“A teacher must be CELEBRATED and HONOURED in everything they are and in everything they bring, EACH AND EVERY DAY! Equal to this, they must be given ALL the tools of how to do this for THEMSELVES, that is, to truly celebrate and honour all that they are and all that they bring to our lives.” [Michael Benhayon, Director, Teachers are Gold! Project]
I recently had an amazing conversation with Michael Benhayon – founder of the Teachers are Gold Project – about how I had been feeling at school and teaching; stressed, overwhelmed, and frustrated with the education system and all the ‘extra’ work I had to do. Only two weeks into school term I was becoming a teacher I didn’t want to be, exhausted and looking forward to the end of the week so I could come home and rest.
Something inside me strongly knew this way of living and being was not true – I missed my joy and playfulness. I knew there was another way to be and live, one that was much more supportive, loving and caring for myself and everyone else.
What came from our discussion was the fact that I was actually RESENTING everything I had to do on top of teaching and being there for the kids and all others as well – I was seeing it all as hard, as a burden and it made so much sense – I had been living, walking and expressing in a way that resented everything I ‘had to do’.
This resentment at times was obvious and big, like the school curriculum, attainment, grades and the education system not being what I know to be true, that education is about love and people first and the fact that everything was made much more complicated than it needed to be. At others times it was the little things like meetings, targets, paperwork and even things not being where they should be… and I wondered why I was so drained and exhausted at the end of each day, never mind feeling like I was going to collapse at the end of the week.
But then I realised that it wasn’t just in school I was resenting the things I had to do, I was resenting most of life too; the drive to school and back, no time for the gym, having to make tea, food shopping, making my bed, going for a walk, even having a shower or a bath, how I will ‘fit ‘ everything in, looking for a new car, spending quality time with my partner and my family… how must that have felt for them?! I even resented just being with me.
But what really made me stop – it was like a light going on – was what Michael and I discussed next; that EVERYTHING, yes EVERYTHING, is an expression of me! I had been making it about DOING and DOING and not EXPRESSING. I had been focussing on expression as only in the way we speak or write and when you think about it, this is what we are taught to believe, but not the fact that EXPRESSION IS ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING!
For example:
- How I get up in the morning.
- How I dress, not only in what I feel to wear, but the way in which I lay out my clothes and put them on.
- How I choose to cook and what I feel to prepare each time.
- The way and quality in which I move, how I sit, I stand, walk and dance.
- How I pick up and lay down pupils’ work.
- How I address and speak to a class.
- How I open my car door, how I drive to work.
- The thoughts I choose to have.
- Wearing lipstick, the way I do my hair.
- How I type, file my paperwork, go to a meeting, write an email, press the keys, plan a lesson and teach.
These are all expressions of me, not one more or one less important – THEY ARE ALL EQUALLY AN EXPRESSION OF ME.
So with this amazing support from Michael Benhayon and the incredibly inspirational Teachers are Gold project which supports all teachers and educational facilitators, coupled with these amazing realisations, I had the most incredible day. Why?…. because I felt like me! I did my morning walk feeling a natural spring in my step, with my playfulness, light and joy. I dressed expressing me, I knew exactly what I felt to wear, even though my mind kept trying to cut in with “no, those boots won’t look right”, and boy did I look and feel amazing because I dressed expressing the beautiful and powerful woman I am. I drove to work full of joy because I felt me, so full of love for the world and humanity and looking forward to teaching and the school day.
Yes, there were little moments where I had a blip, but they weren’t a big deal because the power and amazingness I felt was way too big to let the little issues get to me. Yes, I still had to raise my voice to the kids, but this didn’t make me feel anything like before; there was a lightness, playfulness and joy in each class but at the same time true boundaries, and I didn’t run out the door at the end of the day. I joyfully and lovingly took time to set up the space and classroom for Monday. I drove home from school feeling amazing, not tired and tense, and even had more than enough energy to go to the gym when the week before I had just made it home to bed. And to top it all off I woke naturally the next day, hours earlier than I have in a long time and wrote this blog.
So I have come to realise, know and understand that EXPRESSION IS EVERYTHING. It’s not just about what we say and write, but in every little moment, be it writing a blog, cooking tea or teaching a class, it is all an expression of me. How could I ever get bored, resentful or complaining when each moment is an amazing opportunity to express how I feel and who I truly am. I know for one, by choosing to continue and commit to living this way, there will be less room for resentment, exhaustion or frustration that have been a part of my life – leaving more and more space for the absolute joy and the love I feel for humanity.
With love and appreciation of Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon for inspiring and presenting the fact that “Expression is Everything”, and to Michael Benhayon for the initiation of the “Teachers Are Gold” project which appreciates and supports all teachers across the globe, and which continues to inspire me to express in everything I do.
By Anonymous, Scotland
The Truth about Serge Benhayon 
If we live life in resentment everything we do, say, touch is infused with that energy and many of us live this way. Is it possible that because life didn’t turn out in the way we expected it to be the resentment of this builds up so that to dull this pain down we check out on life? We have not made life about taking care of ourselves first knowing that naturally we will look after all others too. Instead we seem to constantly look out to life and gauge it by what everyone else is doing. This is our disconnection.
Anonymous this is a brilliant article because it so clearly describes the way out of negativity, resentment, stress, overwhelm, frustration and more, for all of us regardless of what job we do or even whether we have a job at all. Expression is everything, it quite literally is and the way that we express sets us up for what comes next and so it can only be through changing our expression that anything truly gets changed. And what I have found is that I have quite literally changed every facet of my life by gradually changing the way that I express. It’s literally living magic!
This blog has arrived at the right moment in my life. I currently work part time and there is a possibility of a full time secondment and the thought of going full time is irking me. And this blog has nailed it for me, going in to how am I going to do this or going to do that, when my every expression is the key to the quality of life I live everyday.
It is so true when we go into the doing, everything becomes arduous when we just need to be in the moment and live that moment. And we then have space for everything and we are given more, including more energy.
There is so much of our livingness we have not tapped into and every step we take with consciousness and purpose, brings a whole new meaning to life and responsibility. Everything and everyone who works in any industry, I consider as gold, every one has their part to play, and we need everyone and everything for life to be.
It’s a great reminder to look at how I am expressing myself throughout the day. We could also say “quality is everything” – what is the quality of energy I am expressing in each moment?
It is great to be reminded how important expression is, and how it comes into all of our day, ‘EXPRESSION IS ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING!
For example:
How I get up in the morning.
How I dress, not only in what I feel to wear, but the way in which I lay out my clothes and put them on.
How I choose to cook and what I feel to prepare each time.
The way and quality in which I move, how I sit, I stand, walk and dance’.
I agree Melinda our quality is certainly everything. And I am still mastering this and playing the human life instead of being in the being…
I agree Melinda and although there are different degrees of quality, as in I could be moving in a slightly clumsy way because I am not with my body whilst I move or I could be moving very erratically again because I am not feeling my body whilst I move, there are in actual fact only two sources of energy that are the impulsing agents for all of our expression. A bit like two shower heads, our speech, our thoughts and our movements come from one of two shower heads, a shower head that originates in Heaven and the other shower head that also originates in Heaven but chose to take a decidedly wonky turn and deviated from our true Heavenly nature.
Resentment takes over when we do not claim appreciation. And resentment comes from us not expressing who we are in all we do and the appreciation that we are all due.
This is a great prompt that asks questions about our engagement. Who are we working for? Who do we have a contract with? Who are we trying to make a deal with? Living in the thickness of creation and its system does not have to mean we become its pawn and seek to be motivated by its reward. There’s something so much more at play.
Resentment is an emotion that is exhausting and then we resent the fact that we are exhausted.
Amazing to read of the changes in your energy when you chose to express with love.
I agree we are not taught that expression is everything, our natural expression is drummed out of us. It starts at home and continues as we go through the education system. I have always said we enter the education system as children that have a natural curiosity and understanding of life and come out the other end like sausages in a sausage machine all the same; our curiosity and natural understanding of life has disappeared and in its place is the need or want to be recognised and accepted and a propensity to act like a robot rather than live life to the fullness we knew it to be as children before entering the education system. We all know that the present education system doesn’t work for the children, teachers or society so why don’t we as a collective get together and change it?
‘Expression is everything’ sets a new bar and makes us aware that every movement expresses something about us. If we’re at school or work resenting what we do, that becomes us and what we bring to clients or pupils. Turn it around and bring quality and love into every activity from the moment we wake up in the morning until we go to bed at night and express the same wherever we are.
I can get caught in resentment and doing things ‘above my pay grade’ but really that’s my wanting recognition and my not trusting I have to space to do what’s needed. Loved reading this line, ‘How could I ever get bored, resentful or complaining when each moment is an amazing opportunity to express how I feel and who I truly am.’ Learning to appreciate my expression is wonderful.
With true purpose there are few distinctions and boundaries between my work, their work and pay grades, we respond to what is needed in the moment and where we’re called to be, the rest takes care of itself.
It’s a great line Karin, thanks for highlighting it, as I have felt bored recently and wondering what it was about.
Thanks for the reminder that there is so much more to expression than our speech and body language. We are constantly communicating on an energetic level with the world and everyone we meet, even before we open our mouths or move.
When I go about my day and tick boxes life becomes just function, when I live with every movement being about true purpose, I let go of more of the ‘self’ and can feel connected to something much bigger than me.
What a great realisation to find that you not only resented certain things but that you constantly felt pushed and obliged in all areas of life. That is an honesty that has one stop and realise that this cannot be it and most importantly that it has not so much to do with the world by how one feels and is with oneself.
This is amazing – because it’s the same day but totally different experience, it just goes to show that what we focus on determines the outcome of our day and how we feel consistency throughout it.
Non truth wishes to shape your movements so you conform to it, even if you are in reaction to it.
Yes, how foundationally supportive to consider everything is expression and not reduce it to the throat just as we might reduce ourselves to a particular title, like teacher. I can see from what you share that to reduce any part of our expression is to reduce every part of our expression.
All the teachers I have been speaking to of late have one thing in common and that is they do not like having children of 6/7 years sitting SAT tests. They do not see the point in putting the children through the ordeal and it distresses the teachers to have to carry through with it. They can see that it’s all about the numbers and the stats and not about the children.
I can see where I think that what I am doing is a true expression of me but in truth it is at times still just box ticking. The mind can play tricks but the body always shows the truth.
I love it when magic happens, and me reading this blog today is one such example. This morning I came to understand that some of us living in Europe have been holding back our expression, and I was wondering how that applies in my life. Reading this blog has really supported me to look deeper at my expression.
This is just the perfect blog to read today – I’ve been mirroring the trudge, trudge, trudge for a while not realising that is precisely where the given up-ness comes from our. Our every movement is an expression and an opportunity. What do we choose?
I have been noticing recently how I would feel resentful when I get asked to do things at work. Even a little task that would not take me more than 5 minutes, I would be clenching my jaws going ‘Why can’t you do it yourself?’ Awesome to be reminded that it is an offering of moments of expression.
Many years ago I began resenting my work and developed RSI as a result which stopped me working for a few weeks, I began to reflect in the way I was at work and made steps to change my attitude and to appreciate myself and my work. Interestingly my RSI healed quite quickly and I began to feel more joy and lightness at work, I agree the way we express ourselves is very powerful and deeply healing.
It is essential that we support our teachers not just for them themselves as they deserve it and are on the front line, but also because it is essential that we support our children and what better way than to support teachers and parents too of course. Really we all need to support ourselves and each other!
Not relying on our talent and our doing/ functionality asks us to let go of controlling and a certain outcome in life!
We leave traces everywhere. Once you realise how amazing you are and that your traces are needed in this world, you cannot but express it in every way shape or form. Holding it back by comfort or dishonouring does create a tension to the natural way of simply expressing you. And not expressing you makes you tired and drained, even without doing anything.
This makes so much sense Stefanie, and where appreciation is so important. When we appreciate how amazing we are and the qualities we bring then it simply is just the way we live that graces everywhere we go and everything we do.
Everything is an expression of ourselves, and everything counts, one choice leading onto our next choice. Are we moving in doing and achieving mode, (from our head) or are we moving in connection with our bodies which brings a different quality to all that we do, that quality being fully present and focused and being in our natural flow.
The tick boxes of doing will all too often compromise quality.
Everything we live, how we feel about ourselves, is what we bring to others at work and home. Awesome blog Anon. And yes Teachers are Gold!
Great blog Anon thank you for sharing, it is amazing how when we leave us and our connection to our true essence life literally becomes a drag, but when we choose to express from who we naturally are this is what happens “I felt me, so full of love for the world and humanity and looking forward to teaching and the school day.”
Expression is in everything we do, ‘It’s not just about what we say and write, but in every little moment, be it writing a blog, cooking tea or teaching a class, it is all an expression of me.’
“I felt me, so full of love for the world and humanity and looking forward to teaching and the school day.” A beautiful lesson to inspire the class with.
Everything is an expression of ours, but is it everything a true expression of US?
And if its not an expression of us, then where is that expression coming from? What did we choose to serve up today?
I can totally relate to what you are talking about here in your very wise and insightful blog in terms of that background resentment that can easily set in when we know deep down we are forcing ourselves to live and move in a way that is less than what we know is our natural way of living, moving and expressing. It is so easy to blame things outside whether it be work, family, time etc for our frustrations when really it is our own choice to not live true to who we are that we are in fact reacting to.
Andrew what you have written makes so much sense when you say
“in terms of that background resentment that can easily set in when we know deep down we are forcing ourselves to live and move in a way that is less than what we know is our natural way of living, moving and expressing.”
There is a part of us that we have a tendency to ignore that knows how to live naturally but because no one else is living this way we force ourselves to go along with the crowd so to say rather than stopping to discern the quality of what we are living over and above ticking the boxes to get by, which leads to the resentment you write about.
Super simple and it makes so much sense that if we feel we are going through life doing things because we feel we have to rather than because we truly want to then there will be a resent toward life. But it’s not life that makes us choose to live like this but our own choice to not express who we are in each and every moment.
Yes and what a brick wall that can be at times. We find it hard to accept that we are as powerful as we are and therefore choose to pretend we don’t have a choice and resent life for making us the way we are…. it was a major full-stop moment for me but an opportunity to stop feeling like a victim and see myself as the change-agent.
Wow, I really got some much from my read today, thank you. Though I am not a teacher I can relate to work feeling like that thing you “do”, and sweep being me to the side. Your experiences have brought me a light hearted joy now to approach work as another opportunity to be and express the beautiful inner qualities I have.
Resentment has been a biggie for me too – a real kill-joy, literally so. How wonderful that the antidote is to simply be ourselves, in ALL we do.
We can get caught up in situations but ignore our part in it all, that is, what quality of expression are we bringing to these situations? When we bring our natural expression we deal with situations with ease but if we hold back life becomes a struggle which we then tend to blame on the situation.
It is so true that we can easily get caught up in the doing part of life and forget the being bit, as in bringing all of us to whatever task we are doing. All I have to do is just be me.
Wow love this blog and can relate to it very much. I have found that when that resentment is there it is a giveaway that I am not living me or being myself but instead squashing or contorting myself to be what the world wants me to be.
Resentment is the tension that is constantly created within ourself by not living you, although you exactly know what it would mean and feel like to live you in full. It is like a battle within you that needs relief once in a while.
Our quality is what matters, making our movements and expressions about quality first and foremost is key.
Every teacher on this planet needs to read this, preferably before or while they are training to become a teacher, ‘“A teacher must be CELEBRATED and HONOURED in everything they are and in everything they bring, EACH AND EVERY DAY! Equal to this, they must be given ALL the tools of how to do this for THEMSELVES, that is, to truly celebrate and honour all that they are and all that they bring to our lives.” [Michael Benhayon, Director, Teachers are Gold! Project] ‘
I reckon we could substitute the word teacher with the word ‘person’ and it would still read true.
‘Expression is Everything’ – and in every moment we are expressing so the responsibility in this is profound. There is no off switch or time where we are not expressing and so it comes down to what we are choosing to express and is this with a foundation of Love?
I love the message about teachers being celebrated and honoured in everything that they do, and also that they should have the tools to do this for themselves.
Resentment only has the opportunity to thrive when we do not appreciate the beauty of our expression in EVERYTHING we do. How can we resent anything when it is such a joy to do?
We are not our profession. That’s what we do, our expression in society we live in. And it is not possible to just section and cut out a piece of our life to present a package that would fit an image and description of what a job/role entails. It is all One life.
This is incredibly inspiring, and exactly what Teachers Are Gold inspires us to see that there is so much more to what we are doing in our lives be it work, getting dressed etc that actually it is the quality we are in as we move that makes the world of difference as you so clearly show!
When we understand that expression is absolutely everything, we know that walking in the authority of who are – in the full appreciation of our beingness and not hold any of it back is all that is needed, as we are then offering a reflection to the world of what we are all capable of living when we align to the right source of the soul.
It’s true – we are expressing 24/7 in every moment no matter what it is we are doing, even sleeping, we are expressing and the quality of that expression is up to us… It makes me realise how much of an effect we all have on each other when you consider that we are all sending out ripples of expression/ energy all the time.
You just never can take any OFF time. If you do, you are in fact irresponsible to everyone and everything. We as human beings are so busy in saving the planet through a doing instead of realising how huge our effect is through our being first. The doing would then have such a bigger and stronger effect, if we would accept our influence by just expressing our soul.
Hi Anonymous, I can relate to so much of what you have said here. Life used to feel like drudgery to me. It was all about finishing everything so that I could sit down and have a break. My life was compartmentalised into things I had to do like work and fun things like going on holiday, or going out. As you so clearly describe, every part of what we do can have meaning and be fun because we are taking the time to be with ourselves in the action. Its a totally different way of being that has transformed how I live.
‘I joyfully and lovingly took time to set up the space and classroom for Monday. I drove home from school feeling amazing, not tired and tense, and even had more than enough energy to go to the gym when the week before I had just made it home to bed.’ Beautiful to feel how you have laid a foundation here, ready for whatever comes next.
Just when you think you know this you become aware that there is another part, “So I have come to realise, know and understand that EXPRESSION IS EVERYTHING. It’s not just about what we say and write, but in every little moment” I feel that this is a part that trips me up every time, the part I think I have got somewhere in place of feeling that I am already there and not needing to be more. I know it sounds confusing or maybe a bit light on but what I am saying is that there is an element of the ‘achieve’ that sees me stop and rest when as the article is saying “EXPRESSION IS EVERYTHING” and so that stop is part of the everything. It’s not that we don’t stop and rest but more it’s where and the way it’s done. Obviously as a part of life these things are natural but I am using them in relation to thinking you have achieved something and so it’s a job done type of thing and like a bit of a closing off of what is next. If I be more aware of ‘everything’ then this is more an ongoing thing that has no ending, so yes stop physically for a rest but when it comes to awareness there is no stop just an ever expanding everything.
Thank you Ray Karam for sharing a great point here. There is no rest for energy as it is everything and remains consistent. The reflection here is that we have the opportunity to live that consistency and feel what is then on offer to read that is truly supporting or not supporting us in every moment.
I am beautifully reminded that God is in the details. Literally. Everything from how we close the cupboard door to how we open a book or sit to be, are all qualities we take to all our other expressions in our day. It is all linked! All one!
Your insights are very inspiring: “expression is everything” (Serge Benhayon) has changed your life and especially your working life as a teacher and can make every moment one of awareness and ultimately – one of space, lightness and joy.
The Teachers are Gold project is an amazingly supportive Project, the way you describe it! What a great support for all teachers to be shown they are valued and empowered to teach in such a self loving way that then rubs off on the students. Expression is indeed everything I am learning!
What a gem of a blog! It is very empowering to feel every move we make is an expression of us, this makes life fun and purpose-full because everything is therefor important.
I was thinking of the Teachers are Gold project the other day and just how amazing it is after listening on the radio for a few days from teachers telling listeners about the job they do. I truly take my hat of to teachers they do an incredible job and have a lot of work to do including taking work home at the end of the day and weekends just because there is no time in their working day/hours to do this. One teacher shared a similar understanding as the Teachers are Gold project saying how important it was to take care of yourself as this supports everything else. Wouldn’t it be awesome if anyone who felt resentment with what they do (and not just teachers) could get instant clarify and understanding from another as you did with Michael Benhayon. I have huge respect for Michael Benhayon as he is not even a teacher but has set up a project to support not only teachers within his community but globally! It just goes to show when we get ourselves out of the way what we can bring for others is super supportive. Thanks for the reminder that Expression is Everything something I did not truly get until meeting Serge Benhayon.
I recently read an article by a high school teacher who was expressing how they were being abused from all corners – the students/the parents/the system, and it was shocking to read the reality of what was going on in schools these days – and it is very obvious that this is not an isolated issue, and even though we may not be a teacher or have children ourselves, it feels way over due we start paying attention to our own choices of behaviour and how they are affecting everyone and everything else, including our younger generations.
Thank you. This is a supportive reminder that all that it takes is being ourselves and let everything unfold from there, as, as you describe there is a naturalness in which we feel to express.
When we lose ourselves in the momentum of the doing, and make it all about ‘getting it done’ while forgetting about the people, the purpose and the connection, it’s no wonder we feel resentful – it’s like we’re doing things in auto-pilot, in a numbness of moving from one task to another. The more I commit to staying aware and awake, fully present and committed to being there and in my body in each moment, the more i actually enjoy what I’m doing instead of seeing it as ‘another thing to do’ on a long and never-ending list!
A truly brilliant and inspiring sharing…
I grew up witnessing so many around me – those who were, effectively, my ‘teachers’ – drained by the ‘doing’ of most everything in their lives. I knew that this wasn’t truly living, and felt quite exasperated by this from a young age. Clearly, I didn’t want to become another case of ‘exhaustion’ or struggle, and yet I found my own ways of perpetuating the same.
It wasn’t until meeting such inspirational people such as Michael Benhayon, that I began to truly get it, that we never need be lost in the ‘doing’ – that there is an inner-connection and quality to foster within us, a foundation from which the activity of our lives becomes largely filled with joy and a sense of purpose, passion even… Foster and discover this, and we are actually capable of ‘doing’ much, funny enough…
And so to read your blog here today, and what transformed for you when you appreciated yourself and just how much of ‘you’ can be in every moment, is an absolute delight, anonymous, thank-you.
Re-introducing that expression is not just the words we speak, but how we speak them along with how we move and complete our daily tasks, is a powerful gift, for any who wish to take a moment to consider that how they feel is a direct correlation to how they move.
Your blog is a powerful reminder of the enormity of each moment and the importance of each choice to honour that in the quality it deserves… with each moment being no less than another in the potential it offers.
Whatever we do, when we do it without being ourselves it will leave us empty; doing something because we have to, making it a duty, because it needs to be done lacks the sense of true purpose; being with oneself and feeling true purpose goes hand in hand, we cannot have one without the other.
“Whatever we do, when we do it without being ourselves it will leave us empty”, the thing is if we’re doing something without being ourselves then we’re already empty.
I wonder whether it is simply missing ourselves (our true self) that creates the resentment we then have with life as how can we enjoy doing anything when we are not even present as who we naturally are but a reduced functioning version just getting through life and not living life.
We can get so caught up in the doing of our responsibilities and tasks that we forget that the actual quality of our expression is the foundation that determines the quality of everything we do.
Well said Suse. And this is where awareness is so key for it is only when we are aware that we actually have a choice and can come back to a quality that is true.
The bureaucracy of present day systems can burden and bury us in complication if we choose to let it. But, when we hold steady and clear in our observations and understandings of the world around us, and keep our expression simple, true and solid in all that we do, the load or burdens we take on and carry is significantly lightened. Life is then so much more enjoyable as we again begin to feel the potential of the world around us.
How we honour our society’s teachers is like a litmus test for the quality of our civilization … because in the teachers hand is our next generation.
A powerful testimony to the Teachers are Gold project by Michael Benhayon and the exposure of resentment you were holding. An awesome turnaround in your expression Anonymous. Thank you for sharing the gold that you bring.
“I had been making it about DOING and DOING and not EXPRESSING..” This is pure gold Anonymous. How often do we ‘do’ but not ‘be’ who we truly are in everything in life? Upon learning that expression is everything and IN everything in my life, my life changed dramatically. Taking ourselves in our fullness everywhere we go is the way to go.
The difference between driving to work dreading what is coming next vs being full of yourself (in expressing what you naturally are in every way) is like chalk and cheese. One will inspire a nation (or a classroom) and the other will confirm to them just how difficult life is, and ultimately set them up for failure.
“So I have come to realise, know and understand that EXPRESSION IS EVERYTHING. It’s not just about what we say and write, but in every little moment, be it writing a blog, cooking tea or teaching a class, it is all an expression of me.” So true. ‘Expression is definitely everything’ as Serge Benhayon has presented.
“I had been making it about DOING and DOING and not EXPRESSING.” Expressing is everything we do, think, say and be. I used to think it was just about what came out of my mouth. Looking at it in a whole new way ensures everything we are is expression, which reflects so differently to everyone around us.
A beautiful continuity of expression that leaves you feeling complete in any moment and complete at the end of the day, looking forward to doing it again after a nourishing sleep the next day and the next and the next, knowing that it is a deepening of expression each and every day that needs no one else to give it permission or a score card. Taking this into a school environment and offering them this richness of expression, take it or leave it, is a wonderful way to be a role model, a friend, a colleague and a mentor just being who we are as a human being.
Truth in our expression makes our movements light. Walking with lightness and with light makes all the difference in the world.
Resenting the things we have to do in life – even resenting life is something that feels very familiar to me. It makes life about trying to get to the end of an endless race so there is time to have some space for myself. But what if the space I crave is actually within my body. What if the space I feel or don’t feel is completely down to the quality of the choices I make? If this is the case, which I feel it is, then doesn’t that mean I am resenting something I don’t think I can change but is in fact completely and absolutely my choice?
Thank you for sharing your inspiration here Anonymous. Learning about the power of expression has been a big part of my life. I now appreciate the fact that it is what I express that leads to how I feel every moment and every day – when once upon a time I felt I was a victim of other people’s expression. This has been a powerful revelation and as you share here, becomes part of everything we do – no matter how insignificant it might appear to be. Everything we do matters and everything we do in the fullness of who we are is a joy-full experience.
Well presented anonymous, its so important having the awareness that every little thing we do is expression, and all the little things we do compound into big things.
A great reminder that everything is expression reading this blog again at the beginning of a very full day ahead I have come to a stop and let go of the overwhelm I was feeling to appreciate and claim and reconnect with myself and move in to my day taking responsibility for my expression and the reflection I offer humanity.
I love how you challenged the normal weekday scenario and the TGIF that surrounds so much of us and looked beyond and knew that it was not normal. And then chose to be and bring all of you to all that you do. There is so much for us to be intrigued and fascinated by and our life and how we are in it is a great place to start.
As expression is everything we are therefore expressing 24/7. When I read that it asks me to consider the quality that I am expressing it.
This blog is a great reminder that it’s about quality first: what quality am I choosing to be in and express from, and how does this affect not just me but everything around me? When I remind myself of that, my relationship with my to-do list and all of my day to day responsibilities totally changes and I enjoy what I’m doing so much more.
Understanding “EXPRESSION IS ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING” allows us to feel how much we are the creators of our lives depending on the quality of choices that we make on a daily basis. It is the consistency and simplicity of these choices that create a harmonious flow in life.
“each moment is an amazing opportunity to express how I feel and who I truly am.” This is the most valuable lesson that a teacher can share with students.
Teachers definitely do need to be celebrated for what they bring rather than just assessed on the grades the children get. Teachers are the bringers up of our next generation and so we need to truly support and nurture them so they can do the same with our children.
awesome blog! “But then I realised that it wasn’t just in school I was resenting the things I had to do, I was resenting most of life too; the drive to school and back, no time for the gym, having to make tea, food shopping, making my bed, going for a walk, even having a shower or a bath, how I will ‘fit ‘ everything in,”this momentum of living is so common. When we think lineally and live life in this momentum its very difficult to see clarity and have a sense of joy and lightness in our day, but approaching things as all one in the same brings a whole different being to everything we do.
I know I can slip into ‘just getting things done’ and worrying about time but the more I am aware of it and am honest with myself about it the quicker it seems to stand out! And then I have the choice to come back to making my movements and expressions about the quality I know they can be and that feels true.
