429 thoughts on “What is My True Religion?”

1. Thank you Danna, True religion has allowed all those ideals, beliefs and comparison to drop away and as you have shared so much about what we all have felt at times is now a past memory thanks to The Way of The Livingness.

2. We react to religion and the word religion because of what we have come to see the word and practice of religion to be, yet it is also amazing to detach from what we have experienced and re-consider the truth of words and make the practice an internal rather than an external one.

3. Thank you Danna. I remember myself when Serge introduced the topic of religion and how many people reacted and I was also one. Reading your blog today, what struck me was how we do innately know what religion truly is, otherwise why would we feel so reactive to what is being expressed as religion in this world? I have also completely changed my relationship to religion knowing it was my own innate connection to God and to myself as part of God.

4. Being absolutely honest about how we feel when the game of human life plays out around us is integral to our development as human beings. Great blog Danna.

   1. It was really great how Danna allowed herself space to observe rather than jump into a reaction, ‘ I continued my reflection and simply observed my ways. I observed the way I looked at religion, and if there was anything to ‘living religiously.’’

5. I am really loving how you share this process of coming to the truth through being allowed to feel and express whatever is there for each of us, no right or wrong, no judgment or a goal we need to arrive at, but just keep unfolding.

6. There are no beliefs, no images, no worshipping in The Way of The Livingness. The simplicity of a religion that brings you back to you, the truth.

   1. Absolutely Shushila, the living Truth of a True religion is felt in the students who choose to feel the True connection to God and their bodies.

7. Many of us know there is more to religion than what has been taught or bought up around. Growing up in the Hindu religion, I recalled men and women being separated from each other and knowing this was wrong, it didn’t feel true. So I would do the opposite. I would go over and speak to the men, not necessarily sitting but visit them to have a chat. I have to add I wasn’t popular at first but sooner or later the younger generation would be doing something similar.

   I don’t know what it is like to be in a temple as I don’t feel to visit them any more, and I don’t condone those who chose to visit them either.

   True religion is within us all, there is no worshipping of anything or that God is external or he/she resides within a certain building. God resides within us all, its a matter of whether this feels true for you or not, I know what feels true for me now since being inspired by Serge Benhayon and The Way of The Livingness.

8. It is so clear to see how having different and separate religious ideals has created a global tension between people which has ultimately lead to war. But the personal impact of this tension is perhaps far less obvious and clear to see. So what is described here in this article is very important because it starts the conversation about how religious hatred and violence affects us all on a deeply personal level – even if we have never personally experienced it – which is a vitally important subject for the bigger picture of global relations.

   1. That is so true, the more obvious is so much easier to see and react to yet we rarely question the less obvious reactions to what we see and the reaction and detachment from a source of constant support and wisdom.

9. True religion is in the way we move and live everyday, people can sniff it out a mile away when we are speaking from knowledge, or repeating another’s words, that’s why the Livingness is so important and powerful as it speaks far louder than our words.

10. The only ever religion we can live is to not hold back the truth our body knows. Bastardization of anything has no power on us when we walk Truth and not hold it back.

11. The question to be posed is how come a topic that was an issue and caused all kind of physical reactions ceases to be an issue and turns into something just natural. What is this telling us regarding what we understand religion to be and the way to connecting to it that does not cause any physical reaction and is totally at ease with us. This is a miracle produced by The Way of The Livingness.

12. What if we simply define religion as our relationship to life – then we can’t help but have a religion – it’s then up to us to define the quality of our religious experience.

13. If we allow others to live and be in their religion we also allow ourselves to do the same. And vice versa.

14. You are discussing religion here but could we transpose this to discussions in general, do we not, as a general rule, find ourselves in a state of tension when we discuss topics? Do we allow our children to talk freely, to consider, to question, to share what they have experienced, without needing to shape the understanding and the conversation into a nice neat box. I suspect we learn over time to avoid the tension and acquiesce to the most dominant voice to keep the peace.

15. ” The presentation continued and I knew we were on a path of true and open discussion ”
    Its amazing what can be discussed and brought out once the purpose of the discussion is to get to the source and this then brings one to truth without any drama.

16. We often get caught up in the different beliefs around religion, for me my religion has comes from my own connection to God, my inner connection with my soul that asks for nothing, but to be the love I naturally am and return to my true essence.

17. Just reading my comment above, how insane that the word God, which is packed with such divinity, expansiveness and inspiration, could have been so twisted so we feel precisely the opposite.

    1. And how insane that religion can be the very vehicle that turns us away from God.

       1. It is crazy, when religion is our relationship with our inner-most, and equally with God, ‘I have also completely changed my relationship to religion knowing it was my own innate connection to God and to myself as part of God.’

18. I suspect the rest of the room was bracing in the same as you were Danna, and likewise spent the rest of the discussion slowly unpacking that so we could all get a clearer sense of what a relationship with God might actually look like if we dropped all our misconceptions from the past.

19. Religion is what we breathe and live in life no matter where we are and what we do. Being a walking example is our greatest testimonial.

    1. A great and deeply inspiring reflection of what true religion is all about, not what we say or read but how we choose to live and move.

       1. True religion is simply, ‘a re-turn or a re-connection to something we already are, that is, to the Divine that is in all of us, equally so.’

20. Just like you Danna I loved how Serge offered me getting awareness on all the false ways the world religion has been used and the effect it had on me. So when in my job interview to become a celebrant for the local council of the town I live in they asked me if I have a religion I said yes. A beautiful discussion followed when they asked me to not bring in my religion during a wedding ceremony. I shared I don’t need to talk about God or my connection to the universe in a speech, but the way I live and move every day is religious and I wouldn’t hold back my love for people, not for the couple getting married nor for their guests.

    1. Monika you have really highlighted a key point here, that religion is not necessarily about words or beliefs, but very simply about love – something that we can live everyday.

21. I used to have quite an aversion towards religion, feeling there was so much wrong with what I observed in them. So when Serge Benhayon first started to bring up the word religion I had a multitude of reactions come up. What I have leaned from this is how important reflection is. I had been reflected only the current well known forms of religion in this world and had rightfully rejected them. But without a true reflection of what religion is I had rejected the entire notion of religion all together. We live by what we see around us and because of that it is very difficult to connect to something completely different, to a way that is not lived around us. By the reflection of Serge we were offered this, a whole other way of being, that allowed us to ponder on and reconnect to what religion truly is.

22. Is it not amazing how asking questions in a completely open way, offering a consideration that what we had held as truth before might not be so, can change our world around completely. As with you Danna, being asked those question about religions offered me the space to connect to what I hold true within myself about religion.

23. “Let us all re-awaken to the simple ways of what true religion is. It is within us all.” Yes , however the word religion has been so bastardised it is no wonder that people feel that religion has no part to play in their lives. Tracing the word back to its roots it simply means a re-binding, a reconnection to one’s true self. Who could argue with that?

24. The word religion invokes a profound feeling of uneasiness in many.
    The world of religion is a refuge against the uneasiness that people feel in their lives.
    Uneasiness and religion seems to be close friends.
    It is only The Way of The Livingness that shows to the world that this state of things does not have to be. Joy & Glory and religion can also be a great couple.

25. I know I feel Sacredness within, maybe my inner Sacredness and the activity of this is my religion…. My religion evolves constantly to encompass and enhouse all I feel to be true. Religion is a reflection of myself and God in everyday. I am still feeling what this word expresses in my heart…..

26. We could be religious about all kinds of things and can talk in different ways but what we are all seeking is the connection with something that we inherently know as the absolute.

27. How complicated we have made religion in its bastardised version when it is actually very simple when we strip away all the ideals and beliefs or other connotations we have or had around this word. And that’s what you have done Danna, you have made it simple and claimed the truth of what you’ve felt in your body and also took the next step in changing the way you move through life.

28. The opportunity to discover the real meaning of religion and what it can in truth offer everyone on the planet has been a revelation to me, and something I am deeply appreciative of thanks to Universal Medicine.

    1. It is great to have the true meaning of religion presented, so we all have the opportunity to discard the lies we have been sold.

29. I love re-discovering the word and experience of religion. Without any belief or imposition, it feels really natural and accessible, just being me connected to my Soul.

30. There is so much reaction worldwide to the word religion, because of where we have taken it. I reacted completely against the church I was brought up in, because what I saw and what was taught were very different things. I could certainly understand how anyone would say “how does God even exist, considering what is going on the world?” But was gradually, through Serge Benhayon’s loving presentations, brought back to the original meaning of what religion is and how where we are in the world is based on the part we play and what we in the world have created. That we are the ones that have stepped away from our innate knowing of God, but that we can also make that same step back towards God, for every constant reflection in life is that of which to make that step of return. God never interferes in our choices, for we will return in the end.

31. If the true meaning of the world religion is a permanent invitation to (re-)connect to everything, how can be so much separation around it? Does this fact tell us anything regarding what we do in the name of religion? Or said differently, the extent to which we are very un-religious when we get to religion? If we take the mainstream religion supply side, what kind of bodies and beings does it produce? Can we discard this as a sign of their own quality and of the truth they hold and represent?

32. A lot of people don’t feel like they can be religious in their own right – it’s common to feel obliged to follow what our parents/family choose to believe, or our friends, rather than finding a way of life that WE feel is vital, godly and divine based on our experiences of it.

33. I was recently asked at work by a new employee if I believed in God and without hesitation I said an absolute Yes. In the past I would have fumbled or half hearted said yes but today I know exactly what my relationship with God is and it doesn’t contain a special building that I need to go to. My church is my body and my direct relationship with God, this Union that I am fully dedicated even thou there are days I wobble and disconnect from it. I come back and open armed the warmth and love is forever holding me. The Way of The Livingness is my religion and it feels amazing. I have huge appreciation for Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine for reflecting a steady, consistent and transparent relationship with God and showing how possible it really is.

34. True religion resides within each one of us when we connect to our inner essence and live life from that space which connects us to all.

35. I have always known that the religion taught today is not true religion. It may have a smattering of truth within it but really it is very far from the truth of who we are. Instead of supporting us all to have a closer relationship to God it takes us further away.

36. ‘I was feeling truly safe, simply because I felt inside that for the first time in my life, the matter of religion was truly being asked without any demand whatsoever.’ Discussion of religion prior to those I’ve experienced with Universal Medicine have come loaded with imposition – if you disagree with what I believe then I’ll argue my point until you do agree to it! And there were times I did this myself, unable to accept another’s free will to choose. So what is it about religion that makes people want to dominate another’s beliefs? Why do people care so much? Whether we want to deny it or not, religion is a fundamental part of our lives and it’s when I was shown the space in which to consider it without imposition that I could begin to feel what was true to me.

37. This is really beautiful. What a wonderful question to ask – how would God deal with this? And this of course considers us all equally.

38. The more I develop my understanding of religion the more I love it. Once I based my understanding of religion on the main religions and my only issue was that they didn’t reflect what I innately know is religion. Now I’d have no issue with expressing what religion means to me if someone were to ask.

    1. It is really great to have the true meaning of religion out there and more available for people to understand if they so wish.

39. Serge Benhayon is reawakening humanity to the truth that is inherent in the very word religion

40. The Way of The Livingness is bringing religion back in its true and pure form, an a very natural connection to God.

41. I am still not quite there with being publicly Religious but what I love about these open discussions and forums is there is an opportunity to speak without being wrong, its a great space for exploration and opening up to the fact that maybe what we are reacting to is a false version of Religion, not Religion its self.

42. What is my true religion? To reunite with the all that we are from with all of us.

43. Funny how we can brace ourselves with the word religion, when in fact it is not the word we react to but rather the many misguided representations of it that so many have adopted as their version of truth…

44. It is true what you say that we all have a deep knowing of what true religion is – and it is the easiest thing in the world to recognize when someone reflects the livingness of true religion, you cannot but feel it.

45. ‘We know we are all the same…’ this statement, in all its simplicity, exposes the games we play that keep us separate, in competition and comparing ourselves to one another… the madness of the complication and conflict we create against our innate nature.

46. When Serge Benhayon presents a space for us to find our connection to God, we are being offered absolute Gold.

47. How is it that a word which has caused so much segregation world wide in truth actually means the opposite, that is, to rebind and return.

48. As I open more and more to my true religion, my connection with myself and God, my body just melts and my heart expands. there is so much beauty in this and I can feel that I have only touched the surface. There is so much more depth to open to.

49. My true religion is simply my connection to God. There is so fanfare, no pomp, no ritual, no loud proclamations from the roof tops, no need to convert or convince anyone and no words needing to be recited. It’s simply a quiet feeling that that fills my being with a knowing, a richness and a settlement. It’s a personal feeling to me and nothing more is needed, for it is already everything.

    1. I love the simplicity in this statement, ‘My true religion is simply my connection to God.’

50. You have so beautifully captured the simplicity of your direct connection to the true meaning of religion Danna. Thank you for sharing about your relationship with religion.

51. ‘… I allowed my power to come out and stand in the fact that I am a deeply religious person. Even though this means the absolute opposite of what is going on in all the religions in the world today, it is okay.’ Beautiful and very inspiring Danna.

52. Allowing a space for my own religion to emerge is a very precious and profound experience and one that has gradually developed throughout my life. When I was introduced to religion as a child I could not understand the dynamics of what was taking place – the words and the actions did not integrate – the words felt empty and meaningless. What I did feel was true for me was my own personal relationship with God – a direct link we have when we allow ourselves to connect to the inner heart and the wisdom of the Ageless Wisdom.

53. The deep knowing of true religion within us all is very beautiful with the simplicity of knowing God within us is what keeps us looking and the joy shared here is very beautiful ” I felt a love that had no words, simply a connection to God. In this space all I found was what I now call my religion.”

54. Great sharing, Danna, as it shows how simple and real religion is. No certain building is needed and no sermons or prayers, just the simple connection to ones own body and God and the openness of one’s own heart to truth and people.

