171 thoughts on “Being a Student of Life”

1. Being able to understand the knock on effect of all we do has become important for our evolution.

2. Carmen like you I have found
   ‘The teachings of Universal Medicine have offered me a chance to really have a look at how I live, and how we live as a society.’
   It’s my choices that I make moment to moment, that will affect how I am feeling and I now know that the energy I chose will affect not only myself but everyone else too.

3. To be a student of life is to be open to every offer to learn a deeper truth of living life with love.

4. Learning and sharing about life opens the door to us so we can be transparent in all our wayward ways and this is what came up, it was the feeling of soccer and the training and how soccer, felt, and the ensuing celebration about simply being a part of a team but what was the cost? Losing the connection to our innate essence was the cost that can be felt when we have reconnected to our essences!
   Spending lifetimes looking for the connection, that undeniable feeling we have as a child of being connected to our essence, and it will return when we learn to deepen our understanding about our essence as presented by Universal Medicine, this connected feeling is miles away from what being involved in a soccer match brings to our bodies.
   Feeling from my essence opened the door to being transparent to what was happening all those years ago when soccer was part of our lives, so in reconnection to my Essence, Inner-most-heart, Soul or Esoteric (all one and the same) and this realignment allows my body to feel how disconnect sports made me feel.

   1. I really appreciate what you are sharing here Greg about soccer, we can say this about most sport in fact the whole world is set up in such a way that from the very day we are born, we are not supported to live within our essence. Everything is set up for us to live in the complete opposite which we then believe is normal. It is not until we do reconnect back to our essence that we can start to appreciate just how much and deeply we are lied to.

      1. Absolutely Mary, we live in a pressure cooker that places us in a compressed way of living that shields us from the truth about our origins and what/who we are.

   2. There are many behaviours and activities that are not truly supportive of our bodies, ‘there are many behaviours that I have taken on over time that really don’t support me – in fact I can clearly see that these behaviours really don’t support anyone else around me either.’

5. “reacting to things in life I get triggered by because I’m not seeing what’s really going on in situations” – This makes so much sense. If I want a situation to be different, I am not seeing it for what it really is. When I do see it for what it really is, there’s less/zero reaction.

6. We are like pin-ball-machines we are getting constantly triggered to go into an emotional reaction rather than stopping to read what is truly happening with any situation presented to us. That stop moment makes all the difference because there is a possibility to see the energy at play and decide not to play the same game. It’s very freeing.

   1. Stop moments can and do make a big difference in our lives, taking a moment to connect with our body, and feel what energy we are aligning to.

7. Appreciation of the energy we are in and thus opening up to others and letting them in, which is being intimate with others allows us to feel True-purpose in life as we evolve as students of our-selves.

8. “! I know within my deepest heart that I am the master of my life and how I choose to live it…” Yes we all need to take more responsibility for our choices. We cant blame anyone else.

9. Sometimes, like today, I feel the day has passed in its busyness and it is when I get home and have time to reflect I can feel and see there are many times I could have been with me more and done things differently. A great reminder that we are always students of life and Universal Medicine are the absolute best educators in the world for this … educators of truth ✨

   1. Sometimes I don’t even need to get home at the end of the day and reflect that I could have been more with myself, today I knew that I wasn’t with myself when I disappeared into frustration but still couldn’t pull myself out. It actually felt like I was enjoying the drama of it all and so maybe I didn’t truly want to come out.

10. I people watch as I go about my day, and more and more I’m noticing how dull people are as they walk along, how fed up and checked out, meaning with every step it’s as though they do not want to be here in this life.
    We seem to have forgotten that we can make choices about every aspect of our lives because it seems to have become too much, just a daily grind where we use force to push through the day to get to the end of it.
    So what you are presenting to the world is very different Carmen, how we can with some support to start with, be on the front foot of life so that it is a joy to be alive.

    1. When I take my evening walk, and as I walk to work from the station, I see many runners. I have never seen one that looked happy and never joyful. Could this be the new self-flagellation of old?

11. To be able to set aside things being right and wrong; to be open to learning, making mistakes, learning some more; affording ourselves the care and space to be students of life, makes for things being a whole lot more interesting, gentle, inspiring and developmental.

    1. Right and wrong sets us on a hiding to nowhere. Being open to learn from any situation puts a completely different slant on life. An ‘oops’ moment – learn and move on……

12. Reblogged this on and commented:
    To live and be open to seeing the things that are there every day – although they at times may be very challenging – as opportunities to learn and grow.

13. I love what you share about us being the ‘living open book’ of our choices and I get that this is the most important book that we will ever ‘write’. A living reflection for others always.

    1. ‘living open book” love this Matilda, also ‘the most important book that we will ever ‘write’. A living reflection for others always’. Inspiring to know life as an open book and one we write ourselves.

14. When we decide to take responsibility and begin to heal our hurts it can set us up for a very different path through life. Relationships can blossom and life can begin to flow.

