by Danielle Loveless
I recall being a very playful and joyful child, always wanting to have fun and play games, and anything could be made into a game. I also remember that something happened to this. I started to feel very sad, and I was confused as to why the rest of my family or world wasn’t the fun that I knew. I spent many hours laying under or in my bed crying for no reason other than ‘it hurts’. This crying went on until I was about 15 – then I toughened up to be an adult and do what everyone else was doing, to get on with life. I succeeded in everything possible in life – sports, school, boys, parties, alcohol, body image, the lot. I thought this was it and for nearly seven or eight years I never cried again. But that was it, I NEVER cried, not once, and I was very closed and unaffectionate. I never hugged people or felt comfortable when others hugged me. Instead I coped by partying very hard and working just as hard.
In my early 20’s I had a ‘quarter-life crisis’ – basically I had enough. I left my long-term relationship, took time off from my PhD, sold my house and moved. Within about a month I bumped into one man who was different. He was an accountant, and when I met him he hugged me. Later when I asked out of politeness how he was, he told me he was resting a lot, crying most evenings and getting used to a big change that had happened in his life. I was shocked that this stranger had honestly told me what was going on, and something so sensitive and personal. I knew in this moment that this guy was different. At the time I did not know that this man had been having Esoteric Healing and attending Universal Medicine courses for about 2-3 years.
At this point I was inspired to go deeper and look within. I was somewhat fearful of what I would find, and I cried and cried and cried for nearly 4-6 months. I cried about all the things in life that I did not understand, why others were also so unhappy underneath their smiles, why work seemed fake and no one wanted to do it, and why there was distance or separation in my family and friends even though we appeared to get along. I now realise the hurt that I felt deepest was that I felt this distance and separation in all of humanity – this still hurts now.
Seven years have now passed and I still often feel sad about how life seems around me, and I let myself cry. However, I now have some simple tools to deal with the deep hurts so they don’t get on top of me, but also so I don’t bury them down deep. I thank Universal Medicine for sharing with me these tools. For example, I now see that although life may not always feel very lovely, joyful or fun, I can connect to this lovely joy and fun on my inside (because I am this), and I don’t need the world to be this back to play with me. I understand that underneath another’s hardness they are lovely and playful just like me, but sometimes people reject this because of their own hurts about why others were not this lovely and joyful with them as a child.
So is life a set up? That we don’t get met in the loveliness we are as a child, because our parents have their own hurts, so we then feel hurt, bury our hurt and then can’t meet our own children for the loveliness that they are, and so on and so on. It felt like a set up for me until that accountant came along and met me from that loveliness that he chose for himself, so I had a moment to feel that I am still this. Yes, a complete stranger allowed me to open up and connect within, just because he had allowed himself to do the same. So someone must have done the same with him and someone before that person also, and so on and so on – the way life can truly be set up.
So I had my first profound healing and inner-connection at my accountant’s! Isn’t this saying something to how life is currently set up? It wasn’t any spiritual group, no church, no psychologist and not even in ten years of university. If there is any story to be told about the work of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine, this is the true one. Serge is one of very few people I know who meet absolutely everyone equally from this lovely and amazing place, to another’s loveliness. He does this with absolute consistency and commitment to love for humanity, allowing people to feel they are the same. I thank him deeply for re-starting this cycle. I also thank my accountant who continues to do an amazing job with my tax with a warm and open heart.
The Truth about Serge Benhayon 
Some people feel things around them and do not like what they feel, and do not understand what they feel and so they do the only thing they know to do which is to harden themselves and simply numb out or ignore what they have felt. Many of us have done this, and I too can relate. But in the process we cut ourselves off from the inner warmth which is the very quality that actually keeps us alive and connected to each other. Once disconnected we are at the mercy of the hardness. To break this cycle is the greatest blessing and gift to self and all those around us.
When we stop to cry as we feel how ‘wrong’ the world is, there is an honesty in this. When we stop to feel the warmth inside, there is an loveliness in this. The more we allow ourselves to feel the warmth the more it holds us as we feel those things that are not pleasant.
Danielle, what an awesome sharing – I love how the simplicity of life and the joy we have experienced as children can actually be brought back for us to hold and enjoy – it is about going in rather than seeking it from the outside as you have shared, and also being able to connect to the same in another. Simple but so much more ‘doable’ when we have had someone reflect this truth to us too!
Living in connection with our essence, with ourself, is an important foundation to living with connection to everyone, ‘ there was distance or separation in my family and friends even though we appeared to get along. I now realise the hurt that I felt deepest was that I felt this distance and separation in all of humanity – this still hurts now.’
Thank you Danielle for sharing with such depth, sensitivity, honesty and rawness, it’s not common in the world, but that realness is so very healing for all of us. It’s inspired me to remember how I can make choices to also be that real with others and take a pause when I’m asked “how are you” to share more openly.
It is amazing how when we live who we truly are the impact this can have on another, ‘ a complete stranger allowed me to open up and connect within, just because he had allowed himself to do the same.’
Yes, we can always connect to who we truly are, and then inspire others, ‘I can connect to this lovely joy and fun on my inside (because I am this), and I don’t need the world to be this back to play with me.’
Truly deeply beautiful, no one is special, we all have the ability to re-connect to our innerheart and it only takes one meeting. A stranger or not. A power that we have when we connect.
Like dominoes, one knocking the other over, except we can lift each other up and out of the abyss when we are connected and a random encounter can shift so much for another when true love and warmth are there to be shown.
We do not come up with anything, we need another to reflect back for us to see what else is available.
We can say that the world is now set up to not be who you are, even though that our bodies know and we deep down know from inside out what the truth is – who we are. We are not raised by this knowing and intelligence and hence have become human beings who live far away from our very nature – our essence, that we know to be true about, and are capable of listening to. We just need a more wiser education.
We come to this world and get greeted by many hearts and many hurts. Unknowingly, we relate to both and both relate to us until our heart gets hurt and we become another one who relates to the world based on a heart and many hurts. Like everybody else, we try to work around this fact and fail in one way or another, yet not everybody calls it failure.
I smiled and smiled when you shared that your accountant had been so honest and talked about his crying and letting himself feel. I smiled in appreciation of his sharing and your sharing because it takes down the walls of “I’m alright Jack”. It was an honest conversation and you don’t know you are missing that till you meet someone and have one!
“So is life a set up? That we don’t get met in the loveliness we are as a child, because our parents have their own hurts, so we then feel hurt, bury our hurt and then can’t meet our own children for the loveliness that they are, and so on and so on.” And now it doesn’t have to be this way. Since meeting Serge Benhayon my life is very different – and my children and grandchildren get to experience a different way of relating.
Thanks, Danielle. This is a great example of how one moment of being fully ourselves can inspire another to open up to more. We are reflecting to one another all of the time, so we have to ask ourselves what it is we are reflecting?