55. The approach to religion that is prevalent across the world is one of separation between different groups of people who all believe in different things and this causes much pain, both to our conscious minds as we try to comprehend such a way and to our physical bodies because to be open and loving is the natural human way to live. Therefore anything that calls itself a religion must be precisely examined for its intent and its structure, because as a human race we cannot go on accepting forms of religion that continue to keep us away from the love we have for eachother, from brotherhood.

    1. There are so many false ideals, beliefs, and pictures about religion, ‘different groups of people who all believe in different things and this causes much pain’.

56. Our true destination and ultimate inheritance in this world is to live every day with true Joy. It might take some lifetimes or years, but the same simplicity is on offer to everybody, everywhere. Our reconnection to this divine brilliance we have inside is what Religion is all about. Thank you Danna for sharing and being inspired.

57. I remember feeling that you could only follow a religion if you had some kind of blind faith, a belief in the religion that you had been brought into by family etc. This never made sense to me as I always knew there was so much more to life than we generally live but could not feel it in our then existing ‘religious’ institutions. I therefore also felt a repulsion from the word religion, which it has taken some time to change. Re-learning that I already know true religion in every part of me, as a lived way shows how worlds apart it is from the form that society has come to accept as a very poor substitute.

    When Serge Benhayon first mentioned religion in relation to The Way of The Livingness and Universal Medicine I remember thinking ‘oh no, that’s that done with’ such was the strength of feeling toward my then perception of religion. I now thank God and Serge that he did bring it back to truth to unlock all that has been so bastardised, by design, to keep so many, like me, away from our known divine truth of true religion.

58. I remember at school everyone used to laugh at religious studies and did not take it seriously. This attitude is easily brought into adult life. But religion is one of the most important things in life. Our ability to feel what is true, our commitment to living that, and living with integrity is so important in a world that is full of abuse and corruption. Nothing to laugh at.

59. Danna, it is very beautiful reading about true religion. Until recently I had not considered myself religious, claiming myself to not believe in God or religion. When I heard Serge Benhayon talk about God and religion this changed, what he was sharing felt true and made sense.

60. I remember having a bit of an internal freak in claiming my religiosity because I was aware of all the judgements many hold around this word. And understandably in the sense that institutions under the name of religion (misused from the true meaning) have been the cause of some of the most horrendous events and brutalities to date.

61. You can really feel the damage religion has done when you realise so many people are traumatised simply by a word – a word that in truth is all about our connection to ourselves.

    1. There is indeed much trauma about the word religion, it is a taboo subject for many.

62. It’s amazing to have the lid lifted on a very controversial subject, so we no longer have to fear or avoid what the word religion really means to us. I can now openly say I’m religious, where as in the past I felt to have nothing to do with it.

    1. Coming back to the true meaning of words and being able to use them without hesitation… this is super cool and I am inspired by you being able to openly say, ‘I’m religious’.

63. Yes, Danna, re-activating our connection to God is the most joyful of all things, and our patterns from past choices to separate from the love we innately belong to can be let go of.

64. Thank you Danna, I enjoy reading your blog again. I was having a conversation with a friend about religion and from that it was interesting to feel how the institutionalised religions has played a huge part in distorting people’s understanding and relationship with religion.

65. I love how you have discovered the true origins of the word religion, all from experience. Reading this gives me a strong sense of it for myself.

66. The Way of The Livingness as the one true religion that unifies and honours all equally does away with all the preconceptions, the disillusionment and the bad memories that institutionalised religions have spawned.

67. If we were all to think of a word that conveyed what religion represents for us we would likely have a pile of quite negative words. To me that seems like a pause for thought in itself and maybe a reassessment of what religion could represent.

    1. Yes, Stephen. I told someone recently that I was religious and they looked at me with horror! But when explained how I lived and why I chose to live the way I did, they could feel that it was not a big deal and actually something that made total sense.

       1. And that would be a perfect example of a preconceived idea of what religion is, which I guess is why it is so important to express religion in a different quality, one that is about equality and love care and compassion.

68. The true religion from within our own bodies in connection with the universe is a constantly flowing livingness of all we are and the humility and dedication to this is an expansion and beauty from within reconnected to and chosen with our soul.

69. “instead of disharmony, there was a stillness, a love, a holding that held us together, a union, a space and place where there was understanding of each other and courage to trust.” How beautifully written, and exactly how it should be. If we feel threatened at all by religion there is no love.

70. When there is anything in life we have a reaction in, it is worth it to get to the core of what this is about. In the many tested experiences personally, any reaction is a shying away from living the truth that we know. The steps I would take is to first appreciate that I do know truth. And in the energy of appreciation explore what it is that I have held back in living. If I react to the word religion, it must be that I know the truth of it to not buy into what is being fed to me, so instead of reacting against what I know to not be the truth of religion, why do I not live what I know is true? For myself personally, I have for many years given up living what is true because it felt futile to do this on my own, but without initiating–how would we ever have a reflection in the world, a point of light which others can clearly see? If we hold back in living, how would we ever break out of our self-chosen aloneness? So the thoughts of thinking there is no use to do this, is a chosen disempowerment to step away from our natural power and leadership. Just like all things in life, we are re-imprinting on everything back to truth, one step at a time.

71. There are so many different religions.. which is interesting in itself, especially when some judge those who are not in ‘their’ chosen religion.

    1. I too have found pretty much all institutionalised religions I have come across to be judgemental of each other. I feel it doesn’t have to be this way and no matter what we believe in, the truth is we are all equal Sons of God.

72. Re-connecting and embracing the fact that I am deeply religious I can feel how my body feels at ease with this and how much I’m appreciating no longer having an issue with the word religion or a religious way of life.

73. This shoes how religion comes from the body, and not from any rules or regulations or stories. It makes it so simple and perhaps that is why we try and complicate it and try to own it.

74. “I felt a love that had no words, simply a connection to God. In this space all I found was what I now call my religion. ” it is a simple as that a connection to God, yet the word Religion has been so misused.

75. Sometimes when all we’ve seen in life connected with a certain word have been judgments, opinions, beliefs and ideals that we find off-putting, untrue or repulsive then we cast aside the word as something we don’t want in our life and whilst it may be true to say no to the unloving behaviours we see it doesn’t necessarily mean that that word has no true use – it may just be that it is an entirely different essence to what we are used to it being associated with.

76. I was willing to take that step, even though I knew I had to leave behind my old behaviours – being nice to people, giving myself away for recognition or approval and wanting to be liked by people around me.

    1. For leaving behind the old is more often than not the only way to make way for the new.

77. Religion, in honesty in the past I didn’t like what I saw when I observed people who said they lived it and so I would rant about it, and this was reaction was from thinking I was hurt. The hurt was from a bastardisation of the word religion, I am religious and I always have been regardless of my reactions. This I feel is true for all us, life to learn, life for relationships, life to Love, life for reconnection, we all want that. Religion.

78. “…instead of disharmony, there was a stillness, a love, a holding that held us together, a union, a space and place where there was understanding of each other and courage to trust.”
    I agree, I have looked into many religions and was searching to find ” the right one for myself” but never found a stillness and harmony as I have found it with Universal Medicine”

79. As each person has their unique expression, true religion is a very personal matter.

80. I would be amazed at how much I now love the word religion, if I had not started to understand the true meaning of the word.

    1. Yes I agree too, now I understand the true meaning it has changed my whole view, before it was a word I did not like using or being associated too.

81. Religion comes from our connection with our body. It provides the truth of how to live in relationship with the All.

82. When we make life about simplicity, all complication falls away.

83. It is so valuable to become aware of our relationship with words, the preconceptions we have of them, our assumptions and also that we can re-imprint our relationship and expression of words. Religion is a beautiful example of this, I used to think it was for other people…now I know it is a word and activity that is there for all of us.

84. What a powerful realisation, Danna – “I started to feel how many of these thoughts and questions pulled me away from the actual religion I was feeling on the inside of my heart’s truth.” When we re-connect to the inner heart we return to a natural relationship with God that is true no matter what colour our skin is.

85. “What is My True Religion?” – for me it simply boils down to connection; without connection I am (and I feel) lost. When true connection is there, i am home.

86. Serge Benhayon’s presentations on the true meaning of religion are the most enlightening sharing. A word that has been so misused and abused has come to light in its truth for us all to choose.

87. “The nervous tension I had been carrying, including the quickened heartbeat, had eased. The feeling of truth and the purpose of what religion truly meant seemed to rise as my heart expanded.”
    Danna its amazing to feel how the ill thoughts and life times of mistrust around the word religion has been so engrained both in your own body but also in those around you, this is extraordinary or perhaps not so when we truly digest the giant momentums of war, power & separation that accompany this word. In observing that others are equally shaken up we can share honestly and support one another to let go of the angst within our bodies and re-imprint with the true meaning of love, togetherness and support that is our natural religious way.

88. “What does the word religion mean to us? And does it actually represent the religion that is in truth dear to us? And so, is the word religion used and lived in its true meaning?” What I love about this is the power in bringing back the true meaning of words; I was adverse to the world religion because nothing in any religions I had seen reflected what was true to me. So by re-imprinting the word religion it allows us to still use something that is universal and innately part of us.

89. “… At first, all I could do was worry – worry about what would be said about religion and the effect this would be having on the people around me, including myself…” This highlights just how much the many various and sometimes defiant and defended ideas of religion that has been imposed upon a human being.. the tension and recoil felt in the body is telling of the disharmony so many variations of the word ‘religion’ which is so opposite to joy, stillness and harmony and love.

90. This piece is a great representation of what a relationship with religion can bring either: everything that is love and truth or the despair, constant seeking, contraction and indulgence.
    What is also great to be aware of, is the many people that are choosing no or not having a relationship to the institutionalised religions, are still in a relationship of disconnection to the divine within and God our father.

91. “there is no such thing as having no religion or not being religious,.. we all have a deep knowing of what religion is” Many claim not to be religious but from observing people in everyday life I see how most are ‘religious’ (true or not) to something whether it is their cup of coffee every morning, break, lunch, break, and dinner or the football they watch every week or whether it is all the caring activities we bring ourselves each day. By choosing to live religiously with the care I bring to myself and in connection with my body, I have found this way a first step to reconnect to what lays within and return to the All we all know deep within. It has helped me to discard any beliefs held around what I thought religion was and see how being religious is simply a way to support me to connect to myself, others and the universe.

92. ‘And so, is the word religion used and lived in its true meaning?’ – Far from it – I have to say that for me it was a huge wakeup call to realise that the true meaning of religion, which I had been avoiding my entire life, based on what the common world religions were representing. What a difference it makes to understand that the word religion simply means re-alignment or re-connection to myself, and by that, to the all. And how far from the true meaning of religion have the traditional religions strayed.

    1. Yes, Eva, true religion is almost unrecognisable in the way we treat each other nowadays and in the separatism of organised religion.

93. I have been visiting a very religious country, interestingly talking to the locals they seem to be in agreement that religion has played a major factor in all wars is very intolerant towards people. So then I said but your living in a very religious country and they admit they are but they don’t believe in it. This is very interesting because if I had asked that question say 20 years ago I would have got a very different answer. This lead me to wonder if religion is loosing it’s iron like grip on people as they wake up to feel the shackles that control them and are at last breaking free of them?

94. “For the first time in my life, the matter of religion was truly being asked without any demand whatsoever”. The big difference here is that participants were asked rather than told how they should feel or what they should believe. Many of us avoid religion because of the imposition we have experienced.

95. I know that I have always known inside what true religion is and even when it was not a conscious knowing, my body knew it well, hence the tendency to react against the stories of religion I was presented with as I grew up. Now religion is claimed and consciously part of my everyday, I know the truth of it and rather than react I know the strands of truth in what has been so falsely presented as being religion.

96. “is the word religion used and lived in its true meaning?” – there are so many different versions (as in meanings) of the word religion that it becomes like a situation where people are speaking a different language and you can have misunderstandings and miscommunications happen so easily. One version of religion can be so different from another person’s version of religion. This is crazy – we really need to bring back the true meaning of words so that we can really communicate properly.

97. Religion is one word which can sure cause a lot of reaction in people. The word has become so misused that many of us dis-trust what we think religion is. But in truth religion is none of what we mistrust as how could we mistrust connection with ourselves?

    1. Indeed Nikki, for eons we have settled for another’s version of religion, we have denied what we know is true in our hearts and this has left us hurt and lacking in trust. Serge Benhayon has supported us to reclaim our homeo stasis; our connection to truth, a religion that celebrates the all that we all are.

98. The word ‘religion” has been taken away from us. By that I mean it’s meaning has been so dramatically changed that we know not how much it actually offers us, which is nothing, absolutely nothing like the commonly understood meaning of religion today.

99. I agree we are all religious, we all have felt there is more to life than just physical matter. I say celebrate our relationship with what we do not see but feel. I would describe the connection as simple, still and holding, but I say stay open to how this evolves so no pictures. I am settled now in body and mind and I have no doubt I and we are religious. Rebind, reconnect, return.

100. The word religion comes up with so many ideals and examples that do not settle well in the body, but when this word was introduced by Serge Benhayon it was different: “instead of disharmony, there was a stillness, a love, a holding that held us together, a union, a space and place where there was understanding of each other and courage to trust.” What a difference and so beautiful to feel and know the truth of true religion resonating from inside us all as our very living way in every moment, in our connection to our soul, God and the Universe.

101. Why do we react so much to the word ‘religion’, and the word ‘God?’
     Is it because of our life experiences of the abuse, lies and corruption that has occurred in the name of both when deep down we know the truth of what it means to be truly religious, and to be openly connected to God, but we hide that away for fear of retaliation of some kind?

102. This statement is so inspiring Danna…”…there is no such thing as having no religion or not being religious,.. we all have a deep knowing of what religion is.” Imagine this as headline news – this completely turns humanity’s ideals and beliefs around current religion upside down.

