by Urs Fuchs, Musician, Rösrath, Germany (English 2nd Language)
Winter 2005 I began with important decisions: to change my life and to listen more to my body! I was sitting in front of a cup of cafe latte and a piece of cake and I had heart burn (Sodbrennen).
My stomach was in pain and I tasted the coffee with milk and felt: this is tasting terrible, then I tried the cake… just extremely sweet. The feeling in my body was very dull and heavy! And I asked myself: do you want to feel so bad any longer? From that moment I decided not to have milk and cake anymore. After this decision and a few days later the pain in my stomach was gone and I never had it again.
Summer 2006: I travelled to a seminar (which a good friend had recommended). I was interested in the subject already before, which was: people who are working in a healing profession have to heal themselves before they offer healing to others. This presentation was held by Serge Benhayon, and a lot of what he was talking about made sense to me – what I had felt a long time before, but didn’t take on seriously. For example: my ability to feel other people and to feel their pain and their sadness; to learn to honour me and everything I feel inside of me and not to feel wrong in any way for it!
In the following years I experimented with listening to my body.
- Changing my sleeping rhythm and start to go to bed early and to get up early.
- To stop eating milk products; for example, not to eat cheese anymore.
- To stop eating gluten and less carbohydrates!
The results are:
- I listen more to my body.
- I take more time out for myself.
- I check which foods support me or bring me down!
Now my body is much lighter and more liberated. I feel more alive and very vital even when I have worked a lot, and I am less tired. I have lost 10 kilos, which feels great and my back has less weight to carry!
For nearly seven years now I drive twice a year to Frome (England) to the Lighthouse to do workshops, presentations and treatments, which are presented by Serge Benhayon. Serge has a very warm, loving and non-imposing way which has supported me in my personal development very much.
The Truth about Serge Benhayon 
Urs it was lovely to read this blog again. I totally understand more and more about listening to the body as the signals become more and more louder. And having no choice but to listen to it.
I agree that as we tune ourselves more to our bodies, it requires less sleep, and we can work for longer, it’s a different kind of fitness. Yes the body requires to be maintained by toning it and being strong without becoming a gym junkie. It requires an inner fitness so that we can serve more.
We are deprived of this teaching. Our relationship with our bodies is paramount, it can only serve, last longer when it is taken care of from a very young age, it is that simple.
What a confirmation with what your body was feeling. Most of the time people ignore the signals of the body and be tested to see if they are allergic to those things, and when it is not confirmed, they continue to consume them despite the effects on their bodies.
It’s only when we experiment, that we tend to discover what supports our bodies. And only you can do this, no one can impose this upon you, it however comes with a decision and that decision is ultimately comes from you and your body and no one else.
I observe more and more how people ignore the signals of the body and voila… a condition or diagnosis is upon them. The body can only cope with so much abuse, even if we think it’s unintentional. So, it has every right to tell you loud and clear that it will no longer be accepted.
What Serge Benhayon presents does make sense, unfortunately it’s a bit like we have to be given permission to listen to and honour our bodies, ‘what I had felt a long time before, but didn’t take on seriously. For example: my ability to feel other people and to feel their pain and their sadness; to learn to honour me and everything I feel inside of me and not to feel wrong in any way for it!’
Urs thank you for writing so simply about the changes you made which have been super supportive for your body, and how by supporting your body it is able to support you because you are ready to listen to what it has to say. The example you gave was the pain you experienced because you were trying to digest something that your body couldn’t handle. I remember reading years ago that there is something in the composition of the milk that is very difficult for our gut to digest so it would make complete sense to me that our guts would complain.
There will come a point where humanity will realise that in the animal kingdom, no animal drinks another animals milk, and yet we do. A mother’s milk has the right constitution to feed her baby, and it is of no use to another animal. When we consume something that does not belong in our bodies, it will naturally react or have an effect upon it. The thing is whether we will listen, or ignore the signals is the key to the answer to a whole new discoveries about our bodies.
So many times we can feel a physical condition such as heart burn developing and just turn to medications whilst still continuing to eat the very foods that can trigger the heart burn, and yet the simple solutions are ignored. To take the time to explore the triggers is a first step in truly taking care of ourselves, and then the second step is to work with ourselves in understanding what imbalances may have happened in the body and why. This symptom picture is a way for the body to have a voice and communicate to us when something is not working for it – it is a blessing to hear the voice and an honour to respond when we actually have allowed ourselves to hear it, just as Urs has so beautifully shared in the blog above.
I have seen this with people, they just turn to medications for heartburn, instead of investigating what maybe the underlying cause, and removing that.
Symptoms are like a warning signal, like the dash lights in our car, do we just remove a warning light if it flashes, or do we get it investigated to see what is going on, and then choose what to do from there.
Maybe Lorraine we should treat our bodies more like an Aeroplane than a car, because if you are cruising at 40,000 feet and a warning light flashes up on the panel, the pilots take immediate action go through a set procedure called a ‘check list’ and deal with the situation. They don’t wait a few days to see if the warning light goes away and if it doesn’t call up an engineer (Doctor) and book an appointment to see them. Quite rightly we are super attentive to the fragility of an Aircraft but why is it we do not treat ourselves with the same care and attention?
How many times have we been sick but go to work anyway because we feel we feel we have to, that we are somehow either indispensable or we feel guilty about taking any time off work?
Urs, I love how you have shared how the simplest and littlest changes can be so powerful. Caring for the body and listening to what we actually need to do (in other words taking responsibility for the body and ourselves) can be very liberating and supporting to do.
The changes we may need to make to truly care for and honour ourselves are already there inside us, we may just need to support to reconnect to ourselves and trust what we feel.
Yes, we can’t heal another if we haven’t healed ourself first, ‘people who are working in a healing profession have to heal themselves before they offer healing to others.’
“I check which foods support me or bring me down!” So few people would consider that foods and drinks could actually have an effect on their moods and emotions, as well as causing physical symptoms. It’s not a lot of fun feeling heavy, sleepy, dull, racy, or off in some way, yet I’ve experienced these things from foods. Eliminating certain foods has allowed my body to feel lighter and more in harmony, without the emotional disturbances and subsequent ups and downs.