And when we are met we can then meet people for who they truly are in essence and a whole different view of life can open up. Each of us can offer a different angle of reflection. We are all needed.
Beautiful to read, thank you Danielle. Really shows that how we live makes a difference for the people we meet.
It is ok to cry. It is not a sign of weakness but something very needed at times, to let go of the pain and connect deeper with ourselves. Allowing ourselves feeling what is there to be felt is a very courage and humble choice that melts away any contraction or defense, any hardness to protect us…it is the choice that we crave most, surrendering to love.
Instead of delivering generation through generation the contraction, sadness and the buried hurts from our child-hood we can deliver something greater, a loving reminder about the playfulness and fun that always remainded steady within us. This is what Serge Benhayon is doing today for Humanity, he inspires me deeply to do the same with the people around me.
Danielle I loved reading a living experience like yours where you could open up your heart, not just to this man but to yourself first. Sometimes I take for granted who I am and all what I can bring from my presence, but after reading you I can see how important it is, being present and meeting people in the loveliness they are because this simple fact can be life-changing for someone, and in these times I feel how much needed it is, being here in full. Thank you
Life can be a valley of sadness and self-destruction or a loving ongoing commitment with evolution. It is in our hands.
Beautiful to read how your interaction with one person, gave you enough inspiration to look more deeply within yourself, I too have felt that life is set up to keep us further away from who we truly are, but once we break that cycle, we are able to celebrate the loveliness of who we are, from the inside out.
I am so glad I read this. Really amazing how the simple power of speaking from our body can literally allow another to re-connect and speak from theirs
Any one person can change a life of another by means of reflection. That is why is so key to reflect others the love that we are.
It only took one person to change your world and it is your amazing blog which invites the readers to change their world as well.
Yes.. and being open to those opportunities is what makes them flourish in our life
A beautiful story Danielle. It doesn’t have to be a monuments occasion for us to be reminded of the simplicity of life. We are so bombarded by expectations through the constructs of society, yet really all it takes is a ‘so called’ stranger choosing to connect to himself to reflect back to us what’s possible. Amazing really what is out there for us to learn from.
I love the reflection that when someone starts to live their truth it is felt by others and then inspires them to do the same.
This just go to show the power one person connected to themselves has to inspire anyone who was open.
Well said Kathleen – one person can make a huge different to many and then the many can continue to inspire others further on from there and this is how the world changes (through inspiration and choice).
‘A quarter life crisis’ – I love it when we call it as it is.
I totally agree about life being a set-up where everyone gets trapped in the perpetual cycle where loveless choices get passed on from one generation to the next, yet how powerful the true reflection is, it has the power to put a stop to this. It’s absolutely gorgeous to feel how one by one another body joins to reflect true light back to everyone else.
Yes, it simply takes one and that reflection is enough to offer another the choice again.
“Although life may not always feel very lovely, joyful or fun, I can connect to this lovely joy and fun on my inside (because I am this), and I don’t need the world to be this back to play with me” – I so had to read this. It is true that the world is loveless, and in my reaction, I was enjoining and adding to that lovelessness all along. And this reaction was my choice – I never had to lose my love in the first place.
I think many of us walk around in a state of anxiety, stress or depression because of what we see and feel in the world, and we medicate ourselves from there in any number of ways. Re-allowing ourselves to feel again is key to achieving a new kind of acceptance of life – an acceptance that supports us to live with commitment and purpose, knowing that who we are and the quality we live in and with is exactly what will make a difference in the world.
What a beautiful meeting with the accountant. Many would say it was purely ‘chance’ that brought you to his door but I’m feeling there’s more to it than that. When the soul’s ready, the way forward will be given to us.
You so beautifully illustrate that the world which confirms us in the truest sense, is the world within us. Through our connection to our essence we are forever reflected the truth of who we are and guided to live the love we are born to live. And when we live this way for ourselves, from our hearts, we naturally shine the light of who we are, our true way of being for others to be touched and inspired by.
Hi Danielle, I must say I cried a lot also in this life about this life about the state of the world or so I thought at the time but now I see that all the time I was crying because I missed the connection with myself as through this connection I understand myself, others and life so much more. Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine inspired me to turn my life around. I rarely cry now as I know that there is no need to take things personally, to be hurt or to be shocked by the state of the world for there is work to be done.
So important the point you make here Danielle that we need to deal with our hurts and not bury them but from a place where we can observe them and not let them overpower or overwhelm us.
So true Danielle, it seems life is a set-up but that we can choose to be the one who breaks the cycle of being hurt and shut-down by healing and letting go the past. You are a living example of exactly that thank you!
This article speaks very loudly into the how we are effects others category. At a point where you were asking questions along walked someone who answered them with more then words. It broke further what was already being broken down. This article is a guide on how to make a change at any point in your life if it’s needed. I mean why at times when we seemingly have everything are we still feeling underwhelmed with life. If you look around a lot of people are like this and we have the never ending, ‘when I get this it will be better’ and then it never is and so another thing takes it’s place and we start chasing that instead. When will we stop is up to you but like in this article I stopped or was stopped and at first was forced but now choosing to look at why even the smallest thing doesn’t flow or feel great. It’s not true to say ‘life goes on without us’ because life is here for us. It’s not here for us to get things done in the sense we do them now but more, life is here for us to open up to more then just what is seen physically. The first part of this is to ask why?, why after doing xyz don’t I feel great and then pause to see the answer. Like in this article, when you start to ask questions life presents you with the next part of an answer.
By you allowing this joy and fun to naturally be there you are giving other people permission to feel and be the joy they too are, ‘I now see that although life may not always feel very lovely, joyful or fun, I can connect to this lovely joy and fun on my inside (because I am this), and I don’t need the world to be this back to play with me.’ It is lovely to feel this in another.
The very first time I felt truly touched to the depths of my heart, my knowing and understanding of the universe and beyond was with reading Serge Benhayon’s purple books. In restrospect, it was not even his physical person that I met, and yet, the feeling of connection so deep and so warm was felt. This has inspired me too that I may not be able to meet everyone in the world in person, but through the words that come through, the vibrations can be shared with many.
Life does seem to be a repeated setup, that happens generation after generation. We are all born with such openness joy and knowing of our connection to everything in the universe. We then lose it as we grow up, bombarded by energy that does not match or confirm what we feel. We then raise children with our hurts and given up-ness and the cycle repeats again. We need to be the ones who create a break in this loop and support the next generations to hold onto the preciousness they have as kids.
Keeping life simple and starting by bringing enough honesty to observe how we are in our day to day and then offering the life skills to be able to hold onto that awareness when all feels like it is falling apart.
When we are truly met we reconnect with our own inner being. Serge Benhayon is an inspiration and role model for us all to share the beauty of truly meeting ourselves and each other without judgement.
Yes I too remember how sad I felt when nobody wanted to play with me when I was a child. When I was older, I had my happy moments, but it was not until I met Serge Benhayon that true joy re-entered my life. Now at 60, my life is full of joy and playfulness which is my true essence.