     1. It is an invitation to re-claim the true meaning of words and to use them with sureness and confidence.

103. Religion can either ‘blind’ us or bind us.

104. It is interesting as I too still find myself bracing at times, when I hear the words religion or faith – but it is when they are used in a way that is a bastardised version and I can feel the loaded misunderstanding that can come from this. But here is where my role lies – an opportunity to speak, to present, to talk true religion so that the true meaning of this word is brought back to us all, rightly so. But in order to do this free from reaction, I still feel I need to be more accepting of the fact that some poeple will always judge and choose to see things in a certain way no matter how you present, and hence we cannot present with any justification or ‘trying’ to explain. It is simply about the beauty of being, and with us simply being, we live the true meaning for all to see and feel.

105. The letting go of relationships that no longer feels true is part of the process of being truly honest with ourselves and an honouring of our own discernment.

106. It is curious to me how something that at heart is meant to unify us all, appears to be the root of so much division. I say appears to be because it seems to me, it is in truth we that create the division, in our misrepresentation of what love and religion truly are.

107. Danna every paragraph here captures an absolute pearl of wisdom, thank you for sharing.

108. Maybe it is time for the world to wake up to the true meaning of religion

109. I could feel my reaction to the word Religion being introduced to the presentation. There was a definite discomfort with all that it conjured up for me which hung on beliefs around ‘blindly following something’, the uncoolness of religion, and my experiences of the words never matching the way that person lived. There was nothing I felt of worth in my to-that-point-version of religion. However now, thanks to Serge Benhayon’s unwavering delivery of true religion, I am free to feel the truth of what I know religion to be in my body and in my growing experience of living with religion as a daily element of life. I no longer associate with or react to those old beliefs.

110. The word religion is so laden with beliefs, ideals and pictures of what this means that to use the word today is pretty much a guarantee to get some sort of reactionary response. Once understood in it’s true meaning of the word, a great deal can be contemplated free of such impositions.

111. Isn’t it fascinating how we have ‘trigger’ words in society that normally cause huge amounts of disharmony, tension, judgement, abuse and separation that everyone reacts to immediately when they are said. Have we explored in depth WHY it is these particular words though? That perhaps the abuse and separation is the opposite of what they can truly offer humanity?

112. I can understand the worry you felt about mentioning religion. Often when the word is used people’s eyes glaze over, and they don’t take you seriously. But being religious means taking ourselves and the world very seriously in terms of the care we take in the way that we live and the care we have for ourselves and others. Religion is not some wishywashy belief system. True religion means living in a very connected way being super aware of what is going on. Very different from what the regular person may think or believe.

113. “I felt a love that had no words, simply a connection to God. In this space all I found was what I now call my religion.” What a contrast to what we have been led to believe religion is about. I have had a similar unease whenever religion was discussed, but now that I also know what it means to be truly religious I have come to accept it as just being part of who I am and not something I have to do.

114. When Serge Benhayon first started presenting on religion I could not hear what he was saying as, having been brought up in a Catholic Church, I had a deep fear and hatred of the word and anything connected to it. All I remembered was the punishing and unloving god that I had been raised to believe. It took a lot of breaking down of my old beliefs around religion before I could understand the true meaning and how to live a religious life that is loving and genuinely caring of all. I am so appreciative of Serge for persevering with his presentations on this matter in the face of so much resistance not only from me but from most of the congregation that had also been subjected to all the lies from different Churches they had attended when younger.

115. Without true religion there is no true me.

116. Although I can still feel vestiges of tension, I can now say with far more openness that I am a deeply religious person. It just now needs to be fully claimed, to honour what feels true for me without worrying about how others may react or respond.

117. “… the questions presented by Serge Benhayon offered me so much to consider” The magic of Serge Benhayon’s presentations is just this, the invitation to ponder on what we take for granted, the aspects of life that we have grown to accept that fall way below standard, the bastardization of the meaning of many words is just one example. Consequently our relationship to our quality of life changes enormously.

118. It is just the best thing that the wrong energy has been taken out of this word religion and we are able to move forward under the true meaning of the word and have all that we associated with it in the past dispelled.

119. Awesome Danna – your body knew the truth.. and you listened to its message.

120. Through the teachings of The Way of The Livingness, I have come to understand that there are many words that we have bastardised, where we are not living or understanding their true meaning. Love is another word which I have used my whole life without connecting to it’s true essence. I’d always felt that it was something I needed as opposed to appreciating that it’s actually what truly I am – living in the fullness of who I am is to express my love.

121. “Religion binds us all” and the more we are willing to let go of those hurts that make difficult to embrace it in full the more our bodies open up to receive the beauty and the simplicity of the All.

122. By letting go of all the beliefs about religion we give ourselves the space to connect to that religious aspect in ourselves, that aspect we have feared so much to go to because of the outer consequences we see happening in the name of religion. Actually you could say that all that is happening outside of us because of religion has nothing to do with our inner religion, as that is our connection with the Universe, our connection with God, that most important aspect of our being to live in harmony with.

123. “We were being offered a space to truly ponder with no right or wrong scenarios” the total opposite of what other religions represent and in the religion I was brought up to believe in but could not keep holding onto after feeling the inequality and separation that didn’t feel true. I always had an inner deep knowing and beyond any doubt felt that there is God. So when Serge Benhayon spoke on the true meaning of the word religion which I had already seen reflected in the way in which he lived I found it very natural to embrace that the root of the word religion, before being bastardised, meant to re-bond and re-bind and is a way of living where everyone is equal and in truth there is no inequality, no separation and how can there be, when we are all a part of the one humanity.

124. “Let us all re-awaken to the simple ways of what true religion is” – living life with simplicity, is living life truly religiously.

125. I have had such a similar experience – to be on guard as soon as someone mentions religion or who wants to know how I feel about it. So much abuse around the word, and yet it is also a word that defines something so natural, so intrinsic. Its been beautiful to start having the relationship again more openly and freely.

126. Religion as I was growing up was always about putting each other down and ridiculed each other. The Way of The Livingness has a total equality that provides a platform for all humanity to stand on without judgement or critique.

127. It is significant the difference you have highlighted here about the way religion was normally discussed and how Serge Benhayon presented it. Instead of being told you were asked to consider and feel. You were asked to develop and allow out your own relationship with religion. This is rare and has allowed many anti-religion Universal Medicine students to realise their natural and true religion, which holds no rules or dogma.

128. ‘…instead of disharmony, there was a stillness, a love, a holding that held us together, a union,..’ a smile comes to my face from inside of me just reading this.

129. It is crucial to claim the word Religion for ourselves, and to know it from the inside. Without this we are offered so many versions and often are in reaction when in fact it is something deep down we know as second nature.

     1. Indeed Rosanna, because we know religion so well, inside out, we react to the false versions of religion that are out there we innately know are not true, but used to hold onto and as an investment to our earthly lives.

130. It is crucial for the evolution of humanity that we come to realise we are not reacting to religion per se, we are reacting to a bastardised form of religion that does not contain a drop of divinity. How long can we ignore our inner godliness and subscribe instead to false ideals that are fed to us from a place that has withdrawn from this expression – that is, a place where the human spirit seeks shelter in to not be exposed as that part of us that separated from the light of the Soul?

     1. Love your comment Liane, yes it is not a wonder so many are in reaction to ‘religion’ and all that has been done in its name. To live in connection with, in relationship with our natural divinity is religious.

131. Religion the way it has been bastardized and presented itself for eons has cast a veil over us that keeps us blind to and resistant against the natural and genuine truth of what religion is thus why it is so hard to recognize and accept it, let it in and making it one´s own way when it finally comes along like ‘The Way of The Livingness’.

132. True religion has never left me. It is me that has chosen to disconnect from it. I still find it is a hard pill to swallow. But I am also proud that I’ve reconnected to the stillness and love that lives within.

133. The space to ponder without the pressure of right or wrong allows deeper awareness and realisations than we usually afford ourselves when we buy into the constructs of right or wrong. This can bring up lots of insecurity around making a mistake but I’m learning that allowing myself the grace of making mistakes is a great opportunity for learning.

134. There is a tension about the word ‘religion’, because people have made it to mean many different things over centuries, and we can all feel that this is not true. The feelings you describe here choosing the truth you felt in our inner heart has to be your religion with your connection, no-one can deny that

135. “What I had found was that I had been living on the interpretations, opinions, judgements and expressions about this word, but never truly made it my own.” I have found this myself too many times after attending presentations by Serge Benhayon. He offers the space to truly feel what everything we come across in our everyday life means to us and what we would feel is true in this. I often in the past would just pick something what someone else thought and had to say about something without discerning if it made sense to me or if I really felt that way about it. Now I can see we all do this to a point, which keeps me wondering if we ever truly ‘own’ something like an opinion about something if we pass it on like we do. The truth is different though because it is something that is there for us all to feel but it will be the same for everyone.

136. More often than not just the mention of the word ‘religion’ is enough to make people cringe – until we realise that we have been reacting to what we deep inside know religion is not but its many bastardised versions.

137. I abandoned any association with the Catholic religion when I was eighteen and spent the next fifty years in an ‘agnostic’ frame of mind, sitting on the fence, not really knowing if God existed or not. When I was in my 60s I heard Serge Benhayon talk about God, and everything he said made sense. When he talked about The Way of The Livingness being a religion, I hesitated, I didn’t want anybody to think I was being ‘religious’ but it has finally sunk in that this religion is very different from the one I was brought up in, and it is one I am happy to be aligned with.

     1. I am extremely joyful and love that I am part of a congregation that celebrate our religion – The Way of The Livingness.

138. “Was this then a bad thing?” (to be religious.) It is true that in this present day society there has been such a huge backlash against the Church, or whatever organised religion, that the tendency is for being religious to be regarded as something that indicates you are in some way to be inferior or stupid for still hanging onto that old stuff. You can be put into a category and thought to be unable to have any sort of intelligence, set apart, whereas the opposite is true if we understand the word religion and what religion is the way Serge Benhayon shows us. If religion is our relationship with ourselves and a daily living in honesty, integrity and truth and love in every choice we make, then we develop so much more intelligence than with the brain, for we deepen our sense of ourselves and the world around us, and so move in a space that is harmonious with all.

139. Danna this is such a powerful blog, and it shook me. I’ve always been aware of the falseness of the religions I’ve seen in the world and the one I grew up in, but in fact as you highlight here I then disconnected from my own deep feeling of religion and my connection to God and the wider universe; and I blamed religion of this, and while this is partly true it is not fully true as I choose to allow something outside me, both in my earlier acquiescence to it and my later rejection of it to be defined in my relationship with God by the world and the religions I saw in it. It’s been a great excuse and as I write this today I can feel the enormity of this realisation of how I had left my own deep religiosity and adapted all these behaviours to continue to allow this. Finding Universal Medicine and been a huge change for me and introduced and allowed me to feel how deeply religious I am and have always been, but reading this today has allowed something else .. I can now see I never needed to step away from my own deep religiosity and that in fact I’ve used those outside religions as an excuse, no more.

140. My confusion around religion, and the word religion was laid to rest with the discussions we have had at the Universal Medicine workshops and presentations – these discussions confirmed what I already knew as a child, and at the same time made sense of the untruths I had been fed (which never sat well with me) whilst growing up.

141. Today I can say without hesitation that The Way of The Livingness is my true religion, because with this I know what it means and that is not to follow some doctrine but a constant deepening and unfolding of a way of life that is true based on my body, and then my connection to the universe.

142. What your blog really exposes for me Danna is how we, humanity, can manipulate the most innocent words into their exact opposite and then herald the bastardized version as the truth. Serge Benhayon is restoring the true value and quality to the word religion and many others, not through words alone but by the way he lives. Hence we are all afforded the opportunity to re-claim the innocence of this word and live it in full glory.

143. It’s not really surprising the reaction to the word religion when you consider the representatives of that word, the disharmony and the hate. But it is heartening to know that this word need not be represented by such things and that to live religiously can be a beautiful thing that involves deep care and decency towards others.

144. Thank you for your openness and honesty Danna. We can easily go through life, taking on the concepts that have been formed by others without question. We can likewise reject these and create belief systems of our own. By allowing ourselves the grace to feel what is happening inside us without judgement we get to see how we are connected to everyone and we are all equal. This connection is there without us having to make it or trying to hold on to it: it’s not something we can lose although if we keep ourselves at the mercy of the outside world we think we lose it or have lost it. By realising that some of our relationships come out of need and are not actually mutually respectful or truly loving we can begin to let go of them and honour more our innate sacredness and let ourselves live in and with that sacredness, a sacredness that is alive and playful and full of joy.

145. “What is My True Religion?” – connection to total love and the obedience of universal order and divine wisdom. No books, scriptures, codes required, just an open heart that is loving of oneself and of people.

     1. Spot on – being religious in a nut shell.

     2. This is Religion open to all equally so.

146. ‘All of this brought an enormous strength back in my body. With that there came trust and all I could feel was GOD, Love, People and Brotherhood in action.’ – the divinity we feel when we re-connect to our truth, allowing the knowing we hold deep inside to impulse our movements. There is a beautiful strength in feeling grounded on the path of truth, once again, shining the way for others to follow.

147. ‘At first, all I could do was worry – worry about what would be said about religion and the effect this would be having on the people around me, including myself’ – this is a very normal reaction within our society today. It seems quite shocking to me now and shows how severely we have bastardised the true meaning of religion and the effect this has and is having on us all. I was in this place too, some years ago, not wanting to have a bar of anything to do with religion, so it feels truly divine to be able to break down this false consciousness and speak openly about how I feel about the true meaning of religion.

148. Setting aside all the contentious debate and doubts and coming home to religion and God was the best home-coming ever. My deepest thanks to Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon for making the seemingly impossible – bringing harmony and an everyday, ‘extraordinary ordinariness’ to religion – not only possible, but do-able.

