness, you also get to feel the pulse of other people too, an office, workplace, and the world. In stillness, everything gets confirmed, exposed and or highlighted.

5. When we’ve been rushing, it’s so tempting to stay in the rush and the stimulation and overdrive, so that we don’t have to feel the effects of those choices on the body. But allowing ourselves to feel it is what then creates the space for us to connect to what’s underneath the surface level turbulence: a stillness and space that is always within us, and that needs or wants nothing from the outside to confirm or sustain it.

6. When we rush around, often we don’t want to be still to feel the effects of all that rushing on the body. But feeling the impact is what allows us to reconnect to the space and stillness underneath that surface layer of turbulence.

7. Religion is our everyday because every day we are in relationship not only with each other and ourselves but also with the entire universe.

8. It’s crazy when we think of the many moments we have during the day and most of them are elsewhere thinking about tomorrow, last week or something other than that particular moment – never likely we are exhausted.

9. Very cool that your everyday religion can be your connection to the body, as though the body we are given is all that is needed. It presents to us a depth of wisdom and knowledge that cannot be shifted, and trusting and surrendering to this, is to say yes to the universe our particles are from.

10. The world as it is and it’s many advances is still missing the key element, the quality we can live, move and be in. Without quality we do not live the truth of our being, our soul, in this world.

11. When we are aware of the divine beauty of inner stillness, the question is; why do we have to keep coming back to it and not just live in connection to our inner stillness in every moment?

12. Its amazing that we have situations where we need help to sleep, having got so overstimulated through the day and not being taught to wind down, or how to wind down, or even that is not the normal. Just one of the many things to look at in this crazy world we call life….

13. Heavens I remember my first sessions of Esoteric Yoga and how I couldn’t sit still, how I always had a list of things on my to do list and was itching to get up and do them, or I fell straight asleep! The repetition, the commitment and the dedication to knowing that raciness was not me and wanting to connect and feel what was underneath it, has rewarded me in major dividends from a physical and mental health point of view.

14. I love this description of religion here as daily rituals that support your connection with the quality of stillness that is naturally occurring in your body – beautiful!

15. When rushing, my body does not feel like mine. I speak and move differently. Totally consumed by something that is not the true me.

16. A beautiful blog Leah, I can feel an even deeper settlement in my body now. I love that we can be in stillness and move in this quality, it brings a grace and beauty to life and allows for continuous expansion and a feeling of spaciousness.

17. When you read the muck that is written about Universal Medicine, about it being a cult etc….and then you read a testimonial like this, it is a crying shame that the media do not choose to report the truth. To report that a woman in the world is dropping the raciness that she used to live her life in and is now re-connecting to her innate stillness and living a much more steadier life. This is how the world will return to a state of harmony. Not by spreading lies about this organisation being a cult. This organisation is supporting every day people to support themselves in their every day lives – we need that.

18. This is a beautiful blog Leah, it reminds me that little things matter, especially all the little things we tend to do without thinking like making our bed or showering, yet these small moments in the morning set the foundation for our whole day.

19. This a blog I would love to just sit with as it has that very same quality of stillness that you write about oozing from the page and its exquisite.

20. A powerful reminder of the stillness that lives within the innermost of us all – something that is always there for us to re-connect with as you say and bring ourselves back to, rather than seeking a relief outside of ourselves if we’ve gotten anxious or racy. And how we can bring ourselves back to that quality of stillness through our movements, rather than it being just a mental focus. Thank you.

21. Esoteric Yoga provides an opportunity to deeply connect with the body and feel to a level we don’t normally feel in our day to day. It offers a very honest marker of how we have been living.

22. It is amazing to the depth we can feel the body when we allow the space to re-connect. The body reflects it all back to us. Everything is registered in the body.

23. A great reminder in what is the quality in which we do things. What I can really appreciate right now is a deeper sense of surrender and letting go of control in my body.

24. When our relationship with our bodies is one of self care and honouring we can connect with the natural harmony and order of life.

25. Esoteric Yoga is such a beautiful tool to reconnect with our stillness and bring this in our everyday movements to recognise we are more than human, that we are divine,

26. Taking care of our body is the key to everything. And our movements always give away how we have done this.

27. How we move is vital to how we live.

28. Beautiful to appreciate your everyday religion, that it comes from within, and the quality of the stillness that you feel within your body is the quality you bring to what you do.

    1. I really wouldn’t have connected the word religion with the relationship with my body or something inside me till I felt it for myself. Now, there is nothing that can tell me we are not all connected to each other and that there is a religious way of living that confirms that awareness in our movements.

       1. Its simple logic isn’t it. If the divine lives within us and we can feel that, then its accessible to everyone equally so and brotherhood is guaranteed.

29. Connection to us is connection to God and therefore we are living Religion in our choice to connect. Great blog Leah.

30. The thing I love about Esoteric Yoga is the space that it offers: it’s always such an honest reflection of how I’ve been living. It’s the space to feel the consequences of our choices, what supports us and what doesn’t, and to just allow it all to be, without needing it to be different, without needing to feel a certain way.

31. Just reading your gorgeous blog Leah, brings me to my stillness within body.

32. In any moment we have a choice to come back to earth, feel our body and let our thoughts and defenses drop. It’s possible any place, any time but not so easy when we live in our mind. Thank you Leah for the inspiration here to let my body be and feel the stillness in me.

33. If we all took religion to be connecting within (which essentially is connecting with God and that quality lived and expressed in us) and we lived that daily – wowza, watch out!

34. What you have expressed for me so clearly Leah, is the simplicity of conscious presence that is needed in my everyday life. “When you rush the body, it checks out – it is designed to move in moments” SB.

35. Thank you Rebecca, I know this very well too, the pressure of one thing taking precedence over the other, so I very much appreciate the insights shared here by yourself and Leah, thank you.

36. Thank you Leah, it’s been amazing reading this again as I can understand and appreciate so much more of what you are sharing, as I have expanded my awareness and deepened into my own stillness. It’s such a simple way to explain religion, that it is in connection to God and the love and stillness we come from and letting each choice and move be from that source.

37. I love how you bring stillness into your everyday activities. That you just don’t leave it for a certain time of the week when you connect to you (i.e. a yoga/meditation/gentle stretch class). It is part of your everything.

38. “When you rush the body, it checks out – it is designed to move in moments. Understand this and you will heal anxiousness and exhaustion.” ~ Serge Benhayon. Absolute gold. Today is Christmas Day – this is my gift. Thank you.

39. The beauty of love is that it is very simple.

40. It doesn’t make sense to me for religion to be something that is compartmentalised – or contained to certain buildings, ceremonies, rituals or ordained people. It is to me like you share here Leah – something that is naturally available equally to us in all aspects of our life and daily living.

41. Thank you Leah for sharing your healing rhythm. There is much I can take from this myself.

42. Religion translated in a very simple and practical list where it is all about staying connected with our body and the quality of each movement. Appreciating and honouring the spark of light within us all.

43. It is incredible to feel how our bodies always reflect the quality of connection we are choosing. As when we rush ahead of ourselves we have already disconnected from our bodies and being, such as we are moving in a loveless way that is in disregard to our bodies which so often leads us into anxiousness and exhaustion. I have experience this for a large part of my life but now realise just how honouring and supportive it is to develop a loving relationship with my body, and be guided by the stillness that lies therein. This quality is what truly defines who we are and when we are moved by this quality we are move by our Soul which is our divine purpose in being here.

44. I love the practical simplicity of your list here. This makes religion a no big deal, and as you say a very everyday connection.

45. A gorgeous sharing thank you Leah, this is something that I am often not aware of when I make some things more important than others, ” That everything means everything equally. That everything I do, whether it be my work, my housework, shopping, driving or interacting with people – everything is of equal importance.”

    1. This actually feels very beautiful, that every part of life receives our equal love and stillness, the all that we are.

46. It is beautiful to bring the quality of stillness into our expression in every way; it’s a vibrant way of living in connection with ourselves and everyone else.

47. A beautiful blog Leah, on the quality of our movements and how this deepens our connection to our Soul.

48. I know that what you say is true Leah, because I can feel the same in my body when I read it. When you detail how you move in your daily activities, its echo resounds, activating the same in me. The quality of our movements, just like the quality of our words, have the potential of harmonising around us when we harmonise ourselves first. Thank you

    1. Amparo I have been sitting enjoying your words and pondering on them. What came to me was how simple movement looks yet our quality of moving can emit a very healing, harmonising and supportive energy. Likewise our movement can emit an energy that confirms roughness, hardness, disconnection from our essence, self neglect, etc, and that can harm others energetically – and we are always moving, so it’s either one or the other. It reminds me of the true beauty of responsibility, to simple be the soul and who we truly are in our essence so that the all we are a part of is not harmed but supported to return to soul.

49. It’s through appreciating the delicate things in life that we get to know ourselves and each other on a very deep level.

    1. Wise words Harry, so beautifully shared. More and more I am realising that without appreciating and embracing our delicateness we cannot live who we truly are.

       1. True Harry and Carola, delicateness is an innate quality that opens us up to feel our divine quality in every movement we choose.

50. It is through the quality of our movements that we know God within ourselves and true religion to be anything in connection with our soul.

51. Religion as my everyday is such a beautiful thing – there is honour, joy, laughter, humbleness and so much more in a day filled with true religion, which is a living presence, and not the voice of dogma or belief.

52. Living racy is creating a path to walk in life that guarantees unsettlement as a way of living, hence a life in total disconnection from ourselves and from life itself.

53. It is true that the body extremely dislikes to be rushed. To empower myself is to be in life in a movement that honours myself but also honours others. This is a movement that does not say yes to be controlled or abused, and is in equal deep respect of others.

54. The key words here are the quality in … in everything it’s that quality which makes the difference. This builds an appreciation in everything we are and do in life.

55. Appreciating the moments when I am not being present with myself are so well worth appreciating for in the next moment I give myself an opportunity to change my movement to bring myself back to being present with me.

56. It’s crazy that we choose to drop or lessen our inner connection to stillness when life gets on top of us as it’s the one of the powerful ways that we can change our perspective and bring us back to our body. Actually, if life is getting intense and reactionary then we have already dropping the ball on giving stillness a voice.

57. Beautiful Rebecca, it’s a gorgeous way to see life as everything being equally important because it comes back to you twice fold. It is my purpose I have been connected to for a long time, every single movement in our life determines how well we can live and be love.

58. As I read and feel the stillness with which you do the things that support you in life I can feel how I have an urge to race ahead which is how I live. Somehow there’s a fear of standing still and really surrendering to the majesty of who I am once I stop racing. But as I write this I am inspired to give myself the space in the morning and during the day to not race, to commit to each moment and the task that is there before me- not race off in my mind with all the things that need to be done next. What a totally different way of living that brings great awareness and presence.

59. Thank you Leah – reading your words today has put me in mind of a merry go round at a fair. For most of our lives it’s like we are stuck on one of these, our head and our thoughts going around endlessly. It’s huge then, through modalities like Esoteric Yoga to discover it’s possible to stop this ride, and that there is another life outside the fairground. Now it’s great way for me to observe myself – am I still, with body and feeling real? Or spinning around in a whirl?

60. Esoteric Yoga provides a unique space to actually stop and feel how you are, rather than thinking you are ok or being too busy to care! Almost every time I do a session, I notice something I was previously unaware of. Awareness and feeling are key to how we can live in a way that is harmonious and natural for ourselves and our bodies

    1. Fiona that is very true and beautifully expressed, thank you. Recently I attended an Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy session, and I felt like I was pretty good before we started. After the session I was amazed as I had gone to a whole new level of feeling good, my body felt such a reduction in tension and hardness, and I felt more balanced and rejuvenated. I was deeply appreciative of the new awareness of what “feeling good” can actually feel like.

61. “So my Everyday Religion is my connection to my body and how present I can be with my body in every movement or physical activity that I do throughout the day. ” I love this line Leah as it confirms that every movement made from our bodies expression can be a religious choice by the quality of our presence. Showing that we do not need to do anything and or pray to God to be religious but if we choose we can walk and talk and move in a way that expresses God is equally within us all. That’s pretty cool.

62. Everything has the potential to be a true reflection of the inner state of awareness, connection and grace that is our true nature

63. “So my Everyday Religion is my connection to my body and how present I can be with my body in every movement or physical activity that I do throughout the day. Committing to choosing gentle movements with everything that I do and to remain as present with what I am doing as much as I can is a discipline for me.”
    I love that you are making it so simple, for this is the language of the soul. I know I am off, when I try to complicate things or make words like Religion into something they are not. When you talk about Religion so plainly, as an everyday ritual, it leaves me with only one question, why do I fight myself so often instead surrendering to this Religiously?

64. “everything is of equal importance” – these words leapt off the screen today and I realised how often I do one task, but am thinking of the next, giving that more importance than the task at hand. Which is not giving everything equal importance. Great food for thought – thank you.

65. Religion is fun now it is all about true love, harmony, relationship, Joy – it was always there and always that but the man made interpretations really sucked the fun out of it

66. We race a lot and when we do that it can be hard to believe that there is a stillness in each and every one of us. And then often we look for outside things to bring that stillness to us, like we have to acquire it somehow.

    But what I love about Esoteric Yoga and the principles of the Ageless Wisdom, is that it re-connects us to the fact that stillness is our foundation, it is innate in each and every one of us, it is not something we need to acquire. And that we can learn ways to let go of what is not us, and then live what naturally is.

67. Esoteric Yoga offers us an opportunity to connect to a new marker in our bodies of that which is of true movement, it is a choice we can make at any time to surrender and live in connection with the all where life is constellated in perfect order for us to evolve.

68. “It is in this deep stillness that I re-connect to what is within me.” Awesome Leah loved reading your experience, the reflection this offers me very pertanant.

69. “In no way is there perfection, but returning to this quality of stillness in my body has helped me to deal with life and everything around me.” Yes Esoteric Yoga is amazing in supporting us to feel our stillness inside and how amazing and grand we are, knowing this as a feeling in my body has supported me enormously as well to not be so affected by the busyness and stresses of the outside world. We can only truly change ourselves, the surroundings may follow but we can’t force that.

70. Gorgeous, this is the way to live religion, loving everything starting with us and our bodies and in doing so we encompass the all.

71. What a beautiful description of what religion is.

72. “This quality is the Stillness of God and the Stillness of God in motion.” It is funny though that we collectively have walked away from that quality within, that quality of stillness that resides equally in all of us but, as been mentioned in this blog, can be overridden by rushing the body or to abide in the busy mind. Why have we chosen for this way of being instead of that natural stillness we all have inside? Do we have an investment in this way of being, or what does it serve us to choose for this business? To me it is just a trick of the mind that likes to have its rule over the body and in that relentlessly persuades and manipulates it to rush and being busy minded instead.of be that natural stillness in which it instantly connects to that place we belong to and reconnect with the source of our being, with God. our father.

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74. What I come to understand is that we are in alignment to whatever we choose. Hence, our creations are with us wherever we go… It is the awareness (which is an equal alignment) that can strip down the ill thoughts and beliefs we have created our way to be. If we strip them down correctly – all we will feel is a greater space to observe more of our ill ways – and that which truly is… and make our world to be that.

75. What a beautiful blog Leah. I have to agree that the beauty is found in the simple things… not just the simple things though as it is in the quality of how we move from place to place, the quality of how we drink, eat, sip our tea or eat each bite of food that supports us to confirm the connection we already have within with our Soul and God. If the quality is not made the focus then the doing alone will not achieve this.

76. It is important to build appreciation of the little things in the life we live to truly support ourselves, as they provide a greater foundation than we possibly know.

77. If religion was understood in truth it would be seen as something you walk and live in your body – and would be inseparable to every part of life – including science.

78. Even though I know how wonderful it feels to move with gentleness I still find myself rushing sometimes. My body feels the impact of this hugely, and I go from feeling vital and energised to feeling totally exhausted. If this is the case after rushing for an afternoon, what is the consequence for someone who is in rush energy constantly? No wonder coffee sales are through the roof.

79. We are so set up to stray as far as possible away from our stillness with all the distractions and stimulants on offer in the world today, so to find stillness in our lives again is such a blessing and something the body needs so much.

80. It is so very supportive to re-visit this blog and feel the simplicity of how we can live. The quote by Serge Benhayon really does say it all – “When you rush the body, it checks out – it is designed to move in moments. Understand this and you will heal anxiousness and exhaustion.”

81. Like so much in life we have made religion complicated and heavy-going, with rules and so many should-do’s whereas in truth, religion is so simple. In everything we do, how we do it, we can bring connection – and our connection is our religion.

82. “When you rush the body, it checks out” this way of living was way too familiar to me, but I have found the Esoteric Yoga has shown me a way of living and being that I never thought possible. It offers an opportunity to feel stillness in the body and then feel how that can be brought into motion without raciness, without a wandering mind and once this is felt it is something to hold on to and expand.

83. Living religiously in commitment to the details of daily life expresses the truth of religion already within us.

84. Connection to the body puts an end to the constant drain that living in raciness and haste creates; it is the beginning of sanity.

85. I have to take inspiration off you Leah and up my game, I do love the stillness in motion thing but still need loads of practice, but hey I have time and space.

86. Wow thanks, Leah, this quote by Serge Benhayon is life-changing – “When you rush the body, it checks out – it is designed to move in moments. Understand this and you will heal anxiousness and exhaustion.” For most of my life I have been rushing and always getting ahead of myself, and it is only through the observation of Serge and his family that I have been reminded of the spaciousness created by moving in moments.

87. Thank you Leah, it is inspiring to read about the quality of your movements, and how this supports you.

88. I find being aware of the quality of my movement is an instant snapshot of where I am at, and from there the next conscious move can be made.

89. When we allow ourselves to surrender to our body – we find out that there is a lot to say and a lot to express, act on and life from. Our body is constantly sending out signals to us of what movements are next and supporting us to deepen our stillness every single day, can you imagine once we listen!

90. When we simply allow ourselves to be ourselves, these movements that reflect divinity become natural, in fact, they cannot be hidden, and it would be a lie to live anything but them.

91. You have spoken what true religion is for me Leah, a connection to God in the everyday and I know my body facilitates that and shows me the way. And it’s those many rituals we have which support and remind us to stay connected to our bodies and thus God. Very beautiful.

92. Leah I appreciated the way you connected stillness to the vastness of the stars and Universe, and that it’s a quality that is inherent in something much greater than just our individual human lives.