This has put me on notice of anything in my life I don’t enjoy. Why would I not enjoy everything if I were expressing fully and being the love that I am? I would have to be letting the what’s out there affect me and dull my true feeling. I would have to be making choices that dull the lightness that I feel and that I am innately.
Thank you Anonymous this line is gold for me to read this morning and be inspired by ‘How could I ever get bored, resentful or complaining when each moment is an amazing opportunity to express how I feel and who I truly am.’
This is a great turnaround and this by simply allowing yourself to enjoy and express yourself in every moment. This is very inspiring and shows the importance of honouring every moment in our life and honouring us in it in full expression.
A great reminder, thank, you, of what “expression is everything” means as it can become just a concept. How I shift in my seat is either a mechanical reaction to the comfort level of my body, or, is choice to make a movement in connection with the source of love within me, that will allow me to continue to offer all of me in what I am writing or reading or attending to in my seat. When no movement is separate to the expression of love, it sustains itself and expands in the body and more so, pulses into the world. Therefore making everything we do an expression of who we truly are, is everything.
Thank you for the reminder that in every choice we make we are choosing to express – I have been feeling overwhelmed at work this week and am aware that this affects the rest of my life but have not acted on it. Today I chose to appreciate me and express that in full and allow that to shine out in all that I do. The Teachers are Gold project is so inspiring and allows teachers to start to appreciate the reflection that they are offering to children in everything they do.
We are all offering a reflection to everyone in everything that we do. We can’t ever not be, the question is what are we reflecting?
An awesome reminder from an inspirational blog, and an inspirational man (Michael Benhayon). It makes me smile as I appreciate just the way my fingers feel as I write this comment.. that in itself is an expression that can be hammered out, or they lightly dance across the keyboard.
Beautifully shared. Such wisdom and clarity. Expression starts with a choice of being. This determines the quality of our doing. A great reminder to check in constantly, where are we.
“A teacher must be CELEBRATED and HONOURED in everything they are and in everything they bring, EACH AND EVERY DAY! Equal to this, they must be given ALL the tools of how to do this for THEMSELVES, that is, to truly celebrate and honour all that they are and all that they bring to our lives.” I agree totally with the above statement but the word teacher could be replaced with child,mother, father, man, woman, in fact all people must be celebrated and honoured each and every day…..in so doing everyone would feel loved and cherished for who they are, and so would in turn celebrate, honour, love and cherish those around them, and so it would go, on and on.
Thankyou Anonymous, making every day about ourselves and the expression of all that we are certainly changes things! Life feels more steady instead of compartmentalised with different tasks (me time, work time, chores etc) which can bring about different reactions and emotions.
What a powerful statement: ““A teacher must be CELEBRATED and HONOURED in everything they are and in everything they bring, EACH AND EVERY DAY! Equal to this, they must be given ALL the tools of how to do this for THEMSELVES, that is, to truly celebrate and honour all that they are and all that they bring to our lives.” ” – And this is not just for teachers at school, but anyone who teaches anything to anyone with their full being, bringing all that they are to their students.
This is gorgeous, just amazing to feel how everything is indeed expression, all we choose is an expression of energy. It is for us to choose in what energy we express, and take in our day, I know when I’m conscious of this I choose more easily the energy that is serving everyone, feeling light and Joyfull in everything I do.
I have read this blog in the past and it still continues to be one of my favourites. So many little gems. Thank You.
What stood out for me in your blog was how, when you’re expressing you as consistently as possible in everything you do, think or feel during your day, that momentum of knowing you stands you in such great support and steadiness when we come up against those blips in the day that would otherwise pull us down. So the more we are able to express fully, in everything, the more solid our foundation of who we are becomes and the more we can recognise what’s truly going on around us but not get so affected by it. Gold from Teachers are gold!
‘These are all expressions of me, not one more or one less important.’ Thank you – what you have written here is deeply profound, life can be super intense, but if we are simply expressing who we are it suddenly feels very simple.
Brilliant Anon, I finally am starting to get it now. Expression is not only about the way we speak and write but everything…. but when we make everything about ‘doing doing doing and not expressing’ we lose the very essence and quality of all that we are expressing. Awesome blog.
“It’s not just about what we say and write, but in every little moment, be it writing a blog, cooking tea or teaching a class, it is all an expression of me”.
Yes Expression is Everything in everything we do; thank you Anonymous for expressing so beautifully and powerfully.
Thank you Anonymous for sharing a really great blog, laying out simply what is meant by “expression is everything, little by little I am getting more of an understanding of that expression. “How could I ever get bored, resentful or complaining when each moment is an amazing opportunity to express how I feel and who I truly am. – leaving more and more space for the absolute joy and the love I feel for humanity.”
This is such a powerful and awesome blog to read. I can relate to the ‘doing’ in life and missing out on expressing in every moment who I truly am. Your blog is a game changer and beautifully reminds us all that ‘expression is everything’ and the exquisiteness and joy felt when we commit to this in our life.
The way society respects, or disrespect certain professions, is always must test of the underlying values of that society. That so many teachers, within whose care are all of our children, are in a state of distress and disregard is simply indicative of the total paradigm shift that is needed in our society now
It also took me a while for the penny to drop that expression is literally everything we do. I too used to view it as a word only about speaking, talking, words, tone, style of speech we use.
The level of responsibility is enormous in this, I can now see that leaving a mess behind me is expression, in fact everything is.
It could feel overwhelming, but when we commit to appreciating the value of claiming ourselves in expression, that is simply a joy to bring order, love, clarity into everything in life.
A great reminder for me that everything I do and say in my day matters as expression is everything.
I totally agree Anne.
Yep and it might be that there’s no one there to see or hear what we’re doing but it still gets registered because everything is constantly contributing to everything. We’re either shovelling the What Is Not at Life or the What Is at Life and that’s the truth of it.
This is an awesome blog to read again, deeply inspiring and not just for teachers but potentially for everyone.
Yes I agree Annie, this blog is an awesome support for everyone.
Oh how much it is to realise that I won’t or don’t care and at times I am bangin’ and clangin’ around… I noticed just in the last 2 weeks just how quickly thoughts and movements change when you start to take more care and express yourself.
Yes everything is expression and expression is everything. 🙂 🙂
To be reminded that everything is expression, every movement, every word and deed, and thought comes with the responsibility to be conscious of these at all times throughout each day. With this knowledge brings a new depth to our every moment. Thank you Anonymous.
Truly beautiful subject, what I find very intriguing is that we can resent those things in life we love the most. It is important to notice here that: being resentful actually hurts very much, even though at the moment of the resentment we can think that we are protective and maybe even at times carry a certain arrogance. Or at least this is what I have experienced in my life. Also , what I can sense from having lived in resentment quiet recently, I could feel that all I was doing is finding excuses to hold back my power, wisdom and truth. Therefore it is always important to feel why it is that you are resenting. This helped me a lot.
What I find Danna is resentment can sneak in when I am not deeply taking care of myself. I begin to resent doing things for others or what needs to be done as I am exhausted. This is something I am working on.
Yes Gyllianrae, I recognize that I was all of a sudden harsh and resenting someone or something in a situation and tried to figure out how this all of a sudden exploded.. Just like you shared, it had sneaked in in that case, loosing the connection with myself while doing things instead of feeling what I needed to actually do (respecting how my body was feeling and what I felt to do). When I had denied the self-love and taking care of myself by deminishing it with harsh tasks – I felt that I become more harsh in every activity I was doing plus I felt more angry at myself and every little thing that did not work seemed to be the ”big issue”. Now being aware of this more often, I actually can track myself when I am overriding what I feel – in this way I can prevent feeling hard and cruel to myself and others.
Yes Dana its so interesting isn’t it? Resentment seems to show up when we are expecting something from the world or others or even ourselves. It is a blame game. In all of this we forget to go a little deeper and feel what it is that is truly been shown to us.
Yes – we have probably taken it way to far by not listening to our body but our busy minds. I wonder how resentfull we actually are when we make more chocies from our heart – I guess it is worth trying , since I am experiencing much less resentment in my life since I make choices that honor my body and all of my feelings. And so , when I am chosing to neglect this, it seems even worse so that makes me even more disciplined to build more love-filled choices in my life.
In ancient days, teachers were deeply respected, because it was acknowledged that they were the vessels within which the future societies were formed, and this responsibility was also deeply acknowledged, both within society, and by the teachers themselves. In one sense nothing has changed, because this is still what happens in that our teachers do form and mould our children… It is the respect and the honouring that is missing, and this must be returned to create a foundation for our future societies.
‘In ancient days, teachers were deeply respected’ Ah now that line makes you deeply stop and think. It seems teachers are less respected than ever, so it’s a fascinating question to ask – why is that?
The awareness expressed in this blog seems pivotal to me about living in a way that is sustainably joyful and loving. To truly get that every single movement and action as well as thought is expression is an immense claiming of the unlimited opportunity we have to reimprint our lives in the way we choose.
‘unlimited opportunity’ – the perfect words!
What a great reminder -that we express in everything we do and everyone feels us in that expression. This is something very loving and affirming for me to take into my day.Thank you.
‘I know for one, by choosing to continue and commit to living this way, there will be less room for resentment, exhaustion or frustration that have been a part of my life – leaving more and more space for the absolute joy and the love I feel for humanity.’ A truly amazing commitment to end the blog – the commitment to living in connection to the amazing expression that you are in every moment and every way.
Dear Anonymous, you have exposed how living the whole of one’s life has a direct effect of everything we are active in and how the close relationship between teacher and child can be affected by this. After a parent, a teacher-child relationship can have profound effects on who a child sees themselves to be. Often a children’s first reflection of themselves is through the eyes of those around them and so how the people around them feel about themselves is going to be felt. Teachers for Gold is providing the opportunity for teachers to bring more of the love they are into their own lives and to the relationship with children, offering such a gift of love.
When we realise that our expression is in everything we do when we have an off moment we can reconnect by the simplest of things; for example, feeling how you gently and lovingly dusted and placed ornaments when cleaning so that you can feel that and reconnect to yourself when you feel the imprint of the energy you left there. Our homes can be full of these loving imprints if we choose.
We’ve allowed ourselves to get bamboozled by ‘doing’, we put all of our self worth into what we’re able to get done. We buy into the beliefs that the more that we do the better, the more extravagant something is the better, the more that we get paid the better, the ‘higher up’ we get the better, the more we learn the better, the more, the more, the more but none of this takes into account the quality that we’re in when we do whatever it is that we’re doing and so we miss out on what truly matters the most.
Life is expression and if we fully commit to life we feel joy in anything we do as it always comes form our true expression. What we do is then not what makes us or gives us our identity, but just being ourselves in activity.
I like this blog very much! I realized that I also had some ideals and beliefs about what expression is. Thank you for exposing them!
Yes Eva Maria, I also had many pictures around what expression is – to expose them feels very empowering and expansive.
It’s amazing to feel how much all the ‘little’ things we do, and think ‘don’t matter’ actually really accumulate to affect how we feel. When we see our expression as everything, and that the quality we do it in can either heal or harm us, it really brings us back to our choices in every single moment. Hence presence is precious, and oh so vital! Thank you Anonymous, for this important reflection.
I still find that amazing too Amelia 🙂 every moment has the potential to harm or heal and in every moment we can be exploring the wonder of who we really are, presence is for sure a gift! And when you know it’s importance – how can you not treasure it?
I wish to endorse that Michael Benhayon is an amazing inspiration. He is always able to perceive what is required in the moment and expresses it with great love, gentleness, humbleness and without judgment.
I absolutely agree Jonathan, Michael Benhayon is a deeply caring, inspiring, gentle, super powerful and fun loving man.
‘I had been living, walking and expressing in a way that resented everything I ‘had to do’.’ How many of us live in this way? And is this then the reflection the next generation is getting? If this is the way we choose to go through life we are checking out in every moment because like shared in this blog everything is expression. Choosing resentment has been my way of living a long time and sometimes this expression is still there but when I notice this fact I choose to come back to or keepen the way I take care of myself and the responsibility knowing everything is energy
this is hugely inspirational anonymous, it’s so easy to get dismissive of the functional tasks like cooking, having a shower, and try to skim through as quickly as possible whilst thinking of something completely different, but you have exposed the trap that is inherent in this, that the mind takes control and we lose ourselves in the process. The quality of the day is reflected in the quality of how we prepare for it, not something switched on the moment we walk through the door. Expression is everything… and in every thing.
Well said Annie C. When you realise that expression is everything nothing becomes menial or can be dismissed as less important than anything else. For me this realisation brings a new meaning to the words quality and integrity big time.
Thank you for writing this blog Anonymous and for the reminder that yes, expression is EVERYTHING.
“EVERYTHING, yes EVERYTHING, is an expression of me!”…. And in that I have the choice in every single moment to express the me I truly want to be. Great power, grace and responsibility await us in the space every moment affords us, the grace of awareness, the responsibility of choice and the power to express the beauty of all we truly are in full.
A gorgeous sharing – it is so true that everything we do matters, because our activity either has the quality of us in it or not.. Seeing each moment as an opportunity to feel, value and express our quality is indeed awesome and leaves very little room for resentment and exhaustion. First step for me was to let myself feel my inner-quality when I was connected to my body and inner-most – to get to know it and then choose it in each moment… and enjoy it!
Sarah, you’ve hit the nail on the head – it is to value ourselves, our expression and what we have to share – and most of all to allow ourselves to enjoy being us.
Too often I find myself slogging through a task so that I can get it over and have time to be me. What where was I, my love and expression in that task? This blog is a great reminder that everything is expression and everything matters.
Thank you for this inspiring blog. A beautiful reminder of the choice we have in every moment to be with ourselves and celebrate the love we are through all that we do.
The more we commit to the quality we live with moment to moment the more space and flow we create in life to express who we truly are.
A great reminder that Expression is in all that we do throughout our day and not just specific things in the day. I could really relate with what you shared about ‘no time for me’ and ‘how do I fit this in?’ It goes to show that as soon as we support ourselves in one part of the day and make expression about everything we do this can build to the next support; and instead of it becoming about doing it is about us being with ourselves in every moment .. I can feel the tension starting to go already!
Anonymous your words are also gold. You have to share your experience also with all your colleagues. Our true expression can change everything – what a beautiful gift is that and also what a joy. Thank you Anonymous for not holding back and showing the world how powerful we are.
Thank you Anonymous for your blog. It makes excellent reading first thing in the morning in reminding me that EXPRESSION IS ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING! Every thing we do and think counts no matter how insignificant or trivial it may at first appear.
“Each moment is an amazing opportunity to express how I feel and who I truly am” This changes everything! When preparing for classes I can sometimes be focused on outcomes and how I think something should look. This only brings in anxiety. After reading this blog I feel more able to bring a lightness and joy into preparation by feeling what quality I am, and connecting to my body. There is the responsibility of holding back my joy and love or allowing it to be brought to every task including class preparation so that the children and young people I teach also get to experience this quality.
Simone I love how you have shared the fact that there is a responsibility to bring joy and love into every task. The young people then get the real you.
What a gorgeous inspiration which has shown me how resentment can be such a trap for not living all of who we are.
Thank you anonymous for sharing that every moment and in everything we do we get to express the tender, divine beings that we are.
I can fall into this trap at times as well..”seeing it all as hard, as a burden and it made so much sense – I had been living, walking and expressing in a way that resented everything I ‘had to do”. Then I beat myself up. All a negative pattern perpetuating itself. However this can be easily cleared if I make another choice to see that…”each moment is an amazing opportunity to express how I feel and who I truly am. I know for one, by choosing to continue and commit to living this way, there will be less room for resentment, exhaustion or frustration that have been a part of my life – leaving more and more space for the absolute joy and the love I feel for humanity.” Thank you.
Beautifully spoken Angela. We are always students of the way of our livingness and this allows us the space and time to unfold at a pace that doesn’t set us up for failure. It’s great to acknowledge how far one has come and a humbling moment to feel how far we can still go. Being connected to our body teaches us amazing lessons and I truly love that this deepening is forever evolving and expanding. It’s so exciting to live in such a connected way with ones body in all that we think, say and do.
Love the timing. I was discussing this exact topic today with my year 11 students. They grump at anything that is asked of them so I presented how expression is everything and how life would be so much more joyful if we all committed to being present with all that we do and catching ourselves when we start to feel resentment. The kids understood but felt they couldn’t be like that. I encouraged them to slowly chip away at it and to feel how lovely life can become. I presented another way, a way that I know has created such amazing positive changes in my life.
What you are sharing here – if we really consider it deeply and understand it – actually changes the whole way we live, and the whole way we look at life. It’s quite profound and something I can take with me and forever and keep deepening.
Thanks.
That’s what I love about being on this path Simplesimon; that it can always be deepened. We are forever evolving and going the next step. It’s so lovely to live this way. Contrasted against resentment there really is no other way I’d rather be.
It is amazing how much space and time there is when we just be ourselves. Rushing or stressing fills the space with a draining energy. When we just be ourselves there is room for so much more. A great blog, thank you.
That draining energy then leads to the exhaustion and resentment.
I agree, when we are trying to race against time, that is exactly what we do – constantly race, never enjoying the moment and seek an end result; very draining.
‘ each moment is an amazing opportunity to express how I feel and who I truly am’ – beautifully said Anonymous. Your choices to express fully in all areas of your life is a joy to read and truly inspiring – thank you.
I loved this line too. Sometimes I think there is not enough to appreciate/be in 1 moment but in reality there is so much to appreciate and bring to each moment – and that much is mostly me!
Everything is an expression of me. This is deeply profound and makes me fully stop to look at how I am living, to look clearly at all my little expressions around my home ~ how I have I placed things around the house and the quality I was in when I did it and what imprint this has left behind; at work ~ what is my commitment to the task; with my family and friends ~ what is the depths of intimacy I am willing to go to and how much do I hold people back and away form getting know the true me?
To grasp that expression is everything, and not just about the way we speak and write, is huge as we have spent so long being told that we express through mediums like art, performance and the written word. This blog is a great reminder and allowed me to feel how I still hold the belief that expression is limited, thank you for sharing.
Thank you for this awe-inspiring blog anonymous. Such an revelation which you have revealed. Everyday I hear people resentful of ‘chores’ or the job – like life is only for living the weekends or holidays and the rest is a pain in the backside. But the chores and our jobs are what makes up the majority of our day and lives! My life has turned around seeing a joy in ALL that I do – it is absolutely as you say – simply an expression of who we are. And so not one job or chore is more or less than another. Thank you.
Well said Gina. It is ridiculous that we humans are so ready to complain about something that ‘has’ to be done, when in fact we have made the choices that have put us into that situation anyway…! So as you say we spend much of our time tryng to get through our day so we can do what? Sit in front of the TV or computer screen or go shopping and spend money on lots of things we either don’t need, or that will mean we will have even more things to do, when what we could be doing is truly enjoying being all of who we are in our work and everything else we do, where everyone then gets the full and beautiful benefit of our true selves.
I love the honesty of this blog. I have learned an extremely important lesson about expression that I didn’t take in before and that is that expression is everything we think ,say and do , not just what we say or write. The penny dropped !
This is a great section that resonates for me..”So I have come to realise, know and understand that EXPRESSION IS EVERYTHING. It’s not just about what we say and write, but in every little moment.” It’s so easy to forget this at times when my day gets really busy. Thank you for the reminder.
We need to keep reminding ourselves that expression is everything till the day we will not forget this as it will once again be our natural way to express all of us in every moment.
A beautiful and simple reminder that expression involves everything we do, our movement, our breath, our touch, gesture and facial expression. Every moment can make life a celebration of what we are capable of expressing – the truth love and absolute beauty within. That beauty never depends on where we are or what we are doing. It is eternal.
Love your comment, Simon, and absolutely life changing if we choose to be aware of that during our day!
It is true Simon, the word expression has been bastardised over time to try and stop us connecting to and expressing our divinity.
I love your comment too Simon, you’ve really encapsulated the wonder of life, and your line – ‘Every moment can make life a celebration of what we are capable of expressing’ – is something that I will keep referring back to today.
Thank you Anonymous, for a truly inspiring blog, I am inspired to bring more of the lovely, amazing me, into each moment of my day.
It’s truly inspiring to hear your story … It’s not the first time I have heard similar experiences but to hear it again confirms yet again that Expression is EVERYTHING. The details are the foundation for honouring ourselves first, every move we make, every thought we have. Yes it is a responsibility to choose this way of being but the results as you have described are a ‘gift to ourselves’ an absolute felt joy.
I totally agree merrileepettinato… living responsibility is a way of living and requires being constantly aware of our choices, but it is a truly amazing gift we give to ourselves and all others.
I agree Angela it is all about choices, we can complicate it or make it into bigger things, but the simple truth of the matter is down to every choice we make.
This is so powerful, I love how you share about the thing that we can live a life in a way that is natural, loving, fun and fullfilling, and that this way of living is actually allowing less space for resentment, frustration, exhaustion etc. etc. It is just too good to be living in any other way!
I love this blog Anon! It’s a fantastic reminder that when I feel the tiniest whiff of overwhelm or resentment to stop, come back to me, and remind myself that expression is everything – it’s what I bring to the daily activities that are life. Yes indeed, ‘Everything is an expression of me.’
This blog is a great confirmation that the quality we are, comes with us, in everything we do.
I feel resentment is far more common in peoples lives than perhaps we would like to admit. It is certainly an energy that has got me out of bed in the morning and run my whole day, often covered up by a facade of niceness and lots of ‘doing’ – none of which honours or celebrates who I truly am.
Thank you Michael Benhayon for the reminder that ‘EVERYTHING, is an expression of me’ and thank you Anon for your practical demonstration of this fact. It brings home the fact that how I choose to walk every step of my life affects everyone. So if I choose resentment or frustration, how is this expression affecting others? If I am truly responsible for my life I then need to commit, not just in one moment or one area of life, but consistently. But it doesn’t have to be a chore for as Michael reminds us, we need to remember to ‘celebrate and honour’ all that we are and all that we bring.
Sandra when you bring other people into the equation, it brings a much greater reality to the fact that every move we make, and every time we choose frustration or anger we are effecting another person. Imagine everyone frustrated and walking around effecting everyone else – it’s not far from the truth – but surely this is not the responsibility we should be living our lives in!
This blog demonstrates how the energy we are in when we do something makes a huge difference. I have experienced the draining effect of resentment which creates a resistance to doing anything – I used to resent not having any ‘me’ time but what I was missing was that I was leaving ‘me’ in order to do things. As soon as I bring me to what I do, it is no longer a chore and it gets done easily and I flow on to the next thing without a sense of having to do something. I don’t feel any ‘should’ but instead I feel the joy of being me as I do whatever needs to be done in that moment. By starting off the day with me it is easier to continue that throughout the day or come back to me if I get lost. The more I am with me, the more I am with me.
What struck me whilst re-reading this blog was how much of the things we do in life with resentment and then wonder why we are exhausted. This was something I have had to tackle especially when it came to working, as it used to creep in and then I would wind myself up so much that in the end I would blame work or a person and leave.
Now I am looking at work in a whole new light and I can feel there is purpose in what I do and how I do it, and if any thoughts creep in, I know there is something to look at and take responsibility for.
Thank you for some great words of wisdom Anonymous. To have access to such wonderful encouragement and Loving support from Michael Benhayon and his inspired program Teachers are Gold sounds truly inspiring. I must admit it was also great for me to be reminded that ” everything” is expression! I don’t think I fully got it until now!
A very powerful testimonial to choosing to express in full in every situation. When resentment comes knocking I know I am stuck and repeating a pattern that is not truly me. The thing is that when this is shared with another it perpetuates the feeling and makes both people feel edgy and uncomfortable. So much more loving to stop and ask myself what is going on, what’s underneath that. More and more I’m finding that what’s underneath is something way more supportive and worthy of sharing in how I express in all I do and say. Thanks for the inspiration, Anon.
Anonymous, reading your blog this morning is such a beautiful reminder of what the fact: “Everything is Expression” truly means. And I know this to be a fact, as I have had my struggles with the one part of expression, of actually speaking up and saying what I feel, for a long time. But not saying what I feel I was still expressing, it was expressing me holding back my truth. It is an amazing process to start to realise everything we do is an expression, either of our true selves or of something that’s not actually true, and that every expression affects me and all around me.
I agree, Michael Benhayon has been a true inspiration for me to commit to express me in the world. He is just awesome!
Sheer Delight and uplifting to re-read this Annon. It is pure gold, gold and more gold…and such a powerful truth and reminder that; ‘Everything is an expression of me’. Not just the verbal and the writing as we falsely believe, but actually EVERYTHING….This is one blog I plan to re-visit for the priceless gems it contains!
Wow, what a remarkable difference to your day, and with so much more energy for life, once again proving that taking truly loving responsibility of our lives is a win win! And, I absolutely agree, Michael Benhayon is one deeply inspiring man, simply Divine.
I could read and re-read this. It is such a turnaround to consider the burdens we feel in life are because we feel we ‘have to do’ rather that understanding we can simply be. As I read it my shoulders lightened and I could see how the next part of my day could be just as delicious as the start had been…
This blog may be about the life of a school teacher, but it really doesn’t matter what job is done; it could easily be any one of us who is living like they resent life for being there. Thank you Anonymous for sharing the wisdom Michael Benhayon shared with you; wisdom and a lot of common sense that certainly supported me when I first read your writing, and no doubt supports anyone and everyone.
Yes, I agree Suzanne, this blog serves all and anyone who reads it, no matter your profession. It is super supportive and inspiring and brings home a deeper understanding of the word ‘Responsibility’. The responsiblity we all have to be aware of how we are expressing, in other words what are we putting out there into the world. Are we adding more stress and tension ( with our resistance and doing) or are we bringing joy and love to the world that defintely needs more LOVE….. This inspires me to be all the love I can be in every moment and is something to commit fully too.
Thank you Anonymous, Serge And Michael Bengayon. “These are all expressions of me, not one more or one less important”,
“EXPRESSION IS EVERYTHING” and “How could I ever get bored, resentful or complaining when each moment is an amazing opportunity to express how I feel and who I truly am”. These 3 quotes sums it all up for me- the living wisdom to change our lives. How could I ever get bored? There is so much more to life and for us to support!
I thought of this programme that Michael Benhayon initiated today after working in a secondary school doing 6 sexual health education classes back to back; and afterwards really appreciating teachers and the work that they do. Michael could see this and knew support he could give them and to me that is gold. Are teachers really appreciated and helped to be all that they are.
I have been told, and have known for a long time now that expression is everything but to really put this knowledge into a livingness takes a lot of practice, I still find it far too easy to slip back into the doing-ness but what you have written certainly helps.
What I find amazing about this blog is Michael Benhayon’s ability to inspire you to such a great depths of personal responsibility and understanding.
I so agree, Anon; learning that expression is everything, absolutely everything form brushing my teeth, combing my hair, patting the dog, teaching, planning, on playground duty – that everything is an opportunity to express who I am – learning that was a huge eye opener for me too, and very liberating.
Thank you for sharing your experience and defining the difference between “doing” and “expressing”. A very gentle and timely reminder.
Thank you, this is beautiful .. Expression is also something I am learning to understand what this means, and that we are never not expressing.. so what is the quality of that expression ? We can take on the quality of unresolved emotions, hurts, resentment, frustrations, stress, raciness etc. or it can be the quality of our natural essence, of who we truly are,. The quality that will be in every breath, every movement, every spoken word, and everything we do. I’m also beginning to understand that the quality we bring to any one thing reflects the quality that we bring to everything (and everyone), And there is a responsibility but also a joy in knowing that the quality we bring affects everyone and everything not just around us, but everywhere. It makes perfect sense.
To understand the truth about expression is something that is taking a while for me. To feel the effect of my expression on the world is something that I slowly grasp more and more. It asks a lot of responsibility when I start to feel what effect a disordered drawer has on the world or a jumper that I choose for the day…
What I love about this is the realness. Whilst life is about expressing in full that doesn’t mean that everything is going to be perfect and there will be no speed bumps along the way. When we are expressing in full those speed bumps don’t feel like they are so big and so often as when we are letting life dictate us.