15. We are students of life before anything else, but currently we are not aware of this or utilise this as much as we could do. What I would love to see is schools for this, where we get to learn about our livingness (how we live), the truth about energy, the truth about the Universe, our role within this, our true purpose and coming back to a life of vitality and joy. That is true education to me.

    1. So much attention given to students of academia and knowledge, that the true school of life is ignored. As a student of the Way of Livingness, this education I value above all others. ‘True education’ supports us to evolve as human beings, not simply acquire paper qualifications that don’t prepare us for life.

       1. Exactly Kehinde. I totally agree with you that the true school of life is ignored
          ‘True education’ supports us to evolve as human beings, not simply acquire paper qualifications that don’t prepare us for life’.

    2. That sounds great Vicky, schools where we learn about our livingness, like how we live affects our body, ‘not listening to what my body is telling me it needs – such as not moving in a way that supports it, or eating foods it tells me don’t nourish it.’

16. You mention the word profound in how you live profoundly affects not just you but those around you. Coming to acknowledge this is something that brings with it a realisation of our responsibility to ourselves and each other that was initially very scary for me, but now is more of an appreciation of what we can bring to the world. We are not immaterial players but hold great significance in how our world evolves or doesn’t.

    1. Thanks Karin. Yes I agree when I think about the responsibility I can also get scared at times thinking I’m not doing it correctly or it’s too much, though I like that you made it about appreciating what we are bringing and to see that as our responsibility to live that. Much more joyful that way.

       1. carmeniredale I agree with what you have shared. I can look back at something I have done and think to myself I could have done it differently. I am beginning to realise that life is a constant learning and the moment we go into right and wrong we have lost ourselves, because there is no right or wrong just the learning.

       2. We are forever students, we always have the opportunity to learn from life and situations.

    2. Accepting we have a responsibility in how we are as that not only affects us but those around us.

17. When we are a true student of life there is no room for arrogance.

    1. Well said Vicky. Arrogance is very misplaced in our world. With humility we can begin to be open to learning, working alongside one another as equals and sharing a common purpose to develop and evolve.

       1. Arrogance keeps us stuck in a hard place of our own making, unable to move forward. Humility opens the way to more understanding of why things are as they are and teaches us truer ways to be with self and others.

    2. And so arrogance can then stand out and feel alien.

    3. If arrogance tries to creep in, you are aware of it much sooner and can then let it go, as it feels horrible for all concerned.

18. Being a student of life is a life long vocation and free; We don’t have to leave our front doors, the school of life is where-ever we are and encompasses everyone we meet. No fees. no written examinations, but there are tests, many of them and we, our own invigilators. Rewards are not found in paper qualifications, but loving qualities when fully embraced to be freely shared and the deepening of our relationships with self and others.

    1. Kekinde2012 what you have written feels very beautiful and true, this is an amazing way to live and to express.

       1. I agree, now that is what I call being a true student and true learning ✨ A student of how we live each and every day. Beautifully expressed and inspiring too.

    2. I love this Kehinde. So true too. ‘Rewards are not found in paper qualifications…. but loving qualities……. ” Free to share and embrace, as you say.

    3. Beautifully said Kehinde. it’s who we are and our quality that we express in every moment – regardless of whether anyone else is around – that’s important.

19. We’re both student and teacher at the same time, learning and teaching ourselves (and others) as we go. We’ve learned to live fully, responsibly and purposefully, to be self reflecting and inspired by the many students of The Way of the Livingness.

    1. Kehinde2012 I find the Students of The way of The livingness to be very inspiring, we live all around the world in a way that is as harmless as possible to ourselves and others. If we take a look at the rise in abuse around the world this way of life is something to be celebrated.

20. Being a student of life means one accepting that life is always evolving and hence brings purpose to life.

    1. Embracing our purpose, and embodying our evolving.

21. Really embracing that we are students of life is one of the most humbling, inspiring and developmental things we can do. When I am in full studentship there is a beautiful willingness to learn that I really love.

22. Every interaction with another is an offering from heaven to deepen, observe and learn. The school of life is our greatest teacher.

    1. I agree Kehinde but we are blinkered to that offering by our own behaviours, reactions and beliefs. We go into almost every situation already loaded and that load interferes with our ability to learn and deepen from it. The load closes us down to being open to what’s on offer, therefore the most important thing for all of us to do is to clear our load so that we can go into situations ready and able to see and feel what’s truly on offer for us. Universal Medicine has supported me immeasurably to clear my load.

       1. What is important is to remember the offering is always there. We are called to respond or react, nothing more. ‘…the highest form of love is in fact free-will, the allowing of another to choose as one pleases, so to speak, yet still hold them with and in the absoluteness of love with not a single ounce of judgement of what one does or not with what is being given `(Impulsed).'(i) Where-ever we are, whatever we come with, we are loved.
          (i) Serge Benhayon The Way of the Livingness Sermons 18-30 paragraph 21.6 pag81

       2. The starting point to holding another in love is to hold ourselves in love and that is why judgement is so rife, we have so little love for ourselves, in fact most of us don’t even have regard for ourselves let alone love and that’s not a judgement, it’s simply a fact.