93. A beautiful sharing Leah. I love how you say that everything you do and the energy in which you do it makes for harmony or anxiousness and exhaustion. Religion is a very personal thing.

94. Esoteric Yoga is very revealing as it was not until I started a course of Esoteric Yoga that I got to feel how utterly exhausted I was. It was then that I was able to start being honest about why I was feeling so exhausted and start to make different choices.

95. I’ve had some small experience with Esoteric Yoga and likewise was fascinated at how something so simple could make my body feel so profoundly different in just a few minutes. That feeling as space pours into an area of the body is an amazing sensation, and it always brings up the question of how did I get to feeling so uptight in the first place without noticing?

96. There is definitely a relationship with the quality how we move and how we feel – and when we do Esoteric Yoga it can be really exposing as it shows us how easy it is that we get distracted and lose that precious connection to ourselves not only in the session but in everyday life.

97. “When you rush the body, it checks out – it is designed to move in moments. Understand this and you will heal anxiousness and exhaustion.” ~ Serge Benhayon (Esoteric Teachings and Revelations, Book 1, p. 303)
    This is just one revelation that can change the course for humanity in a book that has hundreds if not thousands more.

98. Sometimes you see people who live in such a graceful and deeply respectful way. It can blow your mind the integrity they bring to every gesture and move. But now I can see it’s happened for them because they have simply felt the abuse and harm that comes from being short, rushed and abrupt. It’s not a discipline they have whipped themselves into but an obedience that flows from a deep knowing. And so I am inspired to honour that truth equally in me. Thank you Leah.

99. A powerful blog, read it yesterday, totally got a different feeling from it, a deeper one, of what it truly means to be religious.. And that there is a deeper sacred value within us that we can live accordingly to bring out more and more for us all to see. The fact that we are divine and beyond our physicality and the fact that we do not belong here in this physical body and till we reunite we will be in this form of existence – until we bring that energetic quality (divinity that can not be matched on earth) to our lives, all of us, we will return and become formless (without physical existence) again. Just put simply: we are made of energy – hence we need to come back in the wholeness of that quality of energy to continue our expansion.

100. Religion is our relationship with everything – it is love, equality, cohesiveness and unity. How can we do anything without it as our dear companion.

101. Thank you Leah, for making religion accesible again – as it always was meant to be. By unlocking the evil and deceitful images, beliefs, stories, thoughts and emotions that were blocking us to feel how religion is so simple and flowing naturally. Never the complex situation we have made it to be.

102. It is incredible how much of a difference it can make in bringing more awareness to the way in which we move. I’ve just completed a training course in esoteric yoga and appreciate more now just how supportive this modality is – it truly helps us to free up our body and return to a way of moving that is in harmony and not from how we think we should move from what we’ve been told or seen others do…

103. Anxiousness is a modern day plaque with most people living their lives run from it. We can continue in this trajectory and in fact make the plague worse by feeding our bodies caffeine and sugar, but what does this really bring to society? A lot of people who are stressed, rushed, anxious, short, angry and abusive. Ways of living in the human body that we deem to be normal, but is it possible that whilst these emotions are real and that people do use them, that they would be used less if the choice was made to allow the stillness within to begin to guide how we move and be in our bodies?

104. It is through motion that life expands. Therefore it is worth deeply questioning what quality of motion we are expanding upon.

105. It is quite astonishing what can be felt when we make a choice to actually stop and connect with our bodies, and Esoteric Yoga is one such modality that offers the space for us to do that. It provides an opportunity to feel how even the tiniest and most subtle of movements, that when not done gently and with how the body wants to move, can really jar on the body. By connecting to the power of stillness that lies within us, and then moving from that place instead of being in a constant motion is incredibly powerful.

106. ‘When you rush the body, it checks out – it is designed to move in moments. Understand this and you will heal anxiousness and exhaustion.” ~ Serge Benhayon
     This opens up so much and completely dissolves any idea that we are designed to operate in any form of drive for when we are driven we miss moments because we are so focused on the required outcome.

107. Understanding that stillness is not a lack of movement but rather an energetic quality of being is huge, and with this comes a very deeply empowering message about the fact that what we choose for our selves with regards to the energies that we align to are the results or the consequences for what we experience in life.

108. The most gentle and simplest of movements reminding how we truly are on the inside.

109. Yoga is not about turning up to a class in Lyra and stretching and bending, true yoga as delivered by Esoteric Yoga is all about quality and how we live this in our everyday. Thank you Leah for all your examples of living in that quality of connection, for once in that connection we bring the love of universe through our every moment.

110. Reading this blog today for the second time – it felt like the first time and yet with a familiarity of the presence and stillness felt within your writing. Very beautiful and still, thanks

111. Anxiety plays a much bigger part in our lives than we perhaps realise. I’m starting to clock the myriad ways it makes its presence felt – from the obvious to the subtle. Serge Benhayon has presented that “Anxiety (body) is feeling not equipped (skills) to respond to what is in front of you (life) when in fact you are fully (knowing) equipped.” Through its calming of the body and the physiology, Esoteric Yoga can help us to return to that knowingness.

112. Leah, like you discovering Esoteric Yoga, has been so beneficial because as you say the body responds in a way that we can feel the stillness within it, which I had never felt before because I was in such raciness which was like a thick blanket covering the stillness. It’s amazing what can be discovered about our bodies if we take the time to stop and listen.

113. Knowing that the stillness is always there inside us in any situation is such an amazing insight to know and understand for we then just have to connect to it. So often in life I get into rush or manic mode to get stuff done but I am finding more and more how exhausting it is to leave myself, so a bit more stillness in motion would truly be magical.

114. I haven’t read this before Leah and absolutely love how you show how living with a certain quality is religious. I particularly love this quote ““When you rush the body, it checks out – it is designed to move in moments. Understand this and you will heal anxiousness and exhaustion.” ~ Serge Benhayon (Esoteric Teachings and Revelations, Book 1, p. 303)” there is so much in this and much I can develop and appreciate about how I am currently living and how much stillness I am allowing in my body.

115. I too used to rush around and figit a lot always trying to keep myself distracted – so things like the tv were always on, or I was out in the garden playing catch – I could hardly ever for example sit down and read a book. It was always onto the next thing which was exhausting. Learning to live and be with myself more and more actually brings joy into the moment as I get to fully enjoy it without thinking what is next – it is a very simple way to approach life but one which means that in every moment (without perfection) you are your whole and so everyone gets you and not the frustrated, tired, resentful person we often put out when we have had enough – because how can we have enough of love – its impossible!

116. This is my religion too. To be with myself in every moment, and to bring God to them. To move in a way that allows that to happen, and gentleness and grace are a great way to start for me.

117. “I am aware that the quality of my movements can allow others to come back to themselves” it is through the appreciation of our beingness that we get to feel the power that we hold within ourselves when we choose to express in connection with who we are and that we don’t have to do anything just to align to the correct source of energy that holds another in the love they know they are deep within themselves.

118. I love how you have built in and allowed for mistakes in your day. It is true we are not designed to be perfect and I have found beating myself up can often be worse and have far more reaching and longer consequences then the mistake (choice to disregard myself!) in the 1st place. The key now is how quickly we can bounce back to the love that we are.

119. Religion is not a relationship you have in seclusion or away from the world. It is a relationship that you wear on your sleeve openly for all to see – leaving them free to either accept or reject accordingly. Either way, you are not diminished or affected, or called to engage. You simply remain as you are, because for you, there is no other way. There is only religion.

     1. Indeed Adam, beautifull said, you remain as you are as religion is your way, which is our natural way we come from and continues to live in our bodies. It is actually about connection and a reactivation as we all one time have lived this before but have fallen for the seduction to choose differently, to choose for a life in creation and to leave the world of co-creation we belong to.

120. With sleeplessness as an epidemic in our society, Esoteric Yoga clearly has a place to support people in living in such a way that issues with sleep potentially disappear.

121. Thank you for these words, they have connected me back to my own stillness and connection to God this morning.

122. The tasks that you mention are tasks that everyone does every day. The difference is in the quality and the awareness. A world of difference.

123. Restlessness is a ‘given’ in our world. We are run by this terrible tension and lack of fullness, and run around ‘doing doing doing’ so that we won’t feel the ache of not living in our essence. Esoteric Yoga is a brilliant tool to bring awareness to this very fact and to open the opportunity of deepening into the silkiness and magnificent potential that lies in the stillness.

124. I have found that being religious on a daily basis is a building a solid foundation that then supports me when life throws up something unexpected to deal with.

125. We shouldn’t be scared to make mistakes, as it is governing all our choices when we do, we are magnificent and divinely created beings, that are learning to return back to this. Living religiously is returning us to our original and one unified way.

126. A beautifull reminder Leah of how the quality of our movements (as demonstrated by the wonderful modality of Esoteric Yoga) can bring us back to our divine stillness.

127. ‘It is how I walk from room to room, tidying up and placing objects and things in a certain order that creates harmony in my life and within my body.’ Around 2 years ago I started to adjust the way I walked thanks to the support of an Esoteric Healing practitioner as I was having pain in my feet despite wearing orthotics. What I noticed is that I would focus on the way I walked outside of the house and then would slop about inside the house. I am now appreciating that it is every step that matters not just the ones when I switch on my focus because I’m going for a walk.

     1. What you have shared here is so very vital to the quality of our everyday lives Fiona; that it is the way we move wherever we are and whatever we are doing that is so important. From bringing our awareness to the way we are moving in every moment, including for example how we are breathing, we will soon start to notice that life naturally begins to change and flows much more easily.

128. ‘There is nothing in this world that I would rather be than the beauty of stillness within me’. The ultimate testimony to the power of Esoteric Yoga. One day this and other Esoteric modalities will be available to many more people and they too can experience that same depth of stillness.

129. I love living in a religious way because it supports me to keep coming back to me.

130. Living from my body and not my head is starting to become my normal and when I have days in my head I feel exhausted and completely out of sorts.

131. Beautiful Leah so lovely to feel how the smallest details in our everyday lives is our livingness and the quality of this can be divine and is in our every movement and the quality of this makes all the difference. “The magic of stillness is in motion – the goal is to bring stillness in motion in everything we do.”

132. Taking care of ourselves and confirming that we are love done religiously is religion, the union with ourselves.

133. For me it is the stillness I feel in every movement I choose to connect to that brings a gorgeous quality to every movement thereafter. It is also great to note the feeling of intimacy and depth that comes from our movements when we make the choice to connect to our stillness and then the reflection this offers others is marvellous too.

134. A great Serge Benhayon quote about the body and movements – “When you rush the body, it checks out – it is designed to move in moments. Understand this and you will heal anxiousness and exhaustion.” ~ Serge Benhayon (Esoteric Teachings and Revelations, Book 1, p. 303)
     Our movements are everything, and can bring quality, depth and evolution – so simple.

135. “I am aware that the quality of my movements can allow others to come back to themselves.” This has been a big awareness for me, the more I have connected to my stillness, I have through my movements allowed a reflection for others to come back to themselves.

136. Words all come from a movement and an energy, so that it is then our responsibility to know what the movement and energy we are aligned to when we speak, allowing us to open up to the true meaning of words. Words such as religion have been reinterpreted, so that the energy they come with is taking us further away from our ‘connection with our body,’ which creates a disharmony and tensions between different religions.

137. Stillness within the motion sounds like a conundrum… to the mind at least. But through the practice of being connected within and moving throughout my day, my body knows what stillness in motion feels like. This stillness supports me in a very busy workday filled with questions and issues, but within I am me, and that doesn’t leave.

138. When the quality of our movements are inspired from our connection to stillness they are loving, joyful and in harmony with truth.

139. In a recent Esoteric Yoga class, as I sat in my stillness, I realised that EVERYTHING comes from my stillness. My power, my grace, my love, my awareness… Movement is to come from that quality and it is the quality of stillness that comes first.

140. Esoteric Yoga allows us to reconnect to the stillness within where we can experience and live in the awe of how amazing life is perfectly constellated, for it is only until then we are able to fully surrender to what is divine.

141. There are many things that I am religious about everyday and it’s so interesting how out of sorts I feel if I am inconsistent with these rhythms.

142. ‘Esoteric Yoga has been an evolving practice where I have been able to feel my relationship with my body and choose movements that are more gentle and tender and to feel how this choice can affect my body.’ In just reading this sentence reminded me to clock some very subtle movements in my body and to surrender more to my natural qualities of gentleness and tenderness. Being in my body and honouring my body needs constant reminding as it is so easy to slip into living from my head and not fully honouring what my body is telling me.

143. I love these words by Serge Benhayon, about moving in moments… this immediately gives me a sense of what true presence is.

     1. I agree Shami, living in moments.. simplicity

144. This is very beautiful to read:religion being cherished and nurtured daily. I’ve started swimming much more regularly, often before work as a lovely way to come back to myself and the quality of stillness. Any time I lose it and worry about being bumped into or bumping into another swimmer, or go into trying to get to the other side, the swim becomes a struggle. It shows me how I can struggle in life or allow the flow. I had always hated swimming in swimming pools because of the panic in trying to get to the other end (from being taught to swim in big groups and trying to keep up with the group – not be the last one left they had to wait for); but the other day I felt this stillness – so a swimming up and down but it was like I wasn’t having to put any effort in and it was beautiful. It showed me what can be done without exhausting myself or depleting myself.

145. “It is in this deep stillness that I re-connect to what is within me.” when we talk about religion I used to think this was something that was outside of me, something that someone else had written or spoke about that I had to believe in and it gave something back to me. Yet today the strength of my religion also comes from the stillness inside and my connection with myself, everything that happens from their is the magic of the choice of what I am religious with.

146. The true religion of our every day livingness is beautiful to see appreciate and choose in the connection and love of all we are. The quality of this is simply divine if we choose it .

147. It is a marvellous understanding to discover that we can do anything we need to do with the quality of stillness Leah. I am on that journey too, and the awareness it brings proves to me that everything is a choice to change energetically and can bring us back to divine Love even with a menial every day task. Then it becomes our routine and lived religious way to experience in our daily lives, thanks to Esoteric Yoga.

148. I love that you are bringing religiousness into your everyday and sharing it here. Religion is a word so sacred that we have minimised, reinterpreted and messed with to the point that a lot of people feel resistant to, if not revulsed by, it. To claim it back into our lives with its true meaning – reuniting and returning to our essence (love) – means we can appreciate the opportunity to go about our daily activities religiously.

     1. Reinterpretation of words to me is the greatest sin against humanity, and true religion is exposing the energetic truth that is in words, so we all need to feel this evil. Matilda, I love what you have shared about ‘love’, we all can open our hearts to what the misinterpretation and reinterpretations of words is, so we can all live with a one unified truth.

149. “…So my Everyday Religion is my connection to my body… Yes, this relationship we have with ourselves (body) is there when we wake up in the morning and with us during the whole day, so I can see how you describe it as ‘religion’… as you constantly return to this quality anytime during the day.

     1. That’s a great point Johanne – religion is in the detail and the consistency of how we treat ourselves and our bodies.

150. ‘Choosing to live with awareness and energetic integrity has enabled me to read and appreciate situations and people. I know I will make mistakes sometimes, but this is my daily religion, the religion of connecting to my body in a certain quality. This quality is the Stillness of God and the Stillness of God in motion’. Well said Leah. This is a religion in an entirely different category to all the other mind-fed, emotional fed religions that exist in the world today. This is knowing God’s movement and that we live move breathe and have our being in God’s body – which is a vibration of Love, Light and Truth.

151. Perhaps the greatest ever revelation revealed to me was that the reason we do not know the essence of God is because we move in such a way that impedes our ability to know the fact that the fiery nature of his light courses through our veins. What does that mean? Put simply, and what has not been considered by psychology that I know of, is that often issues such as anxiety are caused, or if not caused, at least accentuated by one’s movements, in this case particularly the rhythm of one’s breath, which in turn affects the rhythm of our movements. Similarly, the state of anger can be magnified or embedded by the way one holds themself. When one is living in such an agitated state of being that both of these examples illustrate, one cannot feel the innate stillness that lies within. On occasion, one can arise above such states in an instant by for example being inspired by and connecting to nature, or the stars. However, in truth, such states can never be arisen out of by mind power alone, and can only ultimately be arrested in full by committing to a different quality of movement throughout one’s day.

     1. In the past, I would never considered that the way I move had an impact on how I was feeling, in fact, I used to look at it the other way round. But I can now feel that the moment I react to something there is a definite change in my body, often a contraction, and if I do not address that change at that moment my very next movement carries the impact of the reaction – and it doesn’t have to be a big reaction, even the tiniest one has an impact on any movement within our body. Something very important to consider and to be responsible for with every movement and in every moment of our lives.

     2. Understanding that we are the ones in control of our inner environment has been such a huge revelation for me, I always believed that anxiety was something that I had no control over, now I know that anxiety is a disconnection to me (my breath) and that when I feel anxious I am reminded to come back to my movements, my body and my breath.

152. Simple loving actions to live by, underpinned first by the stillness accessible in us all which then can run through everything we do. Nothing can compare to that quality.

153. ‘There is nothing in this world that I would rather be than the beauty of stillness within me.’

     Connecting with this is very beautiful and to reflect upon whether anything compares to this quality is to confirm I too feel the same truth. Going back to all the high points I considered made my life feel alive were all false, the recognition, the excitement – of a new relationship, a new car, a new promise of happiness or fulfilment, the relief of not having to do something one is unsure about, or of finishing work early; nothing can compare to the beautiful quality of stillness that I can connect to. And this awesome to admit. Why ‘admit’? Because when I’m asked to go deeper with this quality a part of me has a little panic when there is no need to panic, I can trust stillness beyond all else.

154. Amazing how you have equated religion with how we experience life with our body, our feelings and relationship to all through our body, this is how religion should truly be, a relationship with the universe.

155. It is most beautiful to connect to the stillness within I agree, I don’t want to miss it for the world, here is where I can feel the preciousness and greatness I am. And as you say it does take a bit of rhythm and being religiously disciplined that makes a huge difference, it surprises me again and again how little it takes to take myself out or bring myself back, it works either way.

156. “When you rush the body, it checks out – it is designed to move in moments. Understand this and you will heal anxiousness and exhaustion.” just goes to show how important it is the weekly events and see where we are at..

157. With a sense of solidness within, knowing who we are by our quality first, it is only natural for us to see and feel this in others too.

