I came from a family where education was prioritised and highly valued. In that sense I was ‘well educated’, graduating from a private school of high repute before going on to tertiary education. I was smart, capable and so, of course, it was assumed I would gain a degree of some sort. Without higher education, the potential of work was limited to the (unspoken, but implied) lesser jobs to which women without the piece of paper were relegated.
So I spent four quite enjoyable and fastidious years studying Natural Medicine, which covered all manner of aspects and approaches to health and wellbeing.
Straight out of college, I fell into work alongside some of Brisbane’s integrative GPs, where I began to gain a reputation as a practitioner who was dedicated, knowledgeable and very personable. Patients loved me, I got great results, and I made the GP’s work much easier with my knack for explaining whatever was going on and whatever was needed to support and motivate them.
In essence, I was very good at applying knowledge.
After a number of years however, I became restless, seeing that I only had half the answers I wanted to have. There were many shortfalls in both the medical world and Naturopathy; even combining the two (referred to as Integrative Medicine) didn’t feel like it was delivering what it could. So off I went to study Chinese Medicine. Another 3+ years of study, which I again threw myself into wholeheartedly, putting much of what I learnt into practice myself and becoming immersed in an understanding and an approach that seemed to fill so many of the gaps. Finally, I thought, I had all the answers.
Not long after came the birth of my son and some time off before heading back to work. But less than a year later I found myself burnt out, exhausted and experiencing a recurring case of pneumonia that seemed resistant to every intervention. The lack of resilience in my own health left me feeling disillusioned with my profession and all the knowledge I had accumulated, to the point that I essentially ‘retired’ myself from the profession. If I couldn’t even sort my own health out, what on earth was I doing with anyone else! The effort and drain of ‘helping people’ had become so acute that the mere thought of practising became abhorrent to me.
So, for all my ‘health’ education and my extensive knowledge and experience, I was not able to sustain a busy practice. My personal relationships were also struggling; then to top it off, I was at my wits end in trying to address what was a very debilitating illness.
It was at this point I met Serge Benhayon and began what has turned out to be the most profound educational and transformative experience of my life.
I can say that I learnt more about myself, life around me, my interactions and the patterns I engaged in with others in the next few years than I had ever come close to learning in nearly 8 years of tertiary study and 40+ years of life.
For example:
| I learnt how to live in life without getting caught up in the drama of others around me; I learnt how to connect with myself and then foster and hold that connection. I learnt the difference between the love that comes from the connection and the emotional kind I had moulded my life around to that point. |
| I learnt how central this love was to my own healing and realised I had sought this from outside myself for so long. |
| I learnt how to restore my own sense of confidence and self-worth that was so unshakeable that I could no longer say yes to a relationship unless what was offered was equal to the love I felt for myself. Through this I learnt how to be in a relationship that was based on love and not on the dynamics that had been miserably played out previously. |
| I learnt what true responsibility was and that without it, I could never truly heal. I learnt that healing is to restore something that is already intact, and not a process of making us ‘better’ or different. I learnt that without my own healing, I had little to offer another that would support their healing. |
| I learnt about integrity, real integrity; an integrity that goes to our very core and is seen and felt in our every thought and movement – energetic integrity. |
| I learnt how to not give my power away – in fact, I learnt what my ‘power’ actually was. |
| I learnt what it means to be and feel like a woman, and not to live up to society’s ideals and beliefs. I learnt about my own delicateness; the tenderness and nurturing that are my most natural expression. I learnt to listen to my body and to connect to what is true for me. I learnt that my body’s communications are loud and broad, offering the most finely tuned navigation tool I could ever hope to find. |
| I learnt that I am connected to the Universe and hence I am part of something so much bigger and grander than I could ever have imagined. I learnt that I have a depth beyond the oceans and a wisdom I can access in the stillness of my breath. |
Whilst this sounds like I have been given everything, the fact is I have.
What I learnt through Serge Benhayon enabled me to return to relationships with openness and real love. I experience a depth of relating to people that not only enriches my personal life, but every aspect of my professional life also.
I returned to work with renewed vitality and dedication, working well beyond any capacity I had before and with the ability to apply ALL that I live and know. So I have since worked some 8-10 years tirelessly in support of others and have yet to suffer an ill-health condition beyond the occasional common cold in that time.
Now THAT is testimony to a TRUE Education!
By Jennifer Ellis, ND, Adv Dip Ac, Practitioner Universal Medicine Therapies, EPA & ANTA member, Brisbane, Australia
Further Reading
–How much has education really advanced us?
–What would our Education be like if we Truly Supported our Kids to Connect to their Body?
–The true foundations of education – our future
The Truth about Universal Medicine 
When you have all the answers for others but not for you, you never had all the answers in the first place.
The wisdom in what is expressed in this comment Eduardo can not be overstated.
It has me reflect on how intelligence has for a long while been reduced to a process of cramming lots of information and regurgitating it at relevant moments. Yet the answers are never in words. We can only share what is truly meaningful and supportive of another when it is already a truth in our own lives.
We are so blessed to have come across Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon. The transformations in our lives cannot be explained in simple words, they are felt. They are felt by the people we meet on the street, our family members, our friends. We know exactly what occurs in healing sessions, in presentations by Serge and nothing or nobody can change that regardless of the lies they spill.
There is a teacher within that we need to learn to trust and consult; before we can do it to the full extent we need to have teachers or an education that helps us to get everything out of the way of having that innate relationship with our innermost as our number one and forever source of wisdom.
Learning the essentials of life, what it means to live a life fully lived as who one is, activating and maximizing one´s potential and everything that comes with that should be the number one education for everyone, well before we focus on knowledge required for the practicalities of life. Both are needed in the right priority, proportion and interaction.
Wow this is really saying something ‘I can say that I learnt more about myself, life around me, my interactions and the patterns I engaged in with others in the next few years than I had ever come close to learning in nearly 8 years of tertiary study and 40+ years of life.’ and I would say the same. Meeting Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine you are truly met, no imposition, which gave me space just to be and to be honest and feel all I had lived that wasn’t me. Along with this and the teaching of Universal Medicine and Sacred Esoteric Healing modalities, my body was supported to let go of all the hurts and ill habits and patterns etc that I had accrued over time. Now I feel more steady and settled within myself than ever before, this is never about perfection and I am still continuing learning and re-imprinting.
This blog beautifully and honestly reveals that all the health education in the world is not enough to live a truly healthy life. Without understanding that we have a reckless spirit often making our choices, it is hard to fathom the unhealthy or self-abusive things we do to ourselves, despite knowing better. True education comes from our soul through the intelligence of our body. This leads us back to connection, integrity, self-worth and inner confidence, from which we will naturally find true, sustainable health.
Interesting that we can have a “good life”, but that it may not be consistent across the board in life. Should this not make us stop and ask why? Its not about a perfect life but is just inviting us to be much more honest about why we may be all over work for example and neglect what goes on at home. We are not meant to live our life in parts, we are also not meant to be on and then off in life – both are myths and are actually not good for our wellbeing.
Education: What is in that word? Originally, education designated the activity of raising (educare or bringing up) other fellow humans in a nourishing way so these could also live in a way that honour and reflect to others (educere or bring out, bring forth, draw out) the innate wisdom and qualities we all share equally. Thus, education was essentially educare and educere. Nowadays, however, what we understand by education differs greatly from it. That is why we can be highly educated but live miserably.
“I learnt about integrity, real integrity; an integrity that goes to our very core and is seen and felt in our every thought and movement – energetic integrity” – that really is the forerunner to everything in life isn’t it Jennifer. Energy reveals everything about the quality of our actions and whether they are from the truth of fire, the light of the soul and therefore harmless, or the opposite and harmful but dressed up as being good such that we fall for it. Now that I understand the difference between fiery energy, soul, and pranic energy, my life, way of living and relating has been irrevocably transformed.
‘I learnt how to connect with myself and then foster and hold that connection.’ And this is something missing in most of the education offered today, the understanding that we bring us, and how to stay us and not become the ‘profession’ or ‘job’, but to bring the quality of who we are to it.
Esoteric Medicine as presented by Serge Benhayon truly does offer the missing link to healing and medicine as a whole. It offers a true support to unfold how we live our life in every area and every relationship to deepen the quality and connection we bring, and that is something that can only benefit us all.
What a great testament , thank you Jenny, to the truth and power of what we have been given in the Way of the Livingness. This is true education which brings us all the wisdom we need to live with harmony, love and joy within ourselves and with each other.
What you share here is gold, because true life is not based on how much knowledge we can attain, and the more we educate ourselves and realise that self-care and self-love plays a huge part in our ability to connect to ourselves, which in turn supports us to live a quality of life, that means we can build a foundation of love for ourselves first.
2. I agree that you can learn more about life, health, love relationships in one hour, sometimes even one sentence from Serge Benhayon than I have learned from all the education and qualifications I have achieved. What Serge presents is alive and whole whereas knowledge in the educational system is very linear and only has a part of the story. We need well rounded human beings in society not just people who are knowledgeable and skilful at their jobs.
What a wonderful ‘lesson plan’. What I love about Serge Benhayon’s presentation, lessons and The School of the Livingness is that all that is offered and shared is so with the truth that we are all equal and have access to absolutely everything to live our lives in the fullness of the qualities here described.
“If I couldn’t even sort my own health out, what on earth was I doing with anyone else!” When practising an alternative therapy for over twenty years I met many practitioners who didn’t live what they taught their clients, who lived unhealthy lifestyles, and often smoked and drank alcohol. I felt something was wrong but it was ‘normal’. Meeting Serge Benhayon enabled me to turn my life around and perceive my former existence as being not at all normal. Here was a man who walked his talk and made absolute sense. The Esoteric health practitioners also do this, with the EPA – their professional organisation – having the highest code of ethics I have ever witnessed.
Such a wonderful foundation shared by Serge Benhayon and then your living way with this Jenny. Thanks for shinning a beautiful reflection to us All, it’s absolutely appreciated and essential so all women can feel the difference between the impost of general society expectations and our innate unique essence – which we all discover one way or another in truth that we can’t live the fullness, joy and vitality of who we are without our connection to this.
