Most of us are familiar with the term ‘walking your talk.’
We usually take it to mean that what we talk, the principles we tell other people about, the way of living we endorse, the philosophies we hold and believe to be true and worthy, should be the way that we walk, i.e. the way that we live our life.
‘Walking your talk’ is very frequently used in areas of life such as business, sports, spirituality, health (particularly in the areas of weight loss, fitness and addiction), self-development, parenting, religion, education, and in fact any area of life where there is a perceived scale of goodness or worthiness against which we measure ourselves.
However I have seen most people, including myself, struggle with ‘walking their talk’ in practice. I once had a discussion with a group who were doing a lifestyle development process that focussed on remaining continuously mindful about how they were presenting themselves to the world. This covered posture, movement, style of speech, suppression of emotions, and general demeanour. They were very committed to this and paid a lot of money to do the course, promoting it to all their friends as well. But, and this is a big but, I could feel in those people an incredible tension of trying to constantly impose their philosophy onto their bodies according to their belief in what they thought was the right way. The effect was stilted speech, guarded demeanour, unresponsiveness to the energy or feeling of another person, second-guessing their own every word and move, and in effect living in a self-imposed ‘straitjacket’.
When it comes to gurus in many areas of life, I’ve noticed that the walking of the talk seems to be more difficult and more often unfulfilled for the guru than what is seen among the general mass of their followers (who usually reduce themselves and believe they are not good enough). An example is discovering that a spiritual guru who promotes a drug-free, ascetic, celibate life of mastery over desire, and constant presence and meditation, turns out to be indulgent, emotional, attention seeking, promiscuous, and revelling in power. I’ve noticed that the so-called advanced students of this guru (and it could apply to many gurus) are into drugs, all-night parties, pedophilia, multiple sexual partners and material opulence, while the face they present to the world, to their clients [in the case of practitioners] and to their communities, is one of serene, self-mastered enlightenment. Total hypocrisy!
I’ve noticed that many people who are great advocates of sport, fitness, physical body development, health and beauty, while presenting the face of their held beliefs to the world (‘talk’), behind the scenes live (‘walk’) the opposite. They eat lots of junk food, indulge in drugs, stay up late, party hard, overtrain, dishonour their relationships and compensate for the damage with health products, plastic surgery, top brand clothing and cars, psychotherapy, photoshopped images, etc. Again, hypocrisy.
And haven’t we all either experienced ourselves, or noticed others go through, the rollercoaster process of trying to lose weight and stay slim? Or get fit? Or be less angry? Or meet our ‘new year’s resolutions’?
What about churchgoing people? How often do we, or the ones we know, fail to live up to the ideal of living and worshipping according to our beliefs and then feel guilty and lesser for having failed to meet our own expectations and the expectations of our church?
Have you ever observed business leaders, lifestyle coaches, politicians, teachers, etc., who stand up and present (‘talk’) about ‘the best way to do it’ from the superior position of being a model of what they are talking, only to discover that in the day-to-day truth (‘walk’) of their private lives off stage, they do not live up to what they speak?
To be fair to people, we all have an inner sense of the true higher life, a feeling for what we could be if we were to live to the level of love, detachment, integrity, quality, commitment, compassion, service, and self-care that we believe to be a true path and worthy of walking. There is no doubt this is a true impulse toward our soul and our future life on earth. However, there is a big problem with the whole ‘walking your talk’ situation, and that is that we attempt to impose it upon ourselves from our thoughts based on a system of adopted beliefs in whatever arena of life we are considering.
The mind can take on any thoughts or system of belief and attempt to impose it on the body. Our minds can decide how we are to move, eat, speak, write, relate to others, etc. But if this is coming from outside of our bodies [and thoughts do indeed come from outside of our bodies, despite a deeply held belief among the majority of modern reductionist scientists], then what those thoughts are asking our body to do may be in contradiction to where our bodies are at and what they are capable of doing in their present state.
So if we are addicted to anything, be it drugs, sex, recognition, fame, work, victimhood, relationships, depression, wealth, being upbeat, looking cool, or whatever, then our bodies are energetically and physically configured to remain in that status quo and will have great difficulty rising above it – except in an occasional glorious moment of mastery and truly feeling the principle we strive to live constantly. But most of the time we struggle, not meeting our own expectations in the way we eat, sleep, exercise, walk, work, teach, parent, or relate.
What if by saying ‘walking our talk’ we have got it completely back to front? What if the truth is that the path to the higher life opens before us when we recognise that we are actually ‘talking our walk’ instead? That everything we say – our posture, our actions, all our expressions – are coming from the actual current state of our bodies?
This moves energy in the opposite direction from what we have been believing to be the way. What if the talking [i.e. our every expression] is coming from our bodies first, not our minds? What if we are in fact talking our walk in almost every moment of life? Another way to say this is that whatever state our body is really in, whatever the energy determining our choices, is what will govern what we say, how we look and how we behave.
That would certainly explain the difficulty we all have in ‘walking our talk’ – we are pushing against a great natural force with the inadequate counterforce of thoughts derived from somewhere else! And what if the difficulty of this leads to our applying an even greater counterforce of thought to try to overcome the momentum in our bodies? An example would be telling ourselves very sternly: “I absolutely will give up chocolate, I will not buy it, I will not even think about it,” only to find ourselves dreaming about it, obsessing over it, and pretty soon devouring it and feeling like a failure, which even spoils the indulgent saviour of comfort we were seeking? It doesn’t work because the thoughts are imposed onto the body in denial of where the body is at, the momentum the body is in. Moreover our bodies know this! Thus we feel the struggle.
While we go about ‘in love with’ our own thoughts, making plans, philosophising about how we will be, our body is sitting there being a part of the one universe and knowing in its every particle how to be in that universe. In effect, we are fighting against the flow when we try to walk our talk from a body that is in a momentum out of sync with the true flow of the all.
It has been a great revolution in my life to meet, come to know, observe and emulate as a great role model, a man who talks his walk. A man who expresses every word, thought, and action from the truth of his body. A man who continually commits to listening to his body and being guided by the truth it is expressing. So that if the body communicates (from universal knowing) that a food, a word, an action, or a movement feels to be out of alignment with the universe, he uses that awareness to make the next movement in the direction of alignment with the universe. Moment by moment, this builds a foundation from which the next thoughts and actions will come from the body, of a quality increasingly true. And what is the result of this commitment to awareness and being truthful about what is observed, with humility and yet with authority? The result is a man named Serge Benhayon.
This is not about worshipping an individual who has done something really cool that is difficult to impossible for most of us. This is about accepting and appreciating that someone, a fellow human, a brother, is talking his walk for all of us to see and to know that it is possible for all of us to do too. All we need do is open to the possibility that we have had it back to front all our lives, and that with this simple heartfelt commitment to listen to our bodies, to listen to our hearts, and to move in accordance with their communications (which come from the universe via our souls), then we too can walk and talk the joy-full life of grace, wisdom, harmony, brotherhood and unlimited love that we know is our true living way.
By Dianne Trussell, dedicated student of myself and humanity, scientist (BSc Hons), Goonellabah, Australia
Further Reading:
Self Care – ‘Walking the Talk’
Why Are We So Unquestioning?
Looking for Answers and a Game that No One Wins
The Truth about Universal Medicine 
Most of us talk our talk more than we walk our walk and I think this has become part of the dishonest bedrock of society. We are simply not completely honest about the way we are living and what’s going on in our bodies – so it’s incredibly refreshing to meet someone who is completely honest and transparent so that their words match the way they live.
I went to see a doctor once who looked so ill and uncared for I found it hard to take any advice he had to offer. I went to see a wise man once, he looked and felt so cared for I’ve pondered on everything he offered.
There are quite literally billions of people out there who are searching for a path which leads somewhere – to evolution, enlightenment, meaning. What I love in this article is it literally turns it all inside out. Rather than looking outside and imposing someone else’s path, look deep inside and start to live all that you already are, striping away what has been imposed and learnt that is so obviously not serving.
Serge Benhayon lives and moves in exquisite harmony from a true knowing of being at one with the Universal rhythms, not from gathering knowledge and spouting theories. A deeply inspiring man and role model reflecting what is possible for everyone equally-so.
“In effect, we are fighting against the flow when we try to walk our talk from a body that is in a momentum out of sync with the true flow of the all”.
Dianne, this is a deeply inspiring blog to read. I love how you have turned the walking our talk completely inside out and upside down to know that the body never lies and every expression is seen and felt in our movements.
“What if the truth is that the path to the higher life opens before us when we recognise that we are actually ‘talking our walk’ instead? That everything we say – our posture, our actions, all our expressions – are coming from the actual current state of our bodies?
Serge Benhayon is undoubtably a role model and leader for us all, simply because he lives it before he presents it. He is authentic to the core.
There is such humbleness in talking your walk – you have experienced whatever it is and you can talk about it. It does not come from assumptions or must do’s – it’s real, tangible and true.
If you try to live something that is not you, however effective or virtuous, it needs to be constantly practised and could be a constant effort that may, after long practice, appear effortless but still takes effort to impose on ourselves. Are there better alternatives?
I now know quite a few people who walk their talk, they walk with love in their hearts and that love is felt by all that know them. And they share this love wherever they go no one is excluded, In time there will more and more people committed to bringing true love to the world then we will all know the truth of absolute love.
Living what you say and saying what you live, through your movements is a precious quality that is constantly underestimated. Many of us flagrantly say the exact opposite of what we actually live, and do not see the hypocrisy in it, and this is very harmful to our community and planet.
We say the opposite because we feel the need to do that and often the need seems to be for us to look smaller than we truly are. Somehow that can seem silly.
What is interesting in this Samantha is you expose that in many cases people / we are lying to ourselves. That is even worse that lying to another as at least there is a conscious choice there. However by lying to ourselves we think we are doing one thing, but deep down we know that is wrong and so it stops us from wanting to look deep down and we and the rest of the world loses so much from that decision.
“This is about accepting and appreciating that someone, a fellow human, a brother, is talking his walk for all of us to see and to know that it is possible for all of us to do too.” So beautifully and succinctly summed up Dianne. Serge Benhayon offers us so much in the way of reflection, simply by living what he knows to be true, in everything that he does, with no exceptions.
What an incredible blog Dianne, this is true science and an absolute joy to behold.
To take full responsibility for ourselves in life is to live with energetic responsibility to the best of our ability. That is walking the talk and not relying on another to lead the way.
It’s easy to talk… and to talk the ‘blah’…to talk knowledge but not live it. It can be easy to talk down to others from an arrogance of knowing better, it can be easy to talk from frustration, anger and our hurts, it can be easy to not talk and hold back, it can be easy to talk from self-doubt, it can be easy to talk from need and almost always we talk from self – for self… there are so many ways in which we can talk, but until I met Serge Benhayon, I never witnessed anyone talking from the all to the all, holding each person with a fullness and love that keeps them equal and constantly living that way. Serge never expresses anything that is not needed and his humour brings a joy that is uplifting. Serge Benhayon really does live everything he expresses and more!
Totally Dianne. This man has turned the world upside-down or should I say, has shown us how the world is upside-down and needs to be revolved and evolved out of that position! Never did I realise in this life, before I met Serge Benhayon, that it is our movements in life (expression and physically moving) that come first and it is the quality of those that counts and that will determine what we talk. We are not progressing anywhere – we are deepening our movements and expression and so evolving that way.
Seeing and feeling people walk their talk can offer me inspiration to connect to my own natural inner wisdom and live that as well.
In our current world we have so many dictates about how to be, how to eat, how to dress, how to behave etc etc, not much of this comes with an allowance of the natural ways that we all knew as a baby, toddler or child…and before we know we have been engulfed in a world that imposes everything upon us and we play ball with this, because we choose to forget there is another way. But coming back to the body and how it feels, is a fantastic bridge to coming back to what we knew as children…I know I am still learning to do this fully and consistently, but when I am in the body and with the simplicity that comes with it, I know this is something we have all done and we are simply coming ‘home’ in terms of returning to our natural way of being, long forgotten.
There is so much of life that is lived in a false way, but enter Serge Benhayon and he is like a breath of fresh air, a deeply beautiful presence that reminds you of who you are, and a truth in every step he takes. Thank God for Serge Benhayon, is what I say!
Believing you are doing something like exercise, diet, religion etc. the ‘right way’ will always impose on the body, as beliefs are a dictate that come from your head. The only way to have the body on board is to let it decide and navigate how we do things.
Have you ever seen someone just before they are about to present on stage? They like having their space, rehearsing, going over notes and then when they get up on stage they give it their all and then they are slightly different when then come back off the stage…I’ve seen this quite a bit and certainly have done it myself. Serge Benhayon totally deconstructs this. He is him on and off stage – whatever forum. He speaks like he would to 1 or 100 people. There is no highs or lows. He has time to talk to people right before and after. It is a joy to watch someone not change who they are to present. For him every time he speaks it is a presentation.
The world is not mad. It is diverging towards Truth because of a lack of love. Talking our walk guarantees we are not loving to ourselves, as pushing a force to make something happen will not last long, so in effect we create the reasons for us to hate ourselves, bingo we get what we ask for. The world is not going to change overnight, but in knowing Truth we can love ourselves step by step in the midst of this huge force to not self-love, we have lots to explore and play around in remaining consistent and steady, life is pretty amazing and fun when we understand and simply respond.
There is a universal intelligence and wisdom that we can connect with via our body, an intelligence that is within every cell of us and one that we can reconnect with, rather than look to outside ideals and beliefs of how we think we should be in life…
We so have it back to front, inside-out, not outside-in. Learning to live from the inside of us, the part that knows what is right for us, it knows the rhythm it wants to live, Not living from a set of ideals/beliefs/pictures from the outside and imposing them on the inner. I am working on this inside-out, it’s not so easy some days, but for many years I did the outside-in, and boy o boy I know first hand that does not work. So my loving work in progress continues to live from the inside-out.
I am really struck by changing some of our lifestyle choices because we have felt they are not supporting us. Your example about giving up chocolate shares with us a simple way we can employ with any addiction. The change has to come from our bodies, the bodies that have been building a foundation that no longer ‘need’ the numbing or stimulating mechanism.
“we are fighting against the flow when we try to walk our talk from a body that is in a momentum out of sync with the true flow of the all.” And It grates on the person listening or watching. It just doesn’t sound or feel genuine. The trouble is we are so desperate for someone to ‘fix’ us and take away the yuk we feel that we constantly look outside of ourselves for answers and therefore don’t change the movement in our bodies.
You may be able to fool the world with a catchy tune but far trickier is it to fool them with the way you move as these movements are the sum total of your living way and thus all that moves you to its tune by virtue of which source of energy you have aligned to – be that love or be it not.
“I could feel in those people an incredible tension of trying to constantly impose their philosophy onto their bodies according to their belief in what they thought was the right way”. This has captured the problem of trying to make ourselves live up to a perceived goal. It comes from the mind and therefore it doesn’t feel natural or easy and it becomes a matter of will power. Whereas when you start from the body and follow its wise counsel, you can’t go wrong. IT may not look anything like your ideals, but it is natural and easy and supports every aspect of your wellbeing.
As someone who can relate very much with living from a straight jacket of imposed ‘shoulds’, it’s wonderful to return to the simplicity of letting my body talk and listen, even if to begin with it isn’t what I had in mind.
Beautifully expressed Dianne, when we do talk our walk we notice how it comes from our body first, and the result is the walk, the more we observe our life, and change our choices we notice how our walk automatically changes, and when we force ourselves to walk the talk, we are fighting our body to try to make it align, a very unnatural state of being.
Mind over matter is a phrase that is quite often said, but I can see now how disharmonious and untrue this is – it totally negates the wisdom that we can connect with via our whole body and instead glorifies ideals, beliefs and pictures that we can attach to and then impose on ourselves and others.
Authority is words backed by movement.
Less talk, more walk – our entire evolution as a species depends on it.
Serge Benhayon has inspired me from the first day I met him, it is because all he presents has been lived by him, walked by him, and the difference can be clearly felt from him walking the talk, I feel it from my body.. Truth
I love the way you have so wonderfully exposed the energy of ‘imposition’ here Dianne. This energy of living up to an ideal, has been the major reason that so much that is thought ‘good’ in life actually does not, in terms of energy, do true good, even though it looks good – simply because there is imposition on the movement of its action and not Love. Thanks for such a great blog.
Imposing any idea onto our body is bound to fail as the body has a wisdom all of its own.
Your observation of Serge is very beautiful Dianne “if the body communicates (from universal knowing) that a food, a word, an action, or a movement feels to be out of alignment with the universe, he uses that awareness to make the next movement in the direction of alignment with the universe.” Obedience to the order of the all.
‘This is about accepting and appreciating that someone, a fellow human, a brother, is talking his walk for all of us to see and to know that it is possible for all of us to do too.’ And that is the true inspiration Serge Benhayon offers us 24/7.
‘In effect, we are fighting against the flow when we try to walk our talk from a body that is in a momentum out of sync with the true flow of the all.’
Walking your talk is actually a fight and the talking the walk allows the simplicity and the flow.
If we talk first about something we aspire to we are then constantly trying to attain or achieve something. If we talk about something that we already live there is no such pressure and it is purely a confirmation of the truth.
The idea of ‘talking’ your ‘walk’ sounds quite radical, as are all truths of the Ageless Wisdom. But in fact these truths are natural and full of grace and it is the way that we have turned them upside-down that is the radical element. There is a quantum leap distance between the truth of hierarchy and the astral cliche. We move before we talk, so the ‘move ‘has to be aligned to the divine first.
I’m appreciating more the wisdom of our whole body and how much of a difference it makes to the way I think according to how I’ve been moving or holding my posture e.g rushing, tense, driven, hunched or at ease, settled, standing or sitting up tall… And how this then naturally affects the way that I speak and what I have to say…
‘Talking your walk’ is a great saying to illustrate that our movements always come first. So what we walk will be what we talk and never the other way around.
“What if the talking [i.e. our every expression] is coming from our bodies first, not our minds?” A great question to ponder Dianne. I am noticing more and more that when I change my body posture my feelings change. Such a simple thing to do. Why isn’t this more widely known?
