By Irene Sheard
I have recently observed the false and shocking allegations made towards Serge Benhayon, his family and Universal Medicine in various press articles and also on television, and would like to share my experience and appreciation of Serge and the Universal Medicine team.
I came to live in Goonellabah, N.S.W. three years ago, and not long after heard an interview with Serge on the radio and I felt that what he was saying made so much sense. I then started to attend sessions with one of the practitioners at the Universal Medicine Clinic, and also presentations by Serge Benhayon.
I have a history of anxiety, dysfunction, alcohol abuse and utter exhaustion, including being diagnosed with depression and chronic fatigue. Added into this mix came a state of poverty and many problems passed on to my children and grandchildren including drug abuse, self harm, and alcohol and gambling addictions.
I had tried for many years to remedy some of this by pursuing various alternate modalities and it did seem that my life improved, at least on a functioning level.
After attending Serge’s talks I started to realise that although things looked better on the outside, I was actually still feeling all the old feelings of low self-worth and anxiety on the inside. I kept myself safe from feeling all this by cocooning myself from the world and living on Centrelink payments for many years, and not participating in anything that I felt threatened by.
After attending Universal Medicine I started to live in a more gentle way with myself, and also allowed those feelings to surface in a gentle way. Previously I had done a lot of psychotherapy, but this mostly consisted of just reliving the pain of the past – I could still feel it in my body. I tried many diets and ways of eating but had only followed them because I read or heard that they were good. At the same time I would gorge on chocolates, ice-cream and the like, trying to fill the empty hole I could feel inside.
Now, two and a half years after attending Universal Medicine sessions and presentations, my life is a very different picture. I have lost 16 kilos and feel very loving towards my body. I sleep very well and feel I have the energy to do whatever I need to during the day. I was constantly getting colds and hayfever but now am clear of these. I now have work in the community as an aged-care worker, and I am also studying in aged care. This has been my biggest change as I could not function in the workforce before. I now take the gentleness I have in my body to my work and am able to work a full, busy day and not feel tired at the end of it. This has led to my finances being more manageable and I am slowly getting out of debt.
Another big change has been in my relationships. I am now able to be with others and not become exhausted because I was trying so hard to please or to impress or just guard who I really was. The true friendships that I have are awesome – we are both coming from that place of self love – and it is the first time in my life that I can feel what is truly love. I am more loving as a mother and grandmother but only by being myself, and not trying to rescue my family from their own choices.
Another change has been my attitude towards mainstream medicine. I was on my high horse about various issues such as vaccination, chemotherapy or anything in fact that doctors prescribed. It was a big awakening to feel the arrogance I had towards the medical profession and how I was avoiding taking responsibility. I now have an appreciation of what medicine has to offer. I have recently had blood tests and my first pap smear for 20 years.
In conclusion, I would just like to say that I have never heard Serge tell anyone what to do, or what to eat or drink. Serge just presents and shares the energetic truth, and it is totally up to us to discern and feel into what is true for us. Serge has always stated that he is pro-medicine, and that gave me an opportunity to consider why I was so opposed to it.
Serge Benhayon is not a cult leader or a guru. He is another human being who lovingly shares the truth about humanity and where we are at, and how we can make the choice to live in stillness and harmony and not accept all the pain and suffering as normal.
Thank you Serge.
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WOW Irene. What a difference to now living like this ‘I have lost 16 kilos and feel very loving towards my body. I sleep very well and feel I have the energy to do whatever I need to during the day. I was constantly getting colds and hayfever but now am clear of these. I now have work in the community as an aged-care worker, and I am also studying in aged care. This has been my biggest change as I could not function in the workforce before. I now take the gentleness I have in my body to my work and am able to work a full, busy day and not feel tired at the end of it. This has led to my finances being more manageable and I am slowly getting out of debt.’ When before it was this ‘a history of anxiety, dysfunction, alcohol abuse and utter exhaustion, including being diagnosed with depression and chronic fatigue. Added into this mix came a state of poverty and many problems passed on to my children and grandchildren including drug abuse, self harm, and alcohol and gambling addictions.’ That is incredible. I agree definitely something to definitely appreciate and Celebrate.
Serge Benhayon says it is important for us to discern for ourselves what is true, or not, ‘I would just like to say that I have never heard Serge tell anyone what to do, or what to eat or drink. Serge just presents and shares the energetic truth, and it is totally up to us to discern and feel into what is true for us.’
Thanks again Irene for sharing your story, it’s an amazing turnaround to be now so self caring, to be in the workforce, feeling value and worth in yourself, and loving life and your relationships. This line is very true for me also on what Serge Benhayon offers “we can make the choice to live in stillness and harmony and not accept all the pain and suffering as normal.”. I’ve really been seeing the harm in what we call ‘normal’ because we can lower our standards so that all kinds of abuse and self neglect become normal, so normal in fact that we can call love, self care and integrity abnormal! Or, maybe even ‘A cult’…
Serge Benhayon offers practical ways to respond to illness and disease from inside out. Until we take into account the whole person and are prepared to look honestly at and released all the assumed identities, beliefs and behaviours we’ve attached to, we cannot truly heal. When this way is aligned with conventional medicine we have a powerful healing partnership.
” I am more loving as a mother and grandmother but only by being myself, and not trying to rescue my family from their own choices.” This is the model of simplicity, and something I’m continuing to learn. Thank you Irene for all the is Inspiration provided in your wonderful story and statement of the truth about Serge and Universal Medicine. I would love to get an update on where your life and your self love is now.
To feel how you can lovingly parent yourself to literally come back to life, that’s what’s so beautiful about what is shared here, how we can bring ourselves back with love and care, and how having the support and inspiration to do that is very precious.