       3. Alexis totally agree with all that is being shared, it’s an entrapment that we do not even know that we are entrapped in, until someone who can read the energy of entrapment supports us to let go of what we ‘think’ we know, or sometimes the energy is released and then it is possible to feel just how much we were entrapped by it, by the expansion our body receives. Then it is up to the individual whether they take the energy back on again or are free of it by making different choices and moving in a way that the invading energy has nothing hang on to, so passes through the body.

       4. Absolutely agree with what you share Alexis, loving ourselves first is essential to loving others and letting go of judgement.

    2. I love this Kehinde. Heaven offering us so many opportunities to learn all the time and deepen.
       It’s simply beautiful to see how it is unfolding for us to be more and bring more of the amazingness that’s deep within us.

23. The beautiful thing about being willing to learn in life is that it allows you to grow.
    It allows something I feel many of us don’t give ourselves ~ which is grace – the opportunity to be open to see life and how we live as a school of sorts – to teach us how to live our natural love and sensitive selves in this world and discard the behaviours that don’t support us or others.
    We are way more loving than we let ourselves show this world or allow of ourselves, and also it is not the norm or made normal in this world to show our real fragility, delicateness and to be a ‘student of life’ to grow and actually support each other.
    We live in a world where it is acceptable to be tough, be hard, struggle, compete with each other and be a ‘success’ at the expense of others. It can be easy to hide behind the mask of our behaviours and ideals and beliefs and what ‘we’ want in life. From what I am learning these behaviours if we continue, are harmful to ourselves and harm others around us. Being a student reminds me that I can learn in life and it lets me unfold to discover the truth of how I am in life and also how life is for others.
    The greatest gift I have at the moment is understanding that I am learning, so that when things come up that I can see aren’t loving in the way I live, that I have the power to stop, take a moment and give myself grace and understanding and feel what I am doing that is harming and to change it without the harsh self berating and critiscism which does not allow me to change anything.
    It gives me grace to see – like all of us, we are but students of life each on our path back to living love and truth.

    1. Grace and understanding. Two of the greatest gifts we can give ourselves and others. Loving being a student of life takes all the pressure off and exposes the lie of seeing to achieve a certain something before we are worthy or acceptable.

    2. Reading you comment carmeniredale I came to a deeper understanding of ‘what we want’ in life, we have made life all about our wants and desires which keeps us in the separation from each other, as we try to outcompete each other in everything we do. From being competitive at school, bringing that to the work place, raising children, it’s a cycle that entraps us and for many of us we don’t even realise we are in it up to our necks.

    3. We are forever learning, embracing that with humbleness and curiosity allows us to continue to inspire and evolve.

24. The beautiful thing about being willing to learn in life is that it allows you to grow.
    It allows something I feel many of us don’t give ourselves ~ which is grace – the opportunity to be open to see life and how we live as a school of sorts – to teach us how to live our natural love and sensitive selves in this world and discard the behaviours that don’t support us or others.
    We are way more loving than we let ourselves show this world or allow of ourselves, and also it is not the norm or made normal in this world to show our real fragility, delicateness and to be a ‘student of life’ to grow and actually support each other.
    We live in a world where it is acceptable to be tough, be hard, struggle, compete with each other and be a ‘success’ at the expense of others. It can be easy to hide behind the mask of our behaviours and ideals and beliefs and what ‘we’ want in life. From what I am learning these behaviours if we continue, are harmful to ourselves and harm others around us. Being a student reminds me that I can learn in life and it lets me unfold to discover the truth of how I am in life and also how life is for others.
    The greatest gift I have at the moment is understanding that I am learning, so that when things come up that I can see aren’t loving in the way I live, that I have the power to stop, take a moment and give myself grace and understanding and feel what I am doing that is harming and to change it without the harsh self berating and critiscism which does not allow me to change anything.
    It gives me grace to see – like all of us, we are but students of life each on our path back to love and truth.

    1. We can be so quick to condemn ourselves. but reluctant to appreciate. Something to work on for me……..

       1. I have found that the putting ourselves down can be ever so subtle, I was not aware of it until pointed out by another.

    2. I read your comment today Carmen Iredale and I agree with you that we do not give ourselves the grace to make mistakes and grow from them.

25. Wow! Understating and living as master of our own life. How important is it to claim this level of responsibility. Thank you Carmen.

26. ‘It’s my choices every day that are the living open book I am writing of my life and the others I share life with’ I have not really seen our life in such a way, a kind of living documentary but that is exactly what it is because whether someone knows how we live or not everything we do is recorded energetically and comes back to us. So yes absolutely worth living responsibly for even just that reason but it would be even greater to live our lives responsibility because we deeply care for ourselves and others equally.