Recently I attended an event where there was a presenter who had been presenting for most of their life. And they came across as being very professional and at the same time was at pains to come across as easy going, they wanted to be everyone’s best buddy. As much as I liked the presenter I wasn’t convinced. And sure enough the exposure came a few days later when I drove with them in their car. They constantly talked to the other car drivers and behaved in a very agitated, frustrated and at times angry way. Venting at the other road users. And interestingly enough they had no idea they were doing this it was such an ingrained pattern of theirs. To me no matter how slick, professional, all knowing someone is, if they don’t feel quite right just wait because sooner or later they will expose themselves as the pretence cannot be kept up for long.
That is why Serge Benhayon is my marker because I have known him for 11 years and his solidness, consistency is real, I have grown to trust that in Serge because he is as straight as an arrow. And he does not want to be everyone’s best friend quite the opposite if you don’t like what you are presented with you are free to walk away and never be troubled again.
I have attended many spiritual and other courses, but the disillusion set in when the presenters showed by the way they lived and talked that he certainly didn’t walk their talk. I was similarly disillusioned by church vicars etc. I have attended presentations by Serge Benhayon for ten years now and witnessed him not only during his talks but with his family and others. Here is a man who truly walks his talk – and talks his walk. An amazing role model who can inspire us all.
It is true. It is simple to listen to our heart and body and their guidance with our movement, to be on the path of living love and connecting to all that we are. And we have Serge Benhayon, who is living this consistently, showing us the joyful, love filled life of grace we all can live.
It really turns everything on its head to say that if we care for the body and move a certain way, then via the quality the body holds comes the quality of universal intelligence we can then express.
Walking your talk is all about putting into lived experience what you are talking about, yet talking your walk is about seeing clearly and candidly what you actually are living. Both are in fact great great stages or phases to be aware of – the talking your walk is a way of checking in on how you are actually living as compared to what you are saying, and the talking your walk can be exposing what and how you are aligned energetically and can be a quick way of allowing ourselves to correct ourselves and come back to the natural essence that lies within as a constant wise guide.
Love what you have shared here Dianne – the play on words is great, and it is a revelation to feel that we do actually talk our walk and there is no hiding this. Hence we must observe what is presented by watching the movements and seeing what is actually being communicated here.
“Walking the talk,” is a movement unto which we have already lived and from these experiences we share and connect with others from this lived experience. Our movements are then felt because there is no recognition or drive to make people believe what you are sharing because they get to feel the absoluteness shared.
I’m beginning to really feel the truth in this… that we have got it all back to front and it is the way we move that determines the way we think. Awesome sharing. Thank you Dianne
A very interesting article that goes against an old saying that I know I have used for ages. What is being said here makes sense though and if I go to ‘walking your talk’ I find myself telling myself this is what I want or need to do and it’s like saying this is what I want to do from now and almost holding your breath to try and achieve it. You know there will be up’s and down’s and what you want to try and achieve is the best you can do. While if you go to ‘talking your walk’ it seems to take the pressure off and the only limit would seem to be in your movements. The only point that would ‘miss the mark’ would be when you are out of alignment with your movements as the article offers. It’s not a wrong at that point just a choice to realign which then brings you back. ‘Talking your walk’ seems to be the simplest way to move, plus it’s where all the support is you only need to move with it.
I love the sense of innocence I feel in ‘talking the walk’. So simple and effortless. The talk is already here, no prop needed.
It is deeply healing and totally amazing when you meet someone who lives their truth with no compromise, just simply sharing their expression in connection to their soul.
From Serge Benhayon I have learnt the great joy in being honest in talking about where my walk is at any point in time. It opens space up for the walk to be understood and changed. Whereas talking from my head brings no understanding or change as the body remains tense and inflexible to change behaviour.
The division between what we live and what we talk is a reflection of an inner contradiction between what we say we want and what we actually choose to live. Honesty and integrity are essential to come back to the unity within us.
This is a brilliant article Diane and full of deep wisdom. Serge Benhayon is such a great example of someone who ‘talks his walk’, he continually offers a powerful reflection that humanity can feel blessed by.
The alignment to all that is true informs the way we move long before we are given the words to speak.
This blog reveals how important it is to be able to connect with the body and feel its quality, for from this is where the talking comes from. And it is amazing to feel how much authority with beauty can come from one’s body when we allow it. Our body and our movements are governed by energy – and hence the question to ask is what energy is running us and hence determines the quality of our walk and hence our talk!?
There is an honesty about talking your walk…because essentially the body cannot hide where you are actually at.
Start with the body and the mind will follow.
It’s usually the people who brag about walking their talk that are actually pretending where as the ones who are humble in the imperfection of their walking and talking are the ones that live the integrity you speak of.
It can be easy to see what we could be doing to be healthy, to be inspirational, to live strong values, but there can also be blocks to achieving this. I guess that is why it is always more powerful to live the values we want to see in others rather than focussing on telling others what to do, and then we offer so much more by way of reflection than we ever could have by sharing an intention that is not lived.
This is so true and a brilliant revelation to realise that we can talk our walk – Serge Benhayon talks his walk – he is the real deal and his talk is completely in line with his movements, and his walk is what becomes the quality of his talk. He doesn’t make out he is something he is not, it is straight up truth, not compromise, not for anyone.
It is wise to just be here in this moment without any pictures of how we want ourselves to be. This allows us to really just walk this moment. When we truly appreciate this moment, it opens up the next moment, without any special excitement to look forward to, but if we look back at ourselves after a certain period of time, we would find this naturalness already being lived, and thus our expression naturally changes. But there is no one point we can look forward to, because it is a process and a deepening. I find this to be deeply inspiring.
By ‘talking our walk’ we are being honest with ourselves and others. We accept where we are at and are transparent for all to see. It is through this way of being present with ourselves we can choose evolution.
I could watch Serge Benhayon walk for days on end. The way he honours his body and rhythm is just exquisite to see come out in his expression.
Walking frees the body so much and communicates what is actually going on for us; it is definitely a therapy that needs to be understood in all its ramifications.
I love this blog Dianne! Sounds right to me.
“This is not about worshipping an individual who has done something really cool that is difficult to impossible for most of us. This is about accepting and appreciating that someone, a fellow human, a brother, is talking his walk for all of us to see and to know that it is possible for all of us to do too.” It is almost unheard of to come across someone who gives so much to others so that they too can be inspired to do the same, but who expects nothing back. But Serge Benhayon is one such man.
“Walking our talk” could be dangerous – if we tell lies all the time.
Wow! Harry you nailed it. Even those little white lies!
Talk without the walk is an empty expression.
Walking your talking is easy when a person has grounded it in their every living way and felt the truth of what it means – just holding their body without words speaks loudly of what is there in that moment. One truly does need to walk what they are living before they talk what they are living because with out this they are only repeating empty words. Serge Benhayon walks his talk and this can be felt for the honour and truth that they hold.
There is a profound difference in quality when some is talking their walk as with Serge Benhayon, it can felt and heard on such a different level, one that is absolute truth and deeply inspiring.
The word shallow comes to me, concerning people who do a lot off speaking, writing etc but are not living what they preach…we can all feel it when it is shallow, often it is a matter of when we want to be honest about what we feel or not that is the issue. I have observed Serge Benhayon for over a decade, he has consistently been inspiring, trustworthy and respectful. I do not doubt him, he has depth.
I am a member of our local gym and the hypocrisy that happens consistently is very obvious. What I have noticed is that women will do an hour long work out and then go straight to the little coffee shop attached and have coffee and cake. They chat together as they workout in the gym about their latest big night out. They champion the fact they can lift heavy weights, etc. but ignore their bodies and the harm they are doing from their indulgences in food, coffee, alcohol, excess sugar etc. but as well the hardness they go into when exercising their bodies.
Even though we cannot see what is going on behind closed doors in people’s lives, we can feel the quality in which they live through their bodies. The moment I met Serge Benhayon, I could feel that I was in front of someone who had the deepest level of integrity and loving respect for all of humanity.
When we talk about something that we don’t actually live the words feel empty and it feels like we are trying to convince people but also ourselves. I know that when I talk about something that I already live there is no sense of trying to convince. There is simply a stating of the facts and the reality of what I know and live. It feels very different.
Great blog Dianne when we impose our thoughts onto our body nothing changes, and this shows why so many addicts go back to their old behaviours or eventually find something else that can seem less harming but does not change the energy that created the addiction in the first place. Your example of chocolate is so true and I did exactly what you describe imposed my thoughts onto body that I mustn’t eat chocolate and this worked for 3 or 4 years and it looked like I had quit chocolate, until one day it kept being presented to me and I ate some over a few days It wasn’t until the after affects showed up in my body and I was ill for about 2 months with flu and a really bad continuous cough that I knew I would never eat chocolate again, My body showed me in no uncertain terms that it would not tolerate chocolate and there is no way I would want to now. I got to feel the irresponsibility to myself and those around me. The knowing of the harm that chocolate (especially dairy chocolate) did was no long my mind using knowledge it was my body talking it’s walk.
Talking our walk comes not from the mind but from the body who knows truth, as the body is felt and listened to the walk naturally follows, living your truth, as we see and feel inspired by Serge as he talks his walk, and walk his talk.
Serge Benhayon is deeply inspiring because he does ‘Talk his Walk’! (Like no other I have met!)
I agree rachelmurtagh1. I have never met any-one else like Serge Benhayon who walks their talk in every single aspect of their life. All life, no matter what he is doing is as important, nothing is menial, all is equal.
How many of us proport to live a life of love yet a simple scratch of the surface finds quite often the opposite being lived. There is only a handful of people who live where the more you look the more love you find there, they just happen to live in the same family! Thank God I have been witness to lived love not just talked love.
The power of the Walk is beyond what we all presently comprehend yet, but it is sinking in and becoming a reality. The whole modelling industry will be transformed along with all our lives. I am loving walking with the son of God shining in me!
I love this article. It is revelatory. I’ve struggled with giving up addictions (and what amazing examples given that go beyond the usually accepted examples – showing how ingrained and accepted addictions are in society and how far from living our amazingness we live). I cannot deny trying to impose a mentally driven thought based solution does not work! So becoming aware of what I am actually living in my body and expressing, and having the harmony of the universe, that my body always can feel, as my reference point (and not these mental aspirations/ideals), is such a wonderful starting point to healing the addictions or behaviours being used to keep me from my Soul.
Serge Benhayon literally redefines the sayings of walking his talk and talking his walk… He really does “ walk with his heart”
‘The mind can take on any thoughts or system of belief and attempt to impose it on the body.’ This is where we can set ourselves up to fail for our bodies are designed to live harmoniously, each part supporting the others and not in parts with the mind leading the way.
Would healthcare systems change if the professionals working within them fully talked their walk, and we supported doctors, nurses and staff to look after themselves to the hilt so that medicine/healthcare was a profession of pure inspiration and standard setting and not one we associate with exhaustion.
Great point, Susie. How amazing would it be if an integral part of a young doctor’s training was to set the standard of what true health and wellbeing is, as a lived example for all their future patients?
Walking your talk at least means to be authentic in acting on what you consider to be true or right. Talking your walk means to live it and thus 1. know what you are talking about from lived experience and 2. you don´t shy back from speaking your truth. In the end of course, walking and talking are a circle, being one expression.
I love it Dianne, definitely Serge Benhayon is the epitome of someone who lives in full communion with his body, his every move is performed with such a grace and holding of the all, a true blessing for all.
It’s so simple to bring our awareness back to our whole body, to the quality that we move and breath with and at the same time very profound in supporting us to re-connect with our innate source of wisdom.
‘our bodies are energetically and physically configured to remain in that status quo and will have great difficulty rising above it’, I relate to this with a specific issue that has popped up for me to look at. But it feels like I cap myself in some way not able to break free of the trap/belief I am carrying.
I have struggled to action the words that I speak and from this blog I think its a pretty common for people to feel this way. Making life about the body before the mental thought process, is actually a fascinating science that I believe will one day be proven on a practical level. It is quite beautiful and simple when you consider it, we just commit to moving in a way that will actually guarantee the way we speak/talk and be with others, our breathe is included in these movements.
Beautiful Dianne, I’ve been getting recently how the words that we say (like these ones I’m typing here) are almost irrelevant when you consider them next to the quality we live. It’s from our choices, our alignment to truth, to what we do, that our words carry their true wisdom. If there is something I am struggling with inside, so too will my movements, actions and expression carry this confusion. What a great thing it is then when we choose Love and become clear in ourselves.
So true Joseph. Unless we are living what we talk, then what we are conveying to others can never be true.
It is not just the words that get conveyed when we talk. More impactful than what is said is the choice of energy we are running with which comes through our voice and in fact every movement. The full message others receive, cannot be anything other than what we have been living and walking.
When there seems to be a discrepancy in what we are receiving, we need to pay more attention to what is actually being conveyed and not what we are choosing to hear.
Yes, Dianne. I can certainly relate to the struggle of not meeting my own expectations based on false beliefs that kept me feeling inadequate. As you say, living in this way affects your thoughts, how you speak and move. Serge Benhayon shows us another way, free from the shackles of ideals and beliefs, and he moves through life with absolute joy and fullness.
When you walk your talk, you walk talks, as the quality of your presence can communicate volumes.
Hilarious yet true, Ariana. And that silence would be a good place for everyone to honestly tune in and feel what we humans have all been going along with for so long.
Beautiful Dianne “This is about accepting and appreciating that someone, a fellow human, a brother, is talking his walk for all of us to see and to know that it is possible for all of us to do too” Serge Benhayon is walking for all of us inspiring and showing the way of true love and who we are.
I have been writing and researching about walking your talk in relation to being able to offer self-management support/advice to people with chronic conditions. There is growing research and anecdotal evidence that says that patients are less likely to listen to someone who doesn’t walk the talk. This feels very important in healthcare, that we are the role models who through trial and error know how to support our bodies and share that.
Brilliant, Fiona. Walking can be such a great support, bringing us back into conscious presence and connection with our bodies, which no doubt is a wonderful tool for those with chronic conditions.
The way Serge Benhayon lives is already expressed by reflection in his walk before any words that then simply confirm what is already observed… this is inspiring for us all as we consider how many people we impact by the way we live.
We could say that we talk our walk in every way shape and form. So what is the quality we walk in everyday?
Inspired by this blog I got much more aware of how often my walk doesn’t match my talk. It is very exposing of various things. For one it shows that I know better but don’t follow my own inner knowing of what is true, that means I delay taking the responsibility to bring to life what is required for myself to be true and for everyone to contribute from. Secondly I pretend to be or live something that is mere knowledge and not truly inspiring by emanation and authenticity from the body.
Hear hear Dianne! This is an absolutely brilliant piece of wisdom that I recommend everyone read many times as it really delivers evolution. And as this blog says it all to comment on it somewhat seems to diminishes the complete package that has been delivered here but I will give it a go . . . It cannot be spelt out clearer than this. . “ . . .whatever state our body is really in, whatever the energy determining our choices, is what will govern what we say, how we look and how we behave.” . . . And this great understanding of what happens when we impose our ideas of how we ‘should’ be onto our body . . . “ In effect, we are fighting against the flow when we try to walk our talk from a body that is in a momentum out of sync with the true flow of the all.” Dianne also points the way out of this conundrum by using Serge Benhayon as the role model and the master of talking his walk by noting that Serge is . . . .” A man who continually commits to listening to his body and being guided by the truth it is expressing. So that if the body communicates (from universal knowing) that a food, a word, an action, or a movement feels to be out of alignment with the universe, he uses that awareness to make the next movement in the direction of alignment with the universe. Moment by moment, this builds a foundation from which the next thoughts and actions will come from the body, of a quality increasingly true.”
There is a sound to our movement that is felt and not heard, long before we open our mouths to speak. This means we are communicating far more than we realise by virtue of the way we move and the source of energy we have aligned to in order to do so. We could say that our very first movement (our ‘walk’) is the alignment to the source of energy that will then govern the way that we move (think, speak, act) with this being either in and with the love we are, or moving in a way that is at odds with this.
There is a strength, true power and authority that emanates from someone who talks their walk as Serge Benhayon reflects in every area of his life. AND we can all be this equally so.
When you’re actually walking your talk you do a lot less talking as the body says it all for you.
Ha ha Rachel – love it! Though so glad we have words in this life.
The simplicity and inspiration of what is offered in this article is properly cool – to continually commit to listen to our bodies and be guided by the truth they are expressing. Building a relationship and dialogue with our bodies that has the clarity and honesty to see us through all that life presents us with.
‘whatever state our body is really in, whatever the energy determining our choices, is what will govern what we say, how we look and how we behave’. Powerfully and so true. This is a stop moment to check in with our bodies, take stock, feel where they are at and allow the space for the body to communicate its wise guidance on any changes or small refinements needed to deepen the level of love and adoration for oneself.
What unfolds in the moment is if I talk my walk I get more and more honest concerning the movements which are not in my natural rythm which supports me to take stops and start anew with a different quality.
I agree Dianne, so many of us go through the “rollercoaster process” of trying to do many different things in life with no avail or long lasting effect and the reason why it doen’t work is because instead of trying we need to bring our focus to our movements which can be aligned to purpose and commitment to be more of who we are.
There is a way to live where every day can feel full and sustained; the key is to bring our full commitment into all we do.
True Abby – we can be committed to work, committed to our family or committed to success – but how many people are committed to themselves and the quality of what they bring to everything they do?
and that same quality remains consistent, that’s a biggy.
‘I could feel in those people an incredible tension of trying to constantly impose their philosophy onto their bodies according to their belief in what they thought was the right way. The effect was stilted speech, guarded demeanour, unresponsiveness to the energy or feeling of another person, second-guessing their own every word and move, and in effect living in a self-imposed ‘straitjacket’.’
I know this particular brand of straight jacket because I have worn it myself – even as student of the Esoteric. In this case it was self-imposed – wanting to be the dedicated student – rather than working at and with the level I was actually at or in line with what was actually being presented: seizing the knowledge in other words. A good case for keeping it real!
This ‘talking our walk’ can be quite a tricky concept for the normal human mind which is used to being separated (by us!) from the body it inhabits! That mind can be quite put out to realise that thought ad verbal expression come after movement! We are already either internally and universally attuned or in a momentum that we have adopted from the outside and it is this that determines the quality of thought and expression. A huge overturning of the illusion we live in.
The movement of wisdom has flow and transparency; every cell resonates with the truth.
Beautifully expressed, Victoria Picone. Describes Serge to a ‘T’.
