843 thoughts on “Countries in Comfort”

1. ‘the good life,’ The illusion of the ‘good life’ is thinking that it is better than someone else. Comparison and competition sets one against another. Living a true life is to live in harmony with yourself, those around you and in equalness with all.

2. It’s a great point that when we live in a comfortable country without civil, political or other unrest, we can be lulled into a comfort that excludes being aware of and responsive to what is happening for other people, including people in other countries. Also material wealth and comfort can divert us away from the very real reality that we ourselves are not living as we truly are, and are disconnected from our innate love and joy.

3. Focusing on emotions and material objects completely cuts us off from understanding that life is energy first. Comfort to me is anything where I can kick back and seemingly ignore the energetic factor of life. Being aware of energy isn’t without tension, far from, but it does come with a whole lot more freedom, joy and aliveness than being comfortable does.

4. Part of the bigger picture here is to look at how the current system of education forms a foundation for materialism, happiness and comfort. During schooling we are encouraged to compete and compare with each other and place value in what we can learn so we can ‘be something’ in terms of job and career. This can only lead to the never ending chase for happiness and material comforts, because the true richness of our being has been negated and we have become separated to it, and this, our being, is the only source of true contentment.

   1. Making life about the external, the outside, and forgetting our inner being does not lead to contentment, ‘becoming more disengaged from one’s true inner values, thinking that material wealth collates to happiness and that happiness is the ultimate goal in life, instead of realising that life can be about true love, joy and harmony.’

5. I have just spent 2 days at a place where people go on holiday thinking it’s a holiday but its just another place to check out and over indulge in whatever it is they fancy. There are massive changes taking place energetically but because we seemingly refuse to feel life from a purely energetic level we are killing ourselves literally through illness and disease because we do not want to admit that we are so sensitive to the energy that we actually cannot stop feeling that we bludgeon ourselves to death rather than admit we can feel energy and actually the energy we are feeling most of the time feels awful and that we actually don’t like the mess we are in.

6. Thank you Christopher, when we feel we are privileged, deserving and “ how this attitude may be arrogant, indulgent, individualistic and inconsiderate,” as all are judging others to be a lesser version or not as eligible and this type of judgement or comparison is not evolutionary and thus these disease statistics as you have shared.

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8. It’s true Christopher, we need to get real about the outcomes of how we are living life, the only issue is that when everyone else is doing the same we can see it as normal. That is why it’s so important to have these conversations, and to live in a loving and self caring way to show a new kind of normal to people. I know in my community I’m considered a bit weird because I don’t drink alcohol, but I’m also showing people that it’s not ‘just how life is’ or how life has to be.

9. On reading this I reflected just how much things have changed. How much I have changed and also how much the world has changed. My belief or mind set growing up was predominately about getting ‘there’, you know, the steps … good job, nice car, nice home, great partner, able to go away on holidays etc. This was my mind set because this was what was reflected to me by many around me. I am so glad this has changed and even though now I have a nice car, beautiful home and job I absolutely love I know this is not it, on the contrary this is not it at all but is the reflection of how much I am loving me. The world however has got worse. There is more poverty, more stress, more ill mental health, more domestic violence, more violence, more abuse, more illness and dis-ease, more corruption, more greed, more wars … the list goes on. So is it now not the time to see that ‘better’ does not work and that instead we take it right back to the very basics and make it about love, people and how we live? I am not going to wait for an answer here as I know the truth and the answer is Yes we very much should be doing this and I deeply appreciate that now the many I know do reflect this not only back to me but inspire me to live my truth and be all that I am in order to support those around me 💫

   1. ‘Better’ this, or that, does not work, ‘The race to attain material wealth can lead to the fact that we are no longer listening to what our own bodies are communicating to us as we go into competition and stress, living trapped in our minds instead of a truly healthy, loving and joyful life.’

10. Just as “money can’t buy you happiness” it can’t buy contentment and settlement. Nor can having no money at all. I’m finding that nothing physical or material can bring me contentment or a well-being, only connecting to my essence can bring that.

11. We have a connection to our place of birth, to the place where we live too. I get so touched when visiting the mountains in Bulgaria – their majesty and beauty is truly out of this world. For a while I used to deny this connection because I thought it’s not a good thing to feel that way about a country, I thought that feeling this way enforces separatism and therefore it is a bad thing. But what I have come to realise is that I am not enforcing separatism by appreciating what’s around me, the connections I have in given countries and loving the atmosphere. What endorses separatism is thinking that this country is better than that country, that because I am Bulgarian I am somehow a better woman than all other women, that because I am Bulgarian I ought to marry a Bulgarian man and have Bulgarian children – and this can apply to any country because these are the beliefs ingrained in us from little. We are taught that our country is the best one, better than all the rest & therefore other countries are worth less, other people who come from those countries are worthless. There are wars between countries today because of something that happened hundreds, if not thousands of years ago. I know in the Bulgarian education system we were taught that Turkey is the reason behind our suffering, that because of their unfair rule & force at the time Bulgarians were brought down on their knees and all of the goods of the country were taken. This happened almost a thousand years ago, yet many still hold a grudge, still despise people who have Turkish origins. This is only bringing separation between two cultures who are so similar and have have a very harmonious living. I have met Turkish people whilst living in the UK, some of them were my neighbours. Their warmth and care was undeniable, they embraced my family and my family embraced them – it was beautiful to have neighbors who care for you, share meals together and always have their door open just in case you forgot your keys (like I used to do sometimes) or wanted to play (like I did always). Identifying with a country of origin is so old, yep let’s appreciate what’s on offer but never use the good sides of our land of birth to bring down another or a group of people.

    1. Viktoria this is beautiful, it could easily be a blog or an article somewhere – delightful to read and get to know more about how you feel in life and your experiences.

       1. Thank you Melinda, you’re right – this might as well have been a blog haha

12. Perhaps what we perceive to be a ‘good’ life is not so good after all. To have a certain standard of living doesn’t build true joy. Clearly looking at our population we have higher rates of mental ill health and general higher rates of illness and disease than ever before…. clearly how we are living is not matching up to our beliefs about what a good life entails.

13. Reading this makes me consider how much more people are living in ill mental health because just making it about luxury and more and more possessions isn’t this also possibly to be seen as ill mental health? The illness of wanting more than we truly need to care for ourselves and the others around us.

    1. Caring and loving oneself is a great start, ‘With true love for oneself and all of humanity, comes joy and harmony with no need or craving for the next hit of happiness, just living life in a constant flow of contentment.’

14. The true riches in the world will only ever be found in connection to our Soul, nothing is needed when we connect to this divine truth and love.

15. I really love your sense of humanity here Chris – yeh our lives can be amazing, we can live in amazing places but what is going on for everyone else – from close neighbours to people in countries where their lives are at risk. It doesn’t seem right to live with our eyes closed to the reality of what is actually going on.

16. The unsettlement in the human body you mention can be clearly observed in all the wayward behaviours of people but too in all the illness and diseases, people develop.

    1. The statistics for illnesses and diseases continue to rise, it may be worth asking ourselves, ‘What is it about the way we are living that is giving rise to this upsurge in ill health?’

17. We all are the same regardless of our physical appearance, beliefs we hold or where we live on this planet we call our world.

18. When we could look to the earth from heaven, which in a way is our origin, we sure would say that all this comfort is only a distraction of the true work we should be doing as a human species on this planet earth.

19. ‘People are more afraid of being killed by terrorists than the real killers listed above.’ such is the power of the abuse of the media – that loves to stir up emotion rather than report on true and healthy ways to be with ourselves and one another.

20. That which is given to us is not given to us for self gain but to give back to everybody else and neither can we contain our love just for ourselves and a selected few. We are part of a grand whole, the universe, and not an individual hermetically sealed blob that can do whatever it wants.

21. If we only thirst for things to have and try to get them we will never understand the true value of ourself and the importance of the work we do working in a society and therefore being in service for humanity. We can want so many things but they won’t fulfil us if we do not know, appreciate and bring in full to the world our whole worth.

    1. I find his really is the only way to realise and appreciate our worth.

    2. Esther I know someone who constantly wants something is never satisfied or appreciative of what they have, it is just not enough. But as you say we can want so many things but that doesn’t fulfil us as my friend is a great example of dissatisfaction of life. They have no understanding that true wealth comes from within because they have not experienced that in life. This fulfilment cannot be given it is something that is within us that we have to reconnect to, as it is the wealth of the universe.

22. And when we are crowing about how good we have it, we are very subtly flexing our indifference to others and our small picture. The world is so much more than this great town, or this great country. Its about individual people making up a 7 billion person humanity where all have the same potential, and our equal responsibility is to encourage everyone to be everything we are.

23. Living in the perceived comfort of individual wealth of possessions we have to face the uncomfortable truth that others are living less to provide the illusion of having more.

24. “In my experience, no true joy has been found in material wealth”. I agree I have found that those with material wealth often lack the warmth and humility that many with limited means so warmly cherish.

25. You describe a society choking on ostentatious material wealth while its inhabitants are starving themselves of what truly counts in the pursuit of fickle happiness.

26. I live in HK where materialism is king and a big chunk of life is omitted and ignored when money and materialistic seek is all we devote our commitment to. The actual act of this choice causes immense tension because by nature we are multidimensional and we are a whole not in compartments.

27. It’s true Christopher… The world is broken, no Band-Aids will fix it, until there is a fundamental paradigms shift of awareness … Enter… The Way of the Livingness.

    1. Could it be our lifestyle choices, the way we are living, that are causing the rise in ill-health?

28. I live in Australia and we just had an unexpected change of Prime Minister due to internal fighting within the Liberal Party, and a lot of the public sentiment was around ‘stop looking after yourselves, and start doing your job by looking after the country’. And I could not help but notice that we often ‘just look after ourselves’ (and not very well I might add with those alarming rising rates of illness and disease) and dont look out for others. Are our politicians reflecting back what we are living in our own way in our own lives?

    1. We deserve the politicians that get elected and thus, we elect those who are also self-interested and look no further than their own party and the next election.

29. Your spot on Chris when you say more people are afraid of being killed by terrorists than the real killers like diabetes.

    1. We see that with how people continually abuse their bodies, even at times after being diagnosed with a serious illness, ‘the abuse we submit our bodies to, with our overeating and alcohol consumption, but also our disregard for our bodies – how we use them as an instrument for our own pleasure and self-indulgent habits. ‘

30. Reading this, what I can feel is an endless arrays of conditions we cast before we say yes to life and commit to it, how we lock ourselves in a world of material and physicality, keeping our eyes shut to anything beyond our arm’s reach, whilst we do know it is right here. Comparing the level of comfort is like comparing who has got the longest arm.

31. Comfort has to do with familiarity and its influence over our own movement confirming what is familiar. Our familiarity may be related to ‘good’ things as much as with ‘bad’ ones. Although what comforts us is different, comfort applies equally to us, if we are bought by a consciousness.

32. This is a great observation that the more we gloat about standard of living, the more we fall for individual comfort and forget about anyone who is not living with the same quality of life. It also takes us into the human life and what we can get out of this one life, rather than living the soul on earth. That should be our focus and how we rate our standard of living.

33. “In my experience, no true joy has been found in material wealth”. So true Christopher. Money does not buy love or happiness. In fact I have seen that is often brings the opposite.

    1. While it can assist with great change and opportunities, more often than not money is used as a differentiator and also adds complexity. Its hardly ever used for its true purpose which simply as an enabler. More often it is wielded for a personal agenda that keeps us separate.

34. I am sure that if you spoke these powerful words to most people it would be a real wake up call for them; they were for me. “People are more afraid of being killed by terrorists than the real killers listed above.” And these ‘killers’ we live with every day and consider them to be a normal part of our lives. There is nothing normal about them at all, but issues in our lives that we really need to take a long honest look at before we end up ‘killing’ ourselves with comfort.

35. “People are more afraid of being killed by terrorists than the real killers listed above.” This is a very sober point, showing us how disconnected we are from ourselves, the effect of our behaviour and each other. It’s the same in Australia. Becoming paranoid of each other is never a way to build community and assist anyone who may be wayward to return. Also sinking into our ways of comfort is having disastrous affects on our health and yet we want others to fix us, when we are the only ones to get ourselves out of the mess we ourselves have created.

36. If we were all living responsibly we wouldn’t let comfort get so out of control, one only needs to look at the rise in illness and disease to feel that the current model is not working or supporting people.

37. We seek our material comforts to escape the fact we live disconnected from each other and from ourselves in the hope this will give us some relief of all that we do not want to feel. But as we do so this only exacerbates our predicament further.

38. Comfort is just so comfortable that it leaves you lazy, inert and then that touch of arrogance just keeps you there kind of stagnating. That is why a part of us likes it, we are not challenged to get out of our comfort zone to grow and learn which is actually what the whole premise of human life is about.

39. This way, of having only a concern for oneself or immediate friends/family is truly destructive and adds to the global phenomena of greed that is so gripping our cities, towns and villages. True living is living in brotherhood, which does not mean sacrifice or pity, but it does mean responsibility to contribute to the whole in a way that supports everyone to evolve – from which ever point we are all at and along which ever journey we all must travel.

    1. Perhaps we need reminding that life is not about self, we do have a responsibility to contribute to the whole in a way that supports everyone to evolve.

40. This blog also exposes the ridiculousness of the newest professions like ‘happiness coaches’ and the pursuit of more and more material wealth. True joy and harmony come from connecting to the bigger picture, to humanity and taking each and everyone in consideration with every move we make.

41. Yes if we consider that there is a purpose to life and we are all in it together so to speak then being in comfort with the focus on self and family is exclusive and isolating and inhibits our journey back to soul

42. “realising that life can be about true love, joy and harmony.”The subversive terrorist that is so feared is in fact ourselves when we value material possessions above true love, joy and harmony.

43. I had (day) surgery for the first time last year and when one of the medical staff was talking to me, he said you should recover well as I was relatively healthy and of a good weight. In that moment, I was appreciative of the way I had chosen to care for my body and the responsibility I had taken with my own health. Things will still ‘breakdown’ but it is up to us to take the best ‘vehicle’ we can when a part needs fixing.

44. The expression ‘what comes up, must come down’ comes to mind reading this today. If we, as a human race, keep spiking ourselves up with our searches for material wealth, happiness, comfortable lives etc… it eventually needs to come down. And that down, from the alarming stats you shared with us, has a lot of illness and disease associated with it.

    Where as living with true love, joy and harmony, it is constant and steady. It is our bodies natural state and far less disruptive than the highs and lows of seeking outside ourselves for material wealth, happiness etc….

    1. Beautiful point Sarah.

45. The lure of comfort is something we need to be ever watchful with. It is such a seductive substitute for true beauty, true truth, and true glory, that we can lose our way back home to Soul-ful-ness.

46. Most people want to be “comfortable” and to have an easy life but we have to be careful about what we are asking for because when we get stuck in comfort we believe that it is about making life better when in fact it is not about making life better but about seeing though the falseness of life here on earth so that we can bring truth and love to the world.

    1. Yes, and comfort can be our biggest hurdle to not return on our path back to our origin. Letting go of comfort asks for a deep love for humanity.

47. There is nothing wrong with living in a beautiful home, but this beauty depends upon the quality of living that goes on under that roof. It is when we ‘think’ from the outside rather than live emanating from the Love within that we can get attached to the outer gradings and comparisons with other countries or homes and hence get into division.

    1. I love what you share, Lyndy. It’s true there is nothing wrong with a beautiful home, but how we live in that beautiful home is the key point. I know living in my share of comfort, I have used my surroundings to numb, bury, and hide from the world using the ‘beauty’ as a comfort and a retreat. But the side-effect is that my body is impacted with a dullness and an inertia. Now I am changing this age-old pattern and learning that it’s the love within and its emanation out that changes everything.

       1. I can really relate to what you have said here Rachel, as I too have used the beauty of my surroundings to numb myself and comfort myself. I was forever looking outside to find that magic something that would alleviate the unease of not living from my essence. Now in my new home the beauty and grace of it all is coming together from the inside out. I am going with colours and toning and even fabrics which were not on my list before!

48. As soon as we look for our outside environment to confirm us in some way or bring contentment in our lives, we are lost. For the only enduring settlement we can gain must come from connecting with our inner stillness and essence first. The Gentle Breath Meditation has been the key for me in this way of living.

49. When the focus becomes self, or one’s own family we can fly below the radar thinking we are ‘doing the right thing’ and being caring for ourselves and family, however the moment that we stop considering the whole, we have left behind the truth of why we are here and instead chosen the comfortable life to grab for ourselves whilst others out there are suffering a world that lies in a deep seated disharmony.

50. Living with a certain standard of living does come with a protection of those so called ‘assets’ and hence also an arrogance as you have so well descibed Christopher. Once you have achieved a certain level of comfort it is like there is an entitlement that kicks in and it is very hard to let go of something that we ‘like’ in terms of comfort in our lives. When this comfort is taken away from us in any way we can kick up a stink and be upset, no different to spoiled child complaining about having to eat one food instead of another. Comfort breeds tension in terms of wanting to hold on more and more to what one has and this is where the trade off can become so entrenched that we leave behind what we know to be true whilst thinking we are living it.

51. Imagine that, if we choose to live without listening to our bodies, eating and drinking what we like the taste of regardless of the bodies ability to process it, if we live pushing the boundaries regardless of how our bodies are coping with it, we cannot then escape our own worsening health by throwing money at it. When you make me consider our way of living in that way it seems so illogical – we just want a quick fix solution to an arrogant and irresponsible way of living.

52. The drug of happiness. This is something that I can relate to. Waiting for our next fix. We can become so dependant on it. Having our little moment of happiness will get us through to the next one. But we need to have the next one in the wings waiting. Things to look forward to events, purchases etc. Something that I have been observing when we begin the ask questions on is this true? is that if in a discussion about happiness as an example, if we start to question this, what is presented is “well what else is there?”, “If I am not working on happiness then the only other option is the opposite”. But we each do need the opportunity to step this back gradually for ourselves so that we see the whole picture and in our own timing.

53. Pride in nationality, culture, achievements, customs, tradition, heritage, food etc etc are identification and comfort that tend to blind us for seeing the whole picture, to relativise the wrongs and not so good things in a society/country, idealizing one´s country or nation to make up for the hurts and emptiness within we otherwise would need to face.

54. “Living a privileged life in a beautiful place may make us feel better and more deserving than others, but while we bathe in comfort we are detaching ourselves from humanity, taking part in material competition with each other, isolating ourselves instead of living together in harmony with everyone.” Until we get out of our comfort and actually see that it is the most harming thing we can do to the body, illness and disease will continue to rise.

55. The borders we use to divide us are the very walls that prevent us from accessing the true riches found deep within us.

    1. Pearls again Liane – the moment we put up any form of barrier or any form of isolation even as form of protection, then we shut ourselves out from our deepest recess within, the Soul. The Soul cannot and does not work with conditions and can only work with the whole, inclusive of all.

56. There is definitely a simplicity missing from life, early to bed and early to rise has been replaced with increasingly stressful busy lives that are crammed with “doing”, and simple, nourishing food has been replaced with supermarket aisles heaving with processed and junk foods. The simplicity of connecting with one another has been replaced with the convoluted world of social media where we ‘connect’ through carefully edited words and images from behind screens. And we live in a world that values what we produce, achieve and do, not the person and their being. Without a connection to our being, to the love, joy and natural harmony within, to the essence of who we are, life can be so unbearable we may turn to food and other activities which aren’t great for our wellbeing, hence the escalating rates of lifestyle related illness and disease. And around and around we all go in these cycles until a truth teller or philosopher like Serge Benhayon presents the truth so we may all have an opportunity to stop, wake up, and begin living differently.

57. Micro and macro do not have an easy, straight relationship. There are countries that look great at the macro level, but not so great when you look at the micro one. These countries, though, allow people to get access to what they need to compensate the fact that they are not doing so great. So, they are allowed to stay in the comfort of a way of doing that is hurting them.

58. Great you raise our awareness of this rather alarming and largely ignored reality Christoper. I would like to point out that even in poverty there is comfort. The comfort to not commit to life and remain in the small and familiar reality of being poor and less well off.

59. I have had to recently re-read ‘The Hobbit’ for a tutorial with a student. I hadn’t read it for 40 or so years, and, wow, my eyes were opened up when I realised that it was all about comfort and the evolving beyond that! Like most of us, Bilbo Baggins lived ‘ in a hobbit hole. And that means comfort’. Not just the luxury of wealth, but a life of double breakfasts, a singing kettle and multiple cakes for afternoon teas, a life of the status quo where nothing new is said (all circulation energy) and in which nobody goes on adventures because they are ‘nasty disturbing things’ and would ‘make you late for tea’! When multi-dimensionality in the form of Gandalf comes a-knocking at Bilbo’s door, he reluctantly begins to stir awake to go on an adventure, a quest, which reignites a re-connection to his inner-heart and wisdom and initiates a huge growth in his awareness and courage to face the trolls, goblins,wars, wolves, and dragons in the world – all those things he was avoiding when he hid away in his hobbit hole and stuffed himself with food. Hobbiton was certainly a ‘country in comfort’.

60. The statistics you quote are shocking and show how detrimental to our health living in comfort can be – in fact it ought to come with a warning “Can seriously damage your health and wellbeing”!

61. ‘In my experience, no true joy has been found in material wealth, only fleeting moments of happiness never sustained, always followed by a come down, a dip or a depression.’ This is very apt reading this at Christmas, a time when most families feel pressure to buy presents their children will like, even if they can’t afford it.

    I can remember one Christmas feeling very depressed as a child. It was soon after the opening of the presents and I went upstairs to play but felt deflated – like all the excitement of new toys couldn’t hide that what I really wanted was to feel loved and special and secure in that no crazy, alcohol infused drama would erupt and people would start teasing you or saying weird stuff. I felt bad because I knew how much my parents had tried to show their love in buying these gifts when they’d not much money and my presents wouldn’t be as fancy as my more well off cousins. Rather than keep this all to myself as I did, I could have easily have gone to my mum and given her a hug. Love is simple.

    1. Thank you for sharing K and it is so true that ‘Love is simple’ and there is no need to strive for material wealth to prove it – all that is needed is to share your love with everyone and in that your have wealth beyond measure.

62. It is only until we re-connect to the richness of our bodies, that we understand that real wealth has nothing to do with temporal material possessions, but it is something that comes as a result of us saying yes to the call of evolution- being more loving, understanding with each other regardless of where we live and supporting us in our return to the love we once lived in true brotherhood.

63. I am wondering, though, whether people in many poor or very poor countries also live in comfort – a different kind of comfort that is expressed in an attitude rather than material values but still a comfort.

64. The key may be less what we own or what we are interested in but how we own and how we live when we act on what we are interested in.

65. I can clearly remember the moment in my life when I realised material things were not the goal. I was 17ish and could feel that the boy I was dating was not the one for me, but he bought a stereo that I loved, fleetingly I thought maybe this could work, but it was only fleetingly, as I knew deep within it wouldn’t have mattered if he had won the lotto, it would not have been right to continue the relationship. However even with this feeling, I still got trapped into the security and material needs of life. It is such a known way of life, that it takes a deep dedication to truth to begin to properly break the hold it has on humanity.

    1. Yes and marketing knows it! It sells you a picture and more often than not we buy into it.

66. A great question to ponder, what is it about the way we are living that is contributing to escalating levels of illness and disease, ‘“What is it about the way we are living that is giving rise to this upsurge in ill health?”
    We have increasing levels of comfort in our lives, so why is illness and disease on the increase, what important factor or factors are we choosing to ignore?

67. It is interesting to ponder that many of the most favoured destinations that are named in the world are ones where people can get away from their everyday lives and be entertained and avoid for a brief while what we have created for ourselves back home.

68. ‘The good life’ was one we were brought up to aspire to but it certainly doesn’t cut it any more. Life with no true purpose is empty and meaningless – and that is about people, relationships, connection and brotherhood…. and working is a complete joy. There is no ‘time off’ from life.

69. Comfort can creep in under the radar, and stops evolution. We forever need to be alert that there is not comfort in our lives, the world is a mess and needs true love.

70. The important thing to understand is that if any country has it better than another , then its the responsibility of that country (better country ) to inspire and share its wisdom with the other country and in doing this a sense of equalness will be achieved , a simple example of this is the european union which is working to that process as best as it can with the systems in place.

71. It’s way past time for humanity to return to living in community, in brotherhood, as it is very evident from the current state of the world that the more we live in isolated groups and as individuals that greater the problems that we face, and will continue to face

72. Having researched suicide rates world wide recently, for an article, it is interesting to note that the highest suicide rates are in the wealthier, more ‘comfortable’ countries. Supposedly these countries are happier places with better education, healthcare and social support. There is an anomaly here to look into and the question to ask is comfort what we are all truly seeking, or is there something else that we are missing?

73. Living in comfort seems to not be recommended since many countries and the world are in a dire mess.

74. Any form of comparison has a lethal long term effect on our bodies – whether it is of another or a country,

75. There is a comfort in misery and in a lacklustre existence and the perverse but very real desire to sustain it – propped up by the illusion of culture, nationality, borders and the many other separation props that have been invented along the way.

76. Comparison between countries is the same as comparison between people – it is rather toxic and only cements separation.

    1. Absolutely Nikki, and if everyone stopped the comparison between each other we then would stop the same harming energy between countries.

77. “People are more afraid of being killed by terrorists than the real killers listed above.” This is especially true in the UK this week. Yet despite the press writing more about how lifestyle contributes to serious disease, many people continue with their ‘comfort’ – until something dire happens to them. Then, when a serious illness is averted we continue to want to go back to our old way of living – even though this has contributed to the illness in the first place, Comfort can be very addictive.

78. Comfort has never cured an illness. Comfort can convince you everything is okay, but what it does is support you in ignoring the issues in front of you.

79. “disengaged from one’s true inner values, thinking that material wealth collates to happiness and that happiness is the ultimate goal in life” – Nowadays it seems that just ‘getting by’ is a goal that a lot of people aspire to achieve, and many of us have adopted a mindset that we are one of 7.5 billion on a conveyer belt being dealt whatever comes next by the world, but dropping those important inner values that bring true joy, personality and feeling content is always a choice which we can change at any time.

80. Money and material wealth have become king, even over our own health and well being. We certainly do have things topsy-turvy, because while standards of living may be high in many countries, our illness, disease and suicide rates continue to climb at alarming rates.

81. What’s also usually connected to material competition but is in a league of its own too, is intellectual competition, career success and basically putting one life style above another – all create conflict within oneself (got to be better, do better, achieve more) and against one another. I’ve very much been caught up in gaining social standing through profession and it’s felt so ugly and dismissing of my true qualities. For, in order to succeed in the way that I wished I put my true knowing aside and people pleased to get recognition.

