by Simon Asquith, Byron Bay, Australia
My name is Simon. I’m a 38 year old single male and I feel to share how I discovered, and my experience of, Universal Medicine.
At the time, I was a professional musician living a life that I had always dreamed of, and had worked very hard to make a reality. Some years earlier I had left a well paying career that didn’t “make me happy” to pursue my dream to live six months a year during spring and summer in Australia, and then six months a year in spring and summer in Europe, travelling the world performing my own music.
One time, I returned home to Australia and met another musician and his family that were my parents’ neighbours. Not long after, I began working for him helping him tour, as his roadie/sound engineer and selling CD’s. On an early morning drive once, he asked me if I had heard of this guy named Serge Benhayon, and he played a recording of a presentation on the stereo.
I listened for an hour or so, and I remember very well that although I found some of the language unusual, and parts of it a little hard for me to follow, I turned to my friend and just simply said “wow, he really makes a lot of sense, doesn’t he?”.
The following months we listened to more of the presentations when we went away to do shows, and each time I remember how what Serge Benhayon was talking about was not only just making sense and felt relevant to me personally, but it also seemed to connect the dots of the bigger picture of what is going on in the world. I say this having spent a lot of time travelling and meeting new people from all nationalities and cultures: the life of a musician on tour involves a lot of free time to sit in a cafe or on a beach with friends, old and new, or go off on random adventures to new places with local people you meet.
From these adventures and conversations, I was aware of a common thread from so many different perspectives and people with seemingly nothing in common: from street kids in Macedonia, to diplomats in Switzerland, to ‘tradies’ and their families in the streets of Byron Bay, that everyone seemed to be experiencing similar feelings to me that the world is “going a little crazy”. The way Serge presented seemed to address this bigger picture with a perspective that was not quite like anything I had heard before, and again – just made sense.
Not long after starting to listen to the audio, I decided to go and have a session with a practitioner of Esoteric Healing. I didn’t have anything in particular I felt I needed to see someone for, just the usual little niggles and aches and pains, and feeling a little flat. At that time, I felt that I was taking reasonable care of myself. At an earlier time in my life I was overweight by about 25 kilos as the result of an excessive lifestyle (from 18 to 26), working shift work in hospitality and being a musician: my diet was terrible, I drank lots of alcohol and consumed other drugs recreationally. Looking back, I was in pretty bad shape physically and emotionally. But I had made a shift in how I looked after myself almost ten years earlier, and I was now slim. I had quit smoking five years ago; my alcohol consumption had gone from excessive to sparse – I had even gone through phases of 6 to 12 months of not drinking alcohol at all – and drug use of any kind I had let go off a long time before. Those who had known me for a long time were often quite amazed at how well I looked compared to before. I had gone through phases of doing various forms of yoga, I walked and swam for exercise as often as I could, and I would often treat myself to a massage or a spa/sauna as a way to take care of myself. Living in Byron Bay there are a million different techniques and massage/healing modalities to choose from, and I had often used some of those to feel better when I was out of sorts. The idea of trying another one really wasn’t a big deal.
What was a big deal though, was how I felt after the treatment.
The treatment itself was very simple, and gentle: I just lay on the table, fully clothed, and the practitioner asked me how my body felt and listened to what I said. My reply: ‘a little bit of a sore back, a little tired, but nothing major”. And then she said to “just let go and feel whatever comes up”. As I lay there she gently put her hands on parts of my body, my calves, my kidneys, along my spine; at one point, one on my heart, and one on my stomach. But as this was happening I felt myself really able to let go and relax into a place that was very deep and still. I had heard Serge talk about breathing gently through the nose in the short meditations on the audios, and followed along with it (I had tried various form of meditation before, so again no biggie to try another), and as I did this simple ‘Gentle Breath’ breathing technique while the practitioner placed her hands on me I felt my body let go more and more, and a deep sense of awareness of myself. I could feel what I can only describe as a warm glow that seemed to come from inside. I could feel it in my chest. I could feel it in my lungs. I could feel my kidneys get warm from inside as her hands rested on them on my back. My hips and knees just kind of relaxed, all my joints and muscles kept relaxing more and more. I soon just let go and went to a kind of half sleep. It was LOVELY!!! After the session I walked away and spent the rest of the day just being really gentle and still and feeling the effects and enjoying how wonderful I felt. And that night I slept like a baby.
From that experience I started listening to the audios more often and practising the breathing gently through my nose, and found that I could feel that same sense of yumminess. Through doing that more, and starting to feel that with varying degrees of success I was able to connect to that same warm glow again, I began to realise that the way that I really felt for the most part, from day to day, which I had always thought was O.K, actually was not so great. It was like once I felt how good I CAN feel, and started taking the time to regularly let myself connect to that beautiful warm glow inside, the goalposts had moved for what “I feel OK” meant. The more I explored that, the more I realised that I was actually really, really tired for the most part. And although I was seemingly fit and healthy, if I was honest I was also exhausted by the end of each day (actually, by mid-afternoon if not lunch time). Things became much more obvious having that ‘warm glow’ as a comparison, such as when I got moody, when I was angry and short with others around me, or how others’ emotions affected how I felt in my day. I began to notice how often I craved sugar to get me through the afternoon, and how actually those little niggling things like the sore back or knees that I had ‘every now and then’ were there most of the time, but I just didn’t pay attention to them.
And when I compare them to that new version of ‘feeling OK’, these little things in reality felt pretty awful.
About six months after I had heard the audio for the first time I had been to a couple of presentations in person, and while I still had a few reservations, sat at the back, and was studying the various types of people that seemed to be from all walks of life (from doctors and professionals to working class families, to elderly men and women, to teenagers), that guy at the front talking, Serge, just kept on making sense. More sense than anyone else I had ever come across in any talk, any self-help or spiritual book or documentary, any conversation, all around the world. Yes, some of what he said really challenged certain perspectives and widespread beliefs. Yes, some of the language was strange initially.
But there was something simple and solid about what was being presented that just stuck as what I somehow knew to be true inside.
The next thing I did with Universal Medicine was a one-day workshop, then called “Heart Chakra – One”.
$120.00 for a one-day workshop is actually pretty cheap! I’ve paid $300 or more for voice coaching and songwriting workshops. On that day we went through a few techniques – simple and easy ways like breathing gently through the nose and paying attention to that same warm glow. We felt what it was like to connect to that, and be in a conversation with someone who was also connecting to that same feeling in themselves (twice as lovely as doing it by yourself!), and then compared it directly with talking to that same person straight after when you are not connected to that feeling within yourself, or each other. The difference was very clearly discernible and surprisingly vast. And during the day we did a few other exercises that simply involved connecting to that really yummy feeling inside, and doing things while you felt that good. Pretty Simple. And again, pretty awesome. I walked out of there feeling like I had never actually spoken to someone properly before that day. At the time I was a well-spoken, confident, approachable person, but after the workshop I felt like there was this deeper layer underneath that we can communicate with. And I felt like I had connected on a much deeper level with complete strangers than people I had known for years. Old, Young, Male, Female – it didn’t matter. It was easy. It felt natural. And again, it was LOVELY!
That is what Universal Medicine is about. Realising for yourself that there is this beautiful other layer. It’s just inside of you. It’s natural. It’s yummy, and everyone has it. It doesn’t matter who you are, what you do, where you live or how much money you have… it’s the same for EVERYONE. And if you connect to it, and choose to explore it, it can have a beautiful and profound effect on all areas of your life. It’s like all the goalposts have moved – things naturally start to change. You realise there are things that nurture that beautiful connection and there are things that drastically hinder that connection (and doing the same thing with the connection feels MUCH different than without it). That’s what the workshops and presentations are about. Understanding for myself the things that foster that beauty in me – and understanding the things I choose that prevent me from having it all the time in everything I do.
One of the things I like most about Serge Benhayon is that he is NOT special. He is just a man… a human being. He is just like every single one of us – he walks, he talks, he sleeps, he eats, he works, he has a family; I’m pretty sure he even goes to the toilet. (Actually, I know he does, he talked about it in a presentation once.) But he is a man, a human being, who has felt that connection to the warm glow inside of himself, recognised that it is something real, profound and beautiful, and perhaps against what anyone else has thought or said, followed it all the way and applied it to all those areas of his life. To every area of his life. And he simply presents what he has found for himself in doing that. And there is a wonderful tangible difference that I have felt for myself, as well as seen in him (and many others), that serves as an example.
It is almost four years later, and no-one has ever told me what to do at Universal Medicine; no-one has told me how to think, what courses to do or what to do with my time or money. If I stopped going to presentations no-one would ever worry or even ask me why, and actually – from one workshop I have been presented with enough simple, practical and wonderful information to continue on and change my life for the better in so many ways, without ever having to attend another Universal Medicine event again. Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine have simply presented for me the wonderful gift of what is possible if I truly choose, like Serge has done, to become a student of myself.
It is difficult for me to express how appreciative I am; not sure if words can truly capture it. The depths of tenderness and loveliness that I have found within myself, and the beauty I now recognise in others all around me are beyond what I used to imagine possible. And yet it seems to match the magic that I remember thinking as a child – that this is the way the world is REALLY meant to be. And the level of understanding I have of myself and who I am in the world, my desire to be fully present and active in it, as well as my connection to and involvement with all others around me, grows more and more each day.
Thank you.
Thank you Serge Benhayon.
Thank you to all at Universal Medicine.
From the depths of who I truly am.