I know whenever I have tried to stop a behaviour or pattern in my life that I have recognised as self abusive or destructive no amount of will power, mental commitment or thinking or reading about it has ever worked long term. The only thing that has worked so far is focusing on the quality of my everyday movements and therefore changing the flow or quality of energy in my body which has then cleared a space in my body and stopped the attraction or familiarity to go back into old patterns.
This is so true Andrew and great advice to us all who want to change behaviours and patterns.
Wow Awesome blog. Done with the trying, done with the talking, and now living from the one and only love which is naturally within.
I know that when a decision comes from my body it is absolute whereas wanting to improve coming from my head is always inconsistent.
I can see how suppressing emotions creates an unhealthy tension in the body – it’s like constantly trying to bury something that wants to bubble up. Not that I think indulging in emotion is healthy either but there is a way to be aware of what is coming up for us, to observe it so that we can get a deeper insight or understanding into why it is has come up and from that be more aware of how we are responding or reacting to the world…
Serge Benhayon is setting the standard for what it means to be authentic, reliable, responsible, true. An example and standard that shows what is possible for everyone and how it can be lived. Part of us may not like it as it asks us to step up the level of responsibility to walk our own talk (or knowing of what is true).
But it is, in our inner nature, exactly what we are looking for.
‘While we go about ‘in love with’ our own thoughts, making plans, philosophising about how we will be, our body is sitting there being a part of the one universe and knowing in its every particle how to be in that universe.’ We get so caught up in all the thinking, trying and doing in life forgetting that we can simply surrender into this knowing that resides in us all.
There is no finer example of a person walking his talk like Serge Benhayon! A true inspiration in every sense and meaning of the word!
I never met a man who walks his talk like Serge Benhayon, this man speaks a truth that many have forgotten.
It all begins with our movements – and from there we reflect who we are and to what we are aligned.
The gap between what we talk (or know) and what we walk (live by) is a kind of irresponsibility to delay becoming what we already know we will be or live one day. To walk the talk is responsibility and authenticity, a full commitment and bringing all that we are to life.
What a brilliant understanding of the game played by our minds without the truth and honesty of our bodies and all it shows us innately. I love this sharing that can make so much difference so simply as we have it all within us to” talk our walk” from our soul and the inspiration of Serge Benhayon and the way he lives helps support us with this lovingly.
‘What if the talking [i.e. our every expression] is coming from our bodies first, not our minds?’
Knowledge assists us to grasp concepts, understanding is developed from the lived experiences of ourselves and others.
Love it Dianne, and this is not the only thing we have got back to front! But getting this the correct way around by listening to our body and feeling from our hearts we can also talk our walk and we don’t even have to try we only need to connect to that which is within us all.
When something is said from the true light of the soul, there is a whole way of life being lived behind that moment, leading up to and then beyond it. A soul-full life leads to a soul-full expression, and this can never be only for self betterment or personal gain, it is always about the all that we are all a part of.
It is profound what you are saying here Andrew . . . and what Serge Benhayon has brought us in his Living Way. This beautiful blog and the many others that are on these websites are so valuable in helping to remind us that it is movement first and words second and that moment by moment awareness is the vital thing!
We communicate far more by the way we move than the way we speak. Therefore, if we want to speak what is true, we must first align ourselves with Truth and then move in and with it.
Yes, otherwise we can be saying words that sound good on the surface but the energy that is being communicated doesn’t match…
It just makes sense and this is indeed how I grew up, you did what someone did and not necessarily what they said. In other words you watched how they moved and knew that how they spoke came from that. If you liked the result they got then you simply moved the same way, same result. There is a lot of time and energy put on how you speak when in fact the dedication is to movement first that then results in what comes out. It doesn’t change my world but more return it to the point when I learned how not to do this.
Amazing revelation and clear explanation Dianne, that question make so much sense of not being able to overcome our ‘bad habits’ by mantra, affirmation or resolution! “What if we are in fact talking our walk in almost every moment of life? Another way to say this is that whatever state our body is really in, whatever the energy determining our choices, is what will govern what we say, how we look and how we behave.” We are fighting a losing battle when we continue to ignore the fact that it all comes from our body first and foremost.
Love what you have shared Dianne, and may I add that numerology and the way a true philosopher work hand in hand so they are used together then ‘the philosophies we hold and believe to be true and worthy, should be the way that we walk, i.e. the way that we live our life.’
‘This is about accepting and appreciating that someone, a fellow human, a brother, is talking his walk for all of us to see and to know that it is possible for all of us to do too.’ Gorgeous. Expressions of Love have no bounds, hence they can be felt by all.
Dianne, this is a brilliant, beautiful and insightful testament to Serge Benhayon and what it really means to ‘walk your talk’. And a great expose of how so many try to convince ‘so many’ that they are doing this, but how far from the truth of it they really are. Thank you.
Dianne how powerful what you share, this is beautiful to hear that we all have it in us to connect to our body and truly listen to it before walk. It is these simple movements will support our awareness to choose what is supportive to our body.
What so much of life is filled by is those that try so hard to walk what they think is good and right but so very few who live truth and then talk about their lived experience of that truth. Two very different ways of life and something that before meeting Serge Benhayon I was completely unaware of.
It is exhausting trying to live doing what we think is the right and the good thing to do, for me when I do this it comes from wanting to be accepted by others. Walking and living my truth means I need no one else yet by doing so am more connected to everyone than ever before!
Yes, two ways that appear closely aligned, but in truth are miles apart…if not further.
Focusing on the quality of our breath and our walk is a superb place to start in the journey of living our true values and qualities. Allowing our bodies to surrender to our natural rhythm and flow brings a steady quality of presence, a presence that supports us to be conscious of all our movements and empowers us to evolve.
It feels very rare the opportunity to truly feel what it is to meet someone who ‘Walks their talk’ in the fullness of their ‘Being’ and the fullness of their life. Serge Benhayon brings this reflection every moment of everyday so that we too will know that it is possible.
‘They were very committed to this and paid a lot of money to do the course, promoting it to all their friends as well. But, and this is a big but, I could feel in those people an incredible tension of trying to constantly impose their philosophy onto their bodies according to their belief in what they thought was the right way’ – this is an awesome point to have shared. I’m sure we’ve all been told or heard about things we can do to improve the way we are living ….. however, when we have such an investment in whatever it is that’s being shared being what we have been looking for, the secret key to life – that comes with enormous expectation and pressure. It makes it almost impossible for us to be open to feeling whether it feels true for us or not. We may completely override whatever our bodies are telling us as we are so invested in the outcome that it’s more important for it to be the answer, than for us to know the truth.
I am reminded by this that ‘we are then answer’ rather than there being a need to create a solution. The answer is already innate in us all equally. It is our very beingness.
Indeed Alison. I have seen so many of these ‘secret keys to life’ offered over the years, stuff that friends have done, invited me to, etc. But I see that none of them are still doing those ‘methods’. Too hard, too untrue, too unsustainable. After all those, what a breath of fresh air to meet Serge Benhayon, have a great role model, consistent and reliable, who does life with so much ease in purpose, and no pushing against the body!
It is so much more powerful to share the way that we live with another through the power of reflection. Energetically, our bodies naturally pick up on everything that is being expressed from everyone around them. When we talk about how we are living, the first obstacle is our mind, if we don’t like what is being shared, we may just block and dismiss what someone is saying. However, if we have deeply felt, even if we’re not totally aware of this, the quality of how someone is moving, when they talk about the way they live, we can instantly feel the truth in what is being shared as we have already felt it from their ‘walk’, so their words are confirming and explaining what we have already felt for ourselves.
Yes, I agree, Alison. I have also noticed that I learn a lot from simply being around people – there is huge inspiration in observing the quality of how people move, work, cook, drive, eat… no words required.
‘Talking our walk’ is not only much more honest but leaves the body to express from its truth without the impositions of the mind, however ‘good’ these intentions might me – which either end up as a rigidity and unnaturalness or in sentiments of guilt and failure.
This impact of honouring our innate wisdom and truth is beyond words… as Serge Benhayon presents every day in the way he lives – with himself and all others.
Body language is far more powerful than what we say… we clock movement way before someone speaks, and when the two don’t match, we feel the lie that is in front of us.
This article shows how there can be a great deal of control that we can assert over our bodies, making them move according to what is going on in our heads. What is beautiful to see in Serge Benhayon is how surrendered he is to his body, when he moves it is like silk passing through air, he leaves not a ripple behind him as he authoritatively makes his way across a room.
Oh Shami, speaking of ripples! Being committed to walking true from my body has produced some beautiful results. If one of my movements is made not present in my body, mind disconnected from body for a moment, for example during putting down a cup or brushing my hair, I can suddenly feel the ripples of my energy fan out, disruptive. Everything else will be affected, so there’s responsibility. Here’s the corker: the fact that I can feel the ripples, means they have already rippled back to me and are affecting me. So the very first thing we hurt with our un-flowing, un-present movements is usually ourselves! But also, the immediate feeling of the ripples speaks to my body directly, like: hey there Dianne (my ‘head’) where are you? Why isn’t your mind right there with your body on what you’re doing? Why was that movement a bit rough or careless, not the silky presence you are capable of? With that immediate ripple-feedback I’ll come back to myself right away, because it feels yuk to be disconnected from myself, and infinitely yum to be connected! A work in progress by a very imperfect being, but I’m so appreciative of the awareness.
“Have you ever observed business leaders, lifestyle coaches, politicians, teachers, etc., who stand up and present (‘talk’) about ‘the best way to do it’ from the superior position of being a model of what they are talking, only to discover that in the day-to-day truth (‘walk’) of their private lives off stage, they do not live up to what they speak?” Yes I have Dianne and unfortunately this is the way it is most of the time. That’s why true teachers in whatever area of life they present in, are absolute gold.
I’e been really inspired by this blog to feel this in practice having so related to trying to impose a way of being on my body having ignored and discounted the truth of how I have to been living up to that point. So I’ve gone for walks with the openness to allow myself to feel actually how I am walking. What I discovered was ideals of how I would like to walk and constraining what my movements would have been had I just allowed them to express into what I thought was acceptable and contained.
Even though it was in public I said to myself it didn’t matter what other’s thought of me if my walk was funny, I just had to let it be and feel what movements I had allowed in my body. And yes, there were odd bits of energy that showed in a discombobulated way but the more I just allowed them to release the more my body came back to itself and its natural flow. There was even a moment of sexiness!
The Lifestyle development group that you mention Andrew is very typical of all of us who want to improve and better life, we know that there is something more, and something greater but we use the old materials and energies with which we ‘try’ to construct it instead of moving back to who we truly are – Sons of God.
“All we need do is open to the possibility that we have had it back to front all our lives, and that with this simple heartfelt commitment to listen to our bodies, to listen to our hearts, and to move in accordance with their communications (which come from the universe via our souls), then we too can walk and talk the joy-full life of grace, wisdom, harmony, brotherhood and unlimited love that we know is our true living way.” – How beautifully expressed. It is telling us in the most gentle and loving way that we’ve got the answers inside and that we’re to take responsibility for the way we are with our body and with our hearts.
There is something very significant missed when we use the phrase walk our talk. It suggests that we can talk ourselves into how we live. I thought this for a long time and would get very frustrated when this theory simply did not work, at least not for long. I used to think this meant there was something wrong with my resolve and I had try harder!
However thank goodness, I met Serge Benhayon and started to understand that there are two different sources of energy and how it is an actual science to how our choices of alignment affects us on an ongoing basis. We can all feel when something is not quite right with what is presented and that is why so many of us see Serge Benhayon as a great role model of what it should be like. Because it is not about the words I or anyone else uses, and it is not about anyone looking like they have a great walk, but what energy is actually being lived, magnified and expressed.
We can sense what people present to us as they share what it is they are saying. Be it a presenter, a friend, a work colleague or family before they are even opening their mouths we can feel what is going on. So when I meet a man like Serge Benhayon and feel and hear what he presents I know it is true. Dianne thanks for really breaking down with such clarity the precise understanding of ‘Talking your Walk’.
Such a beautiful offering to consider – what if? What if we don’t lead our lives by our minds dictations but from the bodies knowing and livingness – allowing ourselves to present and express in life from the quality we actually feel/experience and live on a day to day basis within ourselves, something we can choose to connect back to
This is great to really stop and ponder on, as our body really does speak the truth, yet our minds take us on a goose chase. What I am finding is we can only really come to connect to this wisdom when we can appreciate that it comes from the connection to our stillness via listening to our body.
When you meet the ‘real deal’ of somebody walking and living love to the nth degree (without perfection) we can either be inspired by this or react from a jealously of missing feeling that within ourselves.
When I observe jealousy, my impulse is to say: feel, look, be inspired and move in that inspiration for yourself! Why sit simmering in jealousy when you have a fellow human right in front of you showing you how to be with yourself in joy, love and light, for free too!
Walking your talk seems to me like do as I say not as I do, where as talking your walk feels like an invitation, an inspiration.. from a lived way.
I agree it’s very less imposing and more inviting, for people to feel to try it. It often gets my back up when I am dictated too, but when there is an offering I am more likely to try in in my time.
We are quite used to seeing the inconsistencies of how people live because we live it too; it is what we know as normal until Serge Benhayon comes along and presents a different way. He shows how it is possible to live a consistent life and his movements confirm this with his walk, his talk, his whole being working as one. An incredible example and role model to us all.
Absolutely. In fact, it was while observing Serge Behayon on stage one day, that I suddenly realized he was ‘talking his walk’. It was one of those ‘aha!’ moments that soaked right in and made a living difference for me. I could feel and see the flow, the ease, the effortless truth of his every movement. I know I am capable of living, moving and speaking like that too, from my body, orienting myself to my true way. And started writing this blog right then and there in my seat, knowing I had to share it!
No matter how we are walking through life this is what we will communicate when we open our mouths to speak. If we want to talk a different way we need to walk a different way first before these words will actually be true.
When I notice that I am talking in a hard way I can focus on the quality of my walk and the quality of my voice changes because I have realigned myself and brought myself back to being whole again and not fragmented which is what the hardness is indicating.
Humanity has become very adept at living what is not true through our movements and thoughts. Bringing back a realisation that this is the case is the first step to reconnecting to that which is true.
When we begin to look at life from an energetic point of view first and foremost with the understanding and awareness of the different qualities of Soul and Spirit, we can truly embark on the first steps of learning how to ‘talk our walk.’
When we express what we truly feel rather than just what we think we need, people can feel the authority in our voice because we are expressing with our whole body.
And we are not trying to convince others to listen to what we are saying nor are we justifying, both of which can be deadly and impose upon the other person. It is amazing when we drop all thought of what another person may say and just express in full and I get blown away by the conversations I have with people I have never met before and even with those I know go to another level because I am not trying to get to somewhere or make a point which allows for divinity to play and then the magic really happens!
Ideals are very attractive as it looks simple to apply them and they can make us feel good. However, they are by definition not true and hence force us to deny a larger or smaller part of ourselves and that is unsustainable, hence the contradictions.
I thank you Dianne for this clear and concise sharing. I appreciate you bringing to our attention that perhaps we have been doing the opposite of what is needed in our evolution and that instead, we need to talk our walk as modelled by the way Serge Benhayon lives. He is indeed a great example to us all!
When walking your talk is used in business, fitness, personal development etc it often seems to be used as a way of motivating people and creating hype around whatever they are selling. It’s used like a carrot to say, “look at what I have and if you do as I did you can have it too.” Serge Benhayon has never sold or rah-rahed what he is presenting. There is a simplicity and factuality to how he presents because it simply is the truth that every cell in his body knows (not believes) and he knows that we all know it too, whether we are wanting to or not. This is very confirming of what we already know within ourselves and there is nothing really to learn or acquire. It also leaves you with lots of space to consider and not feel pushed into anything. He simply presents and it is up to us if we embrace it or not.
So true, Fiona. And I love the way Serge Benhayon says not to just take his word for it, but to become students of ourselves.
If I feel into how we commonly use the phrase “walking the talk”, I feel a lot of hardness, a lot of discipline. From a base that isn’t loving, caring and supporting at all. It is in fact very empty, very judgmental and always from some kind of picture that we’re striving for. Which means that it is very harming, even though it’s sold and often experienced as encouraging and positive. Sharing from ourselves, simply for the sake of sharing our lived experiences in life feels very real and loving, without anything imposing or expecting. Isn’t this a whole different way?
Walking implies that your talk comes first and then your body follows. But as Serge Benhayon shows us in life, movements comes first. So therefore move first (walk).
So very true – however hard it may be for the mind to comprehend. We want to think we think but don’t – so no more thinking we can think ourselves out of a situation rather now have the opportunity to move our way forth.
The mind doesn’t want to understand that movement comes first. It is indeed very hard, if not impossible for the mind to realise this. It is something our bodies know but because we have given the precedence to the mind, we grapple with it.
I don’t think the mind will ever comprehend that it does not in fact think it is purely a receiver for energy. The more we see our bodies as the vessels for energy which they are the more we will see how important it is which energy we align to and that our choices are then a result of this.
Yep, body first. In the study of the nervous system and brain it’s been shown that our ‘thinking’ is up to one fortieth of a second behind the actual present! Our bodies are ‘onto it’ before our minds. Why would we want to respond to out of date information from thoughts when we can be right on the mark by listening to and moving from our whole body?
Having pondered on this powerful blog I no longer believe that it’s actually possible to walk your talk in truth, it’s only possible to contort your walk temporarily to appear as if you are.
Alexis it feels to me that first you walk in a true and loving way from your body, and the talk coming from your body is thus true and loving. THEN, you keep walking, and it is a continuation of the same truth you walked and spoke before, so only that way do you come to ‘walk your talk’ in truth. There’s that extra step (no pun intended) that gets you past the mental impositions.
Ooh Dianne it feels like a building snowball of love, I’m up for that!
I like what you share here about people having a sense of the higher truer self, we know that we are from something grand and immense because everything around us shows us this, when we look to nature and the universe.
I have found this to be true Susan but in order not to feel the disappointment of that I too have found myself compromising what I know to be true and speaking from my head in the past. It has been the inspiration of Universal Medicine courses and having role models such as Serge Benhayon that have supported me to even question this way of living as not normal. I have been one to encourage people to walk their talk but can clearly see it is completely the other way round if we want to ease the tension that comes from feeling and seeing people live one way and espouse another.