It is so beautiful when we can let go of our protection and allow ourselves to be fully transparent and open with another and how healing this is to others and offers the space for a deeper connection.
What is it that stop us from being very real and very honest with each other? We think that we are going to be hurt and that we need to protect ourselves. You sharing Danielle, reveals the falsity in this approach. For what came with the honesty was understanding. The world very much needs a whole lot of understanding. It’s time to drop the guards, or should I say walls?
Great point Jennifer. The irony of this illusion is that in not being honesty with each other, we are actually living a lie.. and who in all honesty loves being lied to. Hence the greatest hurt in this case is in our dishonesty. The more we are honest with ourselves the more we bring honesty and openness to our relationships, offering greater opportunities to explore, connect and deepen our relationship with love and truth. For it is here that we feel the freedom to be who we really are.
I loved reading this 🙂
I observed over the Christmas period how people were hugging one another yet once Christmas was over and they were back to life as it was before Christmas there was no hugging to be seen. How come? Why is this? What has come out of this for me is that I also had a part to play in it. I had a choice to join in with others and hold back or express how I felt, opening my arms to offer and hug them.
“Yes, a complete stranger allowed me to open up and connect within, just because he had allowed himself to do the same. So someone must have done the same with him and someone before that person also, and so on and so on – the way life can truly be set up.” I love the ripple effect you illustrate here. It shows how simple life can be and how powerful we are with every choice we make, in that we can determine the quality we are in and thus contribute to this world.
This is the ripple effect that can change the whole world. We all remember one teacher, one person who truly connected with us, and how life-transforming this can be – and equally we have the potential to connect and open up to everyone we meet. If the world continues to operate from its seeming hurts, then we have a world guarded and protected, and in individualism – and this is what can be so devastating to feel if we too hold the same.
What I love about your sharing Danielle is how these people that came into your life i.e your accountant and Serge Benhayon, offered you inspiration for change and new choices and that is super cool. Thank you.
There is a great moment in your blog Danielle, when you decided to stop crying and to join the world of adults, who just get on with life. This is very exposing of the choices that most of us tend to make in following the role models that we have, even if we can see the sometimes loveless path that this can lead to.
Danielle, this is gorgeous to read. How beautiful that your accountant was so open and honest with you and that by him allowing himself to feel his vulnerability and sensitivity this allowed you do the same. How powerful we are when we are honest and live who we truly are without putting on a hard shell to try and protect ourselves as we are then able to be true to ourselves and inspire others to do the same.
I listened to a presentation of Natalie Benhayon recently and she talked about intimacy and what I got from the presentation is that intimacy is actually becoming more open and transparent. Because when you are more open, you share more of yourself, and more intimacy is developed. Your story feels like a testament to that – in that (rare) moment, your accountant was intimate with you as he shared openly with you, which then allowed for such a big healing for yourself. That is the power of intimacy – we have been sold such a lie that it is only for ‘couples’ and is usually more physical. The more open we are with people the more connected we feel. But as you say many of our hurts are stopping us from bringing this to each other.
I loved this line – “So someone must have done the same with him and someone before that person also, and so on and so on – the way life can truly be set up.”
Gorgeous story. The impact and ripple effect any one person can have on life is absolutely huge, and endless.
Yes Danielle life is a set up, but with blogs like this we can see the set up and don’t have to play that silly game. We all carry hurts but if we hold the world to ransom shutting people out in protection we are a link in a chain reaction of hurt. If we take responsibility for our hurts and really love ourselves and be honest, we can also do this with others. Now we are in a chain reaction of love like your accountant, then you, now everyone you meet.
Thank you Danielle for this contribution and the fact that you were open enough to receive the healing offered to you at the time of your accountant visit. It is huge when we realise that we no longer need to blame others and that we do not have to be governed by our hurts.
Another beautiful example of the ripple effect; from your accountant hugging you and opening up about his life it gave you the opportunity to begin your healing, and from your healing I am very sure many others will now be benefiting. It clearly reminds us of the responsibility we have as human beings to not hold back from the amazingness we are for we never know who we might meet next, they just might be ready to “be hugged”!
I love this, Danielle. How one simple and open exchange between two humans can lead to a much deeper connection to the truth we are. It can be set up this way, one person at a time, staying open and tender with one another. The ripple effect will have its day….
“I now see that although life may not always feel very lovely, joyful or fun, I can connect to this lovely joy and fun on my inside (because I am this), and I don’t need the world to be this back to play with me” – so true, yet many of us including myself as a child have allowed the world to erode our connection to this true essence of ours, and conformed to the outer in order to fit in – fit in to the world where in truth nobody wants to fit in but thinks everyone else is. Your story is a great inspiration that we do recognise the quality even if we may have lived away from it for so long as something that is true to us, and those who have made a conscious choice to live in that quality has to appreciate that they have the power and responsibility to reflect that to everyone else.
The power of reflection cannot be questioned after reading this blog. We never know who is watching us, or who we might run into or who we serve through work whose life could be changed by simply opening up and being honest. The more honest we are with ourselves and what we are feeling, the more we reflect that permission to others.
It’s amazing how much we can achieve on the surface and look ‘good’ but underneath there is a fight with self-loathing or lack of self-worth. This can continually go on and on with a voice determining your next countering move to win against the (internal) fight. It’s thought you are winning but how can it be when the fight is with yourself?
“I now have some simple tools to deal with the deep hurts so they don’t get on top of me, but also so I don’t bury them down deep.” The Gentle Breath Meditation was the first defining tool for me to learn to observe and not absorb life – breath my own breath, feel me and not what was going outside of me. “I can connect to this lovely joy and fun on my inside (because I am this), and I don’t need the world to be this back to play with me.” A great lesson to know you by you and accept this.
Pretty Awesome! The knock on effect is all we need. One person allows themselves to be vulnerable, and it enables another to do the same. The strength in that is huge!
This is gorgeous to read. It’s true that so many chose hurts over the love and joy they feel inside. It is so important to keep ourself reminded of that fact. We all are super sensitive, and ought to support each other in that, showing this by letting others know our feelings.
One person can inspire us to challenge our norm and see life in a new light. What is important to note is that we can all be sources of inspiration equally for each other and once we wise up to this fact just like domino’s this set-up of life can fall.
It is an empowering moment when we realize we are not victims. We can choose to reflect our light and be the beacon for another who is also looking for their own light. What we feel to be truth and how the world is not living this truth does hurt, but we can also initiate living what we know to be true with joy. There is so much joy in reflecting the light that we are.
Thank you Danielle. Life is indeed a setup it is constantly presenting an opportunity to grow. It is always up to us to embrace and welcome the learning or not.
With my work returning to myself, I am understanding that life is set up to support me, everything happens for a reason. I had understood this from my experience of natural systems. But I did not relate this to my life.