The Truth about Serge Benhayon 
Richard I feel you have hit something when you say that we seem to be looking at what we can get from life but actually when we turn this around to what we bring to life the changes happen and we feel more fulfilled. That empty feeling and that feeling of there must be more to life just seems to evaporate.
“Understanding for myself the things that foster that beauty in me – and understanding the things I choose that prevent me from having it all the time in everything I do.” What a beautiful sentence – it’s so rare in the world for people to even claim a beauty, let alone something that is equally within each and every person. In a world of ideals with people striving for different forms of success, be it outward beauty or achievement, which often comes at the expense of others because it’s competitive based, this equal beauty you talk of is what will eventually revolutionise how we are with ourselves and each other when we, as a human race, return to soul.
I agree with you Simon the world has gone crazy and in this intensity of life to me there is a beacon of light that stands out not just because of the light that is pulsing outwards but there is a stillness similar to the eye of a Hurricane and in that stillness is an offering to humanity which we can either accept or ignore.
Lovely to read how you are again feeling the magic in your life, ‘the level of understanding I have of myself and who I am in the world, my desire to be fully present and active in it, as well as my connection to and involvement with all others around me, grows more and more each day.’
As we deepen the goalposts keep moving and sometimes it feels as though it’s too much, too hard, but what I am beginning to feel is it is not the next level that is too much, but it is the pain of not living that depth that we have actually known all along and come from, and we won’t go past that by pushing on forwards or trying harder, but we will by surrendering, falling backwards deeper into the arms of the Beholder.
Very impressive read Simon, and there are many such stories that can be shared from Students from all walks of life that have come together under one common thread of brotherhood.
I remember when I first started to attend the presentations of Serge Benhayon I felt that what he had to say to me made complete sense it was as though he was talking to me directly. He wasn’t of course but everyone who was in the room felt held and understood. That is a very rare gift to have and to share so freely is another gift, as most people would want to use such gifts for their own gain but not Serge Benhayon, he shares everything with everyone. It is not for him alone to have this download of information from the hall of the Ancient Wisdom.
Saying that we feel “OK” often means that we are hiding how we are truly feeling.
I know when I use the word ‘OK’ it is to avoid being honest or making the choice to go deeper and look at how I am really feeling.
I just love reading and feeling the level of appreciation you have Simon for the Sacred Esoteric Healing modalities; they do indeed move the goalposts on how we feel and the specific quality of that feeling too in our body and also being. When I have such [Sacred Esoteric] healing sessions my entire body feels exquisite, focused and deeply reflective about the purpose of myself and myself in life.
So true Simon. My level of ‘fitness for life’ has been completely raised. Thank you Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon.
Accepting anything less than true vitality is telling us that we are accepting a standard that is less than we deserve.
I love the way you use the word loveliness, it has such a ring to it!
Simon, your life before Serge sounds to be the dream .. and its no mistake we are given what we want. There is a HUGE BUT though. That dream does not deliver truth in reality therefore, no feeling of joy that lives and stays with you. Its a moment of attracting you or deepening yourself further into the abyss of creation. The other side is you can have it all too however, this time you have to be responsible and what that means and looks for you personally in respect, decency and love for all.
Very beautiful Simon. I always love hearing how people find there way to Universal Medicine and even more how life has become a richer experience.
The life of my dreams says much about our sleep and this says much about our movements during daylight. Could it be that what we dream of is related to how we move?
I love that you went for a session without a need. That is rare yet shows a true inquisitor. We know in every cell of our body that we are not living the Love we are from. We feel the tension and the shallowness of the world and the depth of the Love we are from is constantly calling us back.
“…the goalposts had moved for what “I feel OK” meant. The more I explored that, the more I realised that I was actually really, really tired for the most part” – I totally agree with you Simon, attending Universal Medicine is well worth all the exposure that one gets from its Ageless Wisdom Teachings. Until we understand the true meaning of love, being love and loving, we really have no idea about life or the actual state of ourselves in it.
That a great point that you have shared Zofia. We even have no idea of what life is for..we live, have an experience, then we die. I for one am eternally gratefully to know of the richness available in any moment. The words living life has been totally re-defined.
Thank you Simon, it’s a beautiful beginning you have described to find the work of Universal Medicine and Serge, and to return home to yourself.
Listening to our bodies and making self-loving choices can change your whole outlook on life, your health and your mental well-being.
Yes Self Empowerment……”Understanding for myself the things that foster that beauty in me – and understanding the things I choose that prevent me from having it all the time in everything I do.” It is about understanding from the inside who we are and how we work and using this knowing to inform our lives, from the inside out.
It is amazing what we can begin to feel in our body when we let go and surrender to the healing. The wonderful thing is that unlike so many healings I have had prior to Esoteric Healing is that it carries on after you get off the table, and as you showed Simon we begin to notice things in our life that we may not have fully felt before like, tiredness or moodiness or going for sweet things at certain times of the day.
Very true Elizabeth, our sensitivity definitely heightens to what is not inline with what we are feeling within our bodies. For me something I have often found myself doing is not knowing how to cope with the level of sensitivity and awareness I have and so turn to things like sugary food to dumb it down but see that all that happens is I detach myself in a way from the situation but it comes back anyway so all I am doing is delaying. Whereas when I stay with deepening my love I get to see the situation more clearly and so understand what is going on and embrace my sensitivity and awareness rather than trying to crush it or quell it down wanting things to be different.
It was great to read your comment this morning James, as I too turn to sugary foods because I can feel something that is so grand but there is a part of me that wants to trash the grandness as though I’m not worthy of these feelings. You have given me the insight that I need to stop and understand what is going on because I can feel that as you say I’m just delaying the fact that I am grand indeed we are all from the same grandness because we all come from the Universe and we will all return there it’s just a matter of how much we delay.
It is great to step back every so often and reflect to where I was and where I am now and what was acceptable and normal and what now seems unimagineable. Your blog is a great reminder of the many changes I have made in my life and whilst not always making the best most loving choices, I am learnign from them and no longer simply trying to get from day to day rather enjoying what is presented before me to learn from and bring more of me and more love to the world which is very much needed.
I agree, our normal can change vastly and it is well worth reflecting and being honest on where we are and where we have been, observation of the process of learning develops a confidence, we understand life – this is empowering. And Yes normal is a choice of perception.
The confidence we get from simply observing life and staying present is very empowering. For me it means I get to clearly see what is going on and so do not react. I see that there is far more going on than purely what my eyes alone see and honour more what I am sensing. This truly is empowering knowing that everything we could ever want or have access to is within and so we do not need to go outside of ourselves for anything. We can then bring this all to the world and others rather than seeking them to confirm us in anyway or need them for anything – it changes our relationships and pretty much everything when we are coming from the knowing we are already everything and are simply returning to this love.
The seeking to be acknowledged or to be found correct by another is a big thing, I still find myself dipping into waiting for someone to say Yes, you are ready, amazing, beautiful in moments, but this ongoing commitment to practicing observation, presence and honesty enables me to keep on track and not get sucked into it for very long.
That is great Samantha and as it is trap that is easy to fall into but great the quicker we catch ourselves going into it. I am currently working on honouring what I am sensing and not letting myself be swayed by what others may say or do and the more I do this the more I then observe what is going on as I am not getting so caught up in all the games.
I constantly have people say to me that they feel okay when they are not. We seem to have measures of okayness, for example, if we do not have cancer then we feel okay. But not having cancer is not an indication of how okay we are because in truth if we have any dis-ease in our body at all we are simply not okay.
How lovely that you were able to feel so much in your body in the healing session you had. It feels as though you were fully supported to connect to yourself and open to the healing offered.
Totally agree Simon. Since Universal Medicine the goal posts have moved several ovals!
Serge Benhayon not only helped to ‘shift the goal posts’ for me, the goal posts totally changed their shape and form in such a way that I no longer recognised them. But it was the fact that Serge was making sense of a world that hadn’t made much sense up to that point, that I realised that it made absolute sense the goal posts had moved. And 13 years on I am so delighted they did as life is definitely way more enjoyable and fulfilling to live than it ever was when they were stuck in the same old uninspiring place.
Yes, I agree, I have such a different outlook on life now and am so deeply appreciative of that because I can now see that I would have missed so much had I continued to live my life in such a blinkered way with this constant nagging feeling that I was missing the point.
I like reading this account of your experience with Universal Medicine. It was great because you didn’t go desperately needing to be fixed or even looking for something in particular. But what you got was a re-awakening of how you can feel and live rather than just being ok – which most of us have settled for. ‘Ok’ seems to have become the new ‘healthy’ even though joy, vitality and a connection to something grander are missing from our lives
The more we love and care for ourselves the less abuse we tolerate and hence why the goalposts change in terms of what is acceptable and what is not as the yardstick is measured from love and not from what is not love.
Many live following a dream and once they get there they start living a life they had always dreamed of. We do not pay enough attention to really feel where the dream came from and why are we really wanting to go there. All we know is we want to get there and once that happens, all will be good. Yet, what if the reason why you pursue that dream does not come from your heart but from your hurts? What if you building a life just to buy further safety from your hurts, only help to confirm them deeply as the foundations of your movements?
I very much like what you are addressing here Eduardo, we are encouraged to follow our dreams and follow our dreams, but we never really question on what these dreams are built on.
Thank you for the reminder of the warm inner glow inside of me, waiting to be let out.When I read this “I felt my body let go more and more, and a deep sense of awareness of myself.” I realised it is in the surrender, the letting go, that we find ourselves (and our warm glow). It is not seeking something outside ourselves, but the surrender to ourselves.