    1. Everything gets registered because nothing is separate from life, we are the One United Mass of God and so everything is known by Him. We can’t even have a single thought that is not felt by His body.

       1. This is true Alexis
          “We can’t even have a single thought that is not felt by His body.”
          because we live inside his atma which is space, and so the space all around us is the body of God. We breathe the space of God. So there is never a time that we are not in relationship with him. How wonder-full it is to come back to this understanding.

       2. Incredible isn’t it that we can feel so desperate and isolated when all along God is closer to us than our own breath.

       3. I love how and what you share Alexis, ‘we are the One United Mass of God and so everything is known by Him. We can’t even have a single thought that is not felt by His body.’

27. I just love the outlook of seeing everything as an opportunity to grow, especially great for me to get over my imagined hurdle of thinking I can’t handle something when actually I can, or I can when I accept support.

    Like the other day I really saw how far we live from the love we naturally are and I felt disturbed. I can feel how much I care, that the choice to be open and loving with all people really matters, in the same way on that same day I had the most lovely interactions with people.

    1. Karin, we do care deeply about humanity and the mess we are all in, that we are all searching for the love that seems to elude us because we have been fed for eons that love is an emotion when it is not. That lie has led us all down a rabbit hole that we still haven’t climbed out of.

28. “…getting angry and reacting to things in life I get triggered by because I’m not seeing what’s really going on in situations….” So often we get triggered. It is because we are not seeing the whole picture as we are viewing the situation from a pre-judged perspective, a picture of how things should be. Pictures and expectations keep us bound within our own bubble, limiting our access to our multi-dimensionality and the wonders of the Universe.

29. ” I can feel the many opportunities that present for me to grow and deepen my ability to be myself in full.” Thank you Carmen, this has been great to read again, very real and relatable. I see my own life like this, that we have opportunities every day to honour ourselves and live our fullness, to make choices that are or are not supportive and learn, and to love and appreciate ourselves and others as we grow each day.

    1. Beautiful Melinda. Thank you. I agree it is great to allow ourselves to be learners and expand.

30. ‘I know within my deepest heart that I am the master of my life and how I choose to live it…’ This is true. We all are. And there is nothing to attain, try or reach as everything is within. Instead it is a process of letting go of all that we are not.

    1. How true, yet so different to how we are brought up to believe.

31. “I now consider every day as an opportunity to take stock and actually look at what is going on in my life …..” This is an enriching way to live life.

32. Being conscious and aware of one’s breath is a true support to identify when we are either on ‘the front or the back foot’.

    1. Love this jstewart. Simply beautiful to be aware of our breathing to let us know how we are truly going.

       1. Yes, I find it a great support in my daily life to keep me present with what I am doing rather than going off on a daydream by regularly checking to see how my breath is.

33. ‘ I know within my deepest heart that I am a master of my life and I choose to love it.’ Beautiful Carmin and I so agree.

34. ‘I am developing more truthful and loving relationships ‘. This phrase jumped out at me today, as I realize I too am doing this. I’m a chameleon no longer. Feels great!

    1. Thats really gorgeous to hear ❤️

35. Each day this week I’ve spoken with people who have opened up and shared their innermost and honest feelings about caring for loved ones. These conversations inspired me to write about family and care and is an example of how we are presented with the next level of learning by our Soul. It is offered, we accept it, or not.

36. Being a student of life is to attend the most important school there is though most play hooky through drugs, alcohol, sport, work, etc.

37. I have been a student many times in life. Each time there’s a cycle that’s gone a little like this – excitement or dread about the course, worry about if I have the abilities, stress, lots of writing and hard work followed by relief, indeed a lot of relief. I’ve transposed a lot of this onto being a student of life and am coming to terms with it being a continuous path -though I know this will evolve to being joyful as I embrace that it’s never about me working alone, but with the support of the universe and God.

38. Being a student of life has supported me to be in an interactive relationship with life, a two way dalliance that feels like it’s getting deeper and deeper and definitely more beautiful and decidedly more roomy.

    1. Alexis I’m encouraged by your words that as we go deeper, we make more room or space and as we expand so too does the universe.
       So is it possible that we are just empty vessels with energy passing through us, one expands our universe and one tries to contract it and make it dense? The denseness is what we call form our human form.

       1. Every single thought, every single word and every single action can be placed in one of two camps, the camp of expansion or the camp of contraction and if we were to live a life of constant responsibility then to the best of our ability we would only be living from the camp of expansion. And this is something that I have recently stepped up my dedication with. Time to stop mucking around me thinks and get on with what I came here to do!

39. Like a pebble thrown into a pond that sends out ripples, so too do all our actions and thoughts ripple out to affect others.