We don’t realise how crippling our ‘normal’ often can be. Feeling into and beneath the ‘normal’ reveals much about the truth of what we are and how much we allow ourselves to embrace and live that.
Irene I agree with you when you say
“Serge Benhayon is not a cult leader or a guru. He is another human being who lovingly shares the truth about humanity and where we are at, and how we can make the choice to live in stillness and harmony and not accept all the pain and suffering as normal.”
Remember the ‘Beatles’ who sang the song ‘all you need is love’? They had a massive following of mainly screaming females I seem to remember. Were they considered cult leaders? Did they follow a Guru? Well actually they did at one point in their lives and were they ridiculed for it? No. In fact they made it fashionable to have a guru – Teacher/ guide.
So my question has to be what is all the fuss about, what’s happened to our society where it seems we cannot live and let live?
It’s a great comment Mary, the reference point you’ve introduced of The Beatles has highlighted the ridiculous nature of accusations to Serge Benhayon of cult leader and guru. There are a lot of bizarre things going on today such as the crusade by the moral police in a Polish town to remove Winnie The Pooh books, etc, all because this cartoon bear doesn’t wear underpants and was accused of being an hermaphrodite and possible sexual deviant. If such accusations were not having a possible serious effect on children and community members there would be the distinct possibility of collapsing from laughter, ditto the serious yet ridiculous accusations made of Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon.
Irene, I agree with you when you say
” My life now- A very different picture”
With the support of Serge Benhayon his family and the Universal Medicine practitioners I have changed my life completely and I would not and cannot go back to my old way of living. To me Serge Benhayon holds the keys to life, he has an understanding that surpasses anything that can be said by the scientists, religious leaders, historians or politicians. And one day the world will know the truth; unfortunately it isn’t ready for that yet, it seems we have to sink even deeper into the mud before we will collectively admit our folly and seek the truth.
What an amazing turnaround Irene, it is beautiful to read how you’ve changed and how that change has come from you; it is inspiring to understand that we all can make changes when we are supported and held in love, and in that space we find our own inner resources to change how we live to more deeply confirm and nurture who we are.
Psychotherapy assumes that the psyche holds the key to understand us, life and us in life. Yet, through the psyche you can only access what you can and can change what you can. When we understand that it is about vibration, everything changes. The body comes first, the psyche is not that crucial anymore.
I want to take the time to deeply thank Serge Benhayon and his family for the support they have given me over the years. I was just about functioning in life. My life on the outside looked great, but I was a mental mess inside. I personally feel that if I had not met Serge Benhayon and attended the workshops and courses I would have ended up with dementia as I had already started to withdraw from life before I met him. What I am sharing is huge as dementia is rocketing out of control in our society but I know I will not be part of those statistics. So why is it that the medical professions are not beating down the door to his house? Has it anything to do with pride? What Serge Benhayon presents offers the answers to our health issues. If I was a health minister for any government I would be knocking at his door that’s a fact.
That is very beautiful. There is not many people who could say they are coming back from all the things you mentioned and feel completely free from them as well.
Thank you, Irene, for sharing your experience of Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon. It doesn’t take long for the changes to take place when we put into practice some of the lived advice Serge shares with us, and this is evident by how many Students of The Way of The Livingness have changed over the years.
“Serge has always stated that he is pro-medicine, and that gave me an opportunity to consider why I was so opposed to it.” I had a similar experience Irene and had become very anti ‘conventional medicine’ as I always felt it left out the human ‘being’, however Serge Benhayon also inspired me to take a look at what I was ignoring and dismissing, and supported me to understand the beautiful union of Conventional and Universal Medicine and all that the two have to offer when applied together.
I have experienced exactly the same Richard, as have many others I know. I had almost made ‘mainstream medicine’ the enemy and used to pride myself on the fact that I hadn’t visited the doctor for a very long time. But that pride definitely got in the way of caring for my body in a loving way, and so my body suffered. These days I enjoy visiting my doctor, no matter what the reason, as I know that her loving support is such a big part of my healing process, as well as my saying yes to what comes next as I care for my body on every level.
Since this was written, six years ago, so many more wonderfully inspiring stories like Irene’s have been told and at the foundation of the life changing experiences that have been shared are the wise and common sense filled presentations of Serge Benhayon. Since 1999 this very humble man has been presenting the truth that we as humanity have accepted a way of living that is so much lesser than the one that is available to us, and to support us to do so he offers us the most simple tools, tools we always have the freedom to grab with both hands or decline; it is forever our choice what we do with what we are offered by Serge Benhayon.
Boom Doug!!! I have to agree, I had no idea how deeply its claws were into me and how I had given so much of myself up without question because I wanted to fit in!! What a wake up call.
Thank you Serge Benhayon and thank you Irene. This is an inspiring turnaround that has affected you, your family, your work colleagues both physically and emotionally. What you are walking is medicine because you have engaged with your life and your choices and have turned them around from a drain to a contribution. Walking medicine!!! From an economic level, the turnaround is extraordinary as well and that is another, if we need another reason to not misrepresent Universal Medicine. You are taking responsibility for your finances which means you are paying back your debt, you are working and training to complement this work for a vulnerable section of the community. This takes a huge load off the public purse. There are so many benefits, I am astounded at the shortsightedness of the reporting. Unless it is pushing buttons and there is not the understanding or the choice to consider how much of a mess we are in and how much we are the only ones who can change it.
You’re correct Lucy, the media is complicit in diverting our attention away from what really needs to be reported on, including the dire state of humanity and the escalating rates of illness, abuse, suicide, violence… the list goes on. Truly, Irene’s turnaround is on so many levels beneficial, including for herself, her family, community, and the economy. Whilst the media reports on sensationalist headlines the true stories, like Irene’s, are not being told.
All that I have heard, read or seen in people who have met Serge Benhayon and were inspired by his teachings, is true and extraordinary changes.