With support from Simple-Living Global and Universal Medicine I am beginning to trust myself more which is allowing me to trust that the world is there to support me. This concept is allowing me to let go of the need to control life and surrender to all the support.
It’s amazing how many of us harden up and put on a tough exterior to take on the world as an illusionary protection from being hurt anymore… yet interestingly through the willingness to be sensitive and feel, we can connect to a beauty and strength within we never knew was there that can support us deeply.
That was a happy end story, thanks Danielle – crazy it is how we “fade away” when we grow up, even though it’s quite unnecessary. I know I have but I also know that it’s still in there, it just needs to be set free.
Sometimes it does indeed seem like life is a set-up – bringing either the allures of riches and success, or misery, struggle, poverty and drama – but that none of it is offering the opportunity to truly connect to ourselves and to be free to live from a place that feels true within. Thanks to Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine we now have the tools to hold steady in the drivers seat – we may not be able to control what goes on around us, but we can have absolute mastery of how we are to live with it.
As we are all love inside it makes sense that everybody equally is able to express this love, to the best of their ability in the moment. And yes, it hurts that we as a society and humanity hold back to express who we truly are in such a big manner. I too did cry about it. Till I realized I can change something here. I can choose to learn again to express the love we all are and so make a difference. This will inspire others to discover their love again and maybe also to express again. Every one of us is needed. We need each other as reflection. To take this job, this responsibility is calling me out of the bed and brings purpose into my life. This is my new chosen set-up.
“I can connect to this lovely joy and fun on my inside (because I am this), and I don’t need the world to be this back to play with me.”
A timely reminder that it is ourselves and no one else that is responsible for the joy or lack thereof that we feel. Thank you Danielle for so clearly exposing the set up and showing us that we each have the power within us to set things up in another and far more loving way.
Absolutely Liane, it does not mean you are never sad, it means you are honest about what you feel, you don’t take other peoples hurts personally, you can enjoy the game of life even when those around you are not.
Wow, initially upon reading this I would say I had no idea that opening up in this way can profoundly support another to open up too, but then I know this is so from how open and honest others have been around me that have inspired me to connect and be honest about what’s really going on for myself. Yest reading this has shown how much of myself I keep guarded and protected still – whether that’s sharing how amazing I feel or those days I have which aren’t so much fun.
How lovely it is to know that the simple claiming of what is true and the openness to express it, can change everything. We never know who will be touched by our being open and loving so we really need to be this everywhere and with everyone. Open hearted is such an awesome way to be.
Beautiful sharing Danielle, In every moment we have the choice to heal. I felt when I first heard Serge speak I knew I had come home, I was met and held by a love that met me for who I was in complete equalness without one ounce of judgment.
Danielle you showed us that every single one of us can heal another just by being him or herself. Your story told us how worthy we really are – the only thing is we have to be more aware of it and then accept it.
This is an amazing story – that shows life is perfectly designed to bring us back to who we are 🙂
“Although life may not always feel very lovely, joyful or fun, I can connect to this lovely joy and fun on my inside (because I am this), and I don’t need the world to be this back to play with me” – this is such a great point. I have often thought that the way I feel about myself and my life was all because of everything and everyone around me and how loveless they were, and that would leave me totally powerless as there would be nothing I could do to change. Knowing myself as an essence that cannot be touched has been the most life-changing realization.
This is a great testimony of how we are all practitioners no matter in what profession we work. The eye opening support your accountant offered to you is priceless and no psychologist would have brought you near this experience, which was simply to live with an open heart and in absolute transparency.
Beautiful Danielle, we have a choice to live differently, to not choose the hurts but to live from our inner heart, observing the hurts and know that they are there to heal.
Danielle, thank you for another amazing blog, I hope you will continue writing. What your blog brought up for me was the lack of realness we seem to have in life, everyone pretending everything is ok yet underneath and behind closed doors we might feel utterly miserable. It’s like we are all part of a collective game, an arrangement that says “I won’t say if you won’t say” so without the true, raw honesty and all that we sensitively feel going unsaid there can’t be any real connection. I also have that hurt about “… why there was distance or separation in my family and friends even though we appeared to get along” and indeed in humanity at large, but I can see how I contribute to this by not truly being me and expressing what I truly feel. Thankyou for the insights and inspiration..
To say that something is not right in this world and to stop and say no more of this and not trudge on regardless is immense and a starting point for us all. As the way how we live is not and cannot be right when there is so much pressure, stress, overwhelm, hate, disease and so on which everybody is experiencing to a degree personally or indirectly on a daily basis. Your story shows how we can break through this cycle when we make life about connection and people, by simply sharing what is really going on instead of living in isolation towards another.
Wow I am so blessed to have discovered this blog today. I love the way you draw my attention to the true set up (divine design) and the false set up (most people call it ‘life’) that is designed to keep me entrapped in my hurts. Serge Benhayon consistently shows us what it means and how it looks and feels to align to what is true and I am intensely grateful for this incredible blessing that has changed me forever.
‘Yes, a complete stranger allowed me to open up and connect within, just because he had allowed himself to do the same.’ Isn’t it beautifully infectious when one person opens up, because we can’t help but let our guard down, even if it is only for a few seconds.
We never know when our open and honest expression will affect someone and inspire them to come back to the love that they are.
Great point Amanda Woodmansey. I’m positive that every time we hold and move our body in a truly open and honest way that this indirectly inspires many in every moment, because our movements are extremely powerful, so much more than words.
Beautiful Danielle. When a person opens up and shares with you the truth of how they are feeling it allows you to do the same. Your story is the same but different to so many people who have come across Serge Benhayon and felt the love and freedom of being truly met.
Yes very true Mary we all have our own intimate story or hurts to unfold and the more and more I open up and express the more I feel the power of understanding the details in full. Feeling the details helps me to truly unlock any hurts and not hang onto them, not dealing with them prevents me from just knowing the answer but still feeling upset or a sense of tension or turmoil within.
It is always a deeply saddening sight to bear witness to a child’s innocent joy and sparkle drop out of their body in a second, in reaction to a well-intentioned, protection-based parental rebuke, itself only a reaction to a hurt buried deep within the parent. A devastating rite of passage that quickly knocks the joy-full stuffing out of the next in line. If life is all a set up then isn’t the next question, ‘For what purpose?’ Why do we continually, unwittingly, but nonetheless collectively, arrive at a place where we’ve managed to put a stop to the joy we naturally are for each successive generation? What is truly going on here?
Great point Cathy. It only takes one person or one generation to change the cycle for the generations that follow. This is the power of claiming responsibility to be the one!
Beautifully expressed Danielle, Serge Benhayon’s own openness has shown me by reflection that although life sets us up to be closed down, being open and honest is a great way to live.
Absolutely Sally, we can be empowered to feel that it doesn’t matter how life is around us, we always have a choice to what quality we choose, and whether we choose to not let the outer dictate, and instead connect to our inner and live from here.