    Everyone loses out this way because here is yet another person discarding the gold within themselves and not shining forth but getting sicker. Where are people going to be inspired unless we live the beauty we all hold within and let go of the empty ideals of accumulating more accolades or material possessions? The love we are that is the true gold is not something to be coveted but shared.

82. I live in New Zealand, a country that is always up in the top few of the most popular countries to visit and considered to be very beautiful geographically, which it is. We succeed very highly in many sporting codes, especially rugby, but we have one area that we really to not want to be in the top few. That is for our mental health statistics, with our youth suicide rates amongst the highest in the world and I am sure that our physical health statistics are way up there too. I feel that we focus so much on some of our achievements that we lose sight of the truth of what’s truly going on behind those glorious scenes.

83. “Given that we are living in so much comfort, then why is illness and disease on the increase?” Great question Christopher, there is so much that we are in comfort about and a lot of the time, the ‘so called do gooders’ who are just the masses in society are the ones who are in the most comfort and creating the most harm, because they are sitting back looking at others and judging those who are not living how they are.

84. The increasing illness and disease rates show us clearly that a comfortable life is not it, but how much are we able to be honest with ourselves and expose collectively the truth that this reality is presenting to us?

85. If they tried to conduct the same surveys of the most joyous nations, I’m not sure there would be the tools to measure such a thing nor is there a preparedness to look at what a joyful life looks like. The focus is on material wealth, success and progress.

86. We need to look beneath the facades of countries doing ‘well’ and see a) what the quality of living is like for the people who live there, e.g. how is mental health, obesity and wellbeing? Are people living vital lives? And b) the relationship between that country and all others. An ‘amazing’ country where revolutionary laws might be in place or the people are genuinely joyful and vibrant should share this inspiration with all 196 others so that we can globally bring back vitality, love and responsibility.

87. Comfort has been really in my face over the last little while, so it is great re-look at this blog. There are so many threads to pull with this subject. There is nothing wrong with living in a beautiful home and driving a luxury car – it is simply the vibrational quality in which we drive that car or live in the house that matters. I know that this has been said before but it bears re-iteration. The ‘comfort’ that is destroying us is the use of matter or energy to numb and console ourselves from not having lived in a connection. religious way – i.e. not even yet living what Jeshua taught a couple of thousand years ago.

88. A great blog to raise the point of balance. Yes it seems we strive for betterment and for the individual. Yet in truth we are actually making for a sicker population. And I also feel that we don’t think it can happen to us until it does. A real opportunity for change.

89. When kids withdraw to their bedroom they are actually crying out to be loved.

90. Recently I walked down a beautiful leafy suburban street in a ”sought after area’. There was a time when I would have wished to live there, seemingly away from the more obvious areas of poverty and blatant disregard that can be seen in some of these areas. I wanted a haven away from the suffering that many are just more upfront about and not hiding behind the niceties of life.

    But in my job I have the privilege to see behind closed doors and so often those who are living a seemingly easy life are also feeling empty and joyless, disconnected with themselves, suffering relationships for the convenience of wealth. And I realise that there is no haven on this world. Knowing another is suffering, if I am honest, means I cannot rest easy in any kind of glib self-content. There is no separation between us and trying to pretend otherwise means I am not walking ahead to inspire others to follow.

91. ‘With true love for oneself and all of humanity, comes joy and harmony with no need or craving for the next hit of happiness, just living life in a constant flow of contentment.’ This is wonderful. I am reflecting on my life and how I went from one hit of happiness to the next, bit like an addiction I couldn’t go long periods without. So I’d book up segments of happiness -a film, tasty food. Once it used to be through drink and clubbing and now it can even be subtle – little escapes done for relief not confirmation of me in divinity. So they could look the same – a swim, or a walk, but one feels like a glass half empty whilst the other feels like it’s building a foundation already there that supports me to walk in the world with greater authority of who I am and the love that can shine through me. One looks to the outside world to deliver something I think I need – recognition, a compliment etc. and the other allows what it is within to express.

92. Bhutan is a country that looks to ‘Gross National Happiness’ rather than Gross Domestic Product as a measure of their success. Their ethos is wellbeing takes precedence over economic growth. The necessity of solid fiscal development notwithstanding, this feels like a beautiful way for a nation to let its citizens know it’s about people first.

93. Perhaps the no.1 ranked country in the world, if it should be measured at all (which of course is nonsense) should be the one that is most open in it’s borders to others, that doesn’t discriminate by religion or race or sex, and that is not myopic in its view of the outside world. Of course the very ideas of countries itself does not support the natural care that we have of people, that shines through in disasters but should become our everyday.

94. ‘This begs me to ask the question, “What is it about the way we are living that is giving rise to this upsurge in ill health?’. A very much needed question, Christopher but one that it seems as a collective we are reluctant to look at… possibly because that would mean we would have to change our behaviour, make different choices and come out of a comfort we like, (which is in fact indulgent and literally killing us)?

95. Whether it’s our country that is the best, or our team, or our voices,… Anything that invokes comparison has no place in the OneWorld of humanity.

96. ‘People are more afraid of being killed by terrorists than the real killers listed above.’ That’s such an interesting and scary thought Christopher because the statistics reveal that you are more likely to die from all your abusive choices than from an attack from terrorists – time for a reality check and a responsibility check I feel.

97. Countries in comfort, such a great blog Chris. I hadn’t thought about countries being in comfort before, but it is totally true. We are the sum that make up the whole, so if we are sitting and living in comfort of course that is going to impact an entire country.

98. We are all only as strong as the weakest link – if we look at this globally there is a bit of work to do.

99. We are more comfortable than ever before (in the West for sure) yet also definitely sicker, so the comfort does not work for us, perhaps this is because our bodies are made to work, and this is something we have sought to avoid through the technology and leisure time opportunities we have developed. Perhaps we will attain a truly healthy status when we consider that everyone must be healthy and cared for to be living in wellness, not just our pockets that we call countries.

100. I have always considered where I live to be a place so full of comfort and yet when I began living what is truth, this same place also does not ever allow me to remain in comfort, which is absolutely brilliant. No matter where we are born in, what industry we are in, how the world is, it cannot affect us if we simply just live what we know is true. Any reaction is a diversion of living what is true, so coming back to simplicity is cool : as knowing true wealth is not because of money, now I do not need to reject money, I just need to live what I find truly fulfilling and full within my heart.

101. It is crazy and completely out of context when people are more concerned about terrorists then they are about their own health.

102. The countries that are doing well and are exploring a new way of being, should be going out to the war-torn countries to support and show all that there IS another way.

103. Using the body as ‘an instrument for our own pleasure and self-indulgent habits’ is championed in our world and looked upon as a success. Boxing rings, eating competitions, aggressive sports, extreme modelling and all the pleasures that go along with it – the list is endless really. When we realise that the body is designed to express our highest and most divine light, the light of the Soul then we will be a lot more discerning with how we move and treat it.

104. It is such a stark difference – living for individual gain or living for absolute equality. There is a beauty in considering everyone else on the planet and our part in the greater whole. In contrast, living considering only oneself is quite ugly. In our desperation to survive and thrive we forget that we are all in this together, and we can’t survive without one another. Best to take care of the whole in this case or we are absolutely doomed.

105. Christopher, what you have called out here is really huge. I know for me I too have felt ‘how lucky am I to live in Australia’, feeling great it is to be in such a beautiful country, the land of the free. Along the way, being quite ignorant to what is actually going on across the world, choosing instead to live in the not only the Australian bubble, but the State and local areas we are from. This is how many people do live, not looking, thinking, wanting to know what is happening in the world. Its like if it isn’t happening in your own back yard, its easy to ignore the atrocities going on elsewhere. This isn’t and doesn’t foster a oneness, that we are all connected.

106. “People are more afraid of being killed by terrorists than the real killers listed above.” This shows the discrepancy we live in and our disconnection to what is really going on.

107. “no true joy has been found in material wealth, only fleeting moments of happiness never sustained” so well said Christopher, this is where so much of todays society is lost, due to the fact they are caught up in wanting ‘happiness’, which as you say can only ever be fleeting. Whereas true joy is lasting, and definitely not found in material wealth.

108. The kind of comfort you are describing here Christopher is exactly what keeps so many of us blind to the real issues facing humanity. Mind you, poverty or any other condition can do the same thing. Either way, they all keep us focused on the self and our ‘inner circle’ (the network of family and friends we care about) rather than the big picture and our brothers elsewhere on the planet.

109. Material wealth should be a reflection of our internal wealth, not a substitute for it.

110. It is fine to live in a beautiful place in a home that you love and without economic hardship. What matters is the way one lives in this environment. Is every movement and thought loving, respectful inspirational, and thus holding of all of us?

111. Comfort= addiction to ways of doing (movements) away from ourselves and what we truly represent. In this sense, every country, wealthy or otherwise, could be said to be in comfort. A materially well-off life, on the other hand, brings up specific ways to be in comfort.

112. Australia is a good example of this too. It is easy to make money here and you can have a “good” life without much effort. Yet all of the “good” is based on the material. We have shocking statistics with human rights and our health statistics are not in good shape – just to name a couple of blights on our good image. There is far more to life than our material status yet when we have material comforts we can easily sit there and coast, instead of using that as a platform on which we can deepen and enrich our lives.

113. “People are more afraid of being killed by terrorists than the real killers listed above.” This is a very sad truth Christopher, we are, not that we should turn a blind eye to these things as its good to be aware of what is going on, but when are we going to start taking responsibility for our own bodies and how we are treating them before the inevitable hits the fan. How much more suffering and dis-ease do we have to endure?

114. ‘People are more afraid of being killed by terrorists than the real killers listed above.’ This statement shows how we are so willing to blame another before taking responsibility for ourselves. Our avoidance of taking responsibility blinds us to what we are doing to ourselves by our indulgent choices. Our comfort is killing us, physically and energetically.

115. Our ‘thirst for material possessions’ is there because we are not connecting to ourselves and we need something on the outside to fill the emptiness we feel but don’t want to feel. We therefore get caught in a life of comfort to distract ourselves from feeling what is really going on. As you point out Christopher, our ‘self-indulgent habits’ are ‘irresponsible’ and are affecting the health of all of us. But if we can face this emptiness and address our hurts we soon banish this cloud of unhappiness and connect with the shining sun of joy within that needs no distraction or comforts – we know then that we are enough and that love is.

116. I find it perfectly reasonable for a country to claim when it does something particularly well – it does not mean that it is able to do everything well. However, if that is taken as a reason why one does not need to be truthful – after all, things are going well – then Christopher is right, such thinking is a dead end.

117. This is a magnificent peice of writing, we are so spoiled in the wealth of the countries we live in that we forget to see that there is much going on in the world, that is seemingly not effecting us but in truth it is, providing us in some way with a reason to hide in comfort, and not choose to step up in responsibility and take care for Humanity.

118. Although there are stark differences in standard of living, in reality I don’t think there are any countries that offer anything more than comfort and status quo. If any one dares to be different or true to themselves there are individuals and systems ready to bring them down. This has repeated time and again in history. It is only when we accept having our silence or compliance off, that we can ‘believe’ that we are actually comfortable. The tension to return to our true nature and live in brotherhood is felt no matter what material comforts we may have acquired.

     1. You are quite right in describing the peak though there are plenty of countries that are far away even from these peaks and perhaps such countries need to come to a similar peak before realising that there is further to go to get back to who you are.

119. I love the directness of your blog, the choice we make to disregard our bodies and the choices we make for them which impact, not only our own health, but equally that of our family, our community, our country and our world. It is so easy to make life about personal comfort but in so doing we contribute to the mess we see before us. Very sobering.

120. Though I may want to indulge in comfort and have aspired for the comfortable prestiges in life I am learning, as this article so brilliantly exposes, this is not the way to live as it damages the health and well-being of us all in society. What I am discovering is that, rather than back off when life seems to get tough, I am being called to commit much more than I had been doing so. Indeed, it’s the comfort – the wanting to have it easy and the erroneous belief that it’s all too much of an effort to evolve – that draws in disasters. Allowing myself the freedom to evolve allows a true ease from which to live and allow those natural impulses to support one another in ways that are true.

121. I can see how this very much relates to how I am with myself at times. It seems the push is always to see yourself as better, better body, better mind, better car, better job, better house, better girlfriend etc You may have one that you see through and say you’re equal to another but at the same time you hold one in your pocket as a backup. You may see you live in an area where everything is the same or your job the same but you hold a better girlfriend or the way you hit a golf ball as better than someone else. It seems for me the default is always to be better than something or someone. I can see how this relates to countries as well and countries are really just made up of a lot of people. This then confirms or answers the question how do you begin to see a “country in comfort”, you expose the ‘better’ or comfort in you in all corners.

122. This makes perfect sense Christoph, when a country has their collective head in the sand of the obvious corruption, abuse, disharmony and discontent within the populace and it’s systems, then we can safely say it is a country in comfort. That would apply to most I can think of actually!

123. beautiful Christoph, very needed blog on what we are needing to see that we are allowing & doing in countries.. and how we are used to be bound to a lack of awareness over the reality and responsibility that we have as individuals and society, communities, humanity, countries. This blog sheds a light on what is truly now a matter that we need to go that little step deeper to feel what it is that countries are lacking, before we blame anything or anyone else.. Worth pondering on.

124. A great point Christopher, to consider our choices at this level and the responsibility each of us in fact has for what we contribute to the whole. To see countries as being ‘sick’ when the whole population making them up is not thriving makes sense. I have watched those who have studied and developed through the Universal Medicine teachings and therapies (myself included) and see the complete reversal of the trends you described. It is the answer humanity is looking for, just not necessarily the answer that is always popular. Taking responsibility for one’s choices to live in such a way as to support our own vitality and wellbeing at every level, and therefore what we are contributing to every other person in life, is a commitment for life.

125. We use many things to avoid the stillness and wealth we hold within. What you described here Christopher is just that, an avoidance of our own wealth. It’s the searching on the outside, creating false bravado only to miss all that lives within.

126. We can claim to live in a ‘lucky country’ but do so in comparison to another that isn’t deemed so lucky. Why do we consider one country better then another? It is because of basic human rights, or standards of living or weather patterns, the list could go on but needless to say we say it’s better due to a comparison to something that we deem worse. If we bring this to a world of energy and begin to be aware for every better we put into the world a worse is created and likewise for every worse we create a better. It’s our choice to keep living this way or we can stop and ask the question, better or worse, lucky or unlucky does it truly feel any different? At many points in my life I have seen this play out and always strived to not be in the worse or unlucky and not being aware of the trap this creates. We can only run this energy for so long and by looking at the world as it is you can see things are catching up with us. This isn’t about perfect either but as I said about energy, how things truly feel. We need to bring this back to earth in a big way and while it may not be popular, again we bring things back to energy and be aware there is no such thing, only energy. What will we choose next?

127. Christopher, you show here how being proud of ones own country is in fact, (if we are totally honest and look at it from a much bigger picture) being arrogant, indulgent, individualistic and inconsiderate.

     1. Yes when the more common view is to be proud to be proud so to speak.

128. Very well said Christopher. What you’re talking about is very exposing as it asks us to look at to look at the true state of our own countries and not just place blame on governing bodies but take responsibility into our own hands for we make up the people who represent the whole.

     1. Wonderful point Jane. We cannot sit back in our comfortable lives and point the finger at something happening out there. We are all inextricably linked together one seamless whole and own responsibility is significant. It often makes me remember that old poem by Francis Thompson: ‘All things by immortal power/Near or far/ Hiddenly/ To each other linked are/ That thou canst not stir a flower/ Without troubling a star’. Our every move must expand our harmony . . . and pointing a finger would certainly trouble a star!

129. “People are more afraid of being killed by terrorists than the real killers listed above”, when I read this I saw it for the absolute distraction that it is. Yes it needs a country’s attention but no where near the hysteria and focus that is currently given. It absolutely distracts us from seeing what is there to be seen – our lack of responsibility around our own lifestyles.

130. Our bodies and our health deliver a much needed honesty and wake up call to humanity – although for most of us we still don’t seem to be getting it! We may have material comfort but our bodies are showing that we are not truly comfortable or at ease within ourselves. This is part of the true wealth and value in life, not the temporary things we accumulate.

131. Any form of competition in my view segregates people and instead of the motivation to support everyone equally, their focus becomes to advance self ahead and often at the expense of others. Aside from that when we choose to rank ourself, it is interesting and telling to consider what priorities we are looking at. Are we opting for comfort and material goods, or love and decency? A big difference.

132. Most have been exposed to the ideals of a comfortable temporal life and also seen that for many it simply it not matching the “dream” that it has been sold with. Most have given up on life and the possibilities of reaching such a goal and settled instead of security, checking out in whatever why possible and to put it bluntly, plain boring existence. This is the evil of comfort, it even shuts you down to seeking truth, purpose and overall responsibility and fullness in life.

133. It is gorgeous to imagine everyone living life in a constant flow of contentment and settlement within their bodies rather than constantly seeking the next distraction or stimulation at the expense of their health. We spend so much time focused on gaining something outside of ourselves that we forget to cherish what we already possess.

134. “People are more afraid of being killed by terrorists than the real killers listed above.” – with the statistics now showing such high rates of illness, it does seem crazy to fear something like a terrorist attack when just around the corner could be diabetes or cancer and both linked to lifestyle choices, and therefore in many instances, preventable.

135. The standard of living is not ‘calculated’ using the quality of energy as its marker – it is about a certain look, affluence, level of hygiene and style – some of which actually does matter. It does matter that we have a good water system, sewage system, a good bed to sleep in, enough food to eat etc. But if the quality of true love is missing then to what avail is it all? While we stay in comfort ignoring the state of our brother citizens in our global village there is no growth or evolution happening for us all.

136. A comfortable life, preferably without having to work is seen as the holy grail of life. Yet there are many examples of people who have such a life and are still not happy (in some cases are suicidal). So this tells us there is more to life than comfort and not working. That something more is our inner connection.

137. Comfort is comparable and relative, so it always depends on what another has or is doing, or what one’s past experiences may have been. And when this is taken to the scale of a whole country, it really puts humanity in to focus with how we all view eachother, and to ask – is this view with judgement and comparison? or is it with love, so that there may be more love and thus an eventual end to people living without their basic needs met whilst others have an over abundance of material gains?

138. We are really good at convincing ourselves that comfort and luxuries are what we want and that having these things means that we are doing well, but the health statistics reflect a very different picture that is quite alarming. We seem to forget that we live on a spherical planet and are all within that spherical planet, so we are all a part of and affected by all parts of this planet, we can’t be in isolation from anything.

139. As long as there is one nation suffering, not one nation is truly successful.

140. I find the whole idea of nationalism quite abhorrent, and I say this in the sense of when it is used to measure against others as it almost always is. The USA has for long been the standard bearers for this inward looking mentality, but it is far from alone. Whenever I hear that this place or that is the greatest place to live in the world I feel like a whole part of what is out there in the world and the beauty to be found all over has been dismissed quite out of hand, and particularly that beauty found within people in all corners of the globe, which is more valuable than any index of standard of living, or wonder of the world we can possible come across.

141. We see comfort in so many manifestations, and in so many structures of society in general… Comfort can be in the lowest of the socio economic stratas as well as the highest… It has no demographic, and yet it is always a reflection of the same disconnection that Chris talks about.

142. I can feel the irony with your words Christopher that in todays world ‘People are more afraid of being killed by terrorists than the real killer’s’ which are the lifestyle choices we live and base our everyday upon.

143. I live in a city that has been voted the most liveable city in the world. Wow, that’s quite a statement. When you walk through the city these days, you will see an increasing number of homeless people – young and old, male and female. We have increasing violence on the streets fuelled by alcohol and a big drug scene. We have extremes of standards of living from being on the streets, to living on the bread line to extreme wealth. So who exactly is voting a city to be the most liveable…the wealthy who enjoy the lifestyle that money can buy? It surely isn’t the people living on the streets. And so, we live in the comfort of living in one of the most liveable cities in the world with blindfolds on as to what is going on behind the glossy pictures.

144. It’s interesting how those best place to live surveys only just announce top 10 or 20 or whatever, and don’t include every single place on the planet to reveal the worst place to live. Are we pretending those places do not exist? Is it too much for us to see our fellow brothers and sisters do live in such places, and come face to face with our ignorance and irresponsibility?

145. How can we think we are experiencing a good life when we are so focused on ticking boxes that we fail to see that the list is insatiable and never ending.

146. You have made a great point here about material comfort and how when we achieve it, we can often stop caring about the rest of humanity. So long as we are comfortable, we are not too concerned about how everyone else is fairing. This is an illusion to think we are ok even if the rest of humanity is struggling. We are one body, one organism and at the moment there are many parts of this body riddled with disease and disharmony. Our individual physical bodies are always working to restore harmony and balance. This is how we in humanity are naturally designed to be.

147. We have become very sold on the idea that our happiness is linked to the material comforts we have. I am sure some part of us knows this belief to be untrue, yet we keep striving for material comfort just in case this is the answer. This creates problems for everyone as the ‘have nots’ can explain their unhappiness on not having certain things in life, whilst the ‘haves’ who are still missing something feel they should be happy and have to keep up the pretence (even to themselves) that they ‘have it all”.

148. Given that we are living in so much comfort, then why is illness and disease on the increase? A great question to be asking Christopher, as if we have all the comforts that we think we need, how is it that we are getting sicker and sicker globally? Could it be that this need for comfort is not what we truly want and so are we constantly ignoring our bodies and going against what our bodies need, to have that comfort that we think says, we are travelling okay.

149. A well run country that tops the index of best places to live, this can be recognised as something to appreciate. But to take the next step it is surely the question to ask, if our lives in our beautiful country are so great, then how do we bring this success and enjoyment to fruition for others currently less blessed. To bask or to gloat is not a true human trait, it is one we go to for sure, but to take an evolutionary step we need to ask, now what can I do to support others.

150. I have lived sold out to the illusion that a good job, a steady wage, a family of my own, a partner of my own, an investment in a good diet, a healthy exercise programme and a considerable amount of helping others would deliver me a fulfilled life of satisfaction, meaning and most of all the comfort of knowing all was in order and the world could be saved. However, what I am starting to accept is the world is in a huge mess that actually all of the above only adds to because the unwillingness to acknowledge aspirations motivated by a need to secure a comfortable level of comfort do not address the tension we all feel inside – the knowing but not living the fact that we are more than just bodies on this planet. Our purpose goes beyond the trappings of material wealth to who we are that is far greater. I am only just starting to accept there is nothing in this world, no destination, no food, no item, that can ever compare to the grandness that we all are, and the tension that is always there when I try to ignore this.

151. Only through the prevalence of discomfort and hardship can we ever fall for the trap of comfort. That is, compared to adversity others face, our life feels comfortable in comparison. Otherwise we would clearly see that there can be no true ease within ourselves and the seemingly comfortable lives that we live when so many of our fellow humans have been left behind. In truth, no matter what amount of material wealth we may amass, we leave ourselves behind whenever we act for personal gain and not on behalf of Us All. This is not to say we need to go out on a personal crusade to save everyone but rather make the choice to return to the Oneness we are from, which simply means to be move in a way that has the utmost energetic responsibility and integrity at its core as it comes from the understanding that our every thought, word, and action carries with it an energetic imprint that affects the entire globe we in which we live and thus all who live within this sphere of life. In this way true harmony will once more prevail but not until we each take responsibility for the wayward and reckless way we have thus far moved while here upon this earth.

152. Well said, Christopher. Many would rather choose fleeting moments of happiness or worse in order to save face, post a photo on social media and be on their way.

153. Today I saw a woman who looked as though she had nowhere to live. She looked about in her 50s and she had many bags to carry. Although it’s not every day I come across a homeless person, but there are more and more people who are living very uncomfortably, far below the standard the majority would accept as normal. I am in my late 40s and I work full time, and I would be struggling if I had to pay rent for the place I live, and I am certainly not a rarity. Japan prides itself in its technological advancement, modern quirkiness and old traditions and attracts many visitors who are fascinated by it, but its ‘comfortable’ appearance is only a skin deep, and it won’t be long before its cover gets blown off to reveal the utter corruption, ignorance and irresponsibility the entire nation is built on – hopefully.

154. Society is set up to prioritise the ‘self,’ the individual and those nearest and dearest with a cushion of comfort. But no amount of comfort or number of feather cushions can keep us from the uncomfortable truth that the way we live is responsible for the rising occurrence of illness and disease.

155. This is a fantastic blog Christopher as it really spells out what we are doing by chasing the comfortable, materialistic, ‘better than’ life. We actually choose this deliberately so that we can remain isolated and in seperation to humanity and it is this that perpetuates the inequalities that we all exclaim about. We each have a hand in how the world that we live in is today. I thank God for the presentations by Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine that have been brought to all of us as a way to get out of this mess that we are in. I also thank God for people like you who are unafraid to speak the Truth and say it as it is.

156. What a great blog Christopher Murphy and spelling it out for us. There is so much here that can be commented on but for today this is what really stuck out –
     ‘The focus becomes less and less about community and working together for the common good of all’. We seem to be moving away from this kind of living and communicating in our world. Settling for a grander better life with all the trimmings simply does not cut it. Been there and done it and it leaves you empty and isolated. Its like you live in a bubble with the nearest and dearest and don’t give a hoot about anyone or anything else as long as all is ok in your world.
     Enter Serge Benhayon and you get a real wake up call and as you say ‘a genuine way..’ that presents what is possible and this man does have the answers. I have been around long enough (11 years) and that gives me the authority to say this man absolutely knows what he is talking about and he has his finger on the pulse. By that I mean he knows what is going on with our world and he has the answers. High time we listened to him and pay attention. Add to that his many websites like this one and thousands and thousands of blogs and comments, the world will be left in no doubt that it is possible to collectively re-balance our life, our countries and our world.

157. When we begin to understand that there is such a thing as karma for countries, this may be a stretch for some as many are struggling with understanding their own karma and what that means. So many being in comfort is going to have an impact on an entire country, when we begin to have more awareness around how we live impacts on all, it may be an easier concept to grasp.

158. “Living a privileged life in a beautiful place may make us feel better and more deserving than others, but while we bathe in comfort we are detaching ourselves from humanity, taking part in material competition with each other, isolating ourselves instead of living together in harmony with everyone.” How very true this is, when we allow comfort.

159. I hadn’t really considered how a whole country could be in comfort. But I guess this could easily happen if we are not taught from an early age about the responsibility of and how to be a global citizen. I know I certainly wasn’t, and my children aren’t getting this kind of eduction from their schools either. Education these days seems to be all about getting a job so that you can live in comfort and security. Therefore it will take strong and dedicated people to begin to stand up and go beyond what is on offer and seek to learn more about what is actually needed for everyone.

160. We may ask if illness and disease also are a kind of comfort as we can use them to justify why we cannot live the fullness of who we are, cannot fully commit to life, basically are busy with ourselves instead of serving the community, cannot access and activate our potential etc etc.