“we attempt to impose it upon ourselves from our thoughts based on a system of adopted beliefs in whatever arena of life we are considering.” If we observe without beating ourselves up, we can see that this is, indeed the case. There is a tension when we talk what we ‘in theory’ know but do not live.
I am totally inspired by Serge Benhayon, he consistently talks his walk in every way. I am also meeting lots of people who are equally inspired too, to live a more gentle and loving way.
It is so much easy to relate and listen to someone who you know has walked through and risen above something you may be struggling with.
For me it is because it comes from their whole body rather than just an idealised notion in their head. It is inspiring because you are supported with, ok I know where you are and how you may be feeling but you also are and know love so can return to it, you just need to choose it in full. It then overshadows any of the struggle and doubts you may be having. Words alone I find just bounce off and it does not really induce any true change in another.
Walking our talk is more powerful than anything we say that hasn’t been lived.
Serge absolutely does this in every facet of his life with all people. ‘walking their talk’ in practice.’
Talking your walk brings a graceful simplicity to life, as it requires enormous presence and bodily connection in every moment. It does not allow for the usual emotional and mental complications we like to indulge in and our general tendency to live in the past and future all at the same time. It is a true breath of fresh air when you meet someone who is talking with their bodies first and words later.
Yes, we can simply be ourselves and that is easier than any of the alternatives.
So true -as we re-connect to the body, the old movement of pushing through life like a ‘bull in a china shop’ begins to change to gentleness, then the innate tenderness and delicateness begins to arise from within the body and the movements are more fluid and filled with grace.
The real beauty of our Communication with our bodies and moving from their that is from the universe itself is something walked by Serge Benhayon and his reflection of this is the inspiration for us all in commitment joyfulness and love.
It does not make sense that we have a situation where we allow our minds to act on thoughts contrary to the wellbeing and communication form our bodies and yet that is how the majority of people live the majority of the time. making the choice to live from your body first is simple and exposes the patterns of behaviour we have held in order to remain dominated by our thoughts.
I love the suggestion of walking the talk as it can reveal that not all talks can be walked in harmony and stillness but that if the body is truly felt and understood and when we are connected to our body, only then the talk can come from the body thats to say we are able to talk the walk.
When someone talks their walk we feel a natural trusted feeling with them. It is very true that our movements offer the biggest reflection to others. Everything that we have lived up till now is embodied in all of our body movements.
I would certainly agree that I have had many things ‘back to front’ in life and believing that the body was nothing more than a vessel for the mind was one of those things. What is shared here is true in my experience. In connection with the body it is possible to reconnect to innate wisdom…and to ‘talk this walk’ naturally.
“Talking His Walk” – not only does Serge Benhayon talk his walk, he’s designed his (co)walk with the universe that makes Serge the universal man he is.
I’ve had images of what I think I should or should not eat and have continually failed to match up to my own expectations. I am learning instead to feel all the ways I can respect my body more, from gentle exercise to nourishing foods.
I so agree, Carmel. I remember the dilemma I felt in what to have for breakfast when I gave up eating gluten, because I was restricting my options to widely accepted breakfast foods. However, when I let go of those pictures and allowed myself an open pantry so many options presented themselves; soup, salad, stir fry greens, my famous egg, turmeric, spinach & spring onion pattie …. the list goes on and on. I really enjoy creating new dishes depending on what I have in the fridge and what I am feeling to eat.
Yes to feeling from the body more and letting go of those pictures of how things should look!
“…What if the talking [i.e. our every expression] is coming from our bodies first, not our minds? …” Good question, as we know, body language speaks louder than words.
Could we say that ‘walking your talk’ is like ‘eating what we think we want to eat’, whereas, ‘talking our walk’ is ‘eating what we feel to eat’.
“we go about ‘in love with’ our own thoughts, making plans, philosophising about how we will be” – It’s so true that often we’re so engrossed fantasising about how things ‘could be’, that we lose sight of what’s really going on in the present and our potential to be amazing in every moment!
I was walking in London yesterday and looked up at the top of the buildings; amazing architecture, detail, expression and variation on almost every single building – so much to wonder at and enjoy and appreciate in that very moment. Yet most of Londoners are walking around, heads down, plugged into their phones, driving towards the future, engrossed in their existences. It’s a left field example of what you are talking about Susie. We, and everything, can be amazing in every moment.
Each thought that we have, each plan that we make and each philosophy that we hold takes us away from the all that we already are.
and it is very difficult to move freely or be joyful in a ‘straitjacket’.
Over 13 years I have watched and oberseved Serge Benhayon and I can honestly say not once have I seen him out of sync and not walking in a way that is deeply honouring of what he is presenting. From this steady and consistent way of living I have been able to trust and feel that what he is presenting is the absolute truth. I have been deeply inspired by Serge and what he walks and talks and have so much appreciation for him for laying a path that is showing us anyone can choose and live what he is presenting. Its only a choice.
It’s a form of teaching that lasts forever.
Many years ago there was a wave of popularity in the new age around affirmations. Kind of fake it till you make it. Where you would repeat over and over in your head or write down what you wished to be or achieve. A bit like when you were kept back in school for mucking up and you had to write 100 times what you were not going to do anymore. Of course none of this worked, as it was often a mental exercise without the embodiment or true connection.
I remember trying affirmations Victoria and I could feel the falseness of it. The words felt empty and I couldn’t connect to them but I still kept trying because everyone else was doing them and they seemed very positive about it but if I had been honest with myself it didn’t feel true and I am sure I could feel they weren’t talking their walk, but I didn’t have the understanding that I have now.
Our bodies are communicating everything about us, even before we open our mouths. It we are talking from our heads without being connected with our bodies it lacks a flow and congruence.
Serge Benhayon is a living prayer, his talk is a prayer in activity which is a reflection of his walk, which is a prayer in activity. Divinity in motion.
Talking your walk is exactly the opposite of the tendency I experience in life: manipulating, controlling and imposing ourselves and each other. No one truly wants this. Our nature is the exact opposite. How blessed are we that there’s a man living just like us, lighting the way forth. Reflecting back to us that we are able to make different choices, that we are indeed loving beings and that we are able to heal ourselves. Day by day. Everyone in their way, at their own pace. Why not accepting this as a common foundation on which to build our societies all around the world. All the people who also chose this philosophy for themselves are much better off than before. Thank you Serge Benhayon and so many other students from life for evolving together.
Yep, I know this too from observing Serge Benhayon over many years and being inspired by his example. Learning to feel everything from my own body has been absolutely life changing. The beauty is it is naturally there for all of us as a choice, to be or not to be.
It is never about the ideals we are believing in and striving for but our everyday living, factually our every move. This can be beautifully observed with children, especially when they are young, they do not repeat what we say to them but act on, or rather imitate, what we are truly living, our moves and daily deeds.
If we walk Love than we can only be loving with others.
You can tell if a person walks his talk by the way they move their body. What I have noticed is that there is a flow and you can feel the power, authority and absolute sacredness with not one single ounce of imposition when they walk by, and as they pass I always get a healing.
and it’s just a form of protection…
People can’t ‘walk their talk’ because they are in fact not ‘talking their walk’! Nothing but ‘the real thing’ works – no matter how fancily one can express in words.
Medical professional often show another example of those who do not walk their talk, often making unhealthy choices in their own lives. To me they are obviously doing this against what they know, we have to ask why? It is not what we know that enables us to make truly healthy choices but a connection to a living way based on being the love we are.
Me too, Michael. I used to question my medical colleagues about the schism between what they knew and advised their patients, and how they lived themselves. I loved them, so of course I could not but bring that schism to their attention. And some of them only needed that gentle heads-up to bring in healthy changes. However nowadays with what I have learned by observing Serge Benhayon, I know that I can simply keep walking my true walk, be the example with no fuss or desire for recognition, let the people in my life feel it and do what they will with the information. If they are ready, they’ll walk it themselves, or even ask about it. My mum did, she noticed, felt the difference in me; she wanted to know what had changed, what was I doing, and began to enjoy being present in her own body too.
I know the state of my body, especially my posture can make a big difference to the kind of thoughts that I have – consider the difference we can feel and have in our mind between slouching or standing up tall!
Yes that is a great practical example that is easy to relate to. When we move in a quality of gentleness for example our bodies become familiar with feeling lovely, and to move in a way that doesn’t honour this then feels disruptive. The quality of energy that we are moving in is what we are magnifying through out our body everyday. Our body is very wise.
Until I met Serge Benhayon I never really understood the real meaning of ‘walking your talk’ and bizarrely enough should anyone have asked me I would have said I was doing it, living a healthy life style and so on because everything was in ‘moderation’. Today I know that the walk begins with the quality of our breathing, connecting to and living from our innately respectful values, observing and responding to life, de-cluttering our selves from beliefs, indulgences and attachments along the way. No perfection but a true willingness to evolve, a return to our natural expression.
When we go against our bodies, so too do we go against the Universe, which makes it easy to understand why things like diets and get fit regimes are utterly futile.
The trick is to be exactly where the body is at. To fully accept where it is and from that place of acceptance and surrender to allow it to lead the way back to the soul. Unfortunately most of us spend a few hundred lifetimes trying to drag the body from the front of us and like a reluctant donkey it doesn’t want to budge.
‘Suppression of emotions’, another example of force within the body. We spend so much time fighting our own bodies and therefore fighting life itself. Once we allow our bodies to lead the way then so too are we allowing life to lead the way.
Dianne on reading “perceived scale of goodness or worthiness against which we measure ourselves”, it really brought it home to me that these fictitious scales exist throughout all areas of our lives and we are constantly measuring ourselves against them. What that then gives us is a completely arbitrary marker for where we imagine ourselves to be. We then base how we feel about ourselves and others on that made up marker. Crazy isn’t it ?
Yes, crazy made-up marker. One glimpse at a bone-thin fashion model on a catwalk would be enough to show you how harmful these fictitious scales are!
When someone talks about how they are living, if what they are expressing is absolute truth, we can feel it in our own bodies, it can inspire us to look at our own lifestyle and from there we can choose to change or not.
‘…according to their belief in what they thought was the right way.’ the opposite being the total simplicity of simply presenting from what you are already living and know from experience.
“All we need do is open to the possibility that we have had it back to front all our lives, and that with this simple heartfelt commitment to listen to our bodies, to listen to our hearts, and to move in accordance with their communications (which come from the universe via our souls), then we too can walk and talk the joy-full life of grace, wisdom, harmony, brotherhood and unlimited love that we know is our true living way.” – Are we walking with our head or are we walking with the body in full expression…awesome ponderings Dianne, and thank you!
I love the terms being used here: “Walking your talk” and “Talking your walk”…
Both sayings are very powerful and for many years I have felt how much the “walking your talk” saying has guided me in my life in many great ways – I have learned to check in with myself and not be a hypocrite and advise or tell others to do things that I don’t do – I have always found it annoying when someone tells me what to do but they have not embraced this in their life at all – what I can sense is a lack of authority in what the person is advising. So this I can see as being quite straight forwards and easy to understand. But then once this has been understood, I feel comes the next step, where you then reverse the saying and you talk your walk…in other words your walk and the way you move is actually a greater indicator or the quality of what you are expressing verbally. So the key here is to hold an exquisitely natural and extraordinary way of being and moving which one has through the connection with Soul, and hence talking our walk takes one a new meaning, and takes expression to a new level.
I have come to realise recently that I have been trying to walk to the tune of my talking, all from the head especially with food. Time and time again I have heard Serge Benhayon say never to try and eat how he does and how his food choices evolved from his relationship with his body as it has aligned more and more to the vibrations of the universe. Yet I couldn’t get my head round that, for as you say Diane, so many of us only know the way of trying to control what we eat from the mind. Now I am experimenting with allowing myself to eat things I have been denying myself for a few years. The result — I feel so much more relaxed and with myself and I know very soon, as my body tells me, when something is out of harmony with the universal flow, because I have allowed space and surrendered to what is happening in the present moment.
We do impose so much onto our bodies rather than listening to what our bodies are offering us. When we use our mind as a way of controlling our life and our bodies we are actually losing control and then we go into more forced patterns and routines in order to feel in control. Totally weird -if only we listen to our bodies in the first place control would dissipate and we would actually be “talking our walk” in all aspects of our life.
‘Have you ever observed business leaders, lifestyle coaches, politicians, teachers, etc., who stand up and present (‘talk’) about ‘the best way to do it’ from the superior position of being a model of what they are talking, only to discover that in the day-to-day truth (‘walk’) of their private lives off stage, they do not live up to what they speak?’ Quite often I discern people in leadership positions who do the talk but it is not backed up by a living quality from their bodies. The crazy thing is we think we can get away with saying one thing but living another without others noticing!
I’ve done this too Michelle but there is no getting away with it as it can be clearly felt when it has not been lived.
‘Moment by moment, this builds a foundation from which the next thoughts and actions will come from the body, of a quality increasingly true’.. just take a moment to feel how life could and would be if we approached it in this way.. as a start we would become even more loving as adults than we were as children.
How different everything feels when someone is living from ‘talking their walk’. Serge Benhayon constantly lives and expresses this fullness of harmony and flow in every movement and action. It is palpable and oh so real and true. How blessed we are to have a reflection from a true role model exposing the vast difference between talking the walk and walking the talk.
Serge Benhayon is the absolute bestest role model EVER and such a true inspiration to many.
Serge Benhayon leads and this comes from a lived way, he does not just talk about it, he instead lives everything he says.
I often react when I can feel someone talking what they have not yet chosen to live and I realise this doesn’t support anyone when I react because it feeds the falseness that exists. Whereas if I choose to hold them in love it naturally and effortless exposes the falseness.
It is truly inspiring to observe the aligned expression of Serge Benhayon in every aspect of his life. He is committed to being in the flow of life and expressing from his body so that anything he says is in line with the Plan. It is palpable to feel and offers a loving reflection for all in a world where this is so far from the norm.
There is such a massive difference when we talk about something we know or we’ve learnt, and when we talk about something we actually LIVE every single day, when we talk what we walk it’s alive and it has a real richness to it that is incredibly inspiring, whereas when we talk about something we just know in our minds it’s very dry and flat – I guess you could say it’s the difference between talking from what our body has experienced, lived and walked and from talking from what our mind has imagined or memorised.
Brilliant Dianne, the way ‘walking the talk’ is typically used it’s got an aspirational feel, of searching and maybe one day ‘being something’ or someone. What I get from the way you describe ‘talking the walk’ is a super clear picture of how the movements we choose effortlessly translate into everything we say. It’s not something we have to strive for – it just naturally happens this way. And so if we wish our words to be fluent and wise all we need to do is make our every move true.
Serge Benhayon is a bright light in the dark when it comes to living our innate qualities and values, a person who is showing us by example the way out of our conundrums, a way that is up to us to implement in our lives when we choose to live from the same inner integrity, respect and appreciation.
‘This is about accepting and appreciating that someone, a fellow human, a brother, is talking his walk for all of us to see and to know that it is possible for all of us to do too.’ This is the re-markable nature of Serge Benhayon: he shares all in a way that says I am equal to you, we are all the same, everything I am, you are also. Few teachers live this truth.
I recall a time when I was asked by a fellow ‘devotee’ about the integrity of a guru who encouraged her to donate her full student grant to the ashram rather than return it to the institution, as she wasn’t going to complete the course. I had mixed feelings at the time, knew what was right, but allowed other thoughts and my attachment to the guru to overwhelm truth. I failed to acknowledge the opportunity presented to see the full picture and the lie. Encouraging a young woman in dishonesty should have been a marker to see the Guru herself was dishonest.
‘A man who expresses every word, thought, and action from the truth of his body’ Beautiful to behold in Serge Benhayon and be inspired by, quite different to live it ourselves.
I have spent 40 years working for two different country’s governments, 20 years each. I have had many jobs during that time, where managers talked and walked the company line. They were minions maintaining the policy. I, somehow had a knowing like the Zen saying; ‘it is better to bend with the wind rather than be the stick and snap’; that is what allowed me to exist in these environments, being myself. When we talk the walk, it comes from having lived life rather than just obeyed the rules, and it can be felt.
“While we go about ‘in love with’ our own thoughts, making plans, philosophising about how we will be, our body is sitting there being a part of the one universe and knowing in its every particle how to be in that universe.” This is great to read because I have done this so many times, thinking about how I would be a better version of myself but with that ignoring where my body was at thus it being totally unrealistic and set up to fail. Yet beginning from how our body feels and what it is communicating about how we are living is a much simpler way to go. It is great to realise how the mind seeks something that will identify itself, something to boast about at what it can do, but the body just is and it is about learning to be with that simplicity.
Thanks, Dianne. The more responsibility I take for the quality I live in day to day, the more obvious it becomes that how someone lives behind closed doors can easily be discerned by observing their physical movements…the body reveals all.
I find it easy to live ahead of myself, regurgitating knowledge and learned beliefs of how to act. But I have a deep understanding now that it is far more powerful and fulfilling to share only what you live, as anything outside of this is hollow and disingenuous.
Revisiting this blog again this morning it is clear to me that it is often the case in life that there is incongruence between what is said and what is reflected by the body. We have become accustomed to paying great heed to the words people say but in reality it is our bodies that reveal the truth of the matter. We may deny the truth of the body, but it cannot it seems be hidden from view.
If we can’t walk our talk, then we are walking a different talk. Would honesty be the acknowledgement of which talk we are in-truth walking?
I’m with you there, Christoph!
“This is about accepting and appreciating that someone, a fellow human, a brother, is ‘talking his walk’ for all of us to see and to know that it is possible for all of us to do too.” Beautifully said Dianne… this takes away all the ideals and beliefs that justify our choice to not ‘talk our walk’ – like he is special, judgments on ourselves, its too hard, etc – and brings the responsibility back to us… and that it is simply a choice.
I love what you present here Dianne… “That everything we say – our posture, our actions, all our expressions – are coming from the actual current state of our bodies?” The depth of truth and honesty that would prevail – everywhere in life – if we all expressed in this way would be incredible.
“The mind can take on any thoughts or system of belief and attempt to impose it on the body. Our minds can decide how we are to move, eat, speak, write, relate to others, etc. But if this is coming from outside of our bodies [and thoughts do indeed come from outside of our bodies, despite a deeply held belief among the majority of modern reductionist scientists], then what those thoughts are asking our body to do may be in contradiction to where our bodies are at and what they are capable of doing in their present state”
This is revolutionary because the mind is seen as so important and sometimes so much more than the body. To contemplate that thoughts come from outside the body turns everything on its head.