When we make changes in our life, connected to the love we are and deserve, we build a relationship with ourselves that can’t but flourish in a healthy life, like you share here Irene. Thanks
What an amazing turn around Irene great credit to both you and Serge Benhayon. I have heard many hundred such stories, how sad that there are people out there wanting to spread so many lies about Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon and thus put an obstacle in the way of more people finding the freedom and healing that you did.
Another factor is the HUGE amount of money Serge Benhayon saves the government in relation to all the people who have turned their lives and health around and are now productive members of the community.
I agree Nicola, in Irene’s case alone with her state of health prior to meeting Serge Benhayon it’s highly likely she may have ended up another statistic and burden on the health care system, instead she is contributing now back to her community, and able to take responsibility for her health and finances. The beauty of Serge’s work for all of us that know him is that it’s a very self empowered way of living, that’s part of what’s so simple about the model he offers, it’s easy to apply and the the changes we make come from our own body awareness and from honouring how we feel.
Yes it is pure evil and that is a great description of evil you have provided. It worth understanding what the word evil really means as it is another word that has been greatly bastardised. Unimedpedia Evil: http://www.unimedliving.com/unimedpedia/word-index/unimedpedia-evil.html has some great quotes and audio about evil!
Serge Benhayon has shared many of his life experiences through Universal Medicine Presentations, and through that sharing many hundreds of people have reconnected to the love that they are, and through that have made changes to their life. I for one am very grateful to have come across Serge Benhayon because my life is now simpler, fulfilled and joyful, and my health has vastly improved too.
A much grander version of themselves awaits us all. Those who walks towards it find that everything changes and that no one is condemned to anything. It is us who choose.
It’s amazing how we consider what the majority does as normal.
Thank you Irene, great to read your story again, it’s quite inspiring considering how you were once living to how you are living now. Most human beings want to find a way out of the mess we are all in, but there are not many true reflections out there to inspire us to live in a more loving way, that is why what Serge Benhayon and his family offers is so important. When we see another truly living love we are inspired because we knows it’s achievable, and as we begin to live our own love we realise it’s actually our natural way.
An inspiring testimony on what happens when we start to treat ourselves with gentleness and love.. thank you for sharing Irene all the changes that this led to in every area of your life, from your health to relationships and work. Goes to show that when we start making changes to how we’re being with ourselves and living, it has a huge ripple effect.
Amazing turn around Irene and you can really tell how you made all these changes for yourself and nobody did them for you or could possibly do them for you anyway.
From living off centrelink to actively committing to life and all the responsibilities it entails as exampled by your commitment to clearing your debt and beginning a pathway in aged care is nothing short of miraculous. Well done Irene.
Wow. So many changes in two and a half years. I am not sure if anyone would have been able to make you do that even if they tried. These changes are all made by you, by your choice alone. And not even a hard push, but a gentle one. That is totally amazing.
I agree Fumiyo, and with no force or willpower, just self love.
Thank you Irene for sharing this, it shows that we are the only ones who can make loving changes in our lives, no one can do it for us and there is no magic pill. Your story and hundreds of others clearly shows that you can not make the amazing changes that you have if someone was telling you what to do.
This is actually a case study that displays the miracles that take place when living a life of purpose, love and truth.
The changes you describe in your life are frankly incredible. Your story is worthy of being shouted from the rooftops for there are many people in society who would benefit from knowing there is a way out of the struggle they are living in.
From meeting Serge Benhayon and being inspired your life had many profound changes, how amazing thanks for sharing! There is something magic about the Way of The Livingness and how without instruction – but connection with ones own soul the impulses are delivered and when we listen as you did the changes are mind blowing.
I would say this on it’s own is a remarkable story and recovery. Just alone the fact that this person was on benefits and is now out and about and part of our workforce is testament alone to what ever she has done for herself. I had never heard this story but I have heard and seen many more that attribute their recovery to the work of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine. You could easily sight this as a miracle given the place this person was to the place they are now.
Beautiful to feel how your life has transformed in such an empowering way. Nothing in this world can give us the true fulfillment that comes through our connection to who we are. It is everything, as we are hold within us everything we need to live our lives in this world, we only need to connect to it and be guided by the truth we feel in our bodies. Establishing a loving relationship with ourselves first is what allows us to bring our true selves to life, and this is what sets the foundation of all our relationships thereafter.
Hi Irene, you are a living testimony to the changes that can come about by stepping out and taking responsibility for your life rather than remaining a victim to the circumstances of your own choices.
Another grand offering of how life changes from before Universal Medicine to after Universal Medicine; from the comfort of wallowing in one’s issues and a lack of up and go to responsibility and commitment to life and all it brings.
Isn’t this amazing – here’s someone who never tells anyone what to do, but simply because of the way he lives, thousands of people around the world, of different nationality, cultural/religious background, profession, age etc. have turned their lives around. Surely, the rest of the world deserves to know. If media has any sense of being in true service left in them, they need to study this man, instead of spreading false accusations irresponsibly.
Without Serge Benhayon as a reflection in my life showing me another way to be with myself and to commit to life I’m not sure where I would have ended up. He is an absolute inspiration and I feel so blessed to have come across him, his family, Universal Medicine and the student body.
“He is another human being who lovingly shares the truth about humanity and where we are at, and how we can make the choice to live in stillness and harmony and not accept all the pain and suffering as normal.” Something we so desperately need in this world where greed and corruption with all their repercussions are so prevalent.
Yes and the raciness of life is feeding industries that benefit from it – the coffee, sugar and fast food industries to name but three! Then there are the industries such as pharmaceuticals which purport to have our best interests at heart and yet try to influence us with marketing and commissioned research thereby not giving us space to decide for ourselves. Shall I continue with politics….no best not!