That really is true education and saying something, that you learnt more in a short time with Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine, than you did in 40+ years of life and 8 years in education!!!! I can say exactly the same. In fact I so wish I had these teachings and this education when I was young and growing up. I know my life would have had far less struggle in it if I did.
Hear hear Jennifer, I can deeply relate to what you share from my own experience and the points of learning you have gone through should be the basics of any form of education.
So often we are taught that healing is about getting better and attaining something, rather than, as you put it – ‘healing is to restore something that is already intact’. The moment we start with the fact that we are love, and use this as our basis, we see all the steps we have taken away from love and so can ‘heal’ them, let go of the hurts etc.. Otherwise we are trying to get to some picture we have of love rather than surrendering to what is already within.
Education has a high social esteem because it is widely seen as the only way to reach our potential and that as the only way to earn security. Yet, the potential we tap into is not truly THE POTENTIAL. It is an ad-hoc version that relates only to security earning.
As I become more aware of my connection to the universe via the connection to within the elimination of individualisation, living from self has to become less but it is not something that I am setting out to do but is a continuous unfolding of what is next.
Nice article 😀
Very well written I love the way that you are kind person and in your bad days you enhance your kindness more and most important you groom your self confidence.when we start loving ourself than we can love all around us.peace
I can feel the truth, livingness and vastness of the following point, which I find immensely beautiful and inspiring “I learnt that I am connected to the Universe and hence I am part of something so much bigger and grander than I could ever have imagined. I learnt that I have a depth beyond the oceans and a wisdom I can access in the stillness of my breath.”
True education where we learn about energy and living life far exceeds any knowledge that we can possibly accumulate. Study and training can come later and will then greatly support to find our place in society and be of service to others.
I take my hat off to anyone that was able to complete school, let alone a University degree! I was raised in a family that believed that the school system, although necessary to a certain age, was not supportive. My mother felt it was a breeding ground for competition and saw it was something that inadvertently seemed to shut down children’s natural light. Eventually I came to realise she was spot on and at 16 years of age I decided that school was not for me. I have, however been studying for over 10 years now as a student of Universal Medicine and I have learned more about myself, reading, writing, the human condition, nature, the stars, relationships, science, the true meaning of god and religion in that time. This livingness that I have seen and experienced is more than I could have imagined possible for one person to experience in a lifetime! I’m with you, this is true education! I also have my mother to thank for introducing me to Serge Benhayon and in turn, this amazing way of living.
Sarah, you are spot on – Universal Medicine is true education, it is education from the inside out.
A testimony to what true health is offering us when we allow ourselves to be honest with ourselves including our body. To start building a relationship with what is rising as subjects or disease in our lives to work on – and not see it as a coincidence as everything comes with symbolism. The symbolism of what our body is telling us to become aware of and change..
Love what you have written Jenny, a true appreciation of the most amazing teacher and philosopher Serge Benhayon. And also love your list of learnings which of these this one really is a great reminder for me – “I learnt what true responsibility was and that without it I could never truly heal. I learnt that healing is to restore something that is already intact, and not a process of making us ‘better’ or different. I learnt that without my own healing, I had little to offer another that would support their healing.
We champion education and all we think education brings, yet what about true wisdom that comes from a true knowing inside, would we not all benefit from learning how to expand our clairsentience and our wisdom, rather than how to recall education.
Yes, when we connect with our inner wisdom, there’s no recall needed, as everything is at our hands everytime. This is endless wisdom that can’t be boxed in any degree, but experienced and unfolded within our Livingness.
Your commitment and purpose is palpable Jennifer, to yourself first with all the seeking of true education and then gaining the wisdom through the Universal Medicine teachings. It is a huge service for yourself and your own development, but also for us all.
We give an enormous amount of importance to education and to the containment and recall of knowledge, imagine if we put that amount of importance of an education that supported a truthful, solid and evolving way of living – now that would be magnificent.
Jennifer this is a great blog, bringing it back to the true understanding our health, starting with self and being the living example and reflection for others. Bringing a lived depth of experience to share in your practice.
Exploring what true love feels like and how different this feels to emotional love is a great path to walk. I am finding that, on this path, true love is a quality, or a beholding light that embraces everyone, including myself. And with this there is endless understanding that goes to a depths I have yet to fully experience but know is there, waiting, with open arms.
True education never comes at the expense of our body, as the current ideal of good education is that our minds are the only focus and the academic results being the only achievement. But if we get amazing results in education but a very poor health body and mind, are these results truly true?
Absolutely it does not come at the expense of your body, it is not what we recall, but what we lived.
Well-said Adele, true education is never at the expense of our bodies, it is always in the honouring of the true nature within us, knowing that it is from this place that we have the capability to access the infinite level of wisdom from the universe.
Reading this blows me away and makes me really appreciate the fact that we have such an amazing philosopher in our time and how much is there to learn if we are open to it.
The education system in our society today lacks the fundamental principle that we are all-knowing beings and that it is through our connection to our bodies that we get access to infinite wisdom that is available to all of us, so true intelligence is a whole body experience and not just something that is attributed to the mind.
Well expressed Francisco. If we were to accept this fundamental truth as a whole, as the scientific fact that it is, our education system would be vastly different – as would our world for that matter!
Well said Francisco, true intelligence is a whole body experience. We are all knowing beings and we access the infinite wisdom through the connection of our bodies.
It is so interesting how the state of illness and disease continually rises and yet we have more ‘therapies’ than ever, including advancements in conventional medicine. It is imperative that we look at the way we are living – eating, moving, relating – and bring True medicine into every aspect of our lives. Universal Medicine is all about taking our health and well-being into our hands by being responsible in the way we live. This makes perfect sense and has brought me to feel so very much more vital and healthy in my body…even as I grow into my elder years.
When I was at University studying Naturopathy I had many meetings with the Dean pointing out many students in fourth year that were working in the teaching clinic were suffering from chronic issues that arise from exhaustion. This was not a concern the school thought worth any real consideration, in other words they didn’t feel people needed to walk their talk to educate. I then found Serge Benhayon who honoured and respected that without walking our talk there could be no true change for ourselves or others. So I chose studying with The School of The Way of The Livingness over my near complete University Degree…..
“If I couldn’t even sort my own health out, what on earth was I doing with anyone else!” Thanks goodness, Jennifer, that you had the integrity to stop and question your working practise like this, as this was when you became more open to the truth. There are many unhealthy practitioners out there who do not live what they preach.
“It was at this point I met Serge Benhayon and began what has turned out to be the most profound educational and transformative experience of my life.” There are many people, including myself who are able to say they too have had a simialr experience since meeting Serge Benhayon, and it comes down to the fact that all he presents and shares is true and divine wisdom which comes from his own lived experience and the constant commitment he has to staying in connection with himself and his body.
As you say Jennifer, there are many shortfalls with what is conventionally on offer for true health in the medical world. What Universal Medicine offers is true education for us to observe the difference and it is huge, to learn how we can empower ourselves and others to facilitate healing.
How we live with it’s quality, responsibility and integrity is fundamental. One day this simple but earth moving information will be known everywhere.
We live in a society that values knowledge and intelligence more than the quality of our health and innate knowing. Your example here Jennifer proves beyond doubt that valuing our health and our feelings is the greater intelligent because we are tapping into the enormous wisdom that naturally resides in our bodies and underpins everything we do in life.
An inspiring sharing Jennifer! What you show us is that we can all heal by accepting it is us that is either open to it or not. The Practitioner is a facilitator and a real person with similar experiences as ourselves that we can learn from.
A school of living so much more interesting than any subject I learnt at school,. One day we will have an education system that offers all the points you learnt Jenny, an education that supports us for the rest of our life and not just our school years.
I like this point you make about self worth and your choice of relationships. This feels dearly simple and sweet and essential for any woman living today.
…. I also wanted to add today on the radio they were discussing debt and education and should it cost our younger generation so much to go to university. And while I think we need to bring self-care at the very least into education from young all the way through and present .. this being from a way of livingness instead of preaching something we are not living ourselves. It seems currently we are making it harder and harder for the next generation to live including learning something they are interested in. Okay I have said it and finished … for now! 🙃
Now this is really saying something ‘I learnt more about myself, life around me, my interactions and the patterns I engaged in with others in the next few years than I had ever come close to learning in nearly 8 years of tertiary study and 40+ years of life.’ And I can vouch exactly the same with me regarding Universal Medicine and the years of study I did beforehand, including doing a Naturopath course which as much as I wanted to I literally could not get my head or body around the whole Earth, Fire, Water, Metal thing! So all I can say is Universal Medicine …. now that is TRUE Education. With all the education, learning, courses and intention in the world (including trying to ‘fix’ people which we can never do as this is for them to do through their choices and willingness to truly heal … we can support them though) for me the most important is truly understanding the difference between Soul and Spirit, once we know this, with thanks to Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine, the rest can become easier to understand and easier to heal.
I like the way you talk about returning to relationships with this new awareness, commitment and honesty and how this makes me realise that every relationship can be refreshed however long certain patterns may have been in place.
Serge Benhayon and universal Medicine has shown me true education and healing from the moment I met him and always has ever evolving and deepening in understanding wisdom and truth with the importance and commitment to this in life.
The things you listed above are essential to be able to live a joyful life, without knowing those things we are just at the mercy of the world, what is going on around us, and can only rely on textbooks to find our way out of it – which never truly works.
True Education is certainly the missing key in life, when you read of your transformation Jennifer it is absolutely clear that Universal Medicine offers a way for the body to truly heal and to understand life in a way that makes perfect sense.
There is never enough for the spirit. But the truth is we are all enough and do not have to seek for answers anywhere outside of us.
Learning the truth of who we are brings a great world of opportunity and a completely different experience of life.
All of us hold access to a wisdom within that if we were just to allow it, it would unfold for all to benefit from. This is part of our education in life – to allow the unfoldment of this inherent wisdom.
Agreed, Henrietta, and the current education system does the exact opposite of this. Thank goodness for Universal Medicine, in revealing the truth of education once and for all.