161. Right from when we are small we are taught that it is all about us in this world, our comfort! How would the world be if we all had the mindset that we are all equal and all deserve the best, not just a few. That the family we are born into or the country we live in, or the possessions we have, do not make our lives more important than someone else, who has less.

162. We have made life about having comfort but in fact it is not about that at all. When I metaphorically step out of the front door of my so called ‘comfortable house’ I am confronted with all what is not working in our societies and it is the responsibility we all have with that that we do not like to be faced with and instead choose to live in our ‘comfortable’ houses.

163. What you write here, Christopher, is so true and it is comfort that provides the blanket under which so, so many people hide and deny what is happening. The question arises, ‘How bad has it got to get before people start taking responsibility and look for another way?’ Like you I, too, feel the presentations by Serge Benhayon offers that way.

164. The whole ‘best country in the world’ thing, or ‘top 10 cities’ to live in, is designed to encourage comparison, envy, pride, one-upmanship and thus separation, and with this, personal and collective responsibility goes out the window as each considers ways to make their own lot, better.

     1. Indeed Rosanna, we try to get away with it in the many ways you can see around but the funny thing is that we cannot escape and eventually we will understand that his is not the way but that there is only one way to live human life and that is in brotherhood, to live to our origin, together as one.

165. Hi there

     This was quite an insightful read and thanks for posting.

     I enjoyed this comment “The deepest comfort is to follow suit because everyone is doing it and this must “good” without truly feeling whether it is true.” We all tend to live in our comfort bubbles..

166. What you have written may take a long time for humanity to fully grasp. Something that jumps out at me is: “true love for oneself and all of humanity” the moment we do this then everything falls into place. The moment we make it about us or our family or our people etc.. then we are creating a separation within humanity, effectively a separation within the one – which makes no sense when put this way – for if we are all the same then why would we want to be different?

     1. Great question James, such undeniable reasoning: “if we are all the same then why would we want to be different?”

        1. Indeed, for me what comes up is individuality and recognition. Because if we are all the same then how can anyone stand out and get that extra attention. It is crazy really because I know when we truly appreciate another we also appreciate ourselves and there is no greater feeling, atleast not one that I have found and definitely not one that comes from trying to be better than anyone else in anyway.

        2. Thank you for adding this James as I felt very much this part of your reply: “definitely not one that comes from trying to be better than anyone else in anyway”. The response in my body was an absolute confirmation that our equality is known and embraced – trying to be better than anyone else is now not part of my life. We all bring our unique, equal part, and in that there can be no ‘better’ and ‘worse’.

167. You have offered much to ponder on Christopher. The comfort we live in and surround ourselves with is what prevents us from seeing the truth, or we see what is going on and think “oh that’s happening our there somewhere and it’s not happening to me” This is easy to get caught in and for each and every one of us we have the levels of comfort that we ourselves are willing to be in to avoid the truth.

168. No matter how beautiful a country may seem within the landscape this is a great discussion and expose of what is actually going on within the country. As you have shared with one of the most beautifull or great countries you have felt within this there is still an increase of cancer, diabetes and mental health to name a few. Showing that what is going on within the country is not harmonious at all. I have just watched a video of how a Sioux tribe in South Dakota called Standing Rock has been tear gassed, tassered, and set upon by dogs because the government wants access to water where they are. This is absolutely not about love or brotherhood, it is about greed, arrogance and force. When will we learn that the earths resources our not just ours to take or destroy which we have done in many cases and in truth countries our even not ours to own. Or that it is unacceptable to treat any fellow brother or sister with anything less than true love and respect. I would agree currently we are definitely collectively out of balance.

169. Nothing in the world that we can attain can bring us the joy that a truly vital and cared for body willingly brings us, nor can any technological advancement bring us the connection that we can naturally have with each other from human to human.

170. From seeking comfort in our lives, we now choose re-connection to a truer way of living and our inner essence. And when we do, life has true meaning and purpose that goes beyond self and encompasses the all.

171. Comfort is a modern disease, that sweeps the nation and makes it easier for one human being to feel protected and distanced from every other human being. The ‘I’m alright Jack’ mentality.

172. It’s a great point about how we can become disengaged with all that’s going on in the world or even just in our close neighbourhood when we’re comfortable in our lives. It’s not that I think we need to suffer or be discontent, but the way that we use things makes a big difference – if we use them as a support to be in service for everyone or to hide and just look after ourselves…

173. Comfort is one of the sneakiest ‘foes’ because it can ‘feel so good’ – even though if one is deeply connected it actually does not feel so good! In general there is a blind urge to get to a comfortable spot in life, whether it be physical, psychological or spiritual – a blind, un-examined urge to obliterate tension, pain, uneasiness or any kind. The step into willingness to be truly aware of what the body is feeling is the all-important step out of this prison that we are unaware of being in, to begin to live authentically. This can take courage but is well worth it, not only for ourselves but for everyone and everything else.

174. Our relation with wellbeing is tainted by images of what that is. Images abound. Often, these images connect people with material comfort and all sort of things that suggest quality of life. Without denying that there can be indeed aspects of material comfort, these are not the source of our wellbeing they can only support it. Wellbeing is the result of a personal inner process that builds on qualities we already have equally so. It is not the privilege of a few, just a decision to walk a path, to move in a certain way.

175. My sense is the recent election in America has been a huge wake up call for many people who have been in comfort. Now they have a president such as Donald Trump, who nobody really thought was going to win, but did. A real reflection of where the country is at.

176. It is because we do not feel being connected and part of all of humanity that allows us to feel ourselves more or lesser than another. While this is felt as a disharmony in the body we try to escape in championing materialism or in numbing behaviours, all in trying to escape from that disharmonious feeling inside that if not truly listened to will lead to illness and disease and the waywardness we see in our today’s societies.

177. These are great questions to ask Christopher, and I know that I might have felt better in a situation where I was working than I actually have on a holiday, and yet we are conditioned to believe that holidays and possessions and attaining wealth is what makes a good life. In fact what I have learned is that connection with people makes for a great life, and this has nothing to do with where you are born or the leisure activities you do, or how much wealth I attain, but how much it is possible to connect with people in everyday situations. This for me breaks down the illusion of one country being better than another, and the nonsense of such lists even existing. Perhaps a true measure of a great country would be one that truly wishes to support others from around the world, and is reflecting values of decency and compassion to people when they come to visit that country, or to take it further, welcoming refugees and saying you need help, we are here for you, that would make my list of a top country, one that put people first regardless of where they are from.

178. I have observed how every step towards material wealth takes us further away from who we truly are.

179. Brilliant article Christopher. While I was reading it, I was imagining the reactions some might have, like, ‘what’s wrong with comfort’, ‘whats wrong with having nice things’ etc etc. And the answer is nothing is wrong with any of that, and actually that’s all besides the point. What you’re offering here is responsibiltiy along with those material things. It’s ok to have the stuff you want, but does it separate you from others, does it give you only that immediate gratification before you feel down again and need the next toy. How does it truly enrich your life in terms of who you are in society and as part of humanity? The problem with all our stuff, is not the stuff, it’s how we use it to escape the very thing we crave, connection with others.

180. There is a tendency to equate the well-being of a country (whatever that means) with the well-being of its people (whatever that means). Not really sure how to go about the former, but it is clear that trying to diffuminate the fact that people are not doing well with the other fact that we are doing well as a collective does not really help anyone because it provides incentives to keep going in a way that works for us (even though does not work for the individual necessarily).

181. Great point Christopher ‘This begs me to ask the question, “What is it about the way we are living that is giving rise to this upsurge in ill health?”’ The further away from truth we live the more comfort we seek, and as a result we live against our natural balance of life.

182. It is a sobering thought to realise that, “Ignoring the true messages our bodies are giving to us is compounding in its effects to produce an ever-sickening global population that none of us can escape, in spite of our wealth.” However, it is empowering because by appreciating this and honouring our bodies’ messages not only does our own life improve but we are each individually contributing to changing the world, believe it or not.

183. No matter what we are comparing, if we are measuring success by how another is doing we are instantly poor. Being in connection, reflecting to others the love we all are is what brings true wealth to our lives.

     1. Well Said Karin, if only we focussed on the immense wealth and wisdom we all have within, our relationships with each other would be more loving and true.

184. The current system of nation-states that makes a forced distinction between us and the others (those that do not belong in here) is a clear pillar of a world constructed on false foundations. Yet, it is a valuable resource for peope to learn specific lessons. Each country is like a different classroom.

     1. You are right Eduardo each country is like a different classroom with certain ‘givens’ to deal with (and enjoy too) – it will be structured this way until we evolve beyond this way of setting up the world. One day we will have a one unified living – no matter how long we delay on it it will inevitably come.

185. The bigger picture – there will come a time, not too far away, when affluent, comfortable western countries can no longer ignore the huge disparities between themselves and poorer countries. The march of the poor to the west has begun and will continue until the west responds responsibly to a global problem that belongs to all of us. Again terrorism is not the major problem, poverty and humanity’s disdain and disregard of brothers and sisters around the world is.

186. It is worth noting that within countries in comfort there exists pockets of extreme hardship and discomfort experienced by communities marginalised from mainstream life. In Paris this past weekend I was blessed to be shown a part of Paris rarely seen by tourists or most Parisiennes. 18th Arrondissement Paris, home and centre to thousands of refugees largely from Bangladesh, West and Eastern Africa, I walked within this sub-city within a city of visible misery, desperation and degradation as people largely homeless and mainly men hustled on the streets selling whatever they could for pin-money, many constantly on the move from police, everything transportable on mobile shopping bags, others slept and begged on the street, alcohol and drugs openly consumed or sold. This was a group largely ignored or abandoned by French Authorities. In one area mobile toilet facilities had been provided, open latrines for men, and only two closed cubicles, the stench was so pronounced, it made me want to wretch. Walk one hundred yards further, a canal, restaurants, cafes, life as normal, people sat in their own comfortable bubble juxtaposed with absolute human degradation. And winter hasn’t set in yet. What occurred to me was there doesn’t appear to be a plan by French Authorities, people have just been left to make their own way as long as it doesn’t encroach on mainstream, comfortable, affluent Paris. Scenes resembled what I imagined of poverty nineteenth century London or countries in the African and Indian sub-continents. But even in Africa, poverty comes with dignity and sense of self, not seen here.

187. ‘People are more afraid of being killed by terrorists than the real killers listed above’. Powerful observation Christopher and one that should feature large as a public health warning on advertising hoardings and cinemas.

188. What a great question Christopher, “What is it about the way we are living that is giving rise to this upsurge in ill health?” There is so much ill health on the rise, yet there is still a lot of speculation or wonderment as to why some people become ill. It is like they can have a blind spot as to how they got to where they are physically. There will come a time when we are called to take a deeper level of responsibility in how we live, and for some it will take them becoming super ill to make changes.

189. There is no doubt that some countries make your life easier than others and that support more than others. Being on ‘easy’ countries or ‘difficult’ ones, we tend to buy into images of life to make sense of our life. Those who are in easier, more supportive ones, usually have the arrogance of we are the best; those who live in more difficult environments rely upon the image of a proud Don Quixote, an image that talks about resilience. Images comfort us in one way or another.

190. Thank you Christopher for this very poignant article indeed! This certainly highlights the fact that for those of us who are privileged enough to have our material needs more than covered, is it then not our responsibility to use our privileged position to support others? I don’t mean by this that we should give money and possessions to charity, however there is much we can give back in so many other ways. The way we are in communities is key – if we shut ourselves off and just keep our privileged life to ourselves and those closest to us, then we are in effect creating a separation that will feed the injustices and greed more and more in the world. It is also not about blaming and honing in on the handful or so of individuals who have mass amounts of money and are seen to flaunt and abuse this, as really it is the vast majority of our population (us) who lives with more than adequate means yet more often than not choose not to reach out and embrace every brother on earth. We have much to ponder on how we live and what we appreciate and how we appreciate it – Appreciation can be disguising in a form of comfort and complacency, one where we compare to another that has less and say that we are thankful for the position we are in. This form of appreciation is false and only cements us in our narrow minded approach where only our family matters. True appreciation comes from our knowing that we are all a part of the whole and each and every one of us plays an important part of this whole, so the question remains: will we step up to play our role or pretend that we have no role to play?

191. This is a great question to reflect on, ‘Given that we are living in so much comfort, then why is illness and disease on the increase?’

192. There is nothing wrong with materialism per say. It is only when we make it the sole focus of our being and use it to identify who we are that it becomes a problem.

193. Countries in comfort is a great way to some up the current refugee crisis. Some counties are trying there best to reintegrate refugees and a few politicians are standing strong however many have crumbled under pressure from the right to not take anymore. We need to remember Refugees are people just like us not bargaining chips to be used selfishly for political agenda.

194. Just goes to show that the body can not lie… When cancer and disease is astronomically, we have to question whether we are truly better off, or as you have put it, simply more comfortable

195. ‘We are not supporting them to hold their kind, loving, considerate, harmonious, joyful and generous nature,…’ this sentence spoke loudly to me Christopher and reminded me that no matter how lost we become there is always a way home that is a breath or a choice away. We can come back and hold our own kind, loving, considerate, harmonious, joyful and generous nature.

196. “People are more afraid of being killed by terrorists than the real killers listed above”.
     This suggests to me Christopher, that illness and disease has become so normalised in our lives that the majority of us just accept that one day we will get one of these diseases. We think we are powerless and in that do not take responsibility for how we are living. The answers are so simple really but we seek complexity rather than simplicity.

197. I wonder where this attitude comes from, to care more for some people (sons, daughters, parents etc.) than for others. Who bastardized the word “family” which means “all of us” and started the concept that family is about blood lines?

     1. Thanks for sharing the original meaning of family – wow it makes so much sense to make it about ALL of US, and not just some of us, restricted by blood lines and DNA similarities.

     2. Thanks for explaining this Felix, its spot on that family means “all of us”. It makes so much sense.

198. Staying in our mentality of having our own little protected corner of the world, or our community, clearly isn’t working – not only are diseases and illness on the rise, we can no longer ignore the problems of the world, pretending they’re far away and there’s nothing we can do about them. This doesn’t mean that we have to take on all the world’s problems, but it does mean that we can no longer ignore our responsibility to look at how we are living, and the effect this has on our community, our country, the world at large.

199. With true love for oneself and all of humanity, comes joy and harmony with no need or craving for the next hit of happiness, just living life in a constant flow of contentment. Absolutely Christopher, when we do have true love for ourselves, we naturally love humanity, and that feeling of absolute love leaves you wanting for nothing, and enjoying every moment in your own divine company, feeling totally complete.

200. Thank you Christopher for asking the much needed question”Given that we are living in so much comfort, then why is illness and disease on the increase?” We seem to be lost in the illusion, thinking everything is ok if we can achieve material success yet we all know this is not true, yet as a society we continue on cementing the illusion of separation and individualism.

201. What you say here Christopher is so true…’ The focus becomes less and less about community and working together for the common good of all, instead shifting more and more to how good a life an individual can attain, or the individual family, or just smaller groups, no longer caring for the whole, just about the self and one’s closest.’ This shift away from care for the all to just caring about one’s nearest and dearest has been a way living for us on this planet for a very long time, with the exception of some individuals and communities – Essenes, Cathars, Pythagoreans, and others.
     I sense that the root cause at the base of this shift away from the good of the whole is for protection in what can appear to be a tough and brutal world, for even in the countries in comfort there can be strong physical, mental, and psychological abuse happening. It is time for the healing of hurts and the choosing of bringing our loving presence to all that we do, say and ‘think’.

202. Christopher what I felt very strongly when I read this was that you could have been writing from here in Australia, yet you are in Norway. It stopped me in my tracks to realise that the issues we are facing are global, and affect all of humanity. I had not connected with this as deeply before, thank you.

203. “What is it about the way we are living that is giving rise to this upsurge in ill health?”. Great question Christopher and one that needs to be honestly answered both by the masses and all of our governing leaders equally – something of which will undoubtedly be uncomfortable, but nonetheless absolutely necessary.

204. The true evil we are all living in and the comfort of not taking responsibility is huge and the rise in illness and disease from the way we are living in the world is out of all proportion. Material wealth ,distractions and numbing are all part of this and the truth of living comes from the way of the livingness being in connection with our bodies our true maker in balance and harmony with the oneness and universality we are.
     “With true love for oneself and all of humanity, comes joy and harmony with no need or craving for the next hit of happiness, just living life in a constant flow of contentment.” Beautiful.

205. We need to start getting real about the state of the world. The rates of illness and disease are staggering and we simply are not addressing the root cause of these illnesses. Just simply wanting our symptoms fixed does not support any of us to address what is really going on.

206. I live in one of the most liveable cities in the world, and yet every day, I walk past people living on the streets. What makes a city so desirable and liveable for some, whilst others are literally living in alleyways and sleeping in shop fronts?

207. “Ignoring the true messages our bodies are giving to us is compounding in its effects to produce an ever-sickening global population that none of us can escape, in spite of our wealth.” – wealth cannot buy health – fact. There are many mega-rich people who have died prematurely from ill health, proof of this fact. Lifestyle disease is our number 1 killer these days and that is a shocking fact we all have to face and stop trying to fix it through medicine and look at why this is the case. Yes, we need medicine to support us, but let’s not rely on it for the bandaid that it is.

208. That ranking of the comfortable countries to live in is a bit of a trick. If we have nothing to compare our life to – the life of people in other countries, or what it was like during the time of war etc., but only have our very own body and feelings to verify what really is going on – I wonder if we would ever feel ‘comfortable’.

209. Great points you are making Christopher particularly this one . . .
     “People are more afraid of being killed by terrorists than the real killers listed above” . . . . as this also shows us that we, as people, are unwilling to see that our lifestyle choices could also be seen as a slow form suicide.

210. I fully agree with you Christopher, that what Serge Benhayon presents can be used by us to find our way out of living in the comfortable ways we have created for ourselves as these do not serve humanity but only the individual instead.

211. “Given that we are living in so much comfort, then why is illness and disease on the increase?” – a pertinent question and one that asks us is the comfort really that comfortable? Our bodies are calling us to a greater truth…

     1. So well said Fiona, our bodies are calling us so much higher.

212. This blog really brings it home how we yearn for material possessions in the vain hope that we will feel better about our lives, and ourselves. Clearly deep down we know something is missing from our lives and when we look outside of ourselves at celebrities or rich people we think they have true happiness because they have the luxury of doing what they want, but many stories have been documented about how unhappy they are with their lives regardless of how much money they have. Like you have written in this blog Christopher, what are we teaching our children.

     1. We might yearn for material possessions, or experiences by which we define ourselves -both are the same, both give us that sense of security, identity, based on something outside of us: what we have or what we do. But these are temporary solutions that never truly fill the emptiness of not connecting to who we really are. Connecting to ourselves and getting to know who we are on a deep and fundamental level is the only real and solid security there is: it doesn’t go anywhere and is reliant on nothing from the world to make us feel good. When connection comes first, everything else is a confirmation of who we already are, not an additional layer we’re needing to define ourselves by.

213. Just that last sentence… that what Serge presents seems to me to offer the only way out of the nosedive that we collectively are in. With his inspiration we can each and every one of us pull out of the crash and learn to fly, inspiring others around us. Without it.. the health system will collapse under the weight of our repeated ill choices.

214. A position of comfort in life is but momentary, in the eternal nature of our existence. You have raised the question that needs to be raised by us all Christopher, as in, ‘why fool ourselves any longer?’
     Thank-you.

215. How readily we may long for the clarity of a Norwegian landscape, an idyllic island hideaway, or even the latest mobile phone… whilst we ignore the unignorable beneath our very noses…
     Without a restoration of the value of connection to our inner-most essence, from which true connection with humanity is known and we can no longer rest behind our comfortable and well dug-in fences, the ills that we face will remain, if not escalate.
     We are hurting because we’ve left our essential selves out of the picture, and continued to strive for an ideal that tantalises with ‘immunity’ from that which befalls us, but in reality, offers no such protection whatsoever.

216. Brilliantly said Christopher Murphy: “Living a privileged life in a beautiful place may make us feel better and more deserving than others, but while we bathe in comfort we are detaching ourselves from humanity…”
     We are bombarded from every angle to seek such a life, yet what you have laid bare here, is that it offers us no true solace, nor protection let alone resolution of the increasingly alarming ills that plague us.
     What we have prized is no prize at all.

     1. Spot on Victoria Warburton! The level of comfort increases and so does the arrogance of living far from where humanity is and what is truly needed.

217. “In my experience, no true joy has been found in material wealth, only fleeting moments of happiness never sustained, always followed by a come down, a dip or a depression.” I believe this is what most human beings experience when they get caught up in the trap of seeking happiness outside of themselves.

218. “Living a privileged life in a beautiful place may make us feel better and more deserving than others, but while we bathe in comfort we are detaching ourselves from humanity, taking part in material competition with each other, isolating ourselves instead of living together in harmony with everyone.” Absolutely! Your blog clearly exposes the evils of ‘comfort’.

219. No matter where I go in the world, I feel I am a part of them and therefore it is simply how I interact with people. Most of the time we do not share a common language, but almost in every country that I have been in, people will stop me on the street and ask me directions in their language, which I would always reply in our true common language—a smile deep from my heart.

220. The evil in comfort is that we choose not to see that it is deeply harming. The deepest comfort is to follow suit because everyone is doing it and this must “good” without truly feeling whether it is true. Being comfortable is what most of the world work hard to achieve in life, a luxurious lifestyle, physical gain. But when we truly feel, we know there is something deeply disharmonious with separation on every level, it is simply not natural.

221. The most settled feeling, a surrender back into myself is felt when I know nothing is more attractive than my own love within. The next most settled feeling is when this love meets with another human being and is reflected back. It is all about connection with ourselves and the knowing of our own self worth.

222. Australia is known as the “lucky country” and yet we have the highest rates of obesity anywhere in the world. Something definitely not right there.

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224. It is salutary when we realise the impact of comfort and how for so long we have seen ‘comfort’ as our right. It is beautiful the way you expose the true impact of comfort on our own lives, but more so the impact that it is having on our world and how it is undermining true brotherhood. Comfort is very devisive and is all about us feathering our own nest and gloating at our own good fortune when in truth all that we are acquiring is material wealth. True wealth is to be found in the wisdom of the universe and comes at no extra cost – the magic of God is available all around us and can fill us up to overflowing, as we find connection with one another and with the world around us, knowing that it is possible to live as one in true harmony.

225. “The race to attain material wealth can lead to the fact that we are no longer listening to what our own bodies are communicating to us as we go into competition and stress, living trapped in our minds instead of a truly healthy, loving and joyful life.” I can definitely relate to this, this is how i use to live 5yrs. But since i met Universal Medicine my life has change. I am making loving choices to take care of my health and body. With doing this everything has taken care of its self.

226. I realized as I was re-reading your blog Christopher, that it is OK for me to support these changes I need to make,but it is the livingness of same that will help to make them lasting changes. Humanity as a whole can make these changes one at a time and the ripple effect starts the flow .Possessions will not heal, but loving action will!

227. In my experience, since i have been living in a way of developing loving relationships wiht myself and my family, friends, colleagues, clients, yes everyone, as i live more from a place of purpose which is making life about humanity, and breaking down the individualist way of thinking, there is deep wealth opening up within that is solid, and if i was stripped back naked with all my possessions, i would still feel the deep sense of joy because that is my true foundation, not the possessions i own. Yet at the same time, my house and possessions are very much enjoyed because they now support me to live this way, so out is happiness and in
     is joy and appreciation.

228. If we took away the material wealth we have in our lives, stripped back naked, who would we be?

229. I would say, many of us know this statement only too well
     ‘In my experience, no true joy has been found in material wealth, only fleeting moments of happiness never sustained, always followed by a come down, a dip or a depression.’
     Then to ‘get back’ those feelings we go again to get that unsustainable hit of moments of contentment and happiness. But it does not last, it is frail because it has not substance. The substance is living from our true qualities that come from the inside out, committing to life and each other, the way of living has substance not the fleeting emptiness of a hit of happiness through material wealth.

230. If our country was the whole world, we would all come together with a sense of belonging and purpose, with the consideration of the whole, and how we all affect each other. Where resources would be shared, health systems, and so forth, if we saw ourselves as part of the world, it would stop the competitions, attempt in world domination, arrogance, or the less than mentality – it would break all this down, it would change our whole thinking – idealistic maybe, can this be lived – YES. I know in my own personal life as i bring the view that we are all the same, and if we work together regardless of our different cultures but start with we are people first, with the same needs, wants, and more than that building loving connections in all our relationships with responsibility, the walls of separation start to drop, the walls of competition, greed, divines start to drop. When these walls begin to drop – what do we have then?

231. That is great question to ponder on, if we as adults spoil our youth by our own created and comfortable lifestyles? To me there is a truth in that in this respect that I can feel that when I am not living in full presence and love of myself I allow by reflection other people and in this specific case our youth, to choose the same to me abusive behaviour and way of living, Thus in fact the way I live does not contribute to any change and adds to the way we are currently living in our societies or I can choose to live my life differently, in connection with my inner heart and through that way of living contribute to a possible change of lifestyle choices in our youth and in our societies as a whole.

232. The other day I read a survey about child poverty amongst the developed countries and Norway came out the top for having less cases of child poverty, whereas the UK and USA came out as the highest on this list. So how come one country can do it and others seem to flounder, could we not learn from each other.

233. There are some squarm-in-your-seat points raised here Christopher! Is the comfort we are in creating separation.. Yes! Most certainly. So is our countries boundaries and nationalities just as separative because in truth we are all just one people.

234. Reading this reminded me of the spate of incidences where people were being knocked to the ground and having their shoes stolen because they were of a certain brand and cost a lot of money – there are endless examples of people wanting things and the extraordinary lengths they will go to obtain them, all in the vain hope to feel better about themselves and their lives.

235. Wonderful bit of writing and so true that material wealth is not the way to find happiness or long term contentment, this in my experience can only be found by working with a consideration for everyone, not ever by basking in how good we have it ourselves. What I observe more clearly than ever before is how we seek to be distracted by the material goods, by the sensational news we are fed, but never really do we stop and take stock of what is really going on, and where the real priorities lie. Even just starting by acknowledging how crazy and unnatural it is to have so much sickness and war and corruption would be a great start in truly arresting it.

236. When illness and disease catches up with us because of our lifestyle choices, comfort is no longer that comfortable

237. When our lives seemingly tick all the boxes it is very easy to turn a blind eye to what is happening in other places. With recent global event s I heard radio dj’s talk about how lucky we were to be in Australia and be removed form what is happening in Europe this way of thinking is so irresponsible. We are all connected now is not a time to turn a blind eye to what is happening it is time to have conversations.