‘How could I ever get bored, resentful or complaining when each moment is an amazing opportunity to express how I feel and who I truly am.’ Thank you Anonymous for this, not only is it true but also inspiring that we express in everything we do and have an opportunity to bring quality to every moment.
so true, absolutely everything we do is expression! I too began to resent all of the things that we have to ‘do’ in life, but then I realised, I wasn’t being me! I was just barely getting through and doing what I had to but never with a quality of joy. That is now my marker, when I feel I’m not doing it with all of me, I stop for a second and go “where am I?”
What a great example you are Anon … expression is everything and the energy we choose to express in each moment of the day is powerful.
I felt so much support and a deeper awareness from this blog, thank you. I’ve been finding big dips in my expression when alone, I’ve now realised I can still engage myself fully and express that in everything I do, whether around others and communicating or not. As you say, everything is expression.
It is so easy to erroneously give preference and more importance to some expressions over others, so I loved that you have shared that all of our expressions are equally important for ‘each moment is an amazing opportunity to express how I feel and truly am’. A truly gorgeous sharing.
So well expressed Samantha that we can give more importance to some things over others and how this blog shows the importance that everything is equally important. By appreciating this everything becomes fluid and seemingly effortless.
Understanding and embodying that every action and movement is an expression of ours is a great tool to work on ourselves, to observe ourselves and see what gets confirmed time and time again. Definitely a very powerful advice. Michael Benhayon is a truly beautiful and amazing human being.
Expression is breathing my own breath, not breathing the situation, the way I move, the thoughts that I have. There is so much joy in expanding our understanding of expression. Thank you Anonymous.
What Michael Benhayon is bringing to the world, breaking old paradigms, bringing the light of understanding and wisdom, cutting old energy, inspiring all around him , is not just with the teachers project, but in his music, and his work as a healing practitioner, as a father, and there is so much more to come.
Wonderful blog and great reminder that indeed Everything is expression, also how I type this comment….with a big smile!
This caught my attention: How could I ever get bored, resentful or complaining when each moment is an amazing opportunity to express how I feel and who I truly am.
Thank you for giving me the inspiration to look deeper into this.
And what joy for your students too! they too are free from the resentment that comes with having to attend school and contend with what the education system imposes upon them – teachers that let their light shine truly are gold.
It is revealing how resentment can feed itself by the way you express who you are. It is certainly a mindset, and the energy which we choose.
Thank you !
When I have the intention to express myself, to be aware of my unique flavour and qualities in whatever I do, I feel so energised.I have realised that it uses so much energy to stifle or squash this natural expression that wants to come out.
Beautifully said Fiona, this is a great way of looking at our expression and how natural it innately is.
This article shows the true value of the Teachers are Gold project. So many teachers wilt under the pressure of all they have to ‘do’ and lose connection to the joy that inspired them to become teachers and be with children, or adults, as they learn and develop an understanding of the world around them. Expression is everything offers teachers the opportunity to learn to reconnect to the love that they are and inspire others with their expression in everything they are.
These words of wisdom were the ones that resonated so loudly with me today: “that EVERYTHING, yes EVERYTHING, is an expression of me!” What powerful words to take with me in each moment as a reminder of how, everything I do, feel and think has an impact not only on me, but all those around me. Now that is true responsibility, and just imagine, that if this was taught to every child, how the world would change!
I have been feeling resentment more intensely recently feeling the overwhelm of what there was to do, and as I reflect after reading this wonderful blog I made the focus on the ‘doing’ instead of staying present with me and expressing in everything I do. This way of being changes everything and I get a sense of the unnecessary weight I was putting on myself. Thank you for sharing Anon.
“So I have come to realise, know and understand that EXPRESSION IS EVERYTHING. It’s not just about what we say and write, but in every little moment, be it writing a blog, cooking tea or teaching a class, it is all an expression of me. ” Yes, everything we do – not just what we do but how we do it – the quality – is equally important.
I love re-reading this joyous blog full of radiant expression. Expression is absolutely everything and for me that’s an amazing blessing to have.
It is true, everything is expression, and every expression has the potential to be gold!
Love this. So true. To leave loving golden imprints everywhere is a responsibility I love knowing I hold and constantly commit to creating.
Great point, every expression we make has the potential to be a truly amazing expression of who we are and everything we come from. When you look at it that way – how important is every second of the day!
Very inspiring blog Anonymous. I can feel the spring in your step and the joy in your voice. “The power and amazingness I felt was way too big to let the little issues get to me”. Expressing is everything, and your enthusiasm is so contagious my fingers feel like dancing while I type those few words.
I absolutely agree Angela, I too feel we are all students forever learning and what an awesome and amazing opportunity it is. We never ever stop learning, in the sense of what our bodies share with us, and this constant expansion and evolution, just like the Universe.
Everything is Expression – something I’m still learning because I too have thought of expression as what we say. Embracing every single thing, every movement, as expression is a huge step towards living me.
Hear hear judykarenyoung! I too used to think that expression was only verbal, however am now coming to realise and appreciate that expression is EVERYTHING, and includes not only what we say but also what we don’t say, how we move and also how we don’t move, how we are in relationship and also how we are not in relationship etc…
I can relate Angela to starting to feel that in every moment I have a choice to connect, feel and express, especially a choice to let others in or keep them out.
I agree Judy, it is very empowering to feel the opportunities we have every moment to express who we truly are.
This blog is poles apart from how most of the world lives. I saw a man come into our office today and throw is bag onto the desk. The noise was jarring and I could feel his disregard for himself, but I could see he was not in any way connected to the fact that his every move was part of his expression. This is a great lesson for us all. Even the way I type this comment is part of my expression, and through that I come to know myself, or not.
So true Anonymous, everything that we do is an expression of ourselves. I enjoy the various infinite ways of expressing. And the richness in the relationships because of that.
Thanks Anonymous for delivering the fact that expression is everything and how much of a huge difference is made when we express from love
I agree, Joe. We can look at it another way: An absolutely loveless environment (a school) allows a loving person to be love and express all of themselves in the middle of their environment.
All he/she has to do is to follow a lot of nonsensical rules. But isn’t that nonsense just part of the environment and it is for us to learn how to express in full in that environment?
Absolutely wonderful to read this at the start of the day, whereby even before reading this inspirational text, I had refreshed my commitment to expressing in full, in everything.
Furthermore to this, I’ve noticed that if I make a road-map for the day or the month and through discipline only, stick to that plan – everything feels like a chore by the end of that period. Conversely, if I see my calendar, road-map, or plan as a guide of sorts, requiring no strict adherence and then ask my body ‘what would you like to do today’ or ‘how would you like to do xyz’, then I tend to experience much more honesty and therefore I get the impulse of what’s next (rather than the push to do what’s next on the list, so-to-speak).
Ahhh- the list trap, Oliver: I know it well! Definitely wiser to see any plan as a guide, as you say here, rather than a cast-in-stone, have-to- do prescription for all of our actions.
What an apt description of the way I used to live Coleen. Woke up every morning with THE LIST in my head and wouldn’t relax until it was all ticked off. No joy or spontaneity there, just an endless wheel of need. I still have a list, it will get done one day, and the order of priority constantly changes according to how I feel, and who comes along to help me. This is much more fun, and I am constantly surprised at how when I let go control and angst about things, they happen so easily and life flows
Well said Oliver, that is a beautiful point you made here, to have a plan, but then to be checking in and feeling what’s next, rather than just ticking off chores all day long. And also to check, HOW you would like to do this task today….that feels really self honouring, and eliminates the just pushing through from one task to the next.
When I get caught up in lists I have no awareness for anything else going on around me, I focus so intently on achieving the ticks that nothing else seems to matter. Having a list so that I remember what needs to be done and feeling what to do next feels lighter more joyful and I do not have the investment in what I get done.
Great points you make Oliver. I work best having a guide of what needs to be done and then I allow it all to fall into place at the right time, celebrating each small or large milestone with appreciation along the way. It’s really cool to have a supportive rhythm rather than a strict ‘things to do list’ that sets you up to feel less when you haven’t ticked every box.
I love going back to read this post, I think I am hoping to absorb the living of this wisdom through the pores of my skin. I am finding it helpful to approach my activity at the moment with tenderness, this was inspired by re-listenng to The Way of the Livingness No 4 – it’s an excellent post 2015 retreat support.
Hello, this is a really powerful thing for a teacher to write and say. It is very true what you are saying, in that every ‘little’ expression throughout you day counts. So you can be a ‘victim’ of your day or you can step into it and express what is there and see what a difference that can make. As you have described it has been and is life changing for many people including me. I am in awe of our teachers, I have children at school and have an understanding of what is going on for them. It is almost like the system is set up so that they have no time to truly care for themselves or others. But as you have presented there is another way to live and teach. What is worth appreciating is how things can be turned around so easily from a conversation. Your conversation with Michael Benhayon had a dramatic effect on your life, knowing him he would have not told you to do anything but he would have just supported you in what you already knew. The way you were able to ‘turn this around’ shows how you own it. Thank you and I agree “Teachers are Gold”.
This is a great blog about the overwhelm so many teachers feel and are in daily. Thank you for highlighting these daily challenges and how we can make such small and simple steps to just bring ourselves to every moment. With these steps we can complete all those hurdles we feel stop us from bringing ourselves to classroom each day.
It is easy to overlook this simple wisdom, ‘everything we do is an expression of ourselves’. When given a precious gift like this, it is, as you say, ‘like a light going on’. We are able to see a joyful way forward, instead of allowing beliefs and thoughts to keep us stuck and dissatisfied with life. Continue to enjoy the journey.
How amazing is that.. Everything is an expression of me — what more do you want, what more do you need once your day fills up expressing You in Everything You Do. It simply confirms you so much there is no need to worry so much as your expression IS everything, whether it be a learning if that expression supported you and others, or it did not. It’s a full way to live. Not holding back was the first step for me to learn and understand what was true for me and my natural expression.
Great to read this blog. I too forget that it is not about doing doing doing, but to give myself some time to breathe and enjoy ME and from that place approach the next task at hand. It makes such a difference!
This is great. When we are “present” in doing everything, then our “expression” comes naturally and effortlessly. Then we feel “joy” in ourselves. I’m sure that children who are taught by you will feel this and that is so lovely!
What stood out for me with this reading was the understanding that our expression is in every moment, every breath, every thought, every move. We can choose the quality of our expression with the smallest, seemingly insignificant details, to build a vital and purposeful life for ourselves. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you for your blog, until I read” What came from our discussion was the fact that I was actually RESENTING everything I had to do” I had not even considered that I might be feeling a resentment, but as soon as I read your words and acknowledged this I felt the resentment leave my body.
I am totally inspired to live my day more with me than ever before. Thanks for this amazing blog.
Thank you anonymous, what a timely blog. You have actually given me absolute support. I related to quite a lot of what you presented, and will definitely re-read this blog for ongoing support. And in addition, thank you Michael Benhayon for being the inspiration and being absolutely amazing.
Beauty-full. The affect on your pupils will be enormous, too.
Such an inspirational blog, I loved the feeling of joy I got from the following sentence. “How could I ever get bored, resentful or complaining when each moment is an amazing opportunity to express how I feel and who I truly am.” I am just about to drive off to work and that joy is going with me, thank you!
Thank you for the reminder that “Expression is everything”.
It was important for me to read this great blog today.
This is a great, and although it takes focus and application, it is still simplistic by nature – expression is everything! I love how you applied this to every last detail and it turned your whole day around (and therefore your life!). Really inspiring.
I love reading this blog, every time it offers me the reminder that not one thing is more important than another and that absolutely everything that I do is an expression of me and has to have the same quality and consistency no more no less.
Thank you, so simple: Expression is everything – I loved this blog as it has reminded me that everything is everything, not just the things I find easy to do.
I read this blog for the for the first time a few months ago, and still makes me reflect on different ways that I can be much more present in my body focusing on the quality in which I express in my life. Thank you!
I love how you share the different forms of expression, expression is in everything we do. In every moment we share our expression. There is an opportunity in every moment to deepen our expression.
Thank you for this inspiring blog which feels very supportive.
Just yesterday I truly felt for the first time that every moment is expression and that this is not about doing or saying something special.
Before I had always tried to be especially good or open, now I could feel how much tension this had caused in my body and how little I had expressed. Choosing to just be what I am in every moment and express exactly that without judgement or calibrating is feeling like a very big difference.
I will further explore that and ponder what you shared.
This is a brilliant blog, that expression is in everything makes every moment an opportunity to express the way we can and the way we wish to be. If one moment slips by the next is always there to offer up the same opportunity. There is a lot to be said for working on creating self acceptance and living and expressing from that, it is remarkable how much that changes the way I am able to live and the enjoyment and positive outlook that then comes from that way of feeling.
Such a powerfully rich thing to think that ” Expression is everything. ” Be it in everything we do we are expressing us to the world. Thank you for the brilliant reminder.
It is amazing how one “small” realisation and can change everything.
“A teacher must be CELEBRATED and HONOURED in everything they are and in everything they bring, EACH AND EVERY DAY! Equal to this, they must be given ALL the tools of how to do this for THEMSELVES, that is, to truly celebrate and honour all that they are and all that they bring to our lives.” [Michael Benhayon, Director, Teachers are Gold! Project]
This is such an inspirational and supportive quote for all teachers
Michael is asking us to take responsibility for who we are and what we bring each day to our students, colleagues and to the school community.
Reading your blog I am able to reflect how this resentment, which I have also felt in my day to day life, comes not from the world ‘doing wrong’ to us but in a way, from us ‘doing wrong’ with ourselves – that is, making it about’ doing’ and not about ‘being’. When we repress our innate expression, the love, the light, the joy that you have so beautifully explained, then the resentment kicks in because deep down we know that we are playing ourselves less than the magic that we are.
Thank you Liane for giving us more clarity on understanding resentment. This makes so much sense to me in that when I shut down, lose the sparkle within me, focus on the ‘doing’,(and beautifully expressed) ‘then the resentment kicks in because deep down we know that we are playing ourselves less than the magic we are’.
It’s so revealing isn’t it: Everything is Expression. Before Attending Universal Medicine courses where this principle became very clear to me, I used to turn up to my own presentation workshops as late as possible, take no responsibility for how the hall was set up, how the chairs were put out, basically what energy were people walking into. Now I really enjoy the setting up process, giving myself as much time as I need, taking full responsibility for the energetic process of presenting to a group. What an invaluable education… Thank you Universal Medicine.
And it can be strongly felt, a room that has been set up with loving presence supports everybody in the group. This has been demonstrated at every Universal Medicine event I have attended.
Had a re-read of this blog and loved it the second time. This is now one of my timeless classics.
Thank you for giving me a deeper understanding of the fact that
“Expression is Everything”, I realise that I compartmentalise my life into times when I’m expressing such as talking with my beloved partner, or walking, connecting with friend etc. And other times when I’m just getting the tasks or jobs done, with no expression of the amazing man that I know myself to be, in what I’m doing. Unsurprisingly I often feel tired or drained as a result of the latter experience.
I loved the simple message in this blog ‘Expression is everything’! As I read, I also realised just how often I complicate things rather than bringing it back to the way I am expressing in the moment. Wonderful, thank you!
Thank You this blog is a big reminder of the quality of the little things we do snowball into much bigger things.
So true Joe for if quality is our foundation what is built upon it has the opportunity to be solid and unwavering.
Such an inspirational blog; not just for teachers, but for all of us. We often focus on just one part of our life and allow the stresses and strains from that part to overwhelm and impact on all other parts . To truly understand that expression is: “ not just about what we say and write, but in every little moment. ” is the most wonderful realisation I have ever had; that everything we do and think has an effect on everything, and everyone else. It is the ultimate in responsibility; a responsibility which begins with us first.
The point that you raise about resentment is such an interesting topic to discuss ~ I also feel the topic about ‘fitting’ things in .. even a shower is something that I very much relate to and struggle with. It seems like there are so many ‘things to fit in ‘ within a day and I do, like you, get lost in the doing motion of it all.
I love your beautiful reminder that every thing that we do is an opportunity for us to express – and we can choose to express how difficult everything is, or we can choose to be with how gentle we can be and express all that we do and all that we say with that same gentleness.
Beautifully said Henrietta bringing awareness to how we are with every expression allows us to express with gentleness and love.
Understanding that I express in all that I do and not just in the obvious (writing, speaking, how I dress, etc.) confirms that to be fully aware of my choices I need to be in the moment.
Fully present in every expression.
Julie it is a great reminder to be fully present in every moment, this really supports and provides clarity in the choices we make.
Oh yeah! Expression is everything, it is so easy to think it is only talking or writing… but it is everything how I type these words, how I breathe, even our thoughts are expressions I realised just now!
I love that we can make such a difference to our days by changing the intention and quality that we bring. I too have been inspired by Universal Medicine to bring more presence to what I do and have built a deeper appreciation for how I can do the same day in a deeper and more truly expressive way.
I too have been realising my connection to me, and expressing from me, is key to being in the workplace. It can be incredibly easy, but it can also be difficult, if I allow everything that is not me in. Thank you Michael Benhayon and Universal Medicine for clearing the path for me.
Thank you for this gorgeous expression, and for the reminder that expression is indeed everything.
How lovely it will be when we live the truth of this:
“…education is about love and people first…”
With teachers like you leading the way, that time will soon be upon us, as our future is coming towards us!
I can now really feel the difference and quality when I bring me to what I do. Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine helped me to understand about being present and expression. Your list of examples are easy practical ways to do this.
Awesome blog thank you for sharing. Great to be reminded that ‘Expression is Everything’ and every moment we have a choice about how we are expressing. I could feel the difference you allowing yourself to express more truly had on your day. I feel inspired by this blog and it stops me thinking “this moment doesn’t matter/ I can get away with not living all that I am or I’ll be more me later”.
I enjoyed and felt inspired by this blog….yes, expression is everything and life changing as you have shared… going into ‘doing’ is draining, it’s getting things done – but where is the joy, us… where are we in this? ….expression is living ‘us’, a quality of bringing our presence to life, into everything we are living from moment to moment…
What a great reminder, when I find myself getting caught up in to do lists and ticking the boxes I lose the quality of expressing from what I feel. It feels like I lose me in the process and it is absolutely exhausting.
What a powerful piece. How awesome for the children in your class to get your amazing reflection. You’re teaching them so much more than the curriculum!
This is such a powerful message that every moment counts and builds a quality throughout our day. I feel like I could never get tired of this message being presented over and over again with different peoples’ expressions. IT supports me greatly to continue to make each moment an expression of me rather than a momentum of a reaction that I have had to do something I don’t like.
Thank you.
I agree Rebecca, this blog in it’s simplest truth has presented a powerful message that I also would never tire of reading. I smiled reading it because I could relate to the resentment that can come in if I don’t feel like going to the supermarket etc, but these feelings are always only when I feel exhausted from not allowing myself to be and enjoy me and instead get caught up in the ‘doing’.
It’s easy to dismiss something so simple as staying present, (being aware of the physical body in everything that is said and done), when we are on the hamster wheel trying to get all our tasks complete. But I have found it such an invaluable tool as a means to stay calm, reduce stress, be more aware and then my expression is completely different from when I am in manic mode!
That is so true Rachel. I often go into a stress and nervous energy and leave my body behind when I get very busy, but it is such a trick. It seems like a good idea at the time, but I am left feeling shattered and run down and burnt out at the end of it. When I choose to be present instead I am infinitely more capable to make clear decisions and deal with what life presents me with. This is a beautiful reminder of the power of staying present in every moment.
It’s great to have a reminder of what Serge Benhayon’s quote “Expression Is Everything” truly means. And that how in this age, we develop a conscious presence and connection to the divine not from ascetic practices, but from simply being connected to ourselves in everyday life.
So true Chris. I am learning more and more how simply choosing me and being connected to my own absoluteness in everyday life, is key.
“that education is about love and people first”….oh so true and when I expand that,I feel that it is truly about love and people first all the time – across the board. I was listening to the radio this morning and Qantas were boasting about their turning a profit and the whole ‘celebration’ was about money and oh yes…we had to make some strong cutback on staff…but we made the money. It felt so dismissive of the cutback on staff and the impact that would have had on so many people. I wished then that the world could slowly shift towards people first and money second and reading your blog today I was grateful for Universal Medicine because it is inspiring people such like yourself to do exactly that.
Yes Sarah, if the world could slowly shift so that all systems, workplaces and relationships were first about ‘love and people’, the world would be a very different place and illness and disease would be almost non-existent.
I so agree Sarah. To me true success in life comes not only from a great career or income or academic results, but from a knowing of ourselves, from true and loving relationships, from consistency, joy and a sense of vitality and wellbeing in the body. As a society we are left far less by championing success in one area but not holding all other areas of life as equally important.
A wonderful expression and example of that expression is truly everything. I will take into my day and days to come. Thank you!
Thank you for the reminder that Expression is Everything. This inspires me to pay more attention to detail with every thing I do.
“Expression is absolutely everything.” It’s allowing the space to just be and not get caught up in the doing. There is so much power in these words, beautiful reminder.
it is a wonderful thing when you realise that Expression is Everything actually means just that. ‘Everything’ is truly expansive and the opportunity to express is endless.
It will be awesome, when their are more teachers expressing like you, all over the world. True connection…
It will be fantastic, when there are more teachers like you in the world.
Such a cool blog…it reminds all of us that our “EXPRESSION IS EVERYTHING” and how truly powerful that can be. Simply by how we choose to express can change our day and our life. Awesome reminder for me…thank you.
What a fabulous example of how quickly we can turn our life experience around … your take on ‘Expression is Everything’ has inspired me to take stock for a moment and see some areas of my life in which to explore this further.
When I started to become more confident I believed that expressing was all about what I said. Now I definitely agree that expression is in how we do everything that we do – how we pick things up, how we speak, how we walk, etc. All of the functional things we do can all be infused with our natural loving expression. This comes about when we become one with and accept who we are and the beauty deep inside.
The children in your class will absolutely love the new you.
I too have gained much from reflecting on the idea that ‘everything is expression’, and I seek to be much more mindful of the completeness of all that that entails. Thanks for sharing your experiences.
How awesome it is to re-read this….a beautiful reminder to express me instead of ‘doing’ me and becoming exhausted as a result. Teaching is far too important to not express from me; the students feel it and are enriched by it and they certainly let me know when I’m not with me expressing naturally! Being me in full is amazing and I love how you say there can still be the odd blip for you…it’s not about being perfect in any way, but to just allow in you being you is always gold to return to. Many thanks.
Yes, thanks so much for sharing your blog. I too can relate to so much of what you have expressed and a great reminder for me as I start my day, pick my clothes, prepare my food etc to be present with me and feel my tenderness in all that I do.
Beautiful blog Anonymous. Again responsibility comes up for me. Expression is absolutely everything for sure and how I express is my responsibility. My responsibility to be consciously present in everything I do every move I make then my expression will be from my essence.
This blog inspires me to also feel that expression is everything and the opportunity to express us in EVERYTHING we do with no weighting of one task or action as more important than any other. Thank you for your lived example!
I also love your comment ‘How could I ever get bored, resentful or complaining when each moment is an amazing oppportunity to express how I feel and who I truly am’!
I get the feeling that we can keep refining our expression until we are all expressing as the sons on God in our own unique expression. Can you imagine the majesty and the splendour? Oh and the love of an entire world expressing as the Sons of God!
I love what has been expressed here. When you make everything about expression from the way you get ready in the morning, to the way you drive to work and go about all parts of your day…you can walk into a system as imposing, overwhelming and potentially defeating as was described here and not be affected.
This shows the true power of expression.
I particularly love when you write ‘EVERYTHING, is an expression of me! I had been making it about DOING and DOING and not EXPRESSING’. I can so relate to that. When I’m at work I so easily slip into the doing and before too long, my right shoulder starts to ache, giving me the signal that I’m in motion again. I need to just stop and not make it about finishing whatever I’m doing, but about bringing the real me to what I’m doing and appreciate the joy in that. Thank you.
I am amazed to think that I compartmentalised my life and thought that this was expression over here, but that..over there, that was unrelated to expression and to all the other areas of my life!!! Thankyou for reminding us again that expression is everything and how beautiful it is to be expressing in every moment of every day.
I have never had a good relationship with teachers all the way from kindergarten to high school, which I eventually dropped out of. In fact, I hated the whole education system and, I am sure it wasn’t like that to begin with, but by the time I was 11, my default approach towards anyone who was in a position to teach me something was of distrust. Reading this blog, and about the Teachers are Gold project, I am realising my long held ideal and belief about this profession, and how I didn’t see them as a person before their profession.
Wow this is a really powerful realisation Fuminyo, one that I can totally relate to as well. Thank you for sharing you’re understanding here, it’s deeply appreciated.
I love this…the exquisite responsibility and empowerment in taking charge of our every moment and how we choose to express in it. Thank you.
I had the same realisation about my work recently. Was my work the problem, or was it the way I went about all of my life? For years I tried looking at different careers as the answer to my exhaustion, but it was not till I looked at the way I was pushing my body in ALL of life, that I started to change my life around.
Hi Adam, I know exactly what you are talking about, the more and more I simply just focus on the moment and whatever I am doing, not rushing, stressing or planning light years ahead, I and life become so much more simple, clearer and joyful.
I can so relate to this, and was just talking with a friend yesterday about being too serious with things we ‘have to do’ and then resenting everything we do and in that there is definitely no playfulness. This is a very timely reminder – “I had been focussing on expression as only in the way we speak or write and when you think about it, this is what we are taught to believe, but not the fact that EXPRESSION IS ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING!”
The opening quote from Michael Benhayon is so exquisite and it gets you really feeling for teachers. We don’t take teachers through university honouring them and saying, hey you are here to teach our next generations of kids and if you are loving it and looking after you then the kids will feel it and be blessed by that.
That quote needs to be the new way of thinking with teaching and school.
What you have said is very true Shannon, teachers loving themselves first so they then teach our children that as well
If all classes were based on this from day one, there would hardly be any problems in the world!
A great blog. A fabulous reminder to be aware of how I am expressing me in every moment and when I am not. To notice the difference in my body when it is expressing all of me and when it is in contraction. Thank you
If ‘expression is everything’ then what a difference it makes when I am connected with my body. When connected I can appreciate every single choice I make in every moment of the day.
Being responsible for how I express myself, in all that I do, is true freedom.
I love how this blog relates not only to school teachers but to all of us in everything that we do. Reading this blog was a beautiful reminder for me that everything I do is an expression of me, so to deepen my awareness in all the little things, as it is they that make up the whole of my day.
Your blog was a great one to revisit today Anonymous, as it reminded me that everything is expression, and so not to hold back from stillness, conscious presence, and the enjoyment and potential in every moment. We are all teachers, and teachers of ourselves.
Thank you. This is a timely read for me. I’ve been experiencing the same resentment towards a relationship and in other parts of my life. I have found I had started to take more care in every action but was tagging it to the belief of my Livingness needing an upgrade and not looking at it as part of my expression.
Looking at it as part of my expression feels so much more powerful, as it feels I then can bring more of me to everything. This is an amazing revelation for me to remember. Sometimes an adjustment in words can make all the difference to how you’re perceiving things.
Thank you for this wonderful sharing – it has inspired me to look and feel more into all that I express.
There is something amazing in the ‘purpose of true expression’ rather than the ‘drive of doing’. Much less harshness, and much more deep care and service for others.
I could feel your strength in this blog and how claimed you were in your words!
Awesome!
I love your blog which everyone can relate to. How different our lives can be if we don’t just ‘do’ but consider how we are in everything that we do, & also start to trust what we feel. How amazing for school children to have a teacher with such love & integrity.
Gee whiz Anonymous, you’re singing my song! I had the same experience with endless resentment and exhaustion working in medical research, even though I loved the work! Just too much pressure, too much that ‘had to be done’, every day seemed overloaded and my joy was being replaced by migraines and tiredness. It ended up in severe illness and not working at all. Then along came Serge Benhayon and Michael Benhayon and their colleagues, and bit by bit the natural joy in simple everyday living returned to me. It’s only recently that I’ve come to realize that Expression is Everything, and that everyone is a teacher, in every moment, because others will take on whatever we express.