“That’s what the workshops and presentations are about. Understanding for myself the things that foster that beauty in me – and understanding the things I choose that prevent me from having it all the time in everything I do.” – Serge Benhayon’s workshops are truly empowering in this way, supporting a deeper connection with your innermost and with your whole body that give us a marker for what really feels true to us in life.
I remember the time I listened to one of Serge Benhayon’s audios, the first thing was that they made sense, and then he shared some of his experiences and said to myself I’ve felt that too, I listened to more and more audios and I began to realise that what I had been looking for in life, I already had I just had to reconnect to the love that I am.
The Gentle Breath meditation is such a simple tool but a very profound one.
Simon I loved reading your blog, and I could relate to a lot of what you experienced, the Gentle Breath meditation has become one of the tools I use to reconnect back to myself, what I love most is that it takes only a few minutes and is very effective.
Since I began attending the wise and common sense filled presentations by Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine so much has changed in my life. As you say: “It’s like all the goalposts have moved – things naturally start to change”. And it is the naturalness of how everything changes that is the magic. There’s no need for trying but simply making a choice to connect to the beautiful being we innately are and then begin to live in a way that is self-loving, and honouring of all others as equals.
It’s amazing that when we start to observe the patterns and pick me ups that we use during the day our definition of what fit and healthy is can grow and change and if we are open to it, be redefined.
How awesome it is to be able to feel the quality in which we move our bodies and see just how amazing we are when we simply appreciate, pause and observe through the re-connection to the what is. Super cool thank you Simon.
It struck me as I read this blog that of course no-one who attends Universal Medicine presentations gets told what to do because what Universal Medicine presents is energetic responsibility and energetic integrity, that is that we need to be responsible for ourselves in every way, including energetic.
“Realising for yourself that there is this beautiful other layer. It’s just inside of you” – absolutely. No one gives it to us, or does it for us, it is already here and for us to reconnect with it at our own timing, and Serge Benhayon keeps sharing with us what it would be like when we did.
Universal Medicine, and its practitioners are game changers for sure. They are totally moving the goal posts around much of our current thinking about health, well-being, religion, science, truth, connection, meditation. It’s like they are blowing the lid off what we thought was the top of the ceiling and showing us the vastness of what else is possible past that point.
Wonderful blog Simon, yes , Serge Benhayon offers the way back home to our true selves – with no attachments!
I remember my first session with Serge Benhayon. When I left the building and entered the busy streets of London I felt so in the world but not of it in a way that felt very solid and very lovely from my inside out. This was very different from any drug induced experience I had had and also different from the highs and blissful feelings I have had with many Indian gurus and other International sages, teachers and healers. This feeling I know now to be a connection that I had been denying myself and/or ignoring.
Gorgeous blog of appreciation. No other course, I have ever attended has come close to what Universal Medicine presents, and like you have stated Simon, brings back that childlike quality we have with God and the world around us.
It’s so important to consider and to question what we have settled for. ‘Feeling a little flat’ is for many the accepted normal way of being, but what if that was the sign of alarm bells – that we are very far away from our most normal state? The Universal Medicine therapies introduce a marker in our bodies that remind us that feeling exquisite and surrendered from the inside out can be our normal – and that there is a way to live that can support bringing his most natural way of being back into our every day life.
It’s quite possible to be living in overwhelm, pain and overdoing it but not stop to admit it. What happens when we start to be honest is acknowledging how momentums rule our life, and it’s through addressing these perhaps that our energy levels and vitality will change.
harryjwhite I agree with you we all have momentums that can seem like a freight train out of control but once we start to deal with the core of these momentums that have been with us for life times, the feeling of overwhelm lessens and we feel we can actually feel that ability to deal with the emotions and not let them dictate to us.
“it also seemed to connect the dots of the bigger picture of what is going on in the world.” With all the chaos in the world it is beautiful to be reminded that underneath our outer facade all humanity shares an equal inner love and the free will to choose to be who they truly are.
What I used to consider was okay years ago I now see as absolute abuse. Our radar for abuse changes once we start to self-care and self-love.
Thank you Simon for walking us through your experience of coming across all that offered by Universal Medicine, Serge Benhayon. I love the way you write and I love reading how it was for others when they came across something so practical, so do-able and so real..
I remember my first session with an esoteric practitioner and the feeling of that warm inner glow 🙂
Rediscovering our delicateness and tenderness is something that is very precious and definitely needs to be appreciated and honoured.
Beautiful Simon. You are so right – everyone regardless of their circumstances, where they come from, what they look like, has that same exquisite warmth within them. Universal Medicine helps activate that inner warmth once again and boy, does life change as a result.
There is a warmth and loveliness within and that is reflected by a warmth and loveliness in the life that constellates around you.
Simon sharing your story/blog is great and shows what is possible when we start to take full responsibility for the way we live our lives. We do not have to settle for anything less than love and the moment we do we are essentially saying yes to the struggle and suffering. There is so much more to life and we are so much more love than we can ever imagine or think possible the key is to start living this love and letting it lead the way.
I love hearing about your journey Simon and I like many others and yourself have had incredible life changing experience since meeting Serge Benhayon and attending Universal Medicine course and workshops. We are given a true reflection of what is possible to live and we either go for it or not. I don’t look back one second as I know the changes that I have made in my life are the ones that have got me to a place where I love life and everything about it. I too have no words that express in full the enormous, ginormous and humungous appreciation and gratitude I have for Serge Benhayon.
This is so real and gorgeous Simon, something I’d love to put in front of many who are wondering, searching, because how you describe your rediscovery back to you is so accessible to relate to.
What a great story of transformation and the steps that you took to bring this about. Once we re-connect with the absolute beauty that is within us we cannot help but want more of it which is why it is so natural to want to practice the Gentle Breath Meditation because it supports that connection. We all have a longing to be more of ourselves and to live this, which is in itself a great motivator for true change.
Feeling the warmth of our love is magnificent, beginning to take the steps to live with it in all aspects of our life is confronting as we begin to see just how much of our life we have lived without love. In being prepared to accept this very real paradigm, the warmth of our love naturally begins to infiltrate every corner of our life.
I love the feeling and the barometer you had, the warm glow, ‘ what I can only describe as a warm glow that seemed to come from inside.’ Gorgeous.
Simon I love that you repeatedly use the words ‘yummy’ and ‘lovely’. Not only are they super-apt in terms of the activities they describe (for that is my experience of them too), they help break the mould in terms of a way society thinks a man ‘should’ express. More busting up of a consciousness that has long had a grip on us all – brilliant.
You make a very pertinent point Victoria Lister that there is a consciousness behind everything we do, say and how we behave towards ourselves and other people. This consciousness has been outed by Serge Benhayon, so that now we are all aware of it. It can no longer hide, it’s rule over us has been thoroughly exposed.
Superb and detailed account Simon, thank you so much. I love the way the more you attended sessions and presentations, the more you realised that how you’d been living and was not quite as fabulous as you’d perhaps thought. There was always more to get to and deeper to go… and thus is life lived in line with the Ageless Wisdom that Universal Medicine presents – a journey of endless evolution and expansion.
When you find person who can give you the path for you to walk to become the person you always secretly knew yourself to be, there can be nothing but immense appreciation felt. Every presentation, book or audio from Serge Benhayon is this.
How amazing that a different way of living is being presented to the world, a way that makes sense and is joyful.
I love this Simon. Your appreciation for Serge Benhayon and what he brings is so heartfelt and beautiful. I echo every word and feeling. Thank You.
Part of the reason students continue to attend Universal Medicine events is for the community – it is a space where people are truly with each other and supportive. Of course, the presentations are incredible and are never the same as the last as Serge continues to deepen his connection to the universe we then receive the communication of this commune.
Beautiful expression Simon of how natural and simple it is when we surrender to what we know is true. With surrender there is no push or drive, just acceptance and enjoyment that comes from a deeper connection of who we truly are.
This is spot on, I can relate to all that is offered here in this blog. I agree, even one workshop alone from Serge is enough to fill us with a lifetime of inspiration. I’m so glad to be a part of its vastness and to have attended so many courses, yet I need to just focus on the basics, letting myself out and letting people in, in order to deepen further.
This is such a beautiful and relatable sharing Simon. I can so relate to what you share and the absolute inspiration you receive from Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine.
I agree Vicky – the inspiration is constant and the more we understand and allow ourselves to feel and be aware of energy, the more we can feel the Serge Benhayon’s movements are for humanity and that is what allows him to access what he does. Like Simon said, Serge is not special, but boy oh boy is he inspirational! Where else can you go and be told that our movements are what aligns us to a particular energy and vibration? Forever empowered by this man and his organisation.
Absolutely, we are forever empowered by this man, Serge Benhayon.
Serge Benhayon makes a lot of sense to me too these days but when I first attended workshops it was his no fuss, matter of fact approach to healing the body which I had not come across before that drew me to wanting to know more. Serge supported me to let go of harmful energies held in my body and then I began very gently to understand the wisdom and how it applied to me and my livingness; a journey that continues to unfold to this day.
It is the fact of the ordinariness of Serge Benhayon, a way to be and live in this world that is rich and fulfilling, which defines his extraordinariness; and he shares it freely and without reservations, no matter what comes.
A very beautiful sharing Simon. The joy and the delicacy in which you write is testimony to the work presented by Serge Benhayon that a man can can express in such an open and loving way.