‘we attempt to impose it upon ourselves from our thoughts based on a system of adopted beliefs in whatever arena of life we are considering.’ and this doesn’t work, because we have not ’embodied’ the way of life, we are merely thinking we should, it is not based on self love.
It never made sense to me, when I was into the spiritual new age, that the men and women who deemed themselves ‘enlightened’ or ‘shamans’ had the most dysfunctional lives. Their children hated them, they had unstable relationships and no real or committed job. Now I see that the new age spiritual movement is actually an escape from life and total illusion of what is true and what is not.
There was always something about the spiritual new age that never felt right to me. I didn’t know what I was sensing – it just felt untrue. What has been exposed here is exactly why this is so – there is a very large and gaping discrepancy between what is said and how one actually lives – the two simply don’t marry up.
Thank you Dianne, with this there is a determination towards everyone having the equal authority over what is happening within our own bodies.
I have recently become more accepting of where I am in my unfolding. I have been opening up to accepting the values I already offer and dropping the self-judgment about those areas that I am still developing. It has been immensely empowering to cut down the striving towards an ideal and instead sensing my walk at this point in my life and owning that as my current talk.
This acceptance is so important, Golnaz. It is a continuous development and we sure can’t judge ourselves for where we are at. That would just be the old way all over again.
Looking at the world as it is now, it’s hard to imagine that we are returning to a time in our history when we shall all be talking our walk and the only words coming out of our lips will be to do with love because love is what we’re gonna be walking with every step that we’re going to be taking.
Yay to that day! How about sooner rather than later!
This is such a great blog Dianne. So many questions to ponder –
Does our mouth match our movements? Is all that we live in accordance with all that we speak with no gap in between? And whom do we listen to first? Is it the renegade mind that when unleashed from our physical form and left to wander on its own, dictates to the body to move in accordance with its separation from it so that we become polarised within ourselves in the ‘mind versus body’ sense, or do we allow the Universal Intelligence within our every pore to impulse forth a movement that is in tune with this and thus impulse the mind to think in accordance with this order and flow?
To not live a life of love in full is quite a thing to admit for most of us. That is one of the reasons I feel that we struggle with talking our walk. If we would simply be completely honest, from the connection with our body, life would be much more simple – much more loving indeed. This is what I find very precious about Serge Benhayon. That he’s completely honest and transparent in the way he lives his life and simply shares this. An amazing inspiration indeed.
This blog is staying with me as I go about my day. At first I didn’t quite get it, like I could feel it was revelatory and profound whilst being very simple, but I haven’t quite embodied its wisdom. Though with each reading the part of me that I’ve let tell me I’m rubbish for not following what I know I should do and impose that knowledge on me is less loud.
The word alignment is coming to the fore. The body is like a divine compass, always knowing one’s true path back to living who we truly are. And the way I’ve hampered this constant communication is by throwing poison into the body to give it a false reading, when even then it keeps coming back to itself, re-organising its particles to the true order of the universe. Writing this I realise there is nothing not to trust and surrender to. This inner knowing my body has of everything, every decision to be made. That in the same way I don’t have to think to have blood pump around my body and I trust my body to do this for me naturally, what if I also don’t have to go into my head to make a decision about say, the pros and cons of doing a particular course or not, my body will have a response, a knowing. What that response is is for me to be able to listen clearly and discern whether it is a response, or a reaction to a thought…
“So that if the body communicates (from universal knowing) that a food, a word, an action, or a movement feels to be out of alignment with the universe, he uses that awareness to make the next movement in the direction of alignment with the universe.” I love this sharing as it makes making a change easier, it is not saying we are wrong (as I usually think) but it says ‘hey this is not in accordance with the universe and it is not making you feel light, you deserve more’. Totally turns everything around.
When we look at it this way “In effect, we are fighting against the flow when we try to walk our talk from a body that is in a momentum out of sync with the true flow of the all” it is not so much a wonder that our bodies can end up in pain from the distortion caused by going against a flow, that it is naturally attuned to.
“…What if we are in fact talking our walk in almost every moment of life?..” Great point, as when you think about it, the momentum created from a movement of our body, propels the next step to be taken, which flows on into our thoughts and choices… quite a feedback loop really!.
Movement is everything, we often neglect it, but how we move, what we choose in life ripples out everywhere. Movements first and from that we express, this makes sense.
‘everything we say – our posture, our actions, all our expressions – are coming from the actual current state of our bodies?’ this is important to note and, like you say elsewhere in this article, if we use willpower to stop eating something we know is not good for us, sooner or later we will give in. The choices and decisions we make come when we are ready, when we have totally embodied a different way of being.
Carmel, you express this well and made me smile. Until we have embodied a different way of being, old patterns and choices repeat themselves. Change comes first from the body, not the mind.
Integrity = living who you are and speaking from that, not from where you once were or hope you will be.
Talking your walk is the only way to true health, vitality and genuine joy. How can we ever expect something to change if we do not live it first?
I don’t know much about lifestyle coaches or Gurus, what I do know is I have a natural ability to feel who is genuine and who isn’t and when I was younger I would dismiss what my body was telling me and run with my mind building pictures of what life would be like as I went along with it down the road to disaster. Now I make every attempt to listen to my body if it doesn’t feel comfortable then I wont do anything, I’m still getting caught up in my mind but it’s less and less as I have discovered for myself that for me my mind is the enemy within.
Dianne the power and honesty that comes from talking from what ones lives spans every aspect of life, when I was a kid I would hear adults saying things but doing the opposite, it was one of the contributing factors to a huge amount of frustration and anger that I built up for their was no truth in it. How great would it be for us to talk from what we live and in that reflect a real level of honesty to the next generation and to each other?
This makes total sense, for how can you talk about anything if you don’t live it first?
Both feel completely different, I know when I try to talk about something that has not been lived first it feels ‘substanceless’, rather than speaking of a lived experience which is spoken from the whole body, and feels very full.
Yes, I have experienced this too. I find it is more supportive to be honest about what is going on, how I am living instead of trying to portray a different picture that does not match the truth. Being honest with myself often helps me understand things/life with more clarity. It brings in opportunities to learn and grow.
This is a great metaphor for the split between mind and body also. If it’s not embodied it cannot be truly lived it remains as knowledge, cut off from the movements of the body.
“The effect was stilted speech, guarded demeanour, unresponsiveness to the energy or feeling of another person, second-guessing their own every word and move, and in effect living in a self-imposed ‘straitjacket’.” This was how I lived for most of of my life until I met Serge Benhayon, it looked polished on the outside but there was an emptiness of trying to be someone I was not and living so much less than my true essence.
Are we not just living in so many ways, what our parents keep telling us, do as I say not as I do?
Walk your talk’ has become one of those buzz statements that presenters/ gurus etc. are now claiming they do. There is a difference between ‘claiming’ they do and actually doing it, from my experience most do not it ‘do’ it.
Dianne I read and reread your blog over and over again and every time I detect another gem. I was pondeing about discipline and I know Serge Benhayon is applying loving discipline whereas I sometimes go into a hard discipline. The big difference is the loving discipline acts on the impulses of the body the hard discipline acts on the thoughts and belief patterns of the mind. The hard discipline is judgemental whereas the loving discipline is unimposing and harmonious.
II was listening to a presentation a few weeks ago on relationships where the energy in the whole room felt absolutely divine – there was a deep sense of trust and openness amongst the 100 or so people, many of whom had never met before. When we sat in our groups to workshop together we were able to share on a very personal level with relative ease because such a sense of trust was felt between us all. This came about as the presenters talked their walk, energetically we could all feel the absolute truth in everything that was being shared as their words were a confirmation of everything we were feeling being reflected from their bodies first.
That is true and we were ready to go there ourselves, we were able to walk that talk as well.
It has taken me a while to get that Serge Benhayon is reflecting a way of living that is possible for me. His absolute knowing and communication that there is no difference between him and another is truly inspiring. I may have resisted this truth using all sorts of excuses about all sorts of things but his constant, unwavering talking his walk I can no longer deny, only appreciate and appreciate the dedication he brings.
That’s a very honest point Karin – the way Serge moves, lives and the way he connects with life and what he presents is so ‘other worldly’ but at the same time very committed to life on earth. It’s difficult to know that we are all that too when everything in man-made life is communicating the opposite to us.
Yes I agree, Karin. The more we accept that we too are capable of living with such love and integrity, the more we are able to appreciate Serge Benhayon and what he is simply choosing with to live with absoluteness everyday.
Dieting is a great example of ‘trying’ to walk the talk …. I know from experience, from the countless diets I’ve tried in my life because I’ve felt I needed to look a certain way, of course, they all failed. Not only did I not loose the weight, or manage to keep it off, but I also felt a failure as I wasn’t able to live up to the picture I held in my mind – which makes sense because I was imposing on my body to be something I am not. Over the past 5 years or so I have naturally lost weight without any trying at all, just from allowing a much deeper connection with my body and listening to which foods truly support me and those that don’t and to eat when I am hungry rather than using food to numb how I am feeling.
This blog has been on the back of my mind since I read it for the first time, it’s interesting how it has been playing out – several times, before I said something in a conversation I actually asked myself, what is my experience in this, rather than “what do I think is the smart thing to say” – gold.
Thank you Dianne. As with everything else in this world the phrase ‘walking your talk’ is upside-down and back-to-front, as you have pointed out. I am so glad that you honour that extraordinary man who has managed to defeat the upside-down lie of this world and present something of untold value, through his walk, through his very being – his very presence lifts one up vibrational. He has taught us the science of energy and the means through which we can understand and clock energy and so, like him, defeat the force that currently dominates the world.
Just as there are words which are empty of the quality of movements to support them, as there are also movements which are posed to appear to be of a certain quality but in effect do not hold this either. We can only but discern this from how the quality we feel in such movements and words.
Loved reading every word you wrote Dianne and how you presented this topic so light hearted. A lot to explore on this for sure.
For me this blog post is also about keeping it simple – not trying to be anything more than what we are and how we feel, and sharing that if/when appropriate.
I never thought of it like that, but it makes complete sense. And I love it. It means being honest and transparent – nothing to prove and no recognition required. Awesome stuff.
It is so settling in the body ‘when someone knows what he is talking about’. You know what you deal with, it is tangible, straight and real and hence reliable.
Imagine we could not help but talk our walk, this would definitely bring more honesty to our lives and with that more rapid change towards what is good for us, and lies and falseness would simply not exist anymore.
Dianne this blog very frankly breaks down everything that gets in the way of us connecting more deeply to our bodies.
Really beautiful to recognise the truth of your words and the way in which we can truly live what we are. In not imposing our beliefs onto our body but choosing to be honest about where we are and show this to the world, instead of the imposed belief.
What sweet freedom you offer us here Dianne, by deconstructing the shackles of this aspirational desire to walk our talk, you have exposed the pictures, the perfectionism, the trying, the control that the mind so readily demands on our walk. To be led by our walk is to radiate a homeo stasis that expresses nothing less than the joy of heaven on earth, Serge Benhayon you are leading the way.
For a long, long time I’ve put a face up, in fact a lie. What I am realising more and more deeply each day is how I’ve sold myself a lot of lies. Which doesn’t mean that I was or am wrong, but simply that I wasn’t being truly honest to myself. Never in my life have I been so honest about things that I react to. Yet, I can also feel that I still have quite some work to do to be truly free from it. Life is teaching me this and it’s up to me to accept the teachings or reject them. This for me is a forever work in progress which starts in being honest about what’s all going on for me on the inside. When I am with me and when I am with others.
‘… everything we say – our posture, our actions, all our expressions – are coming from the actual current state of our bodies …’ – which explains why the first time I ever heard Serge Benhayon speak I was absolutely mesmerised by his every word. My body instantly recognised the truth in what was being presented to me, even if I didn’t like what was being shared, and I knew I could completely trust this man – which isn’t something I remember feeling in this life before, so instantly.
That’s a really interesting study here Dianne, I can relate to a relative of this feeling in my body when I lose the connection with myself, react to something, and instead gone into a protective stance – “guarded demeanour, unresponsiveness to the energy or feeling of another person, second-guessing their own every word and move, and in effect living in a self-imposed ‘straitjacket” Feels awful.
It’s not a problem to still have particular behaviours, comforts, habits or addictions like those you’ve mentioned Dianne because they may be of value to you at this point in time, so it’s actually much simpler to present honestly about everything and let people be inspired by the aspects they may have not yet discovered, or could take tips from, as opposed to putting a lot of energy into selling a story that feels false.
Thank you for this amazing blog Dianne. We are so very fortunate to have such an example as Serge Benhayon to inspire us all. My life is so much richer as for knowing Serge and his presentations as I know so many others are whether we know it or not!
Over the years I have observed Serge Benhayon present on a multitude of different topics consecutively and consistently day after day. It has been this lived quality of talking his walk that has allowed me to build trust and commit to my own unfolding.
If I drink lots of water my daughter drinks lots of water, if I don’t, she doesn’t.
Another fabulous blog Dianne with so much in it, I absolutely love the way you write and express. What I feel from reading what you have written is that there is no trying when we live from our bodies and that to use our mind to fit into a preconceived ideal is an arduous hard slog which will always end in failure.
Becoming aware of the quality in the smallest of movement, such as typing on a keyboard, is the great door opener to something much greater within us.,
Yes, Dianne. When we do not reside fully in the body and remain connected to the all-knowing wisdom we each have access to, we are left in the unsettlement and tension of constantly second-guessing life.
There is a huge and extremely palpable difference between us attempting to impose a way of living upon ourselves verses walking in connection with the immense stillness within us. The former way feels stilted, rigid and controlling, the latter gracefully astute, spontaneous and extremely natural. At present the latter is a rare commodity to meet in this world, but nevertheless when we do, it is one we all innately recognise and respond to when seen and felt it in another.
This really shows with all your great examples that walking the talk may look Ok from a distance, but talking the walk is the only true way, using all of the bodies intelligence to speak and move dat body.
And yet society has it all about “walking the talk”. No wonder we are all so easily being mugged by the illusion. If you walk the talk, then it doesn’t have to be a 24/7 commitment – you can not walk the the talk in your home, or in private time and yet still look the part when you step back into the world. But with talking the walk, then every single moment of walking affects that talk, so you can’t hide or fool anyone (as long as they are open to discerning)
If we only spoke what we walked, imagine how much less noise there would be in the world.
I was listening to man yesterday who was ‘talking his walk’. It was so palpable and strong and real. So different from the feeling that I get when I listen to someone who is talking without having done the walking. I hear it in myself too sometimes – the emptiness of un-lived words.
I like that Otto, un-lived words it really brings home to me that unless we talk our walk there is an emptiness in our words. When we talk our walk there is an authority that is felt, it is not imposing in fact the complete opposite it is an inspiration and is something that is very much felt.
It’s also a joy to talk this way. The feeling of authority in my body when I am talking my walk is such fun. Zero tension.
Rereading your blog I understand that in order to be able to walk the talk or talk the walk is to move in a way which is connected to a quality which allows that our bodies are spacious and expansive.
The message of this blog really turns our common understanding of health on its head. Because if we are expressing from our bodies instead of our minds first than we are forced to ask where is the energy coming from that is flowing through our bodies to then be expressed by our thoughts , words, and bodily movements? Serge Benhayon has been the beacon of the truth of living in line with this wisdom, which enables us all to feel how we are all connected with everything else in the Universe, as quantum physics has already proven as well.
Walking our talk was presented as a Livingness by Serge Benhayon and reading through this blog and comments we do not need quantum physics as Michael has shared in a comment above, but there are so many living examples in these comments that share how so may are already a living example who exemplify how we can so easily all talk our walk.
“However I have seen most people, including myself, struggle with ‘walking their talk’ in practice” – agree Dianne… and what I’ve noted from a physical experience is actually how the [person’s] body feels when you touch or embrace it in a hug or kiss on cheek greeting, handshake for instance…Those that do walk their talk, their bodies feel gentle, open, depth, natural as if transparent – what you feel, is what you see in their whole body especially the eyes that equally have these qualities/depth. When it’s the opposite there can often be a weakness or back-off-ness, reserve, untouchability and the embrace/touch/hold from this body can be hard and protected in spite of a face that’s smiling with glittering eyes.
“…What if by saying ‘walking our talk’ we have got it completely back to front? …” Yes, have to agree with you as from the way we walk (move) it seems to set the tone for everything else we do .. our talk, our thoughts, our choices…
Walking my talk is being honest and real to where I’m at and how I feel. Using the reflection of others is my greatest truth.
I can vouch that trying to impose how I would like to live onto my body without listening to it doesn’t work. Now it’s time to listen to my body and support its innate knowing of returning to its natural rhythm.
Actions speak louder than words – it speaks volumes when we embody a way of living and our every movement offers a reflection of our lived truth.
Thank you Dianne for the loving reminder of “this simple heartfelt commitment to listen to our bodies, to listen to our hearts, and to move in accordance with their communications”. I know when I do the mind resonates in harmony and life is simple, and purposeful – nothing is too much or too difficult. It is the total opposite experience when the mind calls the shots, which imposes on the body and everything around.
Those expectations that you speak of are so insidious and create so much tension in the body its not even funny. What is crazy thou is when we live our lives with these pictures and expectations and we don’t even realise they are running us. Thank goodness for Universal Medicine as through doing the courses and workshops along with regular sessions I have come to see how much I have been choosing that is simply not the divine and gorgeous being that I Am.
As a society we live a life based on ideals and beliefs, it’s all an illusion that is in constant resistance to the pull of evolution, and it is only through the connection with our bodies and the quality of movements that we can access and live that which is of truth and start walking our talk deeply inspiring others to do the same.
We tend to focus on what Serge Benhayon communicates through speech when we go to a presentation but our bodies are receiving much more from the way that he moves than the words that he says. If another person delivered the exact same words but did it from an anxious body then those same words would have a completely different feeling, even if technically the same.
‘I’ve noticed that many people who are great advocates of sport, fitness, physical body development, health and beauty, while presenting the face of their held beliefs to the world (‘talk’), behind the scenes live (‘walk’) the opposite.’ It is rare to find those who present what they hold as a living way but there are many examples of such people in Universal Medicine including Serge Benhayon.