Awesome Dianne, yes I can feel you singing your song and have witnessed how much joy you bring to your field of work. I’ve never seen science presented this way before and it makes me want to know all about it, it’s truly inspiring. I love that you remind us here that “everyone is a teacher, in every moment, because others will take on whatever we express”, just as you have shown by your own expression and it’s an inspiration.
I love how this blog fleshes out the teaching from Serge Benhayon ‘Expression is Everything’, it helps me to understand it as – HOW I do anything is everything and Expression is feeling me in what is there to be done. This really is a paradigm shift away from focusing on getting things done and looking to the completion of something for satisfaction.
Yes Deanne well said… a welcome paradigm shift that actually works!
Thanks Anonymous, a powerful reminder that everything means EVERYTHING… and that something expressed without you in it, is empty of anything nourishing or truly sustaining. What a change to your day with such a simple shift of focus!
“So I have come to realise, know and understand that EXPRESSION IS EVERYTHING.” So true, and as you say later it is in ‘every little moment’, in all we do and say – and think. Teachers are amazing and are role models for the children they teach, so their every expression is so important. Indeed all of us, as we go about our day, are expressing who we are to the world. Let us all be gold.
I agree Sue, ‘let us all be gold,’ the way we live in our true expression – ‘EXPRESSION IS ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING’ – is showing that life is definitely in the being and not the doing!
Such an inspiration to read your blog and to feel the joy you are living now and bring to the school you are working in!!
Great reminder: “How could I ever get bored, resentful or complaining when each moment is an amazing opportunity to express how I feel and who I truly am.” I also have experienced that when I give myself the permission and focus to be and express me my life becomes simply joyful.
Re-reading this blog today has inspired me to present the Teachers are Gold Project to the school our children attend – All teachers are Gold and deserve to be honoured for who they are and the commitment they have made to humanity by simply choosing their career path.
Awesome blog, thank you. A great reminder that our expression is in every moment and that one moment is not more important than another. This consistency with ourselves, or not, adds up to how we feel at the end of the day and impacts us all.
Awesome!
Sure I still lose myself in DOING but there is also the growing experience of EXPRESSING me in what I do – and boy oh boy is that a difference. Just as you describe, everything becomes enjoyable, light, playful, and instead of exhaustion there is a very pleasant tiredness at the end of the day. What a great reflection and inspiration your pupils now receive – being a true teacher of life.
Such a lovely read revealing the truths that expression is everything.
How cool to read of your transformation after connecting to what you always knew was true. Thanks for the inspiration to carry out my day differently!
I love your list of examples here Anonymous…the way you get up in the morning, how you dress, laying out your clothes etc. etc. This is a beautiful reminder that every little thing we do, every move, every thought, every action must come from the loving tenderness that we are, and this will be felt by others. More so, it will be confirmed in our own bodies – who we truly are. A beautiful read, thank you.
Such a simple principle can bring such an incredible turnaround!
Great blog, Anonymous from Scotland. What you have listed here as examples of everything being absolutely everything and an expression of who we are gives us the basis of true self- care and the nurturing that in turn leads on to self love and then on to love for all equally. What a beautiful evolution!
Great point you make there Katie about a seemingly “bad day”. I have found that so called “bad day” can be busted apart in the most loving way, by simply stopping and saying hey what’s going on, and then not making the same choices that got me there in the first place 🙂
Thank you for a wonderful blog. I find myself still slipping into the doing, but when I bring myself back to living the moment I find I have more space and things flow with more joy and harmony.
Yes the expression of our activity is what the world receives. That we must take responsibility for.
I am sure we would all like our teachers to look forward to the school day and not finish the week off in a state of exhaustion, desperate for the weekend. It is great to read about the “teachers are gold” project and this blog being a living example of how teachers can be supported for not only themselves but from that, everyone they teach. What an enormous difference it can make to the education children receive if they are taught by those who have been honoured and supported to live vibrant, healthy lives and be fully expressive in their place of work.
Thank you for waking up the next morning and choosing to share your powerful healing session with Michael Benhayon, what you have understood and expressed here is gold. I am so familiar with making everything I do about getting it done, fixating on the doing as a chore and duty -and so all the while I am missing out on enjoying the feeling of me that could be there. Thank you also for expanding and offering your understanding of Serge Benhayon’s words “Expression is Everything” – I am going back to read it again.
I feel to echo your words Deanne “thank you also for expanding and offering your understanding of Serge Benhayon’s words ‘Expression is Everything’ initially expressed by Anonymous. I found this blog from Teachers are Gold by Anonymous very rich, gold even, quite enlightening – opening up a greater understanding of the term presented by Serge “Expression is Everything” – wow! It’s like I finally get it, and now I see why truly it is not wise to ‘push’ to try and fulfill the supposed requirements of each day, but to approach everything with a greater awareness of how it is that I do actually approach all that I do each day.
Expression is Everything! It is more than what we say and write. It is every little moment. How wonderful.
Yes expression is everything! I am so glad to read how you broke it all down and learned for yourself that how you live in every moment makes such a difference to your day with the kids and everyone else!
Great blog and awesome reminder to not get caught up in the doing and hold everything equally as the same expression. I can so much relate to it how my lack of expressing in full exhausts me. The more I express the more energy I have!!
Wonderfully expressed. Thank you for sharing your experiences. It seems as though we so often get caught in everything there is to do in life, and rarely make time to truly appreciate everything we do and everything we are.
It is so easy to get caught up in the doing rather than the being as I know for myself that when I am in the doing, feeling and appreciating how I express just goes out the door!
Just reading and feeling this article has raised my awareness immensely.
Thank you for showing me that expression is everything. I will remember this next time I resent the house work!
What a great blog! Just imagine that most teachers in thousands of schools around the world may feel this way – especially in the so-called developed countries where many of them are probably very exhausted and may be in resentment towards everything. And that energy then will naturally be expressed in all that they do all day long and the children with their high level of sensitivity are at the receiving end of this for their entire childhood. I used to be that teacher when I was younger and never reflected on all the implications my way of living and my level of resistance to life had on everybody I met including the kids. With the help of Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon I learnt, to foremost re-connect to myself, become aware of my choices and take responsibility for where I was at. This supported the most fundamental shift in my entire life. Slowly I began to build a foundation within myself, being able to feel my own body at least most of the day and rediscovered the natural joy which originates in the deep sense of living in connection. Since then my relationship to the children has completely changed and only now can I be the teacher and mentor who lovingly supports their evolution understanding that EVERYTHING I do and am is equally expression and therefore a role model for them growing up.
Dear Anonymous, I have wondered many a time how different my teaching career might have been if I had lived daily as I do now. Actually, my whole life would have been different. How wonderful it is for your students, fellow teachers, family and friends to have ‘all ‘of you to reflect to them another way of being. Thank-you for your inspiring blog which has been a great reminder to be constantly aware that ‘Expression is Everything’. Or as I sometimes read it, ‘Expression is Every THING’.
“I even resented just being with me”
That was such a simple yet powerful blog.
I felt these words all through my body, and felt how,I had been thinking I had to be doing something more then just being with me. But as you say when I am with me in what I choose to do, then I can never feel anything other than joy.
Thank you for this amazingly inspiring blog anonymous, I love the absolute joy that you have written with as you’ve shared the changes from a living way of resentment and doing, to a whole new foundation of expression and joyfulness. It is a beautiful thing to note that expression has no confinement, no end of possibilities and opportunity to emanate our natural selves; with each and every movement, word and moment being everything – it is no wonder the magnification of joy and appreciation can come to life.
This is a great point being made – every movement and action can be ‘getting things done’ or can be a choice to bring all of ourselves to every moment of everyday. One might think that such a way of living must be exhausting! It defies logic that one can be so committed to life and gain energy from being that way. Yet the writer very well explains how much energy is saved when every act becomes full of the joy and celebration of our connection to our selves and not investment in trying to be someone we are not or be busy in order to validate ourselves.
It’s amazing how draining being resentful can be. I really related to your story straight away and realised how there are things in my life that I resent at times as well. I’m feeling inspired to take another look at these things and see them as an opportunity to express!
I agree Melissa, feeling resentful is so draining. It came up for me yesterday at work… my schedule had to change because of a problem that came up for someone else. My first feeling was one of resentment not one of being in pleasure to support and help out. It came from a feeling of overwhelm, but I understand the more space and time I give myself the more space and time I will have for others.
Dear Anonymous in Scotland: Teachers are gold – and gold you are!
Thank you very much for this healing, inspiring blog.
I deeply appreciate the honesty of this blog to which I feel many, not just teachers, can relate. How amazing is it that no matter how much less than our true selves we are choosing to be, we never lose the divine spark that awaits within all of us – ready to ignite at any given moment.
I loved your article. It just shows how much energy it takes to hold back expressing who we are (and loving every part of that). No wonder so many people feel drained all the time. I could relate to your realisation that we need to make every part of our day, every expression equal. I have been steadily learning this myself. I have tended to neglect certain parts of my life and give greater focus to others. This leaves me feeling incomplete and fragmented and resenting having to do the ‘lesser’ things. When I treat it all as equal it makes such a difference to the way I feel and how much I enjoy my day.
I loved your article. It just shows how much energy it takes to hold back expressing who we are (and loving every part of that). No wonder so many people feel drained all the time. I could relate to your realisation that we need to make every part of our day, every expression equal. I have been steadily learning this myself. I have tended to neglect certain parts of my life and give greater focus to others. This leaves me feeling incomplete and fragmented and resenting having to do the ‘lesser’ things. When I treat it all as equal it makes such a difference to the way I feel and how much I enjoy my day.
Serge Benhayon has been teaching ‘expression is everything’ for over 15 years and thank God he has. To read such a glorious blog where this writer is committed to bringing the fullness of who they are to all of their activity is a miracle – a total miracle and nothing less. Everyone wins here as no doubt the children would be deeply touched and inspired by the power and love that would be expressed by this teacher from the simple commitment to bring who they are to all that they do. The message to the children is what we all truly want them to hear – ‘Be you and bring yourself in full to life’.
Truly beautiful expression! I also thought of Serge Benhayon and what he presented in a workshop I once attended :’With everything you do, bring all of you.” This simple but strong presentation helps me to overcome resistance or tiredness and enjoy the expression I bring to the world, as I can enjoy the expression of others, because it is all of me that receives it.
Thank you I gained a greater appreciation of expression after reading your blog.
What a wonderful reminder that expression is really everything, each and every moment an opportunity to express me in full. Wow.
I love the joy I feel in this blog Anonymous. It is an amazing sharing of how supportive the teachers are gold project is. I agree, the quality in how we express makes a bit difference in the day.
Thanks for writing and sharing this. A great reminder that my expression is in ALL of the little things and details of how I live my day.
This is a ripper blog, I can really tell you lived and enjoyed in full every word you typed.
I expressly loved your point about ‘everything is an expression of me’ (and listed some activities).
Yes everything is an expression of your lovely self and how could you possibly be resentful once you have that understanding.
Thank you, exactly what I needed to read :).
I loved this blog so much! It just confirms everything that I have been feeling in my life recently. Thank you.
WOW. This has been such a beautiful reflection for me. I could really feel your playfulness and joy as you wrote and how wonderfully you expressed yourself. I very much relate to what you have expressed, feeling resentment and burdened by the ‘chores’ of my day, the responsibilities I have and the amount of work I have to do. I love how you have so beautifully and simply expressed this. Everything we do is an expression, and if we express ourselves fully in everything we do, then it truly is joy-full and fun!
This blog had me pondering if resentment is a bit of a trick. I know that I have been resentful of things, particularly work, but if I let myself just get on with it for a while, the resentment isn’t real, it isn’t there anymore. Its like it sneaks in to trick me, to bring me down, when really, I am fine with work, if I just allow myself to be.
This is a beautiful sharing. I loved reading your ways of expression with in your school day. We can all bring attention to the way we express in all aspects of our lives. I know that bringing this attention, care and tenderness to my expression supports the way I feel about myself and all others.
True teachers are precious for we have the opportunity to expand and find greater understanding of who we truly are by the simplicity of the instruct they bring forth.
I am still sitting with your blog, as it has made me stop and reflect … how far exactly does expression go?
I would say it’s never ending, constantly expanding the deeper we go.
Wow! What a great blog, thank you AnonymousScotland. It was a great realization for me: “These are all expressions of me, not one more or one less important – THEY ARE ALL EQUALLY AN EXPRESSION OF ME”
Wow- it did not see that everything I do has equal expression. I valued some expression as ‘more important’ – like giving a massage to a client as opposed to how I get up in the morning, or how I put my clothes on. And I realized that I tend to neglect my own expression towards myself, and focus more strongly when it concerns others.
To understand how expression is everything and for teachers to be able to operate from their true expression, what a gift to their students and therefore to all, that this is.
A truly awesome article anonymous, it was great to re-read this and what jumped out for me today was: ‘These are all expressions of me, not one more or one less important – THEY ARE ALL EQUALLY AN EXPRESSION OF ME. Such a perfect and timely reminder… thank you for getting up early and expressing/sharing your wisdom with us all.
I love this too – that each and every moment and thing we do is an equal expression of the quality of who we are.
I never thought of the things that I do to be an expression of me – knowing that now, it’s an opportunity to observe my expression in all aspects of my life and feel why I can sometimes not support myself in a truly loving way.
What a gorgeous sharing of how deep our expression runs and also a reminder that there is more to expression than what the current perception is. There is a very real and tangible responsibility that you have brought to this blog and that is what quality are we expressing everything we do in? Is it from a point of being connected to who we are inside or from a point of disconnection to this amazingness? I am only just allowing my understanding to expand to the beauty that lives inside us all and the healing impact expressing this can have on myself and all others.
It never ceases to amaze me that we sometimes don’t see things for ourselves until they hit us in the face, so to speak.
As I read your blog and felt how difficult it must have been for you living in resentment I began to realise that’s my story too!!!
I’ll be working on my laptop and get frustrated that I’m hungry and have to stop what I’m doing to go get something to eat. What a horrible message I’m sending to myself through that expression!
Thank you for sharing this experience and thanks to Serge Benhayon and Michael Benhayon for the Gold they constantly and consistently present.
It wasn’t difficult, just absolutely exhausting and draining.
Thank you for sharing with such honesty and for not holding back. Like you I too only recently realised that ‘Expression is Everything’ and how important this is in our life from the way we get out of bed in the morning to how we put ourselves to bed at night and everything in between. Expression impacts everything we do it affects not only us but everyone we come into contact with and more. Expression is about being truly present with me in everything I do and say. What a gift this is to share with humanity.
What a great reflection for everyone in all professions not just teaching. To come to the understanding that the way I dress myself has an impact on my day, shows that each moment counts and how I choose to express impacts my whole day.
Agreed grounded05, if I dress feeling less or comparing myself to another – then that’s what I reflect, take out and carry around through the day – and do I really want to be reflecting this to the world? and all the young girls and woman I meet, as this will only confirm what many of them already feel. ( we all know there is a huge lack of self worth amongst woman and girls in society)… Or do I dress in my fullness, as all of me, feeling super amazing and playful and dressing me, for me – then reflect this to the world … now wow, what an awesome reflection this is!
i am inspired by your blog Anonymous as i still get cought in the doing at times, it reminds me of the joy and playfulness of my expression and that this may be the starting point and way of being in everything i do in life.
Everything we think, say or do is expression, so what we think, what and how we say something, and what and how we do something is absolutely crucial, as it has an effect on everything and everyone around us; so how utterly important that teachers are celebrated, honoured and supported so that they can celebrate, honour and support the children in their care.
Thank you AnonymousScotland, I love coming back to this blog it is so refreshing to see how the choices to express are in every moment and with inspiration like The Teachers are Gold Project and this blog I am inspired to celebrate myself and all that I bring, this is hugely healing thank you.
I agree Samantha, i feel the same “the choice to express are in every moment” – the choice to be me in every moment, in every expression. Amazing! Amazing Me!
Expression is everything – what a great blog, it has helped me understand and ground this in practical terms. To realise how by not making it so, I make things I do become a chore/drudge and may even get resentful . Instead, when I bring my centred and loving self to the things I do, I feel joy and more space to be playful.
Absolutely Greg, this blog is so practical that it grounds for me how it is my quality of me in everything I do that is expression and what really counts, rather than all the things I do or complete.
I agree Greg, and I have to say I love things on practical terms, people can tell me till they are blue in the face, but practically making it a lived experience works much better for me, as I know and can’t argue with what I clearly feel in my body – no better truth or confirmation than that.
This has exposed a pattern in myself I was not yet aware of. I have resented pretty much all that I DO for a long time and when I allow myself to just BE I feel I should be DOING something. Of course I enjoy getting dressed and cooking but there is still an element of stress and dissatisfaction with the chore of doing it. While exposing as this has been, there is also great inspiration for change on offer and I accept it with open arms.
Ha ha Rachel I know that feeling well, when I just Be I feel I should do – time for that one to go out the window 🙂
Thank you for your beautiful blog and honest sharing. I love the reminder that “Expression is everything” and all the practical and powerful illustrations you share.
And agreed – education should definitely indeed be made about love and people first.
‘How could I ever get bored, resentful or complaining when each moment is an amazing opportunity to express how I feel and who I truly am.’ Imagine if everyone could feel the simplicity of choosing to be themselves and expressing this? Anonymous with your choices and understanding YOU are gold!
Hear hear!
Thank you Kathryn 🙂
yes – “how could I ever get bored, resentful or complaining when each moment is an amazing opportunity to express how I feel and who I truly am“. Really good question! …and brilliant answer! Next time I am on my way to complain, this sentence will be on my side….
What a great Blog and what a great reminder the Expression is indeed Everything. I loved hearing of your personal realisation of this, the details in your day and your week – your students are very deserving of the gold that you are. I am feeling for myself just how lovely making my lunch or mopping the floor – any or all of these seemingly mundane or taxing things we ‘need to do’ can be strung together like pearls on a string that are the moments that make up our day and then we go ’round again, expressing more and more of who we truly are. Thank you.
Exactly Gemma, they can be so much fun, I love wiping the tables at the end of the day, or between class, why? one the playfulness I feel but even more so as I clean I can feel the people that sit there.
I have learned more from teachers than I have from any book. Teachers are Gold, and it’s great to hear how quickly you began to enjoy teaching again once you started expressing.
It’s true – I love teaching when I am me.
what a powerful blog for everyone. I am still to really grasp that expression is everything. I’ve heard it a lot over the last 8 years. But to truly get that expression is everything, I have used the ‘doing’ is everything. Time for the download and the upgrade. Thank you Scotland.
I too Simone, have used the “doing is everything” but am learning there is another way to express and that I don’t need to be in wrung out stress or mess! By staying present with myself and allowing some tenderness and understanding of myself shifts everything.
Yes Simone this is a powerful blog that IS for everyone. We can substitute teacher here for every profession. I was touched by the reminder that everything I do, say, think or feel is an expression of me, of where I am at in that moment. A gift to take into my day today.
I love the simplicity that everything comes back to expression, absolutely everything and that everything we do, say, think and live is an expression. We can express in full or hold it back and live less.
I agree Deborah, simplicity is the key (something I am am working on :-). When things get complicated then I know something is not right.
Such a powerful transformation of a day expressing you, comparing an exhausted rung out person to a vital vibrant loving person from a simple yet truly profound connection to choosing to come from your inner self – you in every moment. Who wouldn’t want that! Truly inspiring.
I agree! and you are right Zoe, super simple ‘choice’ 🙂 What it reflects to me is how we can complicate stuff to the hilt, when really life can be so so simple.
This was the most perfect blog for me to read right now. While reading it I realised just how much I have resented so many aspects of life, I have viewed all the little things as mundane tasks I just need to get through and do to survive. Putting petrol in the car = resentment. Making breakfast = resentment. Going to work = resentment. I can now feel how miserable and awful this is for me and others I come into contact with and feel so inspired to bring the grace and beauty that is naturally me to all I do. Thank you so much Anonymous.
So true Leonne, it does become miserable when we live this way and that’s what we put out into the world! When we can naturally live and share so much joy.
Great sharing this. It makes me realise once more that expression is really in everything. Lately I am aware that I am putting my expressions in compartments. So with that person I express that and with this person I express this. And the same with the things I do. As if some things are less important then others? Conscious presence is the key here I feel. I am all inspired here. Thanks.
Thank you for this amazing blog which comes so truly from your heart.
“Expression is everything” that is a big lesson to learn and such a wonderful one, because now you can choose how your life will be. Empowering yourself again and taking responsibility.
I thought this to be very difficult at first as I tried to reach a certain level or quality. Becoming more and more loving and caring towards myself, I cannot but marvel at the simplicity and amazingness with which changes, beauty, and above all lightness and a feeling of connection have come to my life through expressing more and more.
This is a really beautiful and powerful sharing. Thank you! Changing a life around by ‘simply’ making it about expression in all you do is amazing. The blessing coming from this project is limitless and so very needed.
This is a really beautiful and powerful sharing. Thank you! Changing a life around by ‘simply’ making it about expression in all you do is amazing. The blessing coming from this project is limitless and so very needed.
Exactly Giovanna ” Simple” is definitely the key – I am coming to realise this more and more each day, if any doubt or any other stuff tries to sneak in, like computers playing up, thoughts debating back and forth, should I do this or that? I know something else is going on and it’s time to stop, smile and choose “simplicity”.
This has been such an incredible blog to read, thank you so much for ‘expressing’! I always heard ‘Expression is everything’ but I didn’t realise just how much I still made it about speaking and not that it is ‘everything’ as you’ve described. I can feel and apply all that you have shared about how your felt about your job and life. This is so transferable to all jobs, lives. It has brought me such clarity and a sense of how to be different in my everyday actions and making it about my quality, not the doing! Thank you ❤
This is a great snap shot of this article and how amazing it is, making actions about quality is the way.
I love Michael Benhayons ethics and reason for co-creating the Teacher’s Are Gold project. It is amazing for someone who is not a school teacher by profession to not only stand up and support teachers but do something that truly helps to support them. Only today I was in a house and could hear loads of kids in the playground at lunchtime, my mind then wandered to the teachers and how every day they are there providing consistency, routine and structure for the children, relentlessly. They cannot just up and go for a break when they want to like many other professionals. This is every day, every week, thousands of children across the world are being supported, educated,nutured and cared for by teachers. They do an outstanding job. Go you Michael for acknowledging this and doing something to help really support them, it is awesome and inspiring what you are doing.
I agree Vicky we are truly blessed to have such amazing support from Michael Benhayon and everyone involved in the Teachers are Gold Project – this is gonna rock the world! 🙂
Thank you for this simply amazing blog. It is great to see that ‘expression is everything’ and the practical application of this. I think too often we see expression as ‘being’ something else when in fact it’s actually everything as you have beautifully listed. When you live this way you have more time, more space, energy, better health and the list goes on. So to deepen your expression in any moment is possible no matter what is there or where you are or even if you are typing a comment on a blog. Thank you for supporting me to deepen my expression.
How awesome it is to read this from a teacher – someone realising that it’s not about trying to please others into obliviousness but to live in a way that can inspire others.
Now I bet Socrates would have loved reading this blog!
Wow – thank you. You could have been speaking about any profession – as the principles were universal. I could relate (rather uncomfortably so) to the realisation of the resentment that was through so much of your day – the obvious and the subtle, and the ensuing exhaustion – and thankfully also to the contrasting experience of choosing to ‘express me’ in every moment – I am inspired to bring me to much more of my days.
On re-reading this blog this is a great reminder that when we remain committed to ourselves in every moment we needn’t get caught up in the tension that is felt all around us. This commitment allows us to feel where we are at each and every moment and there is a joy in expression. Yesterday I simply took the time to be really present when I was tidying up the house before bed. I found myself dropping and becoming more still – really happy to be me!
Hear, hear I am slowly learning that expression is everything, a lesson it has taken a lifetime to learn.
This blog needs to be shared globally with all teachers everywhere. Even the heading ‘Teachers are Gold’ is a stop moment in itself. From resentful and exhausted to joy and love – pass this blog on!
Thank you for presenting this, I just feel an incredible lightness and ease from ready this. ‘Taking charge, changing our attitude, recognising the power in everything we do, and more importantly, HOW we do it all, is what I get from your presentation here. Sláinte.
Wow it is so very amazing that when we choose to commit to this way of living we can choose to say good bye to resentment and frustration, these points are gold thank you Anonymous, Scotland!
This story is another testimonial of the endless service of the Serge Benhayon family. It is healing for me in two ways: one – to witness the Healing Power in you (anonymous) and second – to get an understanding for my teachers back in school.
I can relate to what you say here Felix. I hold a deep appreciation for those teachers that I have had that nurtured the essence in me.
Feeling the absolute love and gratitude with this project, what a blessing for all to feel and what this reflection brings is huge. Rock on Michael!
Awesome awareness to come to, we are beings of expression and with every breath we express.
WOW, this is a great blog. i really needed to remember that expression is Everything. I am often finding myself in the Doing. Thanks for reminding me of staying with Me in all of my expressions.
Thank you!!! Time to see everything as a chance to express me.
What great and honest sharing from someone who is changing the paradigm of how we operate on a daily basis at work and at home. Science has known for a long time now that everything is energy, but our society has not yet accepted what this truly means in terms of how we operate on a day to day basis and how we relate to each other. Simply being aware of the fact that everything you do and say has a profound effect on everything and everyone around you brings a real sense of responsibility. So we are responsible for EVERYTHING we express!
Wow, I thought expression was what you say or write, I did not know it was every single little detail, and these could have such a profound influence on life and vitality as a whole.
I will have to pay more attention to the everyday things.
Expression is everything and the true extent of this is so inspiring and with the knowing of this presented by Universal Medicine and with Michael Benhayon and the teachers for gold project bringing this to teaching for all children to benefit for the future generations is amazing.
How Beautiful for the children in your class that they are getting all of you, and how you support them to expand their amazing light. Thank you Michael Benhayon for grounding the ‘Teachers are Gold’ Project.
You’ve inspired me to take a look at where I sometimes feel resentful about things in my life, and to look at those areas in my life where I am not expressing all of me. Thank you for sharing your experience or returning to joyful and vital days simply by being you.
Yes, understanding that expression is everything certainly puts everything into perspective and brings it back to simply being present with yourself in everything that you do to the best of your ability, knowing that everything that you do do, you are expressing and how much more tenderness can be felt when you choose to do that.
Thank you for sharing so simply how everything is expression. When we get caught up in the doing we separate from this expression and make some things more important than others. But this is not in accordance with our whole being which, naturally so, always expresses as a whole and by not allowing this natural expression we feel dis-ease. I can very much relate to this.
I was a teacher for three and a half years and in that short time had become the teacher that I never wanted to become. I was like all the other staff, hard, bitter, exhausted and had given up and was just doing my time.
Everything is expression really raises the responsibility levels. There is so much opportunity to share who we truly are daily no matter your occupation.
So true Doug. The teachers that I have known closely often say how stressful their work is and how they are thinking about changing careers. The Teachers are Gold project is so needed as all teachers need to be reminded of all that they bring and their initial knowing of what teaching is truly about.
A timely reminder that everything, every single thing we do is expression. You have expressed that fact beautifully. Thank you for sharing your amazing blog.
Yep… defiantly been there but seriously how resentful do we get when we make it all about the DOING, making ourselves so busy that we miss the whole point, that expression is us, in absolutely everything…. a forever working progress
Very true! Expression is everything. This has made me wonder and understand why at times I am not enjoying things.. it’s cause I’m focused on everything else but expressing me. Thank you.
well said Emily! Thank you.
Thank you for some wonderful insights, especially the fact that expression is absolutely everything – and not just what I do, say and write. And that certainly engenders a greater level of responsibility; bring it on, I know it’s worth it.
A very inspiring blog. You are living the words of ‘expression is everything’
A great blog Anonymous and a wonderful reminder that ‘expression is everything’ – it gives me a gentle tweak to really feel into everything I do and how I am expressing in any given moment. Thank you.
Thank you! I imagine you feel the same as many teachers but what you shared with me was that in appreciating yourself more you looked for it less from outside, simply enjoyed you in your day and that gave you more energy. That is inspiration for everyone, not just teachers, how lovely would it be to have that as part of a teacher development day! Saying that … rock on Michael Benhayon and yes teachers are gold 🙂
I can relate to your blog as I too found my life change enormously when I looked at the quality of my expression and made adjustments to support me. I was able to bring more of me to my workplace and my relationships and enjoy life so much more now. I can truly say from my own experiences -Expression is Everything! Thank you to Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine for presenting this so clearly.
