by Trish Mazur, Marine Charter Co-ordinator, Gold Coast, Australia
I would personally like to thank Serge Benhayon (and all the Universal Medicine practitioners).
Reading statements like Serge Benhayon is ‘anti-exercise’ or ‘anti-mainstream medicine’ just does not correspond with the experience I have had with Serge and Universal Medicine (UniMed) at all.
Firstly, Serge doesn’t tell me what to do or think (sometimes I wish he did – but that wouldn’t be me deciding what is right for me!): neither does he say Western medicine is bad – far from it. What he has made me aware of is that I have responsibility for my own health and way of living. Combine that with Western medicine, and the way I see it, I have the best of both worlds.
Yes, when I first attended a Universal Medicine workshop, I admit I thought “No way is this for me”. Why? Because I was presented the truth… and we all know that the truth isn’t always nice to hear.
I didn’t want to hear, for example, the possibility that the alcohol and drugs I used recreationally were to numb my feelings and take the edge off life. I wasn’t ready to ask myself why I needed to take the edge off life. It didn’t suit me, and I didn’t want to face that possibility, so I carried on living the way I was living until I could no longer pretend it was OK. I had to face what I knew deep down was true, and that what Serge had presented all along – without judgment, criticism or pressure – was true for me.
When I met my partner, he too drank and used recreational drugs. I had to decide for myself whether or not I was going to accept that in my life. When I realised I didn’t want that in my life, yes, our relationship nearly finished: but years later we are still together – not because of Serge Benhayon or Universal Medicine, but because of the choices my partner and I made for ourselves in our own lives.
After all, how can you blame anyone else for your own choices? If you do, isn’t that just being irresponsible, a way of reacting to the outcomes of choices that haven’t turned out to be in your favour?
It’s been claimed by some that Serge Benhayon is anti-exercise – another false accusation, which is far from the truth. My partner and I live, and have always lived active lives, including surfing, which my partner has in common with Serge and his amazing sons Michael Benhayon and Curtis Benhayon.
It’s been said also Serge Benhayon is anti-mainstream medicine. But recently my partner had knee surgery. Serge and all the other Universal Medicine practitioners he had been seeing for healing sessions were (and always have been) pro the surgery, and are now providing him with supportive treatments, which are helping the healing process.
Similarly, I have never, ever in my five years of going to Universal Medicine heard Serge Benhayon (or anyone else for that matter) claim that they can or will heal breast cancer, or any other illness.
Science is wonderful but doesn’t however provide the full picture. We have all read the newspapers, or listened to health professionals; and still I am sure that most, if not all of us have heard contradictory messages.
We need to take responsibility now for our own way of living, not wait for someone to rescue us. I have found there is a knowing inside us that we have disconnected from. For example, we get advised by one lot of health professionals on what to eat; then it seems like the next day we hear something different. Wouldn’t it be simpler if we just tuned into what was right for us?
In my experience Serge has always avoided telling people what to eat – all he presents is to listen to your body and feel what is right for you, and you’ll get to know what you need and what is right for you. I find this changes all the time according to what my body needs, and it will be different for everyone – hence my partner and I don’t eat the same things at all times. It’s really just common sense, isn’t it?
To me it is simple – how can taking responsibility for one’s own choices, health and way of living, be harmful to you or anyone else for that matter? Taking responsibility is about being truthful. Truth is one of the biggest things missing in society, and unfortunately in the recent media articles as well. To me, as the media has the power to touch and reach so, so many people, it has one of the biggest responsibilities to represent truth. Maybe one day, truth in the media will be a consistent part of life.
Again, I am eternally grateful to Serge Benhayon and all his family for inspiring me and so many others to be true to ourselves, as well as having the courage and integrity to do what I couldn’t do until I heard Serge’s presentations – to be true to myself, no matter what.
The Truth about Serge Benhayon 
‘We need to take responsibility now for our own way of living, not wait for someone to rescue us.’ We are the only ones who can rescue us. We are the ones that have made and make choices every second of the day, how in earth could someone else be responsible for how and what we live.
“We need to take responsibility now for our own way of living, not wait for someone to rescue us.” The media feeds on the disasters of human living and the occasional ‘hero to the rescue’ but avoids wherever possible the truth that we are all responsible for the choices we make as this would include the media taking responsibility for what and how they report on events.
Practically all the statements and articles reported by media are an outright lie, completely contradicting and misrepresenting the truth of what is being presented by Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine. It is interesting to note that it seems that the truth is not really what we want to hear, as there are a countless number of living and written testimonials that evidently present the truth of The Way of The Livingness. Yet as you have shared, the truth is not always met with open arms, as with truth comes responsibility. And for us to accept responsibility we must embrace honesty. If we are willing to be honest with the way we are living, how we are really feeling in our bodies it is then we can welcome the truth, as at the end of the day it is only truth that will free us to be who we really are.
No advice in the world can make the changes we need, it is self-honesty and how willing we are to admit that some if not many things in life are not working that open us up to true change.
Before coming to Universal Medicine and the course offered, I was pretty much against mainstream or conventional medicine. I sought alternative and highly spiritual practices instead, that never really helped an illness I had. Now, I have no question, issue or problem walking into doctors surgery because I will do anything that is needed for my body.
My food choices keep refining which feels great, but sometimes I have let go of a certain food and then find myself eating it again. And I tend to do this when I get tried especially when I have agreed to extra hours at work which turns out to be too much. When I get tired, I just want to eat more than I need so I do not have to feel that I have once again did way too much on that day! And great to be aware of this now!
Universal Medicine is a choice and a point of inspiration, not an obligation or a directive. We are all free to choose the lives we want to live, whether that includes Universal Medicine or not.
This article represents the truth we are all offered each day, that we have a choice. To live who we are from within, or to choose instead a shadow of ourselves that is governed by our fears, doubts and insecurities.
One thing I find mind blowing is how many would blame Serge Benhayon for things that have occurred in peoples lives, never taking into account that people have free will and choice to choose as they feel. Serge Benhayon presents many choices, with no force only love, the rest is up to the responsibility of the individual.
I agree truth is one of the biggest things missing in society, and taking responsibility is being truthful, ‘it is simple – how can taking responsibility for one’s own choices, health and way of living, be harmful to you or anyone else for that matter?’ Being true to ourselves no matter what is the way to live.