“…a complete stranger allowed me to open up and connect within, just because he had allowed himself to do the same. So someone must have done the same with him and someone before that person also, and so on and so on – the way life can truly be set up.” A beautiful way to show there is a different set-up in life. Thankyou Danielle.
This is the set up of how life was truly meant to be, based on reflection of truth, and no less, allowing people the grace and space to just be themselves.
Danielle, it’s funny how we think growing up is about getting hard and getting on with it, and that somehow we have to loose that sensitivity, or hide it and not be true to what we feel. I know that’s how I’d seen it and that’s what I did, I became hard, determined that no-one could get me, or could see how much I truly felt, how much life hurt. And in that I missed everything, especially me, until I too came across Universal Medicine, and learned to get in touch once again with me and allow myself to be seen in this in the world, allowed myself to feel and deal with my hurts – it’s an on-going journey but one that I would not swap for anything; I now have me back and can show others that it is possible to be me in the world, that we all feel and that it’s key we honour and live acknowledging that.
It’s deeply inspiring beyond what we can imagine when we are being ourself. This shows others that not only can they also be themselves in life but that they are equally more powerful than anything in life trying to make them who they are no.
“So is life a set up? That we don’t get met in the loveliness we are as a child, because our parents have their own hurts, so we then feel hurt, bury our hurt and then can’t meet our own children for the loveliness that they are, and so on and so on.” So deep gratitude and appreciation for Serge Benhayon for standing up and showing us there is another way. When we are open and express how we truly feel with another, it gives them an opportunity to be real too. With the support of Universal Medicine practitioners I have been clearing my hurts – which feels amazing after – like you – so many years of sadness and crying.
Yes it feels the greatest sadness is that we are all the ones that created the set up for ourselves and for everyone.
The beauty and power of expression was evident when the accountant shared with you so openly Danielle. This is proof again for me that we affect so many people in everyday life and we never know when someone or something will trigger a profound change in us.
Absolutely Patricia, it highlights the irresponsibility or selfishness in holding back or hiding who we truly are or in constantly being focused on our own woes. Everyone misses out when we live like this.
Thank you Danielle for sharing this very honest article. When we are open and connect with another, we can inspire another to feel that openness within themselves, which inspires others that there is another way to be.
Imagine if all ‘peace keepers’ or protesters chose this way of being to inspire?
The issue with the current construct of life is that it is built of systems that are designed to protect our hurts.
Imagine if we had education, political, health care and religious systems etc that were designed to inspire people to be truly open, be themselves and be vulnerable, systems that held people in love and allowed them to feel that it’s not only more than ok to come out, but it’s ok to be glorious!
Very true Danielle and something worth working towards. Day in and day out.
Thank you Danielle for this beautiful blog, it shows the power of love and how we can truly make a difference in the world, just by connecting back to that playful, joyful place inside that we have known when we were children.
Yes it’s rather crazy that the playful, joyful and powerful place inside never goes away and in fact we don’t need to do anything to re-bring it out – just stop everything that we are doing to not be or live this – which is actually our natural and innate way of living.
Danielle I love that your meeting with the accountant was so deeply healing. It is a great reminder that how we express ourselves affects others – it can inspire and ignite or not.
Yes it’s a reminder of how important it is to just be ourselves and that this could change another’s life without us even trying.
Re-reading this blog allows me to feel the responsibility we all play in how life is set up and that it is us who is truly setting it up.
It’s a turning point in life to allow ourselves to feel the long-term hurt or pain we’ve held onto from the separation we live in in society, even in our families. It’s an even greater turning point to rise up out of this and recognize we are the ones who can bring the change, and claim a different way.
It was very healing to read your sharing. Thank you, Danielle. I was just feeling the deep sadness this morning and took me a very long time to get myself out of bed, and slowly coming back to connect with myself by choice, I can see how life can sometimes be experienced as nothing but overwhelm when I don’t make that choice, and that is my power as well as my responsibility to do so.
This is beautiful Fumiyo, it’s such a healing to choose to deeply understand how much we influence the quality of our day and how we feel in our day and that if we are having a ‘down moment’ it’s because we’ve made choices to lead to this so in truth we have chosen this. Although this is an ouch moment, or sometimes hard to admit because it’s easier to blame things outside of us, it is actually a very empowering knowing, because it shows we have the power to come out of it!
Thank you Danielle for so simply and clearly presenting the possible set ups and cycles of life, ie, ” … someone must have done the same with him and someone before that … “. I can see that I’ve been holding back at work in sharing how I am and thus not offering a different and truer ‘set up’ of life to others, which will now change thanks to this new awareness, thank you again.
This is a great point Marian. We were only able to discover a true and loving way of living, because at least one person chose to live this with us, inspiring us of another way. So it only makes sense that once we have also developed this for ourselves, discovering the truth, that we also share this with others, so bit by bit everyone has the opportunity to see that there is a way to live that is deeply connected with ourselves, in our natural way, as we were as children.
Danielle, that spark you talk of is in us all and it’s so easy to forget it. I love that you were reminded of your spark at your accountant’s – it just shows love is everywhere and what you say about being that spark that is us, without wanting the world to play is key, that’s what changes everything for us all. One reminds another who reminds another and so on. We affect so much in all we do.
It’s so true monicag2 we all affect each other so much, even the smallest of details. This is each of our responsibility to not only connect to the spark but to express it in every little detail of who we are.
Thank you Danielle, your story is such a powerful example of how by simply letting another see who we truly are in our tenderness and vulnerability, they too can be reminded of the tenderness and beauty they are within.
Yes the power of reflection is so strong that we don’t even need to try to do anything and just being ourselves reflects a lot to all. The more and more I appreciate the power of just being the more that is available to reflect to all.
wow Danielle what an amazing and inspiring story. The loveliness is in you first and by connecting to that you then get to bring that out to the world. That is so lovely of you to say. It is quite hard sometimes to not get bogged down in the complexities of the world and all of the mistreatment and inhumane things that happen but we must not and there is no true way forward for anyone if we get swallowed up by the sadness we can feel by seeing where others are at.
This is so true Natasha “there is no true way forward for anyone if we get swallowed up by the sadness”. Instead we can take responsibility for our choices as individuals and as a society and begin to choose different.
I had not realised the extent of how much I was getting caught up with and in all the emotions that were around. Sadness, happiness, bitterness, resentment ~ there are so many that shape our experiences that inhibit us from truly opening and freely connecting with people.
When I was young and experienced this similar feeling to you Danielle, I didn’t understand what was happening. As an adult now, I could equate it to like when a child loses their parent in a shopping centre. The world became a very bumpy place and like I was all alone and needed to survive, and this was probably around the age of 5 or 6, it’s hard to remember the exact time but the memory of the loss is still very significant. As you say, if we connect to children and let them see and feel our connection, it confirms that this is real and this loveliness is in others too.