Wow – such a simple and amazing reminder that expression is in all that we do and not just the speaking or writing. I love how I suddenly breathed deeper when I read that expression is in how we are in every moment…this I will take into my day now (feeling already how it is that I am expressing in the way that my fingers touch the keyboard and how I am sitting here typing)…it becomes a fun game to see how else I can express in my day. Thank you!
Expressed with pure playfulness and wonder Henrietta, a joy to read your process.
I am not a teacher, but I can relate to every word you say. In recent weeks I have become aware that there is still a tendency I hold to take on other people’s issues and problems during my working day. It is exhausting, and I completely resent the way it makes me feel. Before long the cycle of tiredness and resentment builds on itself.
So why am I allowing that to happen?
What if I made each day about fully celebrating the quality I bring to my work: joy, connection, tenderness and fun (yes…in the dental surgery!) Why would I take on another person’s dilemmas?
What you offer in this blog applies to all professions. Sure, they are unique in their activities and the issues that can arise, but at our heart we are all the same. When we make our work life about the unique beauty of us, the game changes forever.
Michael Benhayon is changing the world through Teachers are Gold. No doubt this is just the beginning.
I can recall a time in my life when I attended work in that same energy of resentment and I wonder now how that must have felt to the vulnerable people I worked with at the time. I can see the smiles on the faces of the childern who Anon teaches now just loving every minute of being with you in the classroom.
Thank you, Its very inspiring to hear how you changed the way in which you go to work and live in the joy of who you are.
Great blog Anonymous, it is a timely reminder to read ‘expression is everything’ – including how I type this comment! I surely don’t always remember it is a choice I have and can make to just ‘be me’ in what I do … I sometimes find myself reacting and resenting things, going into overwhelm and so forth but I also don’t expect perfection – my expression is an on-going work in progress, ever-deepening, and blogs like this one are so supportive in the unfolding of my journey, Thank you.
Wow, Janene, just realised what an incredible responsibility we all hold, Yes, ‘expression is everything’, that is, in all that I do, think, say, I have to be me in EVERYTHING that I do. But of course I can’t expect perfection, or then I would be in judgment of myself. Very much a work in progress.
I Love how you write “How could I ever get bored, resentful or complaining when each moment is an amazing opportunity to express how I feel and who I truly am.” To see life from this perspective would bring much joy and love to ones day. Thank you for the inspiration and understanding you have shared.
Thank you for your blog. I am really just starting to understand that expression is everything and that if we are not expressing in one area we are not expressing with all of us. It’s quite huge really.
Very inspiring story, thank you for sharing. A timely reminder that we are far more responsible for what goes on around us and how we respond to it than we think!!!
So true Sarah, if only we truly realised the impact we have with all our thoughts and actions. The way we behave has an enormous effect on not only ourselves but everyone we come into contact with. What a grace it is when we take this on board and seek to bring love back into each day, it can transform our world.
Wow, I wonder what our world would be like if instead of dwelling on what is ‘wrong’ we focus on the expression we bring?
I love this philosophy that everything is an expression of me, and know how sometimes you can sense and feel so much from just how someone holds themselves, chooses to dress or walks their way.
Living this way there is SO MUCH to enjoy and savour in our days. Thank you anonymous, this blog is a beautiful teaching.
For me too this blog is a great reminder “THAT EXPRESSION IS EVERYTHING” and it inspires me to continue to deepen this way of “being” in life and not get caught up in the “doing”. Thank you anonymous from Scotland.
I realize now that I have recently been “living, walking and expressing in a way that resented everything that [I thought] I ‘had to do’. There was a sense of being completely overwhelmed but this was not so much from the amount of things needing to be done but from my attitude towards it which made it seem like a huge burden and which caused the energy drain. By just getting on with it with a willingness to do what is needed, I feel lighter and the burden is lifting as I let go of my choice to carry it.
“These are all expressions of me, not one more or one less important – THEY ARE ALL EQUALLY AN EXPRESSION OF ME.” These words really feel like this is something you have really truly come to know for yourself.
Thank you for such a great reminder. How easy it is to get caught up in “doing” the day and forget who we are. And how lovely feels when we do express ourselves in our day and get to be with ourselves throughout all that we do. I for sure, need the reminders as I so easily slip into the unconscious doing.
Yes this is such a lovely heart felt reminder that it isn’t in the doing that we achieve anything worth doing. We are enough as we are and what comes from that is amazing and so much more meaningful.
Expression is everything and everything is expression. Simple.
As I deepen my expression to include more aspects of my life, to reflect back to me who I am, like Anonymous, it is easier to write a blog or a comment. Many thanks to Simone Benhayon for her workshop on expression and to Michael and Emmalee Benhayon –
“we’re all teachers in this world….”
This great blog breaks down the mind that tends to trap us into thinking that expression is about what we say. you sum it up beautifully, ‘So I have come to realise, know and understand that EXPRESSION IS EVERYTHING. It’s not just about what we say and write, but in every little moment, be it writing a blog, cooking tea or teaching a class, it is all an expression of me.’
Absolutely Sally and so much joy to be felt and had in that 🙂
Thank you for sharing your amazing story. I love that you did not accept that life, especially teaching, had to be the way you experienced it during your first two weeks back – and the way I have seen a lot of teachers experience teaching year after year, including myself. What a blessing for yourself and your students (and the rest of the school community and people in your life!) that you chose to make a change and knew there must be ‘another way’ to be in your work and in your life.
Thank you Simone, I also feel by accepting that life and teaching and myself do not have to be the way that I have experienced for so long, that I am also letting go of hurts of school and growing up. And with that an opportunity for all others to do the same.
I love this – everything we do is an expression of ourselves… that’s amazing.. just that… I want that up on my wall to read everyday! because it’s true how can life not be so fun just observing how we change through the day and observe where we can bring more of our unique expression to all we do in our lives.
Awesome blog! Expression is Everything and as I go about my day slowly expressing more, the times of holding back are becoming less. Thank you for sharing in such a joyful way.
The resentment for life as you mentioned has also been present in me. It was when I brought my awareness to the quality I was doing everything in that I could see that it is not about ‘doing’ anything but about living in a quality that is supportive of me and everything I do. Through developing my self-care, all my expression and everything I do is being done in a quality that is loving, caring and supportive of me and the world around me. I can then enjoy life, feeling the love that is my quality in everything that I do.
Amazing reminder and beautifully written Thank you! I can totally relate to everything you’ve mentioned on your blog. I feel inspired and deeply appreciate your honesty.
Yes, teachers Are gold… and what you have written/expressed here IS gold too! Reading your blog, I was awash with the feeling of joy too, Thank you for sharing!
Resenting the things I ‘have to do’ – sounds very familiar to me. Thank you, Anonymous, for this amazing, inspirational sharing.
Thank you for this blog, Anonymous. You can really feel the freedom and joy that comes when we do allow ourselves the space to express us in all that we do. In fact, it is us merely expressing as ourselves that creates that space – so simple. How can we ever have a ‘ho hum’ day when we look at it this way? Beautiful.
Wow! I too have been resenting life and blaming it for how I feel & definitely been caught in the “doing”- crazy!
I love how you have clearly explained what it means to truly express by using examples, as I only previously related it to talking or writing even though I heard Serge Benhayon present ” expression is everything” many times.
It was beautiful to re-read this blog again and feel the joy in your writing. I love what you write, that no one expression is less than the other. How I lay my clothes out in the morning, how I type on the keyboard and how I talk with my colleagues or the people I meet at the supermarket is all equal in importance. I am learning that what this means is bringing all of me to everything I do, not dismissing one iota of my expression.
What I find amazing is how I can see an identical situation with completely different eyes and a completely different outlook when I choose to appreciate what I have and what I can bring. This of course is all about choosing that expression which is supportive and not giving space to the negative thoughts.
This is a great blog, thank you! I too have been inspired by Michael Benhayon countless times…he has a beautiful way of supporting others to come to their own knowing and understanding of who they are and what is in the way of this. I completely relate to all that you share, so thank you for the reminder that we are always expressing and there is no one moment that is any less or more important than another. Every moment is gold…and is simply an opportunity for our full expression…or not.
Dear Anonymous, I am going to bookmark this blog, your writing is brilliant, thank you thank you! Yes Universal Medicine and Michael Benhayon are the bees knees … oh, that should be … they are GOLD!
I had to laugh out loud reading the part you shared about resenting everything .. Classic! I have lived this way and I can see and feel others who have too. It is so lovely to feel my real and unhurt self and express with this.
I too had a good laugh Amber at my own resentments I have carried at being the responsible and the hard working one. The hardness and pain that has caused in my body is too much to bear… Indeed the loveliness I can now feel when I just express myself tenderly in what ever i am doing is so freeing and I think a lot less painful for others to receive!
Thank you Anonymous scotland “I was seeing it all as hard, as a burden and it made so much sense – I had been living, walking and expressing in a way that resented everything I ‘had to do’. This is such a timely reminder for me, I have been caught in a bit overwhelm lately and have noticed resentment popping in, your blog is a great reminder that it does not have to be that way for it is only a choice and as we choose to express truly from our bodies we bring back the presence and joy into our lives. Thank you
Wow what a powerful blog truly revealing everything is expression. I can so relate to being in the doing and seeing my life as this and yes truly resenting it. What you reveal is that it doesn’t have to be this way, if I see all that I do as an expression of me then I am only limited by how much I choose to participate in my life. Beautiful and inspiring 🙂
I too am looking more deeply at my expression and have come to realise that it is not just about what I say or do not say but it is about everything that I am and do also. Your blog has been a beautiful confirmation and an offering for me to go deeper. Thank you.
What a revelation! I know that feeling of resentment too, that life is getting in the way of something, but I can’t put my finger on what that is. Once aware of my resentment, I decided to not see life as an impediment, but rather a series of moments (non-stop really) where I do the stuff, but I do it and be me at the same time – bringing Me to what I am doing. If I am being the me I know myself to be, then the doing of the stuff is a pleasure, not anything to resent. A truly great blog, not only for teachers, but for everyone.
It’s wonderful to see that the Teachers of Gold Project exists and what it stands for. May teaching and education generally be joyous with teachers of strong livingness.
Thanks for expressing “Expression is everything” as it is another great reminder for me as I so easily to get caught up in the burden of all the things we think we need to do in life.
I totally understand what you share here, because I too used to resent all the things I had to do, especially the dishes. What is amazing, and in some ways still shocks me today is that I actually enjoy doing the dishes! I love playing with water, and when I approach it in this way its easy. Of course, if I let it, a little voice can come in my head and tell me what a boring job this is but I now know not to listen to that voice and make a choice to not feel that way.
This is a lovely reminder that everything we do is an expression of us, and it isn’t just the obvious things like speaking and writing, but everything we do.
i just love your blog and feeling your expression of JOY in it. And so true that absolutely everything we do, touch, make, speak, write, dress and so on, are all imprints of us that contain the quality of us, and that recognising and becoming aware of this is what makes our job enjoyable, and not the actual job itself. What you’re sharing here and dispelling, is that complaining about the job/profession making us miserable is actually not true, but rather that it’s our expression and its quality that has wilted – and that it’s this which makes us sad, and in this becomes easy to blame ‘something’ else outside, and end up feeling resentful. Thank you for bringing the focus back to us, and from there live the joy that’s rightfully ours to enjoy – as we feel it in you!
What a beautiful Blog- Thank you for sharing.
Expression is Everything! Our expression is everything- how we move, sit, speak, write, play, walk, eat, drink. Each expression that we do with the joy of ourselves does have that power and amazingness you shared about behind it. I too have felt the blessing of this in the classroom and I know when I stay with the importance and quality of my expression, the rest seems easier, more manageable and I feel more joy in completing all the tasks teachers need to complete but the greatest part of all… I feel the connection with the kids because in those moments when I choose and take responsibility for my expression, I am in connection with me and appreciate everything the kids do and say and are.
I love this blog, thank you. It is so powerful when we express from our bodies and not from our heads and the effects that this has specially in the education system where students are more likely to align because it is coming from our livingness and not something else we have to do. More joy and less drain on our bodies!
Thank you franciscolara. It is amazing to feel how the students are responding a completely different way, some of the things they say blow me away.
This exposes how easy it is for resentment or any emotion to enter a part of our life, even the smallest crack. From there it gradually expands and becomes a bigger and bigger ‘cloud’ until it takes over more of our life once we make life about ‘doing’ and not ‘expression’. And as this blog reveals, the answer is so simple – ‘just live from the knowing that ‘everything is an equal expression of me.
I have noticed that when I worry about how I need to do something based on the role I am supposed to play in that situation then the way I go about things changes. I noticed that I might do things based on what is expected by that role not how I would normally express if I was just myself in a situation. I see this play out when I might go and talk to someone who is in a more senior position- I might become more formal or if I am asked to be in charge of a situation I might place pressure on myself to be a certain way. What I am learning through the Teachers Are Gold project is that when we do this and don’t express naturally we are robbing people of us. Yes we may need to be a bit more formal in some situations and a bit more relaxed in others but when we conduct ourselves based on outside pictures of how we think we should be then there is no connection and true communication taking place and everyone misses out.
Teachers ARE GOLD, and I am struck by this everyday when I collect my children from school, how much the teachers, who are just regular people like me, have taken it upon themselves to hold together a group of about 30 children for a whole day, with all the care and attention that they give to each child. It is astounding and so worth celebrating.
This is a super article. What you write can be brought to any line of work and every moment of the day. I like your practical list of bringing expression to the day, something I continue to work with in my daily living.
Me too Ruth, sometimes I forget about all the little things and that’s when the stress, overwhelm and complications kick in, then I feel it has to be some huge big thing that I have to overcome – when really it’s just taking a moment to stop and say okay, no beating myself up, right now in this very moment what is a loving choice to make. And I’m always working on this and learning, no perfection sought and it’s not like there is a goal to reach or an end, just a constant development and unfolding of the next moment and the next.
‘EVERYTHING, yes EVERYTHING, is an expression of me! I had been making it about DOING and DOING and not EXPRESSING. I had been focussing on expression as only in the way we speak or write and when you think about it, this is what we are taught to believe, but not the fact that EXPRESSION IS ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING!’
I love your insights and the practical examples you share in your blog. It took me some time to realize expression is also there when I don’t do anything, but just sitting in a meeting or on the train.
And honouring/appreciating myself every day, every moment in everything I am and do is something I am working with. Not there yet automatically, but asks a willingness of myself and an active choice to do that.
Perfect that I re-read this article this morning.
I have had such a long row with exhaustion and frustration, this is a great reminder for me of HOW I do each thing in my day; it either replenishes me or depletes me.
Awesome Jo, that’s super cool and a great reminder for me too.
Absolutely Jo, I seem to have to learn this daily! The busier I am the more I have to be super on to it that I am replenishing myself and not draining.
Yes and also realizing we are still expressing in our rushing/being busy. I know I communicate even without words: I don’t have time for another or for myself and I forget there is a rhythm in everything we do that is the perfect foundation for all that needs to be done
“Having to do” is like us being a slave driver whipping our own backs. I know this one and the horrible hard energy it creates which becomes my expression through my voice and body. As you say, Anonymous, it is in all of life, not just teaching or any other particular job. I have been very prone to separate one thing from another all my life, and am now learning how each thing is a part of the whole, and viewed as such, with the responsibility to express in everything we do with love and respect. This brings a freedom from the “having to” and becomes a “joy to do.”
This is a great read to return to. I can feel how I have held back from expressing, felt frustrations and resentments with this holding back, and all that serves no-one, especially me. Connecting to myself, to feel the everythingness of everything as Cathy said earlier, is the key to developing my ongoing expression.
Everything I do, feel, think, say is an expression of me. This is huge. So everywhere I go I am leaving an imprint and so I can choose wether it is harming or healing for myself and others. Responsibility therefore for every thing I say or do. And learning not to judge myself too harshly when I mess up.
I agree Sue, it is an amazing responsibility; but one we can choose joyfully as in, how amazing is it that every little thing, from how I pick up paper to how I type, has an affect on all; and, yes, self judgement isn’t worth it, as it just stops all appreciation and joy of self and others.
Wow anonymous, thank you for sharing this amazing experience with us. What I feel in your blog, is that by expressing every aspect of who we are, our lives will change immensely. Instead of experiencing life as a dreadful, as a succession of events we resent, life becomes a joyful flow of moments where WE can give expression to the love that flows through our bodies in everything we are and do.
I agree nvanhasstrecht.
I felt the same expressing every aspect of who we are, our lives will change immensely, our life becomes a joyful flow with the expression of love flowing through our body in every moment.
So true of every career on the planet, all equal when seen this way.
This is beautiful to read and feel how it is the simple details in our everyday life that brings the expression, and joy is reflected back to us and brings an aliveness to our body. Taking the care with ourselves in the moment brings that to everyone we meet and what an amazing way for a teacher to share with the classroom and a blessing for all the children. What a great project and inspiration Michael Benhayon is for teachers and everyone.
I feel you have made a key point, Tricia: it’s the simple things in life, the little details, that then unfold and allow out true expression. I know if I go into overwhelm or other such emotions then often I think it’s all the big things I need to focus on to change, when in truth it’s all the little simple details and things in life, such as how I wash my face, open a door, brush my teeth, cook my dinner, lay the table etc. that can then naturally allow the large things to sort themselves out and flow again, without any push or trying from me.
I love your main message here about everything being an expression of me. The daily life examples you give are truly powerful, themselves highlighting the everythingness of everything. I Particularly like the reminder about our thoughts as part of that everything – it is definitely an area requiring absolute diligence and increased awareness, to stop ourselves when we start having an internal dialogue that is not in support of the amazingness we all are.
Thank you Cathy, I agree, and a great reminder for me to read your comment this morning. It can be easy if we allow it, to think our thoughts, e.g. judgement, critique, lack of self worth etc., are true and who we really are, when this in fact is so far from the truth. And something for us lovingly to call out, and say ‘no’, and allow ourselves the space to have a deeper understanding of where these are really coming from. I often find a great way to support this is to treat myself as I would a small child: you would have so much love, gentleness and understanding for them, and not be harsh. It feels amazing and so honouring to treat myself in this same way.
Gorgeous Ariana, ‘You could also say everyone “must be CELEBRATED and HONOURED in everything they are and in everything they bring, EACH AND EVERY DAY!’
Gorgeous to read this blog again and turn the chores and hardships of life completely on their heads. It’s so beautiful to read the difference you have brought to you and others just by choosing to express and not do.
Thank you hvmorden.
Indeed, I know as my day becomes about all the things I have to do and deliver, that I have omitted myself from the picture. It’s like walking around without a core, an existence. As Anonymous has shown us, if we express ourselves in the details then we are constantly confirming, imprinting everything with us and therefore when we look around the room we are met & reminded of the activity of love.
Beautifully expressed Lucinda. “If we express ourselves in the details then we are constantly confirming and imprinting everything with us and therefore when we look around the room we are met & reminded of the activity of love.” Just gorgeous.
Well said Lucinda. I know very well what it feels like to become introverted and individual. In disconnecting oneself from the picture, it is like your mind is all fogged up without knowing where to go, making it so easy for one to lose themselves.
I get so caught in this, Lucinda…”as my day becomes about all the things I have to do and deliver, that I have omitted myself from the picture”… My body reflects this through increasing aches and pains and tightness. When I do express myself in the details (activity of love) everything shifts and I begin to open up again and miracles of miracles my body lets go and the aches disappear!
Expression is everything a timely reminder, why do we not want to embrace this fact, is it because we have to feel the responsibility that comes with it? But as you’ve expressed so clearly, it is a joy to express ourselves in every moment of the day. It makes me smile.
It is a joy and really simple, sometimes we have to remind ourselves and that’s okay, I know I do, rather than be critical of ourselves, it’s more just an ‘Oops okay, stop, take a breath – express and enjoy’.
That is so true, if we allow ourselves to learn then the critical voice has no place to be there because we are always learning.
This project is deeply honouring of the job of teaching, is it is a very precious career choice – one that needs love to be its basis; this project will support them to do just that.
Indeed Vanessa this project is HUGE.
Everything is an expression of me, in every moment. I always thought that i was only about what i say and what i write, but it is in fact in everything, to how i put my coat on, which bath oil i will put in the bath and how i make my tea.
“So I have come to realise, know and understand that EXPRESSION IS EVERYTHING. It’s not just about what we say and write, but in every little moment, be it writing a blog, cooking tea or teaching a class, it is all an expression of me. ”
A very timely piece of inspiration for today.
I loved reading this for the second time and the part I really liked was “How could I ever get bored, resentful or complaining when each moment is an amazing opportunity to express how I feel and who I truly am”. This one sentence sums it all up – how great is that.
Absolutely Julie, it’s so true.
A great article with some timely reminders, thank you.
Great point Ariana, it should always be about people first and all of us should be celebrated and honoured for who we are and what we bring. We all bring something unique and it just feels great to cherish this and to appreciate this. so, not only teachers are gold, but nurses are gold, parents are gold, policemen and women are gold, etc etc, we are all gold!
So true Ariana and Mariette, yes, we are all gold, whatever the profession, it is all about people –
everyone must be CELEBRATED and HONOURED in everything they are and in everything they bring, EACH AND EVERY DAY!
Absolutely and this is the first step in celebrating and helping to support people in a very valuable and needed role.
Love and appreciation to you too anonymous from Scotland. Your blog made me re-evaluate all the parts of my job that I find a bit tedious or labour intensive and look at the expression I am creating when doing these tasks. By reading your blog, although I have heard ‘expression is everything’ many times it really brought it home, and it sunk in this time. Thank you.
As you say, Kevin, there’s quite a difference of hearing that ‘expression is everything’ to knowing it from within. As I am learning to express more in lots of ways, some small and some much larger, it shows me how much I have held back in the past without realising that I was. I’m really enjoying honouring myself with this.
I agree, Gill and even those small expressions are important. I can also feel that holding back my expression has a direct correlation with how exhausted I can feel at the end of the day.
I am loving sharing myself more with people in all the different settings I find myself in, it is so freeing when you stop measuring what you think people want to hear etc.
Kevin, I can feel from your words that they aren’t “just words” but that you have truly felt your expression in your jobs, even the ones you have felt a bit tedious. Now I find that inspiring! Big appreciation to you too!
Great point Kev. I have been taking stock of this too recently and endeavouring to bring the same expression of love into all the daily tasks that are not top of my fun list, as I do in all the things that I look forward to doing – and boy have I noticed a difference to my days. Funnily enough they are more fun and enjoyable too as the ‘fun’ stuff and ‘have to do’ stuff merge into one. It is always a choice of my expression. Awesome.
I agree Kev every job activity can be so much more alive if we approach it with the responsibility and commitment of our expression as shared here.
Yes I’ve heard that expression a lot too but reading this article has really helped me confirm what it means to feel it in my body. I love re-reading this article because it brings me straight back from my mind into my body.
Reading your blog reminds me of the beauty of living this way when I have allowed myself those moments.
I love the teachers are gold project and I am delighted that this project is going global. At the moment I am in touch with teachers, schools and people working in education, and what I see is all those amazing and gorgeous people, who work with so much passion. The job they do and what they bring to all the children is big and yes, it needs more appreciation.
A big thank you and a big hurrah for all teachers around the globe.
When reading this blog, I realised there are feelings of resentment in some of the things that I feel I need to do in my life, like when there is lots of washing up and at the moment lots of wrapping Christmas presents. But actually I like wrapping presents, so I’m stopping myself from enjoying something I love because I’m putting on a pressure and being resentful about it when I do not need to be. And actually, I quite like washing up, so why am I making it such a burden? I can actually appreciate what I’m doing so I’m off to wrap gifts beautifully and with my own expression and make them look extra cute – thanks for the inspiration!
Thank you. It is freeing for me to understand that everything I do is expression. It helps me to just “be” in all my everyday activities, and not get in my head. I do not have to worry about getting it right, just focus on what I am doing at that moment. Thank you Serge Benhayon and the Esoteric Practitioners for supporting me to be more of me in everything that I do.
I agree Ken, it was such a freeing moment and a huge revelation when I realised this – that amazing light bulb moment when my whole body aligned and felt it too, I felt so much space inside of me was created, it was like all these constraints and beliefs were lifted to let me think and feel more clearly. And it is so simple!
Simply Gorgeous and perfect and very timely for me. Thank you.
Beautiful blog, a timely reminder that we have a choice in every moment to express All of who we are or not…the world misses out when we choose not.
Great point and reminder to take into the day, thanks Lee.
Huge and very true Lee, it shows the amazing responsibility we have, in a playful and joyful way, not something to hide from or be shunned, that when we do not express from our fullness the world misses out in so many ways and so do we.
Teachers are amazing. They have so much pressure on them from all angles, the children , parents, head teachers and other staff and government, but also from themselves. Learning to be yourself first in every situation and from this place ‘express’; is not something I ever heard, or heard when my children were at school. This is gold, too.
You are right Sue, learning to be yourself first in every situation and from this place ‘express’ is pure gold! How different everything is when we do this.
As well as parents, it is the teachers that get children on the road to becoming model citizens in life. We need to listen to what they have to say, as it could be important, but also a help to us. The Gold project is there for all to learn from.
Absolutely Mike, teachers have a wealth of wisdom to share with us all, and I am in no doubt whats so ever that we are all learning, if the comments on this blog are anything to go by, from this amazing and global Teachers are Gold project.
Thank you anonymous for sharing with us.
I travel to work with school children in the mornings and they talk about their teachers among themselves and talk about what they can and cannot get away with, whether the teacher is ready to be a teacher, reading the mood of the teacher and when is the best time to ask for things.
This brings teaching on to a whole new level and we always remember the teachers who enjoyed teaching.
It’s incredibly touching to read the words about the Teachers of Gold Project as quoted from Michael Benhayon. Reading them helps me re-appreciate the teachers throughout my life. What an amazing role they can play and have played.
I agree David, so often we overlook teachers and really don’t appreciate them.
“Expression is Everything.” It is so simply said, in one short sentence, and it includes all we are and all we do in life, from the smallest detail to the biggest project, which, of course, is built from all the small detailed steps leading to its fruition. How important it is to recognise that in those little steps “expression is everything”.
Absolutely Joan, expression is EVERYTHING 🙂
I agree Anonymous, Michael has established an amazing support for all teachers with the Teachers are Gold Project. Lovely to hear how your experience of teaching changed from an understanding that ‘expression is everything’. I have also discovered that to stay aware of the fact that everything depends upon our expression has incredible meaning to my body and the way I feel when re-approaching situations or jobs with this awareness.
Lovely to re-read your article anonymous, ‘I know for one, by choosing to continue and commit to living this way, there will be less room for resentment, exhaustion or frustration that have been a part of my life – leaving more and more space for the absolute joy and the love I feel for humanity’, beautiful. It’s great to read how important all the little things are, like getting dressed and how we drive to work and what a huge difference these make to how we feel and are with people during the day.
Exactly Rebecca, sometimes I can get caught in the stress and overwhelm of it all, and ‘think’ how can I manage this, but really it’s all the simple little things that support one another, from getting dressed, to how I walk, prepare my lunch, how I drive to work etc that then support me throughout the day and the quality of connection I have with all others.
Teachers are GOLD….but so are we all. Your realisation is a beautiful inspiration and I am writing this comment with absolute care and gentleness because as you say, EVERYTHING is Expression. It’s awesome to be aware of this.
What an amazing gift the Teachers are Gold! Project is and so needed.
So true Fiona it is very much needed.
This is an awesome project. I have very little memory of being inspired by any teacher from my school days. My daughter was inspired by a maths teacher who made numbers fun and actually took classes of parents in the evenings. This generation is so able to grow and develop receiving the ‘Teachers are Gold’ project.
I love the idea of taking classes for parents in the evening and what better way to deepen a connection to a family, a community and a person … thank you for sharing Gill, can you guess what I am feeling 🙂
this is awesome to read again, I am deeply inspired to express all of me in every moment and action and how simple and easy this really can be.
It is AWESOME the Teachers are Gold project that Michael Benhayon is delivering and so much needed, here is someone that truly appreciates the work and value teachers bring and can bring and is doing something to support them.