     1. Yes and I love it when I feel so steady that I can open up more and more to everything that is going on around me, unfazed and ready to learn, support, share…

158. I was concerning this ‘moving in moments’ that you share here, there is something about being considered in how we move, completing the movements, so we pick up a cup with presence rather than going to do something else at the same time. This feels awesome to look at and really pick up where we check out and move through life without being fully aware of our bodies.

159. It is beautiful here how you relate religion back to a quality of relationship with your body. This is where the doors open to shine on those who can see and feel the essence of light that comes from within us all.

160. “It wasn’t until I discovered Esoteric Yoga that I was able to feel the space to truly stop and to choose the quality of my movements. Then I was able to feel how exhausted and drained I was.” Its so true, that we dont often give ourselves the time or space to truly stop and feel what is going on in our bodies. And perhaps this is because we dont actually want to feel what we are doing to ourselves. Esoteric Yoga is such a wonderful way to introduce this stop and the opportunity to re connect to the stillness that is always present within us.

161. The tiniest details matter and when we bring awareness and grace to those tiniest details we realise that everything matters and how we are through the day is incredibly important.

     1. True, Jennifer – the words ‘details’ is so delightful as it asks for ultimate attention and awareness. In the details we are able to feel our unique quality of how we do what we do and this allows space for appreciation to naturally flow.

162. You demystify religion Leah. It is so simple, it’s a movement of connection and reverence. That we have moved away from this simplicity and knowing as a society says a lot about how far we have moved from our true selves.

163. I feel we can often go into our heads even to try and connect back to our body.

164. Esoteric Yoga enables you to return to that exquisite stillness within the body, an essence that never runs out, only ever expanding deeper and deeper. Definitely, this is like medicine for the body to be able to restore and re-member our innermost in a world that champions distraction and 24/7.

165. My mind used to jump all over the place and at times stay fixated on one topic to then just move onto he next and I thought this was normal. From when I discovered Universal Medicine Therapies such as Esoteric Yoga and The Gentle Breath Meditation I have developed a rhythm that is so simple and can be described as being in conscious presence to the best of my ability.

166. True religion is simply expressing truth and accepting truth wherever it is.

167. The stillness described is one I relate to, I can believe I am quite settled in my body, but then if I pay closer attention I can see if I am restless, unable to sit still, just taking longer to not be distracted, and this is the measure for me. To relate this to religion, I guess the more settled we are in our body, more still, the more of a connection we have to religion in the true meaning of the word, that state of being where we are at ease with ourselves.

168. This certainly exposes religious ‘rules’ and doctrines that are void of the all-encompassing truth of religion, and the way in which this truth can be lived in our everyday lives.

     1. Yes, it is demanding of us to accept something as truth when we know it is not true. A form of coercion.

169. your experience with esoteric yoga shows the enormous power and simplicity of bringing connection and focus – to allow ourselves to feel, know and live fully the moment presented to us, not checked out with a past regret or worrying about some imagined future situation. bring our awareness to the present and a greater awareness is there for unfolding.

170. ‘The spaciousness, the warmth and harmony that I connect to are reflected to me in nature and within the universe and stars. ‘ this is something that deepens and expands as the connection becomes more steady and more full. an ever unfolding wonder.

171. Today I have a night shift which then goes straight into a full week’s work, so I about to take myself off to bed to rest for an hour so that I am not exhausted for the remainder of the week. It’s a very simple choice; not rocket science, not preached from a book, or justified by prayer. But it is still my religion, that I am finessing, evolving on an everyday basis. It is my living study that I am committed to. It is my religion.

172. I find what you could call the quality of my daily rhythm – a series of movements or actions in my day that are repeated every day – is super important to maintaining a steadiness and stillness within me, which allows me to deal with whatever occurs in my day.

173. Making the choice towards living a life of greater energetic integrity and quality begins to reveal the vast chasm between what we are truly are, and what we actually live, but the return only requires one step in each moment.

174. The restlessness, irritability and inner-tension are what some people describe as having ‘lots of energy’. Yes, there is lot’s of energy but it is an energy that drains, depletes and harms our body, which clearly indicates it is not the source of energy our body is designed to run on.

175. Religion is the way we live, not something we dress nicely for on Sundays. It doesn’t leave us and is who we are.

176. make religion about your everyday way of being, seems to remove a whole heap of pressure to get it right. The daily relationship with ourselves is how we confirm what we know to be true, the question is what truth are we confirming…

     1. Great question Joel, truth to me is a Livingness that has to be aligned to divine way in which the practice of Esoteric Yoga brings a deep stillness that confirms my connection to God.

177. How simple and beautiful religion is.

178. “When you rush the body, it checks out – it is designed to move in moments. Understand this and you will heal anxiousness and exhaustion.” ~ Serge Benhayon (Esoteric Teachings and Revelations, Book 1, p. 303) Recently With so much to do at the shop I work at and with fewer staff, I have been slipping into automatic and putting the work before all else and running myself in to the ground. This coupled with anxiousness over what could or could not happen in a difficult family dispute has led me to checking out. This has been beautifully mirrored to me in the Esoteric Yoga sessions, each one allowing me a deeper appreciation of the stillness to be found within and the beauty of moving from this as we go about our day.

179. “when you rush the body it checks out – it is designed to move in moments. Understand this and you will heal anxiousness and exhaustion.” ~ Serge Benhayon (Esoteric Teachings and Revelations, Book 1, p. 303)”
     I realize how this quote challenges me to stay in the moment and not be with my thoughts in the next moment while I am physically not yet there. This exposes how often I am in my thoughts in the next moment already anxious about how to manage everything which needs to be managed.

180. My body is constantly telling me not to rush, so no matter what it is I can learn to slow down and be more present in my day. Practicing Esoteric Yoga has become a blessing for me, and I will take it into more areas of my life, as it is something that can be done when and where ever in everything we do.

181. “What I have discovered is that this stillness is always there within me,” how beautiful to know that this stillness is a part of who we naturally are, even when we are far from living it in our daily lives, there is nothing to get to or to look for, it is just to be, feeling the stillness within the body and living with the innate quality of stillness in all that we do.

182. I have always been somebody who’s head was never in the same place as their body. SOOOO many times I would walk somewhere and not even remember how I got there, let alone remembering where I left my belongings. However, one day after my first esoteric yoga session I went into the bathroom and I could recall every single one of my movements. I was gobsmacked when I was holding the toothpaste and I could literally feel it in my hand, I will never forget that moment!

183. ‘The spaciousness, the warmth and harmony that I connect to are reflected to me in nature and within the universe and stars. There is nothing in this world that I would rather be than the beauty of stillness within me.’ I love these words Leah – very beautiful.

184. What you describe beautifully here is how every movement contributes to our state of being in the next moment.

185. When I was in my late teens I would go to the pub to play darts with friends and I had a nervous habit of ripping up beer mats into little pieces. Looking back I realise I liked to socialize with my friends but didn’t like being in pubs, as they always made me feel uneasy. I still have to go into pubs to meet with customers because that is part of my job but thankfully it is so much easier for me now as I am much more connected to me and can stay within myself thanks to the Universal Medicine modalities such as Esoteric yoga that I regularly attend. I can feel the nervous tension that are in pubs and don’t engage in it. People think going to pubs is relaxing but to me the nervous tension that can be felt in a pub just encourages you to drink to try and quell or numb the nervous tension that is roused in the body, for many of us we have shut down our awareness to what is happening in our environment and still think that going to a pub is a relaxing way to spend time with friends.

186. I would say one of the greatest worthwhile things in life is to learn how to live this connection with stillness in the motion of every day life.

187. It is such a gift to be taught how to connect to our inner selves, no longer needing the self meds or other distractions to take us further away from that inner love that is in each and every one of us.

188. “There is nothing in this world that I would rather be than the beauty of stillness within me.” So beautiful and such a gift to discover and with the support of esoteric yoga to bring this back into our lives as a way of living and moving is very special and to be treasured as you share here and is very powerful.

189. I love this piece of writing. Religion IS the everyday and can be our whole lives lived with care and love and tender attention to detail as we move our bodies.

190. I have been feeling to get my hair cut and it feels quire heavy, not literally but just an energy of heaviness to it. I’m going to look at the quality I wash, dry and style it in – before I do this. I still feel to get my hair cut, but I feel I’ve not brought a loving quality to it in how I go about washing / drying / styling it. I’m going to have fun and play around with this.

191. So true Leah. Religion is certainly not a ‘Sunday’ thing! It is a Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday thing – an everyday thing which is a quality of living life knowing that we are breathing, moving, living within God and the Universe.

192. Religion is a way of living – something that can be known and felt deep within the inner heart, when all the static of the false life is set aside resolutely.

193. Moving with love is a completely different experience to moving with rush or moving with anxiousness, or even moving with harshness. Love is so much more than what the magazines and movies tell us, love is a quality within the body that is our ever present guide if we choose it to be.

194. I totally understand the impact it has on the body and around us leaving projects unfinished. I did not realise until recently how this has been a behaviour of mine and decided to not start anything else until I finished what needed doing. I feel very different even though I have only begun. Simply calling it out has changed how I feel. Where having things around me unfinished left me feeling drained I now feel the end in sight and this is having an impact on how I feel and my wellbeing. I am also learning to say ‘No’.

195. ‘I am aware that the quality of my movements can allow others to come back to themselves.’ Wow, how powerful our movements are. So great to feel that our choice to connect to stillness and move with this quality can bring healing.

196. “Religion is my Everyday” – if religion is our everyday, and by religion as you simply share Leah as being (re)connection, then our everyday is joy. Without religion [connection] we are [all] left in tatters.

197. I love this – ‘the religion of connecting to my body’ this is so simple, and what TheWay of TheLivingness is all about, for in connecting to our body we can feel the All.

198. ‘In no way is there perfection, but returning to this quality of stillness in my body has helped me to deal with life and everything around me’ – this is just it isn’t it? We are returning to our true quality. And I completely confirm all you say here Leah – teturning to the quality of stillness, within my body has has supported me to see, feel and be with life and all situations – to deal with everything in a way I once never considered was possible but at the same time was always resting with in me waiting to reconnected with. Simply gorgeous.

199. Recently rediscovering the support available in practicing the esoteric massage as presented by Serge Benhayon in reconnecting to my body.

200. When I used to hear the word religion I would shutdown and look away as to not engage with it but that was based on the many religions presented in the world. When I finally came to my connecting to my inner essence my relationship with God truly started. Now today weather it is a conscious acknowledgment of having God with me with this connection or at working and making a coffee and feeling the essence that I am, the stillness that is so empowering and steady I know that I am with God, this is my Religion.

201. When we are in raciness we have the choice to stop and reconnect to stillness. But often it is not so easy to do this, sometimes it feels like we are being pushed along by a force/energy to stay in the momentum of raciness.

202. “When you rush the body, it checks out – it is designed to move in moments. Understand this and you will heal anxiousness and exhaustion.” ~ Serge Benhayon (Esoteric Teachings and Revelations, Book 1, p. 303)
     This is quite a revelation, and something I find to be very true. Whenever I rush, the connection to my body, and especially to my breathing, is lost – there is a tension in the body, driven by the mind wanting to achieve something that is dishonouring of what the body actually needs. To stop and feel what the body truly needs in that moment and to move in respect of this is so healing.

203. Surrendering in every moment to the stillness that resides within supports me to move with grace

204. It just the divinely delicious realisation how simple true religion is and to live this in our every movement is a joy and lightness not only to our selves but essential for everyone.

205. By reading this blog several times I actually realised how little attention I am giving to the relationship with my body. I am religious with other people, with my (verbal) expression, more and more with God, but a lot less with my body. I care deeply for my body, but nurturing and deeply listening to what it is telling me about myself is something I’m still to develop. Thank you for sharing your religious way of being with your body.

206. I recently have been having conversations where I brought in the possibility of the other persons relationship with themselves and with everyone around them, and in that the innate relationship with God. In making the conversation bigger than the issue we are discussing, they are able to take a step back and not identify with the issue

207. Its actually possible to feel the quality you are living Leah within this blog, it feels simple, ordered and still, thank you.

208. This is such a stunning reflection on what true religion is really about – a down to earth and deeply beautiful connection with yourself, knowing you’re a natural and equal part of the much bigger picture.

     1. Yes. It feels very important to be talking about religion in this way – the fact that it is part of our everyday and the way we choose to live.

209. Life can be so overwhelmingly busy. If we do not take time for ourselves to reconnect we end up having to resort to medication to stop.

     1. And eventually as our body can’t lie and can’t go on forever in a momentum that is unnatural to it – it will eventually give us a stop moment.

210. It really is as simple as focussing on each moment, and our movement within the moments.

     1. Absolutely – recently I have been feel just how much depth can be grouchy and felt with each moment and how I move. Detail in depth of movement.

211. Movements that return us back to stillness is beautiful. Having the awareness of what I do to not be connected in this way is a great way if stopping and asking myself what’s going on – so, like you say, starting things and leaving them all open and incomplete is one way. I know that reconnecting with myself and the space around me is a wonderful way to then move. That this saves so much time- so rather than rushing through and having to address the mistakes I’d made in the rush and the quality of how I did what I did. Rushing is such a false economy.

212. Its amazing how much of my day I have learned to do repeated actions and rely on nervous energy/brain energy to ‘remember’ and even then there are lots of things I forget.. but today I tried something different and that was staying still within myself and feeling my body as I moved, it was amazing and a real eye opener to how i had been skipping so many details by adopting a nervous movement or recalling actions I had done in the past.

213. “There is nothing in this world that I would rather be than the beauty of stillness within me.” This is beautiful to read as it can be felt and how beautiful that life can be so very simple and rich at once.

     1. The meaning of life that many spend years searching for . . . Resides with in.

214. A constant theme of traditional religions is taking time out to be in a quiet, solum, solitary place, where you won’t be disturbed and can easily feel a sense of space. A truly beautiful part of Esoteric Yoga that you rightfully mention Leah, is the way you get to feel this stillness within you. You can access it anywhere, any time that you choose – for your body is a temple, a mobile church that you take with you. If you make every act and thing you do, your place of worship, the good feeling and vitality that so many seek can’t help but be bestowed upon you.

215. This article is gold dust in inviting us to consider and get to know the constant, unwavering, seed of stillness within us all. One development I want to share is that in this paragraph, ‘What I have discovered is that this stillness is always there within me, and that through the stresses, tensions and emotional reactions in life, I can choose to lessen this quality within – or even choose to disconnect from it’, you suggest that we can lessen this quality within – I don’t feel that anything we do can lessen the quality of the stillness, it is more that we can create more noise, distraction and interference so that we become less aware of and in touch with this stillness… what blows me away is that in any moment I do choose to connect, the stillness is there, in all its amazingness, simply waiting patiently for me to acknowledge and live it.

216. Today I caught myself rushing and becoming agitated with a number of things I thought I had to do in preparation for an upcoming trip. I then clocked the rush in my body and the lack of connection. In that clocking, I stopped and it stopped. I still kept doing what I was doing but now I started moving again in moments, with my breath presiding each moment and not with thoughts outside my body governing the scene. My quality completely changed, my perspective changed.

     This ‘clocking’ is part of my everyday religion – a religion of deepening constantly my connection within and with the All.

217. Esoteric yoga has opened up the possibility of moving in a way that helps me to stay connected. Staying in this connection I do not then get overwhelmed and I can work for days without getting tired. As soon as I lose this connection and go into rushing I get stressed and anxious and therefore get exhausted. The difference is quite huge.

218. What I am seeing sometimes at the moment is that on the surface, I am making what look like the right moves – the way I look after myself and the rhythms that I have in place, but if I am not 100% present then they just become functions and therefore have no power or potential for evolution. And this is where your blog, your description of your religion, is so potent in that it is the intention and purpose behind our moves that will dictate whether they evolve us or keep us locked in the comfort of where we are.

219. I appreciate how you say that making mistakes is also part of your daily religion. That lack of self judgement and acceptance of the fact that we are evolving students is very self-caring and supportive. I have come to see that I use self-judgement as an indulgence to excuse myself from getting back up and having another go and getting on with it. Which is why I am inspired to read how you incorporate an acceptance of the ‘mistakes’ into your daily religion.

220. To bring religion into the everyday by listening to the body and connecting to oneself during the day is the way forward and can heal the body as well as it can bring ones life into a harmonious rythm.

221. ‘I start my day with a warm drink, feeling into whether it is to be a cup of warm herbs or just a cup of decaffeinated tea. This is done religiously every day and it is the quality I do this in that confirms that I am amazing. Nourishing and hydrating myself – my body loves this daily ritual.’ I read this just as I was about to take a sip of my warm tea. I love the space I have in the morning, when I listen to the birdsong, feel the stillness of the streets around me and enjoy my morning ritual. This time is the foundation of my steadiness throughout my day, without which I feel out of sorts.

222. By living with a quality of stillness in my body and a daily commitment to myself to live each day to the best of my ability I have been able to hold steady while visiting a country, where the energy is asking me to let go of all that I know to be true and slip into a coma like existence of comfort of not wanting or needing to do anything all day, where there is no responsibility necessary, if I give in to this energy everything will be taken care of by the consciousness that has sway over the country in question. Everybody seems to have gone to sleep but still living at the same time, to they seem as though they are the walking dead and I realise that this was me a few years ago until I met Universal Medicine.

223. I wonder what percentage of the world is even aware that there is a stillness there to connect to. I know myself how easy it is to leave the stillness and race off when I haven’t made enough time to complete my daily routines, so I let a couple slip and bam, once again I’m out of control. Thanks Leah this is a wake up call for me as it has been awhile since I have done Esoteric Yoga and I feel it is well needed.

224. “I had an irritating energy of restlessness within me which always kept me super busy.” wow I relate to this so much, for me this was all about needing to be seen to be doing something, feeling not worthy unless I was busy and at the same time I was constantly running for the “what is next” as I never felt comfortable in my own skin, I love how you share what is your everyday religion today as these little things all add up to a real strength of religion that I would not even have called religion a few years back. I also felt the truth of God but could not see that truth in what was called “religion” that in itself contributed to my restlessness.

225. “Living from this quality, from the inside, is now my religion” So simple, we are a living temple and being in union with God is an internal affair that needs no doctrine, just a choice to connect to our inner warmth and clarity throughout every single day.