This is an inspiring sharing, I love how you have started to let go of your unloving ways replacing them with you honouring and caring for yourself, what a turnaround of your life.
Responsibility in all of our life and choices is important, and this can then inspire others to likewise be responsible.
Thank you Irene for stating the fact that Serge Benhayon is pro-medicine as many have tried to discredit him with pure lies that he is not. Serge Benhayon has always presented on how beautifully Western Medicine and the Esoteric Modalities work harmoniously together to support and allow the body to truly heal.
I have studied and participated a lot in complementary therapies and Serge Benhayon is the only teacher of complementary modalities that has been so openly and forthrightly pro medicine. From my own experience as well, becoming pro medicine and utilising all of the tests that have been available has actually been really good for my health. The important thing however is that I have become more responsible towards my health and more importantly how I live. This is where Serge Benhayon’s presentations and the Esoteric Modalities stand out, this is where the shift occurs and this is how it all partner’s beautifully with western medicine.
As I re-commit to all areas of my life I am noticing how I feel energised in my day. I want to get up in the mornings and face my day; a big change to how I used to live.
I can relate Caroline, as the more I come to realise that there is so much more to us that what we think, the more I am inspired to explore more, discover more, to live more, be more and share more with the world.
What a lovely conversation, thank you Caroline and Carola, what you have both pointed out here is that the model of health and well-being Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine offer is much more than just better function on a physical level, it’s also having a purpose in life that is sourced from the inner grandness we all equally have when we reconnect to our Soul, and what reconnecting to our love and joy means for our day to day living and for our communities.
Living in protection by trying to please or impress others, so that we can feel accepted by them, because we haven’t truly accepted ourselves, is a totally draining way to live. When we start to make basic choices to look after ourselves and give our bodies what they need to live in a harmonious way, it becomes easier to want to love the body and by extension, accept and love all of ourselves.
And in doing so I also find it so much easier to accept and truly love others too. When I am being judgemental or blaming another I know even though I may find it challenging at first I need to take responsibility and address my choices and what is going on within myself.
Great point Bryony being nice is a hold back and sometimes people misinterpret not being nice as not connecting, but reading and feeling energy the difference would be apparent.
A great testimony to the work and principles of Universal Medicine. What a blessing you are Irene too all you know, meet and your family.
“Serge Benhayon is not a cult leader or a guru. He is another human being who lovingly shares the truth about humanity and where we are at, and how we can make the choice to live in stillness and harmony and not accept all the pain and suffering as normal.”
Thank you dearly Serge Benhayon
A beautiful and inspiring sharing. Thank you Irene.
When others see us break the unloving and unhealthy patterns and behaviors that have locked us in the same limbo over and over they know that they can do the same for their own unloving and unhealthy patterns and behaviours.
Irene, your blog is a beautiful insight into why function and management of issues doesn’t work. We can find ways to avoid things in order to make ourselves safe but in fact we are still held hostage to them and we have not dealt with them at all. We all do this and it’s a prison, and reading your story today I have a much greater understanding and appreciation of what Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine offers us all, the freedom to be truly fully us, in the world, living it, being it and participating in the world. I can feel it in your turnaround to being a fully engaged active participant in your own life and I can see it in my life too. I’m not hiding anymore and this is something to hugely celebrate. Thank you Irene for the support today, in bringing this understanding.
What Serge Benhayon offers is nothing new, eat healthy, take care of your body, go to the doctor, etc. what makes it so unusual is that hundreds of people are successfully adhering to this and starting to live this way. This has never been seen before in our modern day and age, people talk a lot about what is good for you and what not to do, but their actions are a complete different story. What scares people about Serge Benhayon is that he walks his talk as that has a huge impact on people’s lives and actually offers change to the world and Irene’s is just one testimonial amongst many.
You are a straight shooter; you can feel that this blog cuts to the truth without an ounce of crap. It’s a super refreshing style of writing that I admire.
How is it that so many people struggling are able to return to themselves (without perfection of course) and live a healthy more vital life after meeting Serge Benhayon? I will answer my own question here, maybe we as human beings are more powerful than we realise, maybe we are all able to inspire each other as Serge does, simply by the way we move through the world, the choices we make and what we choose to align to.
Beautiful story Irene – one that should be headline news.
I find your story amazing Irene for changing any one of those things alone is remarkable but all of them together is truly incredible. No wonder your appreciation of Serge and Universal Medicine can be clearly felt, you must be pinching yourself when you look back to where you used to be.
Imagine that – that to solve all the problems we experience we just need to be ourselves. Serge Benhayon is the great inspiration here and also the one that can actually present why it can be so hard to be our true selves. He presents that there is a difference between spirit and soul and this alone would I guess solve and clear a lot of implications the misuse of these words have caused throughout time.
That is such a turnaround. I know what you mean about the outside looking fine but masking all the low self esteem and anxiety that were the root cause of the behaviours in the first place. This is something I have experienced and still see around me. Re-engaging with the world whilst working on the underlying issues gives others the opportunity to see it is possible and that is medicine in itself. Serge Benhayon walks that talk and is an inspiration to many.
I know this “I kept myself safe from feeling .. by cocooning myself from the world”. There are so many ways to ‘cocooning from the world’ and we are able to create ourselves a comfortable place. But we always know that there is more to life and that we are in fact hiding, holding back our glory and what we can bring to this world. Serge Benahyon and Universal Medicine encourage us to be a very active member of society and with that: to claim our power and joy back. To take responsibility is much joyfuller as we may think it is. To connect back to myself and life is the best choice I made so far.
I love your last sentence as it so beautifully describes Serge Benhayon, who is simply another human being who shares with the world how to live joyfully and harmoniously, not with the intention of self-gain but from a deep love for humanity.
Thank you Irene, for sharing your huge life turn around. It’s really amazing and miraculous to hear how you made changes in your life and how you are back in it after hiding out for so long. The world is surely a better place now it has you back in it.