I absolutely agree and so very much appreciate what Michael has founded for all teachers in the world.
Teachers are Gold, they play a great role in the true reflection and expression to the children of our future. This project is amazing and the ripple affect will be felt by all, as more and more people connect to it.
Well said Amita. The role that teachers play is absolute GOLD. It is so important to support them so they can support the generations to come.
I couldn’t agree more Amita.
I wish there had been such a project when I was a kid. Teachers that inspired me were in the minority at that time, although there were some truly great ones. However, many of them spoke down to us from a higher plane as if we were inferior. Considering it now after all this time, I realise that it was the teachers that treated us as their equals that inspired me.
As a teacher Doug I can understand there is a form of arrogance that teachers have the knowledge and pupils do not, as this is the way it is set up… and therefore teachers are automatically superior. It comes with the attitude.. I am the teacher and you have to listen! I can feel the ouch and sting in your words, “However, many of them spoke down to us from a higher plane as if we were inferior.” The fact that I have been party to this hurts. I can also feel that by treating all pupils as equal with myself how this transforms classroom dynamics, relationships and learning. It is extremely powerful and changes a pupil’s experience of school completely.
So true Rachel, the teacher can make all the difference to that child’s experience of school as a whole, and also down to their enjoyment and love of any one subject.
This has been my experience also, ‘I am the teacher and you have to listen!’, it’s great this is being exposed and that the fact that children are equal to teachers not inferior is being written about.
We all know from our own experiences the power a teacher has on our own schooling education. The power of inspiration or that of anything other… disinterest, disregard, disrespect, give up, misbehaving, truancy, the list goes on…For teachers to be actively supported in their role in this way by this project can only be a wonderous thing.
It’s amazing how little time or thought is given to the way some teachers teach, the style of engaging with children is so crucial to a child’s development. There can’t be any young person, or any person at all for that matter who enjoys being talked down to. So why is it not taught that engaging with children as equals will make the children more responsive and make teaching more enjoyable for all?
I agree Stephen. When I trained this never came up and yet now I see it as crucial and the first option when walking into a classroom. The children feel it unquestionably and respond like a flower does when it is watered. When children are talked down to, it’s like starving them also of air and sun.
Added to the mix, children want to be loved as well as being treated as equals. From that point onwards all learning is possible, without it learning is stunted. Treating children as equals is a quality that is held in the teacher and may not even be venally expressed, but can be FELT by the child and makes all the difference to classroom dynamics. Yet the difficulty is that teachers are also NOT treated equally by the system and government and are dictated to by outside pressures. Teachers are informed of how they need to be and express in the classroom, so my hat goes off to the many amazing teachers and my colleagues that remain steadfast in their approach to nurturing and deeply caring for the children they are with.
Hi Doug, I can understand your hurt, as it does hurt to not be held or spoken to as an equal, whether we are young or old. But what I try to remember is that all teachers do truly care, they may just not know there is any other way, and have grown up not being met or feeling truly loved. It is with a great huge big smile, that I can now say that that reflection is there, through the love and support of the Teachers are Gold Project and also people choosing to live with much more love and care, they will have the opportunity to be the love that they are and share that not only with the kids, but the world.
This is so true Doug, the teachers at school that inspired me were the ones that connected and showed a genuine interest in us as people, me as an individual. This made them so memorable and made parts of school much more enjoyable than it would otherwise have been.
“These are all expressions of me, not one more or one less important – THEY ARE ALL EQUALLY AN EXPRESSION OF ME.”
This is what jumps out at me today. As I’ve grown up throughout life, I’ve always subconsciously managed to rank duties, activities to do, etc in order of importance. I had never realised that I did this with myself and my own expression. It’s as if we are taught that the public presentations are more important than the minor private acts. That going to work is more of an expression of oneself than brushing one’s teeth. But in this we miss the opportunity to build a consistency from within which supports us to express our true self in every moment and not change to suit the situation we find ourselves in.
So true, Jenny, to bring all of me to all I do is all I have to do. Expressing with the quality of who we all are, and maintaining that consistently making choices along the way to stay in that quality as much as we can is all that’s necessary. Simple and true.
This is lovely Jenny, ‘That going to work is more of an expression of oneself than brushing one’s teeth. But in this we miss the opportunity to build a consistency from within which supports us to express our true self in every moment and not change to suit the situation we find ourselves in.’ I have felt this to be true in my life and am enjoying more and more feeling my true self, feeling steady and feeling consistent in every situation, be at at work or at home; its a work in progress but so far this feels a lot less tiring and a lot more natural.
Beautiful blog, and a deeper understanding of what expression is. Even the way we breathe is us expressing our essence.
I love your last sentence, I can feel the space it creates for joy so I will put it on my fridge! – “choosing to continue and commit to living this way, there will be less room for resentment, exhaustion or frustration that have been a part of my life – leaving more and more space for the absolute joy and the love I feel for humanity”.
Wow, what a support for teachers who are influencing the next generation. When a child gets a reflection from a teacher who is so full of love and expression, with commitment to life, rather than resentment or frustration, they will learn so much more than the 3 R’s.
Absolutely Gill, I couldn’t agree more, I have had so much fun allowing my expression and also theirs. There was a beautiful confirming moment the other day, where I asked the children what they had learnt in the class so far, “I have learnt to not judge myself, to not compare myself to anyone else, ” a very very beautiful moment indeed and one not to be dismissed as the reflection we all bring, it truly amazing and can shine so far.
Wow – I love this blog. Expression is the quality of who we are not what we do. I love it when I feel my flow and power as I walk, when I do my hair, when I take time to get ready in the morning and choose my make up or what colour lipstick I feel to wear. It’s so beautiful and a great reminder. Thank you.
Teachers are Gold. Your blog is Gold. You are Gold, Anonymous.
Thank you Susie, yes Teachers are Gold, and thank you Michael Benhayon for initiating this project.
This blog has touched on something very important about life. How many of us can relate to that feeling of frustration or resentment about all the little things that need to be done in a day and the lack of time to do them in? I know I certainly can. But to see all of these moments as an opportunity to express who we are from our essence, is a game changer and certainly reminds me that there is so much more going on in these moments than what we can hear and see. Everything is expression and expression is indeed everything.
Absolutely Andrew, sometimes I catch myself straight away sometimes later, but in those moments where there is a shift from feeling me, feeling amazing and so much power and joy, to anxiousness, anger, frustration or resentment kicking in – I’m like hang on a moment what is going on, how can I shift in a moment from feeling me to feeling this?
In the past I would have just accepted this as the norm, oh I get angry, sad, whatever else, but it is with thanks to Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine that I now know something is up. This is not how I or others are truly meant to live, and there’s much more at play than just what I can hear and see. I am re-learning to take my time, to stop, to question and ask what’s really going on and where are these emotions coming from?
Even the other day I chose to walk away from a situation as I could feel anger coming up and I knew I didn’t want to deal with this person or situation like this. I knew I had to give us both some space, as there was much more going on than what was being seen and heard. When I came back to speak to this person they opened up and shared how they felt and what was really going on for them and I felt like just giving them a huge big hug.
I am only just starting to fully grasp or shall I say, be willing to accept expression is everything. I also used to think that expression was just how you spoke or what you wrote and not about the quality of everything we do in every moment.
Sometimes I catch myself getting too involved in a project on the computer at work and I can feel the tension in my body, but then I will say to myself “I’ll deal with it later” – as though I haven’t got time to come back to me and at that moment I make the choice to put myself on hold. Thank you for the reminder.
I love that Julie, we always have a choice to come back to us, in every moment.
I love the blog. It is a true reminder of how powerful we are when we allow to be connected and loving with ourselves. It is a huge responsibility concerning our thoughts and choices we take in every moment.
Thank you Kerstin, I love and find it a great reminder of what is coming up in a lot of the comments – that it is the responsibility we have in how we are. It is huge, but one that can come with so much joy. I have often felt that words like responsibility and commitment have been loaded with so much stuff, as if they are something scary, awful or this huge burdening task, but when in fact it is the complete opposite.
I can feel as I write that committing in full and taking responsibility for our life and own stuff is actually an amazing opportunity, it creates so much space, freedom and so much joy. And with this it has an effect on everyone else, they can feel the care, commitment and responsibility we are choosing to live, thus allowing them the opportunity to choose the same. How cool and amazing that is? Definitely not something to fear but actually something to celebrate.
Being reminded that every moment, every action, every thought, every word either confirms or undermines me is the gift of responsibility, thank you.
That’s true Matilda. And that’s what then will impact others around us. Profound.
Thank you Matilda, yes that is our true responsibility, it is not only about us but everyone else equally. How I am when I walk in a room, the way I speak and my thoughts affects not only the kids in the class, but everyone else.
Thanks for this great blog. The more I express, the more I understand the real me and others, the more enjoyable life is and the more I want to get to connect with this. Everything opens up and expands when I express.
Absolutely Susang12, I agree, I even find myself at times beginning to express, and then stopping as I can feel it is not true, and that in itself is empowering. I also absolutely agree that there is so much more spaciousness and expansion when we choose to express, I can feel this in my body and also all around me.
This is a great blog, expression is something for every moment, it is easy to forget this but in essence you are presenting that each moment is as important as the one before or the one to come, that makes perfect sense. The commitment to express fully what is there to be shared is life changing, as was shown in your contrasting levels of energy. Awesome to read and feel this.
Thank you Stephen, each moment and each expression is as equal and important as the next, not one any more or less.
Love what you express here Stephen: ‘the commitment to express fully what is there to be shared is life changing’. Thank you for this reminder.
I just love what has been shared here. The simple act of giving ourselves a break, stopping the push and drive, and appreciating all that we are without the outer embellishments of life. This is transformative.
“The simple act of giving ourselves a break,” I feel no more needs to be said here, we can put way too much pressure and be so hard on ourselves – awesome comment Matilda, very simple, powerful and true.
I can feel that ‘Expression is Everything’ and as you said you may have a “blip” (I liked that description), but these can be minor stumbles in the big scheme of things. A brilliant and inspiring blog.
Thank you again Anonymous for such an inspiring blog. Since reading your post, I become more aware of how the quality in which I do everything impacts on how I will feel afterwards. Your blog is gold!
Thank you, Priscila. It is so true, we forget that actually it is the quality we are in and the choices we make that will impact the next moment, it can be all to easy. I know I have done this, to blame life or other people or say, ‘oh well, stuff just happens’ but that’s so not true. We have the choice in what our next moment will be.
Exactly, Anonymous. When we see life like this we are no longer victims but we are in control of our next moment.
Expression is everything, our bodies are expressing all the time not just in words but in how we move and in everything we do, so if any part of us begins to feel a resentment or frustration then it is going to be expressed in everything we do not just that one thought. I have experienced this at work, how the on, Anonymous and this line: “How could I ever get bored, resentful or complaining when each moment is an amazing opportunity to express how I feel and who I truly am,” is a great reminder that when we connect to the joy of who we are, we are naturally in-joy and enjoy everything we do and say. It really does come down to a simple choice.
Absolutely Alison. I too have experienced this, I can feel when there is resentment or frustration – it’s not only in my body, it’s in how I move, the way I speak, what I share, even how I put a towel in the wash or close a door; and in truth it feels awful, as I know someone else is feeling and getting this, rather than the joy I and we so naturally are and can express. It is very much about responsibility and choice, something I am re-learning.
I love this blog. How could everything I do not be an expression of me?! Sometimes I find myself rushing through things so I can find some space to be me when I have finished. Hilarious! It is so lovely to be aware that we can enjoy and express ourselves in every moment. Everything we do is an opportunity to express ourselves, and we have a choice in how we express.
Yes it is really funny, I know exactly what you mean. I will just get x,y,z done and then I can be Me! I mean who am I being when I am doing x,y or z? The postman? I can only be me and when I really honour that, every thing I do throughout my day is a joy.
Ha ha , Love it Rowena 🙂 that’s going to make me giggle, if I get caught in that again, I’ll imagine myself in a little posties hat, and that will bring me right back!
Ha ha Rebecca, I ‘do’ exactly the same, and at times actually find myself laughing out loud saying this is crazy, I can be with me all the time, and what kind of quality am I bringing when I’m stressed and anxious, and in a rush to get things done, so I can move onto the next?
These are fantastic revelations that apply to all of our lives. Thank you for sharing them with us! I have really been working on my relationship with myself and my expression as of late and I love how you recognised that expression is about every single thing we do with ourselves throughout every single day. This does not mean becoming obsessive, it just means that we must recognise the fact that it all matters and all has a knock on effect on everything else in our lives. Nothing acts in a vacuum!
Exactly Naren, and not to beat ourselves up too, but just see it all as a learning.
It has also been my experience of working in resentment and not choosing to be present in the moment. There is a vast difference in how my body reacts and goes into hardness and my thoughts get out of control.
Where as when I choose to be tender I enjoy my job and the people I am working with. Nothing is a chore and I can feel how tenderly I can pick up the phone and the quality of my voice as I am willing to connect to the other person. The resentment just melts away, all with a simple choice.
Thank you for this very inspiring reminder.
So true, Julie and well said. Our resentment to our work and daily life affects our bodies and our voice. When we make the decision to simply enjoy whatever we are doing, to commit to it in full and open up to the world, our bodies become tender and gentle and our interactions with other people can be joyful and fun.
hear hear Rowena, this is absolutely true
I have totally experienced that turn around in life and going to work. I never would have thought that just being me in whatever situation would have this much power and joy in it. People at work get confused that it is a constant way that I am around them and even some customers have made comment that I an constantly up beat.
I love what you share here Julie, especially about the quality of your voice, this is something i really notice too, when my voice is strained, or tense, or it may not even sound like my own voice. But when I am with myself my voice feels and sounds very different, there’s a clarity, it is centred, as it I can feeling it coming from the middle of my chest, not my throat, or head, not rushed, or anxious, but a really steady clear, aware expression.
Lovely blog, thank you. When I read it I could feel how I can compartmentalise my life, making some things I do more important than others, instead of simply being me in all I do.
I love your blog. It’s so inspiring to read, ‘How could I ever get bored, resentful or complaining when each moment is an amazing opportunity to express how I feel and who I truly am.’ So true and so joyful. Thank you for a wonderful reminder.
Thank you Karin
I was just inspired by that as well Karin. I look at those times in the day when I start to feel resentful about something or could go into a complaining mode – during all of them I realise I am not expressing how I feel or who I am. Such a powerful blog that brings it back to something so simple.
I am constantly beautifully surprised by how simple, sweet and flowing life is when I value myself in life, rather than pit myself against life and it’s struggles and demands. In a caring, respectful and deepening relationship with myself, every moment is anointed by this – every communication, action and thought – just as the opposite is true (every moment tainted with battle and endurance). Thank you for everyone’s sharing of their ‘lightbulb’ moments.
I love what you share here Matilda, ” how simple, sweet and flowing life is when I value myself in life, rather than pit myself against life and it’s struggles and demands.” that says it all.
I agree… it does say it all! Valuing ourselves should be taught in school as a subject in itself, or as an across curricular theme. To live with self-appreciation and acceptance is a game changer.
Valuing myself in life, rather than pitting myself against life – an obvious choice which one to choose! Yet life was often a constant struggle for me, because I chose the latter! No wonder exhaustion is so rife today as everyone is fixed on ‘doing’ and accomplishing. ‘Be-ing’ and loving myself first, then doing what is needed, still gets things done, but in a simpler, flowing way, as you say Matilda. What if we were all taught this from an early age, to accept and love ourselves, just as we are?
I absolutely agree Sue, the world is focused on doing, pushing, trying and achieving and I have have played ball with this, be it for whatever reason – recognition, acceptance, not feeling enough or simply when all I was looking for was love – and that love is inside of me, not in any book, relationship, job, degree or food but simply inside of me and us all equally.
When I connect to this and let go of the constant battle and struggle with life and trying to make things or myself be a certain way, life just flows with simplicity and a magical ease and I feel so much love and connection with everyone else. It is with absolute thanks and appreciation to Serge Benhayon, Universal Medicine, Michael Benhayon and The Teachers are Gold Project for all they present, live and share, with not one ounce of judgement, just constant unwavering love for all of humanity equally.
Thanks Matilda, you beautifully describe the choice we have in each moment as to how we live in relationship with ourselves and the world.
So beautifully said Matilda, there is so much grace when we surrender to ourselves and stop all the ‘should do’s’ and ‘must do’s’ and truly apply ourselves fully to what we are actually doing in the moment. Our whole relationship with time alters and it is possible to get a great deal done without the angst and hardness just by checking in with our breath and our bodies and keeping everything open and gentle.
I’ve not been expressing in the tenderness that I am this week.
I’ve felt it in every vein in my body. It hurts. I’m sensitive to when I’m no longer in the moment.
As I start to come back to me and express again in truth, I can already feel how familiar and warm that is. What I’m learning is to not let the ‘stuff’ – deadlines, other people, work etc. get in the way. Because these are the moments when true expression is most needed.
And to build it into absolutely everything is a great foundation to start with.
Dear hvmorden, thank you for the gorgeous reminder, I have even started to type with more tenderness reading your first line. I love how all these comments reflect something to us, I too have not been honouring my tenderness this week and had got caught in the rush and all the work to do, ( that even hurts in writing that). And you are so right as I can feel it just now, as soon as I connect to my tenderness, I instantly slow down, feel more of myself, as in who I really am from inside, not the things and stuff I do or have to get done from outside, and yes there is a loveliness, a famliarity (which I hadn’t really ever stopped to feel it in this way before, so thank you for that), and warmth felt. And I feel in absolutely no need to rush or get things done today, as I feel very connected to myself and in this a knowing that what is needed will be done, with myself, and not from my head. Thank you for sharing.
This is definitely something I am going to take with me in everyday, if I’m feeling off or caught up in the rush and doing, to stop and come back to feeling my tenderness first.
Dear hvmorden and anonymousscotland I can so relate to what you have shared here. The pressure to get things done can feel overbearing at times and the hardness that kicks into the body as a result is hurtful. I have a busy day ahead and can feel tension and a hardness – as I am typing now by just connecting to my tenderness immediately counters the hardness and my body is softening. Letting go of the rush is easier because it’s impossible to do so when tender.
Very true Ariana, we get entrenched in these ways of dealing with stress and hard work without realising that we are in fact adding to our exhaustion rather than alleviating it. And it does impact on others, I can just feel the difference that one person can make when they stop compounding the stress and connect to the fact that everything matters, the joy and playfulness that arise from this level of care is very evident from this blog.
Such an awesome blog. It’s amazing that you were able to realise what was going on for you that meant you were so exhausted. I too have never considered how EVERYTHING I do is a way of expressing even whilst doing the most mundane things we have a choice in how we do them and how we express. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you Anna, I am still learning with this each and everyday.
When I started to understand in more fullness that everything is expression, all that list you showed us came obvious to me too, that absolutely everything, every little passing thought is expression, that only now does the enormity of this start to sink in, how responsible I need to be in everything I am, everything I do and everything I think. Great to highlight this, thank you.
I agree Gill, and what I also got for this blog, is that everything can be an expression of who I am down to the finest detail, I can live who I am in everything I do.
Yes, I totally agree Rebecca, and Gill. Accepting that expression is everything is so significant, and because it has been so much not part of my awareness it requires constant vigilance to remember to be present and responsible. Initially it feels overwhelming but after awhile it just becomes part of life and the consistency builds.
So true Gill, it’s that responsibility – that’s something I am working on. Every little thing, movement, thought, action or word affects all, but it doesn’t have to be overwhelming and huge, but can be a joyful experience as an amazing look at the opportunities I have – and how amazing it is that everything we do, say, feel, think etc. affects all – there is so much love and joy to be shared in that.
It feels truly empowering to make those changes and choices to be responsible in everything that I do, learning along the way and with that responsibility calling out what is not truth at every point that it presents itself…this is true responsibility.
It is huge Gill, when we truly take on that everything matters, every little thought and action, it has huge implications. I know the more I focus on staying with my body and not letting my mind wander off on its own (a consistent challenge!), ironically I feel more energised and actually get more done.
I’m with you on that Rowena
Definitely Rowena.
I agree, Rowena – it’s as if at times I am trying to be in 2 places at once and so no wonder why I find it tiring!
Rowena, I can completely resonate with this, too.
Well said Rowena, I totally agree.
I know ‘doing’ very well and how it automatically leads to resentment because I become so worn out from doing everything! Life then becomes mundane and miserable. What a set up we have created for ourselves. I find that enjoying life comes from ‘being me’ and expressing that in everything. This is something I continue to work on but it’s great to feel the difference between the two so I can stop and choose which one I want to live by.
Dear Susang12, I am so with you on that and it’s something I am learning each and every day, to let go of ‘doing'(even writing the word makes me feel I’ve just jumped on a merry go round or the fast track). And you are right, it’s so true, when I just constantly ‘do’ I am left feeling absolutely whacked and miserable, and you know what – I will be completely honest – I am this way with others, which feels awful, too. As I so know that’s not who I really am and that there is another way that brings and allows us to feel so much joy and harmony, within ourselves and with all others, too. And yes, it is great to feel the difference, as then we can use this as a marker, a feeling in our life and body of what’s really going on. With this as you so rightly say, we have the opportunity to stop and choose which way we want to be and live … how cool is that? Thank you Universal Medicine and Michael Benhayon for presenting such truth.
Thank you anonymousscotland for starting this great discussion. Those moments of choice are super important – to love yourself even though you have got something wrong and learn from it, or to set off on a roller coaster ride of self judgement which will take you who knows how long to find your way back from.
Expressing IS everything, and how we live/act/talk/walk/sleep etc. is all part of that expression. If we see these activities as something on a ‘to do’ list, then like you said Susan, ‘life then becomes mundane and miserable’.
So true Susie and how glorious is it to be able to transform the mundane and miserable into a life of joy, simply by focusing on the quality of everything we do. Miracles do not need to be big and noisy, they can be as simple as transforming a normal day into a day of connection, simplicity and appreciation that brings a quiet and steady joy.
I agree Susang12 “it’s great to feel the difference between the two so I can stop and choose which one I want to live by.” We always have a choice. Awesome.
Hi Lorrainewellman, I was relpying to a comment you left about how pressure and drive goes out the window, and that feeling of not being enough, but it got lost amongst all the amazing comments … so I will reply here:
Exactly Lorriane, it is so true, when I read your words this morning I could feel the depth of this belief in so many, “that we are not enough’ – it is absolutely HUGE. We are brought up constantly being told we have to be better, to try harden, to achieve, being compared to peers, or friends or family, even strangers … which keeps the merry go round and the feeling that we are simply not enough in being ourselves, which is so not true. I feel the more and more we all claim the fact that we are way more than enough, a huge smile has appeared on my face as I can feel the absolute joy in the truth of that, and the freedom this creates, will allow for others to feel and claim this in themselves. Then drive, pressure, pushing etc. will stand out like a sore thumb and out the window it goes.
Absolutely – I am throwing drive out of the window too. Life is so much more fun when we are not living with an incessant need to ‘do’. All of this doing comes from the belief that we are only good if we do something to prove it. It’s very empowering for our children to learn very early on that they ARE Beauty-FULL just for being themselves.
Absolutely Shevonsimon, I let out a big sigh when I read the words, “when we are not living with an incessant need to ‘do’”. it is so true, how many of us are constantly feeling a need to do something be it for whatever reason, it is so draining and tiring, and keeps us away from the simplicity and joy of life … and the biggest thing, it keeps us away from knowing who we really are in truth; joy-full, amazing and absolutely loveable people.
Is it possible this feeling ‘that we are not good enough’ comes from the huge elephant in the cupboard called competition? Currently, most people are set up from childhood to be in competition with each other, starting from when they first sit up, their first tooth, their first words. There seems to be a need to be first and best. This continues on throughout life, especially at school with the drive to get good grades, for sporting prowess, in the attractiveness stakes, having success in one’s work life, great cars, exciting holidays – the list goes on for endless things and yet, even seemingly ‘having it all’ doesn’t have people glowing with the joy of life – a sure sign something’s not right in the mix.
This way of living is considered ‘normal’, but is it truly? What if just being ourselves was normal? What if all this competition is abnormal? Seeing that would truly set the world on it’s bottom, wouldn’t it?
I love what you have realised is your true ‘normal’ in life and at school – how expression is everything – just being you in all you do. That is the ‘enough’. That is all that is required. You being you. In life, anything other than you being your ‘normal’ puts you in competition with others and that’s where the seed of jealousy gets a chance to grow and that’s not healthy either…. yet in today’s world that’s what is considered normal. OUCH!
Yes the more we allow ourselves to be ourselves the more there is actual inspiration to be felt.
And thank you for your inspiration too Ariana.
I loved reading your blog and feeling how you have come to deeply enjoy your self in everything you engage with, enjoying you in every expression. Beautiful and inspiring.
Thank you Golnaz.
So true and so beautifully expressed and yes inspiring too. This is indeed huge what you are sharing here and amazing to read all the comments.
Thank you Elaine, and yes it is amazing to read all the comments.
‘Yes, there were little moments where I had a blip, but they weren’t a big deal because the power and amazingness I felt was way too big to let the little issues get to me.’ – I totally love this – it’s not a big deal in the grand scheme of things because you have been living the expression of who you are in what you have been doing. Not to focus on the ‘I got it wrong’ and to keep coming back to feeling and expressing how amazing you are is – super inspiring and something that I am really enjoying myself.
That made me smile Natalie, something I am working on everyday, to let go of the getting it wrong and beating ourselves up, as this just continues a cycle of abuse, and there’s no love in that, however re-learning to say ‘okay yep I had a blip’, what can I learn from that? why did I make that choice? etc., allows us to move on and keep expressing who we really are – all the amazingness and joy.
For me, when I THINK I’m getting it wrong there is an underlying feeling of lack of self worth, but when I FEEL I’ve had a blip there is appreciation that the ‘blip’ has brought me back to an appreciation of all the amazingness I can be.
“Catherine, I so wholeheartedly agree, there is definitely a lack of self worth thing going on when I ‘think’ I’m getting something wrong, is it good enough, or I’m in judgement, or beating myself up ( that feels yucky to write, but if I’m honest this is so huge and is plaguing our kids in school today). The kids will be picking this up from me, so it’s not just me it affects.
But as you say, when I “feel’ , then it’s a completely different way to be as I’m already connected to my body, I haven’t stepped out of the moment and started to judge, I don’t allow it to take control of me, and knock the rest of the day and in turn even the day after that. It more like, okay, cool I have something to learn from that”
An awesome exchange here Natalie and anonymous, offering much inspiration. If we accept a ‘blip’ here and there and let it go – moving forward with what we learn from it – it is a great support, instead of spending time and energy ‘telling ourselves off’ we can learn and grow, getting back to being the amazing us.
I agree Jane and Natalie, I would always focus on the problems or the ‘blips’, dwell on them, beat myself up over them instead of seeing them as a learning and moving on. One of the many things I have learnt from Serge Benhayon is to look at your recovery, bounce-back time, ie. the time it takes to return back to being love, to being amazing.
I agree Jane, and Natalie. It is so easy to focus on the ‘blips’ and ‘beat oneself up’ as in those times it is triggering the feelings of unresolved hurts. However, as I stay with my amazingness in these times, not only am I learning to deal with and take responsibility for the ‘blip’, but I am also learning to connect to the unresolved hurt, heal that, and consequently get triggered less.
So true Natalie, keep focusing on the bigger picture: the joy of you expressing and see the little issues as they are: little.
Gorgeous Monika, I love it – simple.
Yes Monika, it is so easy to slip into seeing the little blip as this huge thing that dominates all your life and forget that there even is a bigger picture. Great point James about recovery, bounce back time.
I agree Monika focusing on the bigger picture and the joy of expressing fades away the little lssues.
I love what you say here Jane, especially about taking responsibility – a word and action I have avoided; but with a responsible and lighthearted approach responsibility allows us to live as mature adults (and children) and fosters more loving and respectful relationships.
‘take another breath and move on’ Love that Jane; to return to the gentle breath is such a lovely way to take time, step away from feelings of failure or despondency, and become aware and open to a fuller understanding.