I always thought that I had to look up to gurus. As far as I’ve experienced, this is how they present themselves. However, Serge Benhayon is the opposite of this. He’s constantly reflecting that we are all Grand, that it is a matter of choices. I can feel how I love to be around him, yet also find it difficult to accept in full the message that I am grand and am a master of energy.
As a colleague put it so eloquently to me: “Any man can smile for 2 days, the one who smiles for 20 years though, that is the truly good man”. Serge lives this consistent integrity and inspires me greatly, which is what my colleague has so aptly picked up on.
Trust we can in those who talk their walk as what is said is matched by the truth lived.
Dianne, this is a revelation how much we put pressure on our bodies just to fit a picture.How to be in order to be connected etc instead of just truly listening to our bodies.
You can feel the depth of your care in this blog Dianne, just gorgeous.
It can be felt when people say one thing but do another. It comes from the head, we all know very well what we could be doing in our lives, lecturing anyone from the books does not work. There is a consistency with the ‘one life’, where the truth rules through any and every thought and this momentum of the movement builds and is shown to us as Serge Benhayon walks the talk and talks the walk.
And may I add to you amazing blog Dianne that Serge Benhayon is the most humble man who shows everyone the upmost decency and respect.
Thank you Dianne, this is a fantastic blog and so on point. I love how you have turned it all around and made it about talking our walk and not walking our talk. Everything has to come from the body frst and foremost to make it real, otherwise it is just an image we are trying to live up to that in no way supports us..
‘While we go about ‘in love with’ our own thoughts, making plans, philosophising about how we will be, our body is sitting there being a part of the one universe and knowing in its every particle how to be in that universe.’ The beauty and simplicity of this brought a tear to my eye – all the trying, hard and pushing through can just drop away as we surrender into this knowing.
I have always disliked hypocrisy in the world and we can all feel and tell when someone is saying or doing something but their bodies do not resemble or reflect their words or actions. As you say Dianne our way of approaching life must start with the body not the mind.
‘an incredible tension of trying to constantly impose their philosophy onto their bodies according to their belief in what they thought was the right way.’ I have also done this! I find a presenter inspiring and try to live their way but if it’s true and I have not embodied the teachings, then my mind tries to make my body follow the ‘rules’. With Truth there are no rules, there are only impulses, and my mind cannot feel truth, only my body can.
At times I have not been honest even with myself about my real walk, especially if my focus has been on aspiring to live according to a great talk I have adopted from outside of me. This seems to be a norm for people. Yet without an honesty about our actual choice of walk, we fail to see the areas in life that we need to understand, heal and expand from.
You’re on fire Golnaz, another piece of gold here.
It is very easy to present on a matter, it is a whole different thing to actually live what you present. I agree with you Dianne very few presenters and /or gurus do this and therefore their followers only receive an intellectual understanding but because it is not the lived experience of the presenter there for no true embodiment, no true healing happens for the followers . This was my experience when I was following a guru for over ten years, I continued to feel depressed, disempowered, with no commitment to life. It was only when I met Serge Benhayon –a man who walks his talk and talks his walk did I begin to heal.
I love this phrase, ‘talk the walk’ because it eliminates the pressure to live up to a possible false presentation or show, and change the way we might live to prove what we’re ‘selling’ to audiences. Imagine selling a great toothpaste; would you recommend the toothpaste, and THEN try using it? Or would you use a great toothpaste, and then recommend it? The latter makes so much more sense 🙂
Genius, very true Susie.
Our true way of being is actually so simple: to listen to what we know feels true in our hearts and act from there. Not rocket science, and nothing to ‘try’ to do, just a simple letting go of all those things that we do that get in the way of us being our true selves.
Thanks for describing Dianne how zero amount of firm resolve and determined ‘this is how I’m going to be now’ thoughts make any lasting difference, if they’re not aligned to our body’s experience. If we impose rules on the body that have come from the mind and not the body, it’s not long before it tells us pretty loudly how much it dislikes and disagrees with this imposition.
It’s true that what we walk, or how we walk affects the way we talk. I’ve noticed if I walk in a small, contracted way my voice will probably come out in a small contracted way. But if I walk strongly and with purpose my voice and what I say will come out much stronger. There’s such an amazing beautiful science to the way we live.
What you are sharing here Dianne is a science that we simply haven’t tapped into yet. The revelation offered here that to change our thoughts all we have to do is change the way we move our bodies is utterly profound, yet so simple.
Changing the way we move changes our whole environment as what is revealed to us is a way of living that was not true and from here we are impulsed to change it.
I would suggest that we have and do tap into this science, however because it is not taught and confirmed as a science that supports us to be more of who we naturally are, it is not live & reflected consistently.
In recent days I have felt things come through for me to look at and heal. As a process, this has been profoundly challenging and I have felt heavy as a consequence. My body has felt tight but this morning I simply had to exercise it – stretch it gently, listen to it and let it tell me how I had to move it and work out. As I paid attention and honoured what it was telling me I felt stronger within myself again, more myself than I have felt in days. This was a simple choice to change my movements. As a science, I can confirm how much it works and how powerful it can be.
Beautiful example Michelle of how the body can support us back to our natural steadiness
The hypocrisy of gurus that you mention, Dianne, I commonly saw, and was part of myself, within the complementary health community during the many years I was a kinesiology practitioner. The integrity of Serge Benhayon, Universal Medicine and that has followed is a shining light in this dark world of corruption and hypocrisy.
The hypocrisy with which we live is so commonplace we accept it as normal. We can feel the guru who isn’t walking his/her truth; we can feel the teacher who lives from the ‘do as I say not as I do’ paradigms. Serge Benhayon slices clean through all this and has established the true norm again. Once felt, it clearly exposes the abnormality of what we have grown so used to, presenting us with an honest and simple reflection that empowers us to clean up our act and get ourselves back to talking our own walk again, honest and transparent in all areas of our lives.
It is an astute observation that the majority of people have endeavoured to live in the “tension of trying to constantly impose their philosophy onto their bodies according to their belief in what they thought was the right way.” It is a big ouch to consider what my poor body has been subjected to, when it and my soul have always known there is another way that simply flows with life.
We have the phrase ‘mind over matter’ but what if actually using our mind to tune into our matter is a more truly intelligent way of being?
Very well expressed, Fiona. Without a doubt the intelligence of our body is not only greater than our mind but it is also true.
Yes I agree Fiona it is more of a case of ‘matter over mind’ because our matter or our bodies can access a level of intelligence and wisdom that is far greater and more authentic than our minds can create.
How empty we can feel if we do not live the words that we speak. And if we are not living in a way that we are proud of, how then can we speak from a place of integrity? It’s so easy to not really care how we walk through life, but if we take the time and effort to care we can totally transform the way we live and therefore the way we feel about ourselves, and consequently what we can then share with the world through word and action.
Absolutely Rebecca. our expression is equal to how we feel about ourselves and that is equal to the care we bring to each moment….not from an idea or belief about care but from a knowing in our bodies.
Actually we have to walk life and from that walking and moving, everything else will emerge. The only thing in this is what life we are walking, do we walk the life we naturally belong to which is in line and rhythm with the Universe or do we walk from a self created concept of life in disconnection with the love we are from and belong to.
It occurs to me that a person of real integrity will both ‘walk their talk’ and ‘talk their walk’ for there is no difference in them and no ‘other’ way.
Through my life I always knew deep down that there was more than meets the eye to life, but no church I ever attended or any spiritual gathering I went to ever came close to making me feel like any truth was involved and that was because they were walking their talk and they weren’t doing a good job of that either. The moment I met Serge Benhayon I knew there was something different about this guy and maybe that was because I had never meet anyone before that was talking their walk.
I get two important take homes from this – the first is just how important movement is. Our walk is a governing energy and if we choose to deny how we are actually moving we inevitably fail, get out the big stick and start to beat ourselves up for not having met the ideal we were carrying in our heads.
The second thing is the authority we have when we express from how we are moving. There is a deep honesty that comes with this, no need for a picture or having to try and cover up the gap between where we are living and where we ‘should’ be living (imposed from an ideal). No matter where we are at, we all warm to that authority because it is honest and it has integrity.
And it is an authority that can be expressed in very few words. So different from the silvery tongued orator who delivers amazing verbal packages…but that are so empty.
We have all meet those that speak, to be heard and like a PowerPoint presentation is a prescription for insomnia. Less will always be more when it is walked!
Never be fooled by the fancy layouts and whooshing graphics! Feel the words spoken and we will know whether it is the truth.
Very apt for me to read this morning as I am feeling in my body how my mind is fighting the flow of the Universe. This should in fact be studied as it is huge and important for us to understand ‘But if this is coming from outside of our bodies [and thoughts do indeed come from outside of our bodies, despite a deeply held belief among the majority of modern reductionist scientists], then what those thoughts are asking our body to do may be in contradiction to where our bodies are at and what they are capable of doing in their present state.’ Here here as well to what you have shared regarding Serge Benhayon a man who indeed truly walks his talk and deeply healing for all this is. This describes him beautifully ‘with humility and yet with authority’.
So much of what we see around us is false. No wonder we struggle to deal with life – there’s so little truth in it that we end up not knowing what is true and what is not… until someone independent of the lies shows us a different way.
Victoria the power and strength in the simplicity of what you share here is 100% aligned to what I feel as well, there is so much falsity that leads to so much confusion and struggle, then someone walks into the room and shows what is true and it changes everything.
Without meeting Serge Benhayon I would not know that I am not talking my walk – I would not know that I was fighting against a flow. Serge is for me a living role model and that helped me a lot to get aware of this and so I was able to start to really talk what I am walking as well – to the best of my ability of course and that is indeed very joyful and freeing.
Yes, the awareness of ‘talking one’s walk’ presented by Serge Benhayon by his lived example is an inspiration that has inspired directly and indirectly thousands of people to also do so to the best of their ability. And that ripple is growing globally.
To connect to our gentle breath and feel movement that is in flow with the universe is something so beautiful and yet equally normal. When I look back on the way I once moved, fighting this natural rhythm to the nth degree it’s no wonder I was utterly exhausted all the time.
Just as we can’t run before we learn to walk, we can’t ask or expect our selves to be able to walk with the knowing of something that we haven’t already chosen to make a part of our livingness, that we haven’t built and committed to as a part of our rhythm. The walk I have today is completely different to the walk I had a year ago and the walk I will have in another years time as I am continuously refining how I am choosing to live, in my own rhythm, for what feels right for me. This I can speak about with authority.
I love this Alison – speaking with deeper levels of true authority from the constant refinement of your walk.
Just love everything you are sharing here, Dianne and the way you turn a phrase that has been used as a mantra in all walks of life, for years, totally on it’s head. It begs the question, what else have we been spoon fed in life that we have just taken to be true? How much more is there for us to look at and perhaps consider in a completely different light?
I am not much worried about those who lie publicly and then are much more honest privately, however ugly the process is as eventually they will be found out which is a lesson to their followers. I do worry about those who are able to live unnaturally both publicly and privately as they can have great influence and cause a lot of harm if their ideas are not harmonious and loving.
An inspiring, powerful insightful blog Dianne; walking the talk or talking the walk we need to be in harmonious flow with our bodies and the flow of the all;
“In effect, we are fighting against the flow when we try to walk our talk from a body that is in a momentum out of sync with the true flow of the all”.
When it comes to energy and knowing that in energy there is constant movement of particles, then to “talk the walk” [a movement that is a livingness] becomes far more resonating than the familiar former saying of “walk the talk”.
If we want to know the truth of what is being communicated via speech then it helps to turn the volume off and to allow our body to discern through observing the body of another. Our mind can be bamboozled, whereas our body is the gatekeeper of truth.
Wow Dianne this has given me an entirely different understanding between talking our walk compared to walking our talk. The latter way is wanting to, or wanting to be seen in a certain way, the former is being and living in that way and so the expressions and movements come naturally from being that way and this is what is so inspiring because the truth can be felt in every word. This is what Serge Benhayon is reflecting to us all of the time by the way he moves and expresses and why there is never any hesitancy in when he is presenting for it all flows so naturally from him because it comes from his living way.
Re-reading this fabulous blog Dianne, you are exposing so much falsity in the world. I know how it feels to listen to someone who ‘talks their walk’ as it is deeply settling in my body and is very real and relatable.
This blog is so rich, it covers so much and the honesty in it is immense. I love the way you list things like victimisation as an addiction, it’s something that I had never considered but looking it at I can see how true that is.
It is exhausting when we perpetually struggle to force our body to align to the thoughts that our mind tries to dictate about the way we should be living. It is truly inspirational to have a role model amongst us who is always in flow with his body and exposing the crafty ways that the Spirit tries to convince us that a little bit of this or that will not hurt whether it be food or other activities.
It is our body and only our body that can get us out of the chaos that our mind has created.
It’s amazing that we can walk in truth in order to bring more truth to what we say.
Serge Benhayon lives just one life, one face, one persona, one wise and forever encompassing love, which can be clearly felt, seen and experienced by all who know him. There is no private switch off moment because there is no need for one. When we live from our innately loving values we having nothing to hide. What Serge presents to us is entirely possible for all of us, a simple willingness to look honestly at our selves and what is truly important in life.
Talking from our body is very different than so called ‘talking from the head’. Every time I speak from my body, I actually feel my voice deeply resonating within me. As if the words that I am speaking literally are confirmed within me. It is a very gorgeous and loving feeling. It is the most natural way to express.
Connecting to my body and letting go of the dictate of the mind is an unfolding process that has been inspired by Serge Benhayon – a man who truly talks his walk with grace and integrity.
This blog is so revealing of how we are constantly fighting ourselves ‘walking our talk’ when our body is completely out of alignment and in disharmony with the all, with every movement we make.
“In effect, we are fighting against the flow when we try to walk our talk from a body that is in a momentum out of sync with the true flow of the all”.
Lets face it if we lift the lid we will clearly see that most of human life is a lie. Most of us are speaking ideals and images that are simply not true, and what we are calling ‘normal’ simply does not make sense. Thank God there are those like Serge Benhayon that do walk a walk that is reflects the truth of our expression to remind and inspire the rest of us that this is our natural way.
I like how this article blows the whistle on humanity’s fascination with mind over matter, rather than the understanding that it is our every single choice and movement that determines the quality of energy to which we are aligned to thereafter. The way we walk, not only is a great reflection of what truth we are actually aligned to regardless of our talk, but it also affects the real quality of our walk and our talk in the next moment.
‘What about churchgoing people? How often do we, or the ones we know, fail to live up to the ideal of living and worshipping according to our beliefs and then feel guilty and lesser for having failed to meet our own expectations and the expectations of our church?’ Goodness me – do I know this one as I was brought up a Catholic! Once, a Catholic relative came to stay with me. She hadn’t been intending to go to church over that weekend, but as we were walking in town and happened to pass a Catholic church she felt incredibly guilty and just had to go into mass!
I have seen a lot of spiritual and religious hypocrisy in my life, having grown up in Northern Ireland during the troubles. It has been so incredibly healing to have walked side by side with Serge Benhayon these past 15 years, to study him closely and observe his movements, which have never been less than from absolute love for all equally – what a man, and what an amazing reflection for the world.
I can only confirm what you say Janet, in watching and studying Serge Benhayon there is much to be learned. To me the way he moves and lives in his body makes me aware of the possibility that I too can live like he is living. The way he presents himself is always from equalness and in that, he tells me that in fact I am already everything he is in essence but only have to let it out and to walk and live that too.
It is beautiful and absolutely true what you have captured here about Serge Benhayon. This man reminds us all of the power walking ones talk offers.
What a pill to swallow, I mean, most of us are raised to believe that if we want to stop something, its our brains, our talk, our will, that will get it to change, that will get us through but what you have proved here is that it is our walk, our movement and the communication and relationship with our body that counts and its the only thing that can bring about true sustainable change.
Dianne, you are talking your walk in this article; it comes from what you know by living it.
When we truly feel and see someone walking their talk it really is amazing. It stands out because it is far more common to observe those who ‘talk the walk’ rather than actually ‘walk the talk’.
I know for much of my life the last thing I wanted to do was to “talk my walk” as I was ashamed and embarrassed of myself and how I was living many aspects of my life. This is changing steadily and the confidence, love and care I am bringing to my life is, I know the foundation needed to “talk my walk”.
Yes Serge Benhayon ” talks his walk ” his whole body is in harmony with the energy he carries in the vibration of the way he lives. ” commitment to awareness ” and he has shown that awareness is within us all if we want to live it.
It seems like true change is felt first. It comes about in response to us feeling a connection with something, being inspired to make a different choice in our lives, living that choice and feeling the difference in the way that we feel, listening and responding to the ever deepening wisdom our bodies are constantly sharing with us – allowing our movements to be felt before we move.
As I was reading your blog Dianne, I was having a picture of a disgruntled parent, pointing the finger telling the child what to do, while they never do whatever this thing is themselves. We’ve all probably experienced this, be it from parents, teachers, siblings, friends etc etc. We clock from young that it’s OK to be like that, and so we continue with the pattern, while all along we know deep down that it does not feel true to do so. In fact, it’s painful – because we have to change ourselves completely and step out of who we are to pretend to be something and someone we are not.
I love the words ‘talking your walk’ for it is simple to understand and to know whether this is true for each of us – do our actions, our words, how we hold ourselves and are in relationship with others all mirror each other. Are we true in all aspects of our being. If all is not in true alignment it can be felt.
This is very interesting Dianne how you clarify that we attempt to impose the ‘walk the talk’ ‘upon ourselves from our thoughts based on a system of adopted beliefs in whatever arena of life we are considering.’ Talking the walk comes from the body moving and feeling first, not from the head.
I love your point that trying to live from ideals and believes is an imposition on our body. Don’t we almost all do this!? I do for sure and it is that feeling of trying to reach the dangling carrot which is always moved a bit further away when I approach it. As much as we try to improve our ideals and ways it is only when we start to feel what is true and not true in accordance with our bodies that true change can occur.
“It has been a great revolution in my life to meet, come to know, observe and emulate as a great role model, a man who talks his walk. A man who expresses every word, thought, and action from the truth of his body. A man who continually commits to listening to his body and being guided by the truth it is expressing.” I agree Dianne. To meet Serge Benhayon has been a revalation to me also and to countless others, as I have never met or known of anyone who lives with such deep integrity and truth, to the point where I have been so lovingly asked to look at every single aspect of my life, and review the way that I live it.