Thank you for sharing Mathew. Even now as an adult I will sometimes think was I the only one feeling this and am I just being a sook because nobody else is talking about it so maybe it’s not as significant as I make it out to be. I’m now starting to see these doubts are the thoughts of a hurt adult, still hurt from the separation from their sweetness and joy that happened at a very young age and not wanting to look at how deep that hurt goes. I feel many if not most adults deep down feel this, even if they are not aware of it.
I remember a similar experience as a child. It was a feeling like my best friend was going away, a sad moment indeed.
Absolutely Matthew as children I don’t feel we really understood what we were feeling, and in fact I don’t think many adults ever did back then either. I was just constantly upset and everyone would tell me to stop being a winger or cry baby, but I didn’t understand why I was so upset. Now looking back I can see that it was because I was leaving the connected, playful and aware life that I knew, my relationship with my inner self, to fit in with others and how everyone else is living. Knowing this now I can choose to come back to this way of living and also inspire other children to feel how they can keep the connection with their lovely selves and be with this in life.
Danielle what you have written shows me how powerful we are when we speak our truth and allow ourselves to be open and fragile, as your accountant was, and as you allowed yourself – to feel the sadness. I too thank Serge Benhayon for showing us that life doesn’t have to be like this, that we can heal from our past hurts, and live with vitality and joy as our companions. How powerful we are when we make loving choices. Thank you for reminding me of the responsibility we carry for ourselves and others.
Universal Medicine has helped me to understand that the greatest hurt is hanging onto what we feel hurt about. So it’s not so much feeling the situation again that hurts, it’s the fact that we hold a hurt about it in our body, until we look at it from understanding and caring eyes and feel what was really going on, and release it from our body. The more and more I connect to this the easier and more natural this comes – and it is deeply joyful and releasing to let go of things that I didn’t understand clearly as a child.
Breaking out of the set up of life is like breaking out of prison. It is only when I look back and realise that I was ‘in prison’ but at the time thought it was how life was, what a set up!
The imprisonment of life is so very real for all. The crazy thing is that when we do see its there and do choose to break free we realize that not only did we had the key to get out all along but we Actually created the prison walls and bars that surrounded us.
Great blog Danielle, we have a cycle of losing ourselves as we grow up, yet each and every one of us has an opportunity to break out of that cycle to a loving and full-filling life, which is lived from the inside out rather than the outside in.
I love that life’s set up has been turned on its head and one then inspires the next with love and commitment. It’s beautiful to know we can make such a difference just by connecting to our loveliness. We even make that difference when no one seemingly notices.
It’s true Amanda I’m only just beginning to understand how much of a difference we make when living in connection to who we truly are. The world constellates around us in a way for all to benifit from. Also you can never predict or forward plan exactly what will happen and instead must trust in the knowing it is truly benifiting the all.
Beautiful Danielle. I didn’t realise until I read your blog that if I come from my loveliness and connect with someone, that this gives them the opportunity to connect with themselves and feel their loveliness inside of them. It’s so cool the ripple effect.
Absolutely lindellparlour this very fact is often hidden from us, but should be more openly discussed with us as children. Deep down we all know this fact, we just need to be reminded so we can begin to open it up again.
Life is a set up to not feel the beauty and playfulness we are, but we can choose every second differently as you beautifully describe with your encounter with your accountant. It is not about techniques and modalities to manage life it is all about just being in life and living this and inspiring other people to be this too.
I love what you say Rachel about just being in life, the way you say it I can feel the simplicity of this, and that it’s not about trying to do anything or be anyone but simple belong ourselves, and this is the true power! We need to be teaching this in pre-school!
Your honesty and openness is so beautiful her Danielle, and so gorgeous that you allowed yourself to feel! Wow that’s a huge feat for many, but through that you were able to feel the truth and this brought you back home – to you.
Thank you Danielle for openly sharing your story , your willingness to open up to your great beauty and love is an inspiration.
I loved the openness in your blog Danielle
My daughter is constant reflection of playfulness and I have to stop and remind myself that it is ok to play whilst working and completing a task. Otherwise I am simply perpetuating the same cycle and squashing her innate playfulness and loveliness! She is the perfect medicine for me in my daily life to remind me of my essence.
This is lovely to consider that connecting and being playful with a child who is expressing in their playfulness is “medicine for me in my daily life to remind me of my essence”. It’s beautiful to feel that being playful is a reminder of who we truly are on the inside.
I find this too with my daughter’s. Although they are in their late teens and beyond, they are a constant reminder to me of the natural joy that is within us all, and that all I need to do is make the choice to connect to this.
I find it fascinating to observe the generations of people around us. I recall as a child looking at adults and thinking they were strange, wondering why they stress so much and wondering why they are so uncomfortable in life and with themselves. When I asked an adult why they were the way they were one day as a young girl they said to me, wait until you are my age and you will understand. Looking at the generations I now see that we start out light, playful and quite free, but over time ‘life’ begins to wear on us. Well it’s not actually life, but it’s everything that we choose to take on from life, we become more and more loaded with stuff until it is more and more difficult to be our truly gorgeous and playful self. Kids and teenagers are not yet as loaded as most adults and elderly, which is why they are an inspiration to observe.
I am reminded yet again Danielle while reading your blog of how powerful our reflection is to others when we live and offer the simplicity of openness to love. Thank you.
Danielle as you say life can be a set up, either one that confirms us in our contraction, lack of self worth and rejection ..or.. one that meets us for all of who we are and with that reignites the fire within. Let the fire spread one meeting at a time!
Great blog Danielle, we seem to be set up to stay in the hurts that we feel, never addressing it until someone else shows us what it is like when we don’t let our lives be run by those hurts. When I first met Serge Benhayon I met a man who was humble, full of love and most of all saw in me that I was equally so deep down inside.
Life can definitely feel like a set up when the rhythm of our true beat is missing from our steps and what has been replaced is an auto pilot mode of operandi. I love the fact that no matter what the flight path we may have been on the inner beat never stops but remains awaiting us to hear and feel once again.
Well said, Giselle, it’s always there waiting to be seen with a patience that has nothing to do with time…..
At my first workshop with Serge Benhayon it didn’t take me long to realise that he was: “just reminding us of something we already know”. If was the most wonderful feeling of coming home; a feeling I had been waiting for, for a very long time.
Yes I agree Ingrid, it was the first time ever anyone had presented to me on a topic in a way where they were saying “I’m not the expert, you are, you know it all”. This is how extremely humble Serge Benhayon is but also that he acknowledges that he does not own the information he shares, we all do.
This is beautiful Danielle, and a great reminder that we can be part of setting up life a different way, and just by being ourselves in whatever we do.
Danielle, this is such a lovely blog. I really enjoyed reading it, and thank you for your honesty; it’s very inspiring in so many ways; to have a cry if need be, to express openly with anybody, no matter who they seem to be; we all crave that true connection and honesty from that equality.
Just goes to show, one person can make a difference…. one person living from their innermost,their heart can have a profound effect on another. Thank you for sharing Danielle.