238. Christopher what you share here ‘The race to attain material wealth can lead to the fact that we are no longer listening to what our own bodies are communicating to us as we go into competition and stress, living trapped in our minds instead of a truly healthy, loving and joyful life.’ – is so true – we have sacrificed our bodies for what looks good to us, for what we attain rather than who we truly are. Why are we so consumed by what looks good on the outside? It is possible that we know we are not listening to our bodies and therefore our only resort is to make the outside look good so we don’t have to really truly see how far we’ve walked away from simply listening?

239. Focusing on the external things that kill us (terrorists, natural disasters, ‘accidents’ etc..) enable us to avoid the stark truth of the mass killers of illness and disease. It is a way for us not to take responsibility for our own choices. The irony of this perceived avoidance is that actually there are no ‘accidents’ and that everything; even the terrorists and natural disasters are all as a result of the choices that we are making as a global society.

240. Christopher your ending paragraph hits home with a big thump…Ignoring the true messages our bodies are giving to us is compounding in its effects. It is easy to skip over these words but the power is felt in your words that is a wake up call for us even though we may ‘think’ we are not effected. Looking deeper and stepping up to responsibility brings in the change.

241. Yes, it is interesting that we become more and more comfortable, especially in the Western World but not more healthy. The kind of illnesses do maybe change a bit and we do not have any plague anymore, but the modern plague, the modern epidemic are as gruesome when we honestly consider them. Beside the obvious ones like cancer, diabetes and alzheimer’s we have the more subtle ones like exhaustion, hopelessness (and its sublimation, the craving for entertainment) and loneliness, the lack of intimacy / connection. So what is in fact the gain of the ‘modern’ world?

242. To be driven by the thirst of material wealth leads to a feeling of emptiness and disconnection that is often attempted to be remedied my more material wealth. A vicious circle that does not and has not ever, served mankind.

243. Its clear that the majority of us are seeking comfort but by living in comfort we are just postponing that which is inevitable. If we are not choosing evolution this time round it will come knocking at our door next time. Perhaps even louder.

244. It seems that a life of comfort is not healthy at all. For me a life of comfort would be not needing to change, having everything just the way you like it. Having holidays and not having to work too hard, not needing to deal with anything too stressful and so on. When I look at this I wonder, where is the growth? Where are the challenges? Where are the chances to encounter other human beings and interact, learn, respond and learn to love humanity? It would seem a life of comfort holds no use for humanity and so no wonder it leads to illness.

245. We are witnessing the result of living a life of comfort here in England after the recent Brexit vote. We thought we would remain in, and so were complacent in this important decision.

246. I have found myself remembering this article many times during the last week since Britain voted to leave the EU. Countries in comfort have not considered we each have a responsibility to support one another. (Brotherhood is our natural make up. )They seem to be unaware of the harm this trying to covet things just for the few does to a person’s health and promotes comfort and privilege other countries have chosen to buy into and attempted to emulate. Articles like this and Universal Medicine’s presentations show clearly the ‘rot’ of dis-ease and illness associated with living in ‘comfort’

247. Hello Christopher and it’s interesting what we see as being the keys to be ‘the best country to live in in the world’. As you are saying we only see part of the story and a very one sided part. It’s not that we should doom and gloom it either but just be real, honest. That way, yes appreciate what is around you but look at the whole world and not just focus and feed apart that then leads to a false picture. You have given us some facts on Norway that I would be sure are the same for most of us. In other words scratch the surface of most things these days and you find a different story underneath then the one being sold on the surface. It’s great to see a bit more of what is going on, that way we can support everyone and not just champion a few.

248. A great blog, Christopher, very exposing, but oh so true. The way that we in the west compare ourselves to the rest of the world is so ugly. The great comfort we live in is built on such awful selfishness, lack of brotherhood, lack of interest, and greed, all so many of us are interested in is the well-being of ourselves, our family and close friends, with no care or interest in the wider world. It is time for us to open our eyes to what is going on in the world. We are actually all one humanity, brothers under the skin, and it is time we looked deeply at what is going on. Your blog is a great beginning to this end.

249. A very exposing, but insightful blog, thank you Christopher. Your question, “Given that we are living in so much comfort, then why is illness and disease on the increase?”is so pertinent for all of the Western countries, not just Norway. Although there are certainly pockets of extreme poverty in the West, in general the standard of living is far, far higher than in much of the world. Yet our levels of illness and disease are rising constantly. This comfort that we are living in is killing us. Our striving for comfort blinds us to what our bodies are constantly communicating to us, that we do not want to listen to. Until we learn to listen to our bodies, begin to build our self love, and experience the great joy that is available from connecting to ourselves, will we learn that simplicity of living our lives as our bodies are telling us is the key to attaining true health.

250. As we can see with the recent Brexit vote here in England comfort was a major contributor to the result, many did not vote thinking it did not concern them and many who did vote did not really research what it was all about and were happy instead to believe lies sold by media. The day after the vote Google reported a huge number of people where googling to see what the European Union was actually about and what it stood for. When we hide in comfort we are blinded to what is really going on.

251. For us to say that being in comfort is enjoyable while our bodies are clearly telling us that we are not doing so well shows just how much distraction, stimulation and energy the outer world must comfort us with in order to not feel the fact.

252. The longer we live in comfort the more harder it is for us to get out of it, comfort ultimately separates us.

253. It is an age old question – what makes a good life? I know that for a long time I always wanted improvement and to better my life, first i wanted more security than I had as a child and then I wanted more for my children than I had. The more we obtained the less connected we became as a family, the getting became the primary focus. Reconnecting to our purpose individually and as a family and quality of relationships has changed what we consider “good”.

254. This is a brilliant piece on how the world has been divided by country, race religion. Humanity lives in disconnection and comparison rather than uniting as a whole. But really this is in the comfort of not taking responsibility for where the world is at as a whole. We look at it in separation – of what goes on in our own backyard rather than the bigger picture. But your DNA will show you we are all related to each other.

255. A great blog Christopher highlighting the dire plight of humanity as a whole. What you have written here is very powerful;
     ”Ignoring the true messages our bodies are giving to us is compounding in its effects to produce an ever-sickening global population that we none of us can escape, in spite of our wealth”.

256. Christopher, you have raised some great questions for us all to ponder on how as a society we have made life about the material and have taken the connection with our bodies for granted and thereby almost granted a right to abuse them in order to be in comfort as that is what is deemed normal.

257. The irony is that those societies that end up reaching the pinnacle of materialism and modern comfort often ending up seeking the very same ways of living as forms of recreation that the developing countries are seeking to escape. Go figure.

258. This is a great question we should all be asking ourselves, ‘What is it about the way we are living that is giving rise to this upsurge in ill health?’ Most people now understand that lifestyle choices affect our health, so why wait till we become one of the new statistics to re-evaluate how we live.

259. We may think that we are comfortable, but the world proves it otherwise – we are actually very uncomfortable. Comfort is killing us, our sensitivity, our potential – or has it already? It that why we think we are making our life more comfortable while making ourselves sicker physically/mentally/emotionally?

260. Material wealth at the expense of ourselves and humanity is a receipe for disaster, whereas ‘with true love for oneself and all of humanity, comes joy and harmony with no need or craving for the next hit of happiness, just living life in a constant flow of contentment.’

261. What you have said, Christopher, about ‘gloating’ is very interesting:’ I know I have bragged to others about how great it is living in my country, the luxury of it, the beautiful countryside and mountains of Norway. This is not just appreciating the beauty of our country but gloating and supremacy’. Well said! The act of ‘gloating’ involves a comparison with others – it’s an ‘I’m alright, but you aren’t’, all about self-comfort and amassing protection all around us, and it is closely related to the thought construct of “I’m king of the hill’ – an attitude and stance of supremacy. Such a way of being is all about self and comparison and has nothing to do with the true way of living in equal-ness. Equal-ness does not imply uniformity, simply a knowing that we are all of the same divine essence. When we know this beautiful quality of equal-ness within, there will be no extremes of wealth or poverty, and everyone will have enough to live well and productively, and without stress or fear.

262. It is true, the temporariness of our material succes is chosen to overide the clear signs of ill health that are governing our countries. In forgetting each other, and not living in a way that is connected to the all, we create ill health that only can be stopped by choosing to look further than the material world and feel that we are part of a much bigger picture than our own ‘perfect’ lives.

263. Material values only give momentary success. and the value of our lives is determined by the love we live. these are the take home points that this blog has provided me with.

264. I sometimes wonder why there is such a drive for huge material wealth – does it come from a fear of survival, that if we don’t enjoin this race, then by default we will be left behind in poverty and struggling to survive… is it to cushion ourselves, to set up a fortress where we have money so to protect ourselves from the vulnerability of being out in the world at the mercy of others, or to make ourselves look successful as a person, to be popular, win a partner, but underneath hiding the insecurity and emptiness because we have lost who we are; do people become rich and powerful and bully others to make sure they will never be bullied again? whatever the reason, the drive comes at the expense of forsaking who we truly are and the true riches that are on offer to us everyday. It doesn’t mean we can’t have material wealth, but if we lose ourselves in the process of gaining it, then it simply isn’t worth it. True wealth comes from within and sharing that with all.

265. Material wealth can bring you happiness, but it will never bring you the sustenance of love. That is not to say material wealth is bad. It is neither. It is inert in nature. It is our attachment to material wealth that is the problem.

266. This whole idea about countries and our little pockets of so called comfort is not comfortable at all in the way we commonly misuse the word comfort. Unimedpedia Comfort: http://www.unimedliving.com/unimedpedia/word-index/unimedpedia-comfort.html has a great explanation of the true energetic meaning of the word comfort and the grim reality of living a so-called comfortable life.

267. Even the idea that we live in separate countries and are not connected is not true energetically. God did not draw little lines on the earth and separate humanity into different countries, cultures, religions, nationalities etc – we are all one and all affected by each other and the all.

268. Material wealth alone can never bring completeness in life – what we put into true service can.

269. ‘There are many people in countries in our world today who love to talk about the standard of living statistics or the ‘best place in the world to live’ because their country ranks at No. 1 in the world. All such statistics can be immediately clocked, as you have done Christopher, as being false, because they are based on competition which is contrary to the universal law of love and truth. First of all there is the ranking and comparing – a deeply destructive way of thinking, and then there is the question of ‘what on earth are the criteria that make a country number one in the world’. The whole thing is crazy and yet we find comfort in such illness and, in the end, downright evil.

270. Love the balance in what you say here Katie. It landed on my screen this morning as a beautiful confirmation of something I wrote yesterday in an article. We can be truly appreciative of the material ‘possessions’ or aspects that support us in life, while not focusing on them at the expense of ours and others’ well-being. (the kookaburras have just burst out in a huge laughing session).

271. No matter the glamorous pictures that abound our media, TV, film and music world of people ‘looking’ happy because of what they have, the increase in illness, disease and mental ill-helath is a clear indicator that all is not well in our illusionary world.
     As we take up the reigns to be more responsible with our choices of how we live as so eloquently portrayed in this blog – we begin to turn the tide

272. There was a post on Facebook I read and shared this week about nationality and how we often take pride in things that we haven’t done, and use it to create a barrier to people from other countries that we haven’t met and don’t know. These types of lists Chris describes are perfect for creating this illusion about where we live. It exposes how ridiculous it is that we could take pride that we came from a country with beautiful scenery, or where the country did well at Sport, or badly for that matter, or there are lists of all the things say Australians have invented, we identify with things that are not true or not worthy of having pride in them. I also saw another post that highlighted how we have DNA spread across many countries, and that many people who had a hatred or dislike for one country were shown to have a percentage of their lineage from that country. Such things while not the whole picture of who we are, expose the ridiculousness of our pretense that we are this nationality or that, when in fact we are one humanity, and this is not a fluffy hope but a ground in fact.

273. Yes, Christopher, I can too speak from experience that living a privileged life of comfort does not truly advance humanity in any respect. It is far too easy to slip into apathy, a lack of purpose and direction. We cut off connection to ourselves and each other so life becomes about acquisitions rather than relationships, and we constantly uphold a false sense of identity while feeling terribly empty inside. Thank God that Serge Benhayon is opening our eyes to this modern day imprisonment.

274. “In my experience, no true joy has been found in material wealth”……I think if we all asked ourselves this question, the answer would be the same. Materials can be bought to support you and your home but often they are bought to achieve a certain look or feel or attain a certain status. And I liked your last sentence because I also feel that Serge Benhayon is offering a genuine way out of this mess that we are living in.

275. I find it interesting that in the ‘advanced’ society that we have, it is seen ‘responsible’ to take out insurance policies in case something happens to us and we are unable to financially support our loved ones in the future , but it is not so fashionable to have a fundamental look at our lifestyle choices that supports a loving, joyful and healthy life which directly impacts the lives of those same loved ones.

276. It is like there is a fire in our bedroom, and rather than addressing this and putting it out, we install a brand new widescreen TV, put state of the art ventilation in, buy a sofa with the finest italian leather, and a thick warm rug to make sure our feet do no suffer. Whilst these things may be supportive in a way, they will come to naught very quickly when our room burns down and comes to an end. So isn’t it time as you present Christopher for us to get honest about the bigger issues we face? Because despite the impression that we can keep going, unless we address the health of our race, the increases in disease and disaster will just carry on.

277. There is such competition between people in different countries, claiming the great aspects to ‘their’ country. Often it’s the climate, but it is almost anything is used to parade the fact that they have made better choices and live in a better country, it all just gets in the way of having a true relationship.

278. Comfort comes to mind Doug. It is not that sacrifices like wars are the answer to fixing the world for today they are like video games played from the other side of the world with drones and after a hard day at the war you drive home and have dinner with the family. Or, they are the other side of the world and don’t affect us. We also have created the ‘give me’ generation of I want it now. There is nothing that we feel anymore as a group that, as you have said Doug, pulls us together and be one again. Life has become all about ”me, myself and I’! Serge Benhayon is the only person I know of that is offering us a choice of how to come back to who we are meant to be.

279. ‘If we consider this along with the comforts that are being sought by some, e.g. luxury lifestyles with yachts and holiday homes being prioritised over and above personal health and wellbeing, are we not collectively out of balance?’ – And rich or poor, comfort can be found anywhere, whether we spend our money buying a yacht or fill our shopping trolleys with food that trashes our body.

280. Gosh, if our current rates of disease don’t make us un-comfortable enough, what more will it take?

281. It is so true Christopher, our life-style is intimately connected with our state of health and well-being. There is a striking contradiction between the Norwegian and other ‘first world’ countries’ affluence and standard of living and the devastating medical statistics that you have presented here. We have comfort, we seek comfort, and yet much of this is detrimental to our state of vitality. The key thing is, how we look after ourselves, how we eat and sleep, and how we connect to our own inner love, how we relate to each other. If this is done in a quality of awareness and love then it matters not whether we are affluent or not!!

282. “In my experience, no true joy has been found in material wealth, only fleeting moments of happiness never sustained, always followed by a come down, a dip or a depression.” I agree with this and know that true wealth for me is measured by the quality of my relationships.

283. If we are truly connected to ourselves and have a deeply caring and loving way, it matters little whether we have material wealth, are less well off, ill or in good health, we will live life with integrity, dignity and in a way where we will treat all we meet, regardless of their or our own circumstances, in equality.

284. True wealth for me has nothing to do with luxury, money or anything outside of myself for that matter. True wealth for me has to do with my connection with other people and the feeling of being connected with everybody around me. It is a richness inside and a feeling of belonging to something far bigger than we can imagine.

285. The imbalance in society is very well worth pondering on Chris, as you say, while we may consider ourselves ‘lucky’ for living in whatever comfort we have, there is always more we can reflect on to help us all to live in greater harmony together. Feeling the joy of life has nothing to do with material wealth, yachts or big houses, it comes from an understanding of connection to love, truth and a deep respect to every person on this planet.

286. It’s interesting that when people manage to attain the lifestyle they want they then often set about abusing their bodies. The sun and jet-ski existence tends to come with free flowing alcohol and other substances that supposedly add to the high-life. But what is this other than merely indulgence and a way of numbing ourselves to the rest of the world? And what does it contribute to the rest of the world? If we have the money we need to live comfortably why does that have to mean the end of the road? This self-centred attitude is what has got us into trouble. We tend to get lost in our own existence instead of maintaining a sense of humanity as a whole and the fact that we are part of that. This blog has exposed the ‘I’m alright Jack’ attitude so beautifully, and not just on an individual scale but also on a collective scale. Comfort is a killer for any potential for humanity.

287. “We are not supporting them to hold their kind, loving, considerate, harmonious, joyful and generous nature …” Its sad really that we, humanity have come to place material possessions and technological gadgets as being more important than these innately powerful qualities that reside in us all. No amount of money or material goods can ever fill the emptiness we feel inside when we neglect to nurture our wisdom, grace and love. Raising our children with this awareness first is the most luxurious thing we can offer them in life, cherishing harmony, truth and joy brings true wealth to every family.

288. The one with the most toys wins! We collect things because we can and with money we can collect lots more things. Then we need a bigger house to put all of this stuff, it becomes our personal shrine, look at all of my stuff! There in no joy in this mountain of things. When someone passes away, somebody else always has to deal with all of this stuff they had considered valuable. The value in possessions is only in the eye of the beholder, one’s man’s junk is another man treasure. A life lived well is the only real treasure that is the same for everyone, and it is priceless!

     1. Well said Steve, its amazing that we put such a high value on the things that don’t matter as much as living in Truth, Joy and Harmony.

289. Countries and people in comfort – a recipe for disaster as you describe it so well, propped up by a huge divide between the haves and have nots and a health system that is groaning under this immense burden.

290. This line really struck a cord when I reread this blog again…”People are more afraid of being killed by terrorists than the real killers listed above.” This is true Christopher. If we spent the same time focusing on the big killers such as cancer, diabetes and mental illness then we do about terrorist acts surely we would be more real about the comfort and good life we chose to live in and realise it is not so ‘comfortable’ or ‘good’ after all?

291. We only want to believe in our life within the walls of our comfortable reality, and we do a good job of manufacturing an existence that keeps us imprisoned within these camps.

292. And no wonder kids compete with each other about who is better than or who has the better toy, when we are constantly doing it between countries, its basically in the air.

     1. This competition is instilled in us from a young age and if children are getting this as a reflection then we can start to see why it is the way lived by many.

293. The cancer and diabetes rates you describe Chris, as a trend for Norway are similar to the global trends, I.e. we are getting sicker even in the countries (perhaps especially) that top the list of most desirable etc. To me that shows we have missed the point about what life is about, its not about attainment of extreme wealth, and the pandemic of greed that afflicts our societies, our need for fame, celebrity, wealth and comfort, our desire to retire, our wish for it to be Friday. Life is really about connection, about understanding and supporting people, and doing so from a place where we have supported ourselves, but not in any extreme materialistic way, simply giving us the platform from which to see that life is about everyone, and that is, we have success in our country, but there is war in another, then that is no success at all.

294. I too have said and listened to another comment about how beautiful the countryside of Wales, Uk where I live is and while it is, there has often been an arrogance of feeling ‘better than’ another part of the world attached to it. In this ‘better than’ stance there will always be a country/countries worse off. How can there be true harmony and love in the world with this attitude when in truth we are all of the same flesh and blood?

295. Countries living in comfort keeps the momentum of separation between countries and in this separation there is no joy, harmony or love to be found. I have come to realise that it begins with me and the way I choose to live making choices to heal that which separates me from myself and therefore another.

296. This blog has really opened up the truth about comfort for me. It involves every aspect of my life – macro and micro.

297. I also wonder if comfort really is comfort when there is such ill-ease. In many of the countries with supposedly great lifestyles there is also incredibly high suicide rates, which suggests to me we seem to get sucked in by a marketing campaign… Or two.

298. It is very true, we can live in comfort ignoring what work there is to be done to bring equity till that inequity sits firmly on our doorstep. The trouble is, very often they too sat in comfort to the point they missed the warning signs till it was too late.

299. “The focus becomes less and less about community and working together for the common good of all, instead shifting more and more to how good a life an individual can attain…With these values, greed, self-image and materialism can take over.” Life does seem to have become all about getting that house, car and material trappings at the expense of working together for the community and for the benefit of all equally so.

300. When we read it like this and see truth of what is really going on supported by the presentations and revealations of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine we can see that it doesn’t need to be like this. That we do actually have a choice in the way our future will unfold. So we can either continue with the momentum of what we have been choosing, and clearly the status of our health is showing us that it is not working, or we could start to make the changes that are needed to work and be in harmony with ourselves which in turn is what we bring to the world.

301. It’s true what you’ve shared here Christopher, with all our seeming comforts and moments of happiness in life when looked at beyond that ‘better’ haze the state of play is far graver and shows that comfort is not in any way the success that we invest into trying to maintain such an image. Taking a step back from the comparison of ‘my life is better’ allows us to see that remaining static in that ‘better’ is not true and there is always more because the quality we can bring through will always be grander than the material world around us.

302. Comfort, it’s a word I didn’t truly understand until recently. I always thought comfort to be something to go after and to want, something great. Yet the fact we can be comfortable not taking responsibility for our health, comfortable with problems and issues shows how damaging comfort is. To now consider entire countries in comfort takes things to an entirely new level, something where we have to really see how “comfortable” life is and why we choose to continue something that we know in truth is not working.

303. “While we bathe in comfort we are detaching ourselves from humanity, taking part in material competition with each other, isolating ourselves instead of living together in harmony with everyone.” We think we are ‘happy’ but it is a poor reflection of the joy that can be felt when we live in true harmony together. Our world, with the nuclear family, the retirement homes etc is designed for us to live in isolation and this leads to depression, suicide and crime. For many of us it’s a very lonely existence until such time as we widen our sights to embrace humanity and let people in.

304. As you say Christopher, the real killers are the escalating lifestyle diseases such as diabetes, obesity, cancer, which are a result of our lack of responsibility and our tendency to not want to take an honest look at what we are doing to ourselves. So long as we have ‘the good life’ we tend to not want to look at the big picture but just hide in the comfort we have created for ourselves. This certainly is not ‘truly living’.

305. Comfort is killing us! Now that should be the headline on every newspaper and media article. Its time to wake up

306. Countries in Comfort is a great title – as we are long overdue for a full stop and stock take of where we are at – all too often we slide along in the laziness of aligning to our country’s culture, education, politic, instead of truly seeing what is happening all around us and speaking up to that which does not feel ok. And countries champion their culture and compete against other countries in sport which so often takes on the aggression, control, supremacy and blind hate of a war zone. If we commit each one of us to discerning what is true and truly good, and what is merely individualism on a lesser or grander scale we can begin to develop true relationship – starting between each other and extending out to all around the world no matter which part of the earth they are living on.

307. Wealth or poverty, gentile or jew, colour or nationality – none of these make any difference. Each of us through collectively sharing truth, and living with love, which is truth, brings a divine purpose and a responsibility that can unify. Love becomes a true responsibility and with God giving us free will, we have to choose love! The freedom of choice to re-connect to being divine in purpose has never been so easy, as the energy, which unites us all – our ‘soul energy’ (the love of God) – is closer than at any time in history. We can ask ‘why is illness and disease on the increase’? Could it be that humanity fights this ‘energy of the soul,’ and it is this resistance that brings on illness and disease?

308. What a great question “… Given that we are living in so much comfort, then why is illness and disease on the increase?…” When we have the availability of luxuries, food, technology, shelter, it is a stark reality to recognise that the prevalence of illness and disease continues to climb… We may have it all… but not have true health.

309. It seems all this comfort and focus on material wealth , i.e what is outside our selves , is starving us of our inner world of love an connection first with ourselves then with others . There is so much protection in comfort , and yet so much time spent as humans keeping up with Jone’s type behaviour .Always looking for the next thing to satisfy us as so we stay in constant distraction or motion ,yet we are suffering greatly as communities every where with increased rates of illness and disease. How long will it take for Us to admit that our materialism and standard of living increase as well as longer living in a lessor way is not really working just distraction from the truth of our bodies and minds .

310. This is such a true statement Christoper – “The simple act of taking a moment to ponder on how we are living our lives, considering how we can best care for ourselves and others, could help us all to live in harmony together, in a greater state of true health and feeling the joy of life. And if we truly consider this, we might come to the conclusion that every person on the planet is the same as we are, no matter their colour, religion, nationality, gender, age or size.” When all of humanity has arrived at this deep truth and knowing, then true brotherhood might be possible.

311. “In my experience, no true joy has been found in material wealth, only fleeting moments of happiness never sustained, always followed by a come down, a dip or a depression.”
     Isn’t it interesting that we strive to be wealthy even if the outcome of wealth does not support our state of wellbeing?

312. It is a simple glance at the statistical data to prove that something is terribly wrong. The simple truth is it is the way we are all living that contributes to rising illness, not population growth, but this is too simple to comprehend it seems. The WHO (World Health Organisation) state that 68% of illness is lifestyle related, so it’s already being said, I just wonder how long it takes to become truly understood and society make the changes.

313. Christopher you raise some excellent points here, it made me realise how we are brought up to live in comfort, to make sure we have what we need, or to be more honest what we desire, without any thought towards another human being’s situation. It is time to be more honest about what the world really needs and not just us as individuals.

314. It is interesting and revealing to honestly explore the automatic thoughts we have about the country we live in and then to consider what we think about other countries, particularly if we imagine living there. There are so many perceptions and opinions around that actually segregate us, either in pride or jealousy, simply because of where we live.

     1. There is much pride that is lived by many over the holding on to what belongs to a country means. There have been many lives lost in our history due to wars, violence, racism and even sporting events where this pride is given front seat.

315. Great topic what you raise here how the individual and the possessions are more in the front and brotherhood and working together in harmony gets more in the back. From this point of view it makes total sense that there are so many refugees coming into the western countries and what call is there for everybody concerning them.

316. Countries in comfort are only made up of people in comfort. More and more I can feel how comfort has a stranglehold over us, because of our investment in it.

     1. And comfort goes hand in hand with complacency, arrogance, a sense of entitlement and a disinterest for those less ‘fortunate’.

317. Christopher your description of how children are being left alone to be parented by TV and gaming is what I observe in daily life. How are we teaching young people the skills to be with others in a meaningful way when by our actions we are teaching them they are not worth being with or communicating with? I wonder how they will relate to others when they have friends or seek partnerships? It is part of our natural expression to be with others and love one another yet if they’ve not had this shown to them they may seek intimacy through behaviours that cannot be intimate only abusive to their bodies.

318. This is a great blog Christopher, and there is much to ponder and also put into practice in our lives. Just because we are fortunate to live in a peaceful and affluent country doesn’t then put us above anyone else or other country. We too have many illnesses and diseases that are on the rise and can’t afford to rest on our status as so many do; we too have obesity, illness, disease and poverty here in our country. We are so fortunate to have the teachings of Serge Benhayon and The Way of The Livingness to inspire us.

319. With all of our distractions and pursuits of new accolades it seems so obvious that we are choosing to ignore our responsibility for our own state of being, looking for comforts in that which we can create. There is so much we can do to truly support ourselves by starting to make simple choices that there really is no need for comfort.