40. I so agree Carmen – being a student of life allows us the privilege to choose in every moment how our day will be. It feels empowering to understand that in any one moment I can come back to me and feel my body and the impact of my movements on others – life becomes all embracing and not so intensely focused as it can be when we lose connection with the multi dimensional pulse that supports us all to live as one.

41. The forever student, lives without pictures of what life should be and remains ever open and accepting of what it presents.

    1. I so agree Kehinde. Having pictures and expectations of ‘how things should be’ is a killer in any relationship. Staying open to what may present is key.

    2. Being the forever student as you describe, Kehinde, is to live in freedom and joy.

    3. I guess that is the difference, accepting the pictures we have been given of how life should be, or saying no to the pictures by seeing through them. We have made a reality from these pictures when in fact they are not real at all, just smoke and mirrors and anyone who challenges the pictures of life are ostracised from society and seen as outcasts.

42. So much energy, attention and resources spent creating students of formal and flawed education systems, and so little devoted to guiding us to become true students in the school of life.

43. Great point Alexis. It’s true that we are relating on a below level standard in our relationships – one person’s hurts and behaviours can be played out against anothers and there is no true relationship. Thanks for the reminder of what a truthful relationship lived is ~ to express from our wholeness the innate oneness and universality of us.

44. Being on the front foot used to come with all sorts of ideas about having to plan ahead, duck and dive from possible confrontation or complication – in fact I made life complicated thinking it was this which turned me off ‘front-footing’. Reading this and feeling how, when I stay with the settlement within myself, I realise I am on the front foot for whatever is presented to me in life. Being settled provides a foundation that I can move forward from, there is a knowing in my response, no being taken off course by a myriad of choice. There are practical things to do but no effort required.

45. Thank you Carmen. Our responsibility simply presented and with this the joy that awaits when we do connect to our bodies and allow ourselves to feel the very natural relationship with heaven that we all have.

46. We all have a responsibility, every single person on the planet, and when we finally wake up and truly realise this it is such a blessing on so many levels 💫

    1. Yep but until we do wake up most of us will continue to sleep walk our way through our days, our weeks, our months, our years and our lives.

47. Living as a student of life, allows me to learn and embrace more of myself in every step, re-connecting to my inner wisdom, responding from there to what’s next, without images or investments. This is an amazing path of surrender and reclaiming of what I always was and will be.

    1. I love this embracing more of oneself because it’s also then embracing all of life and other people too. And the embracing part feels very loving and nurturing.

48. I have to be honest and say a lot of my life I’ve wished to switch off and say, yep I’ve done enough for today I need a break- eat loads, watch TV etc. Like today I was super transparent with some people and their response was really supportive. Now I could go back into my shell and shut out the world, or I could just stay present. I could be curious, what is it now that I wish to retreat from? What’s the next learning?

    Writing this I realised I put on myself that I need to be a certain way so the next time I meet these people I’ll be met with acceptance and love. But actually, I don’t have to perform or live up to an expectation or ideal – which is very exhausting.

    When I let go and be, then there’s no need to take a break. When I’m trying to be anything other than myself or do more than what’s being asked, I’m not listening to what’s already in place to bring through. Perhaps life isn’t the struggle I make it!

49. From my own experience choosing to withdraw is a trap because you cannot read what is happening in life any more. It’s as though you give your body over to another energy because you cannot be bothered to participate in life and then that energy expresses through you and you are not you anymore.

50. We’re all in the classroom of Life, I suppose the significance is in the knowing that we are. Once we know that we are then life feels very different. It feels to me that the pace quickens and that there is an interactivity with Life that actually becomes deliciously intimate.

    1. The more I accept my studentship the more open I am to all the learning that every day offers. In the past I had a strict picture of what I needed to be to be acceptable. The embracing of the forever learning is one of the most freeing choices I have made.

       1. I got a real sense of space Matilda when I read your comment, a sense of space that I too have felt. Gone is the self recrimination and in it’s way is simply an allowing for me to do, say and think whatever, knowing that my awareness and commitment to life are increasing and so with that comes natural change.

51. For so many of us studying has felt boring or like a total waste of time. Studying has often felt pointless or even futile. Many of us have struggled to understand the subjects that we have been studying and at times we have simply given up as something has just been too hard. But being a student of Life is not at all like that because the learning is specific to each of us. A curriculum that is tailor made to our needs and not a single lesson that is un achievable. How amazing and how beautiful is that? Oh and there is no such thing as pass and fail, even better!

52. Reading how we react because we are not seeing the full picture is really asking me to contemplate this more fully. Any time I feel a reaction I can stop and ask myself, ok, what is it I’m not seeing? It takes away the personal and makes it into a lesson. I do do this but to really confirm there is always more and to seek support if needed is very supportive.