149. ‘So, the moment when Serge introduced the word religion, I was bracing in my chair, my automatic response, waiting for the disharmonious conversations to happen. Yet this time it was not the case at all: instead of disharmony, there was a stillness, a love, a holding that held us together, a union, a space and place where there was understanding of each other and courage to trust.’ I remember the first time I heard Serge say the word religion because i thought ‘oh no, that’s blown it!’ but instead as he spoke I began to feel something unlike any feeling related to the word I had heard before – I now know it’s quality first, then the word itself.

150. When I first heard that Serge was presenting on religion I though to myself “Ah no need for me to get involved there then, I’ve never been affiliated with religion!”. Little (or a lot) did I know that I am constantly Religious, i.e. in relationship with, first and foremost my body but also everything else around me.

151. ‘But I always had felt that there was more’. And it is when we turn to our feelings, our bodies and the fullness of our innate ability to sense, that we realise ‘there is more’, because it is clearly felt.

152. Strange how a word that is to do with uniting and bringing us together has instead separated!

     1. Yes Vicky, Love is another word like religion, it has it many variations depending on whom you talk to. So maybe there is something unseen that is the force behind the scenes that instigates the separation by reinterpretation of words?

153. This is so transparent Danna, and when the lost spiritual pursuits are also thrown into this mix of religious ways then we are in no way sharing or living what true Love is all about, as you have so simply describe – ‘I was choosing the truth I felt in my heart.’ Then maybe we can all return to the ‘truth of our heart’ or Inner-Heart so that Love, which is felt from the heart becomes the respect-full way we live.

154. It is very wise and true what you say, Danna, about how important it is to develop a relationship with religion and make it your own. Our connection to God and the universe surrounding us, is there to surrender to as and when we are ready.

155. The Way of The Livingness is the only true religion, as it is a way of life not something out side of yourself that you worship.

     1. I’m finding it a deeply personal and incredibly enriching experience bringing God and Religion back in from the cold. It was relegated for a time, but as I develop a way of life the feelings inside me just get stronger and stronger.

156. ‘It wasn’t just simply the questions themselves, but the way they were discussed that actually inspired me to be more open again to my relationship with the word religion.’ As I have learned it is not what we do but the quality in which we do them that matters. When we are in a quality that doesn’t impose but holds another in space we are offering much, an ability to feel the truth as it is for themselves.

157. Serge Benhayon is a living representative of true religion and shares what this is in everyday life of everyday people without an ounce of imposition. Allowing us to feel and choose for ourselves in our thoughts and movements to truly honour ourselves and everyone equally.

158. Comprimising is indeed what most of us do. We leave our own truth behind and compromise it in such a way that we’re able to live a measured life that we sell to ourselves as whether it being acceptable. How ignorant, arrogant and in fact sad this is. There’s a bundle of love living inside of us patiently ‘waiting’ for us to make the choice once again to re-connect to the re-ligion that is living inside.

159. I have come to understand that I am deeply religious too Danna and have been since i was very young. The confusion around the meaning of religion occurred for me whilst observing people in the different religions I was exposed to growing up as we moved around a lot and attended whatever religious establishment was available each time. I saw discrepancies which had me doubting whether each religion was true as they didnt match what I felt to be true in my heart. People expressing the exact opposite to what they had been spouting in church directly after being there. It was shocking and put me off ‘religion’ in the organised sense for most of my life. Meeting Serge Benhayon confirmed the truth of the word and I have been reclaimed it ever since.

     1. Jeanette I love your use of the word reclaim, as that is exactly what we are having to do with so many words that have had their meaning hijacked by a consciousness that wants to severe our connection with truth.

160. What if there’s a true way of living – which is living religiously? A way to come back to the Love that we are and that equal Love that others are. A way that all binds us. We all walked away (and still do), we all fought for ‘our own version of Love / religion’ and we are chose fear over Love in one way or another. Thank you Danna for this amazing, honest, religious and powerful sharing.

161. We rightfully can say there is only one path to God or at least only one that really leads us back to the at-one-ment and hence there can be only one religion or way of religiousness nevertheless is it a very personal way to walk this path and so religion is very personal as well while at the same time it is universal.

162. simply saying the word Religion or something associated arouses so much tension in public discussions or tea-room conversations, and there are many ways we behave in such situations, we defend, we stay quiet and don’t contribute, or we argue our point. needless to say if a word “religion” can cause so much tension and separatism even in a workplace lunchroom, then clearly religions to date have not displayed something which is true and unifying for all.

163. If only we used the true meaning of the word true and then incorporated it into our everyday lives then we wouldn’t be in the appalling mess that we’re in.

164. Serge Benhayon’s lived way of The Way Of The Livingness allowed me to feel the truth of what he was presenting, which to me is true religion, my whole body felt it. ‘I felt a love that had no words, simply a connection to God.’ so simple.

     1. Nothing can deny love lived in the body. Our reflection is so powerful and communicates much without even saying a word.

        1. Yes words can be misconstrued but what is felt from reflection cannot.

165. I’m discovering that my true religion is the commitment to connecting to me and making this the most important thing.The value and worth that I place on myself is paramount, and seeps into all my interactions with others. If I am not connected then what am I offering the world?

166. Religion can be one of those tricky subjects that give us a tension because people can get very passionate about it and can have very fixed ideas. How we feel about what we were taught in school and how we develop religion through our lives varies hugely. I love what you say Danna, when in the presentation from Serge Benhayon, about being offered a space to truly ponder with no right or wrong scenario. This gives a pause to let go of the tension and feel what the truth is within.

167. “… instead of disharmony, there was a stillness, a love, a holding that held us together, a union, a space and place where there was understanding of each other and courage to trust.” True religion in action, a quality that beholds us and allows people the grace to open up to each other, explore, enquire, appreciate and ultimately in our own time reach the same conclusion: we are all One and the Same.

168. “I also let go of certain needs – needing people to fulfil me, to make me feel good or better about myself. I accepted that people all of a sudden might see me as different, as an outsider.” To be able to accept that we are enough just as we are, and that we dont ‘need’ anyone to make us feel better about ourselves or that we might stand out from the crowd because we are making different choices to the norm, is incredibly liberating and also very empowering. Great that you have chosen this for yourself Danna.

169. This is a beautiful topic to ponder on and to observe what in truth my religion is. Is it to be connected with myself, is it my food or is it my work, my drinks or my walks?
     I can see that my true religion expresses itself in every aspect of my life, in the way I work and walk, talk and eat, what I eat and when etc.

170. ‘I did not allow myself to have a relationship with the word religion on my own, nor discern how I felt about it.’ When we hold onto pictures of what words mean we don’t allow ourselves the space to feel what is true.

171. Danna, great article about religion, this feels like the truth of religion, that it binds not separates us; ‘We are ALL part of it. We know we are all the same and religion binds us All.’

172. ‘ We were offered a space to truly ponder…’. It occurs to me as I read this again how rare this is – to be truly offered space, where there are no pre-conceived agendas. In such a space we a simply allowed to be ourselves and connect to what is within, which in my experience is our innate wisdom.

173. ” I was choosing the truth I felt in my heart.” This moment is something that talking with friends and family who have felt the same thing is deeply powerful, it is life changing, from being unsure of myself to claiming a truth that is ages old and felt in every part of my body has brought a steadiness that is unshakeable.

174. Religion has to be our every way in our every day. We can’t talk about religion on its own without connecting it to all contexts of life. There is living and breathing religion in parenting, in work, in play, in cooking, eating, sleeping, brushing our teeth…everything! When we are religious, we are in religion with ourselves via all aspects of life.

     1. Yes, Adele, it is so refreshing and vibrant to consider religion as an active expression in everyday life, rather than associating it with stuffy old churches.

175. The saddest part of what so many of us have grown up thinking Religion is, is the concept that it’s a static concrete thing, a list of do’s and don’ts enshrined in stone to be seriously obeyed. Nothing could be further from the truth, true Religion is a living, breathing thing constantly expanding and playfully experimenting with the joy of being. Thank you, Danna, for sharing your way here.

176. There is a lot that needs to be broken down about religion and the association, for a huge population of the world the word has negative or fearful connotations, or has been misused and lived in a false way. This is quite sad when you listen to the description Serge Benhayon shares of religion. It is not something to fear or dread but a deep connection the most fabulous part of us all.

177. “…I seemed to carry an inner-tension I had built up since I was young that would result in an increasing heartbeat the moment religion was spoken about…” I can relate and understand this quite well too, and have realised that when there has been a lived expression of being in connection with the body, recognising the union between the Soul/love and the body, can the true understanding of what ‘religion’ means, and this drops the tension when the topic of ‘religion’ arises in any given conversation.

178. ‘…I felt inside that for the first time in my life, the matter of religion was truly being asked without any demand whatsoever.’ Wow, this is something to be hugely appreciated: the space to consider, without imposition, what it is that is our truth. This is allowing me to feel the beauty in allowing another space to feel and contemplate, something which is actually such a rare commodity in life where it feels like everyone has an agenda to push.This space is a quality I can bring to my day and relationships, how lovely.

179. Religion is actually a movement to align to God, a movement that takes place within us first from an innately respect full knowing of the sacred beings we are. This movement is then lived in our daily lives making purpose, connection and love palpable qualities that imbue all we do with the magic of God.

180. Children are born religious and then the way that we have set life up, sucks it out of them. In this process they forget that they were ever religious and so repeat the same process with their kids and so it goes. There are some adults who, thanks to Universal Medicine are now reversing the process and returning to a naturally religious way of life, and those who are having kids are allowing their children to maintain their naturally religious ways.

181. Over time the meaning of words and understanding of them can change entirely – I now feel at home with the word religion, as if it’s becoming part of me rather than the feeling of suspicion and apprehension I used to feel.

182. It is a great thing to understand that there is no such thing as no religion but there have been times in my life where I would have claimed to have none even though alcohol at the time was mine.

183. Everyday Religion: Talking to or about each other and we are in separation, talking with each other and we are in religion.

184. ‘I felt a love that had no words, simply a connection to God.’ Beautifully expressed Danna and with every reading of your blog the stillness in my body is so healing.

185. Honesty and observations bring us back, this is very powerful Danna, and something we need to constantly be working with. When we can feel a tension, it usually means we have gone slightly off course somewhere, and need to return back to basics.

186. I was so deeply surprised when I heard that there was a list of things to avoid talking to people about because they always brought about fighting and disharmony, and that one of those was religion! How ironic that a word that is actually about us reconnecting to and living our divinity, our love of one another and the essence of God that flows through, is one that we fear because we have bastardised its meaning to an extent that we can start fighting and harming our fellow brothers and sisters under the banner of religion.

187. Yes, Danna. When we are met with love and the living practice of true religion, the “deception and distraction away from the truth” of mankind’s misinterpretation and misrepresentation of religion becomes obvious.

188. I love exploring our relationship with words (in this case ‘religion’) because it heightens my awareness about how we modify, re-interpret and get lead astray from true meanings, which causes confusion, complication and reaction. Back to the source of words we have a purity that is simple, rich and inspiring.

189. I have certainly been hurt by the bastardised form of religion and so it took me a while to come round to using the word in its true form and it is something, if I am honest, I am still working on!

190. My religion is living from the inside out, with a knowing, understanding and purpose to forever deepen the relationship with life inside and outside of me. I love loving. Feeling the depth of this makes me aware of how much I’ve missed allowing myself to feel inside my own body how dear loving me and others is for me. There’s nothing I love more than loving. In all its various expressions. Thank you Danna for sharing your personal experiences.

191. I remember being advised by a family member that religion was a subject it was best to steer clear of. I realised very soon why that was, since it always caused heated arguments where people would get very upset.

192. One of the things I love about this blog is the depth you capture when sharing your experience of religion.

193. Thank you for sharing so beautifully Danna. I especially love the way you point out that it is not possible to avoid religion. We are all religious in our relationship with the world and the quality of our movements shows us what we have aligned to.

194. Religion as experienced through the current traditional ‘man-made’ religions have done a great deal of harm and instead of fostering brotherhood and re-connection to our hearts and the love we are, they have served to separate us from each other and our inner knowing. These religions have manipulated, dis-empowered and mislead many. The Way of The Livingness celebrates brotherhood and our re-connection to our inner heart and the guidance this offers – it is simply what being here is truly all about.

195. If we believe a religion as it is commonly known is a misrepresentation, then it can be uncomfortable to sit what religion actually feels to be, alongside that falsity. But actually this is crucially important if the word religion is going to be reclaimed as representing people and not organisations with corrupt or misinterpreted scriptures.

     1. Religion in its bastardised and imposed forms have become something that seem compartmentalised to living life. One hand says one thing while the other does harm. The fact that one can practice a religion then commit hurtful acts shows it is not a whole way of being and about love- therefore a bastardisation of the word religion.

196. To reclaim your own religious way, one that reignites inner joy, deep inner-strength and connection to everyone and casts aside those assumed beliefs (picked and chosen from the many religions in the world), is true foundational movement.

197. The word religion definitely brings up a lot for people, and I’ve been no different. An upbringing in the deeply religious southern US and a Catholic education gave me all kinds of views and beliefs. Learning about The Way of The Livingness still took me some time to let go of these old beliefs, but wow oh wow what I was missing was always under my nose. Or to be exact, it is within. Great blog post here, Danna.

198. “I felt a love that had no words, simply a connection to God. In this space all I found was what I now call my religion.” beautiful Danna like you I discovered a feeling, a flow and a warmth and connection that to me is my religion, it is not me following something outside, but connecting to something inside.

199. I used to be very dismissive of the word religion, shutting myself off to the word and having fixed ideas of what the word meant. Since listening to Serge Benhayon and getting to understand and know the word is so much more than what we have been led to believe, by the many religions in the world today none of which come close to my now absolute knowing that is felt in my body.

     1. Yes me too I had this feeling of dismissiveness but then soon realised that once I felt it’s true meaning that my dismissiveness was because of reaction of the hurt imposed. Today I embrace all of religion as a way of living and returning.