226. Yes, I agree with your experience, through the practice of esoteric Yoga … “I have discovered is that this stillness is always there within…” This modality demonstrates to you how simply and practical it is to live with this stillness in your everyday.

227. How to breathe on planet Earth:

     Step1: connect to the stillness of God that lives within (breathe in)

     Step 2: move with this stillness, express divinity; the all that we are (breathe out)

     Step 3: appreciate the simplicity of this magic

     1. A recipe for everything… thank you, Liane.

228. I love Esoteric Yoga and the way it connects me back to something so simple within me.

229. Connecting to God can never be an intellectual exercise, it’s something we live, feel and move in as being part of God.

230. Esoteric yoga is an interesting one, I can feel how much more I want to make my movements a gentle quality all the time and how nothing less than this will do as it sticks out and feels unkind to my body. I have no doubt this is the next step in our evolution, to make movement and exercise about awareness of our body first and foremost.

231. “So my Everyday Religion is my connection to my body and how present I can be with my body in every movement or physical activity that I do throughout the day. ” for it is only until then that break away from the illusion of self and can experience our interconnectedness with the all.

     1. Yes gorgeous Francisco

232. Love it Leah, especially making the bed so at night the energy that you have made the bed in is felt and this is also a religious practice that flows into my every movement for the rest of the day.

233. Religion is movement. Movement from the inside out. I am discovering how different I feel when I do move from the inside out. A movement I’ve long forgotten and is now returning into my movements. We’re so so lovely. And worth every lovely movement in our body.

234. My every day religion is to confirm myself that I am already all that I need to be and to deeply appreciate my connection with the all.

235. “So my Everyday Religion is my connection to my body and how present I can be with my body in every movement or physical activity that I do throughout the day.” Love the simplicity of this… no complication with doctrines or separativeness – this is something every single person in the world can relate to and do for themselves.

236. One of the simple benefits of conscious presence is to have more energy throughout the day and, in my experience, a better sleep.

237. 

“When you rush the body, it checks out – it is designed to move in moments. Understand this and you will heal anxiousness and exhaustion. ~ Serge Benhayon.“ This is such a significant quote to reflect on. This morning I did what seemed very ‘normal’, I looked at the clock I needed to be out of the door soon and I had a couple of things to complete. As I was moving around finishing off a friend pointed out “you are rushing”. I stopped a second and noticed a tight chest, hunched up shoulders and shallow breath – I was stressing myself out by rushing. This prompted me to stop a moment and bring my attention to my breath and connect to my body. And what is amazing is that my movements were just as purposeful and no slower, but the difference in my experience was huge.

238. ” … it (the body) is designed to move in moments.” – that is a science that needs to be experienced and developed first hand to really know what it means, a knowing that comes from the body confirming the science as of the body´s natural way of being, something we can observe in the animal kingdom as well.

239. Quite incredible, (and considering the widespread plagues anxiousness and exhaustion are) that these two short sentences are a clear signpost of the healing that comes from movement in conscious presence: “When you rush the body, it checks out – it is designed to move in moments. Understand this and you will heal anxiousness and exhaustion.” ~ Serge Benhayon

240. Leah, I love how you describe the quality of stillness felt in your body and equally how this quality has such a profound healing effect on the stresses and struggles of life. Truly inspirational.

241. I can totally relate to your story Leigh; the before and the after.

     Now that I know how I can feel and be and live and love it is very obvious how out-of-whack I am when I lose the connection to my stillness… but now I know how to simply ‘come back’.

     Like you “There is nothing in this world that I would rather be than the beauty of stillness within me.”

     1. It’s Leah not Leigh. I feel it’s important to correct my name here

242. Wise words of the importance of stillness and establishing conscious presence in our every movement.

243. Religion is not something that we can follow or subscribe to, only something we can deepen within and be obedient to.

     1. And I love the way Leah talks about doing everyday things ‘religiously’ – the reverence, humility, surrender and obedience that we can bring to every moment, very practically so, and that this connects us to God… simple.

244. There is so much to learn about ourselves and hence other simply from paying attention to the quality of our touch.

245. When I rush I do check out. I allow all those thoughts that I’m not enough so got to get things done. When I feel my body and the space around me I return to wisdom and stillness, the knowing that the quality I live from here brings the All to the All and the scurrying about I was doing was just creating mess on top of mess that needed cleaning up.

246. It is such a great aid to know that our bodies hold more wisdom than the mind, I find when I make the decision to put my body in charge of my movements that I actually grow more aware and I would consider from that awareness more intelligent, i.e. that is better able to share how I feel, and make choices that give me a greater sense of wellbeing.

247. I often find that I tap my foot when I am sitting at work or completing work at home and this has been subconscious until now – I feel this is also reflecting to me raciness or anxiousness that I have let in.

248. Esoteric yoga gives us the opportunity to truly tune in with our body and feel the way in which we move – the quality behind it and with that gives us a marker that we can talk back into our daily life and develop from.

249. “When you rush the body, it checks out – it is designed to move in moments.’ In learning to live my day in moments the quality of it has changed immeasurably. I no longer go into resentment about chores that need to get done, but simply accept them and enjoy the movements I make with my body. There is no longer any definition in my body between home and work, and I enjoy my company so much more – rarely going into overwhelm, anxiousness or stress.

250. Esoteric yoga is such a simple yet power-full and healing modality. It has truly been life changing for me in assisting with overcoming anxiousness and nervous tension. It completely disappears when you surrender your body to the stillness within.

251. “the religion of connecting back to my body”- This is so healing fro me, Leah, and feels so true. I can let myself get so far away from me during the day and it is my movements and my rhythms which will bring me back to my body.

252. It is a dedication to this connection and at times it can be on and off and I agree it is extremely supportive to have daily rhythms where you can have the most basic life things we do but we bring our awareness to how we are when we do them. The quality of our touch.

253. I remember as a child being quite fidgety especially if asked to stop such at the dinner table, I would get very restless wanting to leave as soon as I had eaten, and school was always a struggle to focus on something that I had no interest in. Learning to be still through Esoteric Yoga and not let my mind wander has been a revelation and when I am able to surrender to this it is the most gorgeous feeling to be connect to my body and feel the expansion that comes from this. The art has been to live in a way that I can build on the stillness I have felt in the Yoga, it is on going but worth every moment to live this way

254. As I revisit this blog again this morning I am reminded of a time in my life when I would wake up and feel an urgent need to get into action – as if I were being chased by something. I felt like my survival depended upon it. More recently I found myself part of a conversation about survival which was being discussed rather unwittingly as if it were the purpose of life. I had to question those present as to whether we all believe that survival is the true purpose of life – for if it is, surely we are destined to live life anxiously. I feel that survival is a game that keeps us running and in reaction – keeps us in motion – where we miss the true goal of connecting to stillness first and then being in motion. We intelligent beings are surely here to do more than just survive life aren’t we?

255. “When you rush the body, it checks out – it is designed to move in moments. Understand this and you will heal anxiousness and exhaustion.” ~ Serge Benhayon (Esoteric Teachings and Revelations, Book 1, p. 303) Such simple and practical advice. This could potentially revolutionise the way the medical profession and the general state of health of so many people if it were to approach these symptoms in this way.

256. I recognised so much of what you shared in the first paragraph of your article and then felt my body surrender and open when you shared about the impact of Esoteric Yoga… thank you for your insight and openness.

257. “It is how I walk from room to room, tidying up and placing objects and things in a certain order that creates harmony in my life and within my body.” I love how such an everyday activity is part of religion and how the quality we do this in is the quality of our religion, our connection to everything.

258. Leah, you are so spot on when you say that yoga helps us to feel the tensions and emotions we have taken on in life, our choice is then to let go of them and choose instead the stillness that is naturally there in our bodies waiting to be re connected back to. I adore Esoteric yoga as it has helped me to reconnect to a reservoir of stillness I never knew was there in my body and in the reconnection I have become very steady and solid in my everyday life.

259. “There is nothing in this world that I would rather be than the beauty of stillness within me.” We spend so much time seeking fulfillment in the external world, in images, pursuits and material gain, yet within us all resides the most incredible universal beauty, quietly waiting to be reclaimed.

260. Esoteric Yoga is a powerful modality, no question about that despite its subtle appearance. Anything that supports us to go inward and connect with the stillness and beauty we are from within will support the way we are then able to interact with life. What a remarkable change you describe Leah!

261. “When you rush the body, it checks out – it is designed to move in moments. Understand this and you will heal anxiousness and exhaustion.” ~ Serge Benhayon (Esoteric Teachings and Revelations, Book 1, p. 303)
     I am so used to get into rush, because the day always seems too short for everything that needs to be done. To move in moments is a great quality to look at and take to heart every moment.

262. I see the moving in everyday life as an ongoing massage I give to myself. If I walk and move abruptly then that is the type of treatment I give to myself but I can also be present and astute and that is then the quality I’m gracing myself with.

     1. Yes, I know when my movements are harsh that my thoughts will follow suit and my day less enjoyable. When I am with my movements there is more purpose and the quality of my thoughts are completely different.

     2. Astonishingly simple when you put it like this and very similar to your terrific blog on the website Everydaylivingness. That relationship with the body is such a brilliant marker and inspiration and teacher.

     3. Every moment being a new choice – when we look at the detail of our moments in our day this fact is easy to see – we can either be with ourself in full or be with everything else that waits us in the world to distract us. One supports the body and the later deteriorated the body.

263. I am returning to a time when I can say that religion is my every way.

264. ‘There is nothing in this world that I would rather be than the beauty of stillness within me.’ Agree Leah! There is nothing more exquisite than this. So why, even when we have discovered this truth, do we choose to leave that beautiful state? This opens a can of worms, but better the worms are out than in. We have allowed a certain destructive force to run our lives and keep us separated from our deep beauty, contentment and true co-creativity, a force that wants us to keep separated from the truth that we are one brotherhood of beings. The practice of Esoteric Yoga is enormous support in being able to discern and say no to this invading force and live connected to the stillness through the body.

265. “Religion is my everyday” There is a simplicity in this and yet a depth of being and living that is forever-expanding.

266. I love how you express through your movements you are bringing religion into your everyday by your every way. A wonderful reminder that the quality of our stillness can be brought into our movements and that can support us to feel and remain with ourself and not let the mind take control.

267. The fact that life is all about energy and never about all the ‘doing’ we do, but all about how we are in what we do – the quality we bring in all that we do – is profoundly life-changing. To bring that quality in all our movements, and in a religious way, is honouring of ourselves and all others.

268. Somebody asked me once, what would I do if I was still and I remember replying ‘I’d burst into tears’. Reflecting on why that was, I realise now it’s because I never allowed myself to be still, to listen to me. Through Esoteric Yoga I have been learning to feel and appreciate that stillness.

269. “What I have discovered is that this stillness is always there within me”. The Esoteric Yoga is a superb tool for not only connecting to this inner stillness, but in then being able to monitor what affects our connection with it and slowly, day by day we are able to refine the way we live until the stillness becomes a strong and dependable ally from which to observe life.

270. The way you talk about religion is beautiful and a far cry from the heaviness and oppressive feeling of church that I used to associate with religion. We’ve been very misled when it comes to religion.

271. Religion to me is every moment of the day. It is actually the way I am with me, with my body, with people around me, with God, with the Universe, with everything basically. There’s a lot that we do every day what is actually supporting us. Are we describing this as religious activities? Where in fact they are. It’s up to us to appreciate ourselves for how we treat ourselves.

     1. Well expressed here Floris, great addition, and expansion to this blog. Thank you. Appreciating ourselves in the everyday moments of our day and what we bring to the world is a beautiful practice.

272. Esoteric Yoga has been an invaluable support for me to come back to stillness which, as you say Leah, ‘is always there within me’. I can choose to connect to it at any moment and when I do I step out of the momentum of the day and can bring that stillness to whatever I do. It makes such a change in the quality of what I do and the way I do it. It is impossible to rush as I am aligned to a natural rhythm which flows and therefore there is a spaciousness in the day which means that everything that is needed to be done is addressed in a loving way. This is such a contrast to the other way that I do things when I am caught in the momentum of projecting myself to getting things done. I know now that I have a choice and the more I choose stillness the easier it is to choose it.

273. we get so familiar with the rush, anxiousness, and nervous energy that we think it is our normal us, and we fail to realise just how destructive these ill-energies are on the body and on our lives, until the message comes back loud and clear in form of an illness. through reconnection to our essence we find what we have been missing out on for so long. Running our lives in the disconnect and its emptiness is like a living death.

274. What a wonderful religion. Since I have been developing stillness through Esoteric Yoga, I have also become religious. In stillness you go deeper within, to discover the spacious wonders of the universe and God, knowing your absolute equal place in that. In life through moving in honouring and connection to this knowing, you get to live religiously. You get to feel how everything matters and every moment matters.

275. You mention, Leah, how Esoteric Yoga helped you to ‘feel the space’. I really like that expression, and when I find myself caught up in a situation or reacting, this is what I have started to do and it puts me back in touch with the beautiful stillness that we are all held in.

276. To consider we have all that inside us, from the moment we choose to pay attention to it – that blows me away. There is no charge, no saving required, simply a dedication to build a relationship with our own bodies and a willingness to address what the body tells us.

277. What you describe here is that religion is not so much a faith or belief (if at all) but a way of living that expresses through movement, ie a quality in and with the body that truly makes it the vehicle or temple of the divine in expression. Therefore religiousness is tangible, visible, relatable, transparent and very practical and down to earth.

278. This is so beautiful to share and live our religion as our everyday livingness ‘The spaciousness, the warmth and harmony that I connect to are reflected to me in nature and within the universe and stars. There is nothing in this world that I would rather be than the beauty of stillness within me.’ An amazing place to come to from the rushing around and being busy, never still as a way of living before wow inspirational and powerful for us all.

279. The difference that introducing rituals and routines can make is profound and not to be underestimated.

280. When I first did an Esoteric Yoga class, I totally didnt get it. I wondered how on earth it could have a beneficial effect on the body when all I was doing was sitting up and lying down, and all the movements in between were so small that they seemed insignificant. But how wrong I was. Having done countless classes since then, I have come to realise and appreciate the pround depth and significance of these very subtle and gentle movements, and how they really do support my body to come back to the stillness that is there in me all the time, even when I choose to totally override it. What a beautiful gift this modality is for everyone.

281. ‘It wasn’t until I discovered Esoteric Yoga that I was able to feel the space to truly stop and to choose the quality of my movements. Then I was able to feel how exhausted and drained I was.’ – Esoteric Yoga is a unique way of connecting with our bodies – I agree, it opens up a space for us to just BE and learn to let go of performance and expectations, but let the body lead the movements.

282. There is a steadiness and knowing in stillness that means we are not rocked by or calibrated by what is going on around us.

283. It can be easy to dismiss the value and impact of carrying out tasks in quality of presence, but the more I take note and feel how my body responds, plus the positive impact this has on others then the more committed I become to make this more constant.

284. How many people in society are resigned to conditions that are debilitating and limiting to their quality of life and their expression?

     I am always full of joy when I read such a story as here about someone starting of with a condition which they have had most of their life, then they start to understand their true essence and honour that awareness, little by little implement choices that reflect that awareness in their daily life, as well as healing the issues that got in the way of such an expression. And wow what a gorgeous turn around every time.

     It is truly worth celebrating that Universal Medicine has supported hundreds of people turn their lives round in this profound way.

     1. Thank God for Universal Medicine, and Serge Benhayon – I’m always so deeply appreciative for the true healing I have received through Universal Medicine.

285. I love this Leah and your explanation of doing things ‘religiously’, because it’s so true that religion is something personal to us and if going for a walk, cooking dinner or putting on makeup is part of our own religion then that’s an amazing thing to reflect to other people who might not have the same rhythm and connection to those things!

286. “With this momentum of feeling busy and stressed, I found it hard to wind down and sleep” I experienced exactly the same thing, I would lay awake for hours, not sleeping and getting even more tired, angry and upset with myself. This started from when I was 8 or 9 years old and I went to a new school and carried on into my early twenties, as I also connected with and started esoteric yoga along with many of the other tools as part of The Way of The Livingness it totally changed my relationship with sleep. Today its a very rare occasion that I can’t sleep and that is almost always because I have chosen to get caught up in a big drama of the day rather than remain connected and loving with myself.

     1. Yes and what I have been discovering is that it’s the way I live during the day that will determine my quality of sleep at night.

287. I too did esoteric yoga at a time in my life when I was utterly exhausted but rather than see my exhaustion as being a result of my choices, I chose to blame the style of yoga class as being rubbish! It really is quite incredible how much we are all able to blame everything and anyone else rather than front up to being responsible for how we feel.

288. ‘I had an irritating energy of restlessness within me which always kept me super busy” not only does that energy keep us all super busy but it keeps us all away from the truth of who we are. It is an ‘away from’ energy, as in it takes us away from ourselves and as the only way to re-connect to the truth of who we are is to come back towards ourselves, then it ensures that we stay roaming a long way from home.

289. Thank you for sharing your rituals Leah… and how your everyday connection with them and the quality too, then become your religion to make the practice of religion itself something every day [over faith/denomination bound] and part of normal life/living.

     1. I agree Zofia, there is something deeply powerful shared here, in the reclaiming of religion as something personal to each of us, not owned and governed by anything outside of us but something we can connect to within ourselves and in our life.

290. Love this Leah, this has inspired me to refocus my sometimes wayward mind on the simplicity of how I MOVE, how I eat, how I speak, the way you describe your discipline makes me smile and reminds me that I can have that commitment too, thank you.

291. When you stop and consider it, isn’t it pretty crazy that we traditionally go to ‘worship’ one day a week, to check in with God and pay our respects, like he was an elderly relative we should show our face to incase they did something rash and cut us out of their will. Your description of religion living in every single ‘little’ thing Leah makes much more sense to me. Making your bed becomes a prayer, cooking breakfast a hymn if you like, and walking the dog, a sermon in what is really true in life. So every day is a confirmation of what is divine.

     1. I love the way you have expressed it here Joseph – a prayer, a hymn and a sermon – just gorgeous, thank you.
        In fact, the way everyone is responding here on this thread is very expanding & evolutionary on this topic of Religion.

292. Rushing around like a headless chook is an interesting expression and analogy and there is much to learn from this – that when we move our body faster than is needed, when our mind is not present and in line with our every movement – the result is chaotic, out of rhythm and at odds with our natural flow and presence.