320. It is very exposing to see that we find our comfort through other peoples dismay and suffering. And even more exposing that we have come to believe that what happens to another does not concern us. In an increasingly disconnected society it is important to raise the voice of connection, the voice that speaks of brotherhood, energy and interconnectedness.

321. Apart from all the other great things you bring up in this blog Christopher your first alinea raises already an important point. I come from a country where children are deemed the happiest in the world and yet the level of mental disorders and stress, the bullying in classrooms, the pressures of education and groups, the illness and disease is far greater then when my parents, or even I myself, were young. Is it possible that we continue the shift the parameters of what health and wellbeing mean and that we dare only look at a very superficial level?

322. The line between “taking care of yourself and your family” seems to have blurred somewhat into what is comfort and sometimes greed. It is very important to have the fundamental care for self, with healthy food, shelter and water, but when that turns into greed at the detriment of others, we have a problem.

323. Where are we at to define comfortable as feeling more better off than another?

324. Thinking we are different brings separation and from this position no true unity and harmony can be built. This perpetuates separation and so we are left with humanity feeling isolated, righteous and protective. This is no way of living, in relationships, families, towns, countries. We know that true connection is the way to heal, build and prosper together.

325. It is so easy to sit on comfy sofas, talking and watching the news on TV,saying “oh isn’t it bad in those countries, they really need to sort themselves out.” And this is a conversation that happens where often the poverty ridden, worn torn countries are so often derided as less. Yes they are in a mess and require support and accountability from those involved in perpetuating the mess, but how about what is going on in ‘countries in comfort’ as you so eloquently describe. A country in comfort is no different from a person, thinking that they are set, they have the money, the house the education, the holidays, all good, but is it, how about the stress, the relationships, the health, the emotional mood swings, the inability to feel joy every day, and so the true reflection of life is a little different from the outer show of comfort. There is a lot for us all to look at concerning the truth of what is occurring in humanity.

326. It is clear that a complete shift in awareness is required if we are to understand and live what is truly needed. The first question is ‘do we actually care?’ If we don’t care we will continue to live in the same old way with no wish to change our awareness. Perhaps the first step is to decide if we do actually want to care.

327. It can be very easy not to see what is happening when living in opulence, always seeking for more and nothing can satisfy our desire any longer. We don’t appreciate what we have any more, always feeling left out when in fact we have it all… Egocentrism takes over, often jealousy comes with it. The body is also paying a high price for it as most of the time as we tend to indulge with more comfort like chocolat, cakes from the best pâtissiers, expensive wines and champagnes.

328. When we make life about comfort, we actually cut ourselves off from who we truly are and the immensely rewarding lives we could be living. Money is a supportive tool when used to the benefit of all humanity, it enables us to initiate projects that bring people into greater connections with themselves and one another. Just fixing our sights on lining our own nest never truly satisfies our deep desire for connection and evolution and hence we remain captive on the hamster wheel of desire. There are ways to truly use money and wealth to support humanity to evolve and up until meeting Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine I had no true model of how this could be done. Now I do and know in absolute truth there is so much more to life than accumulating wealth and expensive toys, when we put true evolution in our sights it brings an immense wealth of love and connection to the most ordinary day.

329. It is clear from this blog that comfort can on the one hand be seen as an ideal state of living – to be living comfortably is to have everything that you need, to be well taken care of, to not be in struggle or strife. And on the other hand comfort can be regarded as the mask that hides the disharmony between people, the vast rates of illness that seem to be taking over our bodies, the general unrest of knowing that there is more to life.

330. The animated film Wall-E had a bitter truth about what living in comfort can do to us. One only needs to look at the statistics for obesity. A foreboding future would await us unless we chose to listen to our bodies again.

331. I guess it might take some time to turn the tanker of materialism but it is inspiring to consider every incremental move away from the blind greed and acquisition desire we live with now.

332. There is even a contradiction in championing what we deem a lucky country. If Lucky means more people experiencing illness and disease of all kinds – what is really being championed here?

333. It feels so arrogant when I hear these lists of why ‘my’ country is so good compared to others when there is so much mess in the world. The interesting thing is many of these countries harbor spiraling health crisis, depression, suicide and abuse. The image may ‘look’ good, but behind those doors it is quite a mess.

334. I was in a course yesterday where our inventions and technologies were being celebrated for us coming such a long way and yet on the other hand most were there because of the difficulties they were having in workplace relationships, especially bullying. We may think that we are evolving, but we have to ask are we really when the state of our relationships are really going backwards. Are our priorities in the wrong places? After reading your article Christopher, I would say yes.

335. I agree Christopher that Serge Benhayon does have the answers to how we can deal with all the world crisis, he had made nothing but sense in the last 14 years since I met him, all his predictions of where the world was heading have come true and those who listen and make sensible loving changes to their lives are living the opposite of the normal in health wellbeing and commitment to others. World leaders need to get to know Serges philosophy.

336. I come from a very beautiful part of the world and when visiting there a few years ago after not visiting for quite sometime I was struck by how easily you could think nothing was wrong in the world, if you had no news you literally would be in heaven, yet whilst so many of our brothers live and work in abject poverty, war, disease more now than any other time in history it is so important that we continue to open our eyes and hearts to what is going on and make the necessary adjustments to how we are living to bring back love and harmony.

337. I saw this selfish arrogance in action yesterday when a class of children had a bag of on echoes and the task was to make one connecting path, some grabbed 10 whilst others had none or one. I stopped the class and made the observation of what had happened and how this micro moment represented why the world was such a mess as when we are just out for ourselves it is the opposite of our natural state of harmony and love.

338. To know where true wealth lies is a country’s blessing. Which country does know that this treasure is found in the inner-heart?

339. Once there is separation of any sort there is ‘me’ and ‘mine’ and comparison, which allows for competition, jealousy, greed, and the ability to treat others as lesser and so on till we get to the point where wars and killing others, because they are different to us, becomes common place and acceptable.

340. The thing is if we all got out of our comfort and lived helping everyone instead of just looking out for ourselves we would be so much better off and the gap between those with nothing and those that have so much would no longer be an issue.

341. The blinkered feathering of our own nests, without a view on others, is a really ugly way to live and one that we are seeing the results of everywhere. It is amazing to view ourselves in the whole world and see the impact of our attitude to live with disregard or ignorance of the fact that we are all in this together.

342. There are different ways in which we can create for ourselves a singled out spot in this life, one of identification and individualism that shuts out the connection to our soul. To this purpose there is in truth no difference between richness and poverty, succes and failure. I have witnessed first hand the world of the rich in well of countries and it is void of love, connection and brotherhood and filled with drama, illness, addiction,depression, mistrust, greed and selfishness. None of our worldly possessions will ever return us to who we truly are, only the Way of the Livingness can guide us there.

343. I live in a country where a toilet lifts its lid automatically, keeps the seat warm, and washes and dries your bottom – obviously somebody somewhere has thought of everything and put so much effort into making our time on the toilet very comfortable – while there’s so much disharmony and tension on personal health and relationships. It feels like we are living in a whirlwind of some kind where our perception is fixated on looking at how to come up with a solution that keeps intensifying, and anything that calls for genuine a stop gets squashed.

344. And I have to add that this sentence is GOLD: “Given that we are living in so much comfort, then why is illness and disease on the increase?” – this is the million dollar question. If our technological advances are so called ‘huge’ and medicine is improving and we are living more and more in comfort, then surely there must be some explanation as to why the incidence of illness and disease is doubling, tripling, quadrupling and the complexity of the diseases is increasing phenomenally. You ask some very very valuable questions Christopher – thank you for opening up the conversation.

345. Christopher, you bring up many great points in this blog – for example when you say these simple but exposing words: “no true joy has been found in material wealth, only fleeting moments of happiness never sustained, always followed by a come down, a dip or a depression.” – this exposes the whole game that our society is still so intent on playing – the game where we seek material wealth as a substitute for feeling content and truly settled, Material wealth is like the carrot that is dangled in front of us to give us motivations to move ‘ahead’ so to speak. But once you have eaten the carrot, there is little of true contentedness left if you have chased the carrot for the carrot. And then of course the opposite is true to, that ignoring the carrot and giving it the finger (as in criticising money making and material wealth) really does not bring an ounce of contentedness either. And so it is for us to look at how we are living with each other…to question the quality of our relationships rather than the amount of money we have spent on a car, house or interior design. In the end it is the quality of our relationships that bring us true and lasting joy in life.

     1. Whether we are playing the game to win (going for the carrot) or to lose (deriding the carrot) it is the same game and the collusion in the perpetuation of the game is equal. We do have a choice to set the game aside and, as our reason for doing pretty much anything, actually meet/connect with people first.

        1. I agree Matilda, the carrot game serves no one, however, connecting with people serves everyone!

346. There are many gems in this blog that I would love the world to read and this is but one of them “With true love for oneself and all of humanity, comes joy and harmony with no need or craving for the next hit of happiness, just living life in a constant flow of contentment.” This observation makes me realise just how many people in society are not truly happy and are instead chasing the carrot for their next fix or distraction. Great blog Chris, thank you.

347. When we are doing well on a physical level we can then choose to be in comfort about our ‘success’ or we can use it as a base to grow from by acknowledging how well we are doing and to see and feel what else is there to do or available to be. This is greatly assisted if we know who we are – without that knowledge being in comfort can appear quite sensible.

348. Comfort feels insidious. It creeps in like a stranger in the night, invited by a choice to hold back our truth and ultimately hold back others. It’s a false form of protection that we can easily deny exists until, of course, we choose to see that it is all of our own making and the mess that it is actually creating.

349. Great to re-read this article Christopher, ‘With true love for oneself and all of humanity, comes joy and harmony with no need or craving for the next hit of happiness, just living life in a constant flow of contentment.’ I can feel how it is common in society for us to be wanting the highs – the holidays; the exciting times; buying expensive things; living in a certain place, but these highs never last, life is then a roller coaster of highs and lows and it feels like we are then compromising on the everyday feeling of steadiness, joy and contentment that is possible if we instead focus more on our selves and our quality of being.

350. The evil of comfort is that it freezes us in a fog that doesn’t consider our responsibility to other people. In our hearts we all deeply care for one another, so it doesn’t make sense that we can be living in a country that feels safe, laid back and beautiful without at least wanting the same for everyone else.

351. I love pondering on this at the moment especially given the UK European referendum – there is so much decisiveness in the world – yet we are all the same – we need to all be working together and let go of them and me scenario that we currently live with. Until everybody is taken care of there is work to be done.

352. It’s true that when we go for the comfort factor we become, ” more disengaged from one’s true inner values, thinking that material wealth collates to happiness and that happiness is the ultimate goal in life, instead of realising that life can be about true love, joy and harmony.” We do make material wealth the number one goal and lose ourselves in the pursuit of this and realise at the end of all that hard work we haven’t really gained much except perhaps exhaustion!

353. It’s brilliant what you’ve expose here about how countries can pride themselves on their materialistic comforts; ‘the focus becomes less and less about community and working together for the common good of all, instead shifting more and more to how good a life an individual can attain’… It’s so true, when we have something that makes OUR lives better, we sadly often turn our back on the community and don’t address the issues that we all share because they are now ‘easier to ignore’.

354. A very well written blog, Christopher, which exposes that society is going in the wrong direction. With the rise in illness, disease and mental health, it’s like the drive and desperation for comfort heightens even more, and the vicious circle continues, – in a never ending merry-go-round of striving for a “better” life.
     You put the true turnaround beautifully: “The simple act of taking a moment to ponder on how we are living our lives, considering how we can best care for ourselves and others, could help us all to live in harmony together, in a greater state of true health and feeling the joy of life.”

355. Christopher I like the following question: “Given that we are living in so much comfort, then why is illness and disease on the increase?” Normally people don’t ask such a question as if they are in comfort most of them tend to be blind to ask them. Asking such a question is the best reflection they can get and also the best thing to wake up and be more aware about what is really going on.

356. The way you describe modern parenting is scarily accurate. Children are brought up in a world that is all about being entertained every minute of the day – no time or space for self-reflection. Where to for our next generation if we don’t take responsibility for our ‘comfort’?

357. Awesome article on the state of our nations – the comfort, the greed, the lack of equality, the lack of responsibility for our own bodies and so much more. I agree that Serge Benhayon’s presentations provide an opportunity to reflect on and consider our collective and individual responsibility for making the changes necessary to the way we have shaped our world thus far.

     1. So true Cathy, and it is our nation and the other “empire” nations that have held up a role model for the poorer nations based on the image that Christopher describes so well in this excellent article. We champion it as the “right way to live” and encourage a way of life based on the materialism, and uphold education systems based on ours without any consideration for the quality of life already lived by those people, or respecting what is truly needed to keep their communities together. This splits the generations apart so that the young leave the villages for more material gain rather than having an education that encourages them to use their skills and learning to support their local communities. It is the same scenario as ours during the Industrial Revolution, when the people flooded to the towns and lost connection with the rhythms of nature and the integrity of their working life and their community. As Christoher says, we need to take a good look at what is going on.

358. When I consider the word ‘comfortable’ it has the flavour of being numbed out like under anaesthetic. We seem to rise to a heightened sense of urgency and commitment when our backs are against the wall, such as a tragedy or a life-threatening disease – under such circumstances we tend to put aside petty thoughts and behaviours, people tend to come together to help and support, and a higher quality of humanity is seen. So ironically these situations we so dislike seem to be a blessing in disguise. It would be great if we proactively start reflecting on what this article is presenting and not have to have our back against the wall before we wake up.

359. “With true love for oneself and all of humanity, comes joy and harmony with no need or craving for the next hit of happiness, just living life in a constant flow of contentment.” Now that feels like living a true life to me, this is the way for us all to go, a life of simplicity, no need for the highs and lows, but living a life of quiet joy with each other, holding each other in love. No more searching for the elusive happiness, that never lasts anyway.

360. A great subject you have introduced here, Christopher, on how we in the western world see the ‘good life’ that we are privileged to live. When we really look at the way we are living, then the story is not really very good at all. “The focus becomes less and less about community and working together for the common good of all, instead shifting more and more to how good a life an individual can attain, or the individual family, or just smaller groups, no longer caring for the whole, just about the self and one’s closest.” This is very true, and I can see how utterly wrongly we are truly living in our comfortable surroundings. Some of us go out into other countries that need much help, but when we look at our own life, we can see just how much could be changed at home. Is it possible that until we clean up our own back yard, get back to living in brotherhood, connecting deeply and lovingly with ourselves and each other, and learning to live truly loving lives, including self care, and treating each other in equalness, that we are unable to truly help those in other less fortunate countries. It is time that we really took a good look at ourselves and our constant focus on our individual selves.

361. As a humanity we can’t call it evolution to build the biggest building or fastest car, have the comfiest house or most technology if we aren’t being considerate of the all, the whole picture and not just the one we want for ourselves.

362. What is comfort? A cushiony bubble that separates us from truth but is accepted as the norm and sought after for recognition. Truth is one unified, and anything that tangents from unity is tension in the body and a self-created choice for illness and disease.

363. Identifying ourselves through materialism and teaching our future generations that this is success is the normality in many parts if not the whole world, and yet this is also the guaranteed way we disconnect from our true wealth, the connection with our Soul.

364. It’s sad that what most people would call ‘the good life’ is in fact not good at all. It is not for the true good of all. It is for self and the people we are closest to, but does nothing to contribute towards a truly good life for everyone.

365. We can either see our bodies as vehicles for expressing love and treat them with great sensitivity and care, or use them for thrill seeking and the pleasures of life. It can’t be both ways because love has its own design for us, very different from our self centred plans.

366. The word comfort has been twisted inside out in today’s world so it now is synonymous with luxurious relaxation, and apathetic feet up doing nothing. This type of comfort is the tip of the iceberg of a life passing us by, with little value or meaning.

367. It is amazing to consider that in so called first world countries like ours we are getting less and healthy and happy. Something is very wrong and one would think it would be the subject of serious discussion, but it is not. In this election campaign it’s all about where to throw more money (or less) but until we all bring real quality to our choices in how we care for ourselves and others and raise our children those dollars will not create any real change.

368. Christopher everything you say about Norway can be said about where I live too (Australia). Satisfying our endless desires for more at the expense of our body and without consideration of others is ‘comfortable’ but lacks the joy and inner fulfilment that we truly crave.

369. I thought of this blog this morning when I watched a short news video about why Finland is so great. There was all the things Finland is number one in the world at and then towards the end there was also a list of downsides. Throughout this video I could feel the comparison, competition and lack of appreciation. This feels exactly the same as what often happens between people where most struggle to truly appreciate all that another offers and then goes into competition – this detracts from all of us and we are all poor for the competitiveness.

370. Comfort is a daily choice, a choice not to live who we truly are and accept that others are less at the expense of ourselves being less. Comfort is an anti-evolutionary daily choice.

371. At a recent Universal Medicine retreat I attended Serge Benhayon answered a question on the current refugee crisis and what is the true way forward for the problems in countries such as Syria. The answer was that if we truly wished to change the situation then millions of Germans would move to Syria and take their lifestyle and ethos to that country. The world is not yet ready for this type of thinking, as we are steeped in our comfortable indulgences, but at some point we will recognise that the way we live is not where it is at, that investment in culture, religions and nationalities is not making us better and that we need a new approach to how we live that means we are not getting sicker and perhaps hardest for us to grasp, that doing well ourselves is not enough, all our fellow brothers on this planet must also be going well before we can be settle that we are on the right path.

372. This blog exposes much in regards to the lie we are all living in especially if our lives look “good”. However the statistics presented show clearly that what is driving most of us is just this a lie and it is shocking to read “People are more afraid of being killed by terrorists than the real killers listed above” as it shows how we have lost hold and sight of what s really going on. Thank you Christopher.

373. “With true love for oneself and all of humanity, comes joy and harmony with no need or craving for the next hit of happiness, just living life in a constant flow of contentment.”- Life becomes more simplified, and the quality of our next movement guarantees the next to flow with ease. When we make it about humanity and not self, true change and evolution occurs.

374. The increase in illness and disease in developed countries is as fascinating as it is shocking. It’s fascinating that wealth doesn’t equal wellness. All of the propaganda we are fed from an early age (in the form of ideals, beliefs, norms, stereotypes etc etc) would easily have us believe otherwise. But the simple truth is, if we don’t live our lives in alignment with who we truly are, we’re highly likely to get sick. No amount of lifestyle comforts will protect us from this.

375. It can become quite difficult to see or feel our own true inner values when life is so set up to seek comfort in all its different pockets of the world. It’s in countries, in jobs and our inevitable lifestyles that promote, as you say Christopher, “the good life”.

376. A friend just came back from a country whose schools did not even have table and chairs. But the quality of student, engagement in their learning and overall education felt far advanced to the western world schools he teaches in.

377. “People are more afraid of being killed by terrorists than the real killers listed above.’
     It is amazing, Christopher , that we do not see ill health on the same continuum as war or terrorism and yet ill health is far more deadly and can actually be avoided if we chose to live differently. When we choose material comforts and excesses over our health our bodies wear it all and yet we choose to not read this and immediately seek a materialistic type treatment to fix it all. This is true blindness.

378. There is much to ponder upon in the blog Christopher. Material possessions and high standard of living conditions can set us up in a continual cycle and momentum of feeling somehow empty, always needing more, with the newest gadget or next generation phone or computer etc. True inner connection with oneself and others brings the fullness rather than the emptiness within.
     “With true love for oneself and all of humanity, comes joy and harmony with no need or craving for the next hit of happiness, just living life in a constant flow of contentment”.

379. The excessive comfort is an arrogant indulgence that we can no longer afford, literally! Our bodies and our budgets are connected.

380. When we all take true responsibility for our own part, knowingly aware of the essence of who we are, we are actually taking responsibility for the all. It is my awareness that leads to appreciation and the arrogance has no place. Thank you Christopher, it is awesome how you have brought you awareness to this topic.

381. It’s so true that we can take on having that sense of puffed up pride about the country we live in. On one level this can be seen as a lovely thing, but if you look deeper as you are doing Christopher we find that it breeds nothing but separation and exclusion. It is like saying ‘I’m alright Jack. I live in this lovely country’. It is totally self-centred without concern for anyone else. Obviously there is nothing wrong with living somewhere beautiful, but the attitude of nationalism is ugly and nowhere near beautiful. It is absolute poison and does nothing to encourage a sense of true brotherhood or global harmony.

382. Arrogance is arrogance – no matter what country it is in.

383. ‘The fact is that this tsunami of ill-health flooding over us is bankrupting health services around the world, causing even more ill-health for those working within these overloaded systems.’
     Great line and I agree it’s what needs to be a major focus for us as a society but we also must tread carefully and be aware that the way that this is expressed does not turn into a self righteous or judgement exercise. Some people are so consumed by their reality that the awareness of the comfort that is being chosen is simply not there. Thats why I love that you have written this blog, it lets the reader stop and consider how far of the mark that they might be. In my experience though the most affective way to support ourselves and others back to what is truly important is living a life that is rich with the love we are all naturally made of.

384. Statistics are a very good marker to evaluate exactly what is going on in our world and it is clear that we are sliding in the wrong direction.

385. The way that we are living today, with all that we know – are we settling for a lesser way of life? We perceive our lives to be good as it’s better than someone else’s, better than average even. If we are always comparing and measuring ‘where we are’ in the race of life, we are blinkered to the magic of life that is there, around all of us, just waiting to be seen and felt.

386. I heard an extract from one of Herme’s writings recently – written thousand of years ago. The society he spoke of back then sounds little different to what we experience today. Surely the question is therefore have we really evolved? Or are we kidding ourselves that we have advanced?

387. A very revealing exposing blog on the way society and the world has gone to with the enormous levels of comfort and corruption divides and greed we have in the illusion of wealth possessions and championing our individual county separation and betterment. This brings a deep level of emptiness and need suffering and imprisonment of ourselves and others but ” With true love for oneself and all of humanity, comes joy and harmony with no need or craving for the next hit of happiness, just living life in a constant flow of contentment.” Beautifully said.

388. Returning to our core values is the only worthwhile ambition in life. Reclaiming our respect, our deep care of one another, sharing our joy and most importantly bringing our immense and innate wisdom to bear in life can never be matched by material wealth. There is nothing more rewarding in life that relationships that challenge us to address our issues and bring out the best in us.

389. Some great points have been made here with regards to materialism, and even when items have been purchased to fill a need or emptiness deep inside, there is this sense that the satisfaction will be fleeting. In the past I have had experiences where I buy clothes and then by the time I get them home I have lost interest in them and they have sat in the bags – it’s in these moments I know that I am feeling lost.

390. Comfort makes us soft and hard at the same time. We enjoy the comfortable life at the cost of what we stop doing and harden to all others for we can’t be bothered and become separated from ourselves and others and then think we have made it with all of our things that are a must have. Life just becomes an illusion.

391. We need very little to survive, and much of what we spend our money on is for a ‘feel good’ factor that may get us recognition from others or act as a status symbol to feel we are ‘better off’. None of it is true. True joy comes from the inner connection with have with ourselves and with all the people we meet.

392. When we do well but know that those who do less well than us are equal to us and that the equality is regardless of their decisions, then there is nothing whatsoever wrong with doing well.

393. This morning I talked about countries and the specific way in how they are masking and hiding the Truths. It’s becoming more and more clear to me how I’ve aligned, bought into the specific culture in ‘my’ country, Holland. Thus far I’ve definitely exposed being nice and tolerant as 2 seemingly ‘good’ parts of ‘our’ culture. Where in fact underneath is a lot of coldness and individuality due to the fact that to sustain the niceness and tolerance (being silent, not expressing how we feel), we are to close off our hearts and the connection to our bodies to quite an extent. To me it’s quite revealing and ‘shocking’ in a way that nearly 17 billion people buy into this, everyday. Pretending that we’re doing fine and feeling great…

394. From another angle, there is much corruption and greed in ‘wealthy’ countries. Money wasted in organisations from poor planning, or trying for ‘quick wins’ when making changes within the organisation often resulting in poor experiences for all involved…all to save money, or make more money. So we see money wasted on one hand, and people living in extreme poverty on the other…in the same country. But in the bigger picture, we see some countries languishing in wealth and comfort, and others in dire situations. There is no harmony in a country or on our planet whilst this is going on.

395. THere is a certain imbalance to the outcry that occurs when there is a terrorist attack in which maybe a hundred people are killed, and certainly this is a tragedy in every way – yet where is the outcry when millions are dying from diseases brought on by destructive choices. there is self-destruction on a pandemic scale, abuse of prescription drugs, there is domestic violence and alcohol abuse rife even throughout a relatively ‘benign’ country such as Australia – let alone in other more unstable regions. We need to stop and take stock of where we are heading with all of this – and truly look at how we let the isolation, the radicalisation, the destructive living patterns and the way we treat each other play out and how we might look at new ways to go forward together.

396. Living ‘the good life’, having migrated here from the UK twenty years ago, I see apathy and complacency of myself and others – the weathers amazing, one can live a comfortable life and we have everything. It’s easy to fall for the illusion that one’s personal life is good, or successful, but when we open our eyes to what’s really going on around us with illness, disease, suicide Etc. Etc. what really is this comfort and material gain we have collectively subscribed to?

397. “I am here considering this and realising how this attitude may be arrogant, indulgent, individualistic and inconsiderate. The focus becomes less and less about community and working together for the common good of all, instead shifting more and more to how good a life an individual can attain, or the individual family, or just smaller groups, no longer caring for the whole, just about the self and one’s closest.”

     It is in this illusion of being separate and not connected as a humanity, that we can strive to better and improve our lives, but no true joy, harmony and true love can be found in this way of living, as when we achieve the material or other gain that we were chasing, we soon get dissatisfied, and feel the emptiness within, and start the pursuit of our next quest for happiness, and around and around we go, a whole life can be wasted in this way. When we connect deeply to ourselves and the glory and stillness within true, love and harmony can be felt in oneself, and love for all our brothers and sisters in the world.

398. Comfort, and using material possessions to numb ourselves from the inner and outer turmoil we are in as humanity, is a modern day plague.

399. Until all of us (humanity) can live in health harmony and joy, with one another and ourselves we have not truly succeeded as humanity as we all connected and make up a part of the whole.

400. So long as we are comfortable there is no need to look and feel the utter despair some are living in right? Such is the evil in seeking comfort.

401. What are we doing with our wealth, amazing technology, huge advancements in medicine, have we really improved the true quality of our life’s and health, the statistics about us, clearly show we have not. Are we using these things to continue in a very wayward and irresponsible way of living, treating our bodies with absolute disregard because we know we can get some medicine or surgery to fix it? Do we use technology for the good of humanity, or to numb and or distract ourselves from what’s really going on with disease and illness all around us?