200. It is very important to me today to call out any imposition regarding institutionalised religion in my life. Imposing our beliefs of what we think religion is, is not done innocently but with an agenda attached. We do not realise the harm, evil and abuse created by doing good and preaching about religion.

201. When I ponder on the word religion what comes up is corruption, greed, evil and the catholic church. I was brought up in the catholic faith and in the past year have become aware of how damaging that was to my health; my physical and mental well-being, my relationships and my vitality. How much I beat myself up, especially when I felt I did something wrong, or I said something that was wrong or out of place. How much I harshly judged and criticised myself, how I was never enough, and how much I felt I did not deserve or was worthy of God’s love. The word religion was loaded with all this before I discovered Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon. The first thing I changed was I stopped searching for love ‘out there’ in other words outside of me. Immediately there was less tension in my body which provided the space for me to feel my own truth about religion, and about God. It was then that I could let go of all the falseness, untruths, beliefs that I had taken on from my Catholic upbringing. I have literally transformed my life and the one thing that has made the biggest impact has been when I started to love myself through self-care, nurture and true nourishment for my body. My body shape has changed, excess body weight just dropped of me (heaviness in my body of carrying all those untruths) that today my body feels very light that allows me to feel my more of my innate qualities as the tender, sacred and wise woman I am, and with this I can feel that in all others. So regardless of age, colour, culture or nationality, regardless of our past and what we have chosen, we all come from love, we are love, and we are all equal in God’s eyes.

     1. Has the Catholic church in many ways been similar to the old Chinese practice of binding female children’s feet? It was a painful and life disabling because it was a devotion to a tradition. Where is the love in one’s life if it requires a commitment of pain?

202. We have been bombarded by what is a religion all our life. Many babies are baptised, by many religions with in months of being born. We are branded into a flock and are not meant to graze together till the end of our time. It is easy to see why just the mention of the word doesn’t feel right, for being judged for eating and liking only one flavour of ice cream. The Way of The Livingness has no limitations, just the livingness and love that resides within us all equally.

203. Danna, I love how you have now made religion your own. It is understandable why we would feel fear and anxiousness when this subject is being discussed. It is the cause of the majority of the wars in this world. How gorgeous to come home to the true meaning of it and feel the love and harmony on offer.

     1. Absolutely Rebecca, we come back, we know, we live – what true religion is.

     2. How different would things be today if we were taught from young to make religion our own as Danna has discovered. Then we would feel the love and unity from within knowing we were all connected, leaving no space for such atrocities and separative acts as war.

204. You offer such an acute and personal description here Danna, of the intensity of conflict existent between the bodies that we call established religion on our planet. That there can BE such conflict amongst that who purport to represent God and our connection to Him, exposes the inherent flaws in so much of that which calls itself ‘religion’ today.
     True religion is unifying, and holds as its foundation stone the fact that we are – whatever our outward behaviour and belief – essentially and intrinsically unified and one. It never forgets this fact, and that we hold the possibility of returning to such union with He who breathed us forth, and thus also, with each other.
     Our reality today is a long way from this, but I know also, that in my lived claiming of The Way of The Livingness, that it is inevitably, where we are all heading – though fight, resist and deny this we may well do today and for many years yet to come…

205. What a truly powerful sharing Danna, of releasing the imposed shackles of that which has purported to be in the name of religion, and embracing the innate religious nature we all hold within. A glorious returning home, and one that deserves to be lived in full – which is all that The Way of The Livingness is.

     1. Thank you Victoria , it is exactly that , well beautifully said.

     2. These shackles and imposition around religion are out there in society and unavoidable no matter if you are part of a religion or not. The Way of The Livingness and Serge Benhayon’s presentations supported me to firstly see that there were shackles I was carrying around the word religion and secondly to connect to the truth of the word and be at full ease with the returning to who I truly am. A process to feel but well and truly worth it.

        1. Absolutely johanna08smith. The insidiously diminishing beliefs of that which has purported to be in the name of religion, permeate through every facet of our societies. As Danna has shared, to extricate and reclaim oneself is no small thing. In fact it is an ongoing process of continued awareness, that we may claim in full, all that religion and The Way to live religiously is, once more.

206. I am realising more and more how much we have bastardised in life and are now living with many falsities. Hence, the importance of always sharing the truth of how we are feeling, speaking out when something is wrong, calling things out as we feel them, not allowing the falseness that we have accepted for so long to continue, rather, for the truth to be heard loud and clear, which over time will help to bring our world back into balance.

207. ‘I felt a love that had no words, simply a connection to God. In this space all I found was what I now call my religion.’ – feeling so much love in your words here.

208. It is amazing how words such as religion that are so very sacred and natural to us have been used to mean the opposite of what we know them in truth to be, so much so that many of us now resist, shy away from and run a million miles away from using the words or wanting to have anything to do with it. I love how Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine bring back the simple true meaning to words and do not allow the bastardisation of them to affect what is being presented, even though at times it could be easier to use another word.

209. Children are imbued with religion. Religion is their natural way.

210. This is a very personal sharing and one that I am sure most can relate to.

211. “… I seemed to carry an inner-tension I had built up since I was young that would result in an increasing heartbeat the moment religion was spoken about…” This is quite reflective of the tension between people according to their version of religion. Only until we resolve in inner tension can we effectively deal with the outer conflict.

212. Religion does tend to be a word we squirm around and avoid mentioning in public. Could that be because at a deep level we can all feel the untruth that is presented and held as religion today?

213. “….but that we all have a deep knowing of what religion is. It is just a matter of connecting to it again. We are ALL part of it. We know we are all the same and religion binds us All” – Dana this line reminds me a time at school that’s never left me, and a hymn I used to really feel within my cells and self-connectedness as I remember always being-with the words whenever we sang it, really truly loving the words…and the chorus I used to belt out (!) was: “bind us together Lord, bind us together Lord, with chords that cannot be broken, bind us together with Love”. From age 6 to about 11 at this primary school I felt the religiousness of myself being connected with ‘something greater’ always during this time. To be re-connected with it, and True Religion again through The Way of The Livingness felt natural and very joyful.

214. “What I had found was that I had been living on the interpretations, opinions, judgements and expressions about this word, but never truly made it my own.” . . . this is a profound revelation Danna it makes one stop and ponder on how many words have we misinterpreted in this way.

215. “… living on the interpretations, opinions, judgements and expressions about this word, but never truly made it my own. I did not allow myself to have a relationship with the word religion on my own, nor discern how I felt about it….” Great insight Danna, which explains the reason why the moment any conversation around ‘religion’ comes up, how this has such an ill effect on our body.

216. What you offer here is a step-by-step guide in how to unpack all our ideals, beliefs, patterns and behaviours that pop up whenever the word ‘religion’ is mentioned… and bringing true meaning to what it is to be truly religious – known already within every one of us.

217. Thank you for sharing the depth of your reactions around ‘religion’ Danna. It has made me feel more honestly how I also reacted to the word ‘religion,’ and the depth of that reaction… and to realise there is much more for me to unpack around this.

     1. Yup, I agree. For each level of unpacking, there is always more and this for me is the inspiration and richness of life… always being open to learn.

218. Absolutely awesome blog Danna… your sharings are so inspiring! i remember when Serge Benhayon first mentioned the word religion there was a definite squirming and uncomfortableness in myself and everyone in the room, and as you present here, there was a settling in the room as we all felt the space being offered to truly consider what the word meant to us, to be honest, and to look at how bastardised the word had become… and then to hear the true meaning of the word opened many doors in how we can be deeply religious in life.

219. Being offered space to just be and come to your own feelings about something is a precious gift indeed.

220. I love that in letting go of the ideals, beliefs and hurts around religion you were able to connect and feel the truth in your heart and from that space found the religion you always knew was innate and no longer needed to react to… a beautiful yet personal journey that each person takes in their own time for them to feel and claim when they are ready.

221. ‘For years it would activate all my past experiences of when religion was being heatedly discussed and fought over.’ has this not been the case for humanity for lifetimes?

222. It’s interesting that a word can be the cause of so much trauma. Many people shy away from religion because of what has been associated with it. But when we come back to the truth of religion, no one would ever want to shy away from that as it is what we are all craving – the oneness, the love, the beholding, the union…From this you can see the evil that has been played – we have been scared away from something so deeply beautiful.

223. I get a sense that when we re-connect to the relationship with God that is inside us, has always been inside us and waits for us patiently for us to return to that connection, I get a sense that in this moment we re-gather all our wasted energy. You mention feeling more at ease and I completely relate to that, like you have been feeling a tension for so long and all of a sudden that tension is gone because you feel and surrender to your own relationship, your own connection to the space that is inside you and the magic of God you can feel is there waiting for you to come home.

224. Religion is coming back to what is true and live this with all that we got, not the easy and in some ways deceptive way of religion that is being thought by the mainstream religions, which brings us to the feeling of disgust or distrust of what religion is.

225. It is easy to be handed gems of opportunities on a plate and let them go by. Humanity has been offered the inspiration and guidance of numerous Soul-led servants throughout history and by and large the majority of us have let the opportunity go by. Yet here we have a great example of deeply appreciating it and choosing to hold the opportunity with both hands and make the most of it. And the amazing fruits of that level of love, purpose and dedication.

226. I too used to shrink from the word ‘religion’ for many reasons, the indoctrination, the ‘religious’ wars and the constant tension that this word seemed to cause. Serge Benhayon has however retrieved this word from the trash, un-crumpled it and made it shine with its rightful meaning once more, ‘To re-align to God within’. Today I am proud to say I am very religious because I have been enabled to embody this godly activity in my daily life and know without doubt that Religion in its true meaning and expression is the bedrock of all life.

227. “Let us all re-awaken to the simple ways of what true religion is. It is within us all” Danna true religion is indeed very simple and so ‘buyer beware’ of anything that touts itself as religion, if it’s complicated.

228. Well presented, Danna. When Serge first presented ‘religion’ I, too, initially reacted because of all the associations and experiences I had had. However, as he presented and expounded upon the true meaning of religion – a relationship with God – and how the word had come to bastardised, so I came to realise that what he was presenting – The Way of The Livingness – had been what I had been searching for up until then and that it is to reclaim the true meaning of the word rather than rejecting it. This reclaiming the true meaning of words does not apply to just religion but many others e.g. education and family to mention but two.

229. ” We were being offered a space to truly ponder with no right or wrong scenario” that in itself is unusual when the subject of religion comes up, as usually everyone involved has already taken up a stance that they are prepared to either defend or promote or both.

230. Religion was never spoken about when I was a child because I was taught never to discuss religion or politics. This was a common saying ‘never discuss religion or politics’ which, although I understand why it came about is still pretty extraordinary that 2 topics that effect the world so much should be vetoed.

     1. This was one of the first things someone said to me when we moved to live in USA, to never discuss, religion, politics or abortion. I was quite taken aback as I was brought up with the understanding that that’s how we formed our opinions in life, through discussion and hearing different points of view. To be told I should never discuss these three really important topics just felt wrong, so I did bring them up which always led to fiery debates, however, it felt ‘real’ to do so, rather than just stay silent.

     2. Religion is part of our everyday and should be as openly discussed as we would the shopping or the house keeping. After all, it is about our everyday relationship with everyday things.

        1. Ah Rosanna what you have shared has highlighted beautifully exactly why it is that we aren’t comfortable talking about religion and that is because it isn’t part of our everyday relationship with everyday things.

     3. Yes, Alexis, it was the same with me apart from there was a third topic that was out of bounds at any dinner party conversation – religion, politics and parenting. How can we go through life in separation and unresolved about such key aspects of relationship?

231. This blog inspired me to feel what the word religion means to me. What I felt instantly is a One-ness. A connection between us all that supersedes all our beliefs, ideals and pictures. No matter our background, inside of us is a love that patiently waits until we choose to reconnect to it. The only love where we’re really home, the love of our Soul. Connected to each and every other Soul in the universe.

232. The bastardisation of words is true evil as it distorts and manipulates the truth and lived meaning of words, as in Ancient Civilisations (e.g. Ancient Greece), where ones talk was walked in full. With this disharmony in words (e.g. religion), there is a distinct disharmony in the body and its movement. Serge Benhayon brings a solid, real and consistent reflection of talk (true words) that he walks 24/7.

233. “I had been living on the interpretations, opinions, judgements and expressions about this word, but never truly made it my own.” It is only when can start to understand religion through our relationship back to our true self that we start to unfold a religious way of life, this includes awareness of ourselves, our movements, our expressions and their relationship to soul.

234. ‘I also let go of certain needs – needing people to fulfil me, to make me feel good or better about myself. I accepted that people all of a sudden might see me as different, as an outsider. This also meant no longer holding on to relationships that naturally no longer worked and/or felt true or respectful.’

     It’s so supportive reading this as it confirms the steps I am making in claiming my religious way. The inspiring observations I am seeing in those who I can feel are deeply religious is the trust and knowing that they live, and they are always supported by the natural flow of the universe and God’s love. I’ve observed that if a person close to them no longer chooses to connect to the magnificence they are but keeps on introducing what is not love into their lives, they are never not loved and their choices never interfered with or not respected as their choices, but neither are they held onto.

     I used to see this as abandoning people but now I am understanding how clearly people are making choices and that these need to be respected and my own needs addressed through my own self-love. I no longer believe the way to support people is by getting behind them and pushing them in the right direction but finding my own way and holding up a light for them to follow if they so choose.

     1. And sometimes I have felt rejection when another chooses to not speak to me or make eye contact but I realise and understand that possibly it is another rejecting me. Observing, knowing my connection, how I feel and reading situations are key and therefore I do not take on how another is feeling and where they are at.

235. Its beautiful to come back to the simplicity of religion in the sense that it is simply reconnecting back to oneself. And in that connection find an openness to self and then to all.

236. My true religion is my very personal relationship with God, people, myself, life; it is my way of living shared with others in everyday life.