Such a great true story Danielle! I love it every time I read it!
Thank you Danielle, I have really felt pain for humanity over my lifetime and we see it everyday in some form, on our streets in the news in our homes. This is why it is so important for us all to have a truly amazing opportunity to observe and be inspired by someone such as Serge Benhayon who lives Love all the time.
beautiful Danielle, a great story about what an impact we have and how live changed to where we are now, sometimes only through an encounter as the one you had with your accountant.
A beautiful ACCOUNT of breaking the cycle, reconnecting to love and letting others in. Thank You. Danielle 🙂
Love your play on words Kathryn! Couldn’t have said it better myself.
Thank you Danielle, Kathryn and Elodie, accountability for our own choices does count!
It just goes to show that healing can happen just by being present and truthful. Who knows what will resonate with another? It is so beautiful to truly connect with another person. This is all we need to do.
Amazing to think that our hurts are like dominoes having a knock on effect on each other and keeping everyone in the same misery and pain. It only takes one person to rise above their hurts and actually put love and humanity first to start a love chain reaction which has the power to change the world.
…. ‘A quarter life crisis’ – I love it! I also love the truth and openness from which you write. Awesome blog Danielle,
Beautiful, Danielle. It is the truth and the love within which touches us deeply isn’t it? And it is understandable that one can cry for so long, sensing what is truly going on in the world. That is something that needs to be said. To highlight the chance for true reflection! Thank you.*
Awesome blog, Danielle. Showing how important it is to stay open in life, we never know where we encounter ‘love and truth’. Also for you, me and everyone to realize how much we offer by simply living our lives. The women sitting next to me in the train right now was touched by us connecting and there are constant options for this.
Thank you for sharing your openness Danielle – the warmth of your heart comes through your every word.
I love that all these changes came about by someone basically being honest with you. How often do we say what we really feel? How often do we just say what we think the other person wants to hear, or do we even really consider the question and feel for ourselves the answer? Being honest opens up the opportunity to be aware and to change naturally.
So true Laura, expressing honesty in how we are feeling brings more awareness to ourselves and to those around us and change happens naturally.
I agree jacqmcfadden04 and Laura, I have experienced many times by expressing what I felt in the moment it was exactly what the other person needed to hear. This is also a great learning process for me, confirming that I can trust what I feel and express it.
Danielle I appreciate when you share. “I spent many hours laying under or in my bed crying for no reason other than ‘it hurts’.” that was a familiar feeling to me as a child and has reminded me of my sensitivity yet not knowing how to cope with all that I felt. It makes me consider how many other children (and now adults) also felt this way? And why is it that we allow the next generation to go through what so many other generations have gone through and been hurt by?
I love what you share. Connecting to our own loveliness within, allows another to do the same – so beautiful!
The sadness you described I always covered my whole life… Now letting out what I truly feel and showing this, changed my life and my relationship with me. I am super playful and full of joy, but to escape the sadness that lies underneath (because of aspects you shared) is no solution for me anymore. Now my joy is even more pure and real, because I am ready to feel everything, all the time !
I can relate to this Steffi. Now my joy is even more pure & real thanks to the inspiring teachings of Universal Medicine & Serge Benhayon.
It was wonderful to read the impact a person ( such as your accountant) can have on others by being who they truly are in their connection. Such connections can be life changing. Thank you Danielle for your sharing.
Thank you Danielle for sharing how such a beautiful and simple ‘true connection’ can change a person’s life. An honest reflection – very powerful.
It was really beautiful to read your story Danielle. It really touched me hearing how you went from all those tears to finding a connection underneath the sadness and confusion that life can evoke, to find the lovliness and playfulness inside. There is no doubt that the work of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine is beyond extraordinary in the many ways it touches peoples’ lives.
I agree Sam, I love hearing people’s life changing stories. There are so many other stories all of slightly different flavours too but just as amazing!
So it seems there are two set ups! One in which I am met, the other in which I am missed out. Obviously everyone wants to be met. No one really wants the other version. Yet most of us live the other version. Mmhh… Thank God I was provided with the tools to choose the version I truly want. And thanks to Serge Benhayon who presents them through Universal Medicine.
Beautiful Danielle. I just love the image of the accountant that disarming you with his tenderness. It must have been very disconcerting!
What a great joy to read your blog Danielle. I love what your share: “I can connect to this lovely joy and fun on my inside (because I am this), and I don’t need the world to be this back to play with me.” Isn’t it funny that we all have this joy that means every single person on earth!!!! The sad thing is that we have forgotten this. So thank you Danielle for being also a new starting point with your amazing blog so that every single person can choose to re-connect to this joy inside of them.
This is an incredible testament to the strength of taking the time to be the true us. We only need to see it once to feel there is another way, and this can be life changing, and so the cycle can continue.
This is so true jenny hayes we do only need to see it once, and we recognise it right away, whether we admit it or not. It may take us time to acknowledge that we’ve seen it and to embrace it as a possibility for us, but eventually we all will.
It is amazing how healing we are, just like your accountant, when we can be open and real in our love with people.. no guards or pretence.
True Annie, It is all about being and sharing our true self and letting people in.
This so beautiful Danielle and can relate to what you have shared. From feelings you mentioned as a child, crying ‘a lot’ as a kid, not understanding why! Shutting down and getting on with it, not letting people in and then being introduced to Universal Medicine and life changing around as a result.
Yes being involved with Universal Medicine has been life changing and supported me to deal with all of these hurts and answer the ‘why’s’ that I had as a child.
I really enjoyed what you shared Danielle, I loved your honesty and how relatable your experience is.
Thank you for your sharing Danielle, it is very inspiring to read how you turned your life around and how it all started with your accountant being honest and open with you. I agree with this line, so beautifully said –
“Serge is one of very few people I know who meet absolutely everyone equally from this lovely and amazing place, to another’s loveliness. He does this with absolute consistency and commitment to love for humanity, allowing people to feel they are the same. I thank him deeply for re-starting this cycle.”
This highlighted for me that how we are and what we do has an impact on others…You never know when something you say to another might be exactly what they need to hear to open up a change.
What a fantastic blog, I related to so much of it. I really enjoyed this quote: “Yes, a complete stranger allowed me to open up and connect within, just because he had allowed himself to do the same. So someone must have done the same with him and someone before that person also, and so on and so on – the way life can truly be set up.” This is how change occurs, being willing to be open with another and sharing what we feel with another, just lovely – thank you.
I agree with you Samantha, this is how change occurs, not by being perfect and always saying the right thing, the high wisdom, but being willing to be open with one another and sharing what we feel, we let others in and they feel it, that can stay forever. In the same way that we felt that from someone else.
I love this juliamanbos, it’s self self accepting and empowering to know we don’t have to try be perfect or be anything and in fact it’s just being ourselves where ever we are at that is the power!