293. The quality in which we move determines our thoughts, behaviours and next movements – it pays to listen to our body and our infinite wisdom

294. “When you rush the body, it checks out – it is designed to move in moments. Understand this and you will heal anxiousness and exhaustion.” ~ Serge Benhayon
     I have been suffering from exhaustion and anxiousness for a long time, and it is so true what Serge says in this quote. What I have found that has supported me in overcoming this is being consciously present and being aware of the quality of my movements. Esoteric yoga has been invaluable in connecting to stillness and feeling the power of being tender in my movements, on my whole body.

295. Whilst I can still read the early part of this blog and feel I am far from living in this way yet the simple point you have detailed as to what you do to support each next moment confirm that we can be doing some of this already and not appreciating it. Thank you.

296. “That everything I do, whether it be my work, my housework, shopping, driving or interacting with people – everything is of equal importance.” – and done religiously in a loving way.

297. It is interesting, Leah, to hear about the measures you had to go to in the past to get to sleep at night. Everything about our day, how we have been in our bodies, is so clearly reflected to us as our heads hit the pillow, and sometimes it is confronting to recognise the force we have called in that leaves the body feeling racy or exhausted.

     1. So true Janet. It is so much easier to blame than to stop and consider how we are feeding a problem.

298. The quality that we work in, we move in, we make love in is a differentiator that transforms not only our experience of life, but also that of everyone around us.

299. To choose the quality of my breath and the quality of my movements at any moment, no matter what was going on around me, has been life changing, taking me from reacting to life with emotion, to being able to observe and know I don’t need to get lost in the situation.

300. “What I have discovered is that this stillness is always there within me, and that through the stresses, tensions and emotional reactions in life, I can choose to lessen this quality within – or even choose to disconnect from it.” This clearly tells us that everything we do, however small it is, matters.

301. Living from one’s essence, the stillness within, is religion. How beautiful and simple.

302. Bringing our presence with all we do takes a whole pressure or I should say disstress away – as if we do, our body recognizes that the presence; which is simply being with your breath, your movement in line, that it has missed that and knows very well its natural way of working.. As presence shows us that our body is made to move in presence as it just works together so naturally. Harmoniously so. A gorgeous marker that what we do is not important , but that our presence with whatever we do is very very important and valuable for our body function and energetic beingness!

303. Reading your blog is a reminder o me that sometimes no huge changes are necessary but the quality that we do our everyday tasks can be filled with love and move form the mundane to a vital part of a foundation of love.

304. Spaciousness indeed is in stillness as well in stillness in motion, but when we are in motion without stillness we are in time, not space. There is obviously a science to movement.

305. The quality is very palpable in your words, testifying to the quality you are moving your body in.

     1. Yes, I agree, Alex. The quality of Leah’s words inspires me to see how practical and simple being religious and in relationship with God is.

306. This certainly turns the idea of ‘the religious life’ on its head Leah! And wonderful that it should, as the world as it is upside-down, presenting the opposite if what is true to be the truth.

     1. I agree – I know I have ideas about what it looks like to live a religious life which have been blown out of the water by my actually living in a way that I feel connects me to myself and others and therefore to God.

307. It is from stillness that one feels the absolute connection with everything, and it is from stillness that one feels just how disharmonious we have become as a humanity, and you start to register the slightest pin drop of abruptness or abuse as a disturbance to our true inner nature.

     1. And you realise just how valuable stillness is in our life.

308. ‘I am aware that the quality of my movements can allow others to come back to themselves.’ – This simple sentence is huge and offers an amazing reminder for us all.

309. How powerful all the quotes delivered by Serge Benhayon are. To be reminded or made aware of how effortlessly the body effortlessly flows harmoniously when we move in moments and anxiousness and exhaustion become a thing of the past. Totally wondrous.revelation.
     “When you rush the body, it checks out – it is designed to move in moments. Understand this and you will heal anxiousness and exhaustion.” ~ Serge Benhayon (Esoteric Teachings and Revelations, Book 1, p. 303)

     1. Moving in anxiousness and exhaustion has become the rhythm of the nation, so much so that the when we see someone like Serge Benhayon move he looks like he’s swimming against the tide. Movement is our most powerful reminder of our choice to opt out of a life that has becoming a living lie.

310. By the presentations of Universal Medicine I’ve come to learn that Stillness is a quality rather than an action(or inaction) because I can be in Stillness and yet my body is not and can never be the Stillness I used to believe was Stilling meaning inaction or immovability. In Stillness my heart still beats, my lungs still breathe and yet I feel like the surface of a still lake, clear, undisturbed and life carries on underneath in harmony.

     1. Yes Stillness is still a movement, a quality, a vibration as I’m starting to understand more and more.

311. I am religion and religion is me.

312. Given life is about moving, how do you move through it? I have always been someone who rushes, gets things done quickly and speeds through a task. By surrendering to my natural speed, that is how I actually feel (not think) to do something, the task is completed with a better quality and always in time.

313. Esoteric yoga has changed my life in many ways – it has been the tool that has allowed me to re-connect to my body in a way that I haven’t done in as long as I can remember. The beauty of the body is that the stillness is always there waiting for me to connect – sometimes the body (the spirit, that is) doesn’t like the settling into this stillness, but it is a foundational way for me to go about my day.

314. Supporting my body in the way I move has become a religious way for me and this support for me has become so simple, which means throughout my day I can stay more connected to the best of my ability.

315. I love the practical list you share in terms of what everyday religion looks like. So different from the ‘rules’ and trying to better oneself that organised religion promotes from a place of never feeling worthy or good enough. The simplicity of what you are sharing by comparison almost forces the reader to go ‘really? Is it really that simple?’ And I would have to say from personal experience, yes! Learning to commit to going to bed when I am tired, making my bed lovingly every day, eating nourishing food and food that doesn’t dull or bloat and so on, has supported me to commit to myself and deepen my connection to my body. Consequently I have been able to feel into so many hurts, letting them go which allows more space for me to to be me and therefore more space for my relationship with God.

316. Living a religious life is one of ritual, order and ceremony. These very personal daily choices confirm the grand and divine universal order we are part of.

317. This is gorgeous. Connecting to the stillness and bringing it into life is something I still resist at times but when I commit to doing this life is so much easier.

     1. Yes I agree, Rebecca, it is so much easier and much more joyful to live connected to our true nature.

318. Leah totally agree with you when you say
     “It is in this deep stillness that I re-connect to what is within me. The spaciousness, the warmth and harmony that I connect to are reflected to me in nature and within the universe and stars. There is nothing in this world that I would rather be than the beauty of stillness within me.”
     I had no idea that this stillness resided in my body and it was not until I met Serge Benhayon and attended the Universal Medicine workshops did I discover such a wealth of beauty in my body, and to know that this stillness resides in all of us we just have to remember it is there and connect back to it. And the Universal Medicine workshops and modalities are specifically designed to support people to do this.

319. This relationship with life touches everything we do, every choice we make and every step we take. This is the true quality of religion. It is about everything and in everything we do equally. There are no moments where it does not apply and hence there is no ‘down time’. This may appear to be an overwhelming demand but in truth it is joyful in its consistency and inclusion of all and the all.

320. I am so appreciative of the quality of my movements when they come from the stillness you describe here Leah. This stillness in movement which is there for us all feels gorgeous in our body and brings a blessing for everyone.

321. This is very helpful indeed as it shows us how we can address our exhaustion practically each day.

322. we tend to get to adversarial and into ‘right and wrong’ when topics like religion are involved, I know God, you know God, we are brothers. simple.

323. Next time someone asks me if I am religious Ill Say “Religion is My every day” haha, its sassy I like it.

     1. Awesome Harry! I love it 🙂

324. I love how you use the word religion in the things you do in the day. We have used religion to only be about the Church God and things outside of us and yet what you show here is that we can be religious in everything we do, that movement is a religion if done lovingly and in rhythm with everything else. It is great to claim the word back and bring it into its more expansive, open and everyday context

325. “There is nothing in this world that I would rather be than the beauty of stillness within me.”; you and me both Leah. Even reading these words I can feel myself dropping into my body as if I instinctively know that the stillness is there and waiting patiently for me; it’s like the biggest, warmest hug that simply holds me in its tender embrace.

     1. Absolutely Ingrid, well said.

326. What I read in this blog is the sense of true self-worth. If I relate this to my own life I can see how often I make life about doing, rather than the quality I move in. There are also moments that I am truly with me and they feel complete and completely different, yet when I don’t feel this quality, I’m often dismissing that I miss myself. I am the harmony, stillness and joy. How beautiful is this.

     1. Very beautiful Floris, totally agree with what you write here. Self-worth is my choice in the quality I choose to align to in every moment, without it there is then a lack of self-worth.

327. When I used to observe people, doing one thing at a time, methodically working through something to completion, I thought this was very boring and even so far as to think them not ‘capable’ of doing more. These days as I’m unraveling my busyness and habits of multi tasking I sometimes reflect on these past observations with an understanding of how wise these people are in their choices.

328. I love the way this has become your normal Leah, the more we hold the stillness, the more easy it feels to return to it. Religion returns to its true meaning, it’s not just for Sunday morning in church, it is our lived experience.

329. I love your description here Leah of religion being a ritualistic reconnection to an inner stillness or quality which is equal to the quality that you feel around you in nature and the universe – beautiful way to think of religion.

330. “Living from this quality, from the inside, is now my religion and my commitment to looking after myself to help my body heal from the exhaustion created by the constant busy-ness and raciness.” What a great religion to choose to live, and that’s what comes so clearly today – that religion is about what you live instead of about a dogma that we have been told it is.

331. The simple task of staying present and gentle in our movements has powerful results…

332. “That everything means everything equally. That everything I do, whether it be my work, my housework, shopping, driving or interacting with people – everything is of equal importance.” The purpose and joy of life is restored to us through our connection to a quality that when chosen, imbues everything we do with the same equal tenderness, warmth, presence and connection. What a huge gift has been returned to us through the Esoteric Yoga and the Universal Medicine teachings.

333. Nothing like stopping and re-connecting to our body to be able to feel what is truly going on. This is why many women stay in constant ‘doing’ energy to avoid what they are actually feeling, whether that be exhaustion, stress and or sadness etc.

334. “Living from this quality, from the inside, is now my religion and my commitment to looking after myself to help my body heal from the exhaustion created by the constant busy-ness and raciness” – yes, I too deeply appreciate not just that stillness is the salve/ointment for raciness or rush to give way to presence, but before this, the actual fact and awareness that such a quality is inside us in the very first place [and always was]… because until Universal Medicine, I knew not of such a quality, how to re-connect to it, and in fact did the absolute opposite to ‘cure’ stress/tension, by going to do intense breath-losing gym/workouts which actually whacked me even further despite the pump of adrenalin and perceived ‘energy’ buzz. Stillness today for me is my daily workout, something my body and sanity loves for the presence, steadiness and clarity.

335. Once we eliminate the reasons why we rush – principally to have more energy from being rushed in my case – the desire to rush reduces dramatically.

336. “There is nothing in this world that I would rather be than the beauty of stillness within me.” How rare to hear someone say such a thing Leah… your life before discovering Esoteric Yoga is reflective of most I suspect, with few moments allowed to feel beyond the superficial stresses of our lives. Allowing a surrender through all this to what lies beneath is one of the most rewarding and satisfying things I have developed through Esoteric Yoga, and through the other Universal Medicine Therapies too.

337. This is so inspiring because it breaks down all those ideals and beliefs around religion – that its not about doing whatever you like all week and then ‘being religious/good’ on one special day of the week… its about the quality of our every moment of every day.

338. Yes Ariana, beautifully expressed and in this relationship with God l am learning to appreciate my own Divinity within.

339. ‘So my Everyday Religion is my connection to my body and how present I can be with my body in every movement or physical activity that I do throughout the day’ – I get a deep sense of spaciousness with this statement, Leah. That you are following the impulses from your body, allowing the space for things to unfold around you, moment by moment – very beautiful.

340. It is so refreshing to read what religion can truly be – no seeking outside ourselves with all the complication that brings, but simply living our day to day in a way that is truly supportive of everyone equally. It takes commitment and dedication but is so worth it!

341. “Starting a few things at once and not finishing anything left my body, my house, and my life in disharmony.” It’s amazing how we are given the energy to complete a task at the time of starting one and invariably somehow, someway, something comes along to distract us from completing it.

342. “When you rush the body, it checks out – it is designed to move in moments. Understand this and you will heal anxiousness and exhaustion.” – this quote from Serge Benhayon is so simple, yet so revealing. It makes total sense that if we rush our bodies, pushing them in a way that is against their natural rhythm, there would be a reaction to this and therefore, a consequence – resulting in exhaustion. Anxiousness and exhaustion are very prevalent and growing disorders crippling our society today to be offered these words of wisdom, is a gift indeed.

343. “That everything I do, whether it be my work, my housework, shopping, driving or interacting with people – everything is of equal importance.” This is a great point Leah as we tend to compartmentalise our lives – even to the degree of having certain behaviours with certain people, for example we may speak to children differently to our grandparents or our boss… when in fact life is about consistently bringing that quality of who we truly are to everything and everyone in our lives equally.

344. It is such a gift to know the things that support you to be you, and to take that extra step to appreciate them and you for choosing them.

345. ‘With this momentum of feeling busy and stressed, I found it hard to wind down and sleep, and for years I took medication to numb my body so I could just go to sleep and rest’. This exactly describes how I too lived Leah. And I haven’t completely mastered it yet. There are many ways to mediate ourselves to mellow out and cover over the restless, discontented way in which we move and live our lives – and it is these ‘medications’ whether drugs, alcohol, distraction, entertainment – that erode away at our bodies and destroy them.

346. I was a very settled child till I was swayed into desiring the acceptance of others. From there forth there was an underlying tension that no de-stress tool could remedy.

347. When I am in religion with my body, there’s such power and there’s nothing that can actually ‘harm’ me or ‘beat’ me. The moment I disconnect it feels like being taken over by deciding to disconnect from the relationship with myself that lives inside my body.

348. The way you are constantly preparing your environment to be feeding you back a quality of stillness that supports you might sound a bit boring or too hard to many, but is is something really self-loving and beautiful to do. How we prepare our environment does really make a difference and it is so simple.

     1. Yes, exactly. It feels right until it becomes natural and simply part of our life.

349. Thank you Leah – this is a joy to read – how you live religiously through your movements. I love how you see this connecting you to nature and stillness.

350. I love the realness of this “I know I will make mistakes sometimes” but above all, the return to the connection with our body, the quality of Stillness of God, and the Stillness of God in motion, is what matters.

351. Such a beautiful blog Leah and one that confirms the beauty and healing available to us when we choose the stillness and grace of God in our movements rather than getting lost in the business of our mind.

352. I love the line ‘everything is of equal importance.’ just as everyone is of equal importance everything and everyone has a role to play.

353. I love this – reading it inspires me to make more of my day religious even in the most simple and practical things.

     1. It is in the simple and practical things that we find true religion.

        1. I agree – what if we have made religion into something far more complicated and remote, when it is in truth simple, personal and yet deeply profound.

        2. Then Rebecca we will have succeeded in keeping the everyday people away from true religion by presenting it rather falsely as something that is attained by a special few through doing special things.

354. I love how you simply make religion very accessible by making it about your own movements and the connection to your body.

355. Thanks Leah for the reminder that the stillness inside never leaves us and that esoteric yoga is a great way to connect to that stillness. I have never had any trouble sleeping, but too often I go into raciness and totally leave myself which totally compromises my gentleness.

356. It is so beautiful to at last be able to connect to that exquisite stillness within, and know repose and rest – in the midst of a world so intense and so restless.

357. I can see how in Esoteric Yoga, there is a ‘religion’ happening – as it supports a ‘re-turn’ to one’s inner most stillness, and yes, it is in this practice that you get to see that simple everyday practical movements and choices can support this connection.

358. We are not designed to perform like machines, and because of our natural rhythms machines will never be able to replace human quality and connection.

359. The inner stillness feels amazing when we connect to it, very different from the racy way so many of us fill our lives with. Time expands, there is always space to do everything that needs to be done.

360. Stillness in motion, an awesome way of living to ponder and explore, I am right there with you on that. I feel this quality building in how I am and it feels amazing confirming, just like home and absolutely religious.

361. By consciously making our movements more gentle and tender we are taking a stand against the constant onslaught of energy that is forever seeking to drag us away from our Divinity. It’s a bit like standing in the rapids, the gentleness and the conscious presence are the things that stop us being swept along in a raging torrent of prana, prana being the energy of the ‘what is not’ that is perpetually looking to drag us away from the ‘what is’.

362. Now that I understand that we are all connected I look back on my years of constant frantic rushing around and can see the disturbing effect that I had not just on those in my immediate surroundings but on every-body and every-thing else in the Universe. We are all either being a harmonious piece of the whole or we are disturbing the whole. Life for us all is about returning to the same vibration as the whole, so that we slot back in seamlessly and from there can then expand with the whole.

363. I love your examples of your religious everyday practices that you do as your rhythm to bring you back to your stillness Leah. This routine brings reconnection into daily life that is so easy to build and grow. It feels living religion is living life with your true self.

364. Beautiful thanks Leah, what you’ve shared is very profound. It is very true that when we first get still and choose to feel our bodies, we first have to feel what it is we’ve been living by, the push, rush, stress, hardness, angst… whatever it is. But discovering that underneath any of that, lies the deepest well of stillness, beauty, harmony and sense of love and contentment, it still leaves me amazed that we choose the other for so long, before surrendering inwards.

365. This is a beautiful reminder to us all of the power of being connected to our body.

366. It makes absolute common sense to live in a way where the body and the mind are in unison, as otherwise there is going to be a constant tension that eventually causes illness and disease. Thank you, Leah, for presenting this so simply for us.

367. I can relate to your younger days of never being able to sit still. As a child I loved to swing my legs, I’d sit on top of the fridge in the family kitchen and swing my legs; there was a way of moving them that felt very satisfying to me but irritated my mother and she would ask me to stop fidgeting. I didn’t see it as fidgeting I saw it as playing and having fun. Children can move in ways that are just a sheer pleasure in the body, a joy that naturally bubbles up and needs to be expressed. But after a while when it was constantly brought to my attention that I was doing something wrong the playfulness got put away as something that is not acceptable and it is only recently that I have rediscovered my natural playfulness again after all these long years; I’m rediscovering so much about myself that I have hidden away because someone has frowned upon my behaviours as not being acceptable to them.