Our body speaks all the time it is simply up to us to learn to listen and not over-ride its messages.
Our body is like a true best friend, always sharing its wisdom, completely honest and consistent.
Agreed Lorraine, as long as we are not over stimulated and white sugar is a stand-out-stimulant that makes our bodies dishonest in it communication!
Nailed it Greg – the symptoms are a voice for the body in its communications! The hardest part is not listening to what the body has to say, but rather the hardest part is to not over-ride the messages as you have said and instead heed the message and support the body.
Absolutely Henrietta, and, what a great foundation for healing, so before we can speak the Truth we have to have lived it from our bodies and thus live “the message” so the truth supports “the body” first so we can start to heal!
I love the timing in which your body started to speak louder, or perhaps you became more able to listen to its message, just before coming to Universal Medicine. It’s like everything is just so perfectly orchestrated without us planning it.
‘…healing profession have to heal themselves before they offer healing to others…’ – we would expect a mechanic to know his job before working on our car, a chef to know how to cook before serving a dish, a teacher to prepare the subject before teaching it to pupils etc But with the statement above about healing an extra element is introduced that goes beyond knowing one´s craft or skills, it refers to the person and how they conduct and treat themselves as a human being, not as a profession. This is not just relevant and efficient for healing professionals but everyone in any profession; it adds the factor of love to the panoply and thus upvalues everything that we do.
Agreed Alexander, learning to be discerning in the most Loving ways absolutely ‘adds the factor of Love to the panoply and thus upvalues everything that we do.’
It is beautiful to read how life can unfold when we listen to and honour our bodies and all they bring us.
Our body knows what supports it and what doesn’t. Listening to it is the wisest and most intelligent education we can offer ourselves.
And this wisdom is inbuilt, it’s free, waiting for us to listen, feel and honour what it constantly shares.
When we feel our choices and what they do to the body is when we are more likely to make changes. Serge Benhayon encourages us to listen to our bodies and presents what gets in the way of that relationship.
Those moments are great – where we see and feel exactly how our bodies are and we connect the dots so to speak, and understand that what we may have just ingested or done is not feeling so good and we have a choice to say no more and there has to be another way … and so opens the door to a new relationship with us and our bodies. I love hearing these stories- they are both deeply confirming and very inspiring and show us all there is a way it can be different.
I also attend the workshops and presentations as Serge Benhayon is one of the few people I have met that makes sense to me. I have struggled with depression from an early age. Serge Benhayon explains depression the root cause of it and why it happens. I can honestly say I don’t have depression any more I am now committed to life and it is a joy to be in the world. It is so simple when we know how. Serge Benhayon and his family along with the Universal Medicine healing modalities gave me the tools to support myself.
Mental ill health is costing the health services around the world trillions, It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to come up with the formula that if we married esoteric healing with modern medicine we would become healthier and the health systems around the world would not be bankrupt.
It allows us all to stop trying, and just be ourselves.
Its so super simple really, if we just allow us to make a few rudimentary steps. The difference I can feel that comes from your shared experience Urs, is that there is a willingness to change.
Agreed, the willingness to consider the communication we get from our body as a communication worth valuing is foundational to considering lasting change.
Thank you Urs, I could feel the joy you have experienced from making so many changes that truly support you. It’s amazing that the things we may feel we can’t live without, like dairy and cake, we find are so unsupportive for the body, and when we let go of them the lightness and vitality is better than any food can provide.
“people who are working in a healing profession have to heal themselves before they offer healing to others.” This reflects such an important aspect of life that makes all the difference when we understand it and bring it alive through living it. Because, if we do not truly walk our talk, we communicate empty words that do not inspire but let us continue to run in the same circles.
I too used to take on the pains and the sadness of others and then wondered why I felt so awful. And then of course there was the food I ate that made me feel awful as well. When Serge Benhayon began to present about the toxicity of other people’s emotions to our body and the effect that some food can have on it as well I started to realise that my body had actually been trying to tell me this for years, I simply didn’t listen.
Serge has brought forth the New Renaissance of so many….
Urs what you have written is an honest and true account of just listening to the presentations of Serge Benhayon and asking the question ‘what if?’ What if what he is saying is in fact true? And what have any of us got to lose by just trying out some of the life style changes presented. Too me Serge Benhayon is a breath of fresh air because for the first time in my life I am discovering what it is like to truly be me without needing any barriers to protect me from people and life.
I cannot but appreciate the simple changes you have initiated in your diet Urs has made a profound difference to how both you and your body feels simply by listening to your body. Why do we complicate things so much?
Thank you Urs, it never fails to amaze me how such simple adjustments to how we are living can make such a huge difference to our life and state of being; simple yet so powerful and profoundly effective.
Healing ourselves first before we can help another heal themselves, this is so often missed in the temporal world, how many doctors, nurses, physiotherapists, chiropractors etc, go to work tired, exhausted and often not in the greatest physical shape, and we expect them to help us heal, Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine have presented how through simple changes to our diet and going to bed early can totally transform the way we feel, and I agree that through listening to our own body we know if a food is right for us or not, and how profound these changes can be.
Listening to the presentations of the Ageless Wisdom by Serge Benhayon has inspired me to listen to my body and to appreciate the truth of all that it tells me.
Serge Benhayon has shared so much wisdom over the 12 years I have known him but right at the top of the list for me is that our body is so very wise, that it is always talking to us and that to begin to listen to what it has to say will offer us the opportunity to change our lives. Fast forward those 12 amazing years. After living with so much bodily discomfort and illness for the first 50 years of my life I now have a very deep and respectful relationship with my body and as a result I feel the best I have ever felt.
It is amazing to feel the difference between living in a way of honouring of what the body feels, and disregarding what the body feels. I can say that I have lived experiencing both, and living in honour of and guided by what my body feels is empowering beyond measure, as I feel a greater connection to the truth of who I am, with the universe and with God. And what’s more is that vitality, well-being, joy and lightness of being continue to feature as my everyday ‘normal’.