Whoops is the word my daughter has been using lately, it is so cute and so at ease with not being ‘perfect’ or getting it right it’s just a whoops and move on. I feel this is a massive issue for me – ha ha ironic – it is exactly that sort of language that exposes this focussing on not being right, making things much bigger than they are! Hilarious, busted. Whoops.
An awesome blog, thank you. This says it all:
“So I have come to realise, know and understand that EXPRESSION IS EVERYTHING. It’s not just about what we say and write, but in every little moment” Beautiful.
Thank you Beverley, yep it was such a huge realisation and such simple things too, but what a difference it makes when we understand and live Expression is EVERYTHING.
‘How could I ever get bored, resentful or complaining when each moment is an amazing opportunity to express how I feel and who I truly am.’ What an amazing foundation this offers. Every moment of every day is an opportunity to expand into a full relationship with myself and life. It becomes madness for me to write off anything with resentment or complaining.
So true Jane I absolutely agree. This is what is deeply missing from the teacher training courses, not for long though with The Teachers are Gold Project. 🙂 And all the awesome teachers in the world claiming and living their gold!
Dear Ariana thank you, your hug is felt 🙂 It is totally awesome to realise this and make a choice in every moment to live it, and just admitting, not beating ourselves up, but simply waking up to the fact that everything affects everybody, so would it not be a wise choice to be more loving to ourselves and in turn allow that love to impact everyone else. I know for sure this feels much more amazing than being stressed out and exhausted and taking it out on everyone else.
This is a really lovely blog, Anonymous. What stands out for me (as a current student), is how teaching just one class comes with a huge amount of responsibility, not just to mark homework or plan the lesson but how you live your life outside of school; washing the dishes, getting dressed, spending time with family members also affects the way in which you teach and come across to a group of children… that is something I had not fully appreciated before – thank you.
Great points Susie, if we grasp how everything we do affects everyone else, there is a huge responsibility and this is no less so in the case of a teacher nurturing the next generation.
“I realised that it wasn’t just in school I was resenting the things I had to do, I was resenting most of life too”, its wonderful how we can use an awareness around one part of our lives to reflect, or shine a light on what might actually be happening far more widely in our day to day living. Thank you for sharing this so clearly.
Very true Rosanna. Since reading this blog and starting to see an area of my life I resent, it’s amazing how many other areas open to show themselves as areas I also resent. It’s like there is an underlying ring of resentment that has been holding everything back. Very inspiring.
Thank you again anonymous. I am feeling more present since I first read your blog. I am less resentful of the things that need to be done and am getting things done quicker and more efficiently because my mind is not so negative and thinking ahead to how much I have to do. And i’m not putting things off so much as I am enjoying doing them more.
The more I read this blog and all it’s great comments, the more frustration and resentment is being shown to me in all the little things that I would normally have brushed aside, so thank you for sharing this with us Anonymous. Expression is everything and your blog has inspired me to feel this to a much deeper level, it really is in everything, in our movements our gestures the opening of a door, from the moment we wake to the moment we go to sleep.
I agree with you, Alison. This blog is supportive as a reminder to look at the details of how we express, even the simplest of tasks like opening a door, how we get into the car , or even getting dressed. This will mount up to a lot of expression by the end of the day!
What an amazing blog. I love it! It is all the more inspiring as I have an understanding of how much work goes into teaching. I love how when you express from your beingness there is no room for resentment because it is all joyful and spacious. Awesome awesome.
Your ‘expression-full’ blog has alerted me to areas in my life where I am still resentful; an honest appraisal is required to let go of resentments and remember, “expression is everything”.
Your article has also led me to read Michael Benhayon’s the “Teachers are Gold” website.
Awesome is not a word I use often, it is exactly that!
Humanity is truly in need of programs like this group of healthcare practitioners/teachers are offering in Australia.
Your sharing has been ‘pure gold’ for me, thank you.
It strikes me that very rarely do we celebrate, appreciate or honour another let alone ourselves. I know that’s the case for me anyway! It’s a great reminder not only for teachers but for everyone. What I really got from reading this is the love and dedication many teachers have – I’ve certainly not appreciated that, instead of focusing on the stuff I did not like about my teachers when I grew up. Yet the part teachers play in all our lives is so fundamental. Thank you for sharing.
For the last few days since reading this I have found it tremendously inspiring in that throughout the day I have been remembering it and in particular, “that EVERYTHING, yes EVERYTHING, is an expression of me! I had been making it about DOING and DOING and not EXPRESSING”. By doing so I have found myself much more present in what I am doing and as a result I have not had the feelings of resentment that sometimes occur and instead there is a far greater joy in everything I do.
Thank you for sharing your realisation. I always found at school that the teachers I learnt from most were those who I felt met by and valued as a person. They were the teachers who were passionate about their job and did not not approach it in a way that they resented what they having to teach, because they had the world on their shoulders, which was at times how some of the teachers felt. With those teachers who truly cared, the interest and learning came naturally. Now as a teaching assistant to 9/10 year olds I am learning that how I am feeling in myself and role has a huge impact on how the children respond and how the lessons flow. This blog is a great reminder to keep a check on EVERYTHING. Thank you.
Truly inspiring that you, as a teacher, are starting to be aware of your responsibility in the energy you choose to live in, and how that has a knock on effect.
As Jenny beautifully shared earlier, ‘ This is what is so simple and powerful – the understanding that how we are effects everything, so of course it follows that we bring utmost care and attention to ourselves and that will carry through to all that we do too.’
Thank you for sharing, it is amazing to become aware of something you weren’t aware of because someone else is willing to share what is happening for them. Reading you blog has been inspiring for me, for until I read this the other day, I was not aware of the resentment and burden I had been carrying myself. Thank you.
Teacher’s are GOLD is such a shining example and shows me that we are all in fact teachers simply by us living who we truly are and expressing this loving quality we all bring to the world.
School teachers are our first role models outside of the sphere of influence we initially have with our parents or first care providers. There is no doubt that the quality the teacher brought to the classroom had the biggest impact on me – it was never about what they taught, it was always about who they were …. Kids don’t miss a thing and if they see someone living the vitality that comes from expressing who they truly are then this is pure inspiration, pure gold!
Thank you Anonymous for your fabulous blog!
It has been so freeing to say to myself that I don’t have to “do” anything today. I realized when I feel like I have to do something there is resentment involved. When I say to myself that all I need to do is be myself, my body relaxes and tears flow. Thank you Universal Medicine for supporting me to understand this.
“A teacher must be CELEBRATED and HONOURED in everything they are and in everything they bring, EACH AND EVERY DAY! Equal to this, they must be given ALL the tools of how to do this for THEMSELVES, that is, to truly celebrate and honour all that they are and all that they bring to our lives.” [Michael Benhayon, Director, Teachers are Gold! Project]
What Michael has set up here is phenomenal. Teachers play such an important role in the moulding of our future generations. It is absolutely brilliant that there is a project out there now which is willing and able to truly offer support to staff who are in a position to do amazing things everyday, knowing that they are amazing themselves – something which is seldom felt nowadays under the climbing pressure and mountain of educational systems.
This writing clearly shows the support available and in action.
I couldn’t agree more Jenny – Michael Benhayon and The Teachers are Gold Project are truly amazing and absolute Gold within themselves! Very much needed and called for around the globe, this is already changing the foundation of education.
I love your blog Anonymous and the information in it about the Teachers are Gold project. It sounds a great and much needed initiative from the results that you mention above. I know the resentment theme very well and how it pulls you down. It is extraordinary how much difference appreciation of self and others and indeed of everything, makes to the quality of life, both for self and for others.
I too had come to the realisation that I was in resentment of all I had to do but didn’t recognise it as resentment until with the help of a Universal Medicine practitioner it became clear. What a difference that one session with them has made and I no longer feel that resentment! This blog was exactly what I needed to read this morning as I prepare for my day. Having ‘Everything is Expression’ so clearly written brought me a clarity and timely reminder today for which I am very appreciative.
A fantastic reminder that expression is everything and we can choose hardship and resentment or joy and lightness “..by choosing to continue and commit to living this way, there will be less room for resentment, exhaustion or frustration that have been a part of my life – leaving more and more space for the absolute joy and the love I feel for humanity.” Beautifully expressed- Thank you
I really appreciate this blog and the reminders of the depth of expression that is everything.
Thank you
It is a bit of a crazy thing that we have convinced ourselves that it is ok to be unhappy or stressed out in an area of our life and expect it to not have any affect on the rest of life. I love what this blog reveals about taking the time to pay attention and be with ourselves in everything we do, allowing us to actually create more space and time in our lives while doing the same amount of activities. It is not about being perfect or anything, it is simply about being present!
It is crazy Naren – that we have welcomed with open arms as much ‘doing’ as possible, and as a result the build up of stress and unhappiness in some cases. The simple act of appreciating every little thing, and allowing expression in all moments is a game changer.
Hear hear Naren, why settle for anything less than truth, love and joy! Perfect what’s that? I’m always keen to say to the class there is no such thing as perfection, all it does is keep you feeling less and stop you from knowing how amazing you really are.
Blasting all the myths about life needing to be a struggle out of the water, this blog brings us sweetly and simply back to the joy and magic of appreciating ourselves, expressing this in everything we do and allowing the opportunities presented in every moment of every day to be honoured.
A fab blog that gives me a timely reminder of the absolute truth that ‘expression is everything’. In those three words is the key to unlocking the joy in me. I really connected with what you were saying about the resentment that you felt and the struggle against time. I have plenty of that at play in my day when I am not remembering the simplest of facts ‘expression is everything’. Thank you, thank you.
Great timing for this blog. I too have been feeling resentful with my day to day life and doing. I have again slipped backed into doing, that I have been just doing my work, getting tired and exhausted and making it home straight to bed. This has definitely been taking me down. So to read this blog is a great reminder to start looking at that everything is about expression and bring it back to expression. Thank you.
Wow, a great example and wonderfully simple way to explain Expression. It’s clear from this that expression is in every single moment and choice or every minute of our lives. Expression is EVERYTHING.
I agree, the blog is so simple, and at the same time a total revelation and very inspiring.
Thank you Simon.
Only of late I could see how I too was resenting everything ‘I had to do’ and by noting this, I took the pressure off myself and am finding that I can actually do more in a more timely and flowing manner. I feel more myself from this understanding and less exhausted.
This is so true although until you’ve actually had the faith and taken care of yourself before taking care of your to do list, it’s so easy to not trust in the magic that prevails when you do i.e. Being able to do more in less time… I imagine once this is mastered, every day, every moment in fact will be a cruisy walk in the park!
This is the same for me too mmryan. Dropping the resentment and being willing to participate in life makes such a difference. I am finding that I have more energy and need less sleep as a result. And my days are enjoyable! Who would have thought!
Well said mmryan. I too find myself exhausted and tired when I find myself thinking I have to do this or that and get through it. As you said by taking the pressure off, I too find myself in a flow and a rhythm and everything gets done without my body having to suffer any unnecessary stress. Michael Benhayon, along with Universal Medicine, have been truly inspiring, showing me that it is possible to do a lot without my body needing to suffer, quite the opposite. I now find that I can do a lot more in my day and not feel as stressed by simply focusing on what I am doing, bringing all my attention to it and not looking to what’s next or thinking about the past.
Absolutely mmrayn, we place such a pressure or trying on ourselves or others, which only leads to resentment and or frustration. I have come to realise when I take this pressure off and simply allow myself to be me, life just flows naturally and I so love and enjoy being with me and all others.
“So I have come to realise, know and understand that EXPRESSION IS EVERYTHING…..it is all an expression of me.”
This is what is so simple and powerful – the understanding that how we are effects everything, so of course it follows that we bring utmost care and attention to ourselves and that will carry through to all that we do too.
It’s an absolute confirmation! Expression is everything we are. There is no doubt in my mind that everything I do is actually an extension or reflection of me. When you are reminded of this and subsequently supported by group work like Michael’s foundation it just adds to the possibilities we each hold.
I like that Jenny, turning that around it would then follow that we would be taking so much care in what we do or say that we’d have to be present in those details to do so. This really brings home the fact that true expression can only come when we are present with the detail and therefore with ourselves.
Bang on Jenny, so very true – I love learning, I love this awareness of how life unfolds and flows through all our choices. Such an awesome reflection for if we are being hard, frustrated, judgemental or in resentment with what we do, then of course we are feeling and being this with ourselves and all others – whereas if we deeply care and love ourselves each day this clearly has a huge impact on everything we do and on all others.
Yep Jenny, so often we forget about ourselves and make our focus on everything else, but if truth be told it has to start with us first and building that deep love of care in our own body before we can truly hold another in that – everything we do, say, live and think is most definitely felt and affects all.
Absolutely Jenny that’s what is even more so huge, the fact that all we do affects everyone else, seen or unseen and many forget that at times, I know I have for one. I have been so caught up in ‘stuff’ or ‘my stuff’ that I lose sight of the bigger picture and why we are all here, life is about people and us all being one.
So as you say, it is with great awareness and integrity that we bring a deep level of love and care to all we do. That’s to say there is no perfection, no need to try, strive or drive or beat ourselves up, as that just takes us all further from our truth, and leaves us feeling exhausted and whacked; but the simplicity of allowing ourselves to be, to know we are more than enough, we already have everything we need inside of us and it’s simply a matter of re-learning, re-connecting, allowing, accepting, expressing and appreciating all that we are and sharing that with everybody.
A great reminder that our expression is everything. How I feel about myself, how I care for myself, how I speak and in everything as I live my day is my expression of myself. This is a Gold Project as I learn to be a student and teacher of myself. This is the best lesson we can share with children everywhere.
Absolutely Mary, so true, it can be felt and lived by all.
Wow thanks for this blog. I can so relate to it. Frustration and resentment do indeed stem from a lack of expression of ourselves in every moment from my experience and I have noticed that by taking care of the little details as you describe in this blog this can be turned around.
Absolutely Andrew, even last night at a meeting when discussing work I could feel so clearly I was getting frustrated with a person and situation, but then I asked myself why am I getting frustrated about this, whats going on? and what I could then clearly see was I had built an image and ideal where I wanted and knew this pupil could be; but I was not actually willing to meet them where they were at and allowing them to be.
This is a truly powerful blog and I can relate to it so much as I used to be in such resentment with my ‘lot’ in life. I felt it was so unfair and it was not my fault but I had been dealt a poor hand of cards. Then as I have come to accept myself in my beauty, that I am responsible for how I experience my life and “that EVERYTHING, yes EVERYTHING, is an expression of me” my life has changed and is changing. If something does not feel right in my life now, instead of getting angry and resenting it I accept that I have to be really truthful about what is going on, what my part is in it and deal with it. It is not always easy but it is so empowering and with that comes joy.
Thank you Jonathan, and yes something I am learning and being more and more aware of everyday – we are responsible for how we experience life and all the choices we make, no one else. And yes it’s not always easy, sometimes it feels uncomfortable and a huge ouch, but as you say with stopping the momentum of these choices, being super honest and truthful at where we are at and what’s going on, no beating ourselves up, just observing the truth, accepting our part in it, and dealing with it 🙂 allows for much more power, presence, stability and joy.
Woulderful reminder that “expression is everything” – every tiny little thing matters.
Thank you
Absolutely Sandra, I love it, so super joyful, what fun and magic can be had with this.
Expression is everything for everyone all of the time. It is inspiring that teachers being tender and loving like yourself are educating our children and will always be remembered as that special teacher. We can always remember a teacher in our past that planted a seed within us that is never forgotten.
Absolutely sjmatsonuk, that put a huge smile on my face reading your comment, it is so so true. I still remember that one teacher from school, who made a difference, he was and still is amazing because he cared, he noticed and took the time to really ask how I was doing.
Inspired by this blog I make a simple commitment for today to show even the slightest whisper of resentment or overwhelm the door, and to let the freedom from these things be opportunities to live me; sweetly and interactively with the world.
That’s awesome Matilda
I feel it’s a really cool thing that I can come home from a long day of work and feel as fresh and energetic as I did when I left, even if it was a day full of sometimes strenuous physical tasks. The amazing thing is there have been other days that were not as busy or challenging, yet I would leave work feeling emotionally and physically drained because I had not stayed with myself during the day, but had been worrying, thinking about something in the past or future, and generally not
being present with the task at hand. This shows how important it is to remember that each expression we have is either draining or building energy.
So true Michael, I too have felt days like that where I have felt absolutely whacked and exhausted though I have not physically been doing much, but yes it is my realisation to, it is because in fact I have been in my head over thinking stuff, going round and round in circles, or worrying about this and that, be it past, future or present, its draining even writing that! 🙂 But the days and moments where I stay true with myself and present, I feel much more vitality, energy and joy. And those around me can feel a difference too, I am much more open.
I can feel your joy when reading your blog, Anonymous. Thank you for the inspiration.
me too 🙂 thank you Julie
Making ‘doing about doing’ …this line stopped me in my tracks..even the way I was reading up until that doing was a doing… thanks for this expression…for it is indeed everything.
Awesome Joel, that’s amazing 🙂 I too can still get caught up in doing – believe me; but it’s simply that awareness of going – Okay, stop, come back and make it about quality and expression.
Yes it’s a continual process, to not get carried away in the task but to come back to being with myself in all that I do. Be reminded to focus on my quality of presence and therefore cherish the quality of my expression.
Morning walks really help me connect to my body as well and the difference it makes to how I am i.e. how I express all day is massive. I am full of love and playful and much more honouring to my feelings compared to those days when I let my head dominate and keep me in bed, because it’s cold and dark – this is when I get resentful!
Awesome reminder Rachael
Thanks for sharing your inspiration with us. It is really wonderful to hear about teachers such as yourself taking responsibility for your quality of being, and having the awareness with the children that even the way you put down their work on the table has a ripple effect. This is a beautiful reminder that everything matters.
Thank you Janet, yes it is amazing and responsibility can feel to many (and has to me in the past) like such a huge burden, but truth be told this is how it has been set up to be – when responsibility is actually an amazing way to live and be, in each and every moment. It doesn’t ask for us to be perfect just simply more aware of how we are in all that we do and the impact this has on all others, there can be so much joy and playfulness in this too.
I love the way you share, responsibility doesn’t have to be perfect just for us to be more aware in how we do things and the impact it has on others. I too have been caught up in responsibility, having to be perfect and that is a hugh pressure on oneself.
Thank you Janet.
I read your article last night and have played with what you have shared, that expression is in the every thing that you do, I forgot most of the time but when I did remember it was a very playful way to be with the activity I was engaged in. Brining all of me makes putting the dishes away fun! The teachers are gold project is much needed and your experience with Michael shows why, any other person would have given a solution to managing the stress instead you were shown a way of living that just asked you to be you. Awesome.
That’s what I love about it, is the playfulness and joy it brings to every moment. And yes I was just asked to be me, that in itself, as I let out a sigh is huge, as all our lives we are asked to be this or that when in truth all we need to be is ourselves, ” just be you, you are more than enough” – could you imagine what a huge release this would be for everybody, all the constant trying, needing, pressure, pushing and drive would go out the window, replaced with such a joy in knowing we are all amazing.
Yes, most of us have come from a point of not feeling enough, and so strove to be more, to be better, when in reality it is letting go of all of that and simply being ourselves fully in every moment. Wow, what a relief, all I have to do is be me, that I am enough simply being me. Then, to bring all of me into everything I do – I am going to have fun playing with that today.
A gorgeous way of putting it Vanessa. So often we just focus on ‘managing the stress’. But if we change our way of living to be one of enjoying who we are in every moment then there is no stress. Something I am very much still learning.
Thank you for sharing this it is so powerful to know and live “Expression is Everything”.
It’s simply a choice in every moment…how we express in every way, it’s totally up to us.” EXPRESSION IS EVERYTHING”.Before I thought expression was just verbal.I am now learning it’s actually everything we do, say, think, write etc. and the way we express.Thank you for your great blog, inspired by Michael Benhayon & the Teachers are Gold Project.
It’s huge Sue, so did I, it was a massive realisation, a definite light bulb moment.
‘Before I thought expression was just verbal. I am now learning it’s actually everything we do, say, think, write etc. and the way we express.’ – This is very relatable Sue, I too used to view ‘expression’ as just another word for speaking or talking… When in fact it is so much more!
A truly inspiring expression of yourself, Anonymous, and inspiring for us all. Thank you.
Thank you Joan.
Absolutly beautiful sharing thank you. A great reminder that expression is everything with such a reality and bringing into all of life in every moment. I found it very inspiring and share too that when I feel like me and I express with myself my day is amazing too.
Thank you for sharing Tricia.
What an extraordinary piece of writing. As I read it I heard some ‘but what about this, and that?’, creep into my head, as I felt and loved what was being presented, but my mind still wanted to doubt and to ask questions. But as the writer explained that with ‘choosing to continue and commit to living this way there will be less room for resentment, exhaustion or frustration’, so that energy, that absoluteness made itself felt, and encouraged me to say, ‘no, this is the way, it does work, and you yourself know it’, leaving no room for doubt. .
Awesome Catherine, and yes no room for doubt whatsoever as it was so clearly felt and lived in my body, and such a marked difference to how I feel when I am caught up in emotions.
Thank you Catherine.
Thanks Catherine, I love this – “this is the way, it does work, and you know it’. Great words for bringing us back and claiming our true way of being.
To say ‘expression is everything’ only really left me looking at the bigger picture.
And mainly only when other people are involved. Ie. how I express in a conversation, to people around me, at work…But I know I’ve not committed to expression in the simplest of things – ie opening a door, typing or sitting.
This blog offer for me an amazing opportunity to take expression into absolutely everything.
When I look at it this way – it is so clear how we have a choice at each and every single moment. No matter who is or is not around us, we can always choose to express from the loveliness we can connect too.
Thank you very much for sharing this conversation and how you applied your choices to make your day extraordinary – as every day can be.
Love how you’ve spotted an opportunity – and I agree, I hadn’t really thought of expression in that way either, it’s massive and really is everything.
Hi Rachel, it is absolutely massive and it is everything, and such an awesome opportunity, when I live and observe life in this way I can help but feel so much joy and vitality.
Very true hvmorden and I too have found this blog an inspiration, to remind me that everything I do matters and can either be from my beautiful essence or not. The choice is mine every minute of the day in everything I do, regardless of who is around.
I was familiar with the phrase “expression is everything”, but I had not seen my whole life in this light at the level that I now have. What an inspiring and joyful realisation.
“No matter who is or is not around us, we can always choose to express from the loveliness we can connect too.” I love this comment thank you hvmorden. It’s about being all of us no matter who we are with and not holding back, turning it on or off or modifying our expression.
Absolutely hvmorden, it is much bigger than us.
This is an amazing blog and one that I can say I can really relate to and continue to work on letting myself enjoy every part of my work. It is very easy to get caught in the doing and not actually let myself stop and feel myself in what I do; but as I am allowing this more and more I can feel how going back to old habits (old ways of doing things) feels even worse, which tells me how much I have changed and how much I am now enjoying just being me.
Thank you Amina – what you share is very true, how old patterns, habits and behaviours feel so much less supportive than when we choose to make loving choices, and ‘be’ more than we do.
It is so easy to feel overwhelmed by the sheer amount of things we have to do and to go into resentment when we are asked to do yet more. What you have shared is “gold” because in a nut shell you have shared the key to unlocking all of that. By appreciating ourselves and our expression each moment of the day we get to live in the moment and not for those rare times when we get to stop the doing. We lose the tension in getting things done by a specific time so that we can then “switch off”. If we spend our day in resentment of the doing, what quality are we then in anyway by the end of the day? We just want to check out.
Absolutely Michelle I couldn’t agree more. When I go into ‘oh i’ve got all this to do’, resentment, sympathy or frustration the quality I am is harming to all and yep I get home, usually driving stressed and just want to go to bed. Whereas if I allow myself to be, no pressure, no need, no trying and simply allow myself to enjoy life, myself and my expression I naturally feel joy in all I do and look forward to every opportunity where I can express myself and be playful with it. Funnily enough I drive home joyfully, feeling love for my job, the kids and people.
Yes, I love what you are sharing here Michelle, especially, ‘By appreciating ourselves and our expression each moment of the day we get to live in the moment’, appreciation is so powerful.
Appreciation is hugely powerful, and yes especially when we appreciate ourselves, I feel it knocks out all self criticism and judgement.
I love what you are saying here Michelle. “By appreciating ourselves and our expression each moment of the day we get to live in the moment and not for those rare times when we get to stop the doing.” Beautifully expressed. Appreciating wipes out all the resentments that do nothing but pull us down.
Thank you for sharing this inspirational blog Anonymous, it’s truly amazing how we feel when we change our perspective. Just by making a choice to ‘Be’ instead of ‘Do’ can have such a profound effect on us that it makes you wonder why we would even ‘Do’ in the first place.
Well said Tim, very inspiring and something that is very relevant at the moment.
Great point Tim. I spent a long time stuck in choosing the ‘doing’ and now with more focus on choosing to ‘be’ life has more of a simplicity and is less tiring too.
So True Tim and Beverley, ‘doing’, even writing that word feels heavy and draining …. I can feel the ‘Oh no list of stuff to do’, but the simplicity of waking up and ‘being’ is way more than enough, and taking the day as it comes, the joy in feeling all the opportunities we have to enjoy being and express, I feel simply allows for much more freedom and space in all our life, and what I also feel is that I can’t wait to get out into the day, to see and meet people and the absolute joy in that, and in life in general, I feel so much more loving and appreciative of everything,
‘ Just by making a choice to ‘Be’ instead of ‘Do’ can have such a profound effect on us that it makes you wonder why we would even ‘Do’ in the first place.’ – I love how you’ve described that Tim, I completely agree.
Absolutely Tim it is HUGE, something I am joyfully learning every single day, that is a choice in itself too. It’s crazy when we look at it from outside and observe the doing, incessantly going ’round in circles chasing our tails, rather than taking a simple stop, even a giggle at the ridiculousness of it all and an okay I can choose to be another way.
Yes, It’s huge Tim and so simple, that’s another thing I find and feel to watch out for is when we over complicate things too, for me I know somethings up here as life is naturally and can be so simple and joyful. I am learning , the truth is found in simplicity
So true Tim, just by making a simple ‘choice’. Yet we (I know I can) make life complicated and difficult, totally crazy and exhausting to say the least, when in truth by the simple choices we make, listening to our body, we and life are and can be so amazing with an abundance of joy.
Gorgeous blog Anon, thankyou for sharing. Choosing how to be in our day makes such a huge difference, so much more empowering than letting our “to do” list run our lives. “Expression is everything”, in all it’s tiniest detail.
Being lists are in, doing lists are out
ha ha love that
🙂 me too Vanessa
Thank you Anonymous, this blog is really supportive and helpful to read. It will certainly be one of my bookmarked articles. It is very true that there are many, many areas that I resent having “to do” in life however have not really looked at them as part of my expression, instead something I have “to do” to get somewhere else.
That’s great David, thank you 🙂
What a great and honest sharing. It is very easy to feel resentful, to acknowledge and be aware of that resentful ness, yet difficult to do anything about it sometimes, because there seems no way out. Everything still needs to be done, the world still spins. What you have shared here is the simplicity of turning this upside down, on its head. When we stop looking out at all the things that need to be done, for there most certainly are and always will be, and connect to the preciousness within, the pressure is taken away. We move from us, which is enough and we can learn to trust that if we stay with that, everything will be done as is needed.
Yes Jenny it feels amazing to take that pressure off ourselves, it is actually felt in our body, this huge constraint and contraction, when it is lifted there is such a freedom, joy, space and openness and you can clearly feel what is needed.
Thank you, this is inspiring in so many ways. I especially enjoyed reading about how you handled the “little blip” as no big deal because you were feeling so amazing in yourself because of all the care and attention you had given to yourself before. Brilliant.