53. “For instance, there are many behaviours that I have taken on over time that really don’t support me – in fact, I can clearly see that these behaviours really don’t support anyone else around me either” and this is the litmus test isn’t it Carmen, if it doesn’t support us then it can’t possibly support anyone else but I have spent so many years thinking that I was supporting others whilst simultaneously wearing myself down. Now I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that I and everybody else are intrinsically linked, we are One United Being and so anything that wears me down wears down the whole, it can’t but not, regardless of the beliefs that I hold.

    1. Alexis reading your comment I can feel we all have so many behaviours that we have taken on that don’t support us or anyone else around us. Feeling into these behaviours I now know that they have got humanity absolutely nowhere and so my question to myself has to be why do we feel it necessary to continue to indulge in them as it feels as though we have said yes to stagnation?

       1. Mary what we’ve actually said ‘yes’ to is an alignment to a particular energy which then gives us our behaviours. Our behaviours then ensure our alignment back to that same energetic source which will then either ensure that we keep behaving in the same way, or it will replace those behaviours with other ones, BUT at the end of the day all of the behaviours come with the same flavour even if they appear radically different e.g. replacing smoking pot with yoga as a means to not feel inner agitation – two very different behaviours but both with the same underlying flavour.

54. The truth is something that each and every one of us knows inside out, it’s just that we do an incredible job at either denying it or ignoring it because to acknowledge the truth would interfere with our reckless ways and we’re not prepared to reign in our behaviour and align to our soul. Yet.

55. This was a stop moment for me when I read this.
    “I know within my deepest heart that I am the master of my life and how I choose to live it”
    What many human beings have done over the course of many lifetimes is give their power away to another energy for security. We have traded our power to determine our own destination for the sake of security and a comfortable life. Coming out of this can be difficult because lifetimes ago we signed an agreement with another energy and that energy still wants to own us, so breaking the contract can be difficult because it owns the body through the contract signed.

    1. Thank you Mary. Great expose on the energy that has been running our bodies that we signed up for. It is that we know it that is difficult, for to turn the massive tanker and our momentums around takes healing, support and loving ourselves as we go.

56. “It’s my choices every day that are the living open book I am writing of my life and the others I share life with”. Reading these very wise words, I can feel so strongly, that if they were shared with us from young that we would grow up naturally knowing that we are responsible for every single choice we make, as every single choice not only affects us, but all. Yes it is our book to write, but it is in the living of what we write, that we come to understand that every word is being written for another.

57. It really is a gift to see/consider everything as important, and that what we do and say and how we approach situations and people matters. It is not a burden or a pressure, it is being committed to being aware of the impact we have in this big pool of water we live in.

58. ‘I know within my deepest heart that I am the master of my life and how I choose to live it…’ Embracing this rather than denying the truth we are masters of our lives is powerful.

59. Being an active student of life takes the ‘perfection pressure’ off – school wants us to be good at something, our work, our family life all have these expectations that we need to be a certain way, and that is usually pretty perfect to someone else’s definition of the word. But being a student means to me that we know we won’t get it all the time and we are learning to be all we are in a world that is set up to lessen who we are at every turn.

    1. So true revans. Being a student means we don’t have to get it right. We may not always fit a picture of what we think or how we need to live. But be open to learning and coming from our heart and truth in life. As you say the world is set up for us to not live like this. Hence the joy and grace of being a student of life.

       1. I totally agree with you both the world is not set up for us to live free of ideals and beliefs which have been handed down generation after generation by the so called pillars of Establishments. We have all had a hand in making these rules which now imprison us, and it will be ‘we’ as the collective that will dismantle these pillars which hinder us from breathing our own breath one by one, as we do this we will realise the stagnation we have been in and continue the journey back to our soul.

    2. There is something so honouring and loving about applying the student of life philosophy. It brings so much understanding and space to life and the learning opportunities that are constantly on offer. We do not need to be anything just willing to learn.

       1. I agree Matilda that by choosing to be a student of life we open life up, as opposed to the closed and clamped down view that so many of us hold about life. The truth is we restrict ourselves, we willingly climb into straight jackets and zip ourselves up at the back and we do this by taking on beliefs (all of which are restrictive), we hold onto small pictures of how life and people should be and we choose an energy that does nothing other than reduce and belittle the truth of who we all are. It truly is time to choose something different if we want a different outcome.

    3. revans917 I came to a moment today when I could say I know what is being presented. It’s a whole body experience, my body just shifted into a deeper connection to something I knew lifetimes ago and have just allowed myself to feel again. My body is constantly showing me that I do know, all I need to do is let go of the intellect that gets in the way of a whole body experience. Once we connect to the knowing of something nothing can shake that foundation.

60. Being a student of life is fascinating because there is so much going on underneath the surface of it that we are just not responding to. We are so caught up by the pictures we have been given. It’s like we are so bedazzled by the wrapping paper we have forgotten to unwrap the present.