Yes Carola, when we have a more consistent experience of listening to our bodies there is a vitality that starts to be our everyday ‘normal’. What I have appreciated is that by accepting this way of living by listening to my body, I can then feel a tension with what the body knows and an awareness of the pull to dull what the body is communicating.
Life becomes very simple when we start adhering to the truth there is.
So beautiful Urs, I love how you just stopped and listened to your body and how you found the support in Universal Medicine to deepen your understanding of you and your body. One thing you shared today is so pertinent for me to hear ‘… to learn to honour me and everything I feel inside of me and not to feel wrong in any way for it!’ … to not make ourselves wrong in what we feel, that is huge and so important as it frees us up to be more honest with ourselves and take the needed steps with that honesty. Thank you Urs.
I love reading testimonials that share how simple and logical this work is. Life and healing does not need to be complicated, we just seem to feel more comfortable when it is!
A true teacher simply reminds you of the truth you already know.
Beautifully said Leonne – it is so true. We all do know truth, and powerful are those who live in connection to the truth that resides within our bodies. This is the potential we all hold and inspiring it is to be reminded of this.
I love the changes you made to your life and the benefits they brought to your health and well-being, learning to listen to and honour our bodies many messages does take practice and commitment.
Absolutely, this needs to be taught from day one, loud and clear, ‘people who are working in a healing profession have to heal themselves before they offer healing to others’.
This is very cool Urs. Unlike yourself and others, my food choices hadn’t changed before I started to attend Universal Medicine events. It was only after learning and experimenting for myself with what had been presented that I started to make changes to my diet. it was a process of about 2 years where I slowly played around with eliminating gluten and then dairy. I didn’t rush, I didn’t go cold turkey and most of all, I didn’t stop anything because I saw it as ‘bad’. I sought nutritional information outside of UniMed and most of what I came across supported what I had heard and felt and it also gave me even more understanding from a physiological perspective which helped a lot. Today (7 years later), I’m still refining my diet, but it happens almost naturally. I eat things that don’t support me, but the difference is that now I’m aware of it due to having developed a sensitivity that I didn’t have before, which I love. So I know, that every choice I make is my responsibility and I from there I make the next choice.
Before Universal Medicine, there were things I had experienced in life and I felt to be true, but because it was so contra to what many others around me subscribed to, I could only hold it as ‘my thing’ and not the truth that actually applied to everyone – this actually made me feel quite separate from others and I was not really able to trust my own feelings. Listening to Serge Benhayon presenting was like joining the dots, and started to make sense of life and the world around me.
I enjoyed reading this blog Urs. I love your simple and open approach to supporting your body.
“This presentation was held by Serge Benhayon, and a lot of what he was talking about made sense to me – what I had felt a long time before, but didn’t take on seriously.”
Acknowledging that what Serge Benhayon presents is what we ourselves know is so very confirming of ourselves. It is also a very humbling experience to accept this in full, for then begins our own healing by way of letting go of the many and varied thoughts, ideals and beliefs they have in any way stopped us from living what we innately know.
If we listen to the wisdom of the body it holds the key to our true health and well-being.
Listening to your body you think would be easy but there in lies the problem – thinking and measuring up to what is going around you.
It’s very exposing how I relate to what my body is forever communicating to me and how often I do not respond to how aware I am with what I already know. It’s my lack of acceptance of life and the authority I know and feel. Life is very joyful when it is felt – the truth is thus known. Just because most people are not honouring themselves does not mean you have to also. Even though we all deep down know the truth I am understanding more and more how unique my version of the truth is.
What you have shared here Urs is beautiful – there is a simplicity in just listening to the body, and from the moment you chose to feel what the coffee and the cake were like in your body, you were allowing yourself to tune into another level of awareness which then opened you up for the rest too! Amazing how one simple choice can then lead to and open up to so many other choices that have in turn supported you in so many ways!
This very simply just makes sense, “people who are working in a healing profession have to heal themselves before they offer healing to others.” It’s not asking for people to be perfect but merely bringing things back to how things have always been, ‘actions speak louder than words’. So the living first of what you are saying, presenting, or offering by way of healing or advice is far more powerful then just telling someone to do something or that they should do something. When you say it like this or read an article like this it makes you wonder how we could ever think it was another way.
A lovely blog post that is short and sweet and offers appreciation for both yourself and those that have supported you.
I listen more to my body.
I take more time out for myself.
I check which foods support me or bring me down!
It’s so simple isn’t it. We care for ourselves and life opens up. we are more present, more vital, and more us for ourselves and everyone else.
Thank you Urs, I can relate to what you have shared about trusting how you feel and making choices based on that and your relationship with your body. To some degree I also did this but when I found Universal Medicine my ability to care for myself by listening to my body and trusting how I feel went to a whole new level, and the beautiful thing is there is no end point, just a deepening of love, care and tenderness for myself everyday.
When we actually stop and listen to the body and what it is telling us about what we’re ingesting – be that food, drink, thoughts or emotions, it speaks to us pretty loudly about how it feels about these things. Learning to listen to it takes practice, if we’ve been used to overriding what the body is saying. In my experience, the more I listen, and the more I appreciate its messages without reacting to them and wishing it was giving me different messages, the more willing I am to observe and start to change my behaviours, letting go of the unloving ones.
Spot on Bryony – learning to listen to our body does take practice! As children it is easier to listen to the body and not over-ride what it says (for example, I recall as a child I would just fall asleep in the evening even if I wanted to stay up and play – the body just took over and would say ‘no, it is time to sleep now’), however as we grow up we learn to ever-ride the simple messages and then this gets us further and further away from our natural way of being…and leads us to the choice of lack of awareness. But no fretting is needed, for this can be undone, and we can return again to the sensitivity of the body that was and is always there simply with coming back to an awareness and the choice to return to our natural ways.