“Without higher education, the potential of work was limited to the (unspoken, but implied) lesser jobs to which women without the piece of paper were relegated.” – it is sad to see that we do not value the so called menial tasks that are the foundation of society and equally important as the so called ‘higher’ positions. Without some of these so called ‘lesser’ jobs our society would be a mess (for example with no cleaners, no dustbin drivers, no gardeners, no child care centers, no restaurants or cafes…) where would we be? And like wise we need our doctors, lawyers, teachers etc just as much. Really there should be an equal valuing of each and every profession for what they are here to bring, and an appreciation of it all.
It will be very inspiring when we realise the equal-ness of all the jobs we do; the importance of each one and the balance that this approach restores.
Just learning what true power is is big in itself! Another big one is learning integrity, . . . ” real integrity; an integrity that goes to our very core and is seen and felt in our every thought and movement – energetic integrity.” . . as this brings home to us the responsibility we have in the world.
Education on the way life actually works is what is missing from our society. Universal Medicine is a school that is dedicated to true education, one that is universally understood and that can be practically used in every arena of life. Now that is a degree that builds you, instead of draining you.
What I have learned from Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine is priceless, and revolves around living in a way that makes complete sense on all levels. And brings a love that shines so true and bright, that sparks every cell our body and inspires and restores us to our true grandness.
‘I learnt how central this love was to my own healing and realised I had sought this from outside myself for so long.’ – I too have learnt what you describe here Jennifer, that love is who we truly are, innately so, coming from a place where I time and time again felt the need to be confirmed from the outside to feel ‘loved’ and ‘good enough’.
This is huge and I so appreciate all that you have listed as you have learnt because each one I can relate to. I can feel with each I am on the path of returning to who I truly am.; and also where I the steps to deepen an aspect is very clearly being called for.
I loved re-reading this, it is so stark how vital you now are.
The responsibility and integrity that you have demonstrated here Jenny is the proof of the lived way that is from living in connection with the body as the only way to seek healing ourselves.
Jennifer what a beautiful testimonial to Universal Medicine and true life lived from within in connection with the all. ” I met Serge Benhayon and began what has turned out to be the most profound educational and transformative experience of my life.” True education and true healing really does matter.
“In essence, I was very good at applying knowledge.” that sums up the trap I feel so many of us fall into, we move from what we feel and deep down know is true to trying to apply knowledge to resolve and fix things. I’ve been noticing how I can do this in so many different ways each day, yet when I surrender to the truth of what I feel then things become simple and its not me having to fix everything.
I love reading through the summary list of your true education, Jennifer. Meeting Serge Benhayon was a turning point for me also, bringing truth and love back into my life and relationships.
Jenny I agree that the teachings Serge Benhayon shares are life changing. With the support of the therapies Universal Medicine offers I got to connect to the body and feel it and then I had something tangible that I could connect with in my body. The presentations each time are full of so much practical subjects and it all seems to make so much sense. When I was at school I struggled a lot with connecting to what was being presented but with Serge’s Presentations and workshops I find them so engaging and my whole body is totally focused on what is being shared.
This is the way the whole world should be educated. Why would we want anything less?
A fabulous testimony here showing the discovery of Self Worth, Confidence, Love, Responsibility, Integrity, Connection, Relationships, not giving power away, Essence of Woman…. and more… What true foundations for life are discovered through Universal Medicine.
“I returned to work with renewed vitality and dedication, working well beyond any capacity I had before and with the ability to apply ALL that I live and know” – that’s the thing with love or peeling back the layers and living more truly… we get to enjoy vitality.
It is strange how we have to add ‘true’ to words like love, religion and even truth in order to distinguish true expression from the way these words are expressed at the moment.
Re-learning how to move in a way that honours our delicateness and divine sweetness is something for all of us to commit to, as we all know what it feels like from when we were young and can in truth feel when we treat our bodies harshly or in disregard.
Very true, when we let go of the toughness we have taken on in life, we can actually feel the impact of every choice that is not of a loving and harmonious quality.
We stump our ability to offer true healthcare support whether we are in a medical/practitioner profession or otherwise by not looking after our own body. This comes with enormous self doubt, and it’s common for someone to give advice and follow up with, ‘I should listen to my own advice!’, or ‘not that I couldn’t lose a few pounds too!’, go to sleep earlier, argue less, rest more etc. There is a way of living where we don’t feel the need to justify or undermine what we say, and this comes from living responsibly and seeing the ripples of our choices on ourselves and others.
This is yet another remarkable example of how powerful our relationship with our essence is. Universal Medicine has been a support to people all around the world in this way, a support that empowers people to know they are exquisite and encourages them to shed all the layers that may be impairing them from living this in full. Thank you for sharing your story, your patients and colleges are now blessed with a professional that is not only well learned but speaks from a full body knowing.
Yes I agree Sarah. Jennifer is a great example of what a true practitioner is, by living with the highest level of love and integrity for herself and others.
As education goes the wisdom that has become so inspiring from the Universal Medicine model seems to be a bottomless vessel that delivers universality.
I have the privilege to teach and its incredible to work with a class of young people, it’s magical.
That is amazing that you can say this! Well done.
‘I learnt that I am connected to the Universe and hence I am part of something so much bigger and grander than I could ever have imagined. I learnt that I have a depth beyond the oceans and a wisdom I can access in the stillness of my breath’. When I first came across the work of Universal Medicine there was no way I would have contemplated that anything would ever offer me quite this depth and width – what I am offered is beyond measure and will continue to sustain me for infinity.
Great summary of lessons learnt, how can anyone say that university, college or other types of education could provide the overall ‘life lessons’ you speak of, but also, that the underpinning foundation in it all is love.
The true healing and joy that accompanies this blog can be felt – this is so beautiful to read and reflects the lives of many who have come to know Serge Benhayon and all that Universal Medicine offers.
“I learnt that healing is to restore something that is already intact, and not a process of making us ‘better’ or different.” – For me this is a very key foundation for true healing, helping us in the process of letting go of that which is not truly who we are and embracing all that we already are in our essence.
It is amazing to start a relationship with letting go as a way of getting to know ourselves, rather than desperately seeking something outside.
Thank you, Jennifer, for telling us about your real education, and how you had the humility to relinquish everything that you had invested in to be successful in life, but not truly well within.
Yes we have been given everything. Our education through Serge Benhayon has been to wake us up to what we already know. This is totally priceless.
We are born with the all knowing, the education through Serge Benhayon is to re-waken that knowing and bring it into a lived experience.
Beautiful, Jennifer – “healing is to restore something that is already intact”. This takes the onus off the practitioner to be the one who is doing the fixing, but rather supporting the client to re-connect to what is already there inside them and merely obscured.
Janet this is beautiful, healing is about the client re-connecting to what is already there inside of them but merely obscured. The practitioner creates the space for this to take place.
I absolutely loved reading this testimonial Jennifer, so awesome to see what you’ve learned and connected to and how we can all do this, all have it within. All we have to do is decide to look for it within us, and discard some of the stuff that might be in the way of having a look.
I love the humbleness in this article, honesty is the way to unpeeled what is not true and exposes and reveals the beauty of what shines beneath. Self assessment and self exploration is not navel gazing it makes sense of the world and why we are here.
This article highlights many important life lessons we need to learn to undo the formal education we receive. As I was reading the list of things you have learnt, I felt these were particularly relevant as a woman. Learning not to get caught in dramas and emotion (often prime conversations between women), not to give your power away, rebuild the amazing confidence we naturally have when we live connected to our body and not fall for the lie of emotional love. Great advice in each and every point.
Yes agreed Fiona, as the significance of those life lessons are learnt, the emphasis and importance placed on more formal education becomes very much less. Not that we can or need to do away with it, there are important aspects to it, but when it is delivered without acknowledgment of the inherent wisdom we can access from within, it leaves us well short of truly delivering what we are so capable of.
I love how you have shared each lesson Jenny, they are an absolute joy to read and feel the loving quality you bring to each of them. I’m embracing these lesson and one I will include to fully embrace them is: I’m discovering that all these amazing truths are innately with-in us all already. My lesson is do I simply open up to them or do I choose to make it more complex and a little harder than it naturally is called for? Serge presents we are already everything it is a matter of re-connecting to this truth – a lesson I can simply say yes to and get on with.
Medicine is indeed a way of living before it is a technique to assist someone else´s healing.
With energetic quality being taught first and foremost it actually would not matter the job or profession, in the sense that it is the energetic quality itself that is the equalising factor – responsibility towards that energetic integrity as part of what we do as a job, means it can be there equally in every aspect of life.
We assume we know what education is, we do not often consider the school of life as meritable, we often think it is al about exams and marks, life teaches us everything we need to know and more when we are open to observing it. Exams, qualifications are usual, but life is wisdom and beauty with much to grow and develop, it is eternally rich, diverse and nourishing to learn form the school of life. Less reaction and more “what is there to learn form life and we live full lives?”
Spot on Samantha, we have our entire focus in education on acquiring knowledge through study, exams, assignments etc. The piece of paper at the end is the golden egg. To foster wisdom from within is still a long way from being part of the education system, unless of course you attend Universal Medicine, in which case, access to wisdom is just a Gentle Breath away 😉
Your family supported you in the best way they knew at that time, and gave you many opportunities, but you saw straight through the trick of the knowledge not working. And rather than live that lie, it is inspiring to read your testimony of the rest of your unfoldment to get to where you are now, knowing so much learning with your true wisdom. The two learnings have no comparison whatsoever.
“Now THAT is testimony to a TRUE Education!”
Indeed Jenny, to learn alongside Serge Benhayon is to feel every particle in your body wake up, to breathe, inspire, express more of you, to earth a vibrational pull that re-writes the passage of man’s evolution.
“I learnt what it means to be and feel like a woman, and not to live up to society’s ideals and beliefs. I learnt about my own delicateness; the tenderness and nurturing that are my most natural expression” – gorgeously true Jenny, knowing myself through my quality and my femaleness that is my stillness totally opened up my world to live today truly freely and contentedly with the ever increasing ditching of encasing norms, ideals, pictures and beliefs i’ve held about myself, being a woman and female since young.