What Serge Benhayon shares always makes perfect sense, it resonates with a deeper part of myself; I then have a choice what to do with ‘what made sense’, it is always my choice.
Great blog countering many of the criticisms that have been hurled at Serge Benhayon quite unfairly.
In life we are often not willing to see the bigger picture, instead we like to cut and paste those bits and pieces together that suit us, and this is also how we are taught life works. Serge Benhayon presents and lives that everything always matters and that every moment and every movement counts and contributes to the quality we are in. This is big, but once we understand it is a joy to learn to live with the responsibility that is naturally living within us.
I love what you have shared Trish. It is clear you have a common sense approach to life and a deep commitment to living in a responsible way. It is so rare to see so someone openly and publicly express the truth about their lives and it takes a lot of courage to do this. I appreciate you, myself and the many others who write blogs detailing their personal experience simply so that others have a true point of reference.
Taking responsibility for our own choices is the best tool to educate ourselves and others about life.
Thanks Trish… yes when we are first confronted with the reality of our choices it can be so confronting, and the ‘bearer of bad news’ or really in this case the ‘lifter of the veil’ can really cop it… but the fact remains that they have been our choices, and the responsibility is there to be taken, and when we finally do , life changes and evolves.
You raise some great points here Trish – if we listen to our body it speaks very loud and clear about what foods work for us or not, we don’t need anyone to tell us this as the body’s wisdom is absolute.
“how can you blame anyone else for your own choices? If you do, isn’t that just being irresponsible?” That to me is a truth now, now matter on what basis I made my choice, based on the advice of someone else or from my own justification or impulse, all choices are made by me and I take full responsibility for them whatever the outcome of these choices may be.
Taking responsibility for our own choices is the key to living a loving, truthful and harmonious life. Living this way would not be possible if we followed external rules, ideals, beliefs and images.
I also would like to say just how much I appreciate and thank Serge Benhayon for supporting and encouraging me to take responsibility for the choices I make.
Funny (!) how the lies and false allegations directed at Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine are so often the direct opposite or absolute distortion of what he actually presents – deliberately designed to set up a barrier in people so the words he presents are interpreted through a thick filter of prejudgment and pre-fed falsehoods. If people were to truly listen, afresh and open to what is presented by Serge they may feel and discern for themselves the truth of what he expresses. I trust that people would afford him that opportunity just as they too would like to be heard by their own words not through the deliberately orchestrated lies of others.
Serge Benhayon is the living example of how we can be in the world without imposing, without forcing, without manipulation – all the games that we can play out in our relationships with others and the deception we play out with ourselves – he presents simply a clear reflection of how to live true to ourselves and thus the potential for true harmony with all.
What an awesome blog post by someone who has actually experienced Serge Benhayon, not just made up sensational stories for the very sake of it. Thank you, for putting to rest all the rubbish allegations! My experience has been the exact opposite of what has been written about Serge by those few people in the media who are simply not willing to venture into true investigative journalism.
Yes, the support received from Serge has never been to tell us what to do, it has always been his deep love of everyone that holds them until they do get it. And I now know through this, that people can tell you everything you need to know, but if you don’t feel it as a truth in your own body, you haven’t truly go it.
For the record, I have never enjoyed exercise so much in my life. Since attending the teachings of Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon, I no longer exercise to ‘lose weight’ or get the body I think I need. I now exercise to enjoy my body and keep it fit. I don’t put myself under pressure or push myself hard to fit a picture of what I think ‘fit’ looks like. I let my body lead the way, not my head. This is really different to how I have exercised in the past.
Having the courage to be true to ourselves.. sometimes it’s not until we start having a go at being true to ourselves that we realise just how many things we’ve put in the way of this: all the roles we play, the patterns of behaviour that we cling on to and hide behind, the inconsistencies in our lives.. often we start to realise that we haven’t been being ourselves for quite some time. The more I simplify my life and bring in a consistent and loving way of living, by making choices that support me to feel what’s going on in my body, the more I’m able to connect to that sense of who I truly am, without all the other stuff and the noise, and live from there. It is taking a while to re-establish this connection with any consistency, but that’s okay – the more I feel this sense of steadiness, the more I want to re-connect to it.
Accepting responsibility and living responsibility is in truth empowering. Without it we have no access to our power – and in fact responsibility is a given because even when we act irresponsibly, we are still responsible of our choices. There’s no getting away from it – so we may as well embrace it and our power at the same time.
It is a blessing beyond words to learn to connect to and love who you are.. and that you choose to be true to that no matter what. We cannot deny the harm in the world caused by those who do not.
‘…how can you blame anyone else for your own choices?’ You can’t but this is exactly what we try to do to avoid taking responsibility for our own lives.
“Combine [Universal Medicine] with Western medicine, and the way I see it, I have the best of both worlds.” – could not agree more, truly a complimentary match made in heaven!
“After all, how can you blame anyone else for your own choices? If you do, isn’t that just being irresponsible, a way of reacting to the outcomes of choices that haven’t turned out to be in your favour?” Spot on Trish and I really like the way you’ve expressed this. It shows how we behave like a child having a tantrum when we blame another for how we feel.
I love how you set straight all the lies that seem to have been put out there about Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon. Before UM I avoided Doctors as I felt they were a waste of time unless something was really bad. After become a student of UM I began to realise how much Western Medicine had to offer and began doing regular checks- blood tests- breast checks- pap’s smears. I now have a massive appreciation for Western Medicine. I had a near cancer scare many years ago with one of my pap’s having highly abnormal cells, I was given a pamphlet that was called “So you have cancer”. I was scared as I had never had any kind of surgery. When I spoke with Serge he explained how important it was to have the operation and supported me to come to the root cause of why this had occurred, he said that if I totally embraced the surgery then the doctors and nurses will be there to support and help clear not only the near cancerous cells but the energy that caused them. It is common for these cells to reoccur but I never had another abnormal smear again.
‘To be true to myself no matter what’ now that is something to live by. I love the simplicity, no nonsense, straightforward style you express in Trish, and it is really supportive to feel and understand that we are never victims – we choose and the more we choose truth the more responsible we are.
Being presented with truth can be very exposing and very uncomfortable so when I present truth and another reacts whether aggressively or withdraws it is having the understanding and remembering that I too have reacted and still do at times to when truth is presented. Having this understanding helps me to not react.