     1. Can we get this into the English Oxford Dictionary please!

237. I have come to a point where I see that when there is a lot of drama and reaction around something – such as the word religion – then it is worth digging deeper to find the truth of the matter, for invariably there is a pot of gold to be uncovered. Somehow, when we get close to the truth of life, there is a tendency, pattern or habit to react and hence create an issue that distracts us from discovering this truth. In this way, it is possible to observe reactions, and then deepen into the realisation being offered.

     1. This is a great point you make here Richard. It makes sense of why religion causes such arguments, drama and reaction. Reading other peoples comments here, I have realised religion is now something I am making my own, rather than it being a hand-me-down from others.

238. ‘God, love, people and brotherhood in action’ – does this not capture the word beautifully? And wouldn’t things be so much simplier if this was a uniting quality for all religions across the world?

239. Your comment about how your family members used to have heated discussions about religion and your reaction to that is interesting one Danna and is something that I can relate to. It has reminded me of similar situations within my own family, and friends as I got older, and how uncomfortable I also felt, to the point I would not engage in the conversations and eventually made a very conscious choice to never discuss religion with anyone. So to discover a true Religion that I could relate to, was simple, practical and accessible to all as it was just about choosing to live a life of true connection to oneself and therefore God, literally was and felt Heaven sent 🙂

240. Mankind craves, needs and absolutely must embrace true religion if we are to evolve back to the divinity from whence we came. Thus, it is no coincidence that religion is one of the most toxic, emotive and volatile words in our current society. That which would support us the most is kept the most distant from us through the multiple bastard forms of the word.

241. After discovering true religion via Serge Benhayon’s teachings, I am very proud to now call myself a religious man.

242. ‘instead of disharmony, there was a stillness, a love, a holding that held us together, a union, a space and place where there was understanding of each other and courage to trust.’ – A true religion, thanks Danna.

243. The absolute contentment and knowing of true religion is so beautiful beyond all words and known deep inside us all. It is love lived in its very essence as the oneness of us all with the simplicity, livingness, joy and harmony of a truly religious way.

244. “Let us all re-awaken to the simple ways of what true religion is. It is within us all.” when this time comes humanity will be living the responsibility and love that is on offer today. It’s an amazing stage to come to appreciate and to live for anyone and to be free of the ideals and beliefs around what religion is has set me free and in that has allowed me to deepen my connection to myself and therefore with the universe.

245. The word ‘religion’ can come so loaded because of how we have bastardised and confused the truth to also incorporate judgment, rules and ideals. We all innately know the truth and so get hurt by the teachings of organised religion – it really is no wonder why we brace ourselves when we hear the word!

246. Beautiful to feel how even reacting to the way the current religions are by saying we are not religious simply because we do not feel that that is true, is still a turning away from the truth of what religion is if what we then go away thinking is religion is that which we have been shown instead of aiming it to be what we know it to be in our inner heart.

247. If religion was truly about God, how can there ever be disharmony? Talking about religions is very similar to talking about politics. If politics is truly about making a better society, and not about self-gain, why do political parties fight over policies and constantly disrespect each other? If it was truly about people, the only way forward is for all to come together – not to compromise, but to collaborate. The mere fact that even talking about these subjects raises the amount conflict we have been witnessing all over the world throughout our history just exposes the fact that those who wield their force in the name of religion (or politics) are in total delusion, and it has served so well to put the majority into thinking they would rather not have anything to do with it.

248. “we all have a deep knowing of what religion is” – spot on Danna – this is innately within us from birth.

249. Religion was always very dear to me, or should I say my relationship with God was very dear to me as a child. I would lie in bed every night and pray and I would talk to ‘him’ at times. But I soon got to realise that not everyone felt that way about God and some people scoffed about God and Religion or, as you have presented Danna, there was a lot of conflict and arguments that surrounded this as a topic, I tended to keep it more quiet and to myself, not really daring to say to everyone that this was a part of my life. Sadly today this is a pattern I still struggle with – to actually have the confidence to say it as I know it to be, and so this is my learning curve, to claim what I know to be my relationship with God and my understanding of religion, only now it is a far more deeper understanding or should I say knowing that I hold.

250. ‘Our love is heaven’s stairway’ – a gorgeous song I a heard today which captures the essence of religion and what it means to us all. We hold religion and our values with the upmost regard, but do we appreciate this about ourselves? The fact there have been so many wars over religion shows the extent we are willing to protect and fight for what we cherish most. The trouble being war, violence and hate are all acts that go against what we are wanting to protect, plus they haven’t and don’t instigate true change. It is much more wise to be the change, the love, that is true a love that is Universal, inclusive of all and therefore much deeper than what we experience in institutionalised religions today.

251. We need to un-attach the word religion from just referring to the main religions such as Christianity and Buddhism etc, and redefine it to it’s true and original definition – which is to simply reconnect. I was used to be adamant I was not religious, simply because I did feel comfortable with the main religions that govern the world, however when I understood religion for it’s true meaning I can say I am religious in every aspect and moment of my life.

252. We have made religion into a pick and choose category of life with many flavours to choose from, all the while it is something we innately are, and as you say Danna, “It is within us all.”

     1. Well said Esther and the reason why we’ve made religion into a “pick and choose category of life” is because it’s yet another way that we can identify ourselves as individuals. Which in itself is the opposite to a true religious way of being. Crazy isn’t it?

253. Many of us would have felt some of these feeling Dana, and perhaps some reactions to the word Religion dating back to earlier experiences. I know that once I heard more of what The Way of The Livingness is, I felt the absolute truth of this. To me such a religion as this is what will one day be common to us all.

254. ‘Let us all re-awaken to the simple ways of what true religion is. It is within us all.’ So true Danna and it is so supportive to read about your choice to stop hiding and reconnect to your inner knowing of the true meaning of religion.

255. “I came to feel that there is no such thing as having no religion or not being religious, but that we all have a deep knowing of what religion is. It is just a matter of connecting to it again. We are ALL part of it. We know we are all the same and religion binds us All”, so beautifully said Danna. And I would go one step further and say that it’s not so much that religion binds us all because we are inseparable, we are all One and the same.

256. ‘What is my true religion?’ or perhaps a more pertinent question would be ‘Is my religion true?’

     1. So true Alexis, that question is a very pertinent one given how readily we have evolved a myriad of so-called religions that are thus far, unaccountable for the extensive atrocities and abuses dealt out in the so-called name of God.

257. It is incredible how scarred and even traumatised we can be from our experiences of what society calls religion, when in fact true religion is the expression of our all-loving true nature.

     1. In relationships it is said that it is those closest to you that can hurt you the most. Wth religion it is the same. A true religion is the one thing that we all crave the most because it is innate within us and how we move. Therefore, it is the case that an untrue religion is capable of causing deep and lasting trauma, as you say Janet.

258. Oh Danna this is a magnificent sharing. It has instilled a sense of space and freedom within my body and I can feel the desire to climb onto a roof top, open my heart, fill my lungs and holler “I am religious”.

259. ‘I felt a love that had no words, simply a connection to God. In this space all I found was what I now call my religion.’ and from here we can use this space, this connection and the known quality and feeling to guide our life movements, our rhythms and ways of being in order to hold our inner godliness.

260. It’s very interesting Danna to feel the impositions placed on us and accepted when we are presented with love. Just as you have shared how you use to feel about the word religion. Serge Benhayon has supported me to break many ideals, patterns, beliefs that I have taken on in life as being the truth. Through his reflection and presentations I have been able to see and feel the truth of words, of things in life, of energy and chosen to reimprint these as best I can with a steady and loving consistency.

261. To me if we are heatedly discussing Religion or fighting over whose version is right or wrong it is not true Religion. To me when we are living in true religion to ourselves and God there is only harmony there is no thought of argument or war because that would be going against every fibre in our bodies that is in the flow of harmony.

     1. In this comment, you say “to me”; but it’s hard to imagine that there is anyone (if they are being truly honest) who wouldn’t agree with you 100%. Thus it is not just case of “to me”, it is more a case of “to all of us” – and thus the question then becomes – how on earth is it that all of us have accepted this gigantic mutation of true religion?

262. Serge Benhayon, with his lived, deep and true understanding of what religion is, can say the word in a way that holds no taint of the war, genocide and corruption that soaks the current, ill presentation of religion. You were clearly open to this Danna to be able to let the fear and reaction melt away what you had, to that point, associated with the word ‘religion’.

263. ‘We were being offered a space to truly ponder with no right or wrong scenario’ – this is something very special about Universal Medicine workshops, the fact that there is a feeling of being held in love, allowing people to be more open, everyone is heard, equally so and there is no right or wrong answer, simply the truth for that person.

264. I remember the days when the word religion would make everyone in the room uncomfortable, during a Serge Benhayon presentation. Even though I never thought I had any negative feelings within me about being religious, in those presentations everything comes up to be exposed. I know of no other presenter that can have that effect on a the whole room by exposing the ideals and beliefs we hold life after life on every subject – there is a true healing taking place in those moments.

265. “Honesty and my observations brought me back closer to the truth I know.” The beauty of listening and expressing from honesty allows us to be more aware of our movements and we can feel the truth we know within effortlessly. It is then from our observations that we can see and feel the world around us and determine what feels right from our own bodies. Simply awesome, thank you Danna.

266. What you describe Danna many will relate to. And because some of us refused to accept the lies presented by conventional religions, we chose the ‘spiritual’ or new age path instead believing that to be the true way, only to find ourselves caught in another web of deception and glamour that lacked integrity. Universal Medicine presents that true religion is accessible to all, is a personal relationship with God and yet also universal. There are no intermediaries, we simply connect to our selves and Soul and we are with God.

267. Millions of people trapped in the false web of mainstream religion or stood apart from them unable to relate the word religion because of what it represents, are robbed of experiencing the exquisiteness of true religion, True religion is a natural and simple way to live: connected to self, God, humanity and universe.

268. Religion is a developing relationship for me – a quiet intimate connection to God that in its within-ness in me encompasses a grander plan that dissolves me into humanity… and this is a relationship with life that is ongoing: the deeper I know myself the more I realise there is no me, only us.

269. Its crazy that religion can bring up all these feelings of uneasiness but I agree it does and until I came across Universal Medicine and The Way of The Livingness I thought I had left it all behind but religion the way it is meant to be is such a beautiful thing.

     1. “Religion is such a beautiful thing”. If we were to hold this super simple statement as the base level of what we accept as religion and then looked at all the world’s religions through that lens…..not many of them (if any) would survive the selection process.

270. Religion has been a way of living for me ever since I turned away from God 27 years ago. And then I felt what it was like and had to change the way I was with God and religion and asked for forgiveness. But the religion I was in was never held me in the truth of who I am as a Soul. This false way was exposed by the true religious way that you have shared Danna and is The Way of The Livingness. When reaching out for God and our divine connection to the Soul, there are many traps so on the way there is a great place that nurtures us on the way, which is the Gentle Breath Meditation as presented by Serge Benhayon.
     For more on the GENTLE BREATH MEDITATION go to;
     http://www.unimedliving.com/search?keyword=gentle+breath+meditation

271. it is simply our separation from God our father, that has allowed the bastardisation of the the word religion. From that point on, all the horrendous acts that emerged from these bastardised religions, carried out in the name of God could take place, acts that we would be never being capable of doing without this separation in the first place.

272. ‘I would be feeling quite uncomfortable as people would be sharing different thoughts, different ideals, which would often bring disharmony and destruction into the group’ … which is as a result of humanity adopting it’s own interpretation of religion. It comes loaded with false ideals, beliefs, expectations, not to mention all that has been done in the name of religion. It’s no wonder that the mere mention of the word religion causes such polarising reactions from people.

273. Just beautiful Dana, being religious and standing in one’s religion is easy when that religion; connection to oneself, to God and to the-all, is present.

     1. And returning to that is exactly what it is all about. It just goes to show how much is there in life to complicate things and keep us from simplicity and truth.

274. Beautifully expressed Danna, what you shared could have been my story. A story that has walked me back to the energetic truth of what religion truely is.

275. It is only recently that I have been able to talk to people about being religious in a way that has not made me feel uncomfortable or like I was justifying how I live and why – its lovely to feel the preconceptions and constructs around it dropping away as I am more opening to knowing it for what it truly is from what I feel.

276. Beautiful Danna, thank you. Especially for the part about discussions between people about the word religion. This seems to be a very important factor in our re-awakening to what true religion is.

277. Thank you Danna, I remember also the initial discussions at Universal Medicine on religion and how uncomfortable I felt because of how adults in the past had spoken of religion and used it to argue and impose on others. Strangers would even knock on my door under the belief they had a right to impose their version of religion onto others. Quite frankly, I found all the behaviour around religion, including it being the justification for wars, confounding and repulsive to point where it gave me a sick feeling. And let’s add to that the pedophilia in the Catholic Church to drive home the absolute bastardisation of the truth of the word religion. And so your question “is the word religion used and lived in its true meaning?” needs to be asked. God is love so that to me is religion – living connected to God is living connected to love. And there is no room for abuse in the absoluteness of love, so nor should there be in religion.

278. Many wars have been and are fought in the name of one religion or other and many millions of people have been killed as a result. That doesn’t make sense because if God is about love and loves all of us equally, how come we can see some people as ‘not-us’ and value their lives so little that we can kill them? If we were to truly live the love that we innately are, we could not consider harming another.

     1. So true Carmel and I get a sense that the battle is to force another to see their way as right. We don’t like standing out and when we cannot persuade sometimes we try to force. On a grander scale, this ends up in war. If our connection was true there would, actually, be no need to persuade another, it simply is a way of living that either inspires another to develop that connection within themselves or not.

279. It is through seeing Serge Benhayon, a man I deeply respect and observe holds absolute integrity and love in the way he lives 24/7, and his presentations on religion that I have come to consider then have a relationship with religion myself. It’s a relationship that can greatly deepen but one that I am open to when I had previously had huge reactions to.