‘I learnt how to live in life without getting caught up in the drama of others around me’ this is a great lesson for many of us – we love to help our friends, our family and everyone, but sometimes the drama is a distraction from our own ‘stuff’, we are so busy supporting others we are not caring for ourselves. That is indeed exhausting. We can support by our presence, we do not need to provide solutions, everyone has their own inner strength to resolve their own issues and we can empower them to do so.
Education is much much more than the accumulation of knowledge. To truly learn something is to live it in its every way shape and form.
‘If I couldn’t even sort my own health out, what on earth was I doing with anyone else! ‘. Work is not about placing others before ourselves. Our relationship with ourself is fundamentally communicated to others through everything we do, it is this that offers inspiration to others.
As a schoolteacher I come across so many students that feel pressured to go to university, feeling that somehow they are letting themselves down and reducing their chances of being ‘successful’ if they don’t. There are so many other options, but I think schools can get caught up in bragging about how many of their students go on to University as it makes them look like they are doing a good job. This drive to perform then filters down and is felt by the students
So true Debra, we do get caught up in ‘education’ being the springboard to a successful life, and by some measures it could be said to be true. But we would have to define what a ‘successful life’ was in that case… in retrospect I consider myself fortunate enough to have found my successful way in life unsustainable, as what I have now, coming out the other end of a true education, is priceless and leaves my previous way feeling decidedly not-so-successful.
Yes, Debra. Young people need to be shown that there are many options available to them depending on what they are interested in pursuing as a career, so they don’t feel there is a single track of going to university and that they are a failure if they don’t stay on that track.
Thanks to Serge Benhayon we have indeed been given everything, in the reflection of our pure divinity and nothing less.
It takes a lot of courage for a practitioner to say that they need to be able to sort out their own health in order to sort out other people’s health. Many medical practitioners don’t seem to consider that the link even exists.
Love this because it so deliberately links cause and effect. Given how you work now, not holding back from giving your all (and with the all now to give!) the support of how you live and what you know to be true through studying with Universal Medicine speaks for itself.
I know so many people who succumb to the pressure that education is the key, and without a good education/degree they won’t amount to anything and disappoint their family.
We can forever seek the missing piece thinking we will find it in knowledge. But the missing piece is our connection to God and many answers lie in that connection.
So true Nikki true wisdom comes from our connection to God which is a whole body intelligence bringing together body mind and Soul as one.
‘So, for all my ‘health’ education and my extensive knowledge and experience, I was not able to sustain a busy practice.’
What is our education system teaching us? If we can walk away with a qualification yet not know how to apply it in a practical and supportive way.
Yes exactly Abby, we are taught only to apply that knowledge, and what it meant to maintain ‘professional boundaries’, both of which I was quite adept at, but not a word about the dynamics of exchange that might occur and the potential impact of them. Understanding investment and attachment to another ‘getting it’, the subtleties of sympathy, where responsibility lies for getting well and so on. There is so much at play that impacts our energetic state and hence whether one is able to sustain the job with vitality. Looking around at the general populace of practitioners I would say, perhaps not so well.
We need knowledge, understanding and experience. Education can provide some of this but much of this will come once the work starts. Hence it can be a good idea to combine studying with working.
Our bodies do not lie, so even if we aren’t honest with ourselves, our body is a reflection of the truth of our choices. We can hold ourselves up as an expert in health and wellbeing but if our body is exhausted and sick then we are living a lie. What’s interesting is how we, humanity, society, accept, and very often give our power away to medical and other health practitioners despite the fact that we can feel they do not live what they present. We have accepted knowledge as the pinnacle and bow to this, when in truth knowledge without the lived experience in the body is a supremacist consciousness that demands the final say and will not tolerate being challenged.
There is a stark contrast between someone at the top of their profession who is burnt out, and someone who is working in a profession but who is humble enough to be able to sustain a life that supports them to be completely vital and engaged with every single element of their work at whatever stage they are at, whether it’s the beginning or at the top. Your story Jennifer is deeply inspiring.
What a blessing to your well-being Jennifer in having found what true education is. And what a blessing you are to all of your clients.
Even though you ‘had it all’ on the outside, it is wonderful, Jennifer, that you had enough integrity to admit that on the inside you were unwell and that the way you were living was not it. This realness clearly allowed you to recognise and stay open to the truth when it came along.
Yes true Janet, looking back I did think I was looking for the truth for a long time prior but found myself caught up in a new age healing course that promised all sorts of things. After 3 years, I was no different and suffered all the same things physically. It was the breakdown of my body in the end that made me question the validity of everything l’d been doing and to look further… without that, l’m not sure I would have.
We could be more honestly looking at education and its full ‘end result’. How much of our current education leads to ill mental health, burn out, exhaustion etc.? It seems some vital elements of true education are currently missing like not taking the illness on from other people emotionally, to love ourselves, be empowered and not giving our power away for a start. If we are able to deeply understand ourselves and care for ourselves the thing we can do with knowledge is so much more.
Its interesting to see the end results of our ‘improving’ education through the ages. Plainly something is not working!
One of my daughters left school in year 10 and taught herself how to make jewelry, she was supported by the local bead shop and other local people, she learnt more practical tools in those years then she ever did at school. She went on to running a very successful business. All self taught with community support.
Thank you Jenny for your inspirational sharing of your journey. You are a wonderful testament to The Way of The Livingness.
I love the appreciation and humbleness in which you share what you have learnt once you let go of the need for more knowledge.
One of many lives inspired and transformed by working with Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine. Beautifully and openly shared, Thank you, Jennifer.
Yes indeed Matilda, there are so many who can share a similar experience for sure.
When we know ourselves, who we truly are, then any other knowledge we have can be turbocharged in its application because it will be paired with understanding.
Absolutely Susan, and we can learn how to access the volumes of wisdom available to us as well, from within is how it seems, but in truth it’s universal as in, every one of us can access the same wisdom, it is never owned or individual in it’s truth.
Yes, Jennifer, you like I have been given everything in terms of support to come back to the inner-knowing and joy of being who we truly are. And having been given everything, it is only natural to want to support others in the same way.
I also was brought up where education was placed above all else which made me feel small and inadequate. As a child and growing up I seemed to never feel enough as I was compared to others who were more intelligent than I. Yet I am willing to read now and understand that this was clearly a set up I allowed to happen taking on beliefs from others that were not true. Intelligence of the mind is not and will never be greater than the wisdom and love through the connection to God I hold in my body.
If we take on the beliefs of others that are not true, reaction is not far behind and we cannot really take on the beliefs of others if we stay with the love that we are. ‘Intelligence of the mind is not and will never be greater than the wisdom and love through the connection to God I hold in my body.’ Thank you, such a beautiful statement.
In our current world where knowledge is valued over wisdom, where what you see is seen as more important than what you can feel, where box ticking is more important than the quality that something is done with…we are headed for a disaster of disconnection. Jenni, I love how you have shared in your story the importance of connection with the whole to be expressed so that true integrity and responsibility can be lived.
Being taught to value what we see more than what we feel has led to us negating our greatest asset.
I’ll say! That really is a testimony to a true education, to Serge Benhayon and to yourself Jennifer. True because you have successfully embodied the livingness of what was on offer . . . meaning, living the teachings of Serge Benhayon is the best medicine one could possibly have and this livingness also offers great inspiration to others.
If we want to understand the importance of true education and healing, then all we need to do is to look around at the world we have created that has very little of either.
So true Alexis, it is a very dire situation we have globally… reflective of the fact this pillar of society that is our current education system, is failing us miserably. Not to mention our health-care systems. There is nowhere to go but the truth eventually… it’s just a matter of time.
I agree Jennifer, the truth is untouchable and so eventually it will be the only thing left standing, as everything else crumbles and rots around it.
Yes well said… eventually truth does prevail, sometimes it just takes a bit longer to come around.
Truth is the very foundation of life, it is with us always.
Yes exactly Alexis, truth is with us always, we just have to learn to listen to it… which requires an intimate relationship with our own bodies. Otherwise we tend to override and discount the often subtle, quiet communications that come from deeper within.
All the knowledge we gain will be of no true help unless we know ourselves and do not shy away from deeply caring for and loving ourself and everybody else.
And once we don’t shy away, the true part of our knowledge can be very helpful.
“I learnt how to restore my own sense of confidence and self-worth that was so unshakeable that I could no longer say yes to a relationship unless what was offered was equal to the love I felt for myself.” — totally Jenny, we are loved by the quality we love ourselves in first.
That sure is testament to true education – well-rounded capturing your personal perspective of life also. For without your personal approach being the focus what is it that will drive you at work? (Ideals and beliefs). Success is seen as profit through outcomes from work and not inclusive of growth as a feeling of joy in the body at work, in relationships, family, etc an all-round one-life. Universal offers these principles to understand and live One Life.
A hugely important lesson – never had I been taught about integrity, from its energetic core. Again this would change every business and service we provide, every relationship, partnership and group we belong to, it is at the deepest foundation, a way of relating to life.
Yes Rosanna, it’s not taught anywhere in mainstream tertiary education but ought to be 101 lesson in any of the service professions, but really it applies to every profession. To know yourself first and the quality you bring to everything you do as a vital part of a contribution to society brings a different purpose and responsibility to every job and as you say, a different way of relating to life. Burnout would be eliminated… imagine that just for a start.
This is an incredible list of things you learned with Universal Medicine, any one of those has a huge impact on our life, for example, living life without getting caught up in the drama of others around you. What a life changer this alone is.
So true Rosanna, and prior to coming across Universal Medicine I would have thought l’d hit the jackpot if any of the spiritual new age work I did had offered any one of those things in truth. They did say they offered similar things, but despite my best efforts, none translated to any discernible change in the end result.
Yes, and it is still with some surprise that I go about my days untangled from the drama, gossip and complication that so much of everyday life serves up.
Understanding the difference between love and emotional love is key to our health and wellbeing.