368. Leah, I love the simplicity of what you share. That religion is the way we live and felt in the quality of every movement we make. It is not something we do, but daily practice or meditation in connection with our bodies. If everyone learned to live this way, stresses and anxieties would dissipate as would dependence on drugs and medication. Unfortunately, society’s preferred choice is complication, even though we know simpler solutions are often just a breath away.

369. The more I choose to deepen my quality around self-nurture, the more access I get to healing buried hurts or to letting go of ideals and beliefs. The more I let these go the deeper my connection and quality with self-nurture, and so it goes in ever deepening circles of evolution. The starting point was the choice to be as gentle as I could with my movements and to connect with my breath and body whenever I remembered. It slowly builds from there.

370. ““When you rush the body, it checks out – it is designed to move in moments. Understand this and you will heal anxiousness and exhaustion.” ~ Serge Benhayon ” reading this quote by Serge has stopped me this morning, it is multi-layered and I get a sense it is deeply profound. We have a society that is anxious and exhausted, we are trying to keep up, we are nearly always rushing. We very rarely smell the roses so to speak. So what if we pondered on what moving in moments actually is. I will start to do this and see what happens!

371. I love the way you bring everything back to the body every time Leah, for the body, as I have come to know, is always communicating with me. I also love the way there are moments when I suddenly feel that deep stillness become apparent in me in such a way that my body, mind and soul are one, for my thoughts are not predominant, and this is the whole purpose of true yoga.

372. In the past, in searching for something I thought was missing from life there were always deep meditations that took you into a void that was like a floating isolation tank. Esoteric Yoga for me, just helps me remove the rubbish in life I have allowed in my body. It is a stillness that allows me to feel the body, not drift into the void. When I move in this connection to self, it is also felt by others around me.

373. I have found that the more present I am with my movements the more alert I become and the layers of exhaustion are pealing away.

374. Stillness and motion teach us about the many cycles within life. Life naturally flows.

375. Beautiful Leah, ‘Committing to choosing gentle movements with everything that I do and to remain as present with what I am doing as much as I can is a discipline for me.’ I love this, it is so simple and yet I can feel how powerful it is to move in this way, it feels natural and true, your commitment to this is deeply inspiring to read.

376. “So my Everyday Religion is my connection to my body and how present I can be with my body in every movement or physical activity that I do throughout the day.” There is such beauty in the simplicity of this religion that cuts out all the complex need to believe in something, restoring instead the beautiful connection to the quality of God that constantly burns within us.

377. A beautiful reminder that rhythm and routine can be so simple, nurturing and re-energising but it is through the way we move that we over complicate what our bodies can do and end up in a knot!

378. Esoteric Yoga allows to feel the stillness deep within.and supports to bring this stillness into the day.
     I have never met another yoga practice before, which was able to do this.

379. In the beauty of what you’ve shared here Leah, you have returned us to a quintessential truth about religion – that by its very nature, religion is about our relationship with everything, and our bodies hold an essential and foundational key… What I’ve discovered also, is that it is in my relationship with my body – from being truly present with my body and my movements, to more deeply feeling the quality, or way, in which I may move and express – that forms the bedrock for holding a lived sense of religion in my everyday…
     Religion is not about striving for connection with something outside of ourselves, seeking a God ‘transcendent’. It is actually about knowing that God’s Love and the All lives within, immanent. It is our birthright to know our intrinsic connection and this knowing of religion lived in our everyday living.
     Thank-you for sharing your direct experience of it here.

380. Shared so simply Leah… yet so very powerful, in terms of the way in which you live your life, in connection with yourself, and deeply so. What an amazing foundation Esoteric Yoga offers us, in returning to our knowing of the stillness within – a quality that is within each and every one of us. A knowing that once re-discovered, we may indeed foster – that it may become truly foundational in our everyday expressions, experience and engagement in life itself.
     Beautiful.

381. I can remember being quite resistant to Esoteric Yoga when I was first introduced to it, I didn’t feel a connection with my body, which was hard from years of pushing myself to exercise so I could indulge with my food choices, but rather than allowing myself to just feel this, I chose to check out and would often fall asleep. I now absolutely treasure the space it allows for me to re-connect with my body on a much deeper level and feel where I have been pushing or holding back, without judgment, enjoying being in my stillness, a quality that is forever deepening and expanding.

382. ‘It wasn’t until I discovered Esoteric Yoga that I was able to feel the space to truly stop and to choose the quality of my movements. Then I was able to feel how exhausted and drained I was.’ …. it’s ironic the lengths we can go to, to avoid connecting with our bodies, they hold the truth of how we have been choosing to live and are our greatest support and mentor when we decide to truly start taking care of our selves.

383. When we take away the mystic religious over tones which I have found very imposing. We are given the space to be able to connect with our Divine Wisdom with in, here we all have this equal relationship with God even if we resist it or not.

384. “It is in this deep stillness that I re-connect to what is within me” – this is home Leah, no four walls of a building, or country border partition required.

385. I love this quote Leah . . ““When you rush the body, it checks out – it is designed to move in moments. Understand this and you will heal anxiousness and exhaustion.” ~ Serge Benhayon (Esoteric Teachings and Revelations, Book 1, p. 303) . . . . this is a great antidote for anxiety.

386. Also when we rush we do so because not only are we guaranteed the check-out, we are also guaranteed the seeming absolution of responsibility by virtue of the fact we were not present. Of course it does not work like this and we are forever accountable for our every move and whether these movements are made in and with the love that we are, or not – however it is a game we like to play with ourselves.

387. What a gorgeous blog Leah. Making religion about how you go about your day and the quality you’re in in your movements. Absolute Gold.

388. ‘I get out of bed in the morning and make my bed; and it is the way I make my bed, the quality I am in as I make my bed ­– which is done religiously every day – that supports me to return to sleep.’ it’s beautiful you have the awareness knowing in the quality we leave things is the quality we come back to. This way and quality of getting out of your bed, magnifying it through the way you prepare your bed is also a lovely set up of how you are bring yourself to your day. Detail is so important and I love how you have made religion about the detail of love.

     1. Love what you say here, Johanna, about religion being ‘the detail of love’. Every word and movement is therefore equally powerful as a moment of bringing love into all aspects of life.

     2. Thank you Johanna, yes there is magic in the details of life and love – well said.

389. We are at work for a great deal of our day and often we don’t tend to the fine detail but this way of being and religion is so supportive to keep one with themself and claim their own space in the quality they choose to be.
     ‘It is how I organise my desk and my office at work, and the systems that I have in place, that can bring me back to myself when I lose my presence.’

     1. Yes and reading this I’m inspired to look at those finer details as I can feel how they are holding me back from my true potential.

390. Leah this is beautiful and takes the overwhelm a person may go into when they want to choose deep care of self but also want to bring love and care for others. It so clearly starts with how we treat ourselves and the choices we make, once this is established self can get out of the way and allow this religious way to hold every moment going forward. Thank you for this blog and especially your comment- ‘So my Everyday Religion is my connection to my body and how present I can be with my body in every movement or physical activity that I do throughout the day’.

391. Religion is in how we live and trough the way we live we connect to the divinity we hold.

392. Lovely to read your blog Leah. I could feel myself getting a little frustrated yesterday morning as my home was out of order. I didn’t have much time as I had an early morning Esoteric yoga class booked and it was so good as it stopped me in my tracks, asked me to come back to the moments and not get caught in emotions. From the session I was able to appreciate how much the order in my home supports me even if it wasn’t happening right in this instance. It made me realise my own religious ways of doing things and how when they are disrupted, it disrupts my flow and how I feel.

393. A beautiful description of a life lived in energetic integrity = that is religiously
     ‘I know I will make mistakes sometimes, but this is my daily religion, the religion of connecting to my body in a certain quality.’
     And so..
     ‘The way I clean my house or hang up the washing, to how I cook a nourishing meal for myself or my family, are all done in a quality that returns me back to Stillness.’
     Shows us that:
     ‘These are some simple examples of the various choices I make to support my body and it is with this connection to my body that I get to feel that everything is religion.’
     Hence, a lot has been taught simply from this One blog, that is One experience by One of us.

     1. And we can all choose to be in Religion with ourselves, or not. Thank you, Danna for your beautiful confirmation.

394. It is so relevant when we bring religion like this into our every day Leah. When we live the stillness as best we can with every moment, we can feel the quality of everything change around us. We change the energy of how we are and everyone feels the difference, even though it may not be brought to a conscious level at the time.

395. “When you rush the body, it checks out – it is designed to move in moments. Understand this and you will heal anxiousness and exhaustion.” ~ Serge Benhayon – this quote is a show stopper and such a great reminder that if we are anywhere other than in the current moment, it puts our body into anxiousness.

396. “There is nothing in this world that I would rather be than the beauty of stillness within me.” This line and it’s intention, is exquisite. Travel companies would see a rapid decline in business if we all lived in the beauty of this offering, or the business model would change for sure, as people travelled with that beauty and not to see it outside of them.

397. Everything is religion. We relate to everything and everybody around us. Isn’t that beautiful? That we’ve got a choice to be emotional or appreciative? In every single moment – every single moment. This of course starts how we are with ourselves. For a long time I thought that I wasn’t the one making the choices, but I am discovering everyday again how I am the one who chooses the quality of relationship with everything and everybody. Up until today there’re still many moments that I’m not connected, but I can definitely see how it beautifully unfolds. That life isn’t what it has been for me for such a long time, but in fact constantly reflecting to me how beautiful I am and everybody is – regardless of the choices we make.

398. It is really beautiful to read about and feel your commitment to being present and connected to the stillness inside you. Being present and in stillness can be challenging for the mind that wants to move to tomorrow and back to yesterday with all its thoughts and never ending to do lists, but it is very nurturing for the body. And that is something I am going to practise now after reading this.

399. So simple and yet profound what you have shared – in your whole blog God is not the focus and yet every word is deeply religious and you can feel your relationship to yourself is your gateway to a relationship with God – that the way you make your bed, that quality of movement and that commitment to yourself is a way of connecting to the qualities within you that are divine.

     1. So beautifully expressed Rebecca.

        1. I agree. Gorgeous Rebecca

400. It’s very interesting what you have written about conscious awareness because while reading your blog I went to pick up my cup of tea while reading, completely unaware of how I was picking up my cup. So I then put the cup down and then picked it up with me and the difference between the two actions was very noticeable. Checking out of life is something that is so easy to do; bring the mind and body to work together to me is a work a work of art I have yet to master.

401. As a child I rarely made my bed, it was never something we were required to do. It was sort of done for special occasions or when we put fresh linen on the beds. It always felt lovely when it was done. As an adult it is something that I have chosen to do on daily basis and it is amazing the difference that it makes. It feels like I complete one movement of my day and it is there ready and waiting in a beautiful quality for when it is required next. It is a beautiful gift to give to oneself and it costs nothing.

402. ‘With this momentum of feeling busy and stressed, I found it hard to wind down and sleep, and for years I took medication to numb my body so I could just go to sleep and rest.’ – This is a condition that a lot of people are struggling with – your beautifully honest sharing is a very important reflection that shows us all that momentums can be not only stopped, but actually healed.

     1. Everything, absolutely everything can be healed if we so choose to look at the ill energy we are allowing to cause the disturbance and also willing to imprint everything and our everyday with our true quality.

403. Beautiful testament to the effects and practical ways we can bring true yoga into our everyday lives.

404. Nothing is more consolidating than to connect to our loving qualities within.

     1. Our esssence is everything so working to bring our essence into all we do is key for true and loving life/society.

405. I would never have thought 5 years ago that religion is in everything we do, but when it is explained like this it makes perfect sense. It is our connection to everything, that is what religion can and should relate to.

406. An inspiration for all to read and take into our lives. The more I understand about doing things in the right energy the more harmonious life becomes. Thank you Leah for this great sharing.

407. Esoteric Yoga is such a practical tool to teach us how to ‘be’ and move in our everyday lives.

408. So beautiful Leah. The quality with which we do things is vitally important. It transforms every day actions. I love you saying ‘ the quality is the stillness of God and the stillness of God in motion’.

409. “With this momentum of feeling busy and stressed, I found it hard to wind down and sleep, and for years I took medication to numb my body so I could just go to sleep and rest.” To have to take medication for so long in order to go to sleep is surely a sign that the body is out of balance. What a wonderful modality the esoteric yoga is, because it brings us back to our bodies, by our own choice, so that we can really feel the true state that our body is in. Then we can choose to take the steps to make the neccessary changes that can bring us back to true health.

410. The fact that I was able to literally throw my body through each and every day, oblivious to not only the physical pain that I was constantly in but also the fact that I was completely and utterly buggered, is a sign of just how blinding the beliefs that I held were. I clung on so tightly to the belief that I was doing really well because of the ‘lifestyle boxes’ that I ticked that I was totally blindsided as far as the truth goes. Beliefs should carry a very strong warning on them, that they can seriously ‘damage your health and in many cases cause death’.

     1. We are all riddled with images and it’s these images we need to deconstruct, renounce and let go of in order to live true to ourselves.

411. “I had an irritating energy of restlessness within me which always kept me super busy”, Leah I too was ruled by that energy. It was a force in my body that saw me polishing surfaces when I was sick, as I was simply unable to stop and rest and I was so used to travelling at break-neck speed that I actually saw polishing as a form of rest! I was at the mercy of this energy for years, careering through my days like a racing car with no brakes. When my body finally put the brakes on for me, it literally put them on and then turned the engine off and there i was, an absolute car wreck of a woman! Slowly, slowly I have rebuilt my body to be the purring Rolls Royce that it now is, self love has been my engine oil and gentleness the air in my tyres.

     1. Beautifully expressed Alexis, and thank you for sharing your experience with this energy that ruled your life too.
        Our bodies eventually make us stop one way or another and it great that you had the openness to stop and reassess this.

412. “…it is with this connection to my body that I get to feel that everything is religion. That everything means everything equally. That everything I do, whether it be my work, my housework, shopping, driving or interacting with people – everything is of equal importance.” – This is beautiful – giving equal importance to the energetic quality we bring to every aspect of life and so not compartmentalising one to be more important than another.

413. What a gift of a quote from Serge Benhayon – “When you rush the body, it checks out – it is designed to move in moments.” This one sentence explains why for most of my life, my body and I have felt at odds with each other, due to a projecting forward with my mind which continually forced the body to go beyond its natural flow.

414. I love that what you bring here is so practical, so simple and so accessible for us all.

415. What a beautiful reminder this morning to bring it back to the quality of my movements. Thank you

416. I’ve been getting out of bed each day now with a renewed care, a moment of appreciation and asking myself whats next, what does the day hold. It’s a little thing but one where I can start to feel how I am welcoming whatever is next to come its way to me.

417. “When you rush the body, it checks out – it is designed to move in moments. Understand this and you will heal anxiousness and exhaustion.” ~ Serge Benhayon.
     I can still get caught into rushing but when I realise and choose my movement in the moment breaks the connection with the energy of rushing.

418. Religion for me these days means reconnecting with the natural stillness that resides in everyone.

     1. Religion is therefore uniting.

419. Growing up in the world as we do with all its incessant doing, it can be easy to forget or disconnect from the naturally occurring stillness within us all and I have also found esoteric yoga to be particularly good at reminding and reconnecting me with the stillness inside of me.

420. I love how everyday and everything you do is your religion, a constant process of connecting to a stillness within you and taking it into every aspect of the day, whether it be pegging out the washing or going to work, constantly building the relationship with the Divine within.

421. Rushing drains my body and I am left utterly exhausted. To not delay and procrastinate what I feel impulsed to do is helping me to overcome rushing but it starts with commitment and being super present with me and my body.

422. This is a beautiful expression of religiously living your religion Leah, from the consistent quality of your rhythm in the simplest of daily tasks.

423. ‘It is how I organise my desk and my office at work, and the systems that I have in place, that can bring me back to myself when I lose my presence.’ This is a great reminder for me to look at the systems that need to be in place in order for me have flow when I’m working and feel supported.

424. I know this feeling of the ‘rush’ very well, but whereas once it was just my every day way of living, today it feels like a very unnatural state to be in because I have become more and more aware of the stillness that is within. Life has changed from being about how much I can do, to how connected I can be and continually deepening this connection. It is a very different way of living and a very beautiful way to be.

425. It’s such a great thing to understand that everything we do can be done with the same energetic quality no matter what it is, for it is when the quality drops and we get sloppy in certain areas that we leave an opening for things to go hay wire.

426. I also have my list of how I move throughout my day that is supportive of me. As to, not that many years ago, I dragged myself out of bed and that pattern was the foundation for the day that ended in further numbing at the end of the day with TV and alcohol to counter the caffeine and sugar used to function all day. What a difference a few choices makes in the quality of life!

427. The simplicity and power of this blog is so potent and would make sense to anyone of any age, race, colour or creed. The practicality, accessibility and simplicity of the Ageless Wisdom continually inspires me.

428. “…So my Everyday Religion is my connection to my body and how present I can be with my body in every movement or physical activity that I do throughout the day…” This is great as it completely turns upside down the concept of what religion is, as religion is generally perceived as devotion to something outside of yourself, but what you share and how it is practiced is that it is a way of living than deepens of connection to love and awareness that resides naturally within ones own body. Its simply about inner connection.

     1. Devotion to Oneself, to developing this inner connection within and therefore with God.

429. I have had the same experience – I always had plenty of energy but it was nervous energy, putting myself constantly into emergency mode. There is a much better way available.

430. I made sure I kept super busy and racey to not feel the tension around not dealing with things that upset me… there are so many tricks we can use to not feel, and leaving things to the last minute is a sure way to not have any space or stillness to connect. The list of movements you do religiously feel so supportive and my body was saying a loud yes.

431. I love the practicality of how you have brought religion into your everyday life. It inspires me to be religious, unlike the catholic religion I was brought up in which totally turned me off religion until I came across The Way of The Livingness which presented a very true expression of religion.

432. “It wasn’t until I discovered Esoteric Yoga that I was able to feel the space to truly stop and to choose the quality of my movements. Then I was able to feel how exhausted and drained I was” – so true Leah and also why I avoided Esoteric Yoga [EY] for ages/years even, because in my race and rush [disconnection] I did not want to feel the quality or state of myself and how much I was not in harmony or the depth of the lack of connection I had to my essence or soul. These days I adore EY for the re-connection it’s supported me greatly in and the quality of my living/life itself.