402. The title of your blog Christopher, ‘Countries in comfort’, makes me think are we really living a comfortable life, given the rates of illness, disease, mental health issues and suicides? Are we under the illusion that we wont get sick until we do, or that as long as our life or family is OK all is well, and that we are separate from the rest of humanity and the great suffering that happens in the world, that it doesn’t affect us?

403. “If we consider this along with the comforts that are being sought by some, e.g. luxury lifestyles with yachts and holiday homes being prioritized over and above personal health and wellbeing, are we not collectively out of balance?”

     Great wealth cannot buy one true health, vitality and a joy-full life and body, yet we seem to be under the illusion and have subscribed to the images we are fed that money and security bring this. Certainly it is important to have what we need to support us and not be in disregard of our finances, but in a way that we can then serve our fellow brothers and humanity, from that foundation of self love and care, and not to better our life at the exclusion of others.

404. Great your calling this to our attention Christopher, when I honestly examine my own life I see the way I drive and push myself to make more money to achieve a more comfortable life for me and my family, driven by greed and the misconception that it will bring more happiness. But the price I pay is detrimental to my health and well-being, often being in a stressed and anxious state, then reactive with my family, so I have to ask what quality am I bringing in this way of living? And what am I reflecting to my daughter, partner and the rest of the world?

     1. Great honest self-questioning (without criticism and self-bashing!) often brings us to points of careful review and change. This is evolution!

405. This seeking of comfort seems to be the main aspiration in life these days all while ignoring the ever increasing illness and disease rates that afflict us. It seems that we use comfort to distract us from what is really going on and we must question why we are ignoring this. Is it because we have a responsibility in the way we live and the choices that we make that we are currently avoiding? Is it possible that we as individuals and as humanity are directly responsible for our current predicament and that we have the ability to change this but have thus far chosen not to?

406. You are absolutely right Christopher how acquiring money doesn’t buy true joy and I find it quite sad how many people regularly spend money on the lottery in pursuit of this illusion. As you say..The simple act of taking a moment to ponder on how we are living our lives, considering how we can best care for ourselves and others, could help us all to live in harmony together, in a greater state of true health and feeling the joy of life. True joy is often in the simplest of things, a child’s giggle, a rainbow or a connection of a smile with someone.

407. It is a quite interesting development that we are seeking the most amount of comfort and call this a good life and at the same time the more we live in comfort the more we choose a lifestyle that is totally against the human body and slowly killing us. When we start to look at the evil that comfort truly is we will begin to heal and understand that we are the creators of our own misery.

408. Thank you Christopher for your eye-opening and revealing blog. It highlights the plight of humanity (one which we created for ourselves) and the selfishness, greed and separatism that is abound in the world today. The world cannot sustain this level of indulgence for much longer I am sure of that, and the rise of illness and disease is quite staggering and more questions needs to be asked as to why… and what can we do about it?
     I too am deeply grateful to Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine for bringing my attention to the plight of the world and how true love and compassion for others is the key to begin to change the world from disharmony to harmony, starting with the love of ourselves and the honesty to come out of our own comfort!

409. ‘Given that we are living in so much comfort, then why is illness and disease on the increase?’ – This is a very potent question Christopher, the illusion of maintaining a facade is running deep, and as long as everything looks good on the outside, we have fallen for the idea that that is what gives us value. We ignore any sense of signal or warning from our bodies in the quest for more material wealth and comfort, and not until it hits us real hard do we sometimes realise that we have been given an opportunity to stop and have an honest look at our own daily choices.

410. Australia is considered the lucky country for many reason’t from it’s beauty, relatively untouched history, the ability to get work, have a home with a large property in a beautiful location on the sea, rivers, lakes or well organised cities with endless supply of rich and quality foods. The truth is that most of Australia are living totally for themselves in comfort. It may seem like there is a lot of hard work or charity going on, but much of the giving is to get a kick back to feel like we are doing something good. In our comforts Australians are also extremely apathetic when it comes to how the country is run or what rules and regulations are placed down and by whom. We are getting better, but there is a bit of distance to go before Australians look outside our own island and see what is really going on in the world and respond.

411. I love your question, Christopher, on how we are really parenting our children …’We are not supporting them to hold their kind, loving, considerate, harmonious, joyful and generous nature, often leaving them alone in their rooms to be parented by TV, Internet, on-line gaming, Facebook,’ … not only are we, as adults not supporting ourselves to be the kind, loving, joyful people that we naturally are, we are not making connection with our children a priority, we allow ourselves to believe that they are having fun watching TV and playing games, because it’s convenient, allowing us to indulge further in our own comforts.

412. Christopher, I love your blog. You hit the nail on the head in your presentation of the bigger picture. The small minded arrogance that we can fall into when making personal gain important is beautifully exposed here, and you make perfect sense when you talk about the care for humanity that is completely the opposite of wanting personal gain. It is a shift in awareness that is needed in this world in order for us to return to harmony and a state of good health. Humanity is humanity – no borders, religions,, races or cultures can change the fact that we are all on this planet together. Therefore we need to work together instead of trying to escape into our own little corner or comfort. This blog totally rocks.

413. Amazing Christopher, there is so much in what you’ve shared, at a very personal level and as communities and countries. Comfort is something akin to being in a slumber really, deadened to the way things really are, and to the way things could be, or should be, if we were to be true to ourselves and who we really are.
     Thanks for such an insightful peek into what is going on at such a global level… a great deal to ponder here.

414. Thank you Christopher, what a great piece of writing. As a society we measure everything and seek to ‘better’ ourselves, then sit back in the big armchair of comfort. Once we have ‘made it’, we seek to retire. This word is seen as an aspiration for many, which is lead by the many images of what we think being retired brings, i.e. happy smiles and holidays, but in actual fact, if we started using others meanings of the word we may consider, these include to retract, fall back, drop out, pull out, seclude, withdraw or regress, not so inviting are they?. We have so much to give back, but we lose it all when we put our feet up in the name of comfort.

415. ‘With true love for oneself and all of humanity, comes joy and harmony with no need or craving for the next hit of happiness, just living life in a constant flow of contentment.’ – what a joy it will be when all our world leaders understand and accept this fact.

416. Comfort is a form of very slow strangulation.

417. We not only have borders between our countries creating separation, we have our own border control within our body, constantly assessing how much to let the other person in- is it safe, will I get hurt? – we see ourselves as individuals when we are, in fact, all equal and part of the same family. It is only when we are all able to accept this fact, drop our border control and live in connection with each in full that we will all be content.

418. Choosing to live in comfort is exactly that……wrapping ourselves up in our own little world with all our beloved possessions……keeping the world and others out so that we don’t have to face the truth of what is going on around us, relinquishing any responsibility to the state that humanity is in….until something knocks us off our safe little perch and we are made to look at ourselves and how we are contributing to the general decline in society.

419. My experience of living in Africa as a child and visits as an adult showed me that the West’s obsession with constant activity, entertainment, mass consumerism, constant distractions, overeating shows a poverty of the heart and simple living. I know a family that have one meal a day. At the end of the day of school, work or selling goods at the market, they sit as a family, in a circle on the ground outside. One large plate of food is placed in the centre of the circle. Each takes handfuls of food and there’s water to drink. At the end of every meal they gave thanks. This family did not have material wealth but an abundance of heart and ability to live life simply and make the most of what they had.

420. It deceptively easy to equally affluence with success or better quality of life, if we simple look at material acquisitions. When we look deeper into the inner world of people living in the so called ‘developed’ western world you find dis-harmony, an inability to truly be in life simply and naturally. Instead there is a constant quest for something better, more, bigger, where the ‘next thing’ is not how I evolve myself or be of service to humanity, but how can I upgrade my PC, phone, car or home. Comfort of western countries is built on separation: looking after self and family and looking away from others ‘not like me’ and protecting my own back yard at all costs.

421. True Christopher, “Living a privileged life in a beautiful place may make us feel better” but it is actually creating our own little bubble that separates us from one another – this in truth does not make us feel better, in fact it is making us ill. The more distraction we then need to have in order to not feel the separation we have created in our life, serves to just exacerbate the detrimental impact on our health.

422. “With true love for oneself and all of humanity, comes joy and harmony with no need or craving for the next hit of happiness, just living life in a constant flow of contentment.” There is nothing more delicious, heart warming or inspiring than building properly loving relationships with self and with people. I say “properly” because Love is not about being sympathetic and kind, its about establishing a healthy respect, a safe reaction free environment both internally and externally, an environ based on utter truth and honesty, tender connection and a unified care for all. Many may consider this an impossible ideal to achieve but there are people in this world who live this absolutely and are paving the way for many to establish this in their own lives and communities too. The accumulation of material wealth will never, ever deliver the immense satisfaction experienced when we embrace Love and one another with all our might.

423. When we are comfortable it is hard to see how this can be harming to anyone unless you are prepared to feel the bigger picture of why we are truly here in the first place.

424. Great blog Christopher, what you have stated relates not only to Norway, but definitely Australia and I am sure many other countries as well. You raise some very good points around why is it that we are not focusing more on how we are living, not just diet and exercise, but how we speak to each other, how we move, walk and interact with our fellow man. It seems like all the old school type courtesy’s and respect has left society, replaced with being rude, crude and down right irresponsible. Just focused on self and as you call out, material wealth, due to societies obsession with celebrities. This has to change, or not….this is our choice.

425. A great sharing Christopher! We need a wakeup call to really see that we are living in a fools paradise, thinking we are lucky to live in such a thriving community and country. If we take a long hard look at ourselves we would see the way things truly are, as you have shared with us here, the rise in ill health and diseases that could be prevented by simple lifestyle changes and a loving attitude towards all, especially our own bodies and our selves!

426. I have been noticing that comfort I have been seeking most of my life is like a drug. I am not talking about those moments when we cut out abuse and build a more caring and loving life. But rather the fact that when we choose to sit in comfort, we start becoming more and more numb to our inner awareness or the reflections that life provides and our commitment becomes maintaining the comfort rather than a commitment to life and the responsibility we have to all people.

427. What strikes me most about this blog is that we expend so much energy on accumulating all the status symbols and “luxuries” in life but exhaust ourselves in the process, sacrificing the quality of our relationships and driving our bodies into the ground in search of the ultimate “thing” to bring us “peace”. Ironically what we expend so much time chasing in the outside world is constantly running around with us, because our true wealth, joy and harmony resides on the inside of us, always has done and all we need to do is connect to it.

428. The truth that as a people sickness is on the rise is a situation that is world wide not isolated pockets. There is a direct correlation to how we are living. We are not living in respect to our body and soul.

429. It feels to me that comfort exists whenever we stand still and resist the call for us to return, reflect and express all that we are.

430. I watched a video clip the other day about why Norway is number one for education in the world. The secret is, no homework and short school days to allow children to play more! With your exposé of Norway and its growing comfort, is it a contrary effect the next generation are being taught a whole different way that breaks all the molds? Or, has comfort just caused everyone including teachers to get too laid back and without the pressure, things just grow naturally on their own?

431. The rise in illness and disease whilst we are living so luxuriously is a prove, if we really need it, that our bodies are not made to live in comfort – that the way we are living is not our natural way.

432. Life styles of comfort are very normal where I live and work in a retail store. Very often it is seen that the parent is shopping and when it comes to payment very little toddlers are assisting with the credit card to complete the purchase. More than once the message this is giving the little ones is pondered on. Children can grow up with a perspective that the way to fill time is to go to a store, select something then hand over a plastic card for all of 3 seconds. Seems pretty straight forward on the surface but as you offer Christopher there is much more going on underneath that isn’t considered.

433. “If we consider this along with the comforts that are being sought by some, e.g. luxury lifestyles with yachts and holiday homes being prioritised over and above personal health and wellbeing, are we not collectively out of balance?” This is such a great question to ask Christopher. It is so normal in our current society for rich people to be very unhealthy and very interested in having personal wealth like second houses, expensive cars etc., yet not very interested to change their way of living to become more healthy. The problem is this ‘normal’ that we do not question when we are growing up, I only question it now and I am 25! It is a collective thing that we hold up all together, if we all would be less accepting of such luxury lifestyles and calling them lovingly out for what they are, that it does not make sense to not care as much for your health and wellbeing as for you car, it possibly would not be there.

434. Our ill health exposes what is happening to us on many level. Our body gives us a perspective on life that can shape how we treat any health issue. Emotional issues are a major contributor to the dilemma about our health problems. Enter Universal Medicine as presented by Serge Benhayon. The health of the Students of The Livingness has shown to not fit into the conventional health models, because of the simple approaches to life that show us amazing health benefits. Life-style choices have been shown to have a positive or detrimental affect on our overall health. The teachings of Serge Benhayon and the way self-loving, self-nurturing approaches to life have changed the health of so many, and this needs to be studied. What is being exposed by the Livingness is simply revolutionary in so many ways.

435. I love your expression ‘tsunami of ill-health’ Christopher for that is exactly what it is and what is quite shocking when we see it this way, is that we are not feeling the enormity of this on a personal or global level.

436. Currently I read an article about a little town which was famous about its attitude towards life. They left all their doors always open and everyone could entry and borrow some missing ingredients out of the neighbour kitchen if needed.
     This went very well for ages.
     Then the people in that town won together a jackpot in a lottery.
     Everyone was dancing in the streets and celebrate their luck.
     Everyone was rich now.
     But then… the doors become closed.
     This shows me not so much about the ‘badness of money’, but how we handle money and also our richness in general. We want to keep it for ourselves. May give a bit here and there – but the majority should stay with us and serve our comfort. This supports an imbalance in the world that leads to no true good.

437. It is so very true Christopher that our life-style and the quality in which we live it has turned out to be far more significant than previously thought. A huge proportion of illness and disease is caused by our life-style, and our life-style is largely based on a bunch of ideals and beliefs and images – around what constitutes the ‘good life’ that everyone strives for. We do have to totally re-look at how we live so that we can once more build a harmonious society.

438. Yes the ideas we have around a successful society are really interesting. i am so glad I have had the chance to revise my thinking on this. I do enjoy learning to see what true success is- it is living a loving life in all areas. When we all start to do this, we will see life is not about individuals, but about us all. Any success is true if it benefits all equally, instead of the focus being on gain, gain, gain with no thought or consideration for how others are impacted.

439. To focus purely on our own life and making it as ‘good’ as possible is indeed a selfish pursuit. People become very defensive about their ‘homeland’ and if it’s perceived to be better than another country. Why aren’t we helping less fortunate countries to improve their lives rather than sitting back, gloating and feeling superior?

440. True joy comes from purpose, the only purpose in comfort is self indulgence, our perceived happiness is an illusion, it will never feed our soul, which is why, in comfort, all that we have is never enough.

441. What actually is ‘the good life’? As you’ve shared in your blog Christopher many believe it is having access to comforts and luxuries, with a consistent opportunity to ‘switch off’ and ‘relax’ from working or serving humanity. It’s very interesting that we often label or judge less economically developed countries as having ‘poorer quality of life’, however there are countries in the world that work full time in agriculture or various professions without the glitzy technology we have in places like Britain or Norway and are very content with the way they live. We should not measure our successes based on how much access we have to comforts.

442. The truth is that we don’t need more than anyone else but this doesn’t mean we need to force idealised socialist values on everyone – this is something I did use to think. When we live from our heart we do not have the desire for excess. It is simple, and through Living Love and in service for community we fell complete. This will naturally bring balance and harmony to humanity.

443. This is sooooo powerful. How often do we get trapped in the ‘got it made’, ‘life is good’ scenario particularly when we go into comparison with others countries…”For instance, becoming more disengaged from one’s true inner values, thinking that material wealth collates to happiness and that happiness is the ultimate goal in life, instead of realising that life can be about true love, joy and harmony.” I know Norway and the UK and I know through my years of being and visiting them both I have gone into this, I know Norway had the ‘so called’ a good standard of Living and my peers and I use to talk about what really made the ‘Good Life’ and we used to ‘intellectualise’ about the the real benefits of raw London etc….not really stretching the surface because obviously living a life of connection is it. Anything else material is not sustaining, but instead is completely distracting from the inner heart, but it can’t last forever and the gentle call for Love and connection will and does express itself. Thank you for sharing.

444. There is such a discrepancy between the perceived wellbeing of the people and the truth and that is shown so clearly in the fact that living in the comfort is not giving us anything more than temporary pleasure and relief. While living a life in service and connection to each other brings so much more.

445. I realised when reading this blog how little I actually care about other countries. There’s hardly a thought about people living in other countries. Only when that country is in the news, but not in general. No concern, no care, no appreciation, no criticism, etc. And at the same time I don’t hear other people talking about it either. What is this reflecting? It seems that country borders (and all the borders within our countries) actually provide us with form of separation that we actually don’t mind. What do these borders bring us? To me it confirms the belief of everybody being different, rather than the knowing of the fact that we’re in fact all the same. And if I focus on these differences, there’s no common ground and no (True) foundation to live, care and love from. In fact, it’s providing a lot of giving up energy and an emptyness that is actually giving me an energy that keeps me going in confirming this belief. Rather than me claiming the Truth that I innately know within that we’re all one and that everyone’s having a Global Responsibility by taking genuinely care of ourselves in order to serve others, in which we’re fed back by life the energy to evolve. How Sacred and Divinely Beautiful is this?

446. The whole world is our Responsibility, our ‘playground’. We’re only supporting the world as a ‘system’ by taking genuinely care of ourselves. Regardless of the choices others (close) around us make. If we in the western society – not just Norway – are supposedly the ‘leading’ countries – which in fact we are – then why do we not take care of ourselves, let alone the people living in countries that do not so well according their human rights, freedom of speech, gender equality, etc. Loving and caring is very simple and very natural. Indulging in foods, drinks, holidays, etc. brings a mere focus on anything but ourselves. Building a True relationship with ourselves is the most Wonderous thing to do, with lots of unexpected gifts and treasures that life will bring us, with a value that can’t be measured in money… Making True choices, choices that come from our connection with ourselves benefit both ourselves as everyone in the world, as they reflect that we’re worth it to be loved and cared for – in the first place by ourselves.

447. Your blog Christopher instantly reminds me of the ‘American dream’… where we are supposed to believe is a haven for freedom and wealth. We all know the falsity of this image and that for many this is not the case…how much are we willing to see behind the perceived truth/line of the countries we all live in and truly see where we are at?

448. Communities are probably much stronger in smaller poorer towns and villages than places of comfort that reflect more individuality. Living a comfortable life seems to be like a drug the more you have the more you want and to what end?

449. It is the classic trick of having us believe we are ok and that other peoples poverty or distress does not affect us, so long as everything is running smoothly in our lives, Whilst all along encouraging and enhancing the separation we have between our fellow man only on a bigger scale.

450. Every one of the shared statistics here Christopher are a whole bag of worms to look at. And this bag of worms needs to be looked at, discussed and worked on together. Each of these stats are huge in themselves.

451. In the UK we are about to vote on whether we should stay in the EU or not. We have an acronym in this country, NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard) which describes those people who shout loudly about issues and things they don’t think should happen, or should happen – but who, when it actually affects them, change their voice immediately. For example – “we should definitely support alternative energies…..but no, I don’t want a wind turbine affecting my view.” This EU is bringing out the NIMBY’s by the tens of thousands. It is astonishing to see how little connection there is with the rest of humanity and how insular and self-serving most people’s opinions are. We are a long way from a harmonious society and every border or division that is maintained or created adds to the separation.

452. Breaking through the levels of comfort we have chosen through life takes a very brave and hard working person as this means not being part of the bigger crowd.

453. I now make a conscious effort to make changes in my own life instead or blaming others as I see that I am just as responsible as anyone else.

454. Thank you Christopher, this is a very detailed account of how I know I have lived for many years turning a blind eye to the reality of what it means to ignore others in this way. Although I have always felt the disharmony among each other my focus has been to either react to it or numb myself from feeling it.

455. This is a great article exposing the impact of narrowing our view of life down to our own back yard and choosing not to see, and accept that we are part of, a much bigger picture.

456. Growing up I believed that happiness was the goal in life and it meant material wealth. My parents worked hard to put food on the table and have a roof over our head. I didn’t want to be like my parents struggling.
     So, I went into a drive to achieve academic success which would then lead to a better job with higher pay
     However, I soon found that my health deteriorated as I pushed myself to work more to get more money.
     Not until I met Serge Benhayon and he spoke of material wealth not leading to true happiness or joy, that I stopped to feel the truth of what he said. Indeed, today I know our true wealth resides deep within us all – our inner heart.

457. We ignore or don’t connect to the fact that these statistics are everyday people, they represent the people in our communities, our friends and family. We know we belong to these statistics so long as we continue to distract ourselves from stopping to consider the impact our choices (movements and behaviours) actually have on our bodies. Hence why we avoid connecting and relating these statistics to our lives, because we then feel more the reality of how we are living.

458. You are right, in essence every person on the planet regardless of race, gender, age, nationality, religion or size we are essentially the same. Some of us know this as a truth others have yet to see this but we are all heading in the same direction eventually … back to love.

     1. Beautifully said Vicki

459. You provide a long list of everything we so readily put up with as part of modern life with all its trappings whilst being cushioned in uncomfortable comfort and pushing under the carper what is really troubling us.

460. When we start to look outside of ourselves we loose the sense of taking responsibility for our house our body, and go for the comforts of life to bring that to us. Housing a body full of health and vitality and listening to what it needs to sustain that joy consistently moment to moment is more rewarding then owning material wealth. It’s not that we cannot have beautiful things, but I no longer need it or aspire to have them because I know they do not beat that wonder-full amazing feeling of being in touch with my body and expressing and moving from it – true Joy that is forever lasting in my house my body.

461. When we make life about people and community, it brings a rich wealth of purpose, love and connection into our lives, a wealth that no amount of money can ever buy.

462. Nothing from this world can actually fulfill our craving which is created by the hole we’ve got from separation from who we truly are. As you said Christopher, we can better our lives, but this does only cover that we in truth do not live but exist. So the comfortable things and actions in our existing can keep us in a illusion for a while, but sooner or later we have to see that no ‘better’ will ever fulfill us. And w will all make this realization one day – the only thing is, on which costs we are delaying?!

463. Thank you Christopher, we need to reflect on what we define success in our society as if we are honest we can see that it is the total opposite to it as you have presented with the alarming rise of illness and disease worldwide, true success is when we can live our lives in connection with our bodies and our movements reflecting the divinity where we are from.

464. No amount of material wealth can buy a new body when it packs up or has a terminal illness.

465. “Given that we are living in so much comfort, then why is illness and disease on the increase?” – a great and important question. In many countries, our lifestyles have appeared to have improved, but have they really? We have more ‘stuff’, more technology, but we have people addicted to their devices, and to foods and drinks. I am blown away by what is happening with Diabetes alone on a world-wide scale. This is a preventable disease and yet nobody is asking people to take responsibility for their own health and choices. When limbs are being removed because of diabetes…we have to stop as a species and say, what on earth is going on? And so is comfort really so comfortable?

466. A ‘good life’ is a far cry from the joy that can be felt when living from our inner-heart. It is here where our true wealth lies.

467. How any country can be in ‘comfort’ with what is going on in the world today requires a huge degree of arrogance and denial and an enormous lack of regard for honesty, humility, love and brotherhood. The truth is that humanity is in dire straits – we are at war, there is starvation, rampant exhaustion and as you say Christopher, the stats on world health are alarming to say the least. I agree with you Serge Benhayon as a lot of answers to this question and the worldwide Universal Medicine Student Body stand in solid testament to it.

468. We know that illness and disease is by far the biggest killer on the planet, we watch as the figures rise every year. We push our bodies to the limit regardless of the effect. We are only seeking to be bigger , better , more than, because we have stopped connecting to our inner Love and Wisdom, and we so miss it.

469. “Given that we are living in so much comfort, then why is illness and disease on the increase?” This is a great question to ask wealthy nations who believe that we have it all…if it really is so good surely our health and wellbeing would reflect this? There is something about the way we are choosing to live that is going against what we know is true and we know this is true!

470. Today I am really feeling how insidious comfort truly is. It keeps us separate and identified away from another. No wonder the world is not equal in any sense of the word.

471. The mere fact that there are boarders is comfort. It sets one up to be better off than the other – what else would you need boarders for?

472. No country on earth currently is free of this word: comfort. It may seem to be only the rich and wealthy parts. But how about the comfort of being not well? It sets me up with the perfect excuse not to do what I am here for: Express equality and work for the benefit of all equally.

473. Children being left alone to do what they like, parented by TV, the internet or the latest device, is producing a generation that understand technology more than the true values of life. Children are given what they want and this is seen as parenting. Children and teenagers spend more time in their bedrooms than they do with their family, and families are spending less and less time to come together at meal times. When we see our self as separate to everyone else it is easy to see how we have borders to separate countries.

474. I’ve been reading this blog as well as the blog about expression. In combining the two and reflecting on my own country – The Netherlands – I could feel how much we’ve created together a way of being with each other that is quite cold, distant, damp and nice. Our culture asks us to not worry about somebody, don’t ask a lot of questions and definitely not showing any form of affection. Although we’re actually very loyal, hard working, disciplined with a relatively high level of integrity. I’ve been wondering how it would be if we would also share our care by not only doing a lot for each other, but also would express appreciation and affection towards each other. That would confirm us as the amazing beings that we are and in that we would be able to let go of all the indulgence, niceness, individuality, etc. Surrender to ourselves is crucial here.

475. Just thinking about the fact we focus on ‘the best place to live’ is ridiculous – because we measure it based on restaurants, night life, schools etc etc – not a based on the level of connection people have in that area. While we seek the material physical wealth we miss out on the true treasure and wealth to be found that is not material but is about our relationship with people

476. If we consider how we take part in material competition with other countries as you have said here Christopher it’s quite a reality check on really how retarded we are in our evolution back to harmony. Harmony knows no boundaries, no country borders and includes everyone not just those from a select group.

477. Awesome blog Christopher. Imagine if we were all made aware of the most awful place on earth to live from the understanding that this is the marker we should look to to determine where we are at collectively as a human race. It is a sobering thought! I live in a city (Melbourne, Australia) that is regularly declared the most ‘liveable’ in the world and I found myself feeling chuffed with this, that was until I read this blog and became aware of how separative and insensitive it is to measure ourselves and others in this way. I am grateful that I live where I live, however, I am aware that my true home resides inside of me and this connection to myself is not reliant on material possessions, the weather or any other external factor.

478. We as humanity are currently living so disconnected, not only from ourselves but from everyone else. We are living a pretend life where on the surface everything looks swell, but on the inside we are rotting. The world would look very different if we made it a priority to truly connect.

479. A well written and much needed conversation Christopher. I particularly like the sentence “With true love for oneself and all of humanity comes joy and harmony with no need or craving for the next hit of happiness, just living life in a constant flow of contentment.” Such a beautiful way to be able to live.

480. The interesting thing is when we know true love we then understand that an expression of true love is to take care of the material things – with love.