280. To live naturally connected and in relationship with ourselves and to live from this love is religious. It is amazing how this word religion causes such a reaction in many as much of what has been done in the name of religion is completely untrue or un- religious.

281. Whenever there was talk of religion I would just turn off. I still remember the classes at school on religion where you were given some history and virtually told all about religion. I found it hard to understand and so would ask questions that never really were answered. I thought religion was about church, penance, sins etc and yet when Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon first presented on religion it was none of those. Religion had now simply been peeled back to the truth of it, peeled back to being about your personal relationship and not something you need follow or try and make sense of. As I said I use to walk away from this word when it was mentioned where now it’s simply and naturally a part of my life and no more walking away. Of course there is still more for me to see around true religion but my understanding has grown.

282. A fascinating insight into the process of honest review of an aspect of a person’s life, and the choices we can make.

283. The word religion currently is difficult to associate with, which is of course no mistake! We arrive at a time in the evolution of man when to be religious in every aspect of our livingness and yet to claim you are religious is tainted by thousands of years of misuse of the word. It is up to us to live it and then claiming the word will be natural.

     1. Yes indeed, Vanessa. So many hundreds of people have been drawn to The Way of The Livingness teachings because we all know what true religion is, and it can easily be recognised in the examples shared with us by observing the lived ways of Serge Benhayon and his family.

        1. Very true Janet, we do all know what true religion is, and the far cry it is from what is currently available to choose from by way of institutionalised versions. I can recall Serge Benhayon beginning a discussion on religion with a definition based on the original latin meaning of the word – to reconnect or re-bind. This immediately stripped away all the outer trappings l’d associated with being ‘religious’ and brought it back to something first and foremost found deep within… a re-connection or re-binding with a deeper and more encompassing essence of ourselves. Not a church in sight!

     2. Well said Vanessa – it is about living the truth in order to inspire others to do likewise!

284. True religion comes from within every person and is deeply honouring of all that we are. The word ‘religion’ elicits strong reaction because it has been twisted by organisations/people outside of us and attempts to impose something on us that is not the truth. It easy to be and live religiously when it comes from within and Serge Benhayon has opened the way for this to be by living and reflecting this way to all.

285. I understand the word Religion better than ever before. Connecting to what it truly means for me is a step I’m still hesitating with. Even though I can feel the absolute truth and beauty in every word written and when I connect to anyone that I come across in my life.

286. I can relate to questioning whether I am religious or not after spending most of my life feeling completely anti anything remotely to do with religion. However since being presented with The Way of The Livingness, I’m slowly coming round to the idea that there is such a thing as a religion that makes complete sense and something that I could easily/am easily a part of, therefore it’s possible that I am naturally religious. Understandably it’s a huge thing to process given the bastardisation of the meaning of the words God and Religion we’ve been conditioned to believe in.

287. I had a conversation with a man the other day where he listed out all the horrible ways our world has been affected by religion. The wars, the murders, the abuse – the list is so exhaustive. Yet through talking with me he could sense something else – a care, a warmth and a holding space like you describe Dananh. This seemed to touch him, deep inside, so he carried on sharing his feelings on everything under the sun. And so I got to see all of this could come, because of the quality of energy I shared with him. This to me is the true nature of religion – us deciding to return to the original nature of who we are. The more we choose to take this path of reconnecting, the more others can see the old definitions of Religion historically are just a lie, sitting in place of our true stillness and grace.

     1. This is so beautiful Joseph. We can all return to seeing the beauty of Religion and the lies we’ve been told in its name especially when another reflects to us the ‘true nature of religion’, the true quality of who we are.

     2. Yes all the atrocities that have been done in the name of religion have nothing to do with oneness unity and true relationship, more to do with dogma, power and idealism. Beautiful to feel how your natural connection touched the same quality in the man you were with.

288. In claiming my religiosity (is that a word? Well it is now!) I felt a huge tension release within me and as I deepen my relationship to God and religion I am feeling more and more at ease within myself.

     1. Same story for me, but with one big difference…. I wasn’t even aware of the tension until it was no longer there, which just shows how entrenched it had become. How many others are there out there who are walking as I once was – with this deep tension that they aren’t even fully aware of?

289. One thing that really sticks with me after reading this blog was when Danna mentioned how she had not really taken the time to feel what the word religion meant for her in the past. I can feel how so often we just haphazardly follow other people’s/experts opinions of what words like religion, science, and philosophy mean for us without feeling it out for ourselves, and therein lies the harm, manipulation and control of the truth that tends to hurt many. But the cool thing is how Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine has taught that the real truth and meaning of words lies within us to be connected to if we choose to be open to what is revealed without an investment in what the answers may be.

290. I would have laughed at you if, fifteen years ago, you had told me that one day I’d be calling myself a religious man. But today it is with a deep knowing and firm commitment that I say out loud to any who ask, that I am religious person.

     1. I couldn’t agree more Otto, I would have emphatically denied ever being in the slightest way religious throughout most of my life. Today, with an understanding of what the word actually means, and with a solid and steady connection and relationship with the multidimensional nature of myself and life, I have no hesitation in saying that I am deeply religious. Through current so-called religious organisations and movements we have a lot to address as a humanity when it comes to the atrocities perpetuated through religious righteousness.

        1. Of course the organisations themselves will never call themselves to account. Thus, it is up to us to challenge and question, to be pro-active in calling them out, to take our heads out of the sand and look them straight in the eyes. It’s not like the proof isn’t there!!!

        2. Yes exactly, I was listening to a program yesterday giving some stats on the number of people prepared to call themselves Christians today publicly… dramatically fewer numbers than ever before. It is now considered a social stigma to be outwardly religious with the reasons cited being the litany of un-christian-like behaviour by those within the institutions that is so regularly exposed today.

        3. Jenny. I’m fascinated by this statistic and would love to listen to the program. Absolutely I can sense the shame that many would feel at affiliating themselves to many of these organisations. I get that. But another thing that comes to me from this is that, because of what goes on under the “banner of God”, so much of humanity is turning away from all or any notion of religion whatsoever. This is the true damage that is being caused by the gross and rampant bastardisation of true religion.

        4. Yes stats around the numbers of people turning away from the main institutionalised religions are also dramatically high and no doubt at least in part for reasons you say. It has now become so commonplace that the stigma is with those who stay… and from that program this stigma included that to be ‘religious’ today was also akin to being ‘stupid’ and ‘gullible’. Being interviewed was an academic who did not disclose her religious affiliations to close working colleagues for many years for fear of losing her standing in the academic arena. It is true what you say… that the real damage goes way beyond this as all religion is tainted by it. We become so disillusioned by what religion is purported to be that we lose our ability to discern true religion when it comes along.

        5. That’s amazing about the academic; the perfect illustration of how we value our minds more highly than our inner hearts. Something that we now feel (a connection to God) is being over-ruled by our intellect. We have strayed a long, long way from home.

291. “Let us all re-awaken to the simple ways of what true religion is” Big yes to this and big yes to the specific word “simple” in this. That is the gold of it all and one day we will laugh at ourselves for the insane pillars, systems, ideals and beliefs we have built around religion – and we will be deeply, deeply shamed by the unfathomable atrocities that have been enacted under the banner of religion.

     1. Yes… we will come to realise the devastation that has been caused by our mutilation of the word religion and in so doing be sure and steady that we can never do it again… to any word.

        1. It is often said that if you let a child (for example) burn themselves on a radiator, then they will never do it again. Whether you agree with this form of ‘parenting’ or not is a different discussion, but what is fascinating to me is how we adults definitely do not learn from our mistakes and will gladly burn ourselves over and over again. Thus, there must be some other force at play here. A toddler is free from many (but definitely not all) of the ideals and beliefs and emotional baggage that an adult may carry and is innately super sensitive and has a very direct relationship with their bodies and what they feel. Their learning and wisdom is born from their bodies, thus a burn from a radiator is an obvious piece of learning. And so what is going on in the adult that doesn’t commit to same learning that it has seen. Is it possible that we are allowing our spirits free reign? The same spirits that certainly do not aspire to true learning and evolution back to the divine souls that we all are.

292. There is great power in reclaiming what we know to be true out of the falseness of the shadows.

293. There is no force so devastating and so complete in its dis-empowerment of the human spirit as the mainstream religions have been throughout the ages. The curse of thinking you will only be accepted if you abide by a set of rules whether they make sense to you or not, and believing that the act of questioning anything is a sure sign that you are unacceptable and worse unlovable. To hear that you are born a sinner and there is nothing you can do about it; that God has favourites and you have to earn your right to sit beside him, and throughout history it being deemed okay to inflict immense atrocities on our fellow men as long as it is under the banner of religion! All of this is abusive. If all of these were true God would be the biggest bully ever!

     It has taken me years to start dropping the trauma and protection I have held in my body in relationship with how we have misinterpreted religion. Like you, Danna, I am immensely appreciative of The Way of The Livingness and the loving space and support offered by Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine that has inspired me to open up to feel and examine my reactions and start to reconnect to my true relationship with religion.

     1. Golnaz thankyou, I love what you have shared here and so very true “If all of these were true God would be the biggest bully ever!” We do all know the truth because we all know love, if we didn’t these atrocities, abuses and distortions in man made religion would not unsettle us. Returning to the authority of our love is a big part of true religion.

294. It is interesting how we can hold onto past experiences and often they can cloud our perception of a word. It only takes someone to express truth, like Serge Benhayon, to inspire us to dismantle our layers of distortion as truth when fully embraced cuts through anything that is not loving.

295. How powerful it is to be truly held in a space that supports us to reflect on any beliefs or ideals we may be holding and to potentially re-connect deeper with the universal truth that we know from inside. Not being imposed on in any way, no demands just the opportunity for greater connection and clarity.

     1. The blessing that space is… and when it is offered up without judgment or criticism I am inspired to explore my inner workings and beliefs, dispensing with those that stand in the way of my living the always present truth that I feel inside.

296. Religion is so personal for everyone, yet completely universal and I love how you’ve described it as something that connects us to the fact there is MORE out there/that we’re a part of.

     1. Love what you have said here because you have expertly described not just religion but humanity itself. We are all individual yet completely universal…thus surely, as you have noted, our religion must reflect that.

297. Maybe it is the tension of needing to be right about one´s religion, creed, belief, dogma that creates all the disharmony and conflict around one´s religious affiliation and thus separation into groups. When we need something to be right we are already in a non-religious state as being religious actually binds us by relating to what makes us essentially equals, being at one with each other and God by our same origin and beingness. Needing to be right origins in separation from one´s source, from oneness hence is really the very opposite of true religion.

298. I love how you share life is about what we feel is true in our heart and that this is not always the life we see lived around us every day.

299. Wonderful blog Danna, thank you. I was brought up with religion and feel very much at home being in and around religion. What ‘The Way of The Livingness’ has shown me though is the truth that God is a living beingness we can all reconnect with directly, when we choose to – and has exposed the false ideals and beliefs that many religions align to and promulgate. Serge Benhayon lives ‘The Livingness’ in full, and it is this that opens the hearts of other people to the truth – just as it has done with me.

300. We often base our understanding of a word on the way it is represented by others – if we see people living in a way they call religious but that is disharmonious or causes harm, we will associate the words with the actions. But what if this is not how we should define words – what if words carry a natural essence to them that we then have the responsibility to live up to and represent in life so people can know the essence by the way we live? Would words not then hold us to higher standards of living rather than using them to make how we are acceptable and at the same time robbing people of their true meaning.

301. Religion in its truest meaning speaks to our core, yet the fear etc.. you had triggered from this word is very telling of how much this word has been exploited.

302. This was a very detailed story and explanation about how religion has affected your life, thankyou Danna. I always thought of religion as a bad thing when I was associating them with what I had seen in churches and the dividing ways of most religious institutions, it was when I heard about the religious approach presented by Serge Benhayon that I was deeply opened up to the possibility that life can be lived religiously and without shame or apology, but with an honouring of ones connection with themselves and love for others.

303. What stood out for me was – Am I living by pictures, hearsay, others opinions or by my own relationship and how I feel about/with words and aspects of life? Thank you Danna.

304. Thanks to Universal Medicine presentations bringing the true meaning of religion to my awareness, there is a deep resonance in my body with your words.
     “I came to feel that there is no such thing as having no religion or not being religious, but that we all have a deep knowing of what religion is. It is just a matter of connecting to it again.”

305. I really loved and appreciated being able to read this blog. I felt the intimacy of true religion in the expression and the essence of a re-awakened joy just exuding from the cells. I recall the first time Serge Benhayon used the word ‘religion’ during one of the earlier presentations and I know I physically shrivelled inside and thought to myself “do you really have to use that word?” – and further down the track the presentations were referred to as ‘sermons’ – once again, I had to take stock of why I felt to shrink inside myself. Had past incarnations left their indelible mark of falsity and lies around these two words, indeed a very old fear of what the repercussions would be if we were to use these words in this New Era. It seems to me Serge Benhayon has given us the opportunity to re-imprint these words and offer up their true meaning for humanity – how absolutely divine.

306. It shows how we have a lot of attachments to words. And yet if a word is presented with truth – or reimprinted- then our bodies respond to the truth if it.

307. Danna, for sure there is often a tension when religion is discussed. Could this be because there has been so much imposition, fixed ideas, bastardised views, heated discussions and overruling what we know to be true from the past? What a beautiful place you have come to for your definition of religion.. ” I felt a love that had no words, simply a connection to God.”

308. Thanks Danna. What a great sharing that I can very much relate to, about what we have held ourselves in with regards to religion. It is so freeing and joyful to clear all the old hang ups, to open up once again to our naturally ever-present relationship with God.

309. So many different ideas around religion and a topic that many dread talking about because of the different view points. I think it is really important that we do openly discuss it and dispel any lies that may be around.