One of the beautiful things we learn through getting in contact with Universal Medicine is that the life of our dreams, or the dream of our life, was not truly it and that we have always another opportunity to give a go at it.
This is such a brilliant blog, great to read it again and feel the truth of what you are sharing.
Awesome to read this Simon, I love how you share the simplicity of what you felt from what Universal Medicine presents – that it’s just about connecting to a deeper layer that’s within us, nothing dramatic and not hard to do, but at the same time it slowly changes everything. Thank you.
A warm glow, I love how you refer to this how we can feel with ourselves, within our bodies.
“from one workshop I have been presented with enough simple, practical and wonderful information to continue on and change my life for the better in so many ways, without ever having to attend another Universal Medicine event again. ”
I feel the truth of this statement.
I’ll never forget the day I met Sara Williams for my first session. I had no idea what I was going in for, no biggie just a therapist my boyfriend had suggested. However, when I came out of that clinic, I felt like I had just made a life-changing decision, and boy oh boy I did.
A really gorgeous blog. Thank you for sharing Simon.
“And yet it seems to match the magic that I remember thinking as a child – that this is the way the world is REALLY meant to be.” Yes that is exactly what it feels like to me reconnecting with that deeper layers inside of me. Life is really as amazing as I felt it to be as a child. I just gave up on it because I saw everyone around me not experiencing life as amazing and felt so deeply sad about that. Now I deeply appreciate Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine for taking the first step and therefor reminding me of what I am and life is really like.
Awesome account of the changes that you have chosen through the inspiration of Universal Medicine. And the title says so much, I can completely relate to it, my idea of what feeling ‘ok’ has completely shifted, before it was about functioning, not true vitality, I generally live with this every day now and it feels amazing and is an amazing foundation to walk with. Universal Medicine Rocks!
It may be over 4 years since you wrote this Simon, but everything you have shared about your journey with Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine is just as relevant today as it was in 2012. And Serge is still making so much sense to me, and no doubt to you and many thousands of others all around this world, a world that is making so much more sense to me every day, thanks to this amazing man.
This is so true ‘from one workshop I have been presented with enough simple, practical and wonderful information to continue on and change my life for the better in so many ways, without ever having to attend another Universal Medicine event again.’ One workshop, one audio, one of the purple books, one page of the purple books!!!! You cannot not gain something from listening to or reading teachings on the Ageless Wisdom from Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine.
Thank you Simon, brilliant, you have come a long way and now have truly progressed in life were you found what is truly working for you and what equally serves others. I find it exquisite to see from this blog and having you seen perform on the stage of one of the Universal Medicine events – I can say that you completely changed, you are so open and this can be seen in your posture and the music you play. As many of the people around you would have felt, equally so. Thank you.
I remember my first Universal Medicine workshop which was Sacred Esoteric Healing Level 1 and how different it was to everything I had attended or experienced before. After spending decades looking for the truth I remember knowing I was finally hearing it within the first five minutes of hearing Serge Benhayon speak. When I experienced Sacred Esoteric Healing it was like nothing I had ever felt before either, it was pure, light and something extraordinary was happening in my body – the quality of energy was changing, as was how I felt. Things that were hurting and affecting me finally shifted and cleared, and my life actually began to change from the inside out. I cannot speak highly enough about everything that Universal Medicine offers.
How many people actually attain such a pinnacle of their ‘dream life’, and yet once there, cannot avoid the inner-knowing that it’s not, actually, ‘it’. For all the attainment, for all the perks of the lifestyle, there is a gnawing away deep within that there is more, that ‘we’ are actually more and that what the world has sold us as ‘truly living’ isn’t actually the case.
Thank goodness for Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine, for paving the way to the ‘more’ that rests equally within every one of us, and those who, like yourself Simon, have re-found the Will to say yes to all that we are, and shine their true light in this world.
There is such a homecoming in your words here Simon. Very, very beautiful to feel and read. To become a ‘student of oneself’ is everything, is it not? As it said over the Temple of Apollo at Delphi, “Know Thyself”.
For in true self-knowledge, our awareness and living is never about ‘us’ alone – we cannot but know our intrinsic connection to all, and The All.
Thank-you.
I love this. As you were sharing how your body felt I could feel mine letting go more and reconnecting to the warm glow within. With regards to Serge Benhayon ‘wow, he really makes a lot of sense, doesn’t he?”. Yep he sure does. Absolute sense and many times I have asked myself gosh why haven’t I asked myself that question or seen things like that? As what Serge shares seems sooooo obvious yet are questions we do not readily ask ourselves or discuss with each other. It is about the micro and macro how we are with ourselves within our lives and how this affects to the bigger picture. And this is also true ‘There is a far deeper level we can communicate with and far more love we can feel and allow in our bodies.’ The beautiful thing is there is no plateau with this we can always express and love more. It is also true that it is absolutely not about how many workshops or presentations you do with Universal Medicine, there is no dangling carrot to say you have to do this next, or if you do this course you will get this. In fact if you heard one audio, read one page of the purple books, did one course and then took these teachings into your life and lived them from their truth everything would change. It is not about how much we do it is about how we do it … i.e. live.
I know I have gotten caught up in the ‘I am ok’, but then goal posts move. Then more importantly, never really appreciating what I have felt or a shift in me that has been supportive, I have always just gone onto the next thing – where do I need to be or what else can I be ‘doing’. But more recently, I have been appreciating what is felt within, where I have come from, surrendering to that and not berating myself for not being somewhere else. This feels much more loving.
Despite our limited views, restricting ideals and beliefs, unresolved emotional issues can we all recognise when something or someone “makes a lot of sense”, the question simply is whether we open up to it and make it a realisation so that it becomes part of us or our own knowing and living. This can take time as the emotional and mental restrictions may be resistant to the change and responsibility that come with new insights and understandings; the acceptance of a realisation goes hand in hand with letting go of what keeps us from having the realisation.
The goalposts of what feels okay are changing with every step closer to oneself, the love and honesty, care and harmony available when chosen and put to practice, ie living the lovely yummy quality, deepening and expanding it gradually. We don´t really know what is possible before we experience it when it comes to love and just the same we don´t really know the level of lovelessness before we have evolved from it. The ultimate ‘goalpost’ is universal, eternal, forever evolving and hence not imaginable.
I love how when we are more loving with ourselves naturally things come up to show us ways we can be even more loving with ourselves. Love is way too much to be confined to one area of our life it has to encompass all areas and the beauty is the more it does this the more it enriches the areas we thought we were already being love in. It is an eternal deepening and for me proves we are far more than purely the physical body.
The tenderness in your writing Simon shows the tenderness that you now live with. You are living proof that the work of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine works.
I really enjoyed reading your journey to be the man you are today. I find it gorgeous that not only do you now feel and recognize the beauty within yourself but are able to recognize it in everyone else… altering forever how you view the world and everyone in it and therefore how you move through life.
I totally get what you mean Simon when you say that the goalposts for “I’m feeling ok” moved – it’s like being offered a marker of what is really possible to tangibly feel in our body and appreciating that it’s possible to develop this in daily life, not just for ourselves but to also develop the way we are with others too.
It’s amazing how often we can fool ourselves that our issues we consider happen ‘every now and then’’ is actually ‘there most of the time’ but we get so caught up with everything else in life that is bombarding us we just don’t pay attention to this fact.
This is a delicate and lovely piece of writing, just like you Simon. I found myself being warmed through and through as I read your words. Words which echo my own experiences of meeting Serge Benhayon and serve as an appreciative reminder. Though I don’t live in Australia and do not often get to courses, I have chosen The Way of The Livingness as my way, becoming a student of myself and of life which brings with it an ever deepening richness, every day. Thank you Serge.
This is an enlightening life story. Thank you Simon for the depth and detail you have shared here. I too choose to become a student of myself.
Thank you Simon – what you have learned, we learn from All. This is the blessing of living in cycles (round) they never ever give up giving, and so we are learning and making each cycle to complete our learning once again – and move our Way forward. Thank you Universal Medicine, Thank you Serge.
What I love Simon is how there is always more, deeper we can go, more vital we can feel. Yet for many in the world the opposite is happening. I am truly blessed to be a Student of The Way of The Livingness as what is presented by Universal Medicine, whilst being complete common sense, is trend setting and life changing.
Such a great blog Simon, really claiming all of who you are, where you have come from and what you now choose to live, not from someone telling you, but from your own impulses and love for yourself. There is so much to be thankful and grateful for in relation to Universal Medicine, totally agree.
So much humility and gorgeousness in what’s been expressed here — thank you Simon.
“One of the things I like most about Serge Benhayon is that he is NOT special. He is just a man… a human being. He is just like every single one of us …” Yes he absolutely is and from what I have seen and felt in him is he treasures every cell in his body and every moment that he walks on this earth living with heaps and heaps of responsibility and integrity. A reflection that some find challenging and others love and are constantly inspired by. Fortunately more and more other people are learning to live in this way too as Serge Benhayon offers and reflects a practical and simple way to live.
So often when we ask people how they are they say “ok”. But your blog asks us to go a bit deeper with what exactly do we mean by “ok”. Most of the time “ok” means we are barely surviving our way through life. This is not okay when our definition of wellbeing is simply “ok”.
Well said Simon. What is great to read is how you have made love and being in your power your new normal, your actual way of being rather than any ideal or far flung idea. So often we associate power with crushing another but as you have shown true power is in equality, it is in living and moving in and with the love that we are.