I love the simplicity and practicality in which you approach life, you observe and allow yourself to feel what is going on and with that not only comes a realisation but you can apply other ways to go through life.
It is beautiful to read this, in hindsight I feel I had the same experience, my first connection to the work of Serge Benhayon felt so known to me. It is that what in essence I have always known.
I once had the belief that the body was an inconvenience and something to be tolerated. I am sure this arose from old religious notions that the body is innately sinful. Today I know the opposite to be true. The body is a source of true wisdom. It offers absolute and accurate feedback – for it just presents what it presents and cannot lie to us. When we listen, it reflects a way to be in life that is naturally harmonious and offers us an opportunity to choose harmony as a way of life.
I love how you just simply made changes in your life according to how your body felt and what made sense to you; that you listened to what your body was showing you and didn’t override it. And how this has freed your body up and given you more vitality and joy.
When we take responsibility for our choices and learn to listen to the body’s wisdom, it can be our best friend and greatest asset. Of course, on the other hand, we can think the body is our worst enemy and blame it for it’s mortality, pain and discomfort – irresponsibly so.
I love that after the choices you made that your body became liberated from all that held it back from the vitality you now feel. You are a testament to the power of choosing to listen to and honour the body and embracing what is possible to live.
It’s amazing the changes that flow onto our whole life when we listen to our bodies and change a few of the details accordingly.
Its amazing yet a totally natural thing to listen to our bodies and make loving choices that continue to support us. Thanks for sharing this Urs.
This is beautiful Urs – a simple and profound declaration that proves truth is simple to live once the choice has been made.
I’ve let go of things that did not feel right for my body in two ways… one under lots of pressure and what I should and should not have and the other simply by feeling my body, being honest and naturally feeling the side effects from having something. I know which one my body prefers!
Thank you Urs for sharing your loving story, our bodies are amazing in the wisdom they have to offer and the power of healing they bring when we honour them by our self loving choices.
Urs your honest blog made it very clear that our best friend is our body and that if we listen to this best friend we are able to change our own health – wonderful.
Being super sensitive and feeling another’s pain has always come natural to me but I would get so drained afterwards. The key is self-love. The more care I give to myself, the more awareness I have to observe and read others and not get caught in sympathising.
Thank you Urs. I too have made changes to how I live having been inspired by presentations and courses by Serge Benhayon and my body and whole being feels lighter and I enjoy being who I am and meeting everyone I meet.
So great when we listen to our body, as it does know best.
You present a lived authority about the power of making choices based on what our bodies are telling us about the way we’re living, rather than slavishly cow-towing to what society is promoting as normal this week, month or decade. Our bodies always know best. It’s just that we often choose not to listen.
It is very wise to find out what works for your own body and what doesn’t. This takes a lot of honesty which most people seem to not want to engage in. It is lovely to read these honest blogs by people who’s self care is more important than convenience or what everyone else is doing. Thank you Urs, food plays such a big part in our lives and our lives are so much more vital if the food we eat truly sustains us rather than making us dull.
Urs, I thank you for sharing your journey with us, We often already are aware of the need for not eating certain foods or giving ourselves more restful sleep by winding down gently and not over stimulating ourselves. Its as though we are waiting for permission to listen to our own inner voice, and trusting it! Serge Benhayon in his Presentations confirms for us what we already know if we would just listen.
I agree with what you say about the body feeling way lighter and more vital once we finally choose to listen and respond to what it reveals to us about the effects of the foodstuffs we require it to ingest after that short-lived ‘moment on the lips’. Honouring the body’s signals is one of the most self-supporting investments we can make.
Serge Benhayon presents on self-care principles that are simple and truly work – it is beautiful Urs you were ready to listen to your body and make adjustments in your life that were truly loving and supportive to your body.
I find it fascinating that self-loving choices are the movement that leads up to meeting Serge Benhayon.
Always great to read stories of personal accounts how they have made wonderful changes to their lives.
We know the truth and we know it deep within our bodies. When someone comes along and presents what we deeply know, following this themselves with a commitment to love of themselves and humanity, and takes this knowing deeper and deeper, it is easy then to know that they are speaking truth. Serge Benhayon offers us the inspiration to go deeper, to not stop at a comfortable place because we feel better, but to know ourselves as true love and joy.
I enjoyed reading your blog Urs. We all have the capacity to make choices which offer greater support for our bodies. It’s amazing that when we attend Universal Medicine presentations and/or have sessions with esoteric practitioners that we find so much we hear/see is stuff that we already know but just doubted, dismissed or hadn’t been consciously aware of. It really highlights how far away from truth most of us humans have travelled.
Thank you Urs for this great blog. Oh how our world changes when we start listening to our body’s messages of Love 🙂 I really enjoyed reading this great sharing.
It is amazing what we already know in our bodies and It just takes the confirmation of someone like Serge Benhayon, for us to decide to actually admit that we know what is good for our bodies and life in general! Thank you Urs for your lovely sharing.
I have visited doctors who seemed more unhealthy than I was! The world looks to advertising with the use of celebrities hoping they are role models for the general public to want to buy their product. This shows me that humans are open to being inspired by others. Would it not be inspiring to have the medical / caring professions deeply caring for themselves first so to then inspire the ones that they then look after? Serge Benhayon is very wise when he presents such a concept.
‘Now my body is much lighter and more liberated.’ What a beautiful way to express the changes you have made by listening to your inner wisdom and supporting your body by your dietary and other choices which enables you to live in the fullness of you. Thank you for sharing your experience so simply but profoundly Urs.
Urs, your passion comes through your writing like you were here with me. I can tell you are moved when you write about: people who are working in a healing profession have to heal themselves before they offer healing to others. Or “Serge has a very warm, loving and non-imposing way which has supported me in my personal development very much.” This rings very true for me also.
I love the encapsulated way you have communicated such a deep change in the way you live life, Urs … it is simple, but the key seems to be the commitment to at last honour yourself. Society does not support this but then neither does it stop us – it’s up to us to heed our own bodies and our intuition, then to consistently and lovingly make our decisions from there.