Thank you Trish for a great blog I had not realised throughout my life that not speaking up was being untruthful and irresponsible and that I owe it to myself and humanity to speak my truth and to be responsible for all my choices.
Trish you wrote: “We need to take responsibility now for our own way of living, not wait for someone to rescue us.” That is so true and also the best medicine ever – I only can recommend to try it by yourself.
I can now appreciate the hard choices I made initially to live in a different way, my life up until that point was on the surface a ‘good normal life with the usual ups and downs’, but in truth as I went to sessions with Universal Medicine Practitioners and courses, I came to remember the person I was as a child, and then growing up my feelings and unique qualities I had naturally expressed but had now overridden which was definitely not ‘normal’ for me. As I cleared the old patterns the clarity, vitality, feeling and overall relationship to the essence of the person I knew deep down began to return. It’s not easy to explain the feeling of living in an illusion of thinking you have it all sorted, in contrast as to how I live now, but life is simple and uncomplicated, joy full and I relish every moment as life unfolds a greater relationship with an ever expanding connection and responsibility, to live and reflect the truth of who we are with all equally
“After all, how can you blame anyone else for your own choices? If you do, isn’t that just being irresponsible, a way of reacting to the outcomes of choices that haven’t turned out to be in your favour?” A great way of describing what blaming someone or something else truly is. We don not want to look at what made us ill, exhausted, sad, angry etc. There is always a message in it for ourselves, honesty is what is asked for and what a change in our life it is.
It sounds simple doesn’t it … we actually don’t want to hear the truth …. And this condition is endemic throughout our society … Thank God there are still people who , despite everything , still choose to commit to the expression of truth
The only reason people feel challenged by Serge Benhayon is because what he presents is simply calling them to a deeper level of responsibility that most are not prepared to live as yet and yet he holds no judgment whatsoever but instead has a consistent and unwavering deep love for himself and humanity…. and that irritates them too.
There is no tension in choosing to be self responsible, only in the holding of an untruth that doesn’t fit in with the natural flow of things. This I would never have agreed to before making more responsible choices in my life, as in some strange and twisted way, the tension felt like it was how I was meant to feel before I thought I had resolved a situation. Funny though, how i never felt resolved within myself when I did eventually get an answer, as that answer seemed to beg a doubt and so another question, and so on. Very unfulfilling.
I am the one responsible for my choices in my life and I am the one that has to live with the consequences of my choices. Before I came to Serge Benhayons presentations I took very little true responsibility for my life and looked outside of me for answers and often blamed others for whatever life threw at me and I had little to no self-respect my choices were driven by my hurts and self-abuse. Since being inspired by the presentations of the Ageless Wisdom by Serge Benhayon I now understand the impact my choice have on myself and other and take responsibility to making loving choices.
I really appreciate the plain mans talk here Trish, it does make sense to challenge the way things are, and to take self responsibility for our health even more instead of blaming our circumstances. I am so glad that I have found a way to examine my contribution to how my life is- without perfection, I do look at my choices with every health issue that arises.
‘We need to take responsibility now for our own way of living, not wait for someone to rescue us.’ Absolutely Trish. Yesterday I booked myself in to have quite a few blood tests done and I couldn’t have my usual Doctor so I had one that was recommended by the receptionist. So in I go and have a request from my naturopath on which tests to have done. While the Doctor was typing them in, she said a couple of these you will have to pay for yourself. I said that was fine and then I felt an appreciation for myself in what I was choosing and started telling her I have never wanted to get a full internal check of my body to see if there is anything that needs some attention or that could be building into something more, and I only came to the doctors when something was so called wrong. Now I want to know what’s happening with all of my body, even those parts that I can’t actually see. I said, it feels a very supportive choice for me and I feel connects me more to me. The doctor said, that’s nice and nodded, but I could see she thought it quite strange that you would go looking for something, but that was fine as I felt my own full support which felt amazing in my body.
Trish these words stood out for me ‘We need to take responsibility now for our own way of living, not wait for someone to rescue us.’ There are many in today’s society that don’t want to take responsibility for their choices, because once we do and we know the truth of the choices we make, if we then turn our back on taking responsibility we also know the consequences are of our own making.
Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine are showing that life can be different, that we should take the responsibility to live in a harmonious way, being who we truly are. This is what is truly needed in society, that we take our faith in our own hands, and get to know that we have a responsibility for how our lives are, it is so simple.
It’s so obvious that the people who make up lies about Serge Benhayon and what he does and doesn’t say are only doing so because they don’t like hearing the truth of what he says. I’ve seen myself react at times, feeling exposed and raw in seeing the many ways of living in my life that are not responsible. The more I truly love myself and others equally the more willing I am to see the big part I play in life, which is what serge constantly reflects.
“For example, we get advised by one lot of health professionals on what to eat; then it seems like the next day we hear something different. Wouldn’t it be simpler if we just tuned into what was right for us?” So many conflicting messages knocking at our doors all the time. Common sense to tune in first and discern what feels true for us to invite in.
Blaming others is so easy to do, especially blaming our parents for the way our lives have turned out – many of us have done this including myself. But now I understand that I was avoiding taking responsibility and was choosing ‘ comfort’ instead. The choice is in every moment; comfort or responsibility, and when we choose responsibility we begin healing our hurts, which can sometimes be challenging to face ourselves and our old unloving choices, but well worth it as complication walks out the door as simplicity walks in.
Trish, your ending line captures beautifully for me what responsibility is, ‘to be true to yourself no matter what’ – and I’m learning and feeling as I go those places where I am responsible and those places where I am not. The minute I catch any blame, I know there is something for me to look at, there is something I’m not accepting or a picture I’m holding of how things should be, and above all I’m being irresponsible. I love that I now have this understanding and that I’m learning to live it – this I knew little of before meeting Serge Benhayon and hearing Universal Medicine presentations. Being more willing to see and feel our choices and their impacts and address them offers all of us a huge freedom and a way to live that is so much more true to who we are, and the more normal this becomes for us, the more we show others this way of living, just as we have been shown by Serge.
Universal Medicine supports people to be true to themselves and learn to live from the body and not at the expense of the body. When we live from our body as the marker of all truth we all live differently but equal in the quality, love and care applied to our bodies.
To be true to ourselves is key to being responsible. For when we listen to what lies within our hearts we aren’t governed by should or should nots, or have tos, we are governed by Truth and Love – offering us another way of living in a world that needs to be inspired out of the mess we are currently living in. A mess that doesn’t seem to be subsiding, in fact, it seems to be getting worse.