This is a truly inspiring story Simon, thank you for sharing it. I love the way you sign off here “From the depths of who I truly am.” and yes it is ever deepening.
The goal posts sure have moved for me and continue to move – what I have learnt is that the more I deepen my love the deeper I feel the love to be. It is like an unending well of love that is way too much for the mind to entertain let alone fathom. What I used to think of as normal and something you just do I now consider completely disregarding to the body. And yet I know are many things I do that someone further along their path of return would consider abusive, as I know I will feel and know as well. It is not a judgment just a natural unfolding – my part in it is how quickly I choose to return and/or how much I choose to delay my inevitable return by making unloving choices.
Everytime I allow myself to feel that warmth and inner beauty within me it is like everything in my life has a new marker of quality that is acceptable and what is not. It’s like once I feel how beautiful and gentle I can be with my body the bodies tollerance for anything less gets shorter and shorter.
Wonderful Simon! What a wonderful journey it is . . .simply returning to the natural beauty of being ourselves.
Simon with your simple words you let me feel your amazing experiences with Serge Benhayon and I only can agree as I too had similar experiences with him.
Wow what a change around, thank you Simon. Great to hear you come back to the beautiful tender man you are today. I have seen so many truly amazing changes in people who have attended Universal Medicine presentations – so many miracles – the simple yet profound miracle of reconnecting to who we truly are.
This post was written 4 years ago Simon and is still relevant today as ‘The goals posts’ of what it means to feel OK just keep on shifting the more responsible we become to deeply connecting to our self and others
Learning to breathe through the tip of the nose has been an instrumental part of learning to live connected to myself (rather than at the mercy of life). The simple technique introduced through the Gentle Breath Meditation has without doubt transformed my life for the better.
Simon thank you for sharing your story, you are a living testament of someone who has chosen to let go of layers of “stuff” heal and embrace the true beauty and tenderness of a man and true role model and an inspiration to live in a way that honours our bodies as presented by Universal Medicine.
I remember being desperate to get back to the stillness I knew I had inside and nothing working longer than a few hours after I tried it, so by the time I came across Universal Medicine I was no longer hopeful. I had accepted that this was the way life was. I recognised the lost feeling straight away in a healing session by a Universal Medicine student. Once I had found the way back to me there was no turning away then.
Since coming across Universal Medicine I can also say that my goalposts have moved, ‘OK’ today is nothing like ‘OK’ five years ago and no doubt todays ‘OK’ will be outdated five years from now. It just goes to show that while I have accepted a lesser quality of living and deemed it ‘OK’ that doesn’t mean that it’s fixed. By being willing to have a marker of what is truly ‘OK’ for my body all these lesser qualities need not keep hanging around and will pass. Thank you Simon.
Esoteric Healing is an amazing modality – super simple, straight forward and very profound.
$120 for a day’s workshop that could entirely change your life, well-being, relationships….how can that be too expensive? It amazes me how we value stuff and what we consider it OK to spend money on and what we don’t. People baulk at the cost of some food stuffs – using that as an excuse to feed themselves garbage – yet may easily spend $100 on a pair of trainers or a new phone. People baulk whenever I tell them I have health checks every two years that cost $500 – yet what do we spend on alcohol over two years? The examples go on and on. When you look at it through these kinds of prisms it is startling to see how far from our truth we are. Which only goes to make the $120 for a workshop with Universal Medicine seem like even more of a bargain!
Thank you Simon, this is a beautiful testimonial of what Universal Medicine is about. It is simple and it is for everyone and the way life is presented makes absolute sense.
What we are taught about the ‘goal’ of health largely is around the prevention fo illness and disease. “Don’t eat this to stop that from happening’. But I love what you have shared Simon, that there is a much bigger picture to the world of vitality and the world of essence, soul and what it means to truly live you.
The expression “the goalposts have moved” is so perfect. It’s impossible to equate my life before I came across Universal Medicine with my life as it is now. An expression that I often use is “not even the same ball park”. It’s important to consider this, because the gargantuan changes are sometimes hard to appreciate in full unless you step right back and see the whole picture. Serge Benhayon, the wisdom he expresses and the love and equality with which he holds me and every other person he meets has literally changed my whole world.
So true Simon, Serge Benhayon is able “to connect the dots of the bigger picture of what is going on in the world” and it all makes sense. He makes it clear that the energy we choose to live with effects us, everyone around us and even the planet we all live on. Thus we all have a responsibility to move the goalposts of what and how we feel to a deeper level of love and connection to the All.
Beautiful blog Simon, it is so true, the teachings of Universal Medicine show us that we have a deeper layer to connect to and live from. It is beautiful to explore this and see that everyday teaches us something different. Its a continuous development, moving the goalposts again and again.
Thanks Simon. I too, felt the truth of Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon washing over me as I followed my inner knowing that there was something very true about what was being said. Over time I choose to practice some of the techniques like the Gentle Breath Meditation and my life started to changed – the stillness the Gentle Breath Meditation allowed me to connect to within me is awesome. Finding Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine has been the most honest, loving, and nurturing choice I have ever made and it continues to be my foundation today.
This is a very beautiful testimonial Simon and I share your appreciation of Serge Benhayon, and those fantastic audio’s, presenting commonsense in a world that seems to be losing it. We are lucky enough to have webcast broadcasts of these as we cannot attend in person. There are always many, many Aha moments as we realise that we also know what he knows, we just hadnt been aware or choosing it.
Life starts to change when we choose to become a student of ourselves. There is no greater gift you can give yourself than to understand yourself better so that each one of your choices thereafter is made from a deeper knowing about what truly makes you tick.
This is true. I had been a student of myself for a long time before I met Serge Benhayon yet it was not until then that things began to get clear in a way that they never had before and that I was able to truly see what was going on and connect to my essence and feel what it was/is to live in and from it in the world.
Everytime I hear Serge Benhayon present I am humbled by how globally he makes the issues we are all facing today. And, after many years, it is finally starting to sink in that my actions have an affect on everyone.
“That is what Universal Medicine is about. Realising for yourself that there is this beautiful other layer. It’s just inside of you. It’s natural. It’s yummy, and everyone has it. It doesn’t matter who you are, what you do, where you live or how much money you have… it’s the same for EVERYONE” I love the fact that indeed we all do have this beauty sitting inside of us, waiting for us to wake up to this. And that we are all equal in this. One day, when everyone knows this to be true, the world will feel very different – true brotherhood will reign.
You have described your journey so well Simon. I know that I felt this amazing depth and beauty, stillness and love way before I met Serge Benhayon. It was something within me that I connected to first, that did indeed change the way that OK felt. This is the most profound experience, to realise and feel the depth, the possibilities to go deeper and that this is the one truth for all equally.
It is pretty shocking to stop and look at our own lives and all we have accepted as okay, that is NOT okay. At the same time, is it not one of the greatest gifts to be awoken from a slumber of ‘not okay’, to see what we have been choosing and that it need not continue that way?
This sentence goes to the practical heart of Universal Medicine teachings ‘Understanding for myself the things that foster that beauty in me – and understanding the things I choose that prevent me from having it all the time in everything I do.’ Everything in life can be understood from this perspective and day by day there is the opportunity to reflect in this way, noticing what choices to make again and when the choices can also be different.
I agree Deanne, what is beautiful to feel is that we all have the choice to change or make a new choice in any given moment. The opportunity for learning is there always.
I love what you are saying here Simon about Serge Benhayon –”One of the things I like most about Serge Benhayon is that he is NOT special. He is just a man… a human being. He is just like every single one of us – he walks, he talks, he sleeps, he eats, he works, he has a family; I’m pretty sure he even goes to the toilet. (Actually, I know he does, he talked about it in a presentation once.) But he is a man, a human being, who has felt that connection to the warm glow inside of himself, recognized that it is something real, profound and beautiful, and perhaps against what anyone else has thought or said, followed it all the way and applied it to all those areas of his life. To every area of his life. And he simply presents what he has found for himself in doing that. And there is a wonderful tangible difference that I have felt for myself, as well as seen in him (and many others), that serves as an example”. You are so correct in saying that Serge Benhayon is not special. Calling people special is just a way of shirking our own responsibility. What Serge shows us is that anyone can have the level of awareness and ability to express love as he has. It is just a matter of what choices we make. This is what is so great to know, that we can change our choices and begin to live more of our true nature.
Well called Elizabeth. If we want our lives to be different then perhaps we need to choose differently. It is as simple as it sounds and what great medicine a commitment to responsibility must be to counter the mastered art of always having an excuse to justify irresponsibility (the excuses I keep up my sleeve and ready to pull out at any moment).
I am enamoured with this blog Simon for the way you introduce the fresh reader to Universal Medicine, Sacred Esoteric Healing and Heart Chakra One, and for the reminder you offer Universal Medicine students of how simple and important the basics are – connect with ourselves and hold this loving space within for ourselves and others wherever we go and in whatever we do or say.
Like you Simon, it was no big deal to try a healing session and how I felt afterwards was so different to anything I had ever tried before. There was a deep settled feeling and a remembering that this feeling is who I really am. The detailed description Simon of your first session is gorgeous and makes me appreciate that Serge Benhayon has shared this way of healing with others so that even more people can experience the deep warmth of their own body healing from within.
I thought that my life was fine before Universal Medicine came along, although if I’m honest I was overweight ,drank too much, smoked cigarettes and took drugs; all things that if you really look at are very unnecessary if your life is truly fine.