Profound blog, thank you Urs. Yes, it all starts with the body. That is where the truth is and from there we can increase our awareness on other parts of our lives. Once you started it is a forever deepening process which is beautiful to share with others. Just like you wrote: “people who are working in a healing profession have to heal themselves before they offer healing to others.”
“Serge has a very warm, loving and non-imposing way which has supported me in my personal development very much.” True of me too, Urs. Serge Benhayon’s support without judgement or imposition has been a blessing to me. I am very ‘independent’ and had become turned off by people hovering, looking for results, and being disappointed if I did not do things their way. Serge does not do that; and yet his support is powerful and very responsible, in leaving us free to choose, all the while giving us every opportunity to make loving choices.
Isn’t it crazy Urs that we can make ourselves wrong for what we feel rather than honour what we feel. It wasn’t until I met Serge Benhayon and started to attend Universal Medicine events that I began to realise so many of the truths the world presents to us are in fact upside down and back to front. Truly honouring how I feel within my body has been key to changing my life, bringing more love into it both towards myself and others.
What Serge Benhayon presents is so normal, practical and something we all already know deep within. As you have shown here Urs, Serge’s presentation confirmed what you had already felt for yourself and from there you have been able to go deeper with yourself and further refine how you care for yourself.
When I first noticed that my sinus was getting heavy and blocked up whenever I had some kind of dairy, I never liked milk so that was easy, but cheese and yogurt – a part of me was very unwilling to give it up thinking ‘Well, it’s not that I am getting very sick because of that and I can live with a bit of a blocked up sinus. The taste in the mouth was too tantalizing and I think I had a weird belief that we should be able to digest any food/drink so if I was reacting to some food it was my digestive system that needed to learn to digest it. Eventually the clarity and the lightness I had when I wasn’t having dairy won, and it had to go.
Great blog, Urs. Could it be that the people who attend Universal Medicine events are those who have chosen for themselves to be more responsible in everything they do, rather than mind-controlled followers? Could it be that those spreading the lies are not willing to do the same?
Urs – it was great to hear that you had already begun to figure out that listening to your body was important – thanks to coffee and cake – which was then confirmed when you began to attend the presentations by Serge Benhayon. Your story is my story, and the story of many others who have begun to realise that our bodies are so wise, always communicating with us and are very patient, but if we don’t listen they will bring us to a screeching halt, usually in a very painful or miserable way. Listening to the messages and taking action to prevent the enforced stop is a much more loving and enjoyable way to live!
I love feeling the gentle reminder from your blog about the messages from our body and that when we listen to it truly it is loud and clear about what is true for us to do and what is not.
The greatness from which Serge Benhayon presents is in me. Being with Serge is like being in touch with what is inside me. It is challenging at times, because much is exposed that doesn’t belong there like judging. It is exposed because Serge doesn’t live in judgement.
Thank you Urs. Your blog oozes with Simplicity. Thank you for the reminder that it’s that simple to listen to our bodies.
Beautiful Urs. If Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine has shared and inspired in you to live in a way that allows you to listen to your body and respond to what it is telling you in ways that care and honour your body and this makes you feel ‘lighter and more liberated’ and ‘more alive and very vital’, then this sounds like a lovely testament to Universal Medicine to me.
Lovely to read you choosing you. And then making loving choices for you.
I love how you did start Urs – by feeling your body and honor your feelings. This is always the start isn’t it?
Serge Benhayon is ‘just’ presenting a truth which is in us all and we can connect to – as you did Urs.
With food it is so easy and obvious – and from here we can go on and have an observation about other behaviors like the acting in our relationships. I found some behaviors in me which did also create pain in my stomach (and in my relationships)…. So, Sandra – let’s stop it! Responsibility does not end on my body.
What you have shared here Urs is brilliant and also reflects my experience with Serge Benhayon. He has never ever told me what to do but he has presented truths that I equally know but haven’t given myself the space to actually claim them as my own. The more truth I am feeling and claiming my life has and is constantly changing from a heaviness to a lightness and fullness. More energy, greater care and confidence in myself, less needy and overall brighter.
Thank you Urs for sharing your story, so simple to stop and listen to what our bodies are telling us, I stopped dairy years ago because it left me feeling sick in the stomach. I have, since coming to Universal Medicine made many more self loving choices.
In the space of a few months before I met Serge Benhayon in 2005 I too was asking myself questions about those claiming themselves to be healers. It didn’t make sense to me at all in that these people were in the healing profession, yet there was not a commitment to healing themselves to be seen or more importantly felt. I knew it was impossible to support another unless there was this true, dedicated commitment to oneself first and foremost.
It’s so interesting that for many of us, exploring how foods felt in our bodies had already begun before meeting Serge, and then Serge showed us deeper love and care and challenged us to not let things sit at a comfortable level but to keep exploring and challenging and healing. I had no idea of the vast depth possible, the wonderful expansion, the beautiful opportunity for growth back to my true self.
Amanda, this is so true. Before I met Serge Benhayon I had cut out alcohol and many foods from my diet that were not supporting my body, but then, on reflecting, I realised I was in a lull. Serge offered me to go deeper, offering me more loving choices. Being loving with me and my body in the choices I make simply never ends.
Urs, thank you for this simple and beautiful testimonial about the changes in you since you stopped eating coffee and cake and then since meeting Serge Benhayon. How lovely you must feel to be in command of a loved and cared for body and life.
As you say here “Serge has a very warm, loving and non-imposing way which has supported me in my personal development very much.” I agree, I had begun to make some simple changes in my life because I felt so bad physically and psychologically and then along came Serge and the rest, as they say, is “history”. History has a habit of repeating itself, not always pleasantly, but in this case it is to be welcomed wholeheartedly for the gentle, supportive and loving way it is.
If health professionals would read this across the world, what a difference it would make. They could discover for themselves what their body has been sharing for some time – what it likes and what harms it. Then we would have the vitality to care for others, not take responsibility for our clients choices and be able to say “Hey, what does your body say about that food, behaviour etc?”
