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. 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
“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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
So true Katerina to have a foundation of honesty is a precious attribute and a must needed step to understanding and truth.
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.
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.
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.
“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 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.