“Serge is one of very few people I know who meets absolutely everyone equally from this lovely and amazing place, to another’s loveliness. He does this with absolute consistency and commitment to love for humanity, allowing people to feel they are the same. I thank him deeply for re-starting this cycle.” So true and eloquently expressed. Gorgeous story, demonstrating so graphically that all, can be the One. Danielle, thank you for sharing.
That stage where you stopped feeling the hurt, and ’embraced’ life at the expense of actually feeling what was going on – me too. And I wonder how many others, if not everyone, have experienced something similar? Thanks for sharing this Danielle – its given me another nudge in the right direction; to feel what is actually going on.
Yes Simon, same here, this is such a beautiful reminder to keep feeling what is going on; to have a cry when needed; and to share myself more openly with others and to allow that connection with people, no matter what profession we or they are in. It’s not about what we do; it’s about who we are – and we are all made of the same stuff, so we all understand the same language from our hearts.
Danielle this is a great story, what is amazing is that for so many of us, myself included, life did not make sense and it certainly hurt yet to be inspired by your accountant is so unusual and against the stereotypes we often have. It also shows that it doesn’t matter what we do as being honest and who we are is what is most needed.
Absolutely David, it’s proof that we are all equally powerful and important and can be inspiring people everywhere any time, if we just be ourselves and let people in.
It is so beautiful to read how you took the opportunity offered by your accountant to open up and feel your hurts/pain and those of humanity and get beyond that to the true joy that is forever in our essence.
I love how the person who you felt your first profound moment with was with your accountant – and not in church, or a spiritual group, or at uni or a psychologist – this is definitely saying something about the way the world is!
That’s so true Meg, most people go to a guru, or book, or self help program, or church when they are seeking inspiration or looking for change. The whole time it could be in your mechanic, or hair dresser or the lady at the checkout – and we can be these people sharing another way.
A great observation of how the world seems to be set up… but at the same time thank you for reminding me that Clark Kents exist in the world and that these Super men and Super women are just ordinary people, and can be anyone. Thanks for sharing, Danielle.
Yes coming back and reading this again, three years on I now have a greater understanding that life is set up by us and how we choose it to be. We can either choose to look at life from our hurts or past ways of not being who we truly are, or we can look at and create life from who we truly are. The power is in feeling and seeing that we are the creators of our existence or life, and there is in fact nobody who sets it up for us.
While we go through life complaining, “why is this happening to me” -we never learn but when we take responsibility we see how we have set up an elaborate illusion for ourselves. When we see it we can let it go.
Immensely so sweet and delicately written.
I could feel my own ‘wound’ opening up and hurting and tears coming down my face whilst reading your post and in particular when I got to: “…the hurt that I felt deepest was that I felt this distance and separation in all of humanity – this still hurts now.”
Before meeting Serge and attending his presentations I used to think that my own personal dramas, the separations, the homelessness, rejection by my family, deaths in the family, attempted suicide by somebody close to me, etc etc… were the deepest hurts I felt. But that is only second to none when put next to the hurt I got to feel from separation to myself and the separation in humanity which you speak of so beautifully Danielle.
It was Serge’s commitment to love for humanity that inspired me beyond words or imagination, to change in a way that by connecting to myself I can inspire another to do the same and that other can inspire another… and that I am part of the cycle which Serge has restarted, the cycle which restores humanity and re-builds our true connection.
Yes draganabrown I still feel this hurt every day and I don’t feel it’s something that goes away, the hurt of seeing the separation in humanity, and how we are all relating with ourselves and with others. It’s pretty messy out there. With the connection with ourselves this hurt is not crippling because we know it is actually natural to feel hurt when we see a fellow brother struggling with life, because we know we all have the capacity to live with love, joy and harmony.
That was lovely 🙂
How awesome to be touched by an accountant in that setting… I love the way it happened for you.
Wonderful you were open to what you felt and didn’t dismiss him for his unusual honesty!
Absolutely flickchris the way it happened always reminds me how powerful each and every one of us are, and we don’t need to be a healer to inspire others to heal.
And what I am appreciating more and more is that there is always the opportunity in every interaction and experience we have to learn and grow – be that at our accountants, at work or in the supermarket anywhere and everywhere. Well said flickchris.
Thank-you Danielle. This is beautiful. Reading your story, I saw it like a movie – of your life, of the shut-down and ‘daring to re-open’ again in all of our lives.. and the opportunities to open up again, that can present to us when we truly call for ‘another way’… Each person who dares re-open their honesty and heart again, is a treasure indeed. So many of us would remain ‘closed and protective’, were it not for the love of Serge Benhayon, those who have been inspired by him, and those who choose to live truly from their heart in this world.
And it does not matter what that person does for a living – for Danielle to be inspired by her accountant seemed so unlikely, until I connected to the fact that he was simply communicating his experience, so of course it would touch her deeply.
Absolutely Simon. And I feel prompted to share here, that since first reading this blog, and commenting on it, I have also had two profoundly life changing moments with my accountant (no joke).
You are correct. It matters naught what we do or where we are, we all have the opportunity to connect with another honestly and truthfully, from the depth and ease of who we are. Who knows how and when such inspiration as Danielle experienced may happen? In a world where so many are guarded, and inner pain is so often harboured and hidden within, the light of another’s truth is the greatest blessing…
What you’ve shared here simonewilliams8 and Victoria is the responsibility we all have to be ourselves in full, share and not hold back from being seen, in every moment. This is true power and true healing that will inspire us all back to who we truly are.
Thanks for sharing so honestly Danielle. This was beautiful to read, I totally relate. With love, Erin 🙂
For many people, there is a feeling that something is missing from their lives that is difficult to fathom, irrespective of how well things appear to be going on the outside. Danielle, thank you for your heart-felt message which will provide more clarity to help others unravel that ‘missing link’ called Love.
It’s true Rod we do all deep down feel it, that there’s something missing in life but we look outside of ourselves and think that we are the only ones so we better just get on with it to fit in. It’s actually quite sad that this is what is going on, but amazing that there are now other people inspiring another.
What a gorgeous read, Danielle. Thank you for being so honest and most likely ‘someone’s accountant’.
Thank you so much Danielle for this open and honest expression of your experience which most of us will relate to especially as children and how we developed our ways of survival and protection. I love the way you have ‘joined the dots’ so to speak and now in your glory, truly ‘get’ who you are and therefore who we all truly are. I felt a healing as I read about your life. Thank you again…
I’m amazed at the survival and protection behaviours we develop in our life Bernadette, even three years on I’m still seeing the finer details of how I go in to protection in various situations. I’m forever healing and unfolding this and letting me more out, it’s a lovely experience.
This is a great point Danielle to make in that there are always ‘finer details’ of how we can go into protection. I find it’s a forever evolving processing, not only ‘letting me more out’ as you have expressed but also ‘letting others in’!
Absolutely Angela, letting others in to see who I really am, and being willing to see others for what they really are beyond their choices, is crucial for living an open life that’s based on love and evolution.