That in itself would be a revelation worth happening Fiona. We need to also question why something as simple as what Urs is sharing is not common practice as it is such common sense.
It’s true Fiona. This way of living could revolutionise health care. The way healthcare professionals could take care of themselves and the relationship they have with their patients would bring about a deeper healing for all involved.
Glorious blog Urs, how lovely to hear you express how by simply listening to your body makes you feel so good. I too can’t thank Serge enough for the love support and personal development I have received through his presentations and workshops.
Urs I love how you made the choice to begin like listening to our body and make changes based on that. I found in the past that although my body was giving me the message something wasn’t right for it, I would still override it and do it anyway. This like you has completely changed with embracing the teachings and healings of Universal Medicine in my life.
That’s so inspiring Urs that you choose to live in a way that supports yourself to be well and vital. That is more rewarding to you then to get to drink your milk and eat your cake.
Urs – wunderbar thank you for you honest blog. I also stopp eating gluten and dairy and I too can say that was the best thing I had done for my body because since that time I am less ill (with Sinusitis and Bronchitis)!!!!
Awesome blog Urs. In a world that is exhausted and unhealthy, this makes great news! From simple changes that were led by your body, you now have so much more energy, better health and weight and no pain. It is these kinds of stories that can help the public and also doctors. Good health starts with listening to the body and being honest. Thanks Urs.
It has also had the experience where my body was reacting to milk, coca cola, cheese products and wheat by causing a stomach ache and visiting the bathroom a lot but I would try to ignore and override these signals.
Then I attended my first level four healing workshop and whilst I was lying in my hotel room I asked my body how it feels when I eat these things and instantly my stomach reacted with a pain and a headache. Since then it was easy for me to say no to these products because I could feel it for myself, but if I just listen to someone else and give something up without truly checking with myself first, then it feels like a battle. My stomach pain and a dull headache have become my markers for what my body does and doesn’t want.
Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon have and are helping me with the awareness of what my body is trying to convey.
I loved your sharing of giving up milk and cake and how your body felt as a result, which was confirmation of what your body already knew.
Dear Urs, your lovely comment matches your lovely being. How amazing is it that we can change our life by changing such seemingly small things!
Beautiful post Urs – thank you. What you have presented is so true. That our bodies are always reflecting to us whether the choices we are making are loving and supporting us to live the natural vibrant potential of who we truly are.
Thank you Urs for the powerful testimony of how we can truly improve our life by the simplicity of following the ‘inner knowing’ we all have but seldom pursue its ever loving presence.
It is gorgeous that you have learned to honour yourself, what you feel inside and apply changes to your life to support this. A light and liberated body is a beautiful testament to the power of what the presentations Serge Benhayon offers when you start to take responsibility for your choices.
Urs this blog is so great and so real, love the way you make it sounds so easy! Knowing that what we eat can either support us with increased clarity to feel, or have the opposite effect and dull this sense, is the ultimate in taking responsibility.
Thank you Urs for this blog. I feel it’s important that you’ve claimed the fact that before you met Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine you were already making choices to be more self loving, that included cutting out certain foods. Many of the articles in the press about Serge and Universal Medicine say that Serge dictates what we should eat, yet he has never once told us what to eat. Those that find Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine have been feeling a pull to make changes long before they even meet him… to the way they eat, the way that they live. And as I read through these blog pages I can see that many of the writers knew there was more to life – knew there was another way to live – we’ve been looking for it, trying all sorts of things – and when we’ve all found Universal Medicine and Serge, we’ve known that we had found what we were looking for – his teachings confirmed in us what we’ve always known.
Thank you for sharing your experience Urs, it is fundamental to listen to our bodies – through the courses and workshops we are learning how important this is and hopefully we can share it around to help other people be more aware of their body talking to them.
Your message speaks volumes of truth and I appreciate you sharing your story Urs. Thanks.
Thank you for sharing your experiences and describing how committing to you and your body you have made true and loving changes. It is as simple as committing to being all of us in the world, something that continues to unfold through our choices. It is simply a matter of taking true responsibility for the way in which we live.
Thank you Urs for sharing so simply the common sense principles in which Serge Benhayon presents – and which you now live, as I and many others who are re-connecting to a more true and loving way to be with ourselves and others. As if the world doesn’t need more of this – bring it on I say!
Absolutely Marcia, the simplicity of what Serge Benhayon presents is groundbreaking and in a world where everything is about complication and complexity it might be difficult that the answer lies in assuming self responsibility and choosing love. Great sharing Urs, it brings it back to basics.
That’s right Rachel and Urs, you have given a great example of how we can keep it simple and practical, and yet make profound changes to our health and vitality. Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine presents that our body is able to tell us what food benefits, and what drags it down, it is just a matter of tuning in and listening.. this takes away all confusion of navigating through diets and contradictory nutritional information and rather allow the body to guide us.
Yes Marcia – bring it on! The world needs people to show there is another way to be and one that is much more loving and joy-full!
and one that is so naturally who we are.
and so naturally who we are.
That’s awesome and I love how you have used an experience in your blog of how you actually felt while having your coffee and cake. It’s made clear that no yummy foods are actually greater then the joy we feel in our bodies when we look after ourselves.
I read your blog only a couple of weeks ago Urs, but I came across it again…my feeling is that I needed the reminder of the simplicity in which looking after myself can be. Nothing scary, nothing too out there, just listen and learn from my body. simple.
Thank you Urs for your honest sharing of your journey back to love, for you choosing to listen to your body and adhering to the delicateness that is held in there.
Thanks Urs. I liked the way you have described how connecting to feelings in your body when you ate and drank certain foods has lead to a major shift in your diet and that you feel so much healthier as a result. It just reinforces to me that we can all be our own healers if we take the time to honestly look at what is going on in our bodies and link that with what and how we eat. Thank you.
Urs, you prove that our bodies never lie and carry much lived wisdom, if only we stopped to listen.
It is interesting Urs that even before attending any Universal Medicine events you knew that milk and cake were dulling and heavy for your body. I too have changed my diet, and am continuing to refine it, without anyone else telling me what to do, and I also feel more vital and less emotional than before.