Serge Benhayon presents the truth which deep down from feeling it in my body I have known to be true for me, he has never told me what to do, leaving me free to make my own choices.
Serge Benhayon presents the truth which deep down I have known to be true, he has never told me what I should do, he has offered me the truth about something and has left me to make my own choices.
“After all, how can you blame anyone else for your own choices? If you do, isn’t that just being irresponsible, a way of reacting to the outcomes of choices that haven’t turned out to be in your favour?” Most precisely explained what we do when we blame somebody/something else, we simply react to our own choices. We react to our awareness and knowing that we could have made different choices. Nothing is to blame onto another, there is always a learning and deepening for ourselves in the reflections that we receive through our choices.
Trish this sharing is spot on, I have never heard Serge Benhayon say we need to eat certain foods or be a particular way in our lives. It is all left up to each individual to make the choices that are right for them. Through the many changes people have chosen to make, lives have been changed dramatically at times for the better. From food allergies to addictions, many have been cured due to taking responsibility for our own choices.
“I carried on living the way I was living until I could no longer pretend it was OK.” This sentence resonated with me. Serge Benhayon presents and inspires us to take responsibility for our own choices in the way we live.
A true teacher stands with you and beside you and supports you to coming to your own understanding. Responsibility inspiring responsibility.
Spot on Jeanette, beautifully expressed.
We live in a world where blame and reaction reigns and being truly responsible is the last place many of us choose to go to. There are industries, products and services that exist because of that, therefore keep feeding it. Thanks to Serge Benhayon, I now know I have a choice.
I remember not long after I had started going to the presentations by Serge Benhayon, I asked Serge if I should give something up, and his reply was it’s not for me to say one way or the other, it’s up to you to feel, how your body feels, they were wise words because it meant whatever decision I made, I made from knowing my own body.
“To me it is simple – how can taking responsibility for one’s own choices, health and way of living, be harmful to you or anyone else for that matter? Taking responsibility is about being truthful. Truth is one of the biggest things missing in society, and unfortunately in the recent media articles as well.” Good call Trish. Self-responsibility is sorely lacking in society today – but it starts with each of us individually.
The media definitely does hold the power ‘to touch and reach so, so many people’ and therefore hand in hand with that ‘it has one of the biggest responsibilities to represent truth.’ Wouldn’t it be responsible then, to provide more factually correct coverage on the truth about the role we each play in our own health and way of living from the choices we make on a daily basis? This would make more than just a significant contribution to the considerations and choices of the global population, its governments and health services in an era when illness and disease are going through the roof and showing zero signs of plateauing anytime soon.
I agree Linda that’s such a great line, life would be heaps simpler if we all tuned in to what was right for us, and I also totally agree, everytime we do listen to our bodies both our awareness and our sense of self worth increases.
Great point Meg about the link between listening to our bodies and our self worth: taking basic care of ourselves, and living in our own rhythm is a crucial part of our own healing and development. If we live to someone else’s rhythm, or the rhythm of our job, or society, we quickly get out of sync with our own bodies – and it’s like we’re sending a constant message to our bodies that they’re not worth listening to.
I totally agree Trish, I have never heard Serge Benhayon tell anyone what to do, and he’s certainly never told me what to do. He has, however, taught me to take responsibility for the choices I makes and to know 100% that every single one of my choices count.
What I find interesting in all of the accusations and misrepresentations of the truth of what Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine present is that it is so true that the only way to shirk the responsibility it is asking us to take is to discount it, resist it and even attack it rather than take the loving steps to openly consider and eventually live what is being presented
“In my experience Serge has always avoided telling people what to eat – all he presents is to listen to your body and feel what is right for you, and you’ll get to know what you need and what is right for you.” When you listen to your body the choices become much easier and clearer to make.
lovely blog Trish. Serge Benhayon has never told me what to do either, but rather has instead encouraged that I make decisions based on what I feel and know to be true.
“After all, how can you blame anyone else for your own choices? If you do, isn’t that just being irresponsible, a way of reacting to the outcomes of choices that haven’t turned out to be in your favour”.
This is such a powerful and very wise sentence, indeed the choice is always ours and we are being irresponsible if we say otherwise.
What a great definition of the word ‘blame’ : ‘just being irresponsible, a way of reacting to the outcomes of choices that haven’t turned out to be in your favour’. Way more acknowledging of our irresponsibility in the process than any dictionary provides and bringing us a true understanding of what is really playing out when we choose to blame another person or thing for our very own choices.
You raise some great points Trish. I agree with you – truth is missing from society in a big way. I know the more I express truth in my life the more this empowers another to also express their own truth. The more responsible I am in living truth in every area of my life the more I see this reflected back to me.
Thank you Trish for your blog. It is thanks to Universal Medicine that I came to see my life as the result of my choices not bad luck or someone’s fault. I am responsible for every action and thought, for the energy I put out into the world. The love I have introduced in my life I now share with others and it keeps on multiplying.
The best inspiration in the word isn’t the one who tells you how to live but how to ignite your own fire.
Lovely said. For me these people have led me to a deeper relationship with myself in my own time and pace. I can pinpoint those people and one of them is Serge Benhayon. He offered a lot of wisdom for me to ponder upon and in due time make other choices in my life.
We each hold immense power to inspire one another to love thy self deeply and to wake up the sleeping son of man into the claimed Son of God. Imagine if Serge Benhayon held back his love, his expression or his integrity! The ripple effect this man has had on those willing to see the magic he lives everyday is nothing short of miraculous.
Here here Trish, on all levels of what you’ve shared. Until attending UniMed presentations my choices were fuelled with self-abuse, neglect and seeking outside of myself. Now I am paving the way to true responsibility in living a life of integrity, commitment and connection to the loveliness I am. Also, I now understand that my choices not only affect me but everyone around me, so even though I am taking care of and choosing to love myself, it is not just for self but for all.
How often have we made a decision or a choice and not wanted to take responsibility for that choice. Taking responsibility means taking full responsibility for our own choices, and for the consequences of those choices too.
I agree with you Trish. The people who keep coming back to Universal Medicine and to hear what Serge Benhayon presents do so because they know at their core that what he is saying makes sense to them. We all know that there is no follow up, no signing up to anything or exams etc – it is simply presented and we can take or leave it from there.
Trish great article, I love the part where you write “After all, how can you blame anyone else for your own choices? If you do, isn’t that just being irresponsible, a way of reacting to the outcomes of choices that haven’t turned out to be in your favour?” We definitely need to take responsibility for our own choices.
Absolutely Trish and Elodie, Serge Benhayon is ‘inspiring’, and that should be made front page news for all to discover.
‘The decisions for other lives are not Serge’s and the power to change belongs to everyone’. How else are we going to change the world if we don’t look at ourselves first and begin the change there.
Being true to one self involves being responsible for the choices we make. Sometimes it’s hard accepting how irresponsible we have been with certain aspects of our lives, but if you have the courage to work through it, you will see amazing results.
Yes it’s awesome Jennifer and I particularly connect with what Trish says here…”To me it is simple – how can taking responsibility for one’s own choices, health and way of living, be harmful to you or anyone else for that matter? Taking responsibility is about being truthful. Truth is one of the biggest things missing in society, and unfortunately in the recent media articles as well. To me, as the media has the power to touch and reach so, so many people, it has one of the biggest responsibilities to represent truth.”
Indeed Trish this resonates for me…”I had to face what I knew deep down was true, and that what Serge had presented all along – without judgment, criticism or pressure – was true for me.” Serge presents the truth and it’s up to our own personal choice to take it on board or leave it behind.
This blog is super huge Trish. It holds the keys to saving millions of years of pain and suffering if we could add up the amount of people this could affect if we truly undertook self responsibility and self care. The savings to public health would be enormous.
Thanks Trish – your story offers readers a lot of common sense which is something that is sorely lacking often these days. One of the main ways I find people avoid responsibility for their lives is to look for others to tell them what to do. But this is exactly what Serge Benhayon does not do. I suspect there would be even more people flocking to Universal Medicine’s doors if he did so, just to enjoy the comfort of allowing someone else to take care of them.
‘to be true to myself no matter what’ Thank you Trish, for writing your solid statement of how truth can be hard to hear but the only way to live a responsible life for yourself and at the same time for all. I have come to the same conclusion I am the only one who can feel what is true for me, I can be inspired and supported but never is it not my responsibility to discern and feel what is true to me.
Being true to yourself is the lynchpin of Universal Medicine presentations, and not just that, the courses give you the roadmap of how to get back to yourself as well…. Talk about value for money !
Well said, Trish your sharing is a joy to read as the straight forward, common sense is when you connect to the ‘knowing inside’. As you shared, how we cannot blame anyone else for our own choices and it is as simple as taking responsibility for our health and way of being and inspire each other by living true to who we are.
I loved reading Trish’s simple, real and powerful blog too Jennifer. It stopped me when I read that responsibility was about truth and so many of us don’t want to know the truth of what our choices are doing to ourselves and others.Trish like so many I know including myself changed her health around by choosing to live in a way that was true for her and her body. I would say responsibility is about love too , it is loving yourself enough to choose something that supports you rather than something that numbs or depletes you.Responsibility was given a bad wrap , as something we must do or be , its actually a natural loving way when we are true to ourselves.
Thank you Trish for telling it how it is. I love the simplicity in ‘I have found there is a knowing inside us that we have disconnected from’. Connected back to this knowing inside we are able to make conscious choices that serve us and everyone around us.
Powerful said Ilja, I agree once we are connected to ourselves again, we can feel the real purpose of life and what we are needing to be doing , to equally serve people, with absolute integrity. It is incredible to feel what Serge has chosen in his life and to serve others in such deep degree. With full energetic awareness and teaching us all how to become aware of life and energy again. TO me is this is real pace, real love, real truth and joy for mankind. If it was not for Serge, we would not be standing so tall with truth , and would have no real point of reflecting light on earth. We would have continued the same way over and over again. Thank you Serge, for standing forever tall, energetically so.
Because he speaks absolute sense on everything, I wanted Serge Benhayon to tell me how I should be exercising – the regime, the repetitions, the cardio routines. I’d been very active and sporty all my life, playing in teams, attending regular fitness classes and having personal trainers show me the way to a flat-stomached world. I’d hop in a pool and do 80 lengths as a regular workout. But when I started to attend Universal Medicine presentations and began to feel the impact of these choices on my body and to accept my list of sport-related injuries as my own responsibility, I felt at a loss to know how to go about keeping my body ‘fit’. I’ll always be indebted to Serge for not giving me an answer but leaving me to feel this for myself . It took a few years to really appreciate a different way of connecting to and being with my body and how to partner with it in gentle, supportive fitness rather than have my mind running the show and ‘doing unto’ it. I no longer use my body as a machine but rather honour its fragility, work with its strength and treat it with the respect it deserves. Only I can know my body, its limits, its levels of suppleness and stuckness, so I’m best placed to set my own approach based on how I feel in each moment. Serge Benhayon is not ‘anti-exercise’. He’s a passionate advocate. He just isn’t prescriptive because each body has different needs at different times. Serge has taught me this through my own lived experience. That’s true responsibility.
Thank you Trish and Cathy, I agree, Serge Benhayon understands all the Universal laws and absolutely knows the ‘true responsibility’ (karmic interplay) of telling the ‘truth’ and allowing people to make their own ‘choices’!
It sounds so simple when you put it like that Linda. We have a choice don’t we, to be open to change or not, no one forces us. But to take responsibility for our own actions seems fundamental to me to responsible living.
Your comment…”We need to take responsibility now for our own way of living, not wait for someone to rescue us” is exactly what I have learnt from all of the talks I have attended by Serge Benhayon. He has given me back control of my life funnily enough. I am deeply grateful for that.
Lucy I was always wanting someone to come and rescue me and answer all my questions. Since attending Universal Medicine I to have gained control of my life and live more responsibly each day.
Since attending Universal Medicine presentations and private sessions I have sought mainstream western medicine without second thought. I have no problem booking doctors appointments and taking medicine that is needed to support my body with whatever it’s dealing with. This is not because ‘Serge said so’, it is my own decisions based on a new (yet very old) sense of love I have for myself, it is part of how I now care for my body and it’s wellbeing.
Absolutely Trish and Rachael, Serge Benhayon has always been ‘pro the surgery’ and ‘doctors’, also total supportive of those who have had any treatments before and after hospitalisations!
Serge Benhyaon has presented the most common sense approach to health and well-being I have heard, I love how he sees health as not only about what we eat and drink but how we are with everything we do in life, by looking at life as a whole rather than parts makes so much sense.
Imagine what a game changer it would be if those in the media acted with integrity and based their practice on truth? The world would go through a serious detox. But, there is no need to wait for that to happen, as it starts with every one us, expressing our own truth whenever and wherever possible.
Responsibility can be inspired by another who is living more responsibly. It’s pretty simple. When one chooses to reject the (at times) confronting nature of someone like Serge Behayon living and sharing his truth, they simply stay where they are.
Well said Oliver. I have been inspired by many people who I see living more responsibly, none more so than Serge Benhayon.
Great question Trish and totally agree with you Aimee that it is ‘an inspiring reflection for others to see someone else making choices that are more in line with the love they are instead of overriding what they feel in their body.’
‘I have found there is a knowing inside us that we have disconnected from.’ Absolutely and this is what Serge Benhayon presents and supports everyone to reconnect to and take responsibility for their own choices. A huge and much needed service to humanity.
One day we will look back and cringe at our level of self responsibility and say how did we live so recklessly.
Thank you Trish for sharing these facts that all of us attending Universal Medicine know as truth. I love what you have said here- After all, how can you blame anyone else for your own choices? If you do, isn’t that just being irresponsible, a way of reacting to the outcomes of choices that haven’t turned out to be in your favour? Being responsible for the choices we are making and making new choices to change what is not true is to feel the power of love.
This is a beautiful sharing Trish…I love the way you bring everything back to our responsibility, for every little choice we make in life – no exceptions, no excuses and no-one else to blame for the way our life is.
Beautiful blog Trish. Sometimes it is difficult to hear the truth especially when we realise that there is no one else to blame for our choices. I too have only ever seen Serge Benhayon present what he knows as true and never tell anyone what to do. In fact I have repeatedly heard him say that you need to feel what is true for you.
Very true Lee. Serge has never ever told me what to do or not to do, nor have I ever heard this in any of his presentations. He presents facts, lived experiences from his body and it is up to me to process this, accept or not.
I agree Trish. From the first presentation I went to where Serge Benhayon presented, he never asked me to change a thing, his presentation was so profound that I found later on I was asking myself to look deeply into how I was living, and every choice I have made to change my life has been my own. I am very grateful to Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine for opening my eyes, and my heart so I could make those changes.
Responsibility is the theme here for me. There is the irresponsibility of blaming others for your own choices and the results there of, and the irresponsibility of the media in their untruths. In striking contrast is the responsibility that you have chosen – for your health and well-being. Responsibility is empowering, not a chore.
A great blog Trish, this line really stood out for me – ‘ be true to myself no matter what’ – thank you for this beautiful reminder.
Be True To Myself No Matter What….. bullseye… great way to start the day!
Thank you Trish for this sharing. ” The truth shall set you free”, I have heard spoken, and it feels to me that this is a true statement. The more we speak and live the truth the better our relationships with each other and in general on a World scale would be. Wow how incredible! It all starts with ONE.
Hearing the truth presented as clearly as Serge Benhayon delivers it can be confronting but boy oh boy does the world need it.
Here here! Everyone has experienced having to ‘suck eggs’ and be humbled at some point. Those who are more willing to do so, are essentially willing to live more truth in the world.
Yes, not easy but oh so worth it. When we choose to connect to and live the truth we all benefit.
Hi Trish, so true, when we are faced with the truth of how we are living and the choices we are making that are harming us, it is sometimes easier to criticise the person who is delivering the truth than have a look at how we are living. This is definitely happening with Serge Benhayon, people are criticising him, and saying things that are not true, to perhaps avoid taking responsibility of their own choices.
Great post, Trish. It shows how self care is the way and that it is time to assume responsibility for our choices. I love how you say: “After all, how can you blame anyone else for your own choices? If you do, isn’t that just being irresponsible, a way of reacting to the outcomes of choices that haven’t turned out to be in your favour?” Very true!
My experience correlates with yours very closely. No force, no requirement, just an presentation that encourages self responsibility and deep, levels of self care. My relationship with my wife has only change to the degree each of us are willing to accept this and live it each day.
I agree Joel. My relationship with my wife, thanks to the inspiration of Serge Benhayon, has a depth of love that I did not know was possible. However, our relationship has only developed this depth as each of us has been willing to take responsibility for our choices and how we are with each other. While Serge has been inspiring, it is our commitment to ourselves and our relationship that has developed this depth of love.
Thank you Trish for a beautiful blog. In my experience with Serge Benhayon, I found a man who lives what he presents, and what he presents is indeed simple: taking responsibility for our choices and being true to you.
I agree Jill. Simple, loving and being true to ourselves. Serge Benhayon presents what he lives.
Some great points here Trish. From reading your blog I realize that it has been through Serge Benhayon that I have developed a much greater respect for conventional medicine. I once had a view of suspicion of the medical system and Dr’s, I wanted to think and act in a more ‘natural’ way. There was not a Dr who had my full medical history and I would only go to see one when I really needed to. But now I can see that both conventional and esoteric medicine are very much needed and can work extremely well together to help people in need. There is a Dr who I see regularly and we together keep track of my physiological health. It is such a beautiful change.
A simple and beautiful message. Taking responsibility for ones choices – it is common sense.
Absolutely Trish and Peter, Serge Benhayon is ‘inspiring’ and simply makes ‘common sense’.
We are not innocent. We choose all the time. We are accountable for our decisions in spite of its results. Nice as it could be, in truth it is not fair to anyone to expect to be rescued from our own choices.
And that’s what many want to avoid, the pain of taking responsibility for their choices knowing that they made them. There is no rescue, we rescue us, by stopping, being honest, feeling where our choices have taken us and allowing ourselves the grace to choose differently.
Absolutely agree Trish, very well said it is all our responsibility. It is quite interesting how things are turned around just to fit a story and that there seems to be no interest in telling the truth. As if the truth was less interesting to tell. This says a lot about how things are perceived and that there is more interest in bringing people down than in appreciating a healthy lifestyle. And off course that all reflects back to responsibility.
You made some great points here Trish. Society deserves to read the truth not what the media tries to sell them, so thank you for delivering a great article exposing the many un-truths that are out there about Serge and Universal Medicine.
‘Taking responsibility is about being truthful.’ A powerful truth you have shared here thank you Trish. I agree that truth and taking responsibility for our choices is something that we tend to avoid as a society. As being truthful allows us to feel what we are and what we are not and this leads the way for us to claim the truth of who we really are.
Trish, what an insightful, common sense and practical blog – I love it. Your comment on responsibility really resonated, how can we blame another for what we do, we sell them and us short as we take away our own power to address things – if we stop, acknowledge and accept and then look at our choices it’s so different we get to see how our choices work or don’t work for us and then we can see where we want to go with them. Simple.
And in that stop we create space to be able to see and observe what is going on and potentially make a different choice, rather than rushing in with the same unhealthy behaviours.
This is something I’m having to learn over and over again ‘be true to myself, no matter what’. Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine bring us all the tools to be able to live that. Thank you for your post Trish. In the end I am becoming more aware that this is a universal truth that we will ALL one day accept.
Shevon I agree I also have to learn over and over again to be true to myself, no matter what. I can feel that this is not everybody’s cup of tea in the moment but as you wrote – in the end it will be an universal truth and we all will accept it.
As I read this I could feel the beautiful way both you and your partner have chosen to be responsible for your choices. To bring understanding to why previously you wanted to take the edge off life, and through this understanding accepted full responsibility for the lives you had and then making the changes necessary to live the life you are now. What an inspiration to every one you know.
Thank you Trish and Leigh, I concur, relationships are a part of our evolutionary path if we choice to work at true communication and express to each to be clear about any issues that may arise. When ‘the choices my partner and I made for ourselves in our own lives,’ this is truly evolving for all concerned.
A great summary of what Universal medicine is in truth and what it has brought to so many, the return to the true you.
“Truth is one of the biggest things missing in society, and unfortunately in the recent media articles as well.” Being true to yourself increases the amount of truth in the world
Trish you completely expose as lies the accusations that Serge Benhayon tells people what to do. ‘After all, how can you blame anyone else for your own choices? If you do, isn’t that just being irresponsible, a way of reacting to the outcomes of choices that haven’t turned out to be in your favour’?
Responsibility is something that most invest a lot of time and energy in avoiding. How much easier does it seem to be able to blame another if things don’t work out the way that we would like?
Serge is criticised because what he presents on responsibility and choices exposes those perhaps who have spent their lives blaming others for all that happens in their lives.
As anything in the world lacks consistency, apart from the press, who is consistent in not telling the truth and the facts, it’s up to us to build that consistency in our lives. What better way than to listen to ourselves and making choices that support being truthful and responsible?
“After all, how can you blame anyone else for your own choices? If you do, isn’t that just being irresponsible.”
Trish, this is so true, when we take responsibility for our choices
we have the opportunity to change the way we live, own our mistakes, learn and let go. Things start to change in our lives when we take responsibility.
Thank you Trish.
Taking responsibility for ourselves is what will bring enormous changes to our lives and allow us to live in a much simpler and joyful way then before.
But choosing to take this responsibility only we ourselves can.
It is all about that word ‘choice’, and taking the responsibility to change. Thank you Trish for a great blog . I remember the first time I heard Serge speak I knew that I had come home (to me).
I remember the first time I heard an audio that Serge presented and knew from one line that this was full-on wisdom and truth. What I knew deeply within.
This is just one beautiful statement of many, in fact there are thousands of people that have a similar story to tell, about how the work of Universal Medicine and inspiration of Serge Benhayon has inspired them to connect within, to their bodies and to their feelings to feel what in fact is true for them. There are many organisations or groups that talk about re-connecting with your inner-self and inner-feelings and living from this space. This is not a new concept. The power of Universal Medicine is that is shares tools and techniques to truly connect within, to truly re-claim our inner-strength and commit to bringing not only a great and positive change in one’s life, but to truly inspire others to do the same, so the effect has a flow on effect so that people around you are also inspired, at which time it is up to them whether they reject or accept the possibility. Unfortunately on some occasions, when some people reject what come’s up when they are inspired to re-connect deep within their may be a back lash at the so called group who inspired the connection, punishing them for what was felt, which is simply all of the choices that have been made against the connection that is being reflected.
I had to laugh when I read “Serge doesn’t tell me what to do or think (sometimes I wish he did – but that wouldn’t be me deciding what is right for me!” Over the years I have on numerous occassions tried to get Serge Benhayon to tell me what to do when I thought I was unsure or stuck in one situation or another, and each time he has instead supported me to connect to, trust and honour my own truth from within myself.
“After all, how can you blame anyone else for your own choices? If you do, isn’t that just being irresponsible, a way of reacting to the outcomes of choices that haven’t turned out to be in your favour?” Yes, Trish, it’s all too easy to blame others for our unwise choices.
Thank you Trish for a great blog. What came to me whilst reading your blog was, it took Serge to point out the obvious with regards to my choices and that it never occurred to me that I was living in an abusive manner, to myself or to others and at first I didn’t want to listen or face the facts of my choices. But then things slowly started to change and I could see the wisdom of what I was being presented to me.
I have enjoyed to read about your lived experiences in response to media statements about Serge Benhayon. My sense of the media is they appear to have a somewhat lackadaisical approach to the integrity required, and, as you say Trish…’as the media has the power to touch and reach so, so many people, it has one of the biggest responsibilities to represent truth’…
I love what you say here Jane about that we want to blame anyone for our choices because it has not turned out to be in our favour. Ugly but true it is what we do. The blame means there is no responsibility on our part. The chances are we don’t learn from what we have just done and so we end up repeating the same old pattern expecting change but in truth things just get worse. Things change when we take responsibility for our choices as Trish says in her title.
Great blog Trish and the not so underlying message, which I wholeheartedly agree with, is to take full responsibility for our choices. I also agree that Serge Benhayon has never told anyone to do anything, he just presents what has truly supported his own life and asks us to consider that how we live has a direct affect on how we are feeling. As you say, responsibility is about being truthful, but in my experience, most are not ready for that level of truth.
This is great what you are saying, Trish Mazur and thank you for bringing this subject up about Serge Benhayon and medicine. I recall in 2008 Serge supporting me with my major surgery and I really was into my spiritual new age mindset which meant I could heal it without the medics. Had I not listened to the wise words of this man, I doubt I would be alive today and that really is a fact. Serge Benhayon is pro-medicine, but he gave me another insight into why this could possibly have happened to me and like you say I got the best of both worlds and today my amazing life is a real testimony of the teachings of Serge Benhayon. A man who stands for Truth in absoluteness – unwavering and deeply inspiring.
This is an amazing ode to Universal Benhayon, it’s beautiful Trish. I am too eternally grateful to Serge Benhayon.
Being responsible for one’s own choices is a common-sense that is not so common en masse these days. However, and with great appreciation to Serge Benhayon and every body involved in Universal Medicine’s teachings, it is growing. This blog is simple and straight-forward in sharing how you have chosen to make your own choices, in regards to your own life, it is inspiring. Every single one of us has that equal power to choose and change. Thank you.
I agree,’the common sense of being responsible for one’s own choices is not so common en masse these days’. Society today seems more obsessed with ‘rights’ rather than ‘responsibilities’.
That’s a very good point. Society obsesses over the ‘right’ to do this or that. The focus towards ‘I have a right to do this’ completely obscures the ‘why’ – Why do people have that right to do whatever they please? ‘Rights’ to me seem like an excuse to say ‘I don’t want to be bound by responsibility’. But responsibility comes hand in hand with power and everyone has the equal ability to choose to be responsible. So by focusing on our ‘rights’ are we choosing to live in a lesser state? Are we focusing on playing small?
Catherine & Leigh,
Beautifully put, about rights and responsibility. I thank you deeply as I often get a bit lost when faced with what people feel is their right to do or have, I have always felt the force this comes with, but often have found myself numb in how to respond in the face of this force. To see this in its true light where it is simply a way to shirk responsibility is a great support to me.
Catherine and the following comments by both Leighs, that’s a great distinction, how our obsession with rights is a clever ruse to avoid taking responsibility and as I can feel the push behind that, how it’s like a naughty child demanding sweets just because they can, with no consideration for the impact on others, and often we give in to those demanding those rights as we feel bullied. However this is not true and indeed it’s unloving both to us and those demanding rights. True rights are available to all equally, come with responsibility and no-one feels in any way less in how they are exercised. We have some way to go on this, but slowly we are learning – awareness is our first step.
Trish you have very clearly presented the facts of how Universal Medicine has inspired and supported you and your partner to make and live from a much more truthful and honest way. It is great to hear that there are no knee jerk reactions and that you both follow what is true to you at that time – that only goes further to illustrate the truth behind how Serge Benhayon presents – as you say there are no rules, only love and support and a livingness.
Thank you Trish, I appreciate your honest writing. For me, what is important to acknowledge here is how you and your partner, like many of us, went through a period of reviewing the not so great choices you had made in your lives, to take drugs etc, and that it was confronting to face those choices together for a while.
However, once you were able to re-connect to what felt right for you and what supported you, there was no giving up on the relationship or abdicating responsibility for it or anything in the past, but actually there was a stronger commitment to yourselves and each other. What I have experienced is that when we are resistant to accepting the choices we have made, we are only avoiding what could easily be healed once and for all, simply by being honest and taking responsibility for these choices.
Beautifully expressed Trish. I love how you show how easy it is for us to inspire each other by simply living true to who we are.
So strong and clear and TRUE Trish – thank you.
This is a great article, Trish. Thank you.
I agree Trish, thank you for your contribution.
Thank you Trish for expressing here what does truly make sense. As I read those negative comments that have been made about Serge and other practitioners, I was reminded of the HUGE inflammatory reaction that the media has portrayed about lifestyle choices that are common sense, but threaten the comfort culture that defines most of our lives. Keep feeling the truth!
Well said, Trish. Your candid sharing is a joy to read. Straight forward, “common sense” as you say, via reconnecting to the “knowing inside” that we do all have. I too am so glad I have been present to hear Serge Benhayon speak. Had I not, I would not have taken the steps I have in this self-responsibility, and I would not be living the true joy that I find myself in now. Every step we take in being true to ourselves is to be treasured. Thank-you.
That is just beautiful Victoria, ‘every step we take to be true to ourselves is to be treasured’ – thank you for reminding me of the joy of my ever unfolding and deepening relationship with me.
What a beautiful comment and reflection monicag2. It’s great to revisit Trish’s awesome blog today and appreciate again, the blessing of ‘every step taken’ back to who we truly are. So very many ‘further’ steps have been taken since 2012, and I find myself at a place I could not have imagined then – as I’m sure many, many students of Universal Medicine also do.
The level of consistency in the presentations, offering opportunities for deeper awareness, love, joy and vitality to our lives is truly and remarkably astounding…
Thank you Trish and Victoria, I absolutely agree, with all you have shared about Serge Benhayon. Serge only ever presents truth at a level that all can understand if they so choose. Hence those who choose not to see truth at this point in time, will “one day” get it!
beautiful Victoria. I too would not be living the exquisite joy that I live every day today if I had not taken the time to listen to Serge Benhayon speak, what he says really makes sense! There was no need to believe or convince myself of anything that he has said, because by testing out the livingness with myself and seeing the tangible and practical results, I was blown away with the consistency of my lifestyle choices! I was totally inspired and allowed myself to see for myself what I would feel like if I made certain choices and adjustments my life. My God they work.
The ‘proof is most definitely in the pudding’ Harry. I’ve never felt an iota of being ‘told’ how to live my life by Serge Benhayon, but rather have always and am continually inspired by the way he lives his, and all that he shares.
And yes, “My God they work”! I feel more vital and alive in my forties than I did in my twenties or thirties, more purposeful, my relationships are rich and inspiring, the list goes on. Truly remarkable, and I’m with you, the joy I know within is felt CONSISTENTLY – every day. Gone is the heaviness I once felt in getting through life – an emotional dross I once felt was ‘normal’.
Trish, loved your down to earth article. You mention how the media has the power to touch people with a responsibility to represent truth. Fortunately you are demonstrating just how to do so.
So simple and so true – thanks Trish.
Thank you Trish – what you write is so very sensible and a pleasure to read. I too was supported by Serge to have knee surgery and know him to be very pro-medicine. Nobody who attended the fabulous Universal Medicine end of year party and saw the fitness and vitality of all the participants dancing and enjoying themselves, could say Serge was anti-exercise. All the other points you raise are so clearly true and spot on!
Love your post Trish. 🙂