Thank you Irene for sharing a truly inspiring story, amazing the changes that have taken place in your life when self loving choices are made.
Thanks Irene, an awesome reflection you are offering to others.
Wow Irene you are a real role model that it is possible to change a life completely. Your words are such an inspiration – thank you so much for not holding back your experiences with Serge Benhayon.
To be inspired to make such lasting changes to ones life by one man’s living reflection is very extraordinary. Something to be deeply appreciated and shared. Thank you Irene.
Wow Irena, you have made not one but many changes in your day to day life that have all been founded on the ripple effect of you being more gentle and understanding with yourself which naturally progresses to you taking better care of you. Very inspiring.
‘It was a big awakening to feel the arrogance I had towards the medical profession and how I was avoiding taking responsibility.’ That struck a chord with me. How disregarding of the body is it to proactively avoid everything that is on offer from the medical profession to support the body’s health when it needs it? I am not invincible and so – always with the utmost discernment – I’m happy to consider whatever is available.
Beautiful to re-read the turn around you have made in your life Irene, by honouring what you feel and recommitting to life by choosing to take more responsibility, love and care for yourself and your choices.
Serge Benhayon offered me a rethink in my own attitude to the true benefits of conventional medicine and I came to realise that conventional medicine has a real role to play in my preventative strategies around my own health and isn’t just and only there for the big stuff. But more importantly, I now know that it’s the level of responsibility I choose to take for my own health that is the true differentiator in my quality of living. Conventional and complementary medicines are there in support but it’s me that has to be in the driving seat.
What a turn around. Meeting Serge Benhayon and listening to presentations with Universal Medicine inspired you to take responsibility for yourself so that you can now appreciate all that you are and choose a way of living that is in harmony with yourself and others. Serge Benhayon “is another human being who lovingly shares the truth about humanity and where we are at, and how we can make the choice to live in stillness and harmony and not accept all the pain and suffering as normal.” So true.
Wow Irene, what is super powerful and so obvious is that, only hearing and being reminded of truth and love would support you to make these choices out of the lovelessness you were in. And so much to celebrate the choice you made for yourself. That’s what I appreciate and love about Serge Benhayon, is that he presents what he lives and knows from the choices he has made. That is what resonates inside so many including myself.
“Serge just presents and shares the energetic truth, and it is totally up to us to discern and feel into what is true for us. Serge has always stated that he is pro-medicine, and that gave me an opportunity to consider why I was so opposed to it.” I too was anti orthodox medicine except in exceptional circumstances, as I worked as a homeopath for twenty years. But I was never presented with energetic truth and felt disenchanted with all the various presenters I came across at conferences etc, as no one walked their talk and there was a lot of ill health in that community – no vibrancy – unlike in the Universal Medicine community. I am now pro medicine and support that with esoteric therapies – a perfect combination.
The FACT you weren’t able to work before and now you can Irene AND study is a testament to the work of Universal Medicine and what happens when one applies the loving principles in their life. I’m ALWAYS inspired when I read your story. I wholeheartedly agree: Thank you Serge Benhayon
Amazing transformation Irene. Centrelink to supporting the elderly community.
Irene, what an amazing woman you are. This is an awesome recovery for your life to turn around in such a short time. It is an absolute puzzle when the media attacks someone like Serge Benhayon when his presentations and lifestyle has made such a difference to so many people. Not just in small ways but in huge life affirming ways that are sustained and improving all the time. Thank you for sharing your story. It is inspirational.
This would make the best reality TV Irene, it’s such a good news story ” Irene Returns to her True Self and Chooses a Life of Self Love ” but TV and newspapers are not often interested in ‘true’ simple stories of a life turned around but prefer the drama and complexities of our lost world and to promote that instead.
I am deeply touched by your honest sharing. I could feel how I have become a little lazy and complacent in certain area of my life, and I could actually do with more love. Reading your story has inspired me to do a proper reality-check. Thank you very much, Irene.
Thank you Irene for your honest and beautiful sharing. It is lovely to read of your turn around through coming in touch with Serge Benhayons Teachings of the Ancient Wisdom, and I totally agree there is no way that he Is a Cult Leader, and no way I would be involved with Universal Medicine if it was a cult. I would know if I was in a cult 8 years down the track ! Someone such as Serge, who only espouses and lives in such a loving way and treats everyone as equal with no demands in anyway surely is an inspiration to all.
Another amazing story- this is what needs to be reported on and studied as it is stories like these that will in the end support our communities, health system resources and economy.
I agree Kristy definitely worth being studied – real life stories of people choosing to not self abuse and try and fix themselves but make true change by introducing self-love, honesty and truth into their lives.
I am so blessed to have found this blog today. I love the way you share Irene, it is powerful in its sweetness and simplicity. “Serge Benhayon is not a cult leader or a guru. He is another human being who lovingly shares the truth about humanity and where we are at, and how we can make the choice to live in stillness and harmony and not accept all the pain and suffering as normal.” The final paragraph is particularly beautiful and every word you have expressed above demonstrates how true this statement is.
When we change the relationship we have with ourselves, it changes our relationship with everything and everyone else. It is quite beautiful how this happens naturally. Our body really does want to operate harmoniously but we have to give it the freedom to do so, and letting go of what chains us down is crucial.
A beautiful testimony and sharing Irene. You feel so content and at ease with who you are, it’s lovely to read.
Irene what I really appreciate about your blog is that you have made your life about responsibility rather than blaming or seeking relief in drugs. The changes that you have described about your life are very inspiring.
It is exhausting when we are running around for others to avoid the lonely feelings we have inside. Great to see you are back with yourself and enjoying life for the truth that it is.