The C in cake should be silent because I know all I end up with is an ake.
Very clever, I like it! Laughed out loud. Same for me too, with a bloated stomach.
Thanks Urs. You describe your journey so simply it reminds me that looking after myself does not have to be anything dramatic. Just keep listening to your body, that’s all we ever have to do.
Thank you Urs. I love how you have shared so clearly the changes you have made and how that’s changed how you feel. I sometimes forget to appreciate all that I have achieved in the changes I have made in my life. Whilst I know there is a lot more to work on, it’s still good to acknowledge how much I have already changed and how I am living and sharing so much more of me.
Thanks Urs for sharing your journey. It is so amazing, and yet so simple, to listen to our body if we care enough to slow down and hear what it has to say. So many foods can bury or dull our senses into a weird form of submission. Isn’t it just amazing how much more dynamic and energetic we feel by eating lighter foods? For me, there is a direct effect of comfort, and then a lethargic ‘giving up’ feeling when I eat foods that are too heavy for me, which includes foods high in sugar, salt and carbohydrates. To be able to work long hours and be at my best, without energy spikes and big drops,that is the way it has to be for me.
Hi Urs, you show us how simple common-sense, found within and also taught by Serge Benhayon, can be brought into everyday life without a big fuss. It has certainly worked for you, commander of light that you are..
I love the way you say it as it is, simple and direct, no ornaments. How changing a few habits has improved your feeling so much, and your health.
Dear Urs, you express yourself with so much clarity and authority in relation to the positive changes that have become a part of your life experience. With thanks.
How simply and clear you express it, Urs. Thanks.
Why do we so often give our power away to ‘specialists’ who insist on us eating certain foods when we know intuitively that they do not heal us? I have the very condition that dairy products is supposed to prevent after a life time of consuming them. Thank you Urs for your observations.
Urs, beautiful to read of your journey back to you, following Serge Benhayon’s inspirational presentations.
Great point you make Urs that, “people who are working in a healing profession have to heal themselves before they offer healing to others”.
So simply and well expressed, thank you.
Thank you Urs, I love the simplicity and straightforwardness you are expressing with. It is like taking one step at a time building a solid foundation to stand on.
One has to ask why we weren’t taught such simple and real science and common sense at school? I love it Urs, that you just made the choice to listen to your body – which had clearly always been speaking to you! And from there, via the further inspiration from Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine, continue to ‘listen more’.
I’ve also experienced enormous changes in how I feel in my body, my vitality, and my state of being via making such changes based upon how my body truly feels. It is an ongoing and lovely process to have this relationship with my body…
How would our world be if this were our education ‘101’, I still have to ask? It is so very simple.
Thank you Urs for sharing, I like the way you write so gentle and down to earth. I also have been attending presentations and workshops for 8 years and have found Serge Benhayon and the Universal Medicine practitioners unwavering in their support.
It is interesting to read this honest and straight forward blog. In fact I’ve read many like it, whereby Urs (in this case) shares without any hype whatsoever and ends the piece by sharing about his now consistent vitality. It’s great to read.
A lovely way to start my morning Urs, with reading your insightful words, thanks.
Love this blog and its core message – listen to the body, honour it and it responds with increased vitality and much more besides. Why is it then, that we close our eyes at the first hurdle and why do we see it as a hurdle when in fact it’s a gate, the opening to a way of living that gives us a mutually beneficial partnership between self and body?
Lovely, Urs! I can appreciate what you share here, having had similar experiences myself. The presentations by Serge Benhayon have deeply inspired me to not only listen to what my body tells me about the foods I need to eat, or when I need to sleep etc, but also to re-connect with humanity and a take a much deeper level of responsibility. For the first time I came to a deep understanding that a practitioner cannot help another resolve an issue, that is not resolved in themselves first. My quality of life has improved immensely and it is an ongoing work in progress – I love that!
Wonderful Urs reading how you started to listen to your body and the difference it has made. Most of my life I very stubbornly pretended to not hear what my body was saying and it has been delightful that Serge Benhayon has inspired me to listen and pay more attention, this alone has been significant in turning my life around. I find the more I listen the greater the quality of life becomes.
Great blog to read. It was interesting with what you wrote “This presentation was held by Serge Benhayon, and a lot of what he was talking about made sense to me – what I had felt a long time before, but didn’t take on seriously” because I, and think many, have felt exactly the same with Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicines presentations. That they resonate within the body of what we know to be true AND at some point in our lives we may have asked ourselves similar questions regarding life, true health and what is going on within the world, but never RESPONDED or ACTED upon it. However like you have said – Serge has provided that reference point, ‘stop’ and reflection as well as true healing, so many can know respond and act to what they feel within the body and know to be true; including me. But this is never about perfection and continually unfolding, there is so much to learn and do.
I love what you have expressed here “Serge has a very warm, loving and non-imposing way which has supported me in my personal development very much.” This is so true, and Serge Benhayon has definitely helped me in my personal development too.
Great to-the-point story Urs.
It really is simple; what it takes to get fed up with feeling bad and make the choice to do something different…is up to each individual. How bad and for how long will I need it to be, before I seek the true cause of my misery…?
I too have learned that the “something different” is the choice to want to feel, honestly, what we are doing to ourselves by LISTENING TO THE BODY.
What a huge difference this has made in my life and thousands of others as well!
Thank you Urs for sharing your story which says a lot. I too had heartburn with my cafe coffee and cake and it took some time before I cut it out and started to feel so much better.
Not eating gluten and dairy made me feel lighter and the heartburn was not there. Instead I started to feel more and make choices that I knew would support me and not make me feel ill or heavy.
The truth is as Alison states above, we do know if we choose to listen to our body. I always knew bread cakes and chocolate was great for a few seconds in my mouth but my body was saying “get out, not again”.
Well my body is finally getting the love and respect it deserves and it keeps me inspired to adjust and continue to refine and review my diet.