I agree, our emotions can keep us imprisoned in total disharmony with dire consequenses to our health and wellbeing.
‘I came from a family where education was prioritised and highly valued. In that sense I was ‘well educated’, graduating from a private school of high repute before going on to tertiary education.’ In our un-acknowledgement of what we know to be true, we rely on the systems we have set up to function in life and yet how many well-educated people are suffering ill health or relationship breakdown? As you point out here getting qualified is not it but a true education that allows us to be aware, express that awareness in the confirmation of who we are in full bringing a consistent willingness to be open and evolve, is an education that is the birthright of us all.
It is interesting how knowledge is so highly valued and sought after, when really that does not at all define who we are as a person and what qualities we live our lives by.
I grew up in a family that also believed a ‘good’ education would equate to being ‘intelligent’ and lead to working in a ‘recognised’ profession. Much to my parents disappointment I did not fit into this category, and constantly came up against things at school that I found difficult to understand and that didnt really make sense, although I knew that what I knew felt true to me. There is no doubt that if we did appreciate and accept that what children felt was true, and we encouraged this instead of dismissing it, our eduaction system would look very different to how it does today.
It is inspiring to feel the renewed vigor with which you went about your work after learning so many true lessons about yourself.
I love to come back to the fact that we are either healing or harming, which was one of the first principles that I learnt through Universal Medicine presentations.
I love what you say here, Jennifer, about having learned not to accept “a relationship unless what was offered was equal to the love I felt for myself.” Now this is something for everyone to be educated about from day one.
I also loved that line Janet, if we were all taught that as young children we would not settle for any abuse or disharmony in our relationships.
Even if we do have an illness we can still experience the joy of knowing who we truly are, and of being in connection to that, and regardless of the body’s condition the inner connection may be the greatest healing experienced. A very inspiring blog Jenny, thank you.
Absolutely.. this is education and it equips you in every aspect of your life.
‘I experience a depth of relating to people that not only enriches my personal life, but every aspect of my professional life also.’ ….. No amount of ‘pieces of paper’ can offer the enrichment that you have gained from the teachings of Universal Medicine, what a gift, and one that keeps on giving as you share your divine self with everyone around you.
What IS education without it’s application to life, healing and relationships?
With true education true healing can take place, with true education we don’t need to be the victims of life but can inspire true change in the world. Thats a nutshell of what I feel when reading your blog and from that the big question comes up what is my part, what is my role in looking after myself to heal and then start to inspire that healing in others.
What we communicate to each other, energetically, from the quality of our movements is incredibly powerful, and felt by everyone around us, even if they don’t realise it. If what we are sharing in words, say on self-care, isn’t something we are already living for ourselves, it will be so much harder for the other person to feel the truth in what we are saying, for if it’s true why aren’t we doing it for ourselves. But when we share from our lived experience what we are offering is very powerful indeed and can be deeply felt, and heard.
This blog is a stark contrast to what is happening within the medical profession at the moment; as in the level of suicides. On the outside looking in, people would have said the author had everything already; with regards to having the best education money could buy, and yet there was still something missing from her life. This shows me that the missing link is in the relationship we have with ourselves first, and then the outside world.
The education we receive in institutions – schools, universities etc is but a fraction of what is available for us all once we connect to our innermost.
I keep feeling how true education must be a combination of both wisdom and knowledge, using what is innate in us alongside the learning processes we need for our professional lives. My experience is that education has been and is currently purely focused on garnering knowledge rather than nurturing wisdom. What is shared here reflects the possibilities that open up when we do reconnect to this innateness and put this together with knowledge. To me, it is the missing link in education.
Reading through your list of what you learnt after you met Serge Benhayon Jenny, it makes me wonder what the world would be like if these ‘learnings’ were part of our education system.
Imagine if that list that you have written was the opening page of a school’s prospectus? Likewise – all those thousands of parenting books that weigh down our shelves and cap our innate wisdom. As you say, a true education – but in fact just a re-education, because we all already know it.
Interesting that you finish the analogy with the expression “turning a blind eye”. The chosen action of one tiny part of our body can cap the awareness that the whole of the rest of the body innately has. We do this often. We hear something and take it on without discerning, we see something and believe it to be true, we think something and consider it fact. We taste something and consider it good for us. We have thrown away the absolute wisdom of our whole bodies.
Your body showed very clearly what supported you and what did not. It don’t get more evidence based than that for me. Thank you for sharing.
The most basic responsibility and respect is to take care of ourselves first so anything that comes from us will be a healing and care to others. This is the true purpose of education.
“…I have been given everything…” Yes – although you could also say that you always already had it all!
Absolutely true Otto… what more can I say than that 😉
This is such an amazing example of how education for education’s sake does not deliver the real information that we need to live by. Everything we need to guide us through life is contained within our body, this needs to be our primary education. Learning about the temporal world is important but not at the experience of our health and inner wellbeing. Putting these qualities first lays a strong foundation for all of life.
Exactly Rowena, ‘education for education’s sake does not deliver the real information that we need to live by’. We have lost what true education is all about as we make life about striving, achieving, succeeding in a temporal sense and about ticking the boxes we have been sold as a ‘good life’. All the while leaving out the most significant and important part of life, the fact of our essence. Leave this out and we will succumb to an education that is all about everything but who we really are.
Physician heal thyself’ is apt in many medical endeavours! But, could we say that until your list of examples is taught, practised and lived by others in the profession, needs to be accepted and then, real healing for all take place.
Yes agreed Steve, eventually it is the only thing that will turn around the current trend of increasingly chronic ill health, not to mention the myriad of other symptomatic societal issues that are reflective of how badly off-track our ‘education’ systems are. Education will have to re-form, as will health-care, religion, politics, business… every aspect of life in fact… eventually.
“I learnt that without my own healing, I had little to offer another that would support their healing.’ Very true Jennifer. Often when faced with difficulties in our own lives and try to resolve them, we can’t because we’re part of the problem. Not until we sort out our own problems and heal our hurts, can we truly support another.
It is such an amazing thing to know that all that wisdom is at our finger tips or just a breath away and it is quite mad how we have avoided truth for so long.
Yes it makes no sense to the rational mind Kev… and hence we have to go deeper in our enquiry as to what is really going on, and why it is we are in such a mess as we are. Looking for answers in the temporal world, when we are multi-dimensional beings is what makes no sense, and yet that’s what we do… over and over again.
If you live your life based on the education system we currently have, you’ll understand life by function and not truly by purpose, whereas if you live life knowing that everyday is an education in itself then you discover there is much much more to life than we are taught in school and university. Life itself is the most magnificent educator.
It is profound what you share Jennifer, these are no small changes. I feel the same, and was expressing this just yesterday; we have been given everything. The teachings of the Ageless Wisdom and the presentations of Serge Benhayon when applied to life truly offer insight and are transforming. True education indeed.
Learning about not giving our power away enables us to truly feel into our bodies and to accept the wisdom that is always there deep within us
We can do so much more when we do know who we truly are, come from, and are connected with as we then do connect to the real purpose of living our life on this planet, earth.
We are finding that those in the medical profession are falling with the same ills as their patients – exhaustion and burnout are widespread and are causing a huge tax in our healthcare system. How is it that those who came to care eventually become exhausted by what they have dedicated their lives to?
It is a great insight to ask how much we can support others when we are not in a good state. For some reason this does not seem a common question.
Yes it’s very true Christoph, we have bought hook, line and sinker the idea that knowledge is key… it is inbuilt into our entire education system as it currently stands and hence into our entire healthcare system too. We are so sold to what we are taught and all it’s implied precepts of life that the question does not even arise until we are forced to question it for some reason. I was certainly testimony to that.
Indeed, true education is encompassing of the all and honouring of our nature within, for it is only until then that we get to know our true potential, to be capable of receiving the volume of the universe.
Beautifully put Francisco, it is an ‘honouring of our nature within’ and the fact we are Beings, well before we are humans doing life.
It makes so much sense to bring the whole of us to our every interaction – it is a complete package. Just bring knowledge from our minds and we offer a part – incomplete and confusing because the words come from part of the person, from their mind… and we feel the whole person before us.
When we truly live what we innately know, life transforms in ways our mind could never plan – life becomes a joy and an inspiration every day.
We can apply knowledge but if the words are empty, i.e. not role modelled by the presenter, then they will be meaningless and without inspiration.
I feel that our approach to health and well being misses a element when we don’t pay attention to our feelings, the ability we have to understand and appreciate the responses of our bodies to what we experience. We can get wrapped up in our food choices, but they almost entirely come from a reaction to how we feel, and whether we put a voice to our emotional responses or choose to bury them. It is also clear that what is taught in University misses the broader outplay that Universal Medicine covers so comprehensively, leaving no stone uncovered. I also love in this sharing Jennifer how you were disillusioned to practice as you didn’t feel you were representing what you wished to impart; that is amazing integrity and has clearly held you in good stead to deal with the issues you faced.
This shows how detrimental it is on our body when we are educated through knowledge alone and not considering what we already know from within and from our biggest teacher our body. What an amazing turnaround Jennifer, one with full awareness and understanding of who you are and what true healing is.
“I learnt how to live in life without getting caught up in the drama of others around me; I learnt how to connect with myself and then foster and hold that connection. I learnt the difference between the love that comes from the connection and the emotional kind I had moulded my life around to that point” – beautifully resonating Jennifer, same for me too… and when there is true connection there is not only love, but it also makes it impossible to harm another (through emotions, reactive ways of being) when there is this steady connection. No matter our relationship as parent, sibling, partner, friend etc. we cannot say we’re loving when we are in or are using the harm that is abuse.
Thank you Jennifer, you show beautifully how what we are taught as youngsters, seriously misses the mark. And anyway as you make clear it’s less a case of education, but a reminder of what we already know deep inside. Perhaps in the future we will all attend ‘Higher Remembering’ courses to nudge us back to the fact that we all have open access to the wisdom of the universe.
Beautiful Jennifer to feel your depth and grace as you share all you have learned, and to know that now you share that with others, a testimony to a deep, on-going and true education indeed.