481. To stand in our castle and feel safe, protected and ‘good’ that we are better off than our neighbours is a miserable way to live and it’s an illusion to feel that our life is great, how can it be great when there are billions of people living in utter poverty, being tortured, abused every single moment of every day. We are all connected, to deny the truth of what is going on in our world is just choosing to opt out of life and the responsibility we all have to ourselves and each other.

482. ‘In my experience, no true joy has been found in material wealth, only fleeting moments of happiness never sustained, always followed by a come down, a dip or a depression.’ – so true, Christopher, we think ‘things’ will satisfy this ache we feel inside for something more, however, they never will as what we miss is right there and always has been, our glorious selves.

483. We really have gotten it all wrong, have we not? We like to celebrate the fact that we do not have to do it tough like our parents/grandparents had to but really what are we celebrating? The stats are telling us that what we have achieved in gaining a more comfortable life is simply not the answer we have been looking for. Is it not the time to question whether what we are doing is actually supporting us as people rather than living some ideal of what we imagine life should be so that we can be happy?

484. ‘Temporary happiness’ is the perfect phrase to describe the love we have of materialism and our comforts, Christopher, and the effect that these things have on us. When we eat our chocolate, cake, have our alcohol or indulge in any ‘off switch’ moment, we get a temporary release of tension, thus resulting in a false elevated feeling that quickly fades as the underlying things we were trying not to feel are still very present.

485. This blog makes me think of the word investment… do we make a personal investment in growing our material welath, or do we bring our focus to the gold that is already inside each and every one of us?

486. ‘This begs me to ask the question, “What is it about the way we are living that is giving rise to this upsurge in ill health?”’ This is a question which every country has to ask itself. In which way do we live as a society to produce such an increase of health issues.

487. “The focus becomes less and less about community and working together for the common good of all, instead shifting more and more to how good a life an individual can attain, or the individual family, or just smaller groups, no longer caring for the whole, just about the self and one’s closest.” Indeed Christopher,I recently invited a group of people from my street over to my house for tea – i was astonished when the elderly ladies that were present kept saying they had lived here for 40 years and never met some of these people! This is the behind closed doors society we have all accepted.

     1. Beautiful Lucinda, a simple act of love, reaching out to those in our community, inviting them into our hearts and home for tea! As communities and families we have stopped doing this, we’ve kept our guards, fences and walls up, we’ve separated from ourselves, neighbours and the person that lives next door. And yet at any moment we can choose to be different and truly connect.

488. When we have been given much, we have a responsibility to give back and when we choose to accommodate in what we have achieved and plateau in the comfort we get reflected that we have chosen not to evolve and that we cannot live in a universal order that is constantly expanding and we in human form are resisting evolution. The raise in illness and disease is the consequence of not living our universal responsibility and that by resisting to evolve we go against a universal order that is then manifested in our bodies showing us our ill choices. Yes we might not suffer a famine, disasters,or extreme poverty but we live with the calamities of suicide, depression, alcoholism, domestic violence and self made illness and diseases killing ourselves slow by our own choices.

489. ‘material wealth is not our true happiness’ True wealth resides within each one of us and our purpose in life is to connect to this inner gold: divinity within.

490. ‘The simple act of taking a moment to ponder on how we are living our lives, considering how we can best care for ourselves and others, could help us all to live in harmony together, in a greater state of true health and feeling the joy of life.’ It really is that simple, but we make our lives so complicated that we can’t see the wood for the trees and we focus on outside treasures instead of looking inside where our greatest treasure can be found.

491. The idea of describing the ‘best place in the world to live’ immediately puts up differences between countries and the people that do not live in the so called best place to live. Setting up the ‘have’s’ and ‘have’s not’ the ‘Better Than’ and the ‘Less Than’ boarder line. When in fact as people, we can make wherever we live, the best place in the world to live, simply by the relationships we have with ourselves, with others, and a genuine attempt to live in harmony.

492. We often look to second and third world countries as less fortunate than ourselves but who is truly caught in the bigger trap? Comfort gives us the illusion all is well; poverty and hardship is far more ‘at the coal face’ of human life.

     1. This is absolutely a pattern we use. And we even use it thinking we are physically ok even though we are exhausted and miserable but justify it because we may not have cancer or diabetes.
        It’s a false and illusionary way of thinking and comparing to the worse that keeps us from honesty and truth.

493. Comfort at any level be it individual or national is a scourge. The problem is we will never recognise it as such given it’s lulling effect on us. Comfort is a form of sleep from which it is difficult to be woken. Thank goodness for Serge Benhayon, who awoke and is arising us from our slumber.

     1. It is great to reconsider the meaning of words and ‘comfort’ is a big one. It has become something we aspire to and yet as you say Victoria it is actually like a soporific state that we function in, shut down from the bigger picture.

494. “With true love for oneself and all of humanity, comes joy and harmony with no need or craving for the next hit of happiness, just living life in a constant flow of contentment.” This is true Alchemy, the ‘pot of gold at the end of the rainbow’ that we are all searching for.

495. Wow Christopher – your blog is super powerful and packs a mighty (lovingly so) punch! I agree with everything you have shared although, I must admit, I have not, in truth, given myself the time and space to reflect deeply and bring a much greater awareness to exposing my daily pockets of comfort. This holds me back from being able to clearly see the importance of my responsibility to make simple changes in my choices which will, in turn, help turn the tide that is threatening to drown everything in its path.

496. Thank you Christopher for your great blog on ‘Comfort’. We have visited Norway a few times and value it as one of our favourite countries to visit because of its’ pristine and clear air, lovely people and with endless views to die for – however, as you say, all of this is not what makes for a loving society necessarily. In Australia we also have evidence of pristine and clear air, lovely people and often endless views that we can deeply appreciate, and are touted as being the ‘lucky’ country – we are bruised when others in our society appear not to appreciate what they have received by ‘coming here’ from other places that are experiencing war, famine or horrendous living conditions. It’s all very interesting when one looks at the material wealth of some of our home-lands, but behind this facade is often the energy of desperation of a lost and lonely society at heart. One has to ask “where is the love?”. I have wondered many times in our visits to other places what it is that ones who ‘seek’ to travel as their purpose to living, actually ‘find’. We have at times seen evidence of such poverty that cannot be found here in Australia, but the smiles and the emanation of the energy of acceptance often outshines the supposed squalid living conditions, as though there is an inner wisdom that they know and are connected to. In my early years I used to wonder at this. Serge Benhayon and the presentations of Universal Medicine have opened my eyes to the truth of the way it is’ (incidentally ‘The Way It Is’ is the title of one of Serge Benhayon’s books) and my heart has opened more deeply to the true plight of humanity, and it is not that we are lucky or unlucky as to where we live, but it seems to me it commences with knowing who we are absolutely if we but choose to look within. Simple really, but as a wise sage once said ‘not always easy’.

497. The state of world health affects everyone. Not just those who are ill. We can no longer sit in our comfortable homes and ignore what is going on. We are all responsible.

498. ‘The simple act of taking a moment to ponder on how we are living our lives, considering how we can best care for ourselves and others, could help us all to live in harmony together, in a greater state of true health and feeling the joy of life. And if we truly consider this, we might come to the conclusion that every person on the planet is the same as we are, no matter their colour, religion, nationality, gender, age or size. ‘This offers a reflection which I have found myself feeling in my own life and asking where to I place importance on material items for their own sake and not in true support of my life and expression and also re-examining what my prioritise and motivation are in what I do. I have found that I have these aspects of desire and comfort in my life and can begin to feel how they are placed to keep us separated, away from our harmonious way of being together.

499. There is nothing wrong with having a lovely car, or a beautiful welcoming home, or appreciating quality in material things. What is very awry is when our love and care of all is missing, and we have gained things at the expense of another. We cannot use these material things to comfort ourselves or hide from the chilling facts about the way we are living.

500. It is only through presentations by Universal Medicine that I have begun to redefine what comfort actually is for myself and others. I now see it as anything that is familiar like a well worn track, even though it may not appear to be physically comfortable at all. For instance, it has been comfortable to hide my true self away. Even though this is uncomfortable as it hinders my relationships and engagement in life, it is super familiar as a way to get through another life. What I am realising that it doesn’t matter what comfort we choose to indulge in, as it all has the same result of keeping us from evolving and inspiring others back to their soul.

501. I also live in a beautiful, modern, comfortable country. It is easy to be lulled into thinking the world is ok just because your personal world is ok. When we stop feeling the mess we are in as humanity, from poverty to the illusion of material wealth, there is no motivation to step up and speak or act to inspire others out of whatever comfort they have chosen to be in.

502. Thank you for bringing to light the truth behind material comforts, Christopher, I feel that Norway could be any country, in some countries poverty would replace wealth and expensive gadgets, but the youth are suffering from this lack of focus on true values and love as a foundation for living in equality and harmony.

503. Comfort through material gain has been sold as the answer to life throughout history. The poor have always looked to the rich as though they have the answers – despite the fact that we often see through the media the mess some aspects of their lives are in. This keeps us caught in the game of striving for more and seeking satisfaction outside ourselves. The focus on material comforts takes us away from investing in our connection with our soul. The comfort they provide can keep us lost and locked away from seeking our soul for lifetimes.

504. I travelled to a country rated with one of the happiest people and places to live in the world. It is a relatively poor country, beautiful in parts but squalid in others. It was very obvious to me observing the people, that happy was not it. The pastime of drinking a ‘natural’ substance in the evenings (especially the men) seemed to make them docile but the somewhat bleary day time eyes did not shine joy or love of life. If this is to be celebrated as one of the best countries in the world, we are selling ourselves way short of our true potential.

505. The health statistics are a real wake up call, if we actually allow ourselves to feel the many lives = people, affected directly and how many people are affected indirectly by these lifestyle illnesses like many cancers, diabetes type 2, Alzheimer’s and dementia, heart attacks and strokes, and to top the list – suicide. All the ‘lucky’ countries, like Australia and Switzerland for example, have high rates of suicide – now why would that be if we are living in such a ‘comfortable’, ‘civilised’ and ‘good’ countries? What are we missing? The presentations by Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine certainly have given me a much clearer understanding as to why all of this is happening, and what we can do about it as a global community; and I feel that is a key point, that we start to consider us all, each and every one of us as an integral part of the all, and every choice towards true love and true connection with ourselves and each other is a step in the direction that leads us to true growth and evolution as a species.

506. A great blog Christopher exposing the individualistic nature of our world. Even those who are acting supposedly ‘selflessly’ or for ‘good’ have an agenda, e.g. recognition in some form, something motivating them to do or be that way. There are very few people in todays world who truly care for all of humanity with absolutely no agenda.

507. “The focus becomes less and less about community and working together for the common good of all, instead shifting more and more to how good a life an individual can attain, or the individual family, or just smaller groups, no longer caring for the whole, just about the self and one’s closest.”. So we’re championing countries, yet we don’t really (Truly) know what we’re championing as we’ve lost connection to our brothers all around us. The statistics in countries tell so so much about the state we’re living in, yet it’s like we’re blind to see what is going on beneath the surface. There’s much to be honest about.

508. “I’m here considering this and realising how this attitude may be arrogant, indulgent, individualistic and inconsiderate”. You have applied this to countries here Christopher which is awesome. I agree, it is like an advertisement encouraging tourists to travel to these destinations to spend money, in support of the gloating and pride and to wish that they lived there also. Also, while we are there, this in depth look at our attitudes can also be applied to all other areas of our life. For me, it highlights truth when applied to these other areas and many situations and circumstances. Very exposing indeed.

509. Thankyou Christopher, you make a lot of interesting points. Our focus on material competition is definitely at odds with our ability to be in harmony with everyone. This has given me new insights into how to be in business as although I may have competitors I do not have to be in any other state but harmonious with all.

510. It is so easy to look at our little corner of the globe and feel that all is ok as we sit in our comfort of material things, which are never truly enough, as the fleeting happiness they give evaporates and the need for more arises. It is the incessant seeking for more of the same, outside of us, to solve the problems that plague our society with it’s download trend in illness and disease.

511. We like to look at the materialistic ‘successes’ of a country, person or lifestyle and what you’ve exposed here Christopher is that if we truly evaluate the quality of what lies UNDERNEATH that exterior polish then that is when you get the real picture of what’s going on.

512. I really love how your blog asks us to stop just thinking about our country, our family, or just us and me and to take in the fact that we are all connected and what we do to one affects the all, even if we try to turn a blind eye to it or bury our heads in the sand.

513. Ha ! I had to smile about this “People are more afraid of being killed by terrorists than the real killers”, but it is a sad smile. Yes our view becomes more and more crazy and our reality more and more away from the truth. And it seems to me that the more we look at our way of living and everyday choices which creates our ‘real killers,’ the more we are supported and willing to look at something far away from our daily living to blame and focus on. It is irresponsibility in a high and hidden form and just that – comfort.

514. How can we say we are doing well in our country, city or town if people are suffering in another part of the world? We are firstly human beings before race, colour, nationality or religion and so how have we gotten to a state where we put out nationality first above others? There is no love when we do not see everyone as equal and the same.

515. I know so well those statements that ‘sound like’ they are celebrating and appreciating something and therefore very acceptable in society. And yet they are laced with comparison to others and seem to be gloating at being better than them, which by default means judging others as being somehow less. As well as having heard such talk countless times, I have done it myself. They are the polar opposite of truly appreciating something and celebrating it WITH everyone else in order to inspire all of us to know the glory that we all are.

516. This is such a needed blog to awaken us out of our comfort stupor. Who’d ever have considered the link between the comfort of how we live and the unprecedented rise in ill health; that how we go about obtaining wealth and the accolades of a successful life are actually harming us because the energy of looking out for number one and number one’s family only, actually harms us?

     We’re designed to support everyone so when we try to shut down this natural impulse to share and care for each other by trying to limit it to a chosen few and exclude others, we go against our bodies that follow this natural order and get sick as a result.

517. If we honestly observe all that is around us we will discover that it is a reflection of the greater picture. If we choose to take responsibility for the choices each of us make in regard to the way we live with awareness, responsibility and love as our intention, the greater will benefit and our world will re-connect to what is true globally. To choose to live in competition, comparison and judgment and to live in denial will also be reflected in Humanity. Thank you Serge Benhayon for reflecting the choices we have, for reflecting another way to live, this is already changing our world and supporting others to re-connect to their body’ and the truth that waits there for us to know.

518. Why do we even talk about countries, I wonder. Just because we have put these borders, does this mean that we have separate countries? We are all one big country for that matter and what is going on in other countries, close or far, is also happening with us. Borders are an illusion, we are all one big country, as everything is energy.

519. “‘best place in the world to live’” there are so many places in the world that are the best places to live, the best towns, cities and countries. I also think its interesting how they also happen to have so many problems in these “best countries”. If the best places have so many problems then what about the worst? How come we pride ourselves on living in the best country and not consider that means others are therefore all worse off than we are – in many ways?

520. “Inspired by the presentations of Serge Benhayon, which I feel offer a genuine way out of these worldwide health issues that are embedded in the lives of all of us.”
     I have never come across anyone with more common sense and agree with you here Christopher. I was heading towards obesity, diabetes, an increase in the pain I had with arthritis and the hip and knee replacements I would have needed, the anxiety, exhaustion and general lack of enjoyment in life, until I came across Serge Benhayons work and presentations. All of that was brought to a halt simply because I began to take more loving responsibility for my self and my choices and to wake up to the world and people. Something I will forever appreciate.

521. This is very poignant Christopher when you talk of the way we exacerbate this whole health situation by “teaching them to be exactly who they are not”. Everything around us is put in place to distract us away from a true life and true vitality, and it is we who actually put all this in place – by not showing our children who they are, but rather giving them aspirations of house, 2nd home, nice car and holidays – a relationship with life that is totally based on everything outside of themselves.

522. I also feel that we are using this focus on the obvious baddies to avoid looking at the fact that we are living with such devastation in our own bodies, that we are not experiencing harmony and that nor do we enjoy true connection with each other.

523. “People are more afraid of being killed by terrorists than the real killers listed above”. This is so true Christopher. These illnesses have become so normalized that they are not seen as the ‘killers’ they are – in general we are so very un-willing to look at the fact that we’re letting ourselves slip into a way of being that is far from naturally vital and vibrant lives. Using this sliding level as barometer is indicative of the given up attitude we have towards ourselves and happily hand over the focus to all the outer thing that can convince us we have a good life or that ‘life is not so bad’.

524. It is quite extraordinary really that we make our material possessions more important, more of a status symbol than the quality of our relationships and our health. I wonder how sick do we need to get before we see that material wealth is void of love and connection and come together with the common aim of making every nation healthy – empowering people to lead joyful lives and enjoy meaningful relationships.

525. Reading this blog I could not help but wonder if the people who are living this comfortable life, with wealth and many second houses, cars, swimming pools etc. and still look for more, are truly feeling joyful in life. To me it is an indicator that all is not well when we need so much outward material things to make us feel happy. True joy comes from the heart and a life lived from there. Then you can enjoy a good car but there will never be the need to get a better one or another one straight away.

526. I enjoy observing the opposing swings of what we call life and how one side swings towards bad and the other end good. Examples such as happiness & sadness, right & wrong, winner & loser or in the case lucky & unlucky. All these things are here to teach us that you can’t have good without the bad, you can’t make yourself a winner without making at least one other a loser and visa versa. And then there is the truth of life that is there always waiting for us to return to and remember in truth, love, stillness, harmony and joy we are all equal and equally taken care of. Thank you Serge Benhayon for speaking so unhindered about these topics – hearing you for the first time reminded me of the purpose in life.

527. I love how you speak of living in joy and harmony and the norm we have come to accept of continual craving to fulfil the next need or create more stimulation. It seems we are only ever satisfied for a moment with the next thing and then need to expend energy in retaining it or are off looking for the next thing that will satisfy us.

528. There is much to be considered when you realise that collecting more wealth does not always correlate with true well-being and vitality. Measures of well-being of countries do evaluate economic wealth of its citizens as well as their mental and physical well-being. But what is highlighted here is how we lose sight of true well-being if we stay focused on increasing or keeping our wealth secure above other aspects of our being.

529. “What is it about the way we are living that is giving rise to this upsurge in ill health?” Unfortunately it may take a bankrupt government or three, before some honesty prevails.

530. If we were to understand and accept the fact that the true purpose of life is evolution, then “the simple act of taking a moment to ponder on how we are living our lives”, would be one of the most important things we do in our day.

531. Money can buy almost anything except, connection to soul and to god

532. Whilst we live in comfort, it is easy to turn a blind eye to what is happening with humanity outside our own circles. A great blog Christopher bringing to light the responsibility that is called for to reflect to our children that there is more to life than materialism and short lived happiness.

533. Such a fantastic point, Chris. People are more scared about being killed by a terrorist, when the most prevalent killer, is actually the way we are living.

534. It’s interesting to consider that living in ‘comfort’ is the desired goal of most people, even considering the effects that this has on our bodies. The question is do we really consider what it means, not just for us, but for everyone around us?

535. Beautiful blog, thank you Christopher. In our frenzy to have more and more material wealth, power, recognition etc, we destroy the gift that we have been given, our life, we contaminate the planet and teach our children to do the same.

536. I remember reading a quote that says that some people are so poor, all they have is money and I think in some ways that is very accurate. I know many very very rich people, who have all the comforts that money can buy and yet no money can buy true connection in the family, true love between the parents, consistent joy and intimacy. In seeing wealth and the currently levels of success we consider to be success as successful, we are aim for something that at it best only looks really successful, but underneath it isn’t and it can be seen in the rates of illness and disease.

537. Can we really live in the comfort of ‘the good life’ when so many around us are suffering increasing levels of illness and disease as a result of the way they are living?

538. Nothing outside of us, no wealth or commodity can ever truly fulfill us. Unless we discover the richness inside ourselves, we will stay forever thirsty for more trying to fill that feeling of emptiness that we are left with when we neglect our body and ourselves in the process.

539. In our comfortable way of choosing to live, I observe little effort is being focused on our own responsibility for the prevention of the tide of illness and disease. Yes Christopher, unfortunately this is the case. We are much more focussed on what can give us a quick fix and a feel good moment, all at the expense of our bodies. How much longer can the healthcare services cope under all of this pressure from our worsening and unhealthy bodies?

540. and the countries that are currently not in comfort are striving to be in comfort, not knowing that comfort is a trap, a paralyzing holding station that prevents evolution.

541. It is an interesting point you make, that we rarely bring attention to how we treat ourselves.. We know that bullying violence and abuse are harmful, but we could bring children up with an understanding of the care we need to take of ourselves. As an example, many children know they watch too much tv, too many computer games and other screen time and even say they want to cut down, and there is the junk food and lollies they know makes them feel bad – but maybe we can explore ways to encourage children to take the reins and be in command of their own destiny in the face of the onslaught of advertising and peer pressure.

542. “People are more afraid of being killed by terrorists than the real killers listed above”. This is a stunning, read-stopping statement Christopher, one that definitely stopped me and asked for space to be considered. It didn’t take long for me see that we are actually our own personal “terrorist”; we are the one who is making the unloving choices that are making us sick. We don’t need to be fearful of being killed in a terrorist attack, but we do need to be seriously concerned about the lifestyle choices we are making, for it is becoming very obvious that it is those choices that are slowly killing us.

543. Norway does ‘deserve’ its living standards. It has done a lot of things right and when they realise that the same can be done with love, it will be even better. Other countries have made other choices with the resulting consequences but that does not mean the Norway needs to feel guilty in any way – in fact, by being a role model, they are doing really well.

544. Illness and disease are on the major rise all round the world and we are scared of terrorists? How many do they kill in our comfort ridden countries compared with illness and disease or our own people. In the US they are terrified of the so called terrorist threat and look at their health stats or the number killed on a daily basis due to gun related incidences and they certainly know what comfort is in that country.

545. “The focus becomes less and less about community and working together for the common good of all, instead shifting more and more to how good a life an individual can attain, or the individual family, or just smaller groups, no longer caring for the whole, just about the self and one’s closest”.
     This is now a common problem in society and one that is leaving us isolated and often trying to deal with problems alone when we could easily call on our community for support if we were to embrace working together and creating community.

546. We need to honestly ask and expose what is not really good about our seemingly good lifestyle, and we will find that many very essential aspects of who we are are not nurtured or even dismissed in the way we live. As long as we only seek solutions to the problems but do not dig out the roots of the problem the disastrous trend of illness and disease will continue.

547. Developing self love and self worth has been replaced by developing material wealth by much of humanity. This is crippling our society, which can be seen in the extreme rise in ill health statistics

548. Life is so ‘good’ on many levels with having a certain lifestyle, wealth and comfort that the real human dilemmas can be easier ignored and thereby also our ‘true’ virtues and qualities are distorted, buried or forgotten. The illness rates show how we rot on the inside while on the outside we hold on to the okayness of our lifestyles and although much is known about the causes of illness and disease we delay taking the responsible steps to bring true and lasting change to the alarming problems. We fix as long as we can before we consider causal change, such is our attachment to lifestyle in ignorance of what is truly going on.

549. To me when we get a general attitude in a country this feels like an outplay or magnification of what goes on in our own private lives. Do we just make sure that ourselves and our nearest and dearest are safe and secure even if this means at the expense of others? Do we really live our own daily lives for the benefit of our communities and humanity as a whole or are we in it for self-gain only? It seems that how we live every day in this individualistic way combines into attitudes of whole countries which then act in the same way.

550. I agree that this pattern of self-gain or self -survival that we see in countries is very separative. Separation of us all based on nationality, religion or culture prevents us from working together as one human family, one human race to actually come up with some answers to our escalating health and social problems.

551. Thank you, Christopher. Sometimes when I read the statistics on health I want to push them aside as they can become quite overwhelming but slowly I am learning to not check out and instead let myself feel the horror that the stats are actually representing. The way that we are living is simply killing us. We have to understand this and then do something about it. Your blog points us in the right direction in that we are disconnected from ourselves, our families, our children and our communities and true healing can only begin with a connection to self first, then others.

552. The interesting thing as you have exposed is the avarice is never ending and chasing the rainbow never ends. With this pursuit comes the small inconveniencing side effect of ill health. But all is not lost here either; as Mr. Burns from the Simpsons says; with enough money and great health insurance you can live forever!

553. “Ignoring the true messages our bodies are giving to us is compounding in its effects to produce an ever-sickening global population that we none of us can escape, in spite of our wealth.” An example of this was recently reported in the Sydney Morning Herald.
     Diabetes costs Australia at least $14.6 billion annually, a figure expected to blow out to $30 billion by 2025, “Diabetes is getting more prevalent and people are putting on more weight despite the fact there’s been campaigns and people are becoming aware of it.
     It is obvious from these statistics that people are not really willing to listen to their bodies and take responsibility for what is needed. How bad does it have to get before we will take responsibility for our own health and well-being?

554. Simply stating the facts, questioning the so-called normal comfortable lifestyle you describe with all the unaccounted consequences like the rising rates of illness and disease (mostly lifestyle-related) exposes the rotten ill we have buried ourselves in and calls us personally and as a society to take responsibility for our choices.

555. The simple fact is that there are a multitude of simple changes we can make that would improve our health outcomes, but we live corrupted by systems that want us to feed on the mountains of sugar manufactured and the pharmaceutical drugs that treat our ill health as two examples. That is why change can only occur through us each individually and then collectively saying we want more from life, accepting that we are worth far more than we currently give ourselves and making the choices that move us to a more connected way of living. Great article Christopher.

556. What is it that makes us triumph the country we live in as the ‘number one’ or anything like that. What is there to celebrate if we praise our country to be the ‘number one’ while there is discontentment about our physical and mental health? And what does it tell about how we relate to the world e.g. all the countries that are not the ‘number one’? Is it not the ultimate form of separation and individualism to only look at a narrow aspect of our lives and not to the whole? Fact is that we human beings are all interconnected to one another and that everything we do is influencing us all. The fact that we campaigning our countries shows us that we have chosen to be not aware of this fact, as otherwise we would never consider ourselves or our country to be any better then another.

557. Yes the statistics in Norway can be echoed in most other countries, and the more the people of the countries seek material and other comforts the more the sickness and disease statistics are spiralling out of control. No-one wants to take full responsibility for their own ill-health even when they know exactly how to do it.

558. The desire to have a comfortable life is driven from an individual, or at best family standpoint. In most societies, there is an approach of “everyone for themselves” and this is accepted as normal. There are the basic items of housing, food and water and clothing that everyone needs, and in many countries the government supports achieving this end for everyone (although much of the world does not have this level of support). What I read in this blog is it asking that we consider that the levels of comfort beyond the basics have grown to massive proportions, while much of the world still does not have the basics. The old solution of “help them get the basics” like aid programs have not worked. So is there a new approach needed? One that asks a different question of governments in for example 3rd world countries, for refugees pouring into Europe, or even the USA where many people live without basics. As a united group, what are governments doing to stop wars so people are taken care of first, or put petty issues within governments to one side to find a different way of supporting people. The work of Universal Medicine offers a new way of working with harmony and unity that many governments would find offer the foundations for a completely different way of supporting people.