Your blogs are always so uplifting, enriching and full of potential to expand for everyone who reads them with how simply and easily you express and make available the ageless wisdom you present. Definitely a blog to revisit.
How much simpler would life be if everyone spoke from the quality they lived, in effect spoke from their walk. There would be a far greater level of transparency, we could see exactly what everyone is up to, how they are feeling and what they hold true, we could then come together as a society and see that the walk, the quality we live is far more important than the talk.
Dianne, I agree with you about our minds, I have noticed that I get thoughts and I wonder where they come from as they just seem to drop into my awareness from out of nowhere. Random thoughts just pop into my mind. I can be concentrating on something at work and suddenly a thought pops into my head to do something else, or I’m hungry when actually if I feel my body I’m not at all hungry. Now I stop and feel where has that thought come from, not my body, so it has to come from outside of me and the other thing I have noticed is that these thoughts are not mine they are given to me. This then leads to where are these thoughts coming from and it makes sense to me that there is a conscious pool of energy that drip feeds us our thoughts. Now when I have thoughts that I don’t feel belong to me I check in with my body to feel what it feels about the thoughts as I have discovered that my body actually knows a lot more than my mind and what’s more it is a lot more honest too.
This is brilliant Dianne. When I first read the title I saw ‘Walking his Talk’ I read is as ‘Talking his Walk’ It’s rare for it to be presented this way. I can see there’s a world of difference. Either way to walk and talk with honesty is key.
What you are saying here Dianne is everything really. Imagine if the whole world stopped talking and just felt where they were truly at……and then started talking from that…..EVERYTHING would be very, very different.
Isn’t talking our walk the ultimate form of honesty?
Yes, and also shows that what they are doing is sustainable. That may be even more dangerous than being a hypocrite but it could also be a sign of truth and love being lived which can’t be the case with hypocrites.
I see and enjoy what you mean here Christoph.
When I was a kinesiology practitioner and advising clients I would often use the mantra, ‘Do as I say not what I do.’
I have found honouring, listening and being honest with myself in relation to where I am at, how my body feels is the best guide to life. If I go about day to day life with a goal or any set ideas of how I should be, I feel the tension in my body. The quality of our walk determines the quality of our talk and vice versa.
I have tried to impose change on myself many times in this life using ‘will-power’ and observed many others attempting to do so. On another level, we have rules, policies and procedures and legislation to limit and restrict the kinds of behaviours and actions we take. But in truth, legislation does not stop crime, and policies and procedures do not create absolute consistency in behaviours because imposing change from without does not truly work. Change really happens when we reconnect to the loving source within and from this foundation, being loving with ourselves and others is natural.
I love the way Dianne Trussell expresses common-sense in often times what may appear to be believed, complicated, scientific or difficult subjects to the lay-person – making the seemingly illogical to be logical. I agree Serge Benhayon truly expresses from his everyday livingness, talking his walk, inspiring all of us to see that we also have the natural ability to be and do that if only we would listen to the Ageless Wisdom that is held divinely within our body.
Walking the talk is a challenge but it can be also a great learning how to put the impulses and what I say into action. I love your sharing as it inspires me to look more closely to what I say and how this feels in my body, if it is embodied or not.
Look at a persons body and their movements and you get the truth words can hood wink us and make us believe differently.
Our body just is and our mind is not.
This blog made a profound impact on my day yesterday, I managed to be much more present in my movements and even more gentle.
That’s very sweet Kevin, it put a huge smile on my face to read 🙂
Beautiful Kevin – putting it into action straight away…
Every action is built upon how we live, for now in society we are still easily fooled by words even if the action does not match the spoken sentiment. It is right there for us though to feel this and to read the intentions. Perhaps easies and most important is to start with our own intention, and consider if your talk matches our walk. After all we should never ask of another something we are not willing to live ourselves.
Well said Stephen, very true and wise words: “we should never ask of another something we are not willing to live ourselves”.
It’s true, Stephen we are easily fooled by words and do not often look at the quality of the person who is speaking them. The quality and movement says it all if you know how to read it.
Whether we walk our talk or talk our walk, appreciate this awareness and acknowledge our unawareness in such a choice. There is no point in imposing change as true change comes from us truly feeling it and in respect to the body we listen, and in this process, we have already chosen to talk our walk.
Trying is like using glue when none is needed – having an expectation that something needs to be a certain way, when it is already just as it needs to be. Trying takes us away from appreciating all that is already there for us but we are just not aware, distracted by the ‘trying’.
Funny, Alison, I was just talking to a friend about this today, how we make life so much harder for ourselves than it needs to be because of all the trying, and then we get caught up in the ensuing dramas when things don’t work out rather than going with the flow.
What your blog does Dianne is expose the fact of energy behind what is done and how the energy determines ‘the walk’ and the quality of that walking. When the energy is consistently truly loving, truly gentle and truly harmless then there is no dual-living; life becomes one-life [of love] without separation.
And therefore the talk does not come in to impose and restrict the walk…
It is very tempting when we are inspired by any presenter to try to emulate their way of being but it is not a head thing – trying is effort, and we end up, as you say, stiffly trying to follow rules and guidelines that really don’t work for us. Changing our lifestyle is a whole body experience, we have to totally embody what is presented and when the presenter walks his talk it is possible for our bodies to feel, not just hear, and then making healthy choices becomes simpler and our commitment is more firm.
This makes all the difference – talking from what you have and do live and therefore what is in your movement everyday offers a true opportunity for people to be inspired – puts a new meaning to the phrase ‘inspirational speaking’.
There is nothing more authentic than dropping the facade and being honest about where we’re really at. It’s very beautiful when we allow such fragility in ourselves and others, and it surely sets the tone – engenders the possibility – for healing at the individual and collective levels. It feels very equalising too, to consider this possibility.
I agree Victoria, this is the first stage of healing, it starts with us being honest about where we are and how we truly feel. If we choose to mask this and pretend we are fine or somewhere else, then we are only kidding ourselves and end up hurting ourselves and others by living in an illusional bubble.
We need to add to this list of ‘walk-your-talk wannabes’ all those who profess to charitable acts but use their apparent altruism to mask a raft of undesirable behaviours… and perhaps even those of us who use the giving of time and or money to feel better about ourselves and the state of the world we have created. As this wonderfully insightful article suggests, we need to get honest about what we’re walking instead of what we’re talking.
“The mind can take on any thoughts or system of belief and attempt to impose it on the body. Our minds can decide how we are to move, eat, speak, write, relate to others, etc. But if this is coming from outside of our bodies [and thoughts do indeed come from outside of our bodies, despite a deeply held belief among the majority of modern reductionist scientists], then what those thoughts are asking our body to do may be in contradiction to where our bodies are at and what they are capable of doing in their present state.” – a great point to ponder on and realise that we may not be as much in control as we think we are when the mind is the one that dictates our moves and choices!
It stands out so clearly when someones talk does not match their walk, and vice versa – when their walk does not match their talk – we all feel the discrepancy and inconsistency, and feel a lack of trust in what is being presented. With Serge Benhayon there is no inconsistency in how he is in life – and that is truly inspiring.
We may feel it, but very, very few of us act on it, call it out or support ourselves in not being sucked in by it. In fact, because most of us our not talking our walk, we do not have the consistency, presence and commitment to discern and, nine times out of ten, end up feeding the beast by enjoining with our own non-walked-talk.
When we ‘talk our walk’ we are bringing the quality we are with ourselves into all that we do.
I love your writing Diannne – such clarity in words.
Another point to turn things on their head or turn them completely around. As is now becoming known from many more circles our body goes everywhere with us and is being impacted or supported by everything that goes on in front of it. If we think about it what part of us is with us everywhere, is effected by every move, thought and action and is our largest part? Our body. It would make sense them to use this as our personal centre of the universe, meaning if it is our largest communicator, the part of us that is feeling everything, then would it not make sense for us to take an absolute care of it? With things continually changing around us then how you are with your body would need to also be an ongoing relationship and not ever a one size fits all or a one off approach. ‘Talking your walk’ and I’m not sure I’m there totally with it but I definitely agree.
This has been an experiment of mine for the last week, and it has shifted a tension I could feel in my body. Some of the ‘battles’ I have been having to let go of a behaviour that I knew was not supporting my body were really hard to shift and I didn’t know why. This experiment has taken a constant feeling tension away and I feel like I am not battling myself any more, you mentioned it when you said imposing my thoughts on my body when my body wasn’t ready. I haven’t indulged in those behaviours during this experiment, not because I have consciously chosen not to, I simply haven’t felt the urge. They are still there because my body is still tired but I don’t worry anymore, I can feel I am not owned by them. Thank heavens for this blog and the reflection of what it is to talk our walk from others who have been walking it for longer than us!
This is a great example making what we live about the body and leading from there.
Having worked in the self-development field some years ago, alongside world recognised coaches and presenters, I can factually say I did not meet one such person who walked their talk. This is in total contrast to Serge Benhayon, who after observing for well over a decade I can without exception say walks his talk.
How actually difficult it is to live one thing and purport another. It is so draining, and I say this from experience. But to express from what I know within me, takes no effort, simply a release of what is already so naturally there.
Your sharing totally makes sense of the beliefs we often live by are in our head and not from our bodies and that’s where we fall down. We ignore the intelligence that is within and all around us represented by nature.
Could it be as simple as listening to where my body is and not distracting/ blugening myself with the imposing thoughts about how I should be?
How important is it to admit that we do not walk our talk. Because if we don’t choose this honesty, how can we actually be inspired by Serge Benhayon or actually anyone who do walk their talk? I can certainly tell for myself that I’m only allowing myself to be inspired if I am letting other people in. Which is in itself a great work in progress for years. I’ve taken on lots of ideals and beliefs in order to create my own world instead of a true lived world. Thank you Dianne for another magnificent and pivetal piece of writing!
Yes it is so true Dianne, we have to just look at how we feel when we are slouching in our chair or walking with our shoulders rolled in, it totally changes our thoughts and feeling of ourselves. So how we move changes how we feel and thus think, the other way around is indeed not possible.
I have known that when I walk my talk the hypocrisy can feel very unpleasant, criticism soon comes in to point out the obvious. And as I learn to talk my walk those same thoughts come in at times. But it feels like there is too much pressure, focus and emphasis on what comes out of our mouths, when we speak with our whole body why would I need to rely soley on my words (which comes with the knowing that it’s flimsy from the mind) when my walk backs up and confirms and acts as the source of my words.
When a person presents from the authority of their body there is a steadfast quality that is non negotiable; as opposed to the rickety feeling that comes from a person who us presenting from their head.
I have heard so many idealised solutions and theories about life none of which ever made any difference at the end of the day, because that is where they remained – as theories, something for humanity to wish for, hope for, perhaps attempt to reach. And when it proved impossible or too difficult the scenario was used to beat yourself up for failing, and giving up further.
How different it is when someone reflects to you the way when they are already living it, what is offered is not a theory, nor a wish, but a fact of a lived way.
So powerful what you have shared here about a man who makes his movement about aligning to the universe. It is just so much bigger than the physical form – it is a knowing that we are so much more and that we have a relationship with the universe in which it can communicate to us all of the time if our movements allow.
Walking your talk – a seemingly honourable quality, but is it possible we have it the wrong way round – by trying to impose the things we think are right onto the body we can often end up being very inconsistent – but when we live and speak from our bodies it has a quality to it that cannot be denied.
Like pretty much everything else, we’ve go this one front to back as well and mainly don’t even walk our talk, leave alone talk our walk.
You can feel the difference when someone is just talking and doesn’t actually live it. It feels so false and is not inspirational at all.
Wow Dianne you really nailed the difference between ‘walking your talk’ and talking your walk”. It is the difference between black and white. It is the difference between the head and the heart.
You can feel there is power behind what is said, when it is being lived.
‘What if by saying ‘walking our talk’ we have got it completely back to front? What if the truth is that the path to the higher life opens before us when we recognise that we are actually ‘talking our walk’ instead?’ A huge revelation is being presented here that has the potential to turn everything on its head – thank you for expressing it so succinctly and with such clarity Dianne.
This really highlights why so many things we try to change in our lives just do not work. Things like diets, news year resolutions and these mind over matter ideas will never work as we are using one force to counter another, which neither are true in the first place.
I grew up with church goers who talked about love and ‘walked’ a life where they drank every night, smoked cigarettes, fought constantly and ignored their kids and/or took their anger out on them by strapping them regularly. No wonder I had no respect for them even though I was told to respect my elders…what a joke…. as what was there to respect?
I am in complete agreement with you Dianne – Serge Benhayon is a person to deeply appreciate as he truly ‘talks his walk’ and is a constant source of inspiration to me (and thousands of others), knowing and beginning to accept, that it is possible for all to return to this natural way of living, by being in tune with and expressing from, the body.
“This is about accepting and appreciating that someone, a fellow human, a brother, is talking his walk for all of us to see and to know that it is possible for all of us to do too”.
When we are trying to live a certain way because we believe it’s the ‘right way to live’ and we try to order our bodies to be a certain way, I know from my own experience that it won’t work. I have tried to eliminate foods from my diet, following what other people were doing, but I secretly still really wanted to eat them. It was like a tug of war wanting something but denying myself and then that just made me want it even more. In the end I just stopped allowing my mind to dictate what I should or shouldn’t eat and allowed my body to guide me, feeling into how I reacted after eating certain foods and being honest about why I was craving certain foods. As I connected more with my body, I naturally felt less inclined to eat certain foods and I was able to let go of them without a tussle.
Wow stunning blog Dianne, ‘talking one’s walk’ has a whole new meaning now thank you and makes perfect sense.
We can be easily fooled by eloquent speakers, whilst their bodies and actions may be saying something very different.
This article is a masterpiece. Talking our walk puts the wisdom of the body first and brings the mind into line.
Awesome Dianne. Putting the body first makes total sense. We can then speak from our reality rather than creating one in our head and trying to live up to it.
Deeply beautiful Dianne, it makes life so much simpler when we allow the body to lead, and the mind comes in line, otherwise, we’re pulling in an outside force to dictate to the body and this never works. And thank you for elucidating this so clearly.
This is beautiful Dianne – thank you for expressing it so clearly. Listening to our whole body re-connects us with the deep wisdom of our soul and the universe, a wisdom that is all-encompassing and harmonious, rather than an ideal that may appear to be good but actually is an imposition on ourself or others…
Yes we have it back to front! We neglect to support generation upon generation to build even the most basic body awareness, other than function. The body is aligned naturally with the universe, this is a fact, that when explored opens up a depth of wisdom and communication like no other.
A beautiful sharing and knowing of the truth of our bodies and all they share with us, listening to this instead of all the ideals and imposed ways and trying to do this. The difference between ‘walking our talk’ and ‘talking our walk’ is huge and back to front, reversing everything and bringing it back to ourselves inside and our connection to our Soul, God and the Universe by simply and lovingly walking this and talking from here. Serge Benhayon is bringing this revelation and truth to humanity by living this and his inspiration is so solid so beautiful with his absolute love, integrity and energetic responsibility.
When listening to Serge Benhayon there is a completely different quality to what he presents, as ‘talking his walk’ is done from his lived experience from which it is heard and felt deeply.. an energy from which we can evolve from. Thank you, Dianne, for presenting the stark difference between talking your walk and walking your talk and thank you Serge Benhayon for talking your walk, deeply, deeply inspiring.
I always love your blogs Dianne, I love how you look at things and direct them in a way that makes things understandable and relatable.You have shown how we twist words to make them unachievable or totally the opposite to what their true meaning is. Walking your talk around to talking your walk makes absolute sense yet it is not something I had considered, but this is exactly what Serge Benhayon does in every part of his life, nothing is ignored or avoided and he is huge inspiration to us all.
Dianne when I heard Serge Benhayon talk about “talking his walk” I was confused but as I sat with it, it made total sense. However, what strikes me for that is then the focus and the responsibility is really all on living in a way that the body is able to “talk” truth because I’ve lived truth, so it brings life back to how I live, the care and the quality which is actually exactly what is needed. So perhaps I/we are so used to the “walk our talk”, even though that may not actually be the true way forward, that we find “talking our walk” to be alien.
Another gem from you Dianne, thank you! Serge Benhayon has been the first person I have ever come across too who literally does talk his walk and has and still does inspire me deeply on a daily basis to look at my life now and reflect on how I too can do the same. A far cry from what any ‘guru’ may tell us to do, but who then will revert back to their own often irresponsible choices as you have informed us of here.
Absolutely spot on, Dianne! I love how you simply describe why most of the population is living in exhaustion and perpetual tension – because we are “applying an even greater counterforce of thought to try to overcome the momentum in our bodies?” Serge Benhayon has consistently demonstrated for 18 years that our hearts and minds can beat to a different drum, in union with the soulful light we come from.
People can feel if you are speaking from knowledge – or from your lived way. ‘Do as I say, don’t do as I do’ was a mantra I often heard whilst growing up. Who would want to listen to that? But when inspired by example and someone who is living. moving and breathing truth before presenting, as Serge Benhayon does, who wouldn’t want to listen?
Wonderful blog Dianne. I have heard ‘walking the talk’ being expressed many times but knowing the huge influence our movements have on our life ‘talking the walk’ now makes so much more sense.
I have certainly experienced many spiritual presenters teaching from what they ‘knew’, but not from how they lived – and behind the scenes was not a pretty sight. Hence I would leave, moving on in search of an ethical presenter who truly walked his talk. Now talking your walk is in another league and Serge Benhayon is one such man who does this – he only presents what he has lived – and so I have stayed with Universal Medicine for ten years now.
As a parent I have held the belief ‘To inspire my children I have to live it’ and while this is true in one sense it comes from outside myself. Expressing truthfully from my body in each and every moment is what truly supports and inspires; no picture, ideal or belief feeding me but simply being with all of me in any given moment.
It occurs to me that no matter how hard we try to ‘walk our talk’, in truth we ‘talk our walk’ and whilst our mouths may say one thing, our bodies will reveal the truth of the matter. The incongruence can be felt and sensed both in ourselves and in others. There is so much effort in ‘walking our talk’ but when we come into alignment with the innate wisdom of our bodies talking our walk is effortless, natural and congruent. Dianne this is a great observation and beautifully expressed, thank you.