Thank you Shami
I can completely relate to what you’re saying even though I don’t work in a school. When I get overwhelmed by all the things I ‘think’ I ‘need’ to do, then the way I do all of them is in a rush, or a state of anxiousness and I’m unable to enjoy doing them. I’m certainly unable to appreciate myself or any one else when doing it. I’ve realised that it doesn’t even matter if I get them all done, if I’ve done them in a way that just makes me feel miserable. If I’m left feeling tired, worn out and all I want to do is slump on the sofa at home then it really wasn’t worth it. When I can stop and look at the way I’m doing things, maybe take a step back from the list of things to do by going for a little walk (just round the office would do), or making a cup of tea and coming back, if I’ve let go of the pressure that I put on myself, and allow myself to do things in a more careful way that puts me and the way I feel first, then I can actually enjoy doing the task, enjoy work and appreciate the way I do things and the people around me. I don’t feel exhausted at the end of the day as I’ve actually enjoyed my day and haven’t held anxiousness in my body throughout the day. I really do have to take a little time to ask myself what I’m doing, how I’m doing it, and ask is it really the thing I want to do right now? Asking myself how I’m going to feel afterwards is a great key to knowing if what I’m doing is really supporting me, it’s very helpful. I’d much rather feel light, lovely and playful, than stressed, tired and overwhelmed. I’m making my focus quality, not quantity.
Wow Laura, this a great comment, ‘ I’ve realised that it doesn’t even matter if I get them all done, if I’ve done them in a way that just makes me feel miserable. If I’m left feeling tired, worn out and all I want to do is slump on the sofa at home then it really wasn’t worth it’, I will ponder on what you have written about it being quality and not quantity, thank you, I feel very inspired by reading this.
Thanks for sharing, Anonymous. I know that I have felt the same resentment of “all the extra” tasks on top of teaching, especially writing school reports and after school events that would go on into the evening. So much so that I chose to work part-time because of the overwhelm. Someone wise said to me, “but this is part of your expression as a teacher and it’s part of your job” What I was really resenting was the exhaustion and having to keep soldiering on through the fatigue. When I looked at what was making me exhausted and realised that it wasn’t the amount of tasks I had to do with the pressures of actually teaching, but it was in fact the quality I was in when I did those tasks was bit of a revelation! Changing how I lived and the way I was with myself in the simple things you described, like how I get up in the morning, worked wonders. I also learned that I was getting exhausted from taking on other people’s emotions, wanting constant recognition that I was doing ok and meeting all the demands of the system. By letting this go I found I had much more energy to do what was needed… so much so that I went back to full time teaching again three years ago and love my job! Quite frankly that is a miracle in itself compared to how I used to feel when wanting to throw in the towel. I haven’t perfected the art of teaching and living without exhaustion by any means, but I now have much more understanding on what I need to look at to support myself, thanks to Universal Medicine. Someone also very wise said to me that teaching is like a marathon run and all marathon runners take care of their bodies, heath, food and fitness before a race. I am learning to live my life like that so that I can really serve to the best of ability in such an important field of work.
I agree Rachel, and something you have shared is so huge and important just as Michael and the Teachers are Gold Project are presenting and now too many teachers, and that is the fact that self-care is paramount to being able to truly serve humanity, not only in teaching but any line of profession. What we live, eat, think, walk and breath cannot be left behind in the morning but comes with us in all we do, which has a knock on effect on everybody all the time, there is no on or off key, no public or private face – how we live is felt by all, so yes I feel it is of upmost importance to be aware that all my choices are not only self loving but in truth about everybody else equally.
This is something that perhaps we need to share at school with our children. “What we live, eat, think, walk and breath cannot be left behind in the morning but comes with us in all we do, which has a knock on effect on everybody all the time, there is no on or off key, no public or private face” … This is a million times more important than getting ten out of ten for a times tables test!
Dear Rachel, I couldn’t AGREE with you more!!! 🙂 Attainment, grades etc are huge in school and the main focus, what education has forgotten until now that is, thanks to all the awesome teachers out there beginning to address this, Michael Benhayon and the Teachers are Gold project; is the truth and the fact that all our choices and the quality we bring have an impact on everything and everyone else. What a huge shift in education, families, communities, society and the children themselves if we were taught this from an early age, it would feel and be amazing. There would be no pressure, no striving or trying to out do one another, (and that’s just teachers and schools 🙂 ), just people loving and harmoniously working together for the whole of humanity, not trying to make themselves better than one another. Pretty awesome if you ask me and it feels amazing, as I know this is how we can and are naturally meant to be.
‘How could I ever get bored, resentful or complaining when each moment is an amazing opportunity to express how I feel and who I truly am’ Thank you so much for this beautiful reminder that expression is absolutely everything we do. I too have been getting lost in overwhelm and I love how you have rekindled your sense of playfulness and joy and feel inspired by it to have an amazing day.
🙂 thank you Helen, yep playfulness and joy are so much more freeing and fun than overwhelm and or resentment. You know somethings up if you’re not feeling joy in your life, so it’s great to be able to call it and say hey something is not right here.
Thank you for sharing and talking about resentment, I love your honesty and the way you have written about. I have recognised how I can be resentful when I put pressure on myself to get things done and there is no longer time to fit everything into my day. Looking back I can see that what started out as frustration, turned to resentment because I had not looked and healed my initial frustration. As you say expression is everything and if I am holding any resentment in one thing then it will be expressed in all the other things I do. It is wonderful that Michael Benhayon was able to support you to feel your resentment and the difference your day was once you were able to acknowledge and let it go.
I love being honest Alison, thank you. I know what you mean about frustration I was feeling that yesterday with a situation, but now I am learning to stop and say hey what’s really going on here? why am I getting so frustrated rather that let the momentum keep rolling. As soon as I do, it’s like stepping back out of the picture and being able to observe it with greater understanding. And yes it is amazing support from Michael Benhayon and the Teachers are Gold project, it just feel awesome to know that’s with you in the classroom.
This is amazing and what a reminder about the real meaning of what Expression is.
The founder of the Teachers are Gold project is a living example – Michael Benhayon.
I finally get it now when Serge Benhayon says Expression is Everything – it really means just that. Not just what we say and write.
The bit that really came out of your great blog Anonymous Scotland was the word Quality. How I choose to walk and the quality in which I choose to do it is Everything. Paying attention to the detail in anything is what helps me everyday.
I am delighted to hear this gold project will support all teachers Equally around the world. This really is a new way of Living and our kids get the benefit which means less stress on parents and of course society as a whole.
Absolutely Bina, Quality is so important, something I am learning each and every day, I can do the same thing over and over again but it’s my connection and the quality I am in and do whatever it is that makes the difference.
This is such a great article anonymous, I loved reading, ‘ It’s not just about what we say and write, but in every little moment, be it writing a blog, cooking tea or teaching a class, it is all an expression of me.’ I loved all of your practical examples of your expression, I too thought expression was speaking and writing, but it feels great to be reminded that ‘expression is everything’, I have heard this before but reading your article I actually understand this now, thank you.
The reminder that expression is everything really turns things on their head – reminding us that the same day is either an overwhelming list of things to do, or an opportunity to express ourselves in lots of different ways. Aren’t we lucky to have the opportunity?!
Absolutely Simon, I smiled when I read ” or an opportunity …” that’s exactly what it is – and wow, it is so much more amazing when we choose to see everything in life this way, even the stuff we may feel is tough, it is all an amazing opportunity to express, to learn and to evolve each day 🙂 God must love us a huge amount to keep calling us back to be more love.
An inspiring blog as I too have been feeling resentful about committing to life fully and can really connect to what the writer has to say. The changes we need to make are so beautifully simple but very effective when we become aware of how we are living our life full of resentment in every moment. This is the time to embrace the joy of life and to realise that expression is who we are down to the very last detail. Life feels so much fuller and rounder when we honour ourselves in the way we express these details.
” Life feels so much fuller and rounder when we honour ourselves in the way we express” I couldn’t agree more Sue 🙂
This is stunning. It really brought home to me how we can all change our day, not just the teaching professions. I know teachers myself who are feeling particularly stressed at the moment, I shall definitely print these words of wisdom to share with them, as well as a reminder for myself. Thank you, anonymous, and thank you Michael Benhayon, for inspiring the writing.
Thank you Catherine, that’s awesome!
As you share “we can all change our day”. That is the thing, it is up to us and the choices we make. So often we blame the outer or others without stopping to say wait a minute, where am I at? how am I choosing to be and express in and with life? and I can say without any doubt that how I am has a knock on affect of how and what I observe and experience in life. I can either stay caught up and involved in it, taking it personally, reacting to everything I experience, feel and see or I can make the choice to step back, observe, bring understanding and see that it is not me. As I do, and I make more loving choices what happens around me begins to shift and change, more joy and love comes my way but what is even more awesome (if you can get any more awesome than that) is that I don’t get caught up in stuff, I am able to observe, to feel more clearly and choose how I respond if I need to rather than react. In turn this leaves me feeling full, rather than drained.
What really stuck with me in this blog: Expression is Everything, Everything is Energy and from the presentations of Serge Benhayon and Universal medicine we are shown that we can feel an energy that comes from within ourselves. That quality is energy, that quality then shapes our expression which then provides us with our reality. So by backtracking I can ask – If my reality is as such that I don’t like: What quality do I want to express? and if there is a quality within me how can I bring it out? Thank you for sharing.
That is very beautiful and thank you for bringing life back to our expression and that our expression is not limited to just a few options, but present in everything we do, right down to the tiniest detail. What a joy to be able to simply turn your life around, not by changing anything but your awareness of your expression. Such a powerful revelation. Teachers are Gold and what a powerful thing it would be if every teacher appreciated the power of expression, every classroom could be graced with true inspiration.
Thank you Rowena, yes it is amazing and I have absolutely no doubt that all teachers will now be graced to feel, understand and appreciate the power of expression, not only with themselves, but all children and staff, and huge shifts and turnarounds will begin to happen, in truth I feel they already have 🙂 with much love and appreciation to Michael Benhayon and the Teachers are Gold Project.
Wow this is a great blog! It got me reflecting on my own attitude to life – how I resent never having time to get everything done and yet it’s my choices that have left me with no time to go for a walk, do my exercises, cook a nourishing meal and sit to eat it. When I take my time to connect, everything flows so much easier and time expands, so I get more done.
Exactly Carmel… it is all about our choices, and sometimes we don’t actually need to do all that stuff, it can often be a story or a list running from our head of all the things we think we need, should or have to do and we end up beating ourselves up (exhausting). But, when we stop and allow ourselves to reconnect, then we innately know exactly from there what our next step, choice etc. is and our day naturally and joyfully unfolds and flows.
Dear Anonymous, thank you for sharing your experience as I can relate to all you have written when it comes to resentment towards work and life and that everything can change when we choose a different relationship with life.
Absolutely Julie, Thank you
Youth, A time where everything is new, fresh and green. What an amazing moment in a child’s life to make an investment in youth and education.
Great Blog! Anonymous Scotland. It has really inspired me before I go off to work today as I have a huge day ahead. Expression is everything, great reminder thanks.xxx
🙂 Thank you Kev, I can feel the joy
What a turn around! This is a great reminder of how our attitude to life is paramount. I know I can fall into resentment about the amount I ‘have to do’. At work I am constantly in demand by customers that need help. I can find myself feeling resentful that this is non-stop, and this makes for a miserable day. When I change my attitude to one of ‘wanting to help’ my whole day changes, I have beautiful encounters with people and I feel much happier. I’ve discovered that it is a choice to be resentful or not.
Absolutely Rebecca, simply it is a choice 🙂 how awesome is that!
Wow, this is amazing, bringing an even deeper level to expression. Thank you for sharing such an inspirational blog. I relate well to what you share and have observed how at times resentment creeps in and how ugly this feels.
“So I have come to realise, know and understand that EXPRESSION IS EVERYTHING. It’s not just about what we say and write, but in every little moment, How could I ever get bored, resentful or complaining when each moment is an amazing opportunity to express how I feel and who I truly am. ” Awesome, thank you for the reminder.
I agree, there is real inspiration in the way this is written, when lived practically day to day the expression we have is life changing. It pays to have reminders like this from time to time as if it isn’t our natural way to express then we do get exhausted, and this writing shows clearly that it is not our natural way. No resentment in any task, just the expression of who we, in essence are.
It is life changing Stephen and what I feel is amazing is that it is not hard, there is no struggle or arduous task, it is simply allowing ourselves to express in full, the fullness of who we really are. This feeling of exhaustion, resentment etc. shifted in a moment by a simple choice, to be all of me in full, expressing me in every moment and letting the world feel who I really am.
Now I joyfully look on things like reports and task as “..awesome, I can wait to share what I really feel and what needs to be heard and really connecting to and expressing about each child”. We each in our essence bring something unique to the world, so why hold it back when it is so there, ready, willing and waiting to be expressed and shared.
Thank you Beverley
Thank you for sharing so clearly how ‘Expression is Everything’ has changed your way of being. It is inspirational as it is something that we can all do. We may have heard the expression before and you have made it real.
Thank you Jonathan, it just makes so much sense, for me throughout life and school it was easy to be told what to do, but something in this didn’t feel right, it was like following a list of rules, I don’t do rules… 🙂 But with the love and support of Universal Medicine, Serge and Michael Benhayon and the amazing project Teachers are Gold, what I have come to realise is that it is all about the choices we make and making them real, a Livingness, from our body and not a list of rules from our head. And it’s only in making and living these simple and sometimes very practical loving choices each and everyday that not only do I and my life evolve and unfold, but it also is felt and offers the same opportunity to everyone else … amazing!
Thank you for sharing and making the statement ‘everything is energy’ into a practical reality.
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This is absolutely amazing. Just by changing your attitude and bring attention and care to everything you did your whole experience of life is changing. Thank you for sharing this – it is Gold.
Thank you Shevon … I am joyfully learning each and every single day, sometimes with deep amazement and wonder that blows me away, and sometimes through repeating things to realise, okay that didn’t work … again 🙂 next time I am going make a more loving choice so as not to repeat the same stuff … makes sense.
But in this what I have also come to realise it that all the stuff that comes up that may not feel so good, is also an opportunity and a learning to express, embrace and love – before I would resent them and get frustrated, with asking ‘why?’ etc. … Now I am more open and willing to go okay, what do I need to learn so I can let go and move on.
With deep appreciation to all that is presented and shared by Universal Medicine, practitioners, the student body and of course my own body and soul.
An amazing expression which I relate to deeply in a world in which ‘busy-ness’ conspires to turn us into a human doing instead of a human being. Your article expresses our true choice to live joyfully in all we think, say, do, be…or not. I for one am inspired to continue to keep choosing joy, even when, especially when, the other creeps in to drain me.
That’s awesome Pamela
I also feel, as you have expressed which reminded me of Shakespeare ” To BE or not to be” … that is the choice, never mind the question. And even in those times where we may feel more tired or need to rest there is still a joy innately within us all. It doesn’t have to be obviously expressed outwards but can be a simple, yummy and joyful knowing of who we truly are and what is inside us all.
Hi Anonymous. Thanks you for sharing your recent experience. I know I can compartmentalize my life and see things as good or bad, fun or boring etc. When you change your focus, everything changes. I know I exhaust myself when I resist what is there in-front of me to be dealt with and I can easily fall in to resenting things like work. When I take away the self imposed boundaries and judgements I can have just as much fun doing the dishes as I can spending some time at a spa or marking a pile of books.
Hi Debra, I feel you’ve made a huge point there, ” resistance = exhaustion”.
Hello Anonymous from Scotland – I absolutely love your blog. I like the easy way you discribe how you express e.g. ” yes EVERYTHING, is an expression of me! ” This inspires me and reminds me that I can do the same. Isn’t it funny we can think life is hard but instead it is light and warm if we allow ourselves to express ourself in every moment and not hold back.
Ester
Hi Esther, thank you – and yes so very true. It makes me smile a huge smile to feel the truth in what you share about life… “It is light and warm if we allow ourselves to express ourself in every moment and not hold back.”
The simplicity and power with which you have expressed this huge turn-around is jaw-droppingly beautiful and inspiring. Thank you.
Thank you Matilda
What a beautiful blog, thank you. Everyday I appreciate Michael Benhayon for initiating the “Teachers are Gold” project and all of the teachers who are involved in it. Teachers caring for themselves and society caring for teachers is essential for true education to occur.
This is indeed amazing Elizabeth.
That’s so beautifully said Elizabeth. So true.
Dear Elizabeth, your comment made me smile, I too appreciate Michael Benhayon so much and the amazing and very much called for project he has initiated, Teachers are Gold … yes they are. And without any doubt what so ever true self care is fundamental for our self, each other and for true education to occur, currently it is running on burn out and stress.
Thank you for this reflection. Although based on your teaching day, expression is ‘so every day and for everyone’. Whilst I am not a teacher, I could relate to every bit of it. Being present and responsible for every bit of our expression opens up a world of difference for ourselves and all whom we meet in our work and life. Simple but profound.
Absolutely Bernadette, it is very much about all.
I feel so very inspired reading what you have written. Thank you.
Thank you Golnaz
What a great expression on expression! Love how you have distilled ‘expression’ into the finer details leaving nothing out, but including absolutely everything in. Reading your piece I got the sense of expression being like our DNA, which leaves behind a blueprint of us; almost like a tangible trail that can be felt, touched, seen, heard, smelled, tasted…enjoyed and appreciated by everyone, and as you write – for ourselves too. Thank you for writing this, awesome.
Thank you Zofia. I love that analogy that our expression is like our DNA, yes it is and we very much so leave a tangible trail… everything expression can be felt and leaves an imprint behind. I know what I would rather leave behind for others and myself to come back to.
What a totally fantastic realisation – from the outside it would look like there was no change, nothing that you are doing different… except that by becoming aware that everything is an expression of what is inside, you go ‘pow’ – the lights are on and you can feel how inspired and free that has been when reading the blog. Thank you for sharing it, and it is a great reminder for me that it ALL matters, and we are there in it all with the choice to express ourselves all of the time. Perfect.
Thank you Simon. It was awesome and totally huge, with love and thanks to Michael Benhayon and The Teachers are Gold Project. And yes absolutely such a huge “POW” the lights were on absolutely full blast, they light up the world! And yes you are so right what was also so clearly felt was such a freedom in this realisation from the constraints and constrictions that I had allowed to be put on me from the outside world.
I am blown away by that, quite overnight, you (anonymous), with some inspiration and clarity made a new choice, a simple choice to bring YOU to everything in your day AND so fully turned yourself around!
I have felt this same kind of transformation…It is beyond words how powerful I find this choice to be; this choice to get back with myself and how it has transformed my days, my life. By choosing to focus on being more with my body my old way of existing has become a much more loving way of being—In deep appreciation of Universal Medicine.
That makes me smile Jo, it is amazing and yes such simple choices as presented by Universal Medicine in how we can live and be each and every single day. With no perfection, just learning how each choice and expression we make has an impact not only on ourself and our body but everyone and everything else. And it’s simply all about our body and not our thoughts, just allowing ourselves more time and space to re- connect and express from there.
It’s funny sometimes I find myself through the day or even on waking up, going straight to my head and the list of things I think I ‘have’ to or ‘should do’ – today, tomorrow or next week, as soon as I do this I can feel the pressure and tension in my body, it feels smaller and contracts – then there is a trying, a drive and a frustration to get everything done – such a great marker as to how I do not want to be and a sign that something is up.
Whereas, when I allow myself to simply be, to connect to how and what I am feeling from my body, to listen, to honour and express from there however that may be, there is an expansion, a knowingness, an openness and such a joy; and the more and more I honour this my day / days / life simply open up and joyfully flow.
Dear Anonymous, Thank you for being a teacher…….and especially for being a teacher who is switched on to “Expression is Everything.” What you have written can apply to everyone of us, no matter what professional or labouring position we are in. Like the Teachers are Gold project, this blog is Gold too.
Dear Gayle, that made me giggle and smile, thank you. And yes it applies to us all no matter where we are or what profession we have chosen.
What a beautiful blog.
You have shown that you can do exactly the same thing every day, but it is the energy we do it in and hence the expression of what we do that is different. Our everyday actions can truly be healing, reflecting back to us the amazingness that we all are.
Thank you
Thank you Alison, and so true, we can keep repeating the same thing day after day – but the true truth and the healing come from our energy, expression and the quality we choose to be in. We can either choose to keep repeating what ever led to the exhaustion etc. in the first place and continue to harm ourselves and others, or we can simply make a different choice and change the quality and presence we express in which offers a beautiful healing, reflection and confirmation to all of the amazingness we all truly are.
Thank you Anonymous for this very timely blog reminding me that Expression is Everything. I am slowly but surely bringing more awareness into everything I do and the quality in which I do it in – as you share in your various points- “These are all expressions of me, not one more or one less important – THEY ARE ALL EQUALLY AN EXPRESSION OF ME”.
Stephanie you hit the nail on the head, we can so easily go into doing thinking yep I am doing all this ‘right’ – but in truth it’s the QUALITY that makes the difference not what we do.
This is such an amazing and inspiring blog for everyone not just teachers.
Yes Gyl, a blog for everyone.
We are all ‘role models’ all of the time and what this project offers can be a huge and loving resource for us.
I am so glad teachers now have this Golden support as they brave the very intensive on-the-spot work of teaching.
I agree Gyl, this is for everyone, not just teachers but agree they deserve this golden support as they guide their pupils to be all that they can be on a daily basis.
I agree Gyl it has made me see I do not make expression everything from how I wake up and get dressed to every other detail in my day. This is inspiring in showing how we can change how we are with our day.
Absolutely Vicky – It just makes it so much fun! and if we have a little blip or stuff up, that’s cool, it’s an awesome learning and a choice to come back to our full expression.
So true Gyl this applies to absolutely all of us. In all professions and aspects of life. Young and old.
I love it anonymous. What a great reminder that every moment is an opportunity for expressing how tender loving and amazing we are. It certainly turns the frustration from the drive and doing on its head. Wonderfully expressed. Thank you.
Absolutely Annemarie it totally flips it round, big time, there is no room what so ever for frustration, resentment or drive, just the simplicity and absolute JOY of being and playfully expressing everything, from walking, to putting on lipstick, to typing or making tea … every little thing is an awesome opportunity to express in full.
Thanks for sharing this – it is so inspiring.
Thank you Fiona55
Thank you Anonymous, for highlighting that expression is absolutely everything. I have always associated expression with speaking, writing, artwork and singing. But since reading your blog, I now realise that every single thing I do is an expression of me. This revelation I will take with me into my day.
Enjoy mccannelizabeth 🙂
Beautiful blog, I’d heard expression is everything but this takes it to another level, that every single thought, movement, everything is an expression, this is inspiring to feel and read as I prepare for another week at work. Thank you.
Absolutely Monica it blew me away when I realised this.
“EXPRESSION IS EVERYTHING. It’s not just about what we say and write, but in every little moment… it is all an expression of me.” – super powerful, thank you Anonymous
Well said Jessica – it is a super powerful statement.
I agree Jess, it stayed with me all day yesterday and has given me a new appreciation of my expression. Super powerful indeed!
Thank you Jessica.
What a step in evolution Anonymous! How gorgeous for the students to feel this new playful and joyful you, bringing your light into their lives instead of stress, frustration and resentment. And what a feat to be able to choose and present this new way . . . considering the way in which the Education system can so easily defeat someone who has started out as a naturally loving teacher. The numbers of teachers that leave the service in the first five years of teaching, because they find it too hard, is astronomical.
Amazing choice Anonymous!
Absolutely lyndysummerhaze, it feels amazing for all. And yes it’s awesome this can be presented and felt in education, and all walks of life, with thanks to the Benhayons and The Teachers are Gold Project who have presented to me and many others that there is another way to be and to live, one that is full of Joy, vitality, and lots of playful fun too.
But back to teaching what you say is so true, there are a HUGE number of teachers that are burnt out, stressed, exhausted and leaving the profession. How amazing would it be to present this this at teacher training level in University and also in schools, this is where The Teachers are Gold Project steps in, how truly amazing this will be, and is for everybody, an absolute blessing.
Hello Anonymous. I’ve been feeling how you described – resentful, seeing everything as hard and a burden and exhausted. I loved reading your blog, I found it hugely inspirational.
I agree Natalie, very inspiring and so amazing to become aware of something because someone else has been willing to share what is happening with them.
That’s awesome Natalie, thank you.
Wow, amazing, I had genuinely never seen expression as everything, until I read your blog and it suddenly clicked – like hello?! Thank you for sharing your experience, because I have also been feeling really tired and drained after a day at school, and I am sure if I stop looking at my life as one long never ending to-do list, and start seeming it as my expression, it will be far lighter and less tiring.
That’s awesome Rebecca I love it, smiling lots! 🙂 It’s amazing isn’t it when we realise this ‘to do list’, even typing those words feels heavy and tiring as it can create such an exhaustion in our bodies. I find as soon as I’m in my head thinking incessantly I become drained, stressed out and exhausted, I can’t think clearly, moving from one thing to the next, never fully present nor completing anything. All I can say is no thanks to that 🙂
hi Anonymous, I love this reminder about expression. And how true that it is about everything we do in our lives. Sometimes I forget how important it is in our relationships too, I may hold back on expressing something to a friend or a family member, and then our relationship suffers as a consequence. In holding back my expression then I cannot be myself fully, and if I am not being all of me then this holding back can be felt by others. The warmth and love cannot be felt. What a beautiful reminder about the amazing role of expression in our lives.
Hi Janine, yes that’s been a big wake up call for me, not only does our expression affect all we do, but also the relationships we have, be they at work, with friends or family. I too am learning that holding back what is there to be expressed does not support anyone, and further creates a deeper angst and tension in our own body.
I love this blog, it’s not just for teachers but all of us… a great reminder that everything is expression and the joy of life is in making sure we are in every possible moment of that expression.
Great point Jenny and I totally agree: this blog is universal.
Absolutely Jenny, for me that is what was hugely felt, the absolute JOY! And yes this is not only for teachers but for everybody.
Wow, I loved reading your blog and I can so much relate to what you are sharing: limiting the expression to speak or write only… A real eye opener blog and I loved the lightness and playfulness that developed throughout your blog. Deeply inspiring, thank you.
Thank you Priscila, and yes totally amazing, it was like a bright light going on, a HUGE realisation, that I too had been caught in the trick that I “thought’ expression was simply about writing or spoken word, but not the truth that in fact, as Serge Benahayon has been presenting for many years “Expression is Everything”.
Thank you Anonymous for an incredible blog that rings true for so many teachers- myself included. The “doing” has been the pain of many in this profession and the reason so many amazing teachers are leaving. It has taken me over 20 years to realize that I can only be me in my expression in the day and that is enough.
The Teachers are Gold website is truly inspiring and what I have been waiting for my whole teaching career. Thank you
Absolutely grounded05, I’ve observed it and listened to teachers feel this way for a long time, as you say they end up giving up and leaving the profession or simply just functioning through the day, unhappy and unfulfilled as they know they have so much more to offer than exhaustion, stress and overwhelm. There are so many solutions out there that have been offered, but until this amazing support from Michael Benhayon and The Teachers are Gold project I have never had such simple, clear support that truly made sense, and was so deeply felt and able to be lived, and most of all that truly made a difference. And what really was a deeply felt difference was that there was no telling what to do, or strategies just a very simple discussion that presented to another way, one that allowed me to clearly feel it in my body, to live it and not try to work it out from my head.
Anonymous, what an inspiring blog reminding me that ‘expressing is EVERYTHING’ and that every single thing I do in every moment of my day is part of my expression and leads to, and impacts on, the next expression. The more I have begun to take responsibility for everything I do and the way I express, the more I find my life has more flow and is less stressful… And for me the more I become aware of the quality in which I do all of these things – how I eat, how I work, how I get ready for bed etc., the more the quality deepens, and so does the expression. Thank you for sharing the inspiration offered by Michael Benhayon and the Teachers are Gold Project and this very practical and simple reminder that is pertinent to every one, and every thing we do.
I agree Angela. This blog has inspired me to remember that throughout my day, everything matters, that each movement, word and thought supports or diminishes the next. It is that simple and when we can adhere to this simplicity life really does flow. A big thank you to Michael Benhayon for inspiring one of many gold teachers to reclaim her true expression and bring us all back to a fundamental truth, everything we do is our expression and our expression is everything.
I love the reminder, Rowena ‘that throughout my day, everything matters, that each movement, word and thought supports or diminishes the next. It is that simple’. Beautiful.
Absolutely Angela, I couldn’t agree more, the more we deepen our connection, see and feel everything as an expression the more simple, JOYful and flowing life becomes. And yes Michael Benhayon and The Teachers are Gold project are an amazing inspiration and offer such solid, loving support.