61. Reading this I’m getting a deeper understanding of my life and how I was so frustrated with myself, with God, with everyone, because I was trying to live my life from my head and the shoulds and should nots that I tried to adhere to but couldn’t because I wasn’t connecting with my body. I was refusing to feel. Instead I was in constant judgement of right and wrong. Learning what there is to learn and dropping the judgement is making all the difference, opening to an acceptance of life that’s grand and loving. No need to ‘sweat the small stuff’ or any stuff when accepting all that each day brings for me to learn and heal. Dropping the fight.

    1. Karin, dropping the fight is a huge one for me, I am at last coming to the realization that if I fight then I’m in the same energy I’m fighting. The key is I feel to let go then the energy that currently runs our lives has no energy from me to feed off.

62. I loved your example of the breath Carmen, how when we bring focus to that quality our thoughts change, our heart is opened and the breath that we breathe out is a blessing for everyone. What you have shown is that it’s all about quality and detail, which is the mastery, not a big try-hard goal or drive.

    1. Great thanks Bernadette. Yes it’s great to remember the simplicity of living in life with connection to our breath and our body.

63. ” instead of being ‘victims’ of life ”
    This is a great learning and a great reflection for anyone that wants to take notice. For there are a lot of people whose life is lived in ” victim of life ” and it looks like there is no way out.

    1. Assuming the identity of being a ‘victim of life’ is no different to assuming the identity of being a ‘champion of life’. Same, same but different. They are both false identities that we choose to take on in place of being who we truly are. Just different overcoats that’s all.

64. Seeing everyday, not as a matter of good and bad or right and wrong, but a platform for our learning helps knock out the push and emotional strain to be perfect.

    1. Joseph, also understanding that every day is the same day. We are in a repetitive cycle not going anywhere and every day is a repeat of the day before. What an amazing opportunity to re-imprint our movements so we have another opportunity to change the way we interact with the day. Everyday can be mundane or a deeper expanse of the day before.

65. Thank you Carmen, adding to what you have shared; Truth lives within us, so when we seek from our Soul-full-essences, the understanding we get from our connection is our true responsibility to walk in a way that supports us in our True Livingness.

    1. Thanks Greg for adding. There is great joy in living more of who we are.

       1. And it is amazing to build on anthers foundation and deepen the sharing.

66. “It’s my choices every day that are the living open book I am writing of my life and the others I share life with…” And it is there for everyone to read so to speak, to feel and be inspired by, to know that there are other possibilities, to witness the reflection of another that offers an advance for how life can be.

67. One day we will all be students in Life, all actively engaged in the process of evolution. How incredible will it be when we are all dedicated to the same one purpose, the purpose of evolving the All and the Everything.

68. I’m developing an appreciation of what challenges me because this truly is an opportunity to grow, often because I’ve ignored things to the point that I am challenged and cannot step forward without addressing what’s there. This is such a different way of seeing life from when I used to bemoan my ‘lot’.

    1. So true, it is an opportunity to understand what makes us tick and ask if the behaviours support us or actually create more complication for us instead.

    2. There is in many of us the unwillingness to know, so we ignore and bury because sometimes it all feels too much. We are actively encouraged to think this way too by the current set up of life. The opportunity to grow seems to challenge us and we take the easy way out, while bemoaning our lot. I can put two hands up and say I was caught up in avoiding any opportunity to grow. Universal Medicine has supported me all the way to come out of my ‘what’s the use’ no one cares attitude. Universal Medicine has given me and so thousands of other people a completely different way of looking and engaging in life.

69. “To be on the front foot in life.” There’s a challenge for me. Yet, rather than waiting for events to unfold if I’m aware of the energies at play I’m less likely to get caught out.

70. Universal Medicine teachings have certainly supported me to look at my everyday living and how that affects not only myself but everyone around me too

71. Just to hear you say that you are a student of life is beautiful, as I feel this is what we have all forgotten. We make life about function which completely misses the depth that we can go to with ourselves if we just allow the magic of life that is there to flow through us.

    1. Reading how we react because we are not seeing the full picture is really asking me to contemplate this more fully. Any time I feel a reaction I can stop and ask myself, ok, what is it I’m not seeing? It takes away the personal and makes it into a lesson. I do do this but to really confirm there is always more and to seek support if needed is very supportive.

72. Beautifully expressed Carmen. Thank you. Let us all be open books as our soul guides our way.

73. ‘The importance of being a student of life, I have realised, is the enormous responsibility I have in my everyday choices in how I live this life, and how it affects myself and others in either a harming or healing way’. This is so true and very powerful to know that we are the orchestrators of our own lives and the choices to be the love we are in full is up to us. Simple really – are we saying ‘Yes’ to all that is on offer or are we saying ‘No’.

74. “The truly loving divine and joyful beings we are” we are aren’t we, but we have made choices that have currently lead to us believing that we’re hard done by, picked on, marginalised, under the pump, up against it. Or even if we don’t believe any of that and think that we’re okay, or even that life is good or great, this is still a vastly diminished representation of the truth.