433. Wow Leah, what a beautiful read. You have really encompassed religion for me, it being the quality we choose in every moment aligned to the Stillness and love of God or not, thankyou.

434. Rushing, leaving everything till the last minute is a great way to check out. Stillness is key to our inner harmony.

     1. This is an interesting comment Carmel because it suggests that we actively chose to be in a rush, overwhelmed and pressured by time. Most would deny this, saying that they have no control over such things – it’s just the way it is and what there life is, at that time. But if I am really honest I can say that I choose this overwhelm – and it is exactly as you say – as a way to check out, to ignore what is really going on and prevent myself from feeling the true preciousness of my own stillness.

        1. Absolutely, choosing to sabotage ourselves, and therefore choosing to not evolve and not step into our power.

435. Very beautiful Leah and I especially love the quote from Serge Benhayon here “When you rush the body, it checks out – it is designed to move in moments. Understand this and you will heal anxiousness and exhaustion.” … such a great reminder that if we rush we are setting ourselves up to effectively be numb, and then of course there is much we allow which is not supportive. It’s those simple steps with ourselves and our bodies which keep us in tune with what is actually going on with us which are super supportive.

436. ‘What I have discovered is that this stillness is always there within me, and that through the stresses, tensions and emotional reactions in life, I can choose to lessen this quality within – or even choose to disconnect from it.’ – this is so empowering, Leah. I have been feeling this for myself this morning whilst experiencing major issues with technology. I could feel myself starting to go into reaction, but chose instead to feel the steadiness of my breath and allow the space to work things through. It felt very beautiful and supportive and I now having everything working again – awesome lesson.

437. ‘…my Everyday Religion is my connection to my body and how present I can be with my body in every movement or physical activity that I do throughout the day.’ Mine too, Leah. As someone who has a health condition which is in large part due to stress-induced exhaustion, I had no choice but to slow down initially because my body was so depleted. Today, despite the fact I am on medication and live well, it is a choice I willingly make. Never will I take my body for granted again, and amen to that.

438. I do so know what you mean Leah: ‘There is nothing in this world that I would rather be than the beauty of stillness within me.’ Once felt this stillness is the most delicious thing in the world and we need no delicious sweets to mimic or make up for not having it. Having experienced this delicious stillness, why do I still choose otherwise? The is the ‘work’ we must engage with, the the work of clearing away all the false and ingrained ways of living we have adopted over the centuries that still steer us off track even though we know the enormity, beauty and exquisite feeling of stillness and that it is our own true nature.

     1. Absolutely Lyndy – so delicious, so divine and exquisite. We all are. Humanity really needs Esoteric Yoga, I can’t recommend it more, as it brings it back to the body, where Divinity is expressed through.

439. ‘What I have discovered is that this stillness is always there within me…’
     What a beautiful discovery because we can always return to this even in busy days. I’m learning I can stay connected when around people and when I do I find people settle back into their bodies more too. So much potential to make this my norm and not a rarity.

440. I love the simplicity of this Leah, breaking down such a constructed word into simple movements that support us to serve humanity.

441. A gorgeous blog that redefines the meaning of religion. Religion is not a belief but an activity and way of living with yourself that guarantees, with no perfection, the ability to express God and divinity through every movement.

     1. Which is an incredibly nice and even beautiful process.

442. It is refreshing to read about religion in the context of it being about the quality of relationship we have with ourselves and all of life. This is my religion, and the one my body knows to be true. Stillness is a divine quality that holds everything within it.

443. This is a beautiful example of how when we allow ourselves to stop, feel and reconnect to our body and the natural stillness within it exposes the quality of energy that has been running us. We have the opportunity to bring greater awareness to our movements, which changes the whole flow of the movement of our lives. Esoteric Yoga is a great support in coming back to the wisdom of the body.

444. ‘What I have discovered is that this stillness is always there within me’ – So true Leah, it becomes very clear that it is we ourselves that chooses the quality we live with.

445. I love this Leah, you beautifully explained a way in which we can support ourselves daily. You show how religion is about connection to our self and our inner stillness, and how this stillness forever resides within, and that it is us who move in a way that covers this incredible gift up.

446. Wow, Leah, I cannot wait to re-read your blog – you brought very Esoteric Yoga session I have done right back to my awareness. There was a moment I got distracted and caught myself, I blinked a couple of times in full awareness of my eyes and how they felt and chose to stay present, the difference in how I read was so clear in my body. The Esoteric Yoga offers us such practical tools to deal with the business of life and the quotes you have offered from Serge Benhayon are gold.

447. If you redefine religion to be the everyday moments of magic when we follow through with our daily rituals and rhythms it totally changes religion from being something you seek outside of you to simply being a moment of connection – I love it.

     1. Agreed Meg, this rids religion of its heavy dogmas and instead weaves it lightly into the practicalities of everyday life.

        1. What if religion was simply our relationship to all the magic in the world? Life would be very simple… 🙂

     2. And it puts us in the driving seat. That is what makes so much sense to me – my religion = my choice.

448. Leah, this is gorgeous – and I love this quote for it is a great reminder for me to keep developing my quality in stillness first so that I can then bring this same quality to magnify in my movement:
     “The magic of stillness is in motion – the goal is to bring stillness in motion in everything we do.” ~ Serge Benhayon. (Esoteric Teachings and Revelations, Book 1, p. 91)”

449. “There is nothing in this world that I would rather be than the beauty of stillness within me.” Beautiful Leah, making your life about living the quality that stillness offers, being an equal part of the universe.

450. Religion is a moment to moment relationship with the all, yourself, and all that you do. It is an honour to be deeply religious and; “Through this connection with my body, I know what is true for me or not.”

     1. This is what is so lovely, it is how by living moment to moment from the body we naturally know what is needed. I feel anxious when I am undecided on something, if I keep it simple and stay with my body and movements I soon know what is true for me in that moment.

451. ““When you rush the body, it checks out – it is designed to move in moments. Understand this and you will heal anxiousness and exhaustion.” ~ Serge Benhayon (Esoteric Teachings and Revelations, Book 1, p. 303)”. So simple and true. What it shows me is the quality I’m choosing to be in and have been in – a stop to know in a moment where you are at.

452. Esoteric Yoga is indeed a gift from God as it does offer an incredible opportunity to develop a relationship with your body and the stillness that lays within. It can be quite challenging at first and at times, because for many of us, our body is mostly function and we can drive it pretty hard. I have had many Esoteric Yoga sessions and can now feel that stillness in my body, and reading your blog today returned me to that stillness and connected me back to God, thank you.

453. Esoteric Yoga has and will continue to support many to reconnect to that stillness within us all and flowing through us. Esoteric yoga is so powerful, especially with the lived integrity of the esoteric practitioners who live the walk, and talk the talk that it alone and the support it offers is enough to begin to implement the stepping stones to live all of the true us. For this modality asks us to stop, to really feel our body, to feel how our movements support the divine flow to be there or to reject it and it connects us back to our core – where all our divine wisdom emanates from and is there to guide us to our next steps if we only choose to feel and listen. Esoteric yoga has tangibly helped me to understand that my body and what is communicated from it, is my best teacher.

454. So practical, so real yet with an amazing depth and connection and love. Gorgeous.

455. Thank you Leah. I love how you have not only shared your amazing journey back to the stillness that was always there but how you have debunked the meaning of religion as we know it today in society from the bastardisation meaning portrayed through the organised religions around. Your blog gives a tangible understanding that religion is about returning to who we naturally are and you have shown us that so very practically through the way and quality you do your everyday activities in. This is true religion, living the love, the true us in every facet of our lives. Beautiful blog – thank you.

456. I recently took part in an Esoteric Yoga program and I realised that everything comes from my stillness. That is my foundation. I can pile things on top and give my foundation a false layer, I can totally forget that is who I am…but nothing will change the fact that at my inner most is a deep stillness.

457. In the simplest of movements when I choose to stay fully connected to myself, with that comes gentle movements and a feeling of harmony with myself and the tasks. I’m building and strengthening my foundation for some of the bigger tasks that life presents. With the simple moves firmly confirmed and lived then I’m ready for whatever is next.

458. Its amazing how simple it actually is to stop and recognise the energy we are doing things in and yet how difficult it can be to consistently be present with yourself and not fall prey to the constant rush and push this world is in. It feels really good to pull back my thoughts from all the ‘things I need to do’ and stop and remind myself that I can achieve it all in the natural flow and rhythm of my true self.

459. When I first heard this “The magic of stillness is in motion” it very much intrigued me, as they appeared as opposites.. how could that be? Stillness in motion! Through Esoteric Yoga I came to know stillness as a quality of being, and so ‘stillness in motion’ started to make sense, and that the magic, is the harmony, truth and joy that comes with moving in this connection.

460. “When you rush the body, it checks out – it is designed to move in moments. Understand this and you will heal anxiousness and exhaustion.” (SB) Thank you for this Leah, there are days when I feel like I’m drowning with the amount that needs to be done, but the more I go into the anxiousness about it, the less present I am with that moment the less quality I can bring to it, and that moment is robbed of its full potential. Learning to stay present with each moment and bring our all to it, is what truly changes everything.

461. Leah I felt very inspired reading this. I have benefited hugely from doing Esoteric Yoga. It certainly has helped calm my anxiousness and as a result changed the way I live. I love the way you say that how you move is your everyday religion.

462. I just loved reading this – the quote from Serge Benhayon made me stop and really reflect on the power of movement! How there can be stillness even in motion. I love how your religion has become with your movements – that is true religion.

     1. Yes putting these quotes in are perfect. I love Serge Benhayon’s writing – the quality and truth of it all, always brings me to a stop, much like an esoteric yoga session and makes me really want to be with the words.

463. Thanks Leah. “There is nothing in this world that I would rather be than the beauty of stillness within me.” I love how you have claimed the preciousness of you and what you are a part of.

     1. Hear hear to this quote Janet. I am right there with this also.

464. When I think of how often I still rush my body I can see that there is still a lot more support that I an offer myself in making changes in the way that I am living.

     1. These changes are always there as we continue to go deeper – and choose to adapt our way of being, our good, our relationships, our rest, our movement and so on along with continuing to let go of all the things we feel that reject therefore do not support the divine flow that is always streaming through us. It is so amazing that so many in our world today are reawakened and are choosing to be with the light of their Soul more each day (without perfection) but with a deep willingness to reflect all of who we truly are to others. This is something to deeply appreciate.

465. Feeling and moving from the divine stillness that is within us all is exquisite. So why, once reconnected do we ever choose to leave it again? Still scratching my head on that one while I work on being more consistent with choosing to stay with it.

466. This is really awesome. Lately I have been finding it so easy to get caught in the motions of the day and lose connection with my true essence. You so beautifully share it is never about what we do, but it is about our choice and commitment to be in certain quality in what we do, and I can really feel being busy can never be the excuse not to .

467. “When you rush the body, it checks out – it is designed to move in moments. Understand this and you will heal anxiousness and exhaustion.” ~ Serge Benhayon (Esoteric Teachings and Revelations, Book 1, p. 303) In a nut shell Serge Benhayon has offered an antidote not just to anxiousness and exhaustion but depression and other mental health issues too. When I am present with my body in the moment I am confirmed for who I am and increasingly find I have a gorgeous settlement in my body that is simply too yummy to leave for long.

468. ‘“When you rush the body, it checks out – it is designed to move in moments. Understand this and you will heal anxiousness and exhaustion.” ~ Serge Benhayon (Esoteric Teachings and Revelations, Book 1, p. 303)’ This is real education.

     1. I love this quote by Serge Benhayon, the truth of it brings you back to the moment instantly. Education from the natural wisdom of the body.

469. Religion isn’t in scriptures or books. Religion is in everyday activities. Actually in all everyday activities. We choose the quality of the relationship in which we do these activities. Surrendering to the truth that I am in relationship (living religiously) every moment of my life is a wonderful and exposing process. I’ve settled for much less in the past, but now am finding back a way that is honouring both of me as well as everybody else. Religion and responsibility are in going hand in hand. I love it.

     1. Breaking through the consciousness around Religion is huge but humanity needs to hear the truth of how much it has been bastardised today.

470. Love how you share that religion is something that is in every part of your life, and the very real examples you give of how we do what we do makes all the difference.

471. That is a cracker of a quote from Serge Benhayon. To suggest that anxiety and exhaustion come from moving the body in such a way that is disconnected.

472. Stillness is so vast and is within us always but we’ve scribbled over the top of it like the irresponsible energetic hooligans that we are. Shame on us.

473. Leah you are so right when you say that no moment holds any more value than another and yet our society is completely set up to value certain moments and to completely disregard others. Many people place much more importance on being with family and friends over people they don’t know, whilst many more place emphasis on time outside of work, whilst almost writing work time off but the truth is there is only One Life and one life only. Each moment is as important as the next, in fact there is actually only one moment.

474. It often makes me wonder why I can be so disconnected and out of sorts with myself when the best place in the world is that connection to our inner stillness. Its great to be reminded of the many ways we can live life more in this way.

475. Simply divine Leah Pash.

476. I so agree Leah, my everyday is also my religion. Religion is in everything that I do because it is about me being in relationship with life and everyone that I come in contact with. In this way religion is no big deal as it is simply who we are.

477. Stillness changes everything. Understanding it’s power makes it impossible to judge others who end up rushing around. For the real killer point you lead us to here Leah, is to ask why we do this in the first place. Especially when the stillness as you show, is so divine. My experience is it’s the awareness we have that freaks us out – so like a radio we prefer to tune it out by running ourselves into the ground. The time is at hand to stop this incessant drive and begin to feel everything that is there.

     1. Stillness does change everything…We would see a completely different outplay in the world if we heeded the call and let ourselves stop and feel what is being asked of us. We are sensitive beings and with presence come greater awareness and understanding, qualities that are very needed and will support us all.

478. For years I was brought up with the notion of religion being outside of oneself and in some unattainable holiness that everyday human life could never match. This fed the belief that the quality in which things were done did not matter as much as the amount that was done in the end. Rushing came from a lack of appreciation and a lack of connection to  the  natural enjoyment of me being me, in all I do. It totally throws most people to consider that our quality is what matters most and it has more influence on us than we tend to give it credit for. Far more than the final output.

479. This is just beautiful. The difference between rushing our movements and staying with our movements is huge. It may mean that we actually move at the same pace, but the quality is so different and the anxiousness is not there.

480. “When you rush the body, it checks out – it is designed to move in moments. Understand this and you will heal anxiousness and exhaustion.” ~ Serge Benhayon
     This is the greatest revelation that the whole of humanity is crying out for.

481. Very inspiring, I can feel what you have written is what you live and this is something I very much need to change in my life.. in that I am consistent with everything I do and one movement flows into the next including carrying out daily tasks. I love this, any quote from Serge Benhayon is pure gold “When you rush the body, it checks out – it is designed to move in moments. Understand this and you will heal anxiousness and exhaustion.” ~ Serge Benhayon (Esoteric Teachings and Revelations, Book 1, p. 303)

482. Thank you for sharing the two quotes from Serge Benhayon Leah, they really support why yoga is a daily practice and not just done for an hour and then forgotten about. Yoga is about stillness and movement and making it our moment to moment practice. I know for myself when I rush I loose connection with myself, and then the anxious begins to appear where there was none before, it really is an incredible science and the more I live it the more I love its amazing precision

483. ‘That everything means everything equally’ – That’s an amazing way to live and structure to live by, leaving no gaps or areas where your attention or care is any less than another part of the day. Thanks for sharing Leah!

484. You know what i think it’s really important to admit you are exhausted – I keep kidding myself – but I am, and there is nothing wrong with admitting you are tired, this is often met with reaction from others. But If you aren’t honest with yourself, how can you move forward, you’ll just keep going round in the same choices that got you tired and or exhausted in the first place.

     1. Resisting something is also adding to the exhaustion, as it is not our natural way. When we allow the space to stop and feel our body communicates very clearly. The body keeps us very honest when we are prepared to listen.

485. When we talk about someone doing something religiously I had not felt the consistent commitment that this comes with and appreciated the discipline that I have introduced into my life in so many little ways to support me as I move through my day. Thank you Leah for sharing how simple it is to bring religion into every aspect of our days when we connect to our inner stillness and live from there.

486. Like so many of Serge Benhayon quotes, they turn my mind 180 degrees..”The magic of stillness is in motion – the goal is to bring stillness in motion in everything we do.” Stillness with motion I thought when I first heard this? But as we return more to our stillness within, it becomes clear that we can move and hold it within us. As usual, when we get back to feeling something, it makes complete sense.

487. “I am aware that the quality of my movements can allow others to come back to themselves.” Absolutely this is so powerful in itself, we do not need to speak or say anything to others, it is our true moments that are felt by others, which inspire them within to choose their own true movements. We are always a reflection to others.

     1. well said Amita, it sure is a powerful way to live.

488. Through esoteric yoga I have connected to a knowing that I am made up of particles and that these particles are part of the space around me and it is the quality that I move in that dictates the quality or configuration of the particles within me. If the quality I choose is gentleness then there is a feeling of space within. If the quality I choose is to rush and be racy then the feeling of space within and all around me has gone. We are so much more than our physical form we are part of something so much grander and it is when I connect with this grandness I feel light and energised as it feels like I’m creating space within.

489. I can feel the stillness of you in what you have written there is a certain flow to the words that emanate the stillness you are describing and it is asking me to go deeper into my stillness. This to me shows that everything is everything and that energy can be felt in everything we do. Nothing we do should be discounted.

     1. Yes so true, the vibration is felt and communicates, a beautiful confirmation that the quality of energy we choose has an impact on us all. Thank you Leah.

490. ““The magic of stillness is in motion – the goal is to bring stillness in motion in everything we do.” ~ Serge Benhayon. (Esoteric Teachings and Revelations, Book 1, p. 91)” This is such a beautiful and powerful quote, each time I read it, I can feel the power and depth of what is being shared. Like Leah I use to live in so much motion, stillness was a word I never understood. Now I am constantly working on deepening my stillness, as I am aware and have felt the power of stillness in motion.

     1. Oh this quote is powerful I agree Amita, and there is nothing more exquisite and graceful to feel someone moving in motion in stillness. When moving like this there is no imposing on anyone.

491. When you drive your car real fast, what do you see? All your attention becomes tunnel vision, and everything else is literally a blur. As you have expressed when we are connected to ourselves the world around us expands, and we see everything, the choice is ours!