Thank you for sharing your story Irene. I too have been inspired by Serge Benhayon to take responsibility for my life and to not accept tiredness, low vitality, digestive disorders and emotional ways as normal. Now I observe many others (hundreds in fact) whose vitality and wellness challenges the norm, and for myself, I have never felt better in my life.
Thank you for sharing your journey with Universal Medicine and self care. It really is as simple as a choice. Sometimes it is hard to make the first choice but once done, we simply make another. Your turnaround is remarkable.
Those are some pretty amazing changes you’ve made Irene. No where else in the world have I ever seen so many testimonies in where people’s lives have taken a complete 180 degree turn around than in these blogs and comments sharing the support they have received from Serge Benhayon. There is something here being said that is consistent in all these stories that the media ignored. Unlike the tabloid stories that are dismissed for the next new gossip or sensation these accounts only contine to expand and build on what has been learnt.
” … and not accept all the pain and suffering as normal.”
I could never understand how people around me did not have an inner (or even an outer!) pain that needed resolving – it drove me to look for its answer for many years, which was blessedly found in the work, presentations and dedication of Serge Benhayon and his business, Universal Medicine. I reckon all people have this inner pain but some are able to numb, ignore or distract themselves from it, for now.
Actually Marian, that’s so true… yes I have gained so much from changing my diet, living in a self loving way but the biggest change has also been my inner pain. I lived with a constant sadness a deep grief and no matter what I changed or however happy I was it was always just waiting to come back in. I also had a nagging feeling I didn’t belong in the picture of my life I was a misfit almost like I was in the wrong family, the life I was living didn’t match my inner deep truth. Now I feel like I have come to my inner home such is the glorious connection I feel thanks to the return path I have been supported with by Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine .
Thank you Irene this is a great testimony of how Serge Benhayon inspires people to take responsibility for their own life and decide to change for a more healthy life and well being.
This is so amazing what you share specifically how you committed to life through work something key to wellbeing and a well functioning society.
So true Rachel. Serge inspires people to make their own choice. Never have I heard him say to do this or do that, just great support for who we are and our potential. A true foundation must come from within and not from outside of ourselves.
We don’t often see work as a key to wellbeing but you’re right rachelandras. There are so many benefits to working and not just the monetary gain. We get to communicate and engage with people from all walks of life, that we may not have interacted with previously and we get to learn new skills AND share who we are with the world. A brilliant exchange.
Very true Shevon. Work is living. There is an artificial line drawn between the private and the public and the private and the work life as if one part of life has or needs something the other does not. If we live from love, love will be in everything we do. We spend probably more time with our work colleagues than with our partners, friends and family, work colleagues are family and only when we learn to open up to everybody equally we are truly open to love. We are love and being love it doesn’t matter with whom I am, where I work or what I do I am just that: love.
Such a powerful blog Irene, the changes you’ve made are just awesome and feel so normal, and yet you’re bucking trends. And all because you were presented with a different way, one which is more loving and caring of self, and you chose to check it out for yourself – nothing radical just gorgeous and supportive common sense. We need more of this in the world and each of us who embraces this love and care seeds it for another to see it’s possible.
A true reflection monicag2, “We need more of this in the world and each of us who embraces this love and care seeds it for another to see it’s possible.” Such a beautiful and simple reminder of what we all can offer another from just being ourselves.
What Serge Benhayon presents benefits all of humanity. Simple commonsensical self-care ways of being, something we all know deep down is true. The Benhayons demonstrate how this is lived in daily life by walking their talk and being true inspirations to us all.
Agreed Irene. Thank you Serge. If he wasn’t a fellow human being who lovingly shares the way he lives, which is super graceful and ultimately awesome by the way he feels, then many people would still be stuck in a rut and miserable (just speaking from experience here).
Thanks Irene for your open sharing and I couldnt agree more about what you have written about Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine
Irene the recent choices you have made and your transformation are truly inspirational, and show us it is never too late to come back to being ourselves. I too have only heard Serge Benhayon present the energetic truth for us to ponder and do with it what we feel is true for us. In you I see a woman who has benefited beyond measure from being given that choice.
Thank you Irene for sharing your reawakening to life and love in the real world –being responsible.
Irene, this is just gorgeous! I love your candidness, and the truth about your life prior to Universal Medicine. It’s true, Serge Benhayon is just a loving human being and its very true what he presents – we don’t have to accept the pain and suffering as normal.
Irene thank you for staring candidly what your life used to like and how it is now thanks to you saying yes to the teachings of Universal Medicine. What struck me reading this is your honesty and that is the precious key…. Those that attack Universal Medicine lack this quality immensely and in their jealousy of seeing other people make self loving choices they do not, they choose to attack and blame — everything but themselves.
So true Katerina to have a foundation of honesty is a precious attribute and a must needed step to understanding and truth.
Thank you Irene. A powerful, straight up, how it is is a welcome breath of fresh air to what can at times feel in the media, to be a foul brew of misinterpretations, misrepresentations, a stench lacking any truth whatsoever.
What a change Irene! that’s amazing where you have come from and things sound so different for you now.. I meet so many people that are going through the same things that you are going through and it’s very sadly common. Your story is a super inspiring change.
Awesome to hear about the changes Irene, what a difference. I was thinking recently about how much energy I have now compared to a year ago or before the universal medicine courses and I can say my whole life has changed completely as well.
What a transformation Irene. No bells and whistles here either. It was just a matter of choices. How could anyone argue with the way you have made a complete turnaround? You are an inspiration to all. Thank you.
Thank you Irene, to be a friend of yours is an absolute pleasure and to see the way you present yourself now is a blessing. The way in which you have turned your life around has been a miracle to say the least, thanks to the inspiration of Serge Benhayon and the students of the Livingness.