Serge is definitely the ‘guy who just makes sense’, there is little more to say, other than to appreciate just how someone can literally talk on any subject and not only make sense but bring it back to a concept that is insight and practical….this is a wonderful capability to have.
Before Serge I had never heard someone present and not hold back or play it nice so that people liked them… that is what I have loved and been inspired by, is how Serge makes nothing he shares about him but what is needed in that moment for everyone.
Thank you Simon for expressing what I feel too that “Universal Medicine have simply presented for me the wonderful gift of what is possible if I truly choose”.
Simon, it is touching and inspiring to read this beauty- and powerful love-letter to yourself, to Serge Benhayon, and everyone. Very down-to-earth language that is transporting heaven. Thank you for sharing your story and sharing your loving energy – clearly and beautifully palpable through everything you have written here.
This is such a delightful blog to read Simon and an awesome testimonial to Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine for presenting that we have a choice in every moment to choose the real us – not having to look outside of ourselves, knowing that we are enough indeed already – thank you for this awesome sharing.
You should do a follow up of this Simon because there is a lot to share about your life now, how 3 years on and its just getting grander.
What I can feel throughout the sharing is how all of what you have come to in yourself has been in your own time with no expectations of change coming from you or the outside and how the Universal Medicine presentations are never about getting anywhere but simply an ongoing folding and evolving process which leads to “the level of understanding I have of myself and who I am in the world, my desire to be fully present and active in it, as well as my connection to and involvement with all others around me, grows more and more each day.” Thank you Simon.
I can relate so well, Simon, to the awareness that the way you had been feeling and believing was ‘pretty good’ was not in fact the truth after having an Esoteric Healing Session. I, too, used to believe I was doing well but was in fact in real denial how I really was until I had Esoteric Healing.
I also thought I was feeling pretty good health wise until I started having Esoteric Healing sessions and realised just how exhausted I really was and the path of self destruction I was on.
Such a great sharing Simon and I so agree, as this has been my experience also with Universal Medicine, that no one has ever told me what to do, when to come to a presentation, when not to, never! I have always made choices about what I have felt has been right for me, no one else. It is perhaps something others find a little hard to comprehend, that normal people can be inspired by another and make enriching, health and wellbeing changes for their lives. Crazy concept I know, who would have thought it could illicit such an outcry.
What a beautiful blog Simon, you touched my heart by your tender expression.. It is so beautiful in the details you share about how you came to Universal Medicine and what it brought to you. It is incredible where you have stood and stand now. It is very inspirational in how you express about your change (and continued choices now). It is beautiful very beautiful to feel the raw & realness of what you have experienced by being connected to you. I trust this development only gets better everyday! I can imagine that this one course would never ever be replaced by something else. It is from absolute value. I have felt it too! And so am I my own student now too.
Great blog Simon, I can relate as well to your experience with Universal Medicine, we do connect with each other and with ourselves to a much deeper level, somewhere in us we have already been before, something quite familiar and it feels really gorgeous.
Thanks Simon for sharing with us your personal development. It is such a joy to read how you turned your life around by taking responsibility of your choices and making more loving choices. I’m also very grateful to Unimed and Serge Benhayon – no words can capture this.
Its also an appreciation beyond words for me Alexander what has been experienced through Unimed and Serge Benhayon.
Feeling Ok feels terrible now… Yuck! I see and feel many people in the illusion that Ok is as good as it gets and the choices that keep them there, I can only see this because I was in the stuck place myself but now experience ” the goal posts being moved things naturally start to change ” as you say Simon.
Great post Simon!! I can absolutely relate to the goal posts for ‘I feel ok’ moving. It is amazing what happened when I gave myself permission to really feel what was going on for me. My level of exhaustion was through the roof for years. I had no idea how much I was ignoring myself until I was presented with the possibility of looking after myself differently. And not only the exhaustion, the body aches and pains started to scream louder and louder. What’s awesome is that I’m so much better at listening to my body when it is trying to cmmunicate with me, in fact it’s almost unavoidable now because my sensitivty and awareness has increased so much that although I still have the choice to ignore it, it feels so awful to.
This is gorgeous Simon. I find it so joyful to read. “Understanding for myself the things that foster that beauty in me – and understanding the things I choose that prevent me from having it all the time in everything I do” – such a clear and direct declaration of the fundamentals of the teachings of the Ageless Wisdom presented by Serge Benhayon.
I agree, this is gorgeous to read and feel how supportive Universal Medicine has been for you in the transformation you seem to have already commenced..
I can understand the concept of ‘feeling ok’ and thinking that this is life, my lot in life, to just ‘feel ok’. It is something I’ve run with and can feel it in others too, that life is good if we ‘feel ok’. It is through the amazing support of Universal Medicine practitioners and esoteric healing that I have been able to deepen my relationship with myself, to bring awareness to what ‘feels ok’ and what does not. That life does not just have to be and feel mediocre, but there can be a joy within that we can connect to and an openness to share that with all we come into contact with. Now that feels ok!
It is amazing to see what we had come to accept life to be and then to have one man present how it can actually be and the love that can be there each day and a feeling of wellness, vitality and joy. Without this reflection many would still be just getting by instead of enjoying life and having purpose.
I agree Kristy! What a reflection Serge and anyone associated with Universal Medicine offers…another way, a simpler, less dramatic and far more enjoyable way to live.
Yes looking back to how my life used to be before Universal Medicine I can say it has been an incredibly healthy change the whole way.
Having found a way of living that serves what you always dreamed of, is not easy to change. I can feel your power, Simon, you have been open for yet another change in your life when you were introduced to Serge Benhayon and I know that this openness is still there today, ever growing. The openness to live more truth every day.
This a beautiful piece of writing. As you were describing your first treatment I could feel my body started to let go of all of its tension. It’s very revealing when we truly start to look at what we see as being okay, and see where our choices have led us.
Simon this a truly beautiful account of your journey and constant unfolding. Your writing brings a truth and honesty which is deeply felt. Even when we feel that we are doing ok and that there is nothing major that needs sorting there is always another level of deepening awareness that you so perfectly shared.
Inspirational to read.
Thank you SImon. That was one of the most beautiful blogs I have ever read and everything you have written expresses beautifully the before and after of listening to one, any or all of Serge Benhayon’s presentations. The truth really is simple, so life changing and easily heard if one is open and willing to assess the many facets of our lives.
Simon such a wonderful reading of your path back to the glory of you. Satisfaction with okay is how the majority live and yet when we drop a little deeper we can see the walls fall down on the okay house and all else starts to get revealed. Insightful and beautiful sharing.
Gorgeous Simon! Thank you for sharing your story and how you came to find Universal Medicine.
Simon your way of expressing yourself is truly lovely. I agree about the depth of connection with others at workshops, and how universal it feels, it’s the same with anyone regardless of gender and age etc. The connection I’ve made with that deeper place within myself, thanks to Universal Medicine workshops (and clinic), is now carried to everyone I meet. There is such a joy in simply being with people.
Thank you for sharing the details of your story Simon and you sum up the gift you have been given of returning to yourself so well and that ‘Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine have simply presented for me the wonderful gift of what is possible if I truly choose, like Serge has done, to become a student of myself.’ No rules or coercion just a simple choice to listen to your body. Awesome.
Thank you for sharing your experience so fully Simon, it is great to read how simple and profound your journey with yourself, inspired by Universal Medicine, has been.
The love and tenderness that is within us all, can so be felt in what you share.
The goal posts have certainly changed and what I am finding now is this is because the game is actually changing. What Serge Benhayon presents is that life as it is currently being lived may not be ‘it’ based on the outcomes we have all around us, he simply points out the obvious for everyone to consider and feel for themselves. Rather than focusing on the ‘what can we do and put out’ what is presented is: ‘what are we left with/what do we start with that will then be our base of what we do’.
I felt it was an honour to share in our experience of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine. What a beautiful unfolding experience, getting to know yourself and the ‘inner glow’ once again. I really enjoyed reading your experience of your first Esoteric Sacred Healing session, reconnecting to your organs, different areas in your body and of course your ‘inner glow’ this is something I have felt when I have had sessions. They have been deeply supportive.
Just like you Simon, through attending Serge Benhayon’s and Universal Medicine presentations, I too have had the goal posts of what it means to me to ‘feel OK’ change. In truth this change is constantly growing and expanding the more I commit to taking care of and appreciating me. Its pretty awesome really. Great blog.
What a gorgeous testimony to the simplicity and naturalness that Serge Benhayon’s presentations and the Esoteric Healing modalities. We get so caught in thinking we are ok, that it is not until we feel something deeper and warmer that we know that ‘ok’ is a million miles from who we really are.
Ah Simon, you are so gorgeous. I really appreciate getting the opportunity to read your blog and beautiful sharing of what you have found to be true.
Thank you for sharing Simon, I have seen these changes in you, in me and in many others. Simple common sense choices that have significantly changed our lives to be more purposeful, committed and loving thanks to the presentations from Serge Benhayon.
The tangible difference you speak of Simon is within our reach if we so choose. It is beautiful to read how you reached this level of love and steadiness in your life.
Thank you Simon for sharing your experience, such a beautiful read. We all have this love inside just waiting to be felt and recognised.
I have found that too simon.. The more I pay attention to me the more my feeling of okay has shifted.. Something that would have been okay a year ago would feel totally not okay now.. Interesting huh.