492. Through esoteric yoga I could not avoid feeling how exhausted I was, I recall how to begin with it was very difficult to do very simple movements and how readily I would nod off when we were asked to lie back down. Then from lying down to getting back up was near impossible as my body just wanted to stay there and rest. Looking back so much has shifted for me as I can now enjoy the movements and the quality I feel in a seated position which previously was an enormous struggle. It has been through a commitment to changing the quality of my movements and being honest about the exhaustion and concentrating on how present I am throughout my day that I am now peeling away the layers of exhaustion and feeling more vital and energised in everything I do.

493. Thank you Leah, I completely understand that ‘rushing round doing several jobs at once’ mode, and therefore appreciate the immense shift you have made within yourself to quell this behaviour and instead connect to “the beauty of stillness within me.” This is a core teaching of Serge Benhayon, to bring stillness into motion and it is deeply life changing, a perpetually religious exercise to master in all we do, and the more we attempt it, the more beautiful, simple and engaging life is.

494. Beautifully inspiring blog – from reading it I now feel more aware of how I can deepen my own connection in my daily rhythm and activities. Thank you.

495. Very beautiful Leah and thank you for sharing this here. What I feel is that religion has nothing to do with dogma or sets of rules but about connecting to and living from the stillness you describe. Religion is about living and being this stillness through our daily activity, not doing ‘the right thing’. In this I sense that God is alive and well and available to us all equally – if we choose to connect with him.

496. Leah, this is a gorgeous and inspiring blog. You have so beautifully encapsulated the profound simplicity and stillness of Esoteric Yoga in your writing.
     You are living the truth of Esoteric Yoga, which is not just a session, but offers a blueprint to be lived in daily life – deepening awareness with the quality of the living stillness within and bringing it to every movement.
     Totally awesome!

497. A beautiful religion of how to live every moment of every day without a dogma, rule or separative membership in sight; The Way of The Livingness.

498. What you share here explains a lot Leah! Living our truth is the only true Religion.

499. You mention that you took medication every night to wind down from your day. Isn’t that what a glass of wine or ‘night cap’ is? How many of us are using alcohol to take the ‘edge’ off our day? Yet how many of us are honest enough to recognise this as medication and thus wonder what might be wrong with the way we are living, that requires medicating. True religion would be to be true about what we are doing to our bodies.

     1. Absolutely Otto, well said.
        Many are lost with how to truly live and care for the body, and the need to take the ‘edge off’ from their day with self medication. I was once in this place and thanks to Esoteric Yoga and the Teachings of the Ageless Wisdom, my life has turned around.

500. ‘everything is of equal importance’. These wise words came home to me and literally. I was shown how everything in my home needed to be attended to, placed and kept in an ordered and loving way. This in itself supports stillness and transformed the way I move, feel and relate.

501. As a religion, this short blog makes more sense to me than anything I was told at a school about the traditional religions.

502. To be present in the body is the greatest healing I ever received. it brings stillness to my body and heals the ideal I have to be there for others when in truth healing lays within being there for me first and by deeply connecting to myself I am there for others.

503. The meaning of the word religion has been bastardized over the ages and in that has lost its true meaning to us and therefore we are a bit reluctant to accept religion again to be our natural way to be for each an every human being. Religion is actually, as so beautiful described by you Leah, the connection with our innermost and can be felt in every movement we make when in this connection. The stillness and delicacy that then emerges from deep within is our true religion and our way to go.

504. Leah I loved reading your blog, I love your connection to what you are religious with and the deep care, commitment and love that you hold yourself and your day with. it really confirms making life about quality first and the ripple effects that has, the strength it provides and how much more enjoyable and yummy life can be when we are connected to our body and not caught up in the mind.

505. Beautifully expressed Leah. Thank you for reminding me of the simplicity of true religion.

506. I wholeheartedly agree, Esoteric Yoga is a formidable modality supporting one to reconnect to stillness that is “… always there within… “

507. Leigh this blows the lid on what a religious life is and being dedicated to God. It is in every movement and moment. There is such delicacy in that which you have shared your everyday, how could that not be religious?

508. “The magic of stillness is in motion – the goal is to bring stillness in motion in everything we do.” ~ Serge Benhayon. I love this quote, I feel it’s asking us to share the pure essence of who we are without being attached to any outcome, just bringing our gorgeous selves to all that we do.

509. Super blog Leah, very healing to read. I too adore Esoteric Yoga, your words here: “There is nothing in this world that I would rather be than the beauty of stillness within me”, this is absolute. This is how to truly live life.

510. When I first heard about being in my ‘stillness’, I struggled to understand what that meant and how I found it. I love how you have shared some very relatable examples of how we can be with ourselves in our day to day in a quality which brings us back to our stillness.

     1. Stillness for me is a surrender and a deep vibration that can be connected to. When it’s brought into our everyday activities, the imprints left behind feed me back when I return to them. Amazing.

511. It is beautiful reading about your presence and enjoyment of each moment and movement. Nothing beats the joy of moving and living this way and it is not only free it is the greatest investment we could ever make.

512. ‘There is nothing in this world that I would rather be than the beauty of stillness within me.’ – I would have been scratching my head if I read this about 10 years ago. Even then I still would have been questioning what you share. But today I type as a person who has experienced this quality of stillness only to find the there is a much deeper level of stillness within. A journey that brings simplicity yet the profoundness one could only imagine yet is true.

513. Thanks Leah , Religion is in our movements and definitely in the quality that do things in , when we rush we make our selves less than the divine nature of god that lives inside everyone of us.

514. Thank you for reminding us of this gem by Serge Benhayon, “When you rush the body, it checks out – it is designed to move in moments. Understand this and you will heal anxiousness and exhaustion.” It is religion and medicine all in one and it is there for all of us – and time will prove it.

515. Leah, I love the practical ways you are religious in the way you move, and your words ‘I am aware that the quality of my movements can allow others to come back to themselves’ are an inspiration for all of us to be aware how we can provide a reflection for others when we move with stillness.

     1. Yes Carmel a very powerful and purposeful way to live.

516. Aah the beauty and ceremony of our daily lives is truly a religious experience to be deeply appreciated and honoured for the power of reflection and joy it offers in any given moment. Thank you Leah.

517. Stillness is a much undervalued quality of life, though at some level we do recognise and honour it, perhaps in the form of the still presence brought by some of the significant actors from the past – for example, Audrey Hepburn and Grace Kelly. Our whole society is geared around ”do do do” shout shout shout’ ”get noticed above all else’ ‘dominate, control and manipulate’. But when we surrender to the stillness there is nothing more exquisite on earth. Thank you for this gorgeous article, Leah.

518. You write you took medication to sleep and were exhausted. You would imagine that one would be able to sleep if exhausted but actually the more vital and well we are the better we sleep so getting exhausted and disconnected sets up an unhealthy cycle. Esoteric Yoga is wonderful at breaking this cycle and supporting our reconnection to our body and well-being.

     1. The medication helped to stop my body so, I could just sleep. There are reasons as to why I couldn’t stop from the energy that was in my body. And through Universal Medicine I have been healing myself back to feeling vital again.

        1. When I get disconnected I experience the opposite problem in that I sleep a lot more. Sleeping or eating too much are always very noticeable clues to me that something may be amiss and need addressing. Our bodies are wonderful wise friends and it certainly pays to listen to them.

519. Leah, what a wonderful and authoritative testimony to the effectiveness of Esoteric yoga enabling us to come to the ‘One Life’ – the fact that there is no one person, activity or thing that is more important than another! What it is all about is the harmonious and living vibration in which we consistently live and move. I like you have been dominated by the ‘racy’ way of living – living from my ‘fight and flight’ nervous system instead of the impulse of the inner heart. Living in ‘racy’ stops us from truly feeling and reading life from the point of view of the observer – and when this is the case we become emotional, stubborn and destructive to true harmony.

520. Thank you Leah for this blog and sharing the quotes from Serge Benhayon – they are profound. Bringing your wisdom and experience into print has also allowed so much wisdom from those that have responded to your sharing. What a beautiful and simple way of grounding true religion on earth – living it in every moment and movement just by simply moving from room to room with conscious presence. I deeply appreciate all that you have shared.

521. It is ‘the way’ you live and go about all that you do that makes it religious, above the functional version of ‘doing’ life without a deeper connection.

522. Beautiful Leah. Inside us all there dwells a deep pool of Stillness as vast as the Universe, for it is indeed the Universe; the great body of love we call ‘God’ that we live within and that lives within us. As such we are, by virtue of our breath, forever connected if we so choose to such divinity. We breathe in and feel the Stillness of God. We breathe out and feel the Stillness of God in motion. This is true religion and it is as simple as making the choice to breathe our own breath and not race through life at breakneck speed thus losing breath and thus our tool of connection to the depth of who we truly are.

     1. I love what you wrote here – “inside us dwells a deep pool of Stillness as vast as the Universe,” – so beautifully expressed and divinely poetic.
        It is in the Re-turn to who we truly are, through our breath, the breath of God, the Stillness within, living each moment in Divine quality.

     2. Aaaaah, this is awesome. You explain big picture things in a way I can so easily relate to and understand.

523. I remember being super scatty and unable to sit still. Rushing my movements is a sure way to keep me from feeling the stillness I have connected to through Esoteric Yoga. I love your examples of how you live religiously every day. Very beautiful and inspiring.

524. I know that when I don’t rush it is almost impossible to feel anxious, I am slowly understanding how important it is to move with a strong awareness and not rush. For me this is even the way I climb steps, I used to leap up them as fast as I can and yesterday I caught myself about to do the same and then chose to walk in my own pace instead, it felt much more supportive for my body.

525. A beautiful profound and very real sharing of true religion lived in every moment and movement we make and the divinity in this is felt and known. A amazing sharing and knowing and a treasure to read and know thank you I love reading this and all its wisdom shared in such simplicity.

526. “When you rush the body, it checks out – it is designed to move in moments. Understand this and you will heal anxiousness and exhaustion.” ~ Serge Benhayon (Esoteric Teachings and Revelations, Book 1, p. 303) Yet another quote of absolute divine wisdom from the master who is the undesputable and ever more inspirational, Serge Benhayon.

527. “When you rush the body, it checks out – it is designed to move in moments.” Rushing can be such a drive for me when I am driving so I can feel that by creating more time at the beginning of my day I will have no need to go into rush. The times when I do have plenty of time, then I do not have to rush, so there is then a flow in what is brought to my day and this is felt as moments, which is so supportive for my evolution, because I get to feel and read more of what is happening in my day.
     For more about moments go to;
     http://www.unimedliving.com/search?keyword=MOVEMENT

528. Stillness in motion is worth practising. I used to think someone that was really still was someone who was super soft and delicate who moved at 1km per hour and was really airy fairy. My understanding through observation and my own experimentation of this practice has changed.. There is enormous strength in being committed to life and being still whilst getting on with every practical thing there is to do. Just imagine leaving anxiety and nervous tension at the door and still being productive, actually being even more productive because you’re no longer draining your energy with the tension you were carrying.

529. “When you rush the body, it checks out – it is designed to move in moments. Understand this and you will heal anxiousness and exhaustion.” ~ Serge Benhayon. I had not come across this teaching till today and I absolutely loved reading this in your blog Leah. In fact I read and re-read this sentence about 3-4 times before I could move on and read the rest of the blog. This is very powerful, practical and easy to grasp, and if we choose to put this in practice then how life transforming it can be! Something for me to practice now…

     1. Same for me Henrietta, I must have read it once before but have forgotten about it and this blog was a great reminder to this teaching for me too and makes so much sense now. I can feel the truth of this teaching as the being of God, which I do mostly feel as a stillness in whole my body is only there for me to feel when I am with my body in space and not when I am rushing around, lost in time.

     2. Beautiful Henrietta that you got the blessing from this quote

530. Leah, I love how you have opened up the word religion to be so much more than its current societal boxed definition. There is a religious way we can do things – a way that is dedicated to living lovingly and allowing the presence of God to come through us in the way that we move, the way that we are, in the things we choose to do!

531. Another key way that we can bring stillness back to the body is to stop and appreciate. Because one source of raciness can come from not being enough and always wanting to stay/get ahead, but when you stop and appreciate that you are already enough (and actually amazing), and appreciate what you are doing, it brings a stillness and a harmony to the body.

     For example, reading your blog this morning, I stopped and appreciated that I also hydrate my body in the morning as soon as I wake up, and if it is cool, then I put a jumper on. I had not appreciated that before because I always ‘just do it’. In this appreciation, I felt more connected in my body and more stillness and harmony, which leaves less room for any tension.

     1. Appreciation inspires us to stop. “woah….that/you/I/this is amazing.” If that appreciation is true then it is impossible to just run over it – we have to pause for a beat and let it sink in.

     2. Great point, Sarah. Appreciation is as an important tool as something like the esoteric yoga – it’s a moment to stop and come back to the body. And it can be done in an instant. Appreciating that I’ve stopped to add to your comment ☺️

532. Bringing everything back to the truth and it’s great to see the word Religion being held in this way. Not owned by any-one but owned by everyone. If you are experiencing anxiety or if you are exhausted, here you have it simply, ““When you rush the body, it checks out – it is designed to move in moments. Understand this and you will heal anxiousness and exhaustion.” ~ Serge Benhayon (Esoteric Teachings and Revelations, Book 1, p. 303)” So life isn’t complicated and nor is it hard, it’s simply a consistent dedicated to a “move in moments”. How that is for you or how consistent you are is a choice but this is the map for us all.

     1. And surely that is what a religion is – a map that evolves us back to our truth.

533. Thank you Leah for sharing the depth of your understanding of living the Stillness of God in every movement. What you share offers a direct connection for me to feel these qualities for myself, and my body says yes, this is how truly living and moving feels like. A beautiful reflection -one I’m already appreciating reading again.

534. Great blog Leah. I have been working on developing my relationship with religion and learning what it feels like to live religiously every day. Awesome timing to read your blog. Often I find myself drift in and out of being religious but the amazing thing is there is no pressure from anyone to be perfect. It is my willingness to continuously develop my relationship with religion that is the key to life.

     1. So beautifully said Chan, life is not about perfection, but it is about a willingness to consistently keep developing our relationship with life and with religion so that we can have a true relationship with life and religion. A life without true religion is one that is a far cry from the grandness that we are here to live, it is a shadow of who we are. Religion allows us to blossom far more that we ever realise. This religion I am talking about is not the societal boxed version of religion, but it is as you have so beautifully said, a relationship with life that allows our natural connection to divinity to flow unhindered.

        1. Well said Henrietta, that’s the essence of what I have felt religion to be for me.

     2. Chan, what you say is lovely as it confirms that we are in the driving seat as to whether we commit to developing a relationship with true religion or not and it is up to us if we want to ‘drift in and out’. I have always used excuses and blame for why I haven’t done something or why something isn’t working for me but what you are clearly saying here is it is our responsibility to choose to commit or not.

535. I love the simplicity and depth of this blog. Moving with our body is the most precious gift we can give ourselves. For a long time I had the goal / drive to ‘become’ love. Now I understand that this drive is part of the illusion I created. I am love, I am stillness, it’s up to be with me inside my body and move with me. Whatever I do, however I move and however I interact with others.

536. Living our lives in a way that is connected to who we truly are is true religion. Bringing us stillness that is unmeasurable and gives us the possibility to express all that we are.

537. Wow, Leah, what you have shared here is so profoundly simple and makes so much sense. And these quotes from Serge Benhayon deeply confirm us and the power of being with our innately divine quality in every moment.

538. I loved reading this as some of the religious rituals in your day I could relate to but have not stopped to appreciate that they do support me to be with my body. Being in my own presence has never felt more amazing and reading this blog comfirmed that deepening this relationship throughout my daily activities is for me a growing focus for the day and for the rest of my days. Building anything outside of this connection has always failed or never remained successful for very long.

539. Not many people realise that the quality with which we choose to move and engage with anything actually has an impact on every aspect of our experience including our thoughts. It was a revelation for me when I first heard about it in a Universal Medicine workshop. Quite something that we can actually wind ourselves up more by the way we move, respond or react to life, or we can bring greater level of connection and stillness which enriches everything.

     1. I agree Golnaz. As we belong to a ‘sea of ceaseless motion’, we can’t help but move and be moved as we spin throughout the ever-expanding Universe we are a part of. But it is not the sort of motion that we as humans have become so intoxicated with and that leaves us in an exhausted puddle at the end of our day/life. It is a motion that comes from Stillness and as such moves in rhythm to all else in the cosmos. What we have done here on Earth is create a movement not first born of Stillness, that is – we are very quick to breathe out within taking the necessary breath in. Nor to we pause to consider that our breath in is also a movement, as are our other seemingly motionless moments such as our sleep, our thoughts, our rest etc. Therefore the quality with which we move has an impact on everything and everyone we share this space with and because we don’t yet understand the truth of this en masse, we still have skyrocketing rates of illness and disease as well as calamities that bring about the much needed corrections to our ill way of moving.

     2. Yes beautifully expressed Golnaz, it’s all in the quality that affects everything. A lesson that’s ever developing and unfolding always. In Stillness everything is so much clearer.

540. We tend to think religion as something supra-natural. And yet, religion is something totally mundane, natural, familiar and beautiful, which highlights and confirm some stupendous (divine) qualities we carry.

541. Quality over function every time!

542. Religion is my every day, it’s the way I shower, walk at home between rooms and care for the house and myself, I like it Leah.

543. Religion as a quality of connection to stillness and harmony in the body is such a graceful way to understand religion. I love the simplicity of finding and feeling our connection to God from within. Thank you Leah for sharing some of your practical ways to develop this quality of presence.

544. World upon world of richness awaken within us when we pay more attention to the quality of energy we are feeling.

545. Our religion when it is true is in our moments, our devotion to being present with ourselves in everything we do..

     1. Love this Katerina:’our devotion to being present with ourselves in everything we do.’

        1. I agree, it’s beautifully said Katerina

546. Starting things and never finishing them was my trade mark. There was always an ‘I’ not dotted or a ‘t’ not crossed. Everything was about the journey, not the destination. So, if I never completed anything I could stay in constant motion. Busy doing nothing, comes to mind. Now, I still have motion in my life but it now has a purpose. My new destination is back to who I am in all that I do.

     1. Beautiful Steve, your new found purpose in everything you do

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