How inspiring to read how your life has been transformed by you choosing to take responsibility for your life and making simple changes that have allowed you to re-join society and contribute in your wider community as well as reflect these changes to your family. Thank you so much for sharing Irene.
Your story is amazing Irene. You are a brilliant example of how Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine helped you turn your life around. I take my hat off to you.
What a beautiful testament to making loving choices to support the true you, very real and inspiring thank you Irene.
In order to heal and evolve we need to learn to let go of our hurts and ‘issues’. Reliving the pain of the past is not letting go of it and actually keeps you trapped within those patterns. You may think you are healing but the evidence of its effect is always in how you live your everyday. Irene for you to now be living your life as a ‘very different picture’ to what you used to is a testimonial to yourself and a testimonial to how practical the presentations of Serge Benhayon can be. An inspiring blog. Thankyou Irene.
Great comment Suse about how the changes in how you are now living your life are a great testimonial to you and the practicality of Serge Benhayon’s presentations.
Thank you for sharing your story and beautiful changes in your life.
I am always inspired by people like you Irene, people who are not in a great place but choose to take responsibility and make changes in their lives – people who choose love.
Beautiful Irene the changes you have made are very inspiring.
Thank you for choosing love ✨
And as for all the lies about Serge Benhayon… Well you along with so many of us are living proof that he has inspired 1000’s of people to live in a healthy and vital way.
Choosing to be responsible does not come into the equation if you are being manipulated by a ‘cult’ leader. There is no manipulation when it comes to Serge Benhayon, only respect, love and a deep commitment to humanity.
It seems that one fundamental difference between Serge Benhayon and new age gurus is that he empowers people to take charge of their own health and well- being, whereas gurus can disempower by preaching or accepting “followers”. Serge meets us all equally, and you trusted enough to start taking on responsibility for all your choices. Your life changes are truly inspiring Irene.
What you share is very beautiful Irene, the changes you have made are enormous, and I can feel and know that Serge Benhayon only has been the inspiration for this, he is always sharing with us that we all know deep within know to be true.
It’s beautiful to read how you turned your life around Irene – very inspiring for all, thank you.
You’re story is truly remarkable Irene. The inspiration that Serge has offered you that enabled you to make the profound changes you have is beautiful to read and the appreciation you have for this deeply felt. Thank you for sharing this.
Amazing to read how you turned your life around in two and a half years. An inspiration to others. Thank you Irene.
Does anybody want to make a movie about this story?
This is the real stuff for cinemas.
So amazing, Irene.
Agree felixschumacher8. A true story…and there are sooo many, it could almost be a franchise…
“Wow Irene, what a transformation!! Good for you!! Guru has had many meanings attached to it over time but one thing that is clear to me… Serge is not a ’guru’, and he is not in any way like the negative connotation that ‘guru’ means to most people today. Serge lives and presents in an amazing way, and is amazingly solid in this because of how he has chosen to live. Serge and ‘guru’ is like water and oil. They are both liquids but they have nothing in common. Two very different creatures. Two opposite purposes. Two amazingly different energies.
Wow Irene what a change – that is remarkable. You are a great role Model for people who are living the same way you did before. They can feel through your example that a change is possible – that is so wunderbar!!!!!
Such an amazing turnaround Irene and very inspiring. Like you, there are now many many stories of people from all walks of life being inspired by Serge Benhayon and his simple and practical presentations starting with self-care and nurturing…. very new concepts for many to start with, including myself, who have completely turned their lives around and are genuinely living a more honest, loving and responsible life and in-turn reflecting that to others as well. I’ve also noticed that whenever I’ve had or have a really dogmatic and arrogant view on something, it has time and time again revealed how loveless and individual it is. I have huge appreciation for Serge Benhayon, Universal Medicine and people like you Irene, showing another way.
Such a beautiful sharing, so awesome to read how you have changed and turned your life into something that is full of love, wellness and joy. Really inspiring to read.
Wow Irene, you turned your whole life around in two and a half years. That is outstanding. I can tell you really meant it, your appreciation of Serge Benhayon is straight form the heart.
Thank you Irene for sharing your amazing story, and the big changes that you have made to your life and the lives of those around you by taking responsibility to nurture and care for yourself, and a thank you to Serge Benhayon who has presented this truth to us.
Inspirational Irene, thank you for sharing, Not only has your life changed but all those around you and all of those you now meet each and every day. How we grow and flower when we accept responsibility of truly loving ourselves.
Beautifully expressed Irene and a great example of how we can change our lives by taking responsibility for our choices. Through the inspirational presentations of Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon I have had many similar changes. Your story is an inspiration for anyone that is in the same situation. Thank you for sharing.
These are amazing changes you have made Irene, thank you for sharing them and the truth of what Universal Medicine has to offer.
What an inspirational turn around Irene. It is great that stories like yours are being told more and more on the internet because this is the true community work of Universal Medicine, supporting people to take more responsibility for their lives and put their lives slowly back together so that they in turn can support others to do the same. And so we build a stronger, more united community and world.
Great comment Andrew and great ideas from Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine to help people to turn their lives around so that they can support others to do the same.
A beautiful sharing Irene of how you turned your life around in a positive way with the teachings of Universal Medicine and the support of Serge Benhayon and other practitioners. You now live a life of love, have returned to work and study, you are enjoying your relationships more, the inner turmoil has gone – what an inspiration you are!
Thank you sharing the wonderful changes that you have made in your life. I am sure that your family and friends are now inspired by you and how truly amazing you are.
At times, I feel the great harm and evil in the world and it can feel huge. Stories like yours confirm the love that is spreading throughout the planet, like fire. I am thankful for the eternal commitment and love of Serge Benhayon and those that he inspires.
This is an anecdotal story, but a compelling one. Would it be right that normally people exchange a dependency on drugs with a dependency on religion or on a guru? But this didn’t happen here -dependency was replaced by self-reliance.