I love all that is written here exposing the gap between what we think we should be and doing and how we actually are. And even if what we are doing looks good the energy of what we are living in is what is actually felt by others, so even though the visual may look good, no notice will be taken of the words spoken. Children are a great example of this in that a parent or teacher can tell them again and again how they should or should not do something e.g. drink alcohol, yet they enjoy a glass of wine or beer every night with their meal. I can relate also to “then what those thoughts are asking our body to do may be in contradiction to where our bodies are at” as this is just it the mind never considers the body, that is down to ourselves to make the choice to check in with the body how it feels. Yet this becomes more tricky if I have only been living in my mind from ideals and pictures. So I have found coming back to the quality in how I move (walk) and staying aware of my body is then the only way to establish any truth, thus effecting how I am (talk). Thank goodness we have Serge Benhayon walking this path of The Livingness and thank you Dianne.
Very true Dianne ‘talking our walk’ changes everything – it effectively says we are talking what we live no more, no less. It is extremely powerful when we do this because it feels like our whole bodies are talking and we are not trying to convince the other person or ourselves because we have lived it so know it is true.
I fully appreciate all that you say here Dianne, thank you. Before meeting Serge Benhayon all my own attempts to walk my talk were consistently sabotaged by stagnated emotions and un-dealt with issues that were literally trapped inside my body, adding considerable momentum to the negative behaviours I was striving in vain to overcome. And then I met a man who was, and still is, very much ‘talking his walk’ and thus empowered me to begin to address the issues in my body so that I too could arrest the ill momentum and begin to live a life that honours my body’s incredible sensitivity. The level of integrity, honesty, grace and wisdom that flows from Serge is not unique. Yes it is unusual in this world at present because so few live it but it is most definitely available to us all, all it takes is a genuine willingness to walk in alignment with and full appreciation of our body, heart and soul.
The body is king and if we reinstated it as the royal splendour that it actually is then life would transform itself on every conceivable level.
“What if by saying ‘walking our talk’ we have got it completely back to front?”. I totally agree Dianne that we have had it back to front and how wonderful it is that you are now presenting this truth to the world. As has been presented to us over the ages, everything is energy therefore we are naturally energetic beings and the many ways that we express comes with an energy. So, it follows that when we open our mouths to speak everything we are and have lived up to that precise moment in time comes with the expression – we are talking the way we have been walking and if we have been walking in truth, as does Serge Benhayon, that is exactly what we are being presented with.
Such a simple, clear and glorious exposition, Dianne, of how ‘talking your walk’ is really the fulfillment of the common expression of ‘walking your talk’.
Dianne you have really highlighted the incredible force that so many of us live with, in trying to impose ways of being on our bodies, whilst all the while the body has already set in motion our way of being.
‘Talking our walk’ makes much more sense as you describe it, Dianne rather than, ‘walking our talk’. Serge Benhayon has indeed lead the way in terms of understanding energy and how this works in the body. He has shown how to live very practically, with a deeper connection, when we let the body lead the way rather than the mind.
This is lovely Dianne and very contemplative, if we walked our talk we can only be as good as what we can talk but if we talked our walk- we would express the amazingness of what we already are.
A wonderfully clear analysis of the truth of The Way of The Livingness and an awareness of the body in harmony with the Universe. Since I have been listening to presentations of the Ageless Wisdom by Serge Benhayon and observing how I have been living I realise that my thoughts have led me to turn so many things back to front.
What we can say at least when ‘talking our walk’ that we are honest about where we are at. That is a solid start and foundation to build on step by step from within, unfolding what is held inside as the potential of who we are, a metamorphosis that is destined to be our way. Living from ideals and beliefs or thoughts is imposing and detrimental to this natural evolution and one of the main reasons for delay, procrastination and suffering.
You have a beautiful way of putting things down in the written word Dianne, that makes it very easy to understand. We certainly do have it back the front, as walking your talk is like pushing the proverbial poo up hill and bound for failure, loaded with ideals and beliefs but talking your walk is where we are at no matter where that may be, no failure just a never ending learning curve.
it is rare to meet someone who walks his talk and visa versa and what I have experienced in meeting these people and especially Serge Benhayon, is that it feels so natural to be like that and that talking our walk is actually or natural way to live life as everything comes from movement and only can be understood from movement in the first place.
For the one who is truly discerning, there is no being fooled when someone’s ‘talk’ does not equate to their ‘walk’, is there… And if we be fooled, then it is for us to examine closely, why we did not want to see, feel and discern the truth of the person’s expression in the first place.
I have seen my full and fair share of those whose lives do not match what they do their darnedest to present to the world… And then, I have seen and observed Serge Benhayon from almost every angle for over 16 years now – and there are quite simply, no inconsistencies. This man is the real deal.
Brilliant Dianne Trussell. There is indeed much to be observed and astutely discerned in regards to whether those around us truly ‘walk their talk’ – yet you have taken this to another level…
What if, it IS the body and the quality of life lived – the Livingness – of that body, that determines our capacity to move, express/talk and be in all facets of life, with integrity, truth and love (or not)? What if it is THE BODY that is a vehicle for the type and quality of energy that expresses through it?
A spectacularly earth shattering revelation Dianne. Stunning!
Yes, how seriously refreshing – nay, extraordinary – it is to have access in our day and age, to a role model such as Serge Benhayon, a man who has mastered life on planet Earth (without perfection, as he would be the first to say) in all its aspects (and then some!) From the absolute wisdom of his body and soul. What one can glean from observing him, let alone from attending, watching or listening to his presentations, is revelatory.
Ha! What a brilliant turning of the tables Dianne with your exploration of why we find it so hard to ‘walk our talk’! You are absolutely, 100% correct. We need to live with the truth of where we are REALLY at, not where we want to be or think we should be – and simply and humbly move forward from there, uncovering why we’re stuck in our momentums and addictions.
Serge Benhayon is definitely an inspirational man who “walks his talk,” and you can feel it through his bodies entire expression. Walking the talk is a whole body movement of a life lived and experienced connected to the whole and the undeniable truth is expressed in every fine detail of movement made. This not only gives everyone a palpable knowing of this truth from what they feel in the movements reflected but also offers oodles of inspiration to make their own movements from their lived experiences too. A very beautiful blog thank you Dianne.
One of the true tenants of ‘Walking Your Talk’ is that one is to know truly who they are and the love and responsibility of their way in life – it is only after this that one begins to truly bring themselves as a true reflection.
FANTASTIC read Diane, love every word and love the way you break it down – “What if the talking [i.e. our every expression] is coming from our bodies first, not our minds?” It just shows how back to front, upside down a world we live in… turn it the other way, and we turn back to Truth.
Dianne, I love how you are exposing the falseness in trying to live up to an expectation of how we think we should be, even one of enlightenment. Whenever we are ‘trying’ to be a certain way, it involves a force that is not true. ‘What if the talking [i.e. our every expression] is coming from our bodies first, not our minds?’ – then we are, very naturally, living and expressing our truth through our movements first and being impulsed to make choices that support and nurture us in this way of living – no ‘trying’ needed.
I like to consider having read this that the path to walking the talk is building blocks of good choices, layering one good movement upon another. And never to seek perfection but to have a lot of love for self, a lot of self praise, all combined with a lot of decency and integrity, caring about others but never to the detriment of oneself.
Thank you Dianne, it’s a powerful sharing on how we either impose onto our body to present a way of living, principles and values, or we surrender to our body and talk it’s walk!
It makes sense that all of our expressions come from the state of our bodies and are a reflection of that foundation… and gorgeous to consider that without our minds imposing upon it through disregarding choices, the innate wisdom and divinity of the body can be unimpeded and be allowed to emanate through the way we then express and move through life.
Another brilliant article Dianne with so many pearls of wisdom. Until I met Serge Benhayon, I hadn’t realised how much I craved to know there are people who actually are the real deal and do walk their talk. This is important to see and feel, as a role model for ourselves and to not shrug our shoulders and go along with the masses that are not walking their talk.
Brilliant Dianne, this blog and what you present is like unplugging the treadmill we are all on and re-wiring it to have its power supplied from a different source. It’s truly huge to understand that all the words you’ve written here don’t command and initiate life, but just confirm the actions and movements that you make. The quality of our steps is the fertile soil from which our wisdom comes.
We have become great consumers – trading on ideals as a commodity to live by that we believe somehow supersedes the intelligence our body is in constant communication with, that there is something worth striving for. We sell them and we buy them. If every single particle of our body is left to its own device and just be, it walks in the complete alignment with the flow that holds us all in. We communicate how we live. It doesn’t work trying to control and fiddle with what kind of communication we put out there without looking at the way we live.
What is so inspiring about all that Serge Benhayon presents is that it is never imposed… everyone is left to consider if what is presented is true for them, and it is up to the individual if they choose to try it out or not.
Yes Paula, as much as we’d like to be told what to do in certain circumstances we find ourselves in in life, where we seek another’s opinion or guidance, Serge has never given instruction but has always offered wise words for me to learn and grow from.
Serge Benhayon truly ‘talks his walk’… and is a constant inspiration to thousands of people worldwide.
“What if the talking [i.e. our every expression] is coming from our bodies first, not our minds?” This is a great question Dianne… it makes so much sense to express from our bodies, from the truth we know ourselves to be, rather than what we impose upon ourselves.
The body comes first and the mind comes second – and we’ve generally got that back to front.
Truth being that we know when there is an imposter claiming to walk his talk. Our soul knows the movements are not true, we then can choose to follow suit with the untrue movement or trust our soul’s truth that a fraud is before us. The same goes for someone who is walking their talk, such as Serge Benhayon. Our soul knows this movement of truth and we then can choose to walk this ourselves.
I heard Serge Benhayon talk about this but I did not really get it. Now I do, thank you for this fascinating insight into what it means to talk your walk – your movements coming first, connection and wisdom from our bodies, and then talking that. Love it.
Brilliant article Dianne; our body when aligned to the love we are knows true movement, its words are wise and expressed universally, for all.
You have nailed it here Dianne – thank you! – “All we need do is open to the possibility that we have had it back to front all our lives, and that with this simple heartfelt commitment to listen to our bodies, to listen to our hearts, and to move in accordance with their communications (which come from the universe via our souls), then we too can walk and talk the joy-full life of grace, wisdom, harmony, brotherhood and unlimited love that we know is our true living way.”
Dianne, I love what you are presenting here regarding walking your talk versus talking your walk. I would be inclined to say that walking your talk is indeed a good start, when it comes to us speaking about a lived truth that we know we would never drop below – that we have laid a foundational way of being that we never compromise. However, with what you present, you are taking it to the next level where it is more than just speaking what you live, for when you turn it the other way around you are then feeding yourself the next step. There is an absolute honesty in talking your walk, and with this awareness we can then allow ourselves to feel where the body is at and what the next steps are to be, to feel where our body is truly at and sense if this is what is dear to us and if this is in line with our natural evolution of expression. This is a powerful guage indeed!
‘‘talking our walk’ instead? That everything we say – our posture, our actions, all our expressions – are coming from the actual current state of our bodies?’ So amazingly true – I am slowly beginning to grasp this from my actual experience rather than it just making sense.
Total game changer Dianne Trussell. Do we ‘talk our walk’ or ‘walk our talk’. Do we allow our movements to be in tune with the greater movements of the Universe we belong to, or do we seek to invite into our bodies via our thoughts a discordant rhythm that is ‘beating to its own drum’ and thus out of tune with and not in accordance to, the flow of life? Thank God that there are those amongst us like Serge Benhayon and now many more, that show us how simple it is to not only change the game we have been caught up in for so long by virtue of letting the mind dominate the body by its ill-seeking ways, but also stop playing it entirely.
Yes, Liane. It is becoming more and more easy to discern bodies that are moving in the flow or in disharmony. It won’t be long before humanity will be looking to Universal Medicine to re-define true health and wellbeing based on these simple energetic principles.
This explains all the trying and why its so hard to sustain many ideas that have come from the head but not the body. Talking our walk, feels more authentic, rather than forcing the body to conform to a way of being that doesn’t always feel right.
Wow Dianne. A proper exposé on how we are living and fooling ourselves. Whilst uncomfortable to accept, you’ve absolutely nailed the state of humanity. What is that we are trying to achieve by pretending our way through it? What stops us from committing in full to ourselves and then to humanity? Old old patterns and belief systems that are familiar and therefore keep circulating despite us knowing deep down that it’s just not working.
Ah yes the illusion of walking the talk, the pressure to look and act the part rather than live the part and express from that. The more I connect to my body and adjust my way of living to be more loving and open the more loving and open I am in my thoughts and words. I tried to fake it until I make it but that never worked as my body was hard, aggressive and closed off and so were my thoughts, words and actions. It was not until I met Serge Benhayon and realised that I need to change my movements (the way I was living and treating my body) that I would then by default also change as it’s very opposing to have a body that is moving gently and being open to then think harsh aggressive thoughts or to indulge in things that are self-abusive or harming of another. Let your walk become the marker – let your body reflect your lived truth through your walk (life) – and from there you express all that that body holds.
Absolutely brilliant. To talk the walk of our bodies in complete acceptance of the fact of where we are in our evolution is to give ourselves permission to be ourselves – perfectly imperfect.
This presentation is amazing, how it starts with movement first before there is a thought or a talk. It is hard to grasp indeed as the believe that we are our thoughts is so ingrained, but what if it is true and the thoughts come in accordance with what we align to through our movement and whether these are in sync with the body or not?
I love what you have presented here! To talk our walk rather than walk our talk, then it becomes about being where we are at instead of where we ‘want’ ourselves to be. This reminded me of another saying as well ‘what goes on behind closed doors’ which is exactly what you are talking about here, people living one life on the outside but behind closed doors living a completely different life. Its very insidious and something that comes back to us as our lived choices and actions are an energetic imprints and therefore recorded energetically.
Dianne, once again a truly inspiring article, and if I hadn’t met Serge Benhayon myself I would have denied that such a person existed, ironic really, as every single person on this planet has the same potential of ‘walking their talk’ and living in total alignment with every particle of the Universe 🙂
Beautiful Dianne simply a wonderful expose of why we find it so hard to live what we think we should rather than surrendering to the bodies innate knowing.
‘However, there is a big problem with the whole ‘walking your talk’ situation, and that is that we attempt to impose it upon ourselves from our thoughts based on a system of adopted beliefs in whatever arena of life we are considering.’ I love the exposure on this within this blog and how we can pretend we are walking our talk if we fake it on the outside! Not living it from the body means that it is only an idea and not a lived reality. It really is no wonder that when we look at role models who are faking it so many of us get disillusioned!
Love how you bring this all together. Thank you for sharing your observation and lived experience it is felt really simple and clear.
What has always jarred with me is meeting someone who is about to give a talk. They seem to always be looking around them and not themselves and then they go and give a talk and all of a sudden they change – their posture, their voice – how they are. It is all adapted to talk to a room – when face to face is very different. That to me is not walking the talk – and I am so blessed to have an example of someone who walks their talk. Every moment.
I could relate to every word Dianne, you’re a master of explanation! Step by step you show the difference between ‘walking the talk’ and ‘talking the walk’, you show the nonsense of thinking our way to an ideal, and illustrate the truth in living our way towards the type of thoughts that can entertain nothing but the “joy-full life of grace, wisdom, harmony, brotherhood and unlimited love”.
What comes to me when you talk about this Diane is absolute responsibility. There is simply no room to lie when you are talking your walk. You have to be utterly transparent otherwise you will be not talking your walk at all, but a lie or a picture which is not how you live. Trouble is we are so used to communicating from our pictures that we have shut down to decerning if what someone lives is true or not.
So true Joshua, it brings in responsibility, accountability and a commitment to live that in every moment. In fact, it is a blessing and the answer to many of the illnesses we have in our lives – our walk is our medicine.
Dianna I have lived my life in a ‘straight jacket’ of guarded speech, second guessing other people around me, trying to fit in by not taking up too much space in the world and always apologising even if I hadn’t done anything wrong! It was a very claustrophobic way of life believe me and I felt very small and insignificant. Meeting Serge Benhayon was a turning point in my life I have slowly re built my self respect and cast off the ideals and beliefs from others that I felt knew better than me and so absorbed what they said. These ideals and beliefs bore no resemblance to the true me and Serge Benhayon was the only man who I had met in my 50 years, who had the grace to tell me I was not what I seemed on the outside, I was more. And in the last 11 years I have found this to be true. I have discovered a completely different person, one who is super bright and intelligent, incredibly sweet and as soft as putty and I love being with people. I adore me and this is all thanks to a very humble man called Serge Benhayon who walks his talk through life and is a huge reflection of what can be lived if we so choose and I choose this new way of life for me with every breath. I have such joy in my heart it is spilling out for all too share.
As someone caught in wanting to be a certain way because I know it is a true way of being, but who struggles to live this way of being, this article is heaven sent. The self imposed ideals haven’t accounted for the reality and truthful knowing of where my body actually is.
Often my behaviours are an attempt to try and live these ideals through a shortcut. What is missed are the steps to living the truth I do know from my body. These steps include being honest about where my body actually is, a loving acceptance and humility of seeing how my choices have gotten me to this point, and that through this acceptance and understanding that can only come through my being with myself in full, I can then make more loving choices and build from there. There is often an acceptance that I will be walking back through the quagmire that I created to return myself and my body back to me. I may want to retaliate against this but if I surrender, a humility and grace is there which I have never previously allowed. The walk back through my choices teaches me it is never worth treating myself and or others without the 100% tenderness that we can live by.
When we try to jump ahead and live up to some picture or ideal of where would like to be at or where we think we’re at, we are dishonouring the beautiful truth that we need take every step if we are to evolve and expand into the future. It is deeply humbling to let go of those pictures and absolutely accept and love ourselves for where we are, knowing that we are where we need to be to be able to take the next step in towards our Soul.
So true Karin, the surrendering takes away the retaliation because we stop trying to be perfect. I get a sense there is more transparency in talking our walk and that can only be good for our own and others mental and physical health.
Serge Benhayon – pure inspiration as “someone, a fellow human, a brother, is talking his walk for all of us to see and to know that it is possible for all of us to do too.” Talking your walk – I love this – the honesty and integrity it brings.