    1. Yes I’m slowly realizing how amazing every single one of us is, yet many of us are living at a diminished level. Bringing appreciation into my life, rather than looking at where I’m not coming up to scratch, is making a difference to my life.

       1. There is something to be appreciated in every single situation, we may have to search through a pile of rotting rubble to find it, but it will be there and by finding it and highlighting it, we have the power to change the situation, often quite remarkably.

75. “I now realise that how I live profoundly affects not only me, but others around me as well”, agreed Carmen. We are the One United Whole, there is no such thing as either living in isolation or moving in separation.

76. “I know within my deepest heart that I am the master of my life and how I choose to live it” wow Carmen that line socks one helluva punch.

    1. Yes thanks Alexis. No escaping of this fact. To live from my heart and wisdom feels way more true than being at the mercy of what life throws me.

77. Reconnecting to the truth of who we all are is very powerful and an inspiration in the way we choose to live.

78. True education lies within and in our connection to soul.

    1. Our Soul-full-essences will always expose the lies.

    2. Bam! Well said Kehinde. This is true education.

79. The forever student, does not find life dull or mundane, rather each day is full of possibilities to learn and deepen awareness of our innate divinity, and connectedness to all others.

    1. I agree, never a dull moment! Moreover it is a constant expansion of the same moment and as such I find it fascinating how much I have reduced life.

       1. I love this Lucy, I recently started another new job which involves steam ironing mens business shirts. It is a repetitive job doing maybe 100 shirts at once yet I love that – as you say each moment is rich and constantly expansive – I am constantly reminded although it is the same thing over and over to bring my sensitivity, care and attention to detail with holding and touching the material when I am handling the shirts. Some very loved shirts!

80. “The living open book I am writing of my life and the others I share life with” – this really stood out for me. Indeed, we are living and writing this book constantly, with every word uttered, every thought contemplated, every step, every movement, every breath we take is a word, coming from what we have allowed ourselves to be inspired by, and exhaled out in expression – that form this living book, which leaves an imprint for others to read as we live it, as well as in time to come.

81. “To live and be open to seeing the things that are there every day – although they at times may be very challenging – as opportunities to learn and grow.” That is really a wonderful way of living as it seems to be so much simpler – even if there are challenges – as so there is the possibility to go with the flow and not working against it what could causes complications and hurts.

    1. Hi Ester, there seems to be the possibility in life to either let it gobble you up with all your issues and problems and get in many holes or stay steady and bring you and your all to life regardless of what comes. What i am learning is that I am imperfect and it is giving me a chance to live more from my heart and not be so hard on myself and my imperfections. And as you say go with the flow of life.

82. I always loved that feeling when you totally embraced a study or project and gave it your all, keen to learn more not just tick a box. Reading this makes it clear we can all bring this joy of learning to living our life.

    1. Ah yes totally. There is a lot of box ticking in life but actually there need not be. I don’t mean by getting rid of ticking boxes, but of bringing one’s all to what’s being asked and really connecting to purpose. Nothing is then ever a chore or remotely arduous.

83. Thank you Carmen for the reminder that we are precious divine beings who are not the sum of our behaviours, but much more. And how easy it is to drop the responsibility and awareness that all our actions and movements affect everyone around us, and therefore how important it is to consider the quality of these – are they inspiring or are they shutting others out?

84. Thank you Carmen for the reminder that we are precious divine beings who are not the sum of our outside behaviours, but much more. And how easy it is to drop the responsibility and awareness that all our actions and movements affect everyone around us and therefore how important it is to consider the quality of these – are they inspiring others or are they shutting others out?

    1. Most of us know ourselves by our ‘outside behaviours’ and yet these are totally made up, there is no truth in them whatsoever. Our behaviours are flimsy interchangeable components that make up our human characteristics from one lifetime to the next, they have absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with the unalterable constantness of our soul.

       1. I know what you mean Alexis, we rely on our ‘outside behaviors’ to get us by led by our minds. We think our way out of situations which our minds have usually gotten us into rather than reconnecting to our soul and living from the consistency which is the flow of the universe. We seem ignorant of the space that is around us and within us that is the space of the universe we all live within. As hard as we might try to ignore this fact there is no getting away from the truth, which we will all come back to in the end.

       2. Most of us think of space as something to fill with stuff.

    2. Thanks Gina. Yes we are so much more than our behaviours. The living of our soul in life to the best of our ability is what brings joy and harmony to ourselves and others.

       1. ‘We are so much more than our behaviours’ agreed Carmen but we are currently totally and utterly blindsided by not only our behaviours but the behaviours of others, so much so that life consists of people’s behaviours interacting with other people’s behaviours, we are currently nowhere near interacting with each other on a soul level. But one day we will be, so much so that the only interactions that we’ll have with each other and with life will be on a soul level.

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