Thank you for sharing Irene, this is the second time I have read it and it is very inspiring to read about the changes you have made to your life, health and relationships.
Irene ,it is very inspiring to read of the change you have made, that has completely turned your life around.
What really comes through from your blog Irene, is the slow but steady way you have adopted a different way of living… choice by choice and at the pace that you can work to so now you have a sustainable alternative to your previous way of living. And the results sound truly remarkable, as the true you re-emerges.
Wow Irene thank you for sharing your story and the miraculous changes that have come about by applying simple loving techniques to your life.
A really amazing story of a miracle of how someone has turned their life around by living gentleness and love, as inspired by the livingness of Serge Benhayon.
Thank you Irene for sharing such an inspiring story that has the potential to be a support for many. It is amazing that with love, care and understanding from others and ourselves these miraculous changes can be made.
Irene its deeply confirming to read the incredible differences you have made in your life. The picture is most certainly different and is a testament to you. It’s amazing to see how with the support and inspiration of Serge Benhayon you have chosen for yourself the life that you want. I can echo this in many ways and without the inspiration of Universal Medicine life would look very different for me as well.
I found your story truly inspiring and I loved how you shared from honesty how you were living before you made the changes you did. This article I feel can help and inspire so many people and would be a great read in the doctors/dentist waiting room.
An amazing inspirational sharing, thank you Irene.
Thank you for sharing your story so honestly Irene and it is inspiring to hear how you have turned your life around. I am a support worker for people with mental health issues and found this comment gave me more insight into so many of my clients who are so isolated ‘I am now able to be with others and not become exhausted because I was trying so hard to please or to impress or just guard who I really was’. It often feels to me that many are trying to keep themselves safe in the only way they know – by cutting off from life.
Yes, I agree that one of the great inspirations I have got from listening to Universal Medicine presentations is considering what is actually normal? Is something normal just because it is common or has been around for a long time? How can pain and suffering actually be our normal state of being? Does this make any sense? I have been supported to connect to an inner essence that is very still and expansive and warm and does not have an ounce of pain or suffering in it. This has led me to the conclusion that perhaps this is actually our normal state of being and everything else has been created or manifested over the top of this essence and we have accepted it as normal but in fact, it is not.
“I have been supported to connect to an inner essence that is very still and expansive and warm and does not have an ounce of pain or suffering in it.” – now that should be the normal that we all experience, and anything that does not meet that standard is called out for what it is and addressed right there and then.
Well said Andrew. At work I will open my lunch and others will ask why I am eating so well and is it hard to be so disciplined.
I say it’s easy to eat well and discipline does not come into it. I am simply choosing to self care.
They laugh and say I am NoT NORMAL. But where are we at in society when it is not normal to take care of oursleves?
Dear Irene, thank you for sharing the changes you have made and the benefits of those changes. I can relate to going down the alternative therapy route and trying many different things, from hands on healing at the spiritualist church, homeopathy, vortex healing, acupuncture, crystal healing and much more. All in the attempt to get some relief from the health issues I was experiencing.
Since attending Universal Medicine courses and making changes myself, my health has improved beyond words.
I love how you show the self empowerment Serge Benhayon so fundamentally espouses by how you have transformed your life and by saying that Serge presents that:
“…we can make the choice to live in stillness and harmony and not accept all the pain and suffering as normal.”
This is a big choice. Some don’t like to hear it because it brings to question whether they have been settling/choosing pain instead of love.
I have experienced much of the same transformation in my life, that you, Irene, describe due to choosing to say “no” to what I felt was not love and learning to say “yes” to love in it’s true form.
Yap – Irene, Stephanie, I too was once on that bandwagon of ‘allopathic medicine is not for me’ vaccine is evil, blood tests are for losers (!) etc etc, due to my ‘alternative medicine arrogance’ until I met Serge and the Esoteric work he presents. It feels so much more liberating to have modern medicine as just another tool (and not a hindrance?!) in assisting us in our journey back to self-love. Your experience Irene is truly inspiring and moving – thank you for sharing.
Your story, and openness in sharing it, is truly inspiring Irene. To feel the choices and changes you yourself have made in your own life, and also the deep inspiration you have found in the work of Serge Benhayon & Universal Medicine – that you have been able to reconnect to this love & foundation for living within yourself, is truly powerful.
I agree with Sally – this news should be our headlines. It is truly awesome to read your story ‘in print’ here. Thank you so much for writing.
Thank you for sharing your story Irene – it is very inspiring and shows there can be another way.
This story is so inspiring, thank you Irene for sharing it. The changes you have made within a two year period are news worthy and should be what is written about in the media. Your story says to people don’t give up on life, it can be lived and lived well.
Thank you Irene, beautifully expressed – over the past couple of years I also have been to Medical Practitioners which would have been avoided at all costs (such arrogance with my many years alternative medicine work) prior to my attending the Universal Medicine presentations, it feels very empowering to have more self responsibility for myself in this way and having been shown I have a choice and it is all up to me, no-one else.
Irene, thank you, I also find it interesting how so many of us have gone full belt into the alternative arm of medicine – to a point where we have arrogantly looked down on the limitations of allopathic medicine and not taken the time to appreciate the technical and modern wonders that it can perform. I notice that this is often born from a reaction that we have to conventional medicine when we discover it can’t supply us with the answer or solution as to to why we have been feeling so wretched. When all along it was simply missing the one ingredient.
Great to hear your story Irene, a powerful one, your amazing changes coming from you firstly choosing to be more gentle with yourself, simple yet so powerful. It is a shame that the media did not interview you or the many many other people that have similar experiences. I also love the fact that through Serge’s presentations you reflect on your ideals about medicine and are now going back to the doctors, when the media is trying to portray UniMed to be so anti medicine.