559. The individualization we are seeking is not only expressed by each individual human being, but has many dimensions that all lead to it. One of it is nationality and how we want to differentiate from each other by identifying with a nation and with this with certain cultural habits, behaviors, etc. It is all to apply a movement that creates a difference and with this is out of order from the all and stands out to be seen. We are desperate to be seen in our individual expression and accept the disturbance and misery that goes with it instead of expressing in harmony from the all.

560. Thank you Christopher, for this call to all of us to return to a way of living that is respectful to who we truly are and to all of humanity. We have to let go of the individualistic way of living, the thinking in countries, continents and even the world. We are in fact much grander that that and interconnected with everything even the universe. Considering life from this angle can help us to make the true choices in life, choices that do not only consider a healthy life for ourselves or the people living in our country, but for all of humanity and beyond. Only then, I would say, we have a wealthy life as living in good health is the most precious we can have.

561. Great article Christopher, ‘We are not supporting them to hold their kind, loving, considerate, harmonious, joyful and generous nature’, I can feel where I live in England there is very much a focus on material wealth which is passed down to children, that it’s important to save up and own your own home, have a car and the latest technology and that this is often seen as success, rather than the focus being on how children are, supporting them to live in their naturally loving, joyful way.

562. What a great and also very needed blog Christopher. Indeed “Living a privileged life in a beautiful place may make us feel better and more deserving than others, but while we bathe in comfort we are detaching ourselves from humanity, taking part in material competition with each other, isolating ourselves instead of living together in harmony with everyone.” Thank you so much for high lighting comfort as it made us blind to see what is really going on.

563. How easy it is to close our eyes or even closing all our senses in benefit or as a result of the comfort we live in. Humanity is in a big need and a lot of trouble but we are closing our eyes or in effect all our senses, doing some good now and then to ease our guilt and continue to live with a very narrow perspective, We as human beings have a responsibility towards each other and the world as equals to start to have an honest look and feel where we are heading towards and to turn the tides, your blog Christopher asks us to look at what our true purpose is where ever we live.

564. Thank you Christopher, I agree, and considering how true this state of ill health is world wide something has to change! The presentations by Serge Benhayon offer a simple common sense approach to health that has turned around the lives of many Students of The Livingness . This article and the web sites dedicated to Serge Benhayon, Universal Medicine and The Livingness are a testament to this fact!

565. When we stop to ponder on it I find it interesting how most people in all countries identify themselves by their culture alone. In this identification we dismiss other nations as being less or more, promoting an internal arrogance that sets us apart from one another. Not only is it confined to countries but between different areas in those countries. The delineations or boarders within nations also set apart sub-cultures within each country so that we see further points of separation. On a personal note anyone encountering rejection because of their accent or where they are from is incredibly affronted and in reaction, further promote the stigmas and stereotypes that keep us locked in the mindset of ‘us and them’! If we stop to consider that these borders are self imposed and that in fact we are a one global race these nonsensical and biased narrow views become ludicrously exposed for what they are – a desire to be individualistic and to stand out at the expense of the greater whole. Lack of commitment to each other is sorely missing within our own areas and nations let alone across the globe!

566. With cancer, diabetes and poor mental health so much on the rise, despite our advances in medical and health technology, it is surprising that people are not shouting from the treetops that ‘Life as we live it isn’t working’. How can we live so blind to what is going on? Choosing healthier ways of living can make such a difference, it’s weird that more people have not yet cottoned on to it.

567. When will we learn we can escape nothing? Everything we do has a consequence. The cream bun today is the diabetes of tomorrow; the loveless, disregarding sexual encounters of a lifetime are the dysfunctions of later years…and so on and so on.

568. ‘…our disregard for our bodies – how we use them as an instrument for our own pleasure and self-indulgent habits…’ Never a truer word was spoken Christopher. We are addicted to pleasure and indulgence – physicality and materialism – and it is doing us in. Yet we continue to override their ill-effects on us.

569. You have made a great case here Christopher that countries in comfort are in as much trouble and disease and countries in great discomfort. We need to make the shift from ‘the good life’ to the ‘the harmonious life’. And this requires us to connect with our own innermost. (see landing page of http://www.unimedliving.com
     for free connection meditations)

570. Being in comfort is technically checking out. We are not wanting to see and feel the full picture. There are too many Disney lands we can escape into – for a life time or even for a few hours here and there, we have come up with so many devices and techniques not to feel the depth of deceit we have aligned to, and this has been exacerbating over the years, it just makes absolute sense why we have more and more cases of dementia and the Alzheimer’s.

571. Given the statistics on health, which are similar in every country, and the indulgences we all have – some more expensive and extreme than others but we all have them, even if it is indulging in being a victim or eating chocolate, they are still indulgences that keep us in comfort and irresponsibility. It is only when we are prepared to look at our own lives and the way we are living, and to truly see the mess humanity is in, that true responsibility comes to humanity. By each one of us being responsible we inspire many others to also come to this way of living.

572. There is a great deal of honesty that needs to be brought to the table of every household … how are we truly living, what are we teaching our young (whether we have children or not), and what is our responsibility in all of this? It is only when we are open and wiling to be truly honest about ourselves and our lives that we can develop true and lasting change, and in this we inspire everyone we meet.

573. We are looking for contentment in the wrong places. We think it is all about creating security and pleasure for ourselves and live in a way that forgets how deeply connected we all are and hence find ourselves feeling uneasy, unsettled and searching for more. It is essential to take responsibility for providing ourselves with a strong foundation from which to live but innate to this is equally living in a way that confirms our connection with others; not just our immediate family and close friends, but all others.

574. We need to keep reminding each other about what is really important in life and to cultivate a sense of community wherever we go. This begins with ourselves, at how willing we are to be open and transparent with each other, to really connect or to shut each other out. We have these choices available to us at every interaction to either confirm who and why we are here or deny it.

575. Whilst I have always had all that I have needed materially, and in this I have been privileged, it has only been recently that I have married this with a sense of wholeness and joy that one would hope would be natural but in fact was always elusive to me given the hurts that I carried. And a result, my material life is beginning to reflect this wholeness I am now living. And yet, this is not an end point and it is not what comprises my life, for I am allowing myself to really feel and be aware of all those who have not yet reached levels of harmony for themselves and I am making myself available to give back. As such, life is very busy. I see that this will continue to magnify, so long as I keep my eye on making life about service and not about self.

576. “The fact is that this tsunami of ill-health flooding over us is bankrupting health services around the world, causing even more ill-health for those working within these overloaded systems.”

     This is well said and well worth considering why our comfortable lives are producing such ill-health, that bubbles up regardless of how luxurious our lives are. We live in illusion and irresponsibility of how by turning a blind eye, we deeply affect both our own bodies and everyone else too. It is all of the indulgences: food, emotions, experiences, excessive material possessions, excessive achievements – these are what creates the disharmony that leads to disease. It is only when we are willing to reclaim the part of us that constantly chooses excess and bring it back in line with the wholeness of us, that we will curb the massive spike in illness rates currently occurring.

577. We like to believe in these imaginary lines that have been drawn on the ground. We prefer to see the world divided up and segregated into bits. Yet everything we know about science contradicts this point of view – it tells us we all share the weather, water, air and energy too. So as you say Christopher, to see each other as cut off or removed from certain parts quite absurd. I wonder if we stopped to feel the whole world as one family, just how and what we would feel? and perhaps this global segregation starts first with how we feel in ourselves?

578. Yes Christopher it is very easy to sit back with an arrogant attitude towards the world if one lives in a safe, well-off and beautiful country that is not war torn. The fact is that we are one people, one family and all countries are linked and joined both geographically and energetically despite the imaginary lives drawn. We are all part of one whole. The toxic emissions from one country can travel on air currents and poison another country. Likewise, by the same law, the love we are can travel and affect everyone. We cannot be sleepwalkers and forget about the whole.

579. It really does demonstrate that a title of ‘ No 1’ or the ‘Lucky Country’ or any other number of words we choose to comfort ourselves with to deny our deeply irresponsible choices and loveless ways are merely words – a cleverness of the mind to construct a new reality to convince ourselves of and mask the true reality we are living and witnessing every day. Such words lack honesty, integrity and are easily exposed in the light of Truth – we need only look around us and see misery, greed, corruption, obesity, escalation of illness and disease including mental health conditions and a widening gap between rich and poor to name but a few and we will see that all is not right, balanced nor the picture perfect we tell ourselves it is.

580. “What is it about the way we are living that is giving rise to this upsurge in ill health?” The comfort that we may have in our lives, brings a level of disconnection to our bodies and this is where the illness and disease can take hold. It also creates a level of separatism and a feeling of being happy which doesn’t serve us only takes us further away from the truth we hold already. The true power for change lies in the connection to who we are.

581. It is deeply wise for us to consider these diabetes statistics and the growing epidemic of those in humanity that are are not living their true potential and therefore adding to these numbers. Each of these statistics are people and not merely numbers – our parents, children, friends, neighbours, colleagues, local shop owner perhaps or even ourselves. This is outrageous to be escalating and bankrupting our health systems in silence and without honest broadcast to the world. Thank God that Serge Benhayon and others are prepared to present the absolute Truth to Humanity and not turn a blind eye to all we need heal.

582. And what a different planet it would be… my feeling is that deep down we all know there is another very true and harmonious way of living even though many of us have given up on it. but when I look around and see how far away from this most of us live, it’s a stop moment. In that moment we know there’s a job to do, because everyone deserves to at least be reminded of that true way of living even if they decide it’s not for them at that point in time.

583. Our society today is largely caught up in competition (which we also often actively promote and encourage) and whenever there is competition or a scale of being ‘better than’, there is instant separation. It is this separation from ourselves and from humanity that is largely responsible for the increasing rise in illness and disease, and until we begin to heal this separation, this rise will increase…

584. Those statistics you talk of on cancer, diabetes and mental health are not just increasing in Norway but everywhere. Surely as the years go on we should be getting wiser and learning to love ourselves and others more, not sicker! This alone shows us we deeply and desperately need to look at the way we are living because it’s not working.

585. ‘People are more afraid of being killed by terrorists than the real killers listed above.’
     So true Christopher – crazily so! Terrorists or shark attacks (more common where I live) are so feared – but why? Because it’s a shock, because we don’t expect it? Is that why we are not as scared if we die from our lifestyle choices – because it’s not a surprise and it is expected?

     1. The terrorist and shark attacks are something that is easy to be afraid of, as you can put the blame on someone else. Being afraid of the real problems would automatically involve to look at their origins and show that all of these health problems are created by ourselves. Solving them in fact would be very simple by living in a responsible way that does not focus on a moment of bliss or on material wealth, but on what is truly supporting us and allows us to live a life that considers a greater all and includes others instead of excluding them by seeking an ever more refined individualism. Choosing responsibility over the quick material fix for many obviously seems to much of a challenge, when in fact it is very simple and the only true solution for any problem we might face.

586. ‘Is it that we don’t seem to think it can happen to us, until it does?’
     This is a valid point and consideration for many – including myself Christopher. Until the body has had enough of the way we are living and really lets us know, we can carry on in the comfort or disregard of living irresponsible to the fact that our choices affect everyone. Having someone close get sick or a disease can also be a wake up call to the fact that we are not immune from our body’s need to correct itself from how we may be living. There are consequences for our choices.

587. Our purpose here is not to make a nest for ourselves but to support each other to evolve out of the current mess we have created by living in separation from each other.

588. Living in comfort is not actually so comfortable when you look at where it has got us on the whole. It is like all memory is erased of why we are here in the first place and what our purpose is on this planet. There will never be true settlement within and without until we re-connect with our essential selves and live in respect to all we equally are.

589. Yes, it is plain to see that there exists a deep contrast between the vast rise in ill-health conditions along with an increase in luxury living, a style of living that one would assume would lead to a more abundant health picture for the whole planet, but the statistics tell the real human story of what is actually going on.

590. The impact of a “Comfortable Country” can show up in less Comfortable Countries in very disturbing ways.
     So some of us can maintain a ‘standard of living’, having new consumerable items, for the price we want to pay extra, there are people in countries working in less than human conditions to supply our demand. How often do we consider the cause and effect of our purchases? We are possibly maintaining our own comfort and simultaneously harming many others who have to physically work in conditions we can’t fathom. Our care for humanity will go a very long way if we choose to live a life of true regard for ourselves and not just the give me I want approach.

591. Hi Christopher, the rates that illness and disease is rising is alarming and the observations around people’s life styles and living in disregard of their body is evident. Your comment – ‘People are more afraid of being killed by terrorists than the real killers listed above.’ has been my experience also. Through the presentations of Universal Medicine I have been supported to be more aware of the choices I make in my life. Today I choose to live this as a reflection for others so they too may become aware that there is another way.

592. It truly is something quite ridiculous when we take a step back to really see our tendency to live within in our own separate bubbles, assumingly unaffecting and unaffected by the all that is around us. It is an arrogance when we hold this to be true, as in truth we are so very far from separate to all.

593. “Living a privileged life in a beautiful place may make us feel better and more deserving than others, but while we bathe in comfort we are detaching ourselves from humanity, taking part in material competition with each other, isolating ourselves instead of living together in harmony with everyone.” This sentence alone highlights the individualistic, ‘I’m alright Jack’ attitude so prevalent in society. It is the antithesis of the way we naturally want to live, and yet we have become more deeply entrenched in this ill way as we have got to the stage where we think there is too much to lose if we should stop focusing on feathering our own nest and live instead in brotherhood and equality. If we did though we would then understand that every country is equally, that borders and nationalism are simply pillars of separation, designed for the specific purpose of obscuring the view of living as one humanity.

594. “In my experience, no true joy has been found in material wealth, only fleeting moments of happiness never sustained, always followed by a come down, a dip or a depression.” – as seen in many troubled families and individuals who are extremely wealthy and often famous. We see overdosing on drugs, extreme and often dangerous behaviours in the young ones, alcohol and drug abuse, eating disorders, etc. It isn’t that being wealthy is bad or wrong, but if being wealthy is the aim or goal in life, then there will always be fear about not having it that drives the behaviour to keep it and accumulate more.

595. Perhaps your great blog could also be called and ‘Uncomfortable Life’ because reading the truth you share will certainly feel uncomfortable for some and most likely many people. There is dis-comfort in hearing the truth you share about life-style bubbles for personal pleasure and also the dis-comfort of what our bodies then have to go through to cope or not with all that they are subjected to. Then there is the flow on to families, friends, workplace and medical systems, financially and emotionally for all. This is all very uncomfortable. An ounce of prevention and actually caring for our own well-being first is worth a ton of the ‘cure’ that is sought.

596. Melbourne, Australia has been voted one of the most, if not the most liveable city in the world – and yet when you walk through the city centre, you will see people who are living on the street – on street corners, in alleyways, and various nooks around the city. And so, I ask ‘what criteria is used to vote a city the most liveable?’. For a city to have this status, it needs to be from everyone’s perspective, and not just from those who enjoy the many attractions and amenities that make their life comfortable.

597. ‘People are more afraid of being killed by terrorists than the real killers listed above’ ~ this is an awesome reality check Christopher.

598. “…while we bathe in comfort we are detaching ourselves from humanity, taking part in material competition with each other, isolating ourselves instead of living together in harmony with everyone.” This is a huge OUCH moment. Seldom do we stop to feel the depths of seemingly pleasurable choices like this which only foster individualism and separation.

599. There is indeed a tsunami of ill-health that is bankrupting our health care systems and countries but as you importantly say Christopher it is showing us that something about the way we are living is very out of line. We can’t just blame it on genetics or some other thing so as to avoid taking any responsibility for what’s going on, nor bury our head in the sand by focussing on making our own material lives ‘better’ and ignoring what’s going on around us or even in our own body.

600. I recall everyone’s amusements on several occasions when frustrated parents who see their child given expensive toys yet they happily sit and play with the packaging or something of similar nature! This shows that we are not by nature fascinated with material items, let alone want to avidly become a collector of them – it is a learned thing! Also kids seem to have natural antennae for other kids and a gorgeous openness to find a way of including the other kids in some mutual activity. But at some stage all of this seems to start to change. It is a wise move to reflect on how we are propagating this in our young and laying down the foundations that leads us to a chasing of material goods and comfort instead of the true joy, vitality and openness which we abandon and give up on early on in life.

601. Thank you Christopher awesome blog and stats you have shared – I know for me now how I shop and live is not to distract me from what needs to be felt. It is so easy just to keep buying and filling up your life with stuff and not feel the true quality of yourself or what is going on in the world today.

602. Whilst we continue to be concerned about bettering our lives and the lives of those close to us only, we will continue to miss the opportunity to live in true community. Living true community is where together we can support each other to live all that we truly are with respect, honesty and love, as we live in connection to Soul and to each other. This is how we can grow, heal, learn and evolve together as there is much to share and appreciate between us all. And this harmonious way of living is the way of true advancement for humanity.

603. You deliver a very powerful message Christopher – that seeking individual comfort is a form of illness that is contributing to the decline in global health, and that connection to self, our inner-hearts and all others equally instead could turn the tide on this “illness tsunami”.

604. “What is it about the way we are living that is giving rise to this upsurge in ill health?” Christopher this is a question that we should surely all be asking every single day until we know the answer and it is no longer the epidemic it is. As you say we can sit in our privileged lives but that does not protect us from ill-health simply distances us from all of humanity.

605. A very familiar story here, Christopher, that I feel would apply through much of the affluent western world, I know it is similar here in Australia. “As a country becomes more affluent, more and more of its citizens seek to have a more comfortable life. Living a privileged life in a beautiful place may make us feel better and more deserving than others, but while we bathe in comfort we are detaching ourselves from humanity, taking part in material competition with each other, isolating ourselves instead of living together in harmony with everyone “. But it is very noticeable that in so many cases, living in comfort results in a complete disregard of how others are faring, so different to when I was growing up, just after the world war, when there was far more interest in the well being of your neighbours, far more interaction between them and helping of each other when necessary. In our now extremely busy world, very few make time for this sort of interaction, often people have never met their neighbours, everyone is just interested in their own well-being and comfort. It can sometimes take some sort of disaster for people to be shaken out (for a short time) from their own cocoon of comfort.

606. …”This begs me to ask the question, “What is it about the way we are living that is giving rise to this upsurge in ill health?”…I am unclear as to why this question is not being asked by media and the health industry all over the world. This line of questioning should be front page news but the headline needs to be followed up with an article like yours asking the real questions and answers about what is going on.

607. This is a brilliant article Christopher. We certainly have fallen as a society for the illusion that we are ‘lucky’ because we live in a so called ‘lucky country’. But what does ‘lucky’ actually mean? That we can choose whatever ever comfort we want, to avoid how we are truly feeling in our bodies and what we are missing in our lives. That we can choose any lifestyle that distracts us from the fact that we are not taking responsibility for our state of health and well-being through the choices we make. It matters not where we are in the world we all live in physical bodies that constantly reflect if we living in harmony with the order of the Universe that we are all a part of.

608. It never ceases to amaze me that we think that we are intelligent with our expanding knowledge of the universe and ever improving technological gadgets and gizmos, yet we are finding ever increasing new ways to kill ourselves. The so called lifestyle diseases that are leading the illness and death rates – so called lifestyle because they are completely preventable!! How does this make us intelligent if we are choosing to have these diseases? I say choosing to have them as our lifestyle is a choice, therefore if we have a lifestyle disease then we are choosing to have it. This reveals where our true intelligence is at.

609. The numbers for diabetes are under-reported because there are thousands who live with undiagnosed pre-diabetes. This is a major, major issue which is confounding health specialists. None of the research seems to be stemming the flow. I am so appreciative of the conversations we have here because the importance of living our potential is abundantly clear. Thank you Universal Medicine for being the voice of honesty, responsibility and accountability in a world that prefers to champion our comforts.

610. I remember as a social smoker and craving for cigarette one day, I engineered a whole chain of events to get one and when I sat down and lit it up, it was awful but I persisted (as I did for so many years!). And I said to my friend, a cigarette promises so much but delivers so very little.

611. Such an important and honest piece of writing. We are not living well, all too often we live beyond our natural life and the statistics have to adjust for time lived chronic illness free because the survival rates are not reflecting the true picture of health in countries…let alone any indication of vitality. I read the statistics, and I don’t understand why the people who are making those choices are not caring about themselves and the trajectory they are on.

612. What you share here Christopher is so true. ‘Living a privileged life in a beautiful place may make us feel better and more deserving than others, but while we bathe in comfort we are detaching ourselves from humanity…’
     However the one thing that we all share that has no border’s is our disharmony within. We may try and detach from the rest of the world but we are all in this together and the statistics in illness and disease are proof. There is no escaping that.

613. “In my experience, no true joy has been found in material wealth only fleeting moments of happiness never sustained, always followed by a come down, a dip or a depression.” I can certainly attest to that Christopher, over the years, there have been many ‘things’ that I have felt I must have. But I have to admit that it is not long after attaining the so desired item, that any great happiness that I had felt once I had walked out of the shop has just dissipated and then before long the next want has begun to emerge. It is no longer a special item, just another thing that I own. Fulfilling these wants are really just another form of comfort, a comfort that is only of a very short term duration before I am again looking for something to fulfil my need of comfort. Of course, over the past few years, since I began to truly self love myself, and take much more care of my body, and how I am, my wants have changed enormously, and have diminished greatly and there is much more discernment in decisions in what I choose to buy. I am gradually developing a much more simple life, I no longer have the same need for ‘things’. and now I choose things that truly serve me and how I am gradually developing in my evolution.

614. The comfort you speak of is evident in my country, a small one which sees itself as “clean and green” and also ‘lucky’, however house prices are rising out of sight very rapidly and thus rents also. Therefore we now have greater numbers of homeless people, people living in tents and garages, we currently have an emergency housing crisis as in there isn’t any emergency housing nationwide. Meanwhile along the beachfronts there are massive holiday houses used for only 3 to 6 weeks of the year if that in some instances. Alcohol abuse is high and on the rise and domestic violence is some of the worst in the world. Yes it is a beautiful country but there is a regard for people that has been lost and needs to be returned to as we are all in this together.

615. There is such poverty and emptiness in material wealth when it is the be all and end all. The race to accumulate the trappings of what wealth can afford keeps us distracted from the poverty of having sacrificed true well being and the amazingness of who we are -which can be supported by wealth.

616. I definitely agree with what you have written here Christopher – around the world people are seeking to improve their lifestyles but this is constantly being measured in terms of material wealth and comfort. There is very little sense of collaboration for the benefit of all. If someone does offer support to another there often seems to be someone who jumps in and exploits the situation for their own gain. This then causes others to feel hurt and so they retreat back into their old patterns of only worrying about themselves. This whole pattern worldwide causes an enormous drain on the planet in every way imaginable and there is very little self responsibility in sight. No wonder health issues are escalating when so few are willing to acknowledge that how they are living isn’t working both for themselves personally, nor for humanity generally!

617. “People are more afraid of being killed by terrorist than the real killers above.” This is pretty shocking when you put it like this, but it’s so true people are not worried about how they are killing themselves through the lack if self responsibility but more about terrorists. We as individuals have more control over the choices we make to support our health and we are wasting time worrying about things we have no control over such has terrorist. We need to open our eyes and see what we are truly doing.

618. Thank you for pointing out that the happiness, order, knowledge, peace and comfort we seek outside our selves in the existence we have created in a way where we can never find them, is no substitute for the joy, harmony, truth, stillness and love we miss within us.

619. Its staggering how comfortable we can be about problems in other countries, living in the illusion that we are not all one but a range of countries and cultures, but deep down we all know we are the same, and the sooner we accept this fact the better it will be for the human race and its evolution.

620. Comfort only covers up the sadness and dis-connect for so long. Deep down we all know this so then we are also dealing with the denial and dishonesty that keeps it all going.

621. ‘With true love for oneself and all of humanity, comes joy and harmony with no need or craving for the next hit of happiness, just living life in a constant flow of contentment.’ – Well said Christopher, if we are all prepared to take responsibility, the world can turn around and become one of true harmony, which is what we are all deep down craving.

622. What stands out for me so strongly after reading your blog Christopher is the amount of comparison and judgement we tend to use in our lives to justify the way we live. It makes me wonder if we were to stop all of the comparison and judgement altogether we would probably question more of the realities of how we are living and whether it is true for us or not

623. Yes Christopher, this is so true: “..but while we bathe in comfort we are detaching ourselves from humanity”. I recognize having lived this in full hiding way.. detached from humanity, detached from reality and we are not connected to anything other than what we desire – which is not even real. And like you shared ; comfort is still making us sick – so comfort is not that comfortable for our body , right? Great question to further ponder on.. and see what comforts we are living that are making us sick in truth.

624. Comfort keeps us separated and keeps us apart and to stay in comfort we have to deny our innate divine nature of being all equal, living in harmony and being love.

625. No real wealth without true health. And people aren’t honest about their health. So many think they are ok, because they cope with life, but they don’t experience true health, vitality and well-being. They compare themselves with their friend or neighbor who has cancer and call themselves ‘lucky’.

626. “People are more afraid of being killed by terrorists than the real killers listed above.” Terrorists are great to blame, for then we don’t have to take responsibility for our own behaviors that allow the ‘disease-causing-terrorists’ in.

627. Beautiful expressed: “becoming more disengaged from one’s true inner values, thinking that material wealth collates to happiness and that happiness is the ultimate goal in life, instead of realising that life can be about true love, joy and harmony.” This is a common theme at the dinner table that you only live once and that life is about being happy, both are not true and stops the conversation to going to real topics that we all benefit from: how can we work together so we are one humanity that all experience true love, joy and harmony.

628. Interesting to hear that statistics in Norway are not unlike those in Europe and America showing that diseases such as cancer and diabetes are increasing at an alarming rate bringing an enormous burden on the health systems. When are we going to wake up to the fact that we create our own diseases and we can likewise turn our lives around by changing the way we live?

629. Comfort exposed! Thank you for this bold article – this is a discussion very needed.

630. The comfort we all seek seems very isolated to us, and perhaps our family. Perhaps it is time we review what is self-caring and put that before comfort as a basic standard for all.

631. I have always found the feel of luxury shops and marina’s with luxury yachts cold, stark and horrible. There is no warmth or connection more a competative environment that feels hard and unloving. We all know wealth is not the answer to our ill ways and lack of joy in our lives, and yet so many of us get caught in this idea that the more we have the happier we will be. I certainly believed that it was important to have regular holidays, a comfortable home and a decent car to truly love life and yet this could not be further from the truth.

632. To me Norway is doing a lot of things right and quite a few wrong, however, people would love to live in Norway because Norway gets a lot more things right than other countries. It is great to point out what could be improved and it is valuable to appreciate what is already there.

633. ‘Given that we are living in so much comfