by Claudia Swadek, Germany
For me the holiest place in the world is in my bed under my blanket. I love the time early in the morning, when it is still outside and I have the space for myself to feel me in my body. When I choose that time for me, there is a longing inside to connect deeper within myself.
I want to describe, what I experience:
I start with honestly nominating what is there at that moment. The only truth is me being with my body, and my body reflecting back to me how it really feels.
Often I recognise that I have a lot of thoughts and am very busy in my head. I am quite warm, but I notice I am still feeling a coldness and constriction, mostly in the upper part of my body, even when I have two blankets over it.
More issues are coming to my mind, going in circles and going nowhere. This doesn`t feel good in my body, I feel small, cold, contracted and empty. But, coming from the experience where my body has felt something different – something which was greater, warmer, lighter – I start to connect deeper and reflect that the cold contracted feeling is not the true me, I know I am much more than that.
I drop immediately into my body, connecting to an energy flowing within – just waiting for me to go with it. I sense an energetic opening, cascading and starting from the upper body down to the feet and beyond – becoming warmer, bigger, lighter. It`s like a stretching from the inside, a wonderful process of unraveling, breaking through old pathways.
I am really impressed with the power of that energy working through me and I become aware of parts of my body that I haven`t noticed before – I am opening and relaxing, I get a smile on my face.
In this state I feel free and joyful, playful as a child, there is no need for any coffee or drink, or even an ounce of a thought of it, that could possibly distract me from that lovely feeling inside of me.
There is no room for bigger or better than others, no emotions of anger, jealousy, sadness, there is just love with me and others, and even all those I haven`t yet met.
Now I am ready for the day…
I feel very supported and I want to say thank you to Serge Benhayon, his family, Universal Medicine and the esoteric students, because they present a loving, true and deeper understanding of energy that helps me to better understand what I have always known and felt before.
The Truth about Serge Benhayon 
Sometimes I imagine a community and a society where we support each other simply to be and to feel all there is to feel. And to foster that, it begins with ourselves and in our own families and from there can grow our to the community as others are inspired likewise.
Feeling the body, feeling our breath, feeling our rib cage rise and fall as we breathe – these are the simple ways for us to bring ourselves out of the head and into the body and much more present and aware of everything around us. Such a simple tool we can take anywhere with us, anywhere that our body is taken too.
The warmth we hold deep inside is one of the most precious things we all have. It is simply there waiting for us to connect to it at any moment in time.
Beautiful to just be love, and feel that for self, and others, ‘There is no room for bigger or better than others, no emotions of anger, jealousy, sadness, there is just love with me and others, and even all those I haven`t yet met
“In this state I feel free and joyful, playful as a child, there is no need for any coffee or drink”. Your line highlights how little relationship we have with ourselves and our bodies as adults, we often wake and launch into the day beginning with coffee, but not beginning with ourselves.
Great point Melinda, starting with ourselves, is the only true starting point and that is our opportunity to bring true quality to our day.
Maybe this needs to be introduced to schools and the workplace, it feels so gorgeous, what a start to the day.
This feels like a beautiful morning routine that deeply honours and connects you with yourself, ‘I drop immediately into my body, connecting to an energy flowing within – just waiting for me to go with it. I sense an energetic opening, cascading and starting from the upper body down to the feet and beyond – becoming warmer, bigger, lighter. It`s like a stretching from the inside, a wonderful process of unraveling, breaking through old pathways.’
Great to read this again Claudia, it’s a snapshot of how life can be when we recognise the difference between sourcing who we are from our spirit – contracted, racy, restricted, heavy etc; or sourcing who we are from our soul – love, warmth, and openness.
Our preparation for the day can start with how we put our-selves to bed and the ritual and rhythm that it is done in.
Yes Greg, it’s one continuous cycle where every moment matters.
So True Melinda, as we deepen and allow the loving focus to become a part of our rhythm, then the magical moments we are exposed to become our new normal within our ‘cycle’.
“The only truth is me being with my body, and my body reflecting back to me how it really feels” – I really love this beautiful simplicity. Interesting how we try to be creative in the way we try adding to and decorating this simplicity with something that is not of the same source.
I understand what you are saying that there is a body of people now that I can be with and not feel out of place because we are all learning how to reconnect back to what we know is true against the falsity of life.
It is true when we connect to ourselves and enjoy the moment, the warmth, the joy the playfulness, there is nothing to hold us back and we are ready for what ever the day will bring.
The interplay between the quality of energy and how my body feels is a truth that can’t be denied. When I’m racy and thinking, not in the moment, reactive, tense etc, it’s all reflected in the body as constriction, suppression, tightness, cold, pain etc. When I’m connected to my inner heart, to the essence of me and my soul it’s very freeing, the body settles and relaxes, it feels open and there is a beautiful flow and movement of energy within.
Yes and it sets the day up in a completely different way. It isn’t about wasting time, but being present in every moment, ready to respond to what is called for in any given moment.
I felt this today, I could feel the stillness of the morning and the opportunity to start the day without a raciness in my body. The opportunity is always just waiting for us to choose it.
It is such an exquisite feeling – a moment when time ceases to exist or at least ceases to govern us, and a moment when space expands to allow for so much to be felt, seen, understood. An eternal expansion of the being that only the mind seeks to cap.
Love gives a greater awareness of reality, of truth and who we are. Being open to love is therefore the best thing you can do.
Connecting deeply to oneself in the early morning is as wonderful as to be open and willing to play around with ways of connecting that brings us to feel even more beauty.
This time you have described is one of greater resurrection — one that is connecting to a deeper part within oneself. A richdom we have instore when we connect to our inner-heart. All we have to do is start with a gentle breath, one that I have learned through the Gentle Breath Meditation, and have been ever since.
What I have felt is that we are more so Gods, often knowing very deeply what our power is, yet using ways to deny this we often do — which creates a force that is not us. This is merely so the effect we are now experiencing in our world. Where force (not love) is being used instead of love (our power).
I too love the time early in the morning when everything is so quite, so still…. Much later in the day, or more precisely at the end of the day, I notice I have lost the beautiful stillness I had felt first thing in the morning. Have been working on this, and checking in with myself more during the day, so that there is not such a big gap or difference from the early morning.
Time in the morning for ourselves when we can appreciate our preciousness and choose to move in a way that honours that, that allows us to feel our delicacy – a lovely way to start each day.
Yes, this feels like a lovely way to start the day.
Making time to connect with me… this title says it all. There is nothing more important than connecting with our true wealth within which is our natural divine essence.
“Making the time to connect with ourselves is the best medicine we can offer to our body and to our sense of wellbeing” I agree Elizabeth, the best medicine is the attention and care we give ourselves.
This precious morning connection with ourselves, is to be treasured. It is our foundation for the day.
Gorgeous to read this today Claudia, and could feel how much you dropped into your body and how much you were fed back. But the message for me today, is to spend more time connecting with myself when I have just awoken as everything feels so still around me first thing in the morning.
‘The only truth is me being with my body, and my body reflecting back to me how it really feels.’ And that’s just it, to feel our bodies and allow ourselves to honour that feeling without becoming attached to or identified by it. It offers a different way for us to live and be, and shows us that we do not have to be a prisoner of our mind.
To truly let it come through what you deserve (love) is the greatest expression of all. That is what I love about the teachings and livingness by Serge and Natalie Benhayon. I love them. Even in times of resistance within myself too!
I notice how either warm or coolish I feel depending on how much I want to actually connect with my body or not.
I like your ‘.. stretching from the inside’ as it is true when we feel the power we have by aligning to our essence we grow and are willing to be seen in the day that is coming.
I love early mornings, they are a time to be with me and enjoy the connection with my body and how it feels. I love how you describe the way you feel the cold and contraction mostly in your upper part of the body and then as you connect, you feel the warmth starting to flow through your body. Starting the day like this is so much more joyful than waking thinking about all the things that need to be done during the day, this already feels exhausting and overwhelming and pushes the body into overdrive.
I agree Alison, beginning the day with what we will enjoy the most, our beautiful connection with our essence and being settled in our bodies.
Yes, I love all of this too, ‘I love early mornings, they are a time to be with me and enjoy the connection with my body and how it feels.’
So much of life is currently about getting things done and how much we can achieve, there is not much focus on or value put to our relationship to ourselves. I have found for me taking care of my relationship to me and my connection to myself as the foundation for life has completely changed the way I am in the world. Although I can still get caught up in the rush and panic of how much there is to do in a day, I am now more able to stop these behaviours and reconnect back to the lovely warmth within that is my essence, and also reconnect to and move with my whole body. As you mentioned Claudia getting stuck in the mind is not a pleasant experience, and it cuts us off from the warmth and loveliness of our connection to our soul and body.
A beautiful way to start the day and “It’s like a stretching from the inside” is a glorious description of re-connecting to oneself.
Yes and clearly illustrates what it feels like when we put on the straightjacket of ‘acceptability’.
This is a beautiful testimony of the self-empowerment that is offered for us to embrace through the presentations of Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon. This highlights precisely how it is possible to live with utter joy through our every day, consistently, through our connection to who we are within, to our Soul.
What a gorgeous account of the power we all have to connect deeply with our inner essence (love) no matter what heady state we may be in at the time. This was really inspiring for me to read and I felt I was right there with Claudia feeling that beautiful stillness.
It is alchemy taking place when we connect to our body by feeling every detail. The stillness that emerges from this opens up your body even more and is the perfect start for a day.
“There is no room for bigger or better than others, no emotions of anger, jealousy, sadness, there is just love with me and others, and even all those I haven`t yet met.” What a lovely way to start the day, waking with you and not allowing the thoughts to come in and distract you or take you away from being with you. I know quite often I can wake thinking of the day ahead and it doesn’t take long before I am lost in the day rather than enjoying the moment that I am in.
Early mornings provide no doubt a moment of Deep reconnection with the body. There is no bigger beauty than bathing in us & being bathed by us.
Love this Eduardo: ‘there is no bigger beauty than bathing in us and being bathed by us – this is how we can truly hold ourselves.
I love that you say “making time to.. “. How much time do we spend on things during the day and it really just takes a few moments or minutes to check in with ourselves every now and then during the day and see how we are really going. It is so worth dedicating time to ourself and to explore how at home, without any distractions, we can actually feel in our body.
The way we begin our day is a reflection of all the days before it and at that moment we have a choice. Do we numb ourselves to what we feel and go into drive or simply connect to who we are and allow our body to dictate the next move?
This is so beautiful. Love just let’s you be. The space that comes with this is infinite and so still. And the best thing is it’s always there – we just have to choose it.
‘For me the holiest place in the world is in my bed under my blanket’ – love it Claudia! What a great reminder of what precious times of the day going to bed and night and waking in the morning really are, times that I could certainly do with appreciating more.
It really is like magic even when I can feel small/contracted/cold etc. just keep allowing whatever is there to be felt, with no judgment, eventually brings back the grand yumminess of what I truly am that is much bigger than whatever that was I was feeling previously.
letting go of judgement is key. When we do this we expand our awareness and can appreciate the observations we make.
How much of our day do we spend just with ourselves? Not our mind but with what our body is feeling. Granted it can be confronting as our body is always communicating the truth of how we are living within it. But the beautiful thing is that the more I connect the more I feel that loosening and relaxing as the body naturally knows how to re-harmonise.
What a most delicious way to start every day, in absolute connection to our self. There is nothing more wonderful than to be connected to who we truly are as for most of the time we are living to the frantic beat of the world, a beat that is totally at odds with the harmony that is so natural in our body. When we are connected to our self we are then naturally connected to this innate harmony.
Love this blog Claudia! Reading it is like having an Esoteric Yoga session.
A beautiful reminder of the importance to connect to ourselves first thing in the morning setting ourselves up for the rest of the day, when we are truly connected to ourselves we are able to connect to others too.
Love is love and that is what Serge Benhayon constantly shares with us in multiple ways. We are born love and we are love, hence when we miss this connection within ourselves we seek love. Even if we dont have it presently in our lives, we seek it, because deep down we know it is all that we are. We are in stuck in a certain creation, that is loveless, all we need to do is get ourselves out of that.
On completion of your blog about the special space you create to spend with yourself, I begun to consider that on a whole, we seem to avoid these magic moments of connection with ourselves. Most of us, actually deliberately avoid them, I wonder why? Could it be that we are all powerful beings that only require short touch bases to reconnect and re-charge? Maybe deep down are we afraid of our own power? Perhaps we ‘read’ our family and friends arounds us in detail and our biggest fear is getting to a point that we may leave others behind?
Promoting the joy of these moments of connection is so needed, reminding others that there is nothing to lose and everything to gain! Awesome blog, thank you!
To start the day with these movements inside, although they might not look as movements on the outside, influences the movements we make the rest of the day. If we start from connection to ourselves and the sacredness we are we reflect that the whole day and keep building and deepening that. I experience it is also easier to observe and not be judgmental from this place which makes life much more fun.
What a beautiful approach to the day… and yourself Claudia. And it is something available to us all.
It is so easy to just feel the tension and think it is us, something I have done a lot, but your approach to it is very inspiring, to know there is a greatness underneath the tension we can always connect to.
This is a great reminder Lieke. Often we feel what is on the surface but it’s not us anyway and if we go deeper then we get to feel who we truly are. When I wake up tired I think that is who I am and how I am that I get up begrudgingly instead of feeling it without judgement and knowing that I am still everything even if I’m not feeling full of energy that day.
Gorgeous – awakening us to what it means to make time to connect to you.
A beautiful awakening to the day and to who you truly are.
It is a beautiful message you share here Claudia – thank you. Our bodies do glisten with joy when we surrender to truth, as truth is what our bodies are designed to be powered by.
When I reconnect to the love I am in essence I have also felt this exact same thing “there is just love with me and others, and even all those I haven`t yet met.” Thankyou Claudia.
Beautiful Claudia! I love coming back to this gorgeous reminder of how to get out of bed with all of me.
To be honest I never use to take any notice of what I was feeling when I first woke up. I would just wake already thinking about what I needed to do and most of the time I would already be on my feet before I knew it. One day would roll into the next and there seemed to be no time. After reading this article I want to bring more detail to how I feel when I wake, I do take the time to check in but this article has brought me more awareness of what else that is there that I am possibly not seeing.
You remind me that there is no judgement in honesty. What a beautiful way to start the day.
I reckon when we are not honest it can be because there is already a judgment.
The body always communicates what is there but it varies it how willing we are to listen. Starting the day with a stopmoment, with connecting and listening allows for connection with ourselves and for space in the body. The more space we allow in our bodies, the more truth and love can be there and be lived.
Gorgeous Claudia. Love the connection and paying attention to ourselves with loving detail.
Is this not what we all are truly looking for in life, to feel that connection within ourselves and with others? It does start with us bringing our loving attention back to our bodies and the being within.
Spending moments to connect to our body and appreciate the wonder of all we behold is a glorious way to move into our day. Lovely sharing Claudia.
The holiest of holy places for me is within my heart, but being underneath my blanket would absolutely be a bonus, where the warmth within becomes that from without and so when I arise and start my day, it is with an embrace towards the world that emanates from the intimacy within my body.
This is beautiful what you share here in this blog Claudia, as it to connect with ourselves as you describe and feel the joy and playfulness.
This is a great reminder and inspiration to connect with our bodies before we start our day.
Thank you Claudia for presenting a snapshot of how a day can be when we connect to our body and nurture ourselves with love. We can powerfully change the course of each day, and it’s all there in our relationship to ourselves.
Life can become a lot simpler understanding it through energy, and the body.
This sounds like an incredible way to begin any day Claudia.We are everything we could ever want and the more we give ourselves an opportunity to feel and appreciate this the better.
What a gorgeous reminder Claudia that there is just love, when all the other hurts and distractions are taken out of the way. It is a simple choice we make to live the love and truth that is in our bodies; or not.
It’s such a simple yet very powerful choice to make the space to connect to ourselves every morning and to feel how this supports us and brings a greater harmony and flow into every part of our day.
It is in such stillness that we find out true self and thus we find God, the Universe and Us All. To wake and thus walk in full connection with ourselves is the key to never having to walk alone.
It is beyond golden, to develop a sacred relationship with ourselves.
Claudia, I love the honesty with which you have shared your experiences with us here, showing just how deeply our relationship with our own bodies is fundamental to fostering a sacred relationship with ourselves – the body being the place that we inhabit, every single day. It’s worth the attentiveness, isn’t it… We are worth it.
Absolutely Victoria, for me the way back to that relationship with myself and my body has come through Esoteric Yoga, surely one of the most gentle and powerful modalities to grace this earth.
As Claudia’s every word here speaks of true yoga… union with oneself and the body that we inhabit.
Making time and space to connect to me has been my saving grace. To be able to feel who I truly am in my essence, who I am from within, not focusing on what the world is trying to reflect to me, which almost always is, that i am less, not good enough or capable enough. But when I connect with me and live from there, I know who I am, where I come from and purpose for being here, that is super solid.
It was beautiful to read your blog today and to have a reminder that I am more,; especially as I have had a day full of tension. But as sat and read the blog, surrendered and dropped into my body I could feel the inner joy or the tension has fade and I have a smile of my face. I feel the fire in my body and a lighter feeling. It is so beautiful to connect that energy within.
When I am not feeling the completeness of me in my body I know that I am not connected. And I feel so blessed that we have all the amazing tools presented by Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine that support us in restoring connection.
When I am not feeling the completeness of me in my body I know that I am not connected. And I feel so blessed that we have all the amazing tools presented by Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine that restore connection.
What a lovely way to start the day and connect with the truth of who you are. Thank you for sharing it here Claudia.
I really love this. You say ‘Now, I am ready for the day’ – I can feel how often I start my day before I am actually ready, and with myself. What you present here is so simple, yet allowing this precious time with myself is something that I have not committed daily. Thank you for sharing your commitment to yourself and to love, Claudia.
Great reminder to stop and connect with one self, starting with that in the morning is a beautiful way to feel where the body is at and what different choices could be made to support the body for the rest of the day.
Its the taking the time for oneself that expands our bodies and connects us to all that we are. What a beautiful way to start the day. Thank you Claudia.
Taking that time to connect to yourself makes a huge difference to how the day unfolds
A beautiful sharing and one that reminds us of the power of connecting to what is there to be felt and of our ability to transform whatever feels out of sorts… It is extraordinary how simple it is to connect to and expand the warmth of who we are to be able to embrace us from deep within.
Thank you Claudia, this sounds like the most amazing way to wake up. I am going to try it tomorrow morning….or perhaps even now.
What a gorgeous way to start your day Claudia by connecting to and listening to your body and all the expansiveness and love that is there awaiting.
“It`s like a stretching from the inside, a wonderful process of unraveling, breaking through old pathways.” What a wonderful description of this flow of energy within us all.
A great reminder how simple it is to connect back to stillness within in, allow the true flow of energy to flow through. I allow myself to just feel that connection in me every morning, some days it’s instance other days I have to allow myself to go deeper by surrendering. It is so beautiful when that warmth, openness and light is felt within.
I love the fact that your writing here is just a simple beautiful expression, not trying to prove a point or satisfy an agenda
I love what you have described here and such a wonderful way to wake up in the mornings. I too can get into the busy day, before I have even gotten out of bed, so feeling very inspired to adopt what you have shared here.
This is gorgeous Claudia, because reading every word that you wrote from your body allows me and others to connect with it also. I’ve been ignoring my body most mornings lately. Looking at my phone before I actually connect and feel my body and how I have woken up. Beautiful and gentle reminder thank you.
Simply beautiful, Claudia, . . “It`s like a stretching from the inside, . .” I will take this into my day. I love how you have described connecting to your body. What a gorgeous way to start the day. Very inspiring for all who are blessed to read this.
Thank you Claudia, so beautiful and inspiring to read your experience, I can feel it in my own body too just by reading your blog.
Wow Claudia what an inspirational sharing – while reading your honest words I am looking forward to introduce this connection to my body into my morning ritual as well!
This is gorgeous 🙂
I am so delighted that I came back to your blog again today Claudia as it has made me realise that I have not been connecting to myself in the morning, the start of another day, as deeply as I could have. I know from my own lived experience that to take the time to allow myself to truly feel my body as I begin to wake up is the most beautiful way to start building the foundation that will support me through my day, and through to how I sleep the following night; a seemingly simple choice but one that is so powerful, and in my experience, life changing.
You have inspired me to reimprint my morning wake-up rituals… Surely every day has to start with this amount of love and contentment 🙂
I love your description of your mornings Claudia. This is the only way to start the day . . . getting out of bed with all of me, rather than being lead by my head and completely disconnected to my body.
How many of us wake and lurch immediately into the drive of life and the multitudes of things to ‘do’ and ‘get done’ that we end up leaving our bodies behind in the process? What you share Claudia is so refreshing for it shows there is a way to live truly connected with ourselves and thus ‘the All that we come from’ rather than lose ourselves living in separation to this.
Beneath the raciness of the mind, buried if you will, lays a Stillness that speaks the silence of the Soul. In this silence God is known. It is our most natural way to be but we have forsaken the art of how to truly listen to ‘all that we are’, preferring instead to give voice to ‘all we are not’. Thankyou Claudia for sharing this most sacred space with us and showing us that such warmth eternally lives and breathes deep within us all.
That moment when we drop into our body, connect with the warmth within. That is where I find God each and every day, waiting patiently for me to connect… always there, always open, always loving.
Connecting to the quality within ourselves and learning to move with it during our day allows us to let go of pictures we hold about how life needs to be like and to surrender to the beauty of what’s presented in every moment.
I feel my body responding to its love with a beautiful warm glow flowing through me. just by reading your article thank you Claudia, we are truly one within our essence.
I never cease to be amazed at how beautifully our body responds when we stop and take the time to become aware of how it is feeling and to honour the divine vessel it is; the vessel that supports us in every moment of our lives. So to take the time to re-connect to it and to listen to what is has to say – and it always has plenty to express – is the most natural thing to do, as we are one and the same; what happens to it, happens to us, as there is always an effect for every movement, every thought, every breath that we take, so why would we not make them loving ones?
A beautiful and very simple description of being full of yourself..
Thank you Claudia, that is a magical time when you connect to yourself each day and the beauty is – the magic is within.
Claudia making the time to connect to me is now a key part of my life, when I find myself not connected and ask how I ended up there it feels empty and uncertain. To me now their is life with connection and life without. The first is simple where I am at ease, the second complex and anxious. The choice I now have is how I commitment to that consistency of connection and allow that to be the most precious thing in my life.
My feeling is that I still can take my reconnection to many more levels, by bringing what you have shared Claudia and also by introducing checking my connection into my day. Not leaving that marker in bed, but checking in during the day will bring a greater awareness and the chance to catch the point of were I lose myself. This will give me more times to re-embody my connection and build on my Livingness as my rhythm become stronger.
Thank you for describing in detail how it is a choice to be with ourselves, feeling our body in all its warmth and expansion or to contract and go into the head and let thoughts and pictures run the show.
Creating space to reconnect to our bodies is such a supportive part of rhythm it allows to connect to the quality that we can take with us and reflect to others through the day. Thanks for sharing Claudia.
Yes it is the ‘creating space’ that allows the stillness and the love to be felt in the body.
What a gorgeous way to get ready for the day Claudia, how very loving and self-nurturing. Tomorrow morning I will remember and be inspired by your blog.
Waking up to the love of who you naturally are is to wake up to the potential of all there is to be.
It’s a very beautiful thing when we give ourselves the opportunity to feel the loveliness of who we are. With what Danielle has just shared above too, why save it to only one small section of the day when there is a whole day plus that we can be this way and then share who we are with others.
Such a beautiful blog Claudia – great to re-read. I love the time after waking when I’m in my bed, and clocking how my mind wants to take me straight into activity. Connecting back with my true self and my body is a wonderful way to begin each day.
I can totally relate to doing this in the mornings. More recently I’ve felt the deep desire inside me to do this all of the time, throughout my whole day and not just when I’m in the comfort of my own bed. I feel much more vulnerable and fragile in the world and with people so close to me but it’s well worth it because living not deep inside myself is extremely painful in so many ways.
Thank you Claudia, for a beautiful awakening to a new day, feeling the quality of our love moving through our bodies, knowing that we are not what our minds are trying to tell us. Once we know this it is amazing how it all dissolves.
What a great exploration of connection shared in this blog, with the quality of accepting all that is there in our bodies that is not who we are and how this allows us to unfold back to the truth of who we are. We are called back to ourselves, from a point of connection that never asked us to leave and never judges the choice.
Interesting how the mind is the only one that has the issues and dilemmas, the body does not when we are truly with is. Shows how little we are often with our bodies and how much we are caught up in the mind
Thank you Claudia, what a glorious way to start the day. ”The only truth is me being with my body, and my body reflecting back to me how it really feels.” The warmth and glow you describe is to me reconnecting to being the Son of God as presented by Serge Benhayon.
Your heading (making time to connect with me) Claudia says it all really and I just love the way in which you do just that each morning. What a gorgeous way to start the day;
“There is no room for bigger or better than others, no emotions of anger, jealousy, sadness, there is just love with me and others, and even all those I haven`t yet met”.
Claudia the connection you are able to achieve with yourself not only benefits you but everybody you come into contact with
Claudia, what a beautiful way to start the day, connected to yourself laying a steady foundation for whatever your day brings for you.
Absolutely gorgeous way to start the day. This foundational quality not only benefits ourselves in our connection during the day, but also every one else as we can bring more of ourselves to every situation.
I love that time in the morning too Claudia on first waking and then to do some gentle connective tissue exercises in bed checking in and connecting with me before gently rising out of bed to start the day.
Thank you Claudia, for an amazing reminder that at any time I can reconnect to who I am and feel the true presence in any part of my body just as it is presented in Esoteric Yoga!
Making the time to connect to me is a super supportive way to start the day. And a lovely reminder to call out or nominate what gets in the way, so we can drop deeper into our bodies.
I drop immediately into my body, connecting to an energy flowing within – just waiting for me to go with it.
I love your description -how easy it is to drop easily in your body, you just need to choose and that it is always waiting within..To finally welcome you to walk with it. Beautiful and so true..
Thank You dear it inspires me to be more aware in the morning and really yes start taking the time to connect with me in the morning when I wake before I get out of bed and start with the day. With love Nadine
Claudia, I too love snuggling up in bed first thing in the morning, making sure I’m beautifully connected to myself. It is a great marker to start the day off with.
What a beautiful start into the day! I would love parents to teach this to their kids, so that getting up becomes a loving moment as you describe, Claudia, instead of this dreadful, noisy and rushed moment it is for most kids!
If we´d taught children that a doing is never more important than a connection to the body.That a day starts with YOU. If I ´d had learned that as a kid, my life would have look totally different, than it does now in retrospective.
‘The only truth is me being with my body, and my body reflecting back to me how it really feels.’ Waking up with this point of view sets the tone for everything we do subsequently throughout the day with and through our bodies – our inbuilt marker of truth.
I just melted reading this once again. That choice to feel underneath the contraction and cold to feel the grand warmth underneath is hugely powerful and so needed. I still feel as though there is a pattern to break in regards to – feeling the what is wrong then focusing on the what is wrong so intently as if that will make it go away, is that not how the world has been taught to address things? attack it head on. Taking a step back and feeling that there is a love underneath all of this has healed far more in my life than the ‘head on’ approach.
So beautifully said Leigh, I can feel you sweetness in your words, which is exquisite and I agree to stop and feel the love underneath all our stuff is very healing and a true way forward.
Thank you Leigh, I was at a meeting today and it was nearly all ‘head on approach’ and I found myself getting led by my head too. We certainly have been encouraged to tackle things head on and it just doesn’t work, it leaves people emotionally stimulated with high adrenalin and probably dopamine and goodness knows what imbalances to all systems of the body. I felt the heat around my throat and upper chest and knew I had to get up and walk around to reconnect to the more natural flow of energy that had once been in my body.
This is a beautiful reminder of the connection to out inner heart and our body we are always able to choose.
What a ride and a pleasure to read. Connecting to and feeling the body first thing really sets up the day for us to be open and expressive. I’ve been pondering on my mornings of late and feel a real sluggishness and unwillingness to even get out, yet my head is already busy and starting the day without me. I love what you have shared Claudia and will make this part of a morning rhythm, to feel and accept what is there so I can release and expand.
What a beautiful reminder Claudia to take the time to truly connect to you first thing in the morning will bring more quality and stillness into the day.
Yes, a great inspiration of Claudia, sharing with us how she starts her day and with dedication. I will stop tomorrow morning even more, feeling my body first.
Beautiful Claudia! It’s amazing how bossy our thoughts can be if we let them run amok. They want to run around in our heads telling us what we’ve done wrong, what, when, how we should be doing something. Yet our bodies are there offering a freedom to just feel great. Not hard to tell which one carries the magic …
Thank you Claudia this was so beautiful for me to read today, I love how you know you are not your issues and that when you go deeper to feel the love that you are flowing through every part of your body.
Thank you Cladia, me to, the feeling of being warm in bed and doing my connective tissue exercises and esoteric yoga is a great start for the day.
This is inspirational, to take the time and feel that what is going on is not me, which I have started to connect to already, but I can feel it can be much deeper. Feeling the true love for myself and every other person I know and am going to meet.
Thank you Claudia, I agree, a time of repose to reflect on the day ahead and bring a greater awareness to the start of the day is a gentle reminder to me of who I am. Upon awakening, my connection shows me my Livingness from the previous day and thus provides a snapshot that allows me to magnetically pull in more of the same or to feel where I can be more present with a situation. My love and lived wisdom proved by a great start to the day, can then be retrieved at any time during the day by choice.
Thank you Claudia, me too, I feel the joy of being able to snuggle up in a warm and cosy bed. To me it is being like a fish in tropical waters – all you have to do is enjoy the warmth that surrounds you.
Very true Brendan. Giving ourselves space each morning to be in the body through lying down or walking and not rushing getting ready can make a huge difference in our day.
Thank you Claudia. This inspires me to reconnect to me by dropping into my body when I wake up with lots of thoughts and any time during l the day where I may feel not quite myself.
A beautiful sharing Claudia – to start our everyday in this way feeling deeply connected to our bodies really sets the foundation for the rest of the day ahead.
Thank you Claudia and Marion, so true, how amazing is it to take that warm feeling into the rest of my day.
Claudia I love what you have shared about the racy thoughts and then coming back to what you have felt before. You show the simplicity of this by choosing to come back to the body. Back to love.
What a gorgeous example of connecting deeply to your body and your innermost self and allowing that to expand and fill you before you go about your day. How lovely that must also be for all who come in contact with you throughout your day.
This is a beautiful read Claudia showing how easy it can be to re-connect to ourselves – we just have to allow it and also realise what is not us.
The strongest foundation I am learning that we can live in our day is to stay with our bodies and the truth of our living way. This is what supports us most in life and brings the greatest of joys.
Thank you Claudia for bringing to my awareness the opportunity to fully appreciate this feeling I too experience in the morning. The chance to take me from small, me thoughts, to connecting to the bigger picture and plan of it all. Just lovely.
Wow thank you Claudia for expressing so simply and beautifully the power of giving yourself the space to reconnect.
I have always been a go go kinda guy. Living for the next moment, seeing what is to be done or what is next. Lately I have realised that even though I am moving my body what am I really doing?
Why am I moving my body, was it just for the sake of it?
I have found that having stop moments was actually ok and it was healthy for me.
Stopping allowed me to feel my loveliness before I did any activity. What I do isn’t who I am but an expression. Who I am is everything before I even move a muscle.
It is vitally important That we connect with ourselves… Before our feet hit the ground running so to speak, because if that happens then we can never really catch up with ourselves, but if we connect with ourselves first, then for the rest of the day we are not playing catch up but actually living who we truly are.
A great inspiration to take a few moments on waking to connect back with myself after sleep, check in and feel where I’m at as well as remind myself of that lovely stillness within that’s there to tap into whenever I need or miss it during the day.
Yes Claudia it is so wonderful to always have that marker to come back to at those moments when we are reacting to life.
Wow! Claudia I could feel as you expressed “a wonderful process of unravelling, breaking through old pathways” and “connecting to an energy flowing within” What a beautiful way to start each and every day.
It is a beautiful thing to learn that we are not all our issues and problems, that we can connect to ourselves underneath that and that it doesn’t need much as when you focus on it, it will grow naturally. I am forever grateful for Serge Benhayon teaching this fact about energy and thank you for sharing it in this blog.
This is a wonderful way to say ‘good morning’ to the body, to allow for it to gently awaken and express how it is feeling. By simply asking ‘How are you going old friend?’ and remaining with it to listen to its reply, it naturally opens up, reveals what its been holding on to and is able to release and relax to begin the day knowing its connected and deeply cared for; its ready to meet the day in full.
What a lovely and supportive way to start your day Claudia. Taking the time to connect to your body clearly sets up fabulous foundations to build the rest of your day upon.
Claudia I love the way you start your day. Instead of indulging in the feelings I feel that you are going deeper into your body and exploring what is there. This awareness creates a beautiful foundation for your day.
This is really lovely to feel. This morning when I woke up, it was hard to really feel and connect with my body. My head was already quite active and I could feel my thoughts were running ahead of me. So, thank you. It was really supportive to find this blog as I could feel the resonance in my body.
I came back to this blog today to read it again, knowing that to read your description Claudia is like re-uniting with an old friend. And when I connect to my body, as you do, this is how it feels too: ‘Hey how have you been old buddy – it’s been too long’. I am inspired today to become even closer acquainted with my body and let go of the mental holidays and distraction get aways. They just get in the way.
A lovely way to start the day and then take that love out with you to reflect to everyone you meet.
Thank you Claudia, that is beautiful. Thank you for sharing. I like your description of how you connect with yourself and how that feels in your body expanding energetically. I also have found my way through Universal Medicine that had offered me tools (like; gentle breath meditation) that brought me in connection with myself. It is so beautiful to actually be connected to myself and to come to realize that I am very still (like a river) inside and that this stilness is even growing. The more I connect the deeper it gets. It deeply connects me with my heart and whole my body. It is a continuing unfolding of love in my body and in my life. My life becomes better and better.
I also love this time in the morning Claudia when I first wake and everything is so very still and quiet. Often I feel so yummy, I lay there for much longer, taking the time and space for me to deeply appreciate myself and to feel how much love there is for me before I start my busy day.
Thank you Claudia – a beautiful reminder that making time to connect to me first thing in the morning truly supports me and others throughout the day.
Thank you for sharing your early morning Claudia. I could feel the vibrancy that is there when taking time to honour where we are within ourselves. This was beautiful to read.
That is absolutely awesome what you share. A simple action but I can feel it has such an enormous impact. I am asolutely going to implement this in my morning. Thank you for this Claudia.
It is gorgeous to read your words Claudia and feel that there is this warmth inside me too. Your words remind me that we can feel this way, naturally at any moment.
This is a beautiful reminder Claudia. I was reminded through a friend only yesterday how important it is to take time to connect to me and come back to my body when I’m feeling “out of sorts”. This was something I needed to hear and it is lovely and confirming to hear the same words again through your blog.
What a beautiful way to start the day Claudia. I feel deeply inspired by the way you share that inner connection and how you make it part of your daily routine. A great commitment to not let a day go by without feeling the divine nature of who we truly are.
I so enjoyed hearing about your process in the early mornings Claudia, particularly that you did not get taken in by the thoughts and cold feelings in your body but without judgment connected to the truth in your body. What a great way to start the day, cutting the old momentums before they begin.
Beautifully said Josephine and I felt this too, in that there was no judgment and Claudia did not take the bait her thoughts were dangling in front of her nose. Instead she stayed with it, knowing the connection and warmth would be there, as it always is, whenever we commit to the choice to connect.
So beautifully said Claudia, what a joy to feel the love and beauty that resides within us, and carry that with us throughout our day, reflecting that love to all we meet in our day to day activities.
Hi Claudia. You have highlighted the power of the choice we all have in every moment of everyday. To connect with ourselves and live that in our day or to allow ourselves to be swallowed up by the thoughts in our heads and bring the busyness going around, going nowhere. If we were all to choose to start the day with the beautiful, warm foundation you are putting in place at the beginning of the day the world would be a very different place.
Very true ch1956. I can imagine people would be more connected to each other e.g. On the trains we would look at our phone screens less and make eye contact.
This sounds, and feels, so loving and self nurturing Claudia
Thank you for sharing your experiences and wisdom.
What a most loving and supportive way to begin your day. Thank you for sharing this special time – very inspirational.
Connecting to that natural flow that is always inside of us waiting to be connected to. It is warm, spacious and lets us breathe. It is simply a matter of coming out of thoughts and into the body to feel it. The warmth is there, without fail. Beautiful blog, thank you Claudia.
Feeling things is really the only way out of all sorts of problems. When we feel we tap into a world of truth and then it’s up to us to decide how much of that we want in our lives.
Well said Matts. Allowing myself to be in my body and stop and nominate what I’m feeling is important.
Lovely Claudia – to start a day like this is awesome – Thank you for sharing this wonderful experience from you.
‘For me the holiest place in the world is in my bed under my blanket.’ Claudia, I can really relate to this and love the description of your early mornings. You have inspired me to create more space for me in the mornings, so I have time to do the same.
What a beautiful way to start the day Claudia, your blog inspired me a lot and supports me in connecting even deeper with my body when I wake up in the early morning.
This was delicious to read Claudia – thank you for sharing your glory with us. I could feel within me exactly what you were describing. I also do love connecting to my divinity as I awaken, it feels for me like a truly sacred way to begin the day.
A lovely thing to do, and it sets a beautiful foundation for the day.
Agreed Peter… A great start to the day… And also a great way to end the day… Which in turn sets the foundation for the start of the next day, and then the end of the next day and so the cycle continues, each time building on the foundation of the day before…
Thank you Claudia, This is so beautiful to read I can feel the flow of love within my body, it is a joy.
Claudia this was beautiful to read and feel myself more deeply connect and expand just from following you words. A completely inspiring way to wake up and begin your day.
What a beautiful way to start the day Claudia. I go to bed in a similar way to how you get up. Setting the alarm on my phone programs my body and I nearly always wake before the alarm. I check the time and if it is not too much before 4.00 am I jump out of bed and start my day with joy.
This is lovely Caludia. Even though I have never met you and have never spoken to you, I can feel your sweetness, tenderness and loveliness from what you wrote. Thank you for writing this.
Wow, Claudia. What a beautiful routine to prepare you for the day! A few years ago, I had my own routine early in the morning that was really beautiful too. Since I sleep quite well now I have left it aside but I am always open to new things that connect me deep with myself.
Mmm, an inspiring reminder and so easy to do to set a great foundation for the day.
What a beautiful way to ‘wake up’ in every sense of that term. Thank you Claudia.
This is beautiful Claudia ‘It`s like a stretching from the inside, a wonderful process of unraveling, breaking through old pathways’. Thank you for sharing the first part of the morning and I am sure this is a great foundation for your day.
What a gorgeous blog, and what an exquisite way to greet the day – so inspiring!
That sounds like the most delicious way to start the day!
Starting our days this way would support every one to know exactly who they are and how precious they are.
And the ripple effect of this on everyones day and the world around us would be significant, beautifully said Lee.
I loved reading about the space you make for yourself Claudia. What a beautiful gift to give yourself each day – it is clear that everyone who meets you benefits also.
Wow, what a beautiful way to start your day – you have certainly inspired me, thank you Claudia.
‘…Space for myself to feel my body.’ What a wonderful observation – if we allow ourselves space we get to see the power and depth of who we are clearly and simply.
Thank you Claudia and Lee, I absolutely love the simplicity and the practical way in which you approach the day, it feels truly supportive in so many ways. The space that you create through not allowing “room” for anything else other than love is inspirational.
I can now say I have experienced what you have shared Claudia, this morning no less! At first there were the songs in my head, the negatives and nonsense, but the turning point I have also found is that choice and willingness to feel my body. When I feel my body, really asking questions in my mind about the details of how I feel, is when everything opens up. How do my feet feel (pressure, temperature etc.) Am I aware of certain body parts or can I not feel them at all? The more I am willing to tangibly feel my body the more of my body I feel, even to the point where I can feel that my ‘body’ is not just the flesh and bones but a warmth and a feeling of safety, assuredness and playfulness, that doesn’t have a physical place on the body which I could categorise. Perhaps the child’s song might go, “The knee bone is connected to the leg bone, the leg bone is connected to the warmth and loveliness”. It sounds silly, but this quality I am only now just feeling can be everywhere in the body and not just in a single place.
Love your expression Leigh, and there is always room for playfull-ness! The simplicity in what you’ve shared is palpable, I can feel it and know what to do. I’ve always known what to do, to connect but sometimes complication can spark doubt and an instruction manual on how to drive this thing is great! I often stop at the turning point, when my thoughts are bombing me I just give up on connection and go about the morning routines. I have this willingness and know I can absolutely go deeper, my heart is waiting for me to melt into it.
This is so lovely to read Claudia, ‘ I love the time early in the morning, when it is still outside and I have the space for myself to feel me in my body’.
Thank you for this sharing, it’s beautiful to read and feel how the connection with our bodies can be.
What a good reminder to connect; connect to oneself. And that “the cold contracted feeling is not the true me, I know I am much more than that.” Yes. Awesome. It’s just a matter of choice, to connect.
Claudia, I love your description of connecting to you.
Claudia I also love that moment of connection and connection in the actual body, felt especially in the early mornings which contain such stillness and quietness. This connected feeling offers spaciousness and provides the clarity, the whirring mental thoughts the complexity and a squeezed tight body. Like you, I know which one I prefer to practice.
I love my time in bed with me too. The magic of a deeper and deeper connection with my energetic being, there is nothing better than that!
Absolutely Helen, to deepen our connection when and where-ever feels amazing.
Lovely Claudia, what a great way to start your day, no rushing or worrying what’s ahead.
Dear Claudia I have found reading this so healing. By the time I had finished reading it I realised and became aware that I had dropped to a much deeper connection with myself. By reading your journey of re-connecting I was taken on my on own journey of re-connection. Thank you.
I had the same experience Jonathan and it was beautiful to feel and also inspires me to take more time to reconnect with me on a regular basis.
What a gorgeous way to start each day Claudia “there is just love with me and others, and even all those I haven`t yet met”. What a luxurious and velvety way to begin the day. That is so much better than jumping out of bed and rushing to get ready for work, without a single glimpse of the possibility of loving anything! I too greatly appreciate the changes I have made to the start of my day, inspired by Serge Benhayon and his whole family and thank you for sharing a personal moment so intimately with us.
Thank you, Claudia for the simplicity of your sharing. A great contrast to someone jumping out of bed abruptly to the sound of their alarm clock, which is how I used to start the day before meeting Universal Medicine – and coming to learn that I could begin the day in connection to my body.
How inspiring is this. A delicious way to wake up! Yes – energy and what it is in the body and how I can connect to it is something I can do thanks to the support from Universal Medicine.
It is alarming to finally be aware of my body where it was so numb and without feeling in the past!
Thank you Claudia and Hanna, for the insight-full journey about returning to that natural blessing from being present from the moment of waking and feeling our true connection to self. What a power-full way to start the day. I am in appreciation of the work of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine, who share the importance of a loving rhythm, which includes not only our sleep but how we approach the day by the blessing we bring through our connection.
Absolutely Greg. And in knowing you, I continue to appreciate how much joy you radiate with all the time. You reflect to me someone who is in connection to who you are, and in constant appreciation. It is very inspiring to see this and recognise it in my body too. It shows that it is all there for us equally.
I absolutely agree Hannah, what is there is our natural Livingness that is now being expressed by so many students of the Livingness.
It is great to read about and be inspired by the power of choosing to re-connect to something which is “greater, warmer, lighter “.
Thank you Claudia for sharing your loving start to the day – very inspirational.
This is a lovely blog Claudia, thank you for sharing your morning connection with us. I don’t have a ‘holiest place’, although anywhere I can lie down with a Featherlight Eye Pillow comes very close.
This is gorgeous, thank you for sharing this beautiful reconnection to your lovely self. Nicola’s comment also reminded me to take more time out from the computer. I can be writing for too long and I lose my freshness, I lose that lovely feeling. Thank you both of you.
I love how you shared that the emotions were not you and by not entertaining them are able to feel the real you. Thank you.
Thank you for sharing these precious moments you create. I love the way you have written this and I felt the power in this simple way you have of reconnecting with yourself , Beautiful and inspiring, Claudia.
I agree with every word it was pinpoint accurate!
Dear Claudia, thank you for the gift of sharing this beautiful moment with us. As Jane commented, simply magical…
This is one of the best descriptions of conscious presence… Ever!!! I agree with you, when you drop into your body and really begin to feel your own warmth and sweetness – wow it is so beautiful 🙂
Your sharing Claudia has been really inspiring. When I now wake up I look forward to making the choice to connect to my body and feel whatever it is that’s going on. Sometimes it’s easy to feel the warmth inside me, to feel my body open, let go – and other times it’s a bit more challenging because my mind has been so busy. But that’s what’s so amazing about simply connecting with our bodies. We get to feel what’s really going on for us, and say “yes I like that, more of that please!” and “no, I don’t want any more of that”… thank you for the awesome inspiration.
Yes I agree Katerina, I still have times where my head is running the show, almost before I wake up , but as soon as I realise that is exactly what my mind is trying to do, I stop and feel my body and connect back to me and the busyness in my head falls away as I begin to feel my body again.
This is such a lovely expression, Claudia. Thank you. How lovely it is to feel and be with ourselves!
This is magic, beautiful and so joyful to feel. Thank you.
You’ve inspired me! What an awesome reflection.
You have described the feeling of being self connected so well. It feels like this for me too, although I have never really put words to it. I really enjoyed your blog.
I am glad you decided to share your moments at the start of your day, thank you.
Gorgeous moments Claudia! Thank you very much for sharing.
This is such a beautiful description of the reconnecting with the true self that never leaves us. We leave that ever present eternal loving presence, it does not leave us! Thank you Claudia.
This was beautiful to read and I can’t wait to wake up in the morning, under the covers, and allow myself to be really honest with how my body feels – and like you, I hope I can connect to the love, joy and playfulness that awaits in every day if we choose it.
That was really beauty-full. Thank you.
I just returned from taking myself on a date. A simple one. A swim in the lagoon followed by putting on a pretty dress, earrings, necklace, lipstick and taking myself to a new cafe for dinner. It was really divine. To be with me. To connect deeper. To smile when I make that connection.
Thank you for expressing what I have also experienced. The busy-ness, distraction and when I feel past that, the beauty, expansiveness and light.
I really felt your words. The lightness in them, the honesty.
Wow.
This is an awesome description – thanks Claudia! The deep blue sea is nothing to the depth of us!
That’s awesome Lyndy: The deep blue sea is nothing to the depth of us!
I love the innocent and open narrative of this post, Claudia. It really gives a great feeling of what it’s like for you to connect with yourself.
Hi Claudia, I too love that feeling of connecting to and being with me and my body. I work from home and have a session room in the house. At times when I am working at my computer, I notice my energy go down or aches developing in my body. Then I love to go and lie on the session table, put a beautiful Featherlight eye pillow over my eyes and just connect to myself – feel my body, observe my thoughts and let myself go still. It is amazing how nourishing, revitalising and simple it is. Sometimes it only takes 2 or 3 minutes, sometimes a little longer and then I am ready to get up and continue working.
I love doing the same Nicola, instead of pushing through a day just taking a moment to stop and go and lie down and reconnect to me.
I do this too Nicola but on my couch and I program my body clock to awaken me, nourished and revitalised in five, fifteen or 45 minutes or however much time I feel I need.
Nicola, thank you for the reminder to take time out during my working day to rejuvenate and nourish my body.