I’m alright mate. How are you mate. Wise words Tony. Awareness and honesty, two tools for my tool belt.
A great blog Simon, thank you for your interesting story and thanks for the introduction you gave me when I first met you at a men’s group and the inspiration you gave me to become a Student of the Livingness.
Loving sharing from a beautiful man, thank you Simon.
“It doesn’t matter who you are, what you do, where you live or how much money you have… it’s the same for EVERYONE” – that warm feeling inside is the ultimate leveller – we all have it.. the divinity within, we just need to choose it.
How lost can one be in life and think that one is reaching the sky with the fingertips! How easy is it to let ourselves go based on where we want to be. The thing is there is always a deeper version of us waiting. Many times, it keeps waiting and we never show up at the date. How beautiful it is to show up and go from there.
Thank you Simon – to experience life in the magic way that a child does and to feel your own tenderness and the beauty of those around you…awesome.
When I first heard Serge Benhayon I too was struck by how much he made sense. It was a relief actually to come across someone who spoke about things that I was baffled about my whole life in such a no nonsense way.
A beautiful blog Simon. Once we start reconnecting to the ‘yumminess’ inside we can’t settle for anything less.
I can relate to your blog here Simon. When I first came across Serge Benhayon I thought I was ‘doing ok’ too, without any major health issues or dramas in my life, but once I connected to that inner warm glowing essence that you describe my perspective changed and I realised that actually ‘ok’ was not feeling so great anymore. And once I felt the amazingness I could possibly feel every day there was no going back to just accepting ok anymore.
As Andrew and Simon have written, once you feel the difference between how I am living, and what my natural state of being is, it becomes a great catalyst for change.
Thanks Simon for sharing your story, it’s so beautiful the way you have described the ‘inner glow’. I know the feeling of the goal posts moving – when you know just how amazing you can feel, nothing else will do anymore! The changes from then may seem difficult to make at times, but are actually very simple – and so very very rewarding.
Great read Simon. Especially your experience of things just changing in a really simple and natural way just because you started to re-connect to something deeper inside of you. I can certainly relate to this.
Thank you for sharing your story of your reconnection with the truth inside you Simon Asquith and thank you for how you give expression of your appreciation to what Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine have brought you. I can feel that you do not only appreciate Serge and Universal Medicine for what they have brought to you, but more so for the immense gift they are for humanity.
I loved what you wrote about Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine having simply presented to you the wonderful gift of what is possible if you really choose to become a student of yourself and all that that has brought you since. Learning to nurture that connection and to live and express our essence is a blessing beyond description. Thank you for sharing this, it was just gorgeous to read.
Such a powerful testament to choosing to live you Simon, inspired by the amazingly simple, loving and practical presentations of Serge Benhayon and Universal medicine. Definitely a game changer! Time to live from truth.
This is very beautiful Simon, thank you. What Serge Benhayon presents makes so much sense and through the healing sessions and workshops, my “normal” has also completely changed.
By the way, if you stopped coming to the courses and workshops, we will all terribly miss you!
I can really relate to the experience of, the more we connect to that warmth within us, everything that we have allowed to be in our lives that isn’t supportive or from that warmth gets exposed naturally. Thank you Simon for the reminder that it isn’t something to baulk at and try to run away from but to keep going back to our inner goal post, underneath all the nonsense. Just as Serge consistently presents and inspires others to do the same in such a common sensical, normal, simple way.
Beautiful words expressed so simply and so honestly. Thank for sharing the truth and fullness of what Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine have given you.
Simon, I love how you express how you feel in your life now …..
‘the level of understanding I have of myself and who I am in the world, my desire to be fully present and active in it, as well as my connection to and involvement with all others around me, grows more and more each day’ that is very beautiful.
What an enormous shift from feeling ‘ok’, when in actual fact ‘ok’ wasn’t ok at all.
Very inspiring. You, as for so many of us, have experienced how much fuller your life can be and you in it and we all benefit from that, win, win win.
It’s very obvious Serge Benhayon has had a very positive effect on your life Simon, and even though my situation and circumstance are different to yours, Serge has also been responsible for helping me change my life around.
You have expressed this beautifully Simon. It is amazing how you had accepted that how you were living was “OK” when in fact it was far from being the whole-ness and truth that naturally comes from within us
Agree Joshua, it seems we should be constantly asking the goal posts to be moved. This is evolution is it not?
Absolutely, life is always about evolution
Agree and evolution is about being truth and love. haha as corny as that may seem
Thank you Simon for this beautiful blog. I can also say that Serge Benhayon helped connect me back to the magic I felt as a child and the simplicity of life that got lost in later years. I wouldn’t want to miss this feeling anymore in my life!
And it is true that the marker of “I feel OK” has changed. In fact by attending Universal Medicine presentations this marker keeps changing, introducing a more amazing and deeper quality each time.
Simon, I love the way you have described your life up until now. I remember feeling ‘ok’ and that there was nothing wrong with me when I went to my first Universal Medicine presentation/ workshop but that was before, as you so rightly put it, I had felt that warm glow inside of me. When I started to feel this lovely warm depth within myself, I knew this was the real me, and the “I’m ok” was the ‘getting by’ in life, and coping as best I could, skimming over the real me and my true feelings.
It is so true – the more we learn to understand and live using our own body as the ‘goalpost’, the more we can feel the love expand within and flow naturally out of us. I also am very grateful to Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon for bringing to my attention the differences between a life half lived and a life lived more fully.
With the teaching presented by Serge Benhayon, what is ‘normal’ for me keeps getting upgraded. For example, I had no idea that I was reacting to gluten and dairy, because I didn’t even see the blocked sinus and bloating and the feeling of heaviness as what they were, it was all ‘normal’ for me and I didn’t know otherwise. And I keep discovering there are even more lovelier ways of being that could become my ‘normal’.
The media have tried to portray Universal Medicine as an organisation that controls the diets of those who refer to themselves as its students. Of course, this could not be further from the truth, and your blog Simon is a shining example of how it is and how it has been for so many people. And so, it poses the obvious question, why are so many people inspired to make healthier choices for themselves after having been introduced to Universal Medicine, when the rest of the world struggles to make such choices so consistently and with such ease? And the simple answer is that the modalities offered by Universal Medicine provide the opportunity for us to connect to such a deep place within ourselves, that when we do connect, we realise that our connection to ourselves is worth fostering more than anything a chocolate cookie, or glass of wine, or Armani suit can ever offer us.
As you say Adam, there is nothing that can substitute for that feeling we get when we connect to that deep place within ourselves.
Thank you Simon for this very inspiring blog. There are many aspects to ponder on. I will definitely get back to this blog.
I also have this kind of memory, Simon! A moment in my childhood, when I felt and knew: This is how the world is meant to be. Just that I had connected this memory to the places I had visited back then. One of those moments was in South France, the other moment in Iceland. And throughout my life I kept visiting these places to re-connect, it was like my elixir. Since I met Serge Benhayon, I don’t need to travel anymore. (great money-saving side-effect!) I know how to connect to myself and to others and live that feeling each and every day. It’s what can be called ‘the Livingness’.
I love your summary Simon: “That is what Universal Medicine is about. Realising for yourself that there is this beautiful other layer. It’s just inside of you. It’s natural. It’s yummy, and everyone has it.” So simple and true. Some of the most profoundly life-changing experiences I’ve had have been during that Heart Chakra 1. And I mean, like you, change that stuckness not just a quick flash in the pan. A real change of the goalposts, and it doesn’t end – there is always an even yummier feeling as each new awareness is claimed and consolidated within.
Hi Dianne, I just wanted to say hello, since it has been many times now, that your comments are the last I read before I post mine. So lovely to meet you here and that we are all blessed by your splendid full expression.
Yes Dianne I too love Simon’s summary of what Universal Medicine is about and the profound impact of the goalposts moving to ever deeper awarenesses within.
Such a detailed description of finding another way, beautiful Simon. My first session was a different experience, I didn’t get involved with Universal Medicine from it, I got involved after feeling how different a friend was after a retreat, but the appreciation for what I have gained from the last 6 or so years is the same, many thanks to Serge Benhayon.
Absolutely gorgeous what you share here Simon. I love how you describe the connection with ourselves as the “warm glow” – so simple and we can all do it. I too when I first heard Serge on audio I felt that “he just makes sense” in which I listened to more and more audio’s as it just kept making sense. Years later, Serge is still making sense to me and when I share with others how I am making better choices in my life, it makes sense to them. Simple, we connect with our “warm glow” and when in connection with it, life makes sense.
Simon I love your analogy of the goal posts, and how they are forever shifting; I also can relate to thinking I was basically OK when I first had a treatment with Serge Benhayon – looking back I can see how I was so not OK in any way, I was just not seriously ill and requiring medical treatment.
It is so lovely to hear a man speak with such depth to himself. What you have said is very beautiful and so true – Serge Benhayons presentations have connected to so many in a similar way to you, I feel very appreciative of his dedication to us all.
You are a beautiful man Simon, so obvious in your writing. What I love is that you were feeling pretty much OK, fine, all of the good things we aspire to…you had kicked the habits, had your act together, and then you felt something completely else in that session.
There is so much more to us than ‘OK’, and ‘fine’. Having felt it, not only do the goalposts shift, they enter an entirely new dimension. We discover they are deep inside, simply awaiting for us to look inside, say hello and reunite with them. They were never “out there” to be chased after all.
Thank you Simon.
It is a great example – nothing in particular wrong, but then not quite right either.. until in the first massage you get to feel something that brings you back to a totally different place that we all remember.