Thank you for sharing Jennifer its so wonderful that you have come to healing and are now in a position to share this with the world.
Wow – what a magnificent education offered here by Universal Medicine. I totally get the power that comes with this – that in fact there is so much more to knowledge. It is how we are in the world. Our purpose and our values and how much we let ourselves be who we truly are.
I love how we tend to just slot into the pocket of life that we suit so well, often unintentionally. Coincidence? I prefer – Magic of the Universe 🙂
Degrees and certificates can fill us with knowledge, but it is only the living of life that allows us to bring wisdom alive. Thank you Jenny for sharing your background and how wisdom means more to you than knowledge.
Yes, Henrietta, there is a world of difference between knowledge and wisdom, as Jennifer has clearly illustrated here. All the knowledge in the world is only a grain of sand in comparison to the all-encompassing wisdom we have access to.
“I learnt that healing is to restore something that is already intact, and not a process of making us ‘better’ or different.”
I too am learning this through the presentations of Universal Medicine and gosh it is a game changer. After years of trying to fix me, make me better, etc…. I am realising that I am already whole, a divine human being who is everything already, and that I have just a bunch of junk sitting on top of that that needs some to help to clear. Its a whole new ball game, and starting from being intact allows you to look at what is not much easier when you realise it is not truly you.
I love how you stopped and listened to your body when you got the illness, I know there was probably not much else you could do, but it shows an honesty to be wrong and to be open to more or something else that might have the answer.
I agree Lieke, Jenny showed an integrity to stop giving treatments and to hold true to her inner knowing that there must be more.
Such a wonderful testimony Jennifer and a great reminder of how limiting the current education system is with its focus on recalling information rather than supporting students with how to live in order to access universal wisdom.
I have definitely felt the difference between applying remembered knowledge and accessing universal wisdom in my life both at work and at home and they feel very different and produce very different results.
Yes Peter a great point… as education needs to not just be what we’re taught in terms of skills, even life-skills as many of those are as taught through Universal Medicine, but as you say, how to live in order to access universal wisdom… now THAT is an entirely new paradigm for our education system to get around for sure.
In a nutshell, the ‘what is not working or serving’ in our education systems, thank you, Peter.
These eight affirmations of the changes you have made Jennifer, reveal how much so many of us are living quite the opposite, and struggle with what is most important in life, our relationship with ourselves. Without knowing ourselves in truth, every bit of ourselves — which takes the utmost honesty and requires us to be transparent and vulnerable, we cannot come to that place of loving who we truly are, and have understanding, compassion and tenderness for others.
‘Now THAT is testimony to a TRUE Education!’ Hear, hear! Applying a living wisdom to life rather than coming at it from knowledge is an education we all need.
It is one thing yo know something and a completly different thing to live it.
Only through living it do we truly know it.
Wonderful blog Jennifer! I really love these revealing words you share” I learnt that healing is to restore something that is already intact”
Indeed Roslyn, it is actually so simple when we let go that we do not know, as we do know and in that know exactly what we are capable of. We only have to allow ourselves to know the core of our being once again..
What you show here Jennifer is a great model for our education system, one that includes everyone and is not about being smart or intelligent and will support us right the way through our life and into the next.
Wow, I loved reading your story Jennifer, the two models of education have stark contrast in the body – true education leaving you vital, wise and an inspiration. “I experience a depth of relating to people that not only enriches my personal life, but every aspect of my professional life also.” that is what education should be – learning to live in a way that enriches us all.
You have shown much determination and commitment to everything in your life Jenny, and when you found it lacked what you were seeking, you sought elsewhere. No wonder you found the most profound education of all from Serge Benhayon, and know the true wisdom was always inside you.
Jennifer, the struggles you were experiencing prior to meeting Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine is very common in a lot of people I know. Your blog will inspire so many people and it shows us all that there is a way out of the struggles we’ve created, life is never about struggling but about returning to love, joy, truth, harmony and stillness.
The tools for life are not always taught in schools. The emphasis is on cramming students with knowledge and calling that intelligence. But this does not serve us when learning how to deal with life and people. True intelligence is being able to feel what is going on and what is needed. No amount of knowledge is going to help us do that.
What Serge offers all is a re-connection to themselves and their own innate wisdom and in that the many impositions of rigidly held ideals and beliefs are healed and the power that is revealed is pure gold.
Jennifer that certainly is a testimony to True Education and your transformation a testimony to the teachings of Serge Benhayon.’I learnt the difference between the love that comes from the connection and the emotional kind I had moulded my life around to that point.’ hugely different and life changing with this awareness.
“What I learnt through Serge Benhayon enabled me to return to relationships with openness and real love. I experience a depth of relating to people that not only enriches my personal life, but every aspect of my professional life also.” This is one of the many things that is so beautiful about the teachings of Serge Benhayon, and that is that everything that he lives and shares touches and enriches everything that he lives and shares. There is nothing that is not affected by the teachings of this extraordinary man.
Totally agree with you Jenny when you say
“It was at this point I met Serge Benhayon and began what has turned out to be the most profound educational and transformative experience of my life. ”
I disliked the education system and left school as soon as I could, and it wasn’t until I met Serge Benhayon that I found what I was looking for Serge Benhayon presents in a way that is fascinating because he reminds us all constantly where we all come from which is not this plane of life at all and that we are divine beings and this may sound farfetched to some people but to me personally it resonates in my body and my body knows the truth of is what is being conveyed and what is presented is true knowledge. It is the knowledge that the people had when they built the Pyramids which is something that has not be replicated since and with all our modern technology still cannot be replicated. That alone should have us all sitting up and asking questions
Why is it that a group of people could build such structures as the Pyramids with out the huge lifting cranes and modern technology we pride ourselves in. And with everything we have at our disposal today we cannot replicate those buildings to the exact alignment to the stars in the universe? And this group of people did not have GPS or satellite information to guide them. And it was thought that there was a misalignment of a few degrees but when viewed from space there was no misalignment at all? How did they build such a structure with such exactness? Where did such precise knowledge come from? And more importantly why is it we have no access to this knowledge today?
It is this lost knowledge that Serge Benhayon presents and this to me is true education.
Learning how to live without getting caught in our own drama or the drama around us is completely amazing. I can see how when we are in drama we continue to repeat the issue again and again, tell anyone person how hard etc is, there is no real resolution it is more an off loading of emotions. Cutting this cycle has been immensely supportive. To work on something that occurs that is tricky with clarity and purpose is very different from the drama.
What a profound testimonial of how to gain knowledge, even medical knowledge does not prevent oneself getting ill. Like you live your life today is so different and I love your commitment to life and true love.
I love this, Jennifer – “I learnt that I have a depth beyond the oceans and a wisdom I can access in the stillness of my breath.” There is so much more to us than what we have allowed ourselves to become, and I count my blessings every day that Serge Benhayon has reminded us of this fact.
These words resonated deeply within me also Janet. This is the truth of us, we are all this…and appreciation for Serge Benhayon for consistently reflecting this to all.
Practitioner burn out is fuelled by an overwhelming desire to please and support others at the expense of ourselves, especially when the emotional baggage of others is taken on. This can apply in family life as well. Learning to stand back and observe emotions in others and ourselves and not get entangled by them, empowers us to more supportive, not less and sustains rather than depletes energy levels.
Thank you Jenny, that is very definitely a true and lasting testimony to true education. The foundation it provides us enables us to walk a path through life knowing what our real baselines are, Love, Integrity, Responsibility. Connecting to these qualities within us enables us to raise the bar on the quality of our relationships, study and work far beyond what we are currently educated to accept. The heady knowledge we are trained to develop can never equal the Universal Wisdom contained in our bodies.
“I learnt that I am connected to the Universe and hence I am part of something so much bigger and grander than I could ever have imagined. I learnt that I have a depth beyond the oceans and a wisdom I can access in the stillness of my breath.” A sharing of wisdom, which is true education.
Jenny, sharing your re-education programme supports us all. It shows that true education is not found in the halls and corridors of schools and universities, but in the connection we have with our inner-most essence. Equally, whether we’re trained as complementary or conventional medicine practitioners, applying knowledge is not enough and doesn’t offer a path to true healing. We have to embody a life that heals as we walk. Like you, Universal Medicine was the source of a re-education programme that lead to my own healing.
It’s very beautiful and inspiring to feel your intention and interest in true healing, and it never was about just a qualification/career choice/knowledge. And how you live today is a great testimony to what true education brings. Thank you, Jennifer.
Very inspiring blog, clearly outlining the difference between true education and mainstream education. One supports us to grow and develop every aspect of our being, the other supports us to grow your intellect only
“I learnt that I have a depth beyond the oceans and a wisdom I can access in the stillness of my breath.”
Oh my lord, I am home – thank you Jennifer for these heavenly words that serve to restore the truth of who we are and remind us of the magnitude of what lays at our fingertips, accessible in a single breath.
The things you have listed in the table as being learnt read like a true syllabus of learning for life – worthy of addition to any ‘education’ system.
What you have written is a great confirmation of all that I have felt, its the same experience for me yet reading your blog makes me ask one big question, how is it possible that we have let our “education system” not help foster and develop the true education and awareness that is offered through Universal Medicine. What you’ve felt and understood and the changes you have made are fundamental to life yet like you were missing from all the education I had been involved with.
Heading back into the exceptionally ‘heady’ world of post-grad, tertiary education all I can say is I look forward to the day when all education is founded on the same principles as those that underpin Universal Medicine. Like you Jennifer, although I’m not a full-time health practitioner and I’ve done all my training in that domain with Universal Medicine, I know exactly what you mean and can see how much true education – education that is both 100% holistic and grounded in self-care – would benefit the students of any and all disciplines, and at all levels. Teachers and academics and administrators too.
Most teachings in life seem to try and keep us away from true wisdom, but if we can feel what truth and true healing is, we take the sting out of what is not.
We can apply all the knowledge we have but it will never be enough because we are not looking after the whole… true wisdom comes from our bodies connected to universality.
How can the mind work if it doesnt have the rest of the body come along with it, and it is this body in its entirety that knows our every choice and its consequence. So no matter what the mind may think – the body openly and honestly lets us know loud and clear. There is so much more wisdom within our bodies than our minds could ever imagine.
Utilising our knowledge only brings function to parts of our life… bring our whole body awareness and depth of connection to all that we do and all areas of our lives are positively transformed.
Knowledge lived is wisdom breathed.
What you have shared Jennifer is really a true testimonial as I can feel that you are living all what you are writing about and what is missing in so many educations we have in the moment.
Thank you Jenny for publishing this blog as it is so much needed to share that the current education system is missing an essential aspect and that is to educate us about our true origin and where we belong. Whe are not just functional units but are connected to a grander whole, the universe and with God. If we leave out this in our education we only educate about function and the physical aspects of life. Although these are very much needed, we cannot do anything that is truly serving us all if we do all of this in disconnection with who we really are.
Wahh stunning Jenny, loved reading every word of this. Indeed through Universal Medicine teachings and Serge Benhayon we have been given everything – because we are already the everything.. and it’s this giving back of ourselves to ourselves that’s the lived joy.
“…I learnt how central this love was to my own healing and realised I had sought this from outside myself for so long…” This is key, as there is a tendency to look out to something else to fix or heal, rather than looking more introspectively and reflect on the way we live, our contribution to any illness, dis-ease and exhaustion by behaviour habits and patterns. Self love and self care activities are the vehicle that supports our own healing and well being.
You are an inspiration Jenny, one just has to observe you to feel that. You are walking ‘The Way of the Livingness,’ what Serge has so beautifully reminded us of, the Way,- to live, and relate with the world, others and the universe in a harmonious manner – the only way to be!
Your journey led you to a greater version of you and Serge Benhayon continues to be an ever guiding light for all. Your examples are reflective of my own development and growth since studying with Universal Medicine.
If we were all taught in school even a quarter of the things that Jenny provided above, humanity would be well on its way to living with more love, harmony, understanding, and deeper connection than ever before. I have personally learned more valuable and useful knowledge from Universal Medicine in the last 7 years than in all the primary, college, and tech. school teaching I have had combined.
Whilst there are things we need to know in life to work in certain jobs, industries etc, we currently approach our education as something we need as though we are starting from a place of not knowing anything already. The learning you gained from Serge Benhayon, Jenny, feels so expansive, yet also very foundational, orientating us with essential truths to help us make sense of life, which we don’t have to remember because we can feel that we already know what is being presented. We are not starting life from a base of zero, we are in fact already everything we need to be in this life, it’s about understanding how to live that and share our glory with everyone else.
Our true medicine is the medicine of living from our inner expression and supporting that through our every movement wether that be to walk, talk and eat what feels supportive for our lives. from this medicine we are vitally rich and expansive vehicles unto which we can then truly support and care for others from this quality held. Thank you Jenny a super inspiring sharing for all.
‘In essence, I was very good at applying knowledge.’ – this has been the premise of our education system. However, the difference between a someone applying knowledge versus sharing their lived wisdom is night and day in terms of what is being offered, irrespective of what it is we are doing, whether at work, home, chatting with friends, making a cup of tea …. it’s through the quality of our movements that what we are sharing is deeply felt by all.
When we take care of our bodies, our ability to support others increases
What I have come to see in the past few years is that we champion success but never really question what is success. It was not something I had ever really contemplated before, I was never fulfilled with life but didn’t ever really consider doing things differently- it just wasn’t in my thoughts. My life has totally changed since studying with Universal Medicine and now I feel I am able to see and understand much more.
I am just tapping into the ability ‘to live in life without getting caught up in the drama of others around me’ and what a difference it makes to the way I feel I experience the world, I no longer feel utterly exhausted all the time and I can observe situations without being drawn in.
Absolutely Jennifer – There is an invitation through Serge Benhayon to discover ‘learning’ and exploring life with a re-connection to the wonder, marvel and sense of miracle in the every-dayness that we have all lived as children. When learning through our connection to ourselves the ‘answers’ can simply unfold from our own wisdom.
God knows we have given it a good go but the simple truth is we can’t think our way out of the issues we are in today. In fact all the intelligence and cleverness we think we have had, has not been based in truth. It’s just a small slither of the magnificent wisdom we naturally are when we let ourselves be. Thank you Jennifer for reminding us what true intelligence feels like – from our body.
Wow, that’s awesome Jennifer! What a background you have there. It’s very clear just how much integrity you have as a practitioner, and have always had even back before you described being taught true integrity. Whilst giving up may, for some appear like a cop out, to me, it still showed that you realised something was missing, and hence you put your practice on hold until you had the final piece, avoiding treating others until then.. That’s incredible.
Great case study in action! It’s incredible how much work can be done when you’re connected to the divine source of life, which shouldn’t surprise us as all animals are vital in the wild – unless there are habitation issues – we really are the most backward species on the planet!
“I learnt that healing is to restore something that is already intact, and not a process of making us ‘better’ or different. ” – I love this sentence! This sentence alone is very powerful for it restores the power back to the client and also at the same time takes the pressure off the practitioner…For how can another person be responsible for the acts and choices of another? The role of the practitioner is, after all, to support the client to return to their natural ways of being that support true health, rather than fixing something that is so-called ‘broken’. There is a saying “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” – and so it is about us all, for we are not ever broken, we are simply not living from the truth that lies within. Knowing this changes our approach to health and healing dramatically. Once again, thank you, Jennifer, for this beautiful and needed revelation.
Spot on Henrietta, it was one of the biggest revelations when I understood that I wasn’t responsible for whether anyone else got it and then made different choices. It makes me feel tired just thinking about working that way. Our entire health system, including all the alternative medicine modalities still work to the paradigm that we are broken and need fixing, and that the practitioner is the one with the answers (or should be) to do the fixing. We are not yet orienting ourselves to a truly empowered place when it comes to our own healing, which is the only place we can actually heal from.
Jennifer, what a blessing to read about the changes that you have embraced in your life. There are many disillusioned health practitioners out there with burnout and a sense or feeling that what they are doing is not a complete package, and I too was one of these. To encounter the Truth and see it for what it is and then embrace it wholeheartedly as you have is amazing to feel and shows that there is indeed a way to practice that is complete and whole, and further to that holds us as complete and whole too. This transformation has for me been the greatest blessing, and I too would not be where I am today if it was not for Serge Benhayon and his support in learning to live truth, integrity and Love.
Very true Jennifer, it is an education that is not found in the tertiary system at the moment. Yet, what comes through in your work, your dedication to taking care of yourself so you can work to the level that is called for is, and really should be, for all. Thank you for sharing it with us so we can really appreciate what we have been offered here.
If all women (and men) learned how to do this as well – “I learnt how to restore my own sense of confidence and self-worth that was so unshakeable that I could no longer say yes to a relationship unless what was offered was equal to the love I felt for myself” – the world would be a much different place. For example, we would see far less domestic violence as the chance of entering such relationships with the potential for such violence would be far far less, if not at all.
I agree Sarah. As part of my role in sexual health I am constantly talking to young women about this .. truly valuing themselves and have a strong foundation of self-worth and a solid relationship with themselves. So important and yes very much needed for us all.
I agree Sarah, it also reveals how a lack of self-worth and self-love affects us greater than we often realise… we make decisions based on how much we honour ourselves and hold ourselves as important.
The difficulty may be that this level of confidence comes from the body and we can’t get there while we concentrate on just the mind.
The need for security and the weighing of ‘higher and lesser’ jobs based on payments are so ingrained in our society, that most people don’t even doubt the current education system we have. If you can then ‘of course’ you go to university or follow the so called highest form of education. But our schools offer hardly the wisdom we can access, if we connect to the stillness within and from there with the universe, not only do they support us in being real love and living our lives from there.
So many people reach a point where they know what they are living is not fully it, that there is more. In this regard Universal Medicine has been a massive support to so many, and supplied the answers so many have sought. The wonderful thing is that this has led to many people being able to contribute in society to a much greater degree, as evidences in this case with Jennifer. And it all revolves around a lot of common sense and a willingness to understand we are all part of a greater whole.
True education is healing and healing is true education.
Beautifully put. Both compliment, develop and deepen awareness
From what I read in this article the author was someone that has ‘been there and done that’ in their chosen field, which although appeared from the outside to have it all, yet something was missing or something was incomplete. The question I would ask is: How can one have all that education and yet not be ready to go? As comes later in the article, there was a vital, if not the most important, part missing or discounted through the traditional education and that was the ‘being’ in the education, the person. It doesn’t make sense to me to train and or teach someone how to care for others in so many ways and yet not bring any of it back to support how they live or how they will be in amongst that care. By the end of the article you can see how complete the ‘picture’ is now and how the results also now speak for themselves – otherwise it appeared an extremely dedicated and experienced practitioner would have been missing from an industry that is needed and this would have been a huge loss to us all.
This just highlights that skills and knowledge is needed and we can get by, but only for a period of time. I recall feeling the need to continually study more and more because I felt that what I was offering clients was not enough. But none of this made any difference. Now I have no need to study more for what I bring I know is everything. I may choose to study and from a skill base I know that I don’t know everything and ask for support when needed, but I am no less for this.
As you say Jennifer, on a skill base we might have to learn for all of our lives, and that is a good thing to do, but our connection with our Soul provides us with all the knowledge and wisdom we need to live as a true servant for the All.
A powerful testimony of the fact that the real education everyone needs is simply the activation of the wisdom within them, and the support and inspiration to bring that wisdom the fore and practical application of their everyday lives. This is the missing and all important aspect of our current education system. We cannot apply knowledge without nurturing the innate wisdom we all have with truly sustainable results – and the current state of the world is showing us this.
A very honest blog and I agree that you finally got true education via Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine. It makes you (me/everyone) wonder then what are all the billions of people learning everyday when they go to school, college, uni etc as really what is being taught in all these places is not it at all!!! The teachings of the ageless wisdom should be first and foremost in all education so we have this as a foundation to learn others skills/trades in a way that fully supports ourselves and others.