Hi Urs, I especially liked in this article how you went to your first Universal Medicine presentation because you were interested in taking responsibility for healing yourself. This is incredible.
Thank you Urs for sharing your experience, it’s great to read how making changes to what we eat and by listening to our bodies makes a huge impact on how we feel.
Thank you Urs for sharing your journey, I had a similar experience with taking dairy out of my diet it gave me stomach pains and I would quite often feel sick, especially with the smell of milk. The truth is we do know, if we choose to listen to our bodies they speak very loudly, I know mine does and through Universal Medicine I am learning to go deeper with this, not just with food but everything in life.
Thanks Urs for sharing your journey and highlighting the difference it makes when we give ourselves the time to stop and truly listen to what our bodies are saying. Having cut out dairy, sugar, gluten, alcohol and caffeine from my own diet, I can attest to the feeling of being lighter and having so much more vitality.
It’s great to see how you were able to simply make the decision to listen to your body more, and see how your body responded by speaking loudly to you about how bad it felt after eating dairy and sugary foods. It’s like our bodies are just waiting to talk with us if we are willing to listen.
Thank you Urs for your sharing. I too, have been able to make different choices regarding food since attending Universal Medicine presentations by Serge Benhayon – my body really lets me know the difference from these choices and I am now able to listen to it rather than totally numbing it out(with food!), as I used to do. It’s a work in progress as my body is continually making adjustments for me to heed.
I love how you so simply express your journey of self-discovery regarding food and rerun to health. My health, too, has improved so much by following that same journey.
Urs, like you I noticed a huge difference when I stopped eating dairy products.
The fact that I am no longer making myself ill by my choice of food has improved my
quality of life no end.
Yes Urs what a difference when we cut out milk and cake from our diets. I too feel so much more vibrant without them.
Without milk products and gluten – containing food and processed carbohydrates my body has become so much clearer and it is easier and easier to distinguish what effect foods are having on me and what my body is asking for, and as you say ‘what foods support me and what foods bring me down’
Thank you Urs for sharing your experiences with us. I remember, the last time
I was in Germany, the devouring of cake and coffee was almost akin to a religion.
It must have taken a huge amount of willpower to kick the habit.
Thank you Urs for sharing your experience with how listening to your body can change your vitality in such an amazing way.
I absolutely love this blog which shares the simple message of ‘listen to your body’ and ‘make changes’. Thank you, Urs.
My experience of school was also of free milk and being told how supportive this was supposed to be for our health – making us big and strong. Universal Medicine presents that we can let our own bodies be our guide in deciding what food is healing and what food is harming. This would be a wonderful model to offer young children, who show an infinite wisdom in the choices they make, if we let them.
Great point Stephen, to offer young children the opportunity to develop the wisdom they innately have and in relation to their own well-being.
Thank you Urs for presenting your journey with feeling food in your body, Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine, so simply and clearly as you change how you live and as a result feel so much better, are more alive and have better health. I too have had the same journey and I now have a real connection to myself and true purpose in my life also.
I used to have severe stomach problems (Sodbrennen / heartburn) growing up. My family was big on the belief that (at least) 1 glass of milk a day was very good especially for a growing child! I hated the smell of milk (taste wasn’t better either) so I used to just pour it down the sink when mum wasn’t looking 😉 I too found when I had no milk/yoghurt and bread, my stomach always felt better – yet, I was encouraged to eat those very foods – even by doctors.
We are our best physicians, if we but listen carefully to what the body has to say.
I remember this well too Dragana, and even now seeing a dietitian by request of the gastro specialist, the emphasis is on eating more of those sorts of foods, dairy and gluten. Her emphasis focuses on a larger carbohydrate intake to support my body, but she admitted she could not understand why my whole system felt lighter, clearer and healthier, and that I felt a greater well-being with more vitality than ever before in my life, when I DON’T eat to increase my calories. To be fair she is willing to work with me on the foods I choose to eat, and we are both very aware of the different approach to health and healing, and the way we listen to our bodies, so It is a great opportunity for me to express from my own experience in the face of accepted dietary opinion.
When my father lost 2 stone because of a chronic lung condition all the products he was prescribed to help him put on weight had dairy as their main ingredient and when I asked if there was any alternative he was given one that he said was incredibly sweet. It’s great that you have a dietician who is willing to work with your food choices Joan but feels like ‘accepted dietary opinion’ is not supporting many people to make self-loving choices.
Very true Dragana, we are our best physicians. When I went to see my GP around 2008 for chronic sinusitis and I said that perhaps it was because I was eating too much dairy and my body could not cope with it he really laughed out loud ! I “knew” in my body that dairy was the problem. The following day I stopped eating it and 6 months later my sinuses were completely clear !
One of the things I like about reading the blogs is seeing how different everyone’s journey has been – and yet in the end, the feeling of well being – true well being – is achieved by those who listen to their body no matter how they walked the path their heart took them on.
Beautifully said Gayle, this is exactly what makes the work with Universal Medicine so incredible valuable – it really works for everyone, the approach may be a little different for everyone but the result is the same. Thanks Urs for sharing with us how you came to make different choices.
Urs, your writing about milk got me remembering there was free milk at school when I was a child. We had to drink it. There was no choice in the matter and, because I had always hated the taste of milk, my parents bought me flavour-filled straws so I could get it down my throat and not get into trouble at school. (I now know how disrespecting of my body that was and see how rigid the system was with its rules.)
Years later I woke up to the fact that milk was causing so many of my stomach issues – way before I came across Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine. It was great to hear Serge explain why our bodies were naturally rejecting dairy products and this supported me to finally give up eating chocolate – I had conveniently forgotten how much milk was used to make it. Using those chocolate flavoured straws in my childhood had set up a pattern it took me years to break free of.
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Thank you Urs.
How awesome that you had started listening to your body well before being introduced to Serge Benhayon. What you had felt to be true for you was then confirmed and your awareness deepened. Thank you for sharing this Urs.
Thank you Urs for this true example of letting experience be your guide to truth.
Thank you Urs!