You open a whole other discussion about goal posts Rachel – the ones we invent outside of ourselves and then hold off our deeper satisfaction and happiness for until we ‘get there’. The insidious and elusive ‘I’ll be happy when…….’, all the while never reaching the goal posts as we always move them before we get ‘there’.
you’re right Simon, words cannot quite describe what it is like on first meeting Serge, it’s like the words are not enough to describe this warm glow inside. I remember feeling closer to myself than ever before, with a depth that felt so natural and familiar. This is what I reconnect to and to know I have this in my life is very precious to me.
Thank you Simon Asquith for sharing your story and like you when I came across Serge Benhayon the dots seemed to join and I could, for the first time, see and feel the big picture.
Serge Benhayon makes sense and is just an ordinary man in an extra-ordinary way. If I never attended another workshop or presentation, I can honestly say I have enough tools to keep me going for the rest of this life and more..
What is presented is what we can all know deep down inside us and that is why it can be easy to understand and then make choices to change when we are ready.
Thank you for sharing Simon – beautifully expressed.
My whole body smiled and melted as I read of your beautiful reawakening, Simon. So lovely and tender, it confirms why I, too, keep returning to Universal Medicine presentations, workshops and events….Serge Benhayon just makes sense of this world that has gone (more than) ‘a bit crazy’. As you say, you learnt enough from just one of those events to stay with you and make significant differences to your life. Once I felt that incredible feeling in my body in a session with a practitioner, just as you described, I soon realised too that the goalposts had shifted and what I had previously felt as a pretty healthy lifestyle, was actually not that – just a best managed one.
I live now with so much greater awareness of what my body is actually feeling from moment to moment, still learning to listen to it and not override it, yet feeling much more full of me as a result. Thank you for writing of your initial experiences Simon, as it itself is like the same spark that is within everybody.
Gosh, that is a beautiful piece of writing…there is so much tenderness, wonderment and enjoyment in there – it literally speaks to the soul. Thank you, Simon.
This is a beautiful blog Simon and I couldn’t stop reading if I tried. I wanted to know where the journey led you and clearly it has brought you to ‘Realising for yourself that there is this beautiful other layer. It’s just inside of you. It’s natural. It’s yummy, and everyone has it. It doesn’t matter who you are, what you do, where you live or how much money you have… it’s the same for EVERYONE.’ Incredible but true it is the same for us all if we choose to connect to ourselves.
Agreed Judy – when I was reading Simon’s blog, I just wanted to keep going! It was awesome to see the difference between what he felt was a ‘good’ lifestyle (living the dream in fact), to living what was true for him – the ‘warm glow’. I can totally relate to the feeling he described, and am feeling it more and more through my days as a result of implementing things that support me: I would not have been inspired to do so if it had not been for Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon
Thanks Simon for this beautiful description of what Universal Medicine presentations are about.
Simon, thanks, it was awesome to read your discovery “That is what Universal Medicine is about. Realising for yourself that there is this beautiful other layer. It’s just inside of you. It’s natural. It’s yummy, and everyone has it. It doesn’t matter who you are, what you do, where you live or how much money you have… it’s the same for EVERYONE”. It is so deeply precious and amazing, like children’s laughter – I happen to be surrounded by that right now (lucky me) – it’s just getting back to what we left. I too find there are no words to tell how appreciative I am to have come across the wisdom that Serge Benhayon shares so openly.
This is truly precious to re-read, thank you Simon!
Thank you for sharing your story Simon. I immediately felt that this would be great to share with someone I was only talking to yesterday. I love how timing can be so magical.
Thank you for a simply written and inspiring blog. When I read the paragraph about learning the gentle breath my body began to warm up and I went through all the sensations you describe! It feels great to be reminded of my own first feelings on encountering Serge Benhayon and hearing what I immediately knew to be the truth I had been looking for and never found. Of course, it is inside me!
What a beautiful blog Simon. You feel a lot and your story is told with immense loveliness and a tenderness.
Thanks Simon I very much enjoyed reading your story. I like the way you use the “warm glow” to describe how you felt. I’ll never forget my first healing sessions it was actually with Serge Benhayon. What an amazing experience, major warm glow. When Serge speaks you just know he is speaking the truth.
A beautiful sharing of returning to your yummy, tender ‘layer’! Thank you, Simon.
I love the expression of that ‘beautiful other layer’. We so often hide from this and pretend it doesn’t exist and that we can’t also see and feel it in others. Thank you Simon.
Beautifully expressed Simone. Thank you.
So beautifully expressed Simon. Thank you 🙂
Awesome Simon, thank you. My eyes and heart beamed with smiles when you wrote about uncovering your own loveliness! Felt so genuine, so real and so natural. And I can deeply feel your appreciation for yourself, Serge and UniMed. Wonderful.
Thank you for sharing the way you came to be a student of yourself, Simon.
I love how you wrote – ‘The depths of tenderness and loveliness that I have found within myself, and the beauty I now recognise in others all around me are beyond what I used to imagine possible.’ How beautiful and wonderful to experience.
I love what you’ve written Simon, really beautiful.
Thanks for sharing Simon – very cool.
Simply beautiful Simon. Thank you.
Just beautiful Simon, just as everyone else has posted above there is a real depth of truth to what you have written, it is as simple as that. Thank you 🙂
And the angels sing…!
I “heard” your paragraph on “this beautiful other layer” that’s within all of us, as the most AMAZING music Simon. My heart, in joy, says “yes” to knowing the same.
Thank you so much.
Hey Simon… what a beautiful expression… my favourite lines, “Realising for yourself that there is this beautiful other layer. It’s just inside of you.… it’s the same for EVERYONE.” As a child I always had this strong feeling, and I used to express it often at home… “that the world was my brother and sister ” …now that I have taken the time to begin to explore “this beautiful other layer” for myself – without any pressure from anyone (only myself at times) my goalposts have moved! Now I am really getting to understand the depth of what I so easily and clearly expressed as a child, and allowing myself to be able to see and be inspired by some real and very human, not to mention playful examples like Serge, has been a gentle gift .
Simon – how beautifully you present the simplicity of Serge and Universal Medicines work. Thank you.
Very beautiful expression Simon.
I remember first presentation with Serge I went to exactly five years ago. As you say, everything was so simple and nothing much really happened, yet I felt so hugely different that I could not explain even to myself why or how that was possible. I realised (much) later that it was because (and as you say) I allowed a connection to that deeper, warm glow within me. That’s what happened that made the difference.
Simon, I love your post. It is inspiring and real. I wonder if you would post something about how this affects your music as I am a musician (singer songwriter) and I could do with some guidance on this aspect. Did this change how you sing? or even how you make your living?
Hello Music Meera. That has indeed been an interesting journey. There have been many changes in my life – and many changes in how, when , and why I play music. If you felt to talk abut it sometime, please feel free to get in touch.
As for writing about it : Stay tuned for another post :-)!
Beautiful Simon, thank you!
Thank you Simon for such a tender account of the beauty of what Serge presents.
This is just gorgeous 🙂 Thank you for writing it so simply and full of your heart. I do love learning about other’s journeys, all unique, but all so similiar in that once you’re aware there’s more to us, the ‘more’ just keeps growing, like that lovely warm glow. Beautiful Simon.
Simon! I love it. I am sitting on my break in a crazy busy cafe and I can feel so much of my body that I have chosen not to feel to be able to get the job done. Your post has come at perfect timing and I appreciate the awareness it has brought to me.
What a great expression of your experiences with UniMed, Simon. I feel the same as you when you mentioned how if you didn’t even take another course, you still had all you need to live a life more true to your inner self and live from that love in a beautiful way. So true about the simplicity of what Serge presents, too, and how it just feels like the truth right from the start. Almost as if you would have to override that feeling to criticize it or attack it.
Swap a few details around and you have my experience to a tee. No force, no pressure no hype…just a gentle reclamation of something very deep and true…yes a better kind of normal.
Thankyou so much Simon – this is so real from who you truly are – that lovely warm inner you that you knew as a child and that Serge and Universal Medicine just helped you feel it again . I loved how as you knew it was truly you – you knew it to be the same in’ EVERYBODY ‘ and all your connections with people became more real and deeper too . Reading this was a healing in itself !!!
Wow, beautifully expressed and a wonderful summation of what Universal Medicine is about. While reading your post I felt an overall sense of calmness and wellbeing. Thanks for the healing Simon.
Lovely, true, and gracious blog! Thanks Simon.
Thank you Simon – enjoyed your sharing and journey with yourself.
This is such a beautiful article. I love how natural and real it is and that it has referred to us being students of ourselves. Nothing more and absolutely nothing less than that.
Thank you Simon, I loved reading your experience and your reference to the warm glow inside of you, and all of us… you too are an inspiration
thanks Simon, I relate to so much of this. It really is this simple. A presentation that perhaps there is something deeper, warmer and quite lovely inside all of us.
Beautifully written Simon, it reflects so well as to what is offered at the UM events and what I have observed in participants (myself included) that feel inspired to commit to themselves and explore the depth of their own beingness.
Hey Simon,
I love hearing how people met Serge, how they first ‘heard’ what he was presenting – which means how people began reconnecting to the deeper aspect of themselves. Thanks for sharing your story.
Thank you for sharing this story of “you” Simon, really lovely.
This is beautiful Simon. Thank you!
Your words are just gorgeous Simon, just as you are
Thank you Simon