310. “… we all have a deep knowing of what religion is.” As the origin of the word religion comes from the Latin, religare, to reconnect, this is all we have to do – to simply reconnect. In this we can all be united – one unified – one religion.

311. Thankyou for sharing your experience with religion Danna. Discussing religion with different people it is so apparent that – regardless of the position they hold – whether being deeply ‘religious’ or aetheist, we all have had pictures of what being religious means, usually set from childhood. To discover our own personal relationship with religion and with God, without any of the former pictures, is like finding water in a desert, in my experience.

312. Religion has always been one of those topics we ‘don’t discuss at the dinner table’ and I was wary when I first heard Serge Benhayon talk about what he was presenting as a religion, and, like you, I was wary of being associated with all the religions I had been critical of all my life after leaving the Catholic Church at 17. Now I can feel the difference, The Way of The Livingness is a whole way of being, not founded on imposed beliefs, but an exploration of our own bodies and the wisdom held therein, and feeling our true connection to God.

313. Serge Benhayon presents true religion, this is allowing me to embrace God for the loving brother he is, not the fearful monarch that I was brought up to believe he was, from the preachings of the Catholic religion.

314. Recognising the fact we all have a choice, as to what we feel and how much we feel, in particular about the word religion, brought a real feeling of openness and freedom as I read the blog. I could feel the truth in the written words and how joyful to connect with yourself and trust that wisdom we each have within.

315. I have had many reactions to the word religion because I had lost the true understanding of this word. It has been loaded with unpleasant images and beliefs which I took on as I grew up. Once I stripped away these layers of lies I picked up about religion I realise how powerful this word really is and it started to make sense to me why so many people tend to react to the word religion. If humanity was to truly embrace true religion, we would not be in the mess we are in now.

316. In everyday life, religion is a bit like politics and football. Lots of people have ‘their own’ opinions about it, align clearly to one side, want to win over the other one, etc etc. Yet, except football, politics and religion have not be at all a separatist, divisive activity as it is presented to be. The more we allow ourselves to feel into what is true about them, the more we realize that there is nothing innately divisive in them. And when we get to this truth, the whole feeling about them changes dramatically and our body settles.

317. I feel as a race of human beings we have allowed ourselves by giving our power away to be false fed many seemingly different religions, but too me it’s all coming from the same one energy which seeks to keep us separated from the truth that we are ALL the sons of God, there are no chosen few, To me the hell and damnation that some religions talks about is our actual separation to God.

318. Serge once shared that we can be religious about anything, watching our favourite sports team, eating ice cream, drinking beer or coffee. There have been many things in my life that I have been religious with, things that took me away from my connection to love, stillness, harmony and truth. Now I choose to be religious about things which support my connection to love, stillness, harmony, truth and with that I have felt my connection to God.

319. Danna, the way you write is so conscious breaking! The words you use are so often used without their real integrity, however when reading these blogs I never feel that. In fact, I feel the opposite, your enthusiasm and your absolute love. Thank you for writing ❤

320. Absolutely gorgeous Danna. Religion simply means to re-turn to our true self – the love and light of our Soul – and allow this body of love to express through our physical form. Therefore to reclaim the truth of who we truly are and expose all that has stood in the way of us expressing this love and this light, is a truly religious act and very healing for us all.

321. I can feel also just how loaded the word religion is because so much human suffering has been created in the name of this word, however it is not the word that is the problem as you beautifully put Danna but our reinterpretation of the meaning of the word. Instead of it being something that immediately causes division and separation in humanity, it is a word that can bring us together if we do stop and really ponder and feel what this word actually means in truth and has always meant, long before we twisted its meaning for self-interest and/or self gain.

322. I went through life with what I felt to be a healthy aversion to any religion as what I had experienced with it to me never felt true or even close to what I innately felt ‘was out there’. When the word God and later Religion was introduced by Serge Benhayon I was reluctant, thinking ‘we have a great thing going here, why do we need to blemish it by calling it a religion’. This was the start of my journey into re-learning the true meaning of religion, understanding the importance of reclaiming this meaning and finally in accepting and expressing the fact that I am a deeply religious person. With deep gratitude to Serge Benhayon as with this he has given back to me, and all of us, a very important aspect of our being and way of life.

323. As you say Danna we all feel and know the truth of religion within our own hearts. But in sea of falseness, this knowing gets squashed or denied. Great you’re now able to joyfully express and live what you’ve always known: your inner divinity.

324. Thank you for sharing your experience of Religion Danna. Something I found growing up was that I knew there was truth in religion but not fully in the religious organisations that I knew. So I then rejected and reacted to them and wanted to test God to actually see what he was all about. So I then came from a reactionary cautious approach rather than a truly open, inquisitive and loving approach. When people would ask me about religion I would then justify and start by saying well it’s not like this or that rather than claim what it actually is. It’s a seeming subtle difference but a huge one.

325. The bastardisation of the meaning of the religion has been for centuries one of the greatest forms of evil.

326. Attending Universal Medicine workshops and presentations confirmed what I’ve always felt about conventional religions. I’ve always known it was a nonsense to have multiple and competing religions that didn’t live what they preached. There had to be another way. The way Serge presented on religion made perfect sense. The word religion bastardised for centuries reclaimed and proclaimed in its true form and presented in a open, profound, yet practical way. True religion is the unfolding relationship we have with ourselves as we connect more deeply with Soul, and live this quality day to day.

327. Beautiful Danna, I too have felt an inner tension and a raised heartbeat when certain subjects such as religion are raised, what you are sharing here makes sense; ‘What I had found was that I had been living on the interpretations, opinions, judgements and expressions about this word, but never truly made it my own’, much to ponder on, thank you.

328. I too had a huge reaction in my body when Serge Benhayon first began to present on religion; I could feel myself wanting to shut down, squirming in my chair and wanting to run – all at the same time! But in spite of all these very old reactions to the word religion there was a part of me that resonated with the feeling that I had known true religion before, so I listened. During subsequent presentations from Serge I allowed myself to feel the truth of the words about religion that I was hearing until one day I could finally feel the truth in my own body. This truth about religion was one that I could no longer deny, a truth that we have been lead away from by the lies and beliefs that we have been fed and have subsequently chosen to live for a very long time.

329. The word religion has been in disharmony for a long time. I had myself for years cringed when anyone even spoke the word. But, who can say that we don’t do things religiously? We go to work on time or not, go to bed at the same time, eat the same food on one day. Our lifes are full of things we all do religiously! So, why is God with in all of us, such a hard thing to appreciate?

330. Religion is a word, that like so many other words has been bastardised and there is no coincidence that the mere mention of the word can effect so many of us in a negative way, for the persecution, the wars and the separation it causes is alone enough to make us want to run for the hills. When the true meaning is looked at and it is anything but separation, persecution and war, it is actually a road map for us all back to God.

     1. Super cool and succinct insight into the reasons for our rejection of religion and then the magic and sense of home coming when we access the truth of it.

331. “… we all have a deep knowing of what religion is” so very well put Danna thank you. Serge Benhayon shows no reserve in lifting the lid on the subject and explores it with such delicate and honest grace. We are extremely religious by nature and when the real meaning it restored to the word, it becomes easy to see how our religious tendencies get nudged off course, away from our connection with God onto things like football, cooking, cars and so on. Restoring the meaning has enabled me to see just how much we, humanity, has chosen to bastardized the word out of self interest, doing much harm to one another in the process. Serge has re-instated the majesty and normalcy of this word and its true expression, enabling so many to once again claim our true religion in the way we live normal, everyday life.

332. It’s true, ‘we all have a deep knowing of what religion is…’ because we are all one and the same no matter what background, colour or gender.

333. ‘I was choosing the truth I felt in my heart.’ That is The Way of The Livingness, living our connection with God felt in our own body in every day, every moment, no need for a church as everything is inside ourselves. I agree Danna we just know how to live religious when we choose to connect again.

334. Danna this is incredible and life changing in so many ways, one that stands out to be is captured by your line ” I did not allow myself to have a relationship with the word religion on my own, nor discern how I felt about it” its so very true, we take something that we are told but very rarely build a relationship with that ourselves, you highlight the importance to me that not only is every relationships with people but also with words and they are for us to be open and build a true relationship with.

335. I had the belief that religion meant signing up to a set of beliefs that kept you separate to every other group with their fixed beliefs and dogma. When it was presented that some people’s religion is football or going to the pub I realised that religion is the way you choose to live and The Way of The Livingness offers the freedom to live who you truly are in an ever deepening connection to your essence and to God.

336. No wonder the word ‘Religion’ has been so bastardised and mis-used and abused, it is the very word that in it’s true meaning we are all seeking, a religion with ourselves and with God without the indoctrinations that come with so many religions today, that keep God on a pedestal and a distance away. I too am a deeply religious person Danna and these words resonated with me deeply…”All of this brought an enormous strength back in my body. With that there came trust and all I could feel was GOD, Love, People and Brotherhood in action. My true personal relationship with religion became bright and alive again.”

337. Religion started to make sense to me when I considered that religion is simply about truth. A true religion gives access to truths that are currently not scientifically accessible or provable but that are still true.

338. Such a beautiful blog Danna, and so very true that we all feel the truth of religion inside our hearts, it’s our simple connection to God within.

339. There is so much, so very much out in the world that would make one cringe at the thought of the word religion – and rightly so. Abuse, proselytism, war and persecution have all been done in the name of religion. So presenting religion in Truth, as Serge Benhayon does, and how he reflects this in his every movement and way of being, frees us up to appreciate and celebrate the word religion in its rightful place. A beautiful all encompassing and all knowing connection to our inner Universality and God. Awesome and absolutely natural.

340. Awesome blog Danna, I can relate to everything you’ve shared. I used to react to the word religion too but now I understand the true meaning I am much more open to discussions and can claim that I am religious.

341. This is stunning Danna and has helped me to feel the lightness of connecting with religion without the baggage that can come with it. I love how you allowed yourself to just feel what was there for you when Serge presented, instead of running for the hills. The power and authority in what you experienced is palpable and deeply inspiring.

342. Very profound Danna thank you for sharing so fully the way you unfolded what true religion means for you. I have undergone a similar process, arriving at the same place of knowing myself to be deeply religious but without an ounce of adherence to anything I have ever understood religion to be about by our current societal standards.

343. Religion is a word that has been much bastardised, twisted and misinterpreted – it is a connection we have and we can have that with beer, a footy club or God and the All. It is very simple once it has been stripped of the sticky tentacles it has been afflicted with.

344. It is so important to reclaim religion for what it truly is and means for us people. Over the ages the word religion has been massively bastardised and misused and because of that made us become uncomfortable with that religious aspect we all have in us. The religious aspect what actually lays at the foundation of our being.as we are from God, we are his Sons.

345. ‘I could feel that if I were to stand up to feel my own truth about my personal relationship with religion, I would stand out and have more chance of being disliked.’ – I can completely relate to this, lets face it, millions of people have been slaughtered in the name of religion, it’s a touchy subject that has, to date, provoked a hideous pattern of behaviour by many as we have allowed it’s true meaning to be completely bastardised. Hence the importance of allowing ourselves to re-connect to the truth of who we truly are, to feel the unity and the magnificence of what we are a part of. Our love for our selves and each other makes it impossible to keep this knowing hidden, once felt – as you say ‘we all have a deep knowing of what religion is.’

346. When I hear the word religion, there is the most warm and fuzzy feeling of being held and the body wants to move in every each way to express this feeling, and this has inspired me to deepen my movements with more honesty, more integrity, more responsibility. Religion is how we deepen this expression of union with ourselves, with God and with everything and everyone in the world. We are all living expressions of Religion, this is the Christ we do not need to wait for when we choose to live it.

347. ‘I allowed my power to come out and stand in the fact that I am a deeply religious person. Even though this means the absolute opposite of what is going on in all the religions in the world today, it is okay.’ – I love this, Danna – by claiming our truth, irrespective of everything we may have been conditioned to believe previously, or what is going on in the world around us, we are allowing the divine light, that we are all a part of, to shine a little more brightly, helping to re-ignite the knowing deep inside those around us that they too are part of this exquisite divinity.

348. ‘…I allowed my power to come out and stand in the fact that I am a deeply religious person.’ I love the claiming of who you are and your very tangible relationship with religion expressed here, inspiring me to also claim I too have been devoutly religious in previous lives, perhaps far distant, but can return to my inner knowing of this dedication to love, to God and us all.

     1. I agree. But should it be that surprising and amazing to hear someone talk about something that is actually so natural and innate in all of us? It is a marker of how far we have strayed that this inspiring blog is so extra-ordinary.

349. I used to think that I had no religion being bought up, with no exact faith – but I was exposed to lots of bible stories and hymns through school despite it supposedly being non-denominational. These stories gave me a false ideal of God and what it meant to be a good girl and have faith. I felt let down by God and by people and declared there is no God and I am not religious. However, upon reflection as a young child, I was highly religious, God and my knowing of Him and my place in the Universe were just there something I felt and trusted within. Through meeting Serge Benhayon and being introduced to the teachings of the Ancient Wisdom and The Way of The Livingness that inner connection and knowing has re-ignited. I see that I left God, He never left me, all I had to do was come back to who I am and let go the ideals and falsehoods I had been sold by what we are told religion is.

     1. I can relate to this Rachel – as soon as I heard Serge Benhayon speak the truth of the meaning of religion, there was instantly a re-configuration in my body and a knowing of something that I know well, but had buried under all the falsehoods and dogma fed over the years.

350. The Way of The Livingness is a religion like no other. It is one that is based on connection and quality first. Not on followings, fear and/or finances.

     1. And this is why I love The Way of The Livingness, it is based on a Livingness, meaning being willing to live the truth of religion, love and brotherhood without perfection or preaching but a dedicated commitment to living love and truth.

        1. And there is no membership, only an obedience to your own living way.

     2. Yes and it is based on our choices and commitment not on a dogma or rule book we attempt to adhere to.

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