What you have written Jennifer is what most people who have found their way to Universal Medicine and the presentations of Serge Benhayon also experience, and I am one of those. For the first 55 years of my life, I struggled to survive in a life and in a world that rarely seemed to make sense, all the while sensing from deep inside that there was another way to live. During the course of the last 12 amazing years I too have experienced the “most profound educational and transformative experience of my life”. I too have come to know more of me than any previous education presented me with, I have come to understand others, the world I live in and why my life was the struggle it was. The life I now live bears very little resemblance to the one I struggled with for so long; finally, it all makes sense.
Awesome sharing, Jenny. Knowledge feeds the mind but self love and self care are the foundations of a greater universality and these nourish and support the body where all meaningful communication comes from.
Thank you Jenny, for a very real and lived testimony, which would outdo any academic knowledge or credentials anytime.
Wow. Thank you Jennifer.
In the examples you give of what you have learned through Universal Medicine I would say you have truly found everything we are all looking for.
I could literally copy this list and say that these too are examples of what I have learned by working with Universal Medicine… and these kinds of examples are consistent throughout the student body; something I have not seen in any of the many modalities I explored before I found Serge Benhayon.
Yes, it is crazy all things we do that seem to be right, but we ignore all the obvious evidence that it is not working.
We are still living in a way that our bodies and our earth are telling us does not work. We have been doing this for a long time.
Thank God for Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine. They are presenting another way to live that is making true change in our world.
The examples listed of what you have learned about yourself and life around you since you met Serge Benhayon, cover a wonderful array and when I stop to reflect, it becomes clear that all of this ought to be a foundational part of any education for living as a human in our world. The fact that this is not the case is an indictment of the limitation of our current education paradigm as well as how we are settling for so much less in life.
It’s clear that intelligence alone isn’t ‘it’ and our body is evidence of that; exhausting ourselves to be the academic ‘best’ has a serious impact…. Perhaps there is another key to wisdom than recall or drive.
If our education was true then so would our life be.
Superb Jennifer. A living testimonial to you, Serge Benhayon and The Ageless Wisdom.
I love this Jenny as it completely confirms a truth we simply cannot avoid. Life is about people. We learn from people not textbooks, you sharing here of meeting Serge Benhayon is a perfect example of this.
The relationship and connection that we have with ourself and our understanding of what love really is all about is so foundational to all areas of our life and is the platform from which we can use knowledge with wisdom for the true benefit of all.
I totally agree Jenny, true education supports and considers the entirety of human beings – not just the mental aspect.
Powerful words Abby. When we can work from this stand point our quality will increase in all areas of life.
Awesome blog Jennifer, the list of things you’ve learnt are very similar to mine. I am so grateful for them and the list just keeps growing. The biggest one for me was learning to not give my power away.
Beautiful Jenny, the potential of education is jaw-dropping, for we know everything already. The linear styled education system will surely one day realise this and return to the spherical Ancient Wisdom.
If we can do our job very well, commit to other aspects/family life and still have enormous care and regard for our body then we have been educated very well, the problem is, we don’t have this as a model in our societies.
I was reflecting on something similar today in that I have been given everything about everything through Universal Medicine. Far more than any other education has provided.
I agree Leigh, more than can be described or measured.
A powerful writing Jennifer. An inspiring living testimony to TRUE Education you have realised from making different choices in life and re-connecting to the innate essence within.
Maybe education will one day stand up and take note of whole body intelligence and the “oceans of wisdom” that becomes available once we reconnect to the “love that comes from the connection” to our inner-most.
This is super inspiring, Jennifer, as a very clear example of what true education is. How much grander would we allow ourselves to be and feel, if we were taught from a young age that we are a part of the universe?
What an incredible turnaround. Your choices are absolutely worth appreciating as is the incredible support offerred by Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine.
Hear hear Leonne, it certainly is. This is an incredible transformation and what Jennifer shares is unheard of anywhere else I know outside of Universal Medicine.
Jennifer you can take just one point of what you’ve shared, in this case “I learnt how to live in life without getting caught up in the drama of others around me; I learnt how to connect with myself and then foster and hold that connection. I learnt the difference between the love that comes from the connection and the emotional kind I had moulded my life around to that point.” I can see how this would transform someone’s life. It certainly has been transformational for me as I was 100% into drama and 100% into emotional love. Today I see that the poison in both of those was not only hurting me but hurting all those around me.
We all know that there are gaping holes in our health care system and the knowledge we have about medicine. Whilst many techniques and technologies work very very well at dealing with the conditions at hand they don’t truly explain why they are there or what really lead to them occurring. The why factor has only ever been truly and fully explained by Serge Benhayon, a man just like anyone of us just living more from his inner heart than most.
Amazing testimony to the beauty and benefits of true education and how it supports us to re-connect to our own inner knowing and the huge impact this has on all areas of our lives which also benefits everyone we come into contact with.
Hi Jenny ,thanks for sharing your story, I loved your example list very inspiringly put into words. With or without the education we all know a lot if we choose to connect and be open.
There is so much joy to know and live connected to the universe and to people, there really is. The joy that sustains our life is more than anything we can ever ask for and experience.
Isn’t it crazy how all these essential parts of life are absent from our formal education? I found that nothing in my degree or schooling actually prepared me for life and to be an amazing, compassionate and deeply caring human being.
The lessons we can learn simply through observation of ourselves, humanity and the world, our action based on these observations as well as the response to this are absolutely profound.
I always thought that medicine and health would be whole again with the addition of what is commonly known as complimentary medicines. But it is so much more than that. What has been shared here is the medicine of life being connected to our life and being connected to our soul. The missing link in medicine.
Amazing to read, Jennifer, how you’ve turned your life around in a relatively short space of time. Knowing who we are, healing and understanding ourselves are the keys to truth health and wellbeing.
What an amazing story and all that you have learnt is what all of us have to learn if we want the steady growth of illness and disease to subside and for us to address all of the disharmony that is in the world today.
Yes Kevin, it is the blueprint for the future of education in healthcare world-wide. Nothing less will halt the current trend.
True Education is about how to live life in self-connection and connection to everything else. When we know how to live in this way, what we do becomes easy (or easier) as we do it with greater health, well-being, vitality and growth. It would make sense to be educated this way at school to prepare us for life and work.
Knowledge is not all it’s cracked up to be as you so palpably show. Love your ‘testimony to a true education.’. One day this will be on the curriculum in schools. What use is rote knowledge if we don’t have wisdom?
I went to the doctor the other day to ask for a blood test, and the doctor I saw looked quite stressed overweight and exhausted, and these are the people we turn to when we are not well and to be honest they are not well either. So my question has to be what on earth is going on when the doctor you are going to see looks in a worse physical state than their patient?
“If I couldn’t even sort my own health out, what on earth was I doing with anyone else!” A great realisation Jenny – yet I witness so many health professionals who are overweight and not fit and healthy. If people don’t walk their talk I feel wary of their advice. Serge Benhayon is a true master – who never presents anything he has not personally lived. One day he will be recognised for the world teacher he is.
Yes agreed sueq2012, Serge Benhayon is a true role model, he certainly showed me what ‘walking your talk’ actually means. I thought I did because I applied what l’d learnt pretty diligently, but what I discovered was that there was a whole other level where this had meaning that I had no clue about and was certainly never taught. He first and foremost modelled it in the way he lived and conducted himself. As he shared more of the science behind it, it became as clear as day and I began to live it myself.
Yes, as I return to a way of living that is more loving and committed, thanks to Universal Medicine, I am constantly reminded that this way is so much more natural and flowing than the complexity and struggle I was caught in before.
It feels like there is more often than not an expectation on us to further our knowledge, that we need to search outside ourselves for answers and pieces of paper to make us more employable than someone else, when in fact, the most important step is for us to know, through connecting with our body, and deeply appreciate just how amazing we already are.
Truly beautiful, Jenny. This is such a clear exposition of true education. Thank you.
Absolutely yes to all that you have learnt through Universal Medicine Jennifer that is rarely if at all touched on in the education system but is fundamental and foundational in living life to its fullest. I opted out of education as soon as I could but at the same time I opted out of life and did just enough to make my life comfortable. For me I would add committing to life to your list, as this brought a reality to my life and how little I was truly participating, and has shown me that it was me and not everyone else that was the issue and through this I have been able to make necessary changes that have brought true love back into my life.
Yes true Alison, I could add it to my list also… as without commitment to life, not much of the rest has any real meaning or purpose. Healing ultimately is so we can bring something of real value to another.
‘Now THAT is testimony to a TRUE Education!’ – our world would evolve beyond recognition if these teachings became part of our current education system. This education is for all ages at any and every stage of life, we are never too young or too old to be reminded of all that we are and the absolute divinity that we are all a part of.
Thank you for sharing your testimony here Jennifer. There is a lovely appreciation here of the wisdom that is innate in us all once we know how to connect to it. To me it is ‘the missing link’ that no amount of garnering knowledge can duplicate.
Yes Richard it is half the healing to realise we are that wisdom at our core… and hence can never be broken or need fixing.
This is very inspiring Jenny. So many of us set off on a path of trying to heal or serve others without having the tools to do this in a way that will not drain us. Universal Medicine really does give us the tools for life.
Spot on Rebecca – as a practitioner (or in any job really), burnout is a very common scenario. To learn to not take on other’s problems and health concerns is the beginning of learning to live with truth, and then to feel and know how to BE to offer full support to another whilst staying strongly connected to ones essence brings the added bonus of feeling revitalised from working in this environment. What a blessing overall. Universal Medicine knows and shares these tools openly.
Agreed Rebecca, the “tools”, workshops, manuals and understanding how to “serve” humanity so that we do not drain but inspire through our inner-most connection.
So true Rebecca, in 7 years of tertiary study I didn’t ever come close to learning how to not take on responsibility for a client and hence get drained from the exchange. Until Universal Medicine I had no idea what was even involved. Without understanding the energetic interplay that occurs and developing a level of mastery over my part in it, there was nothing much that would have changed this, short of disconnecting from the relationship and becoming cold and impersonal. I certainly understand why so many members of the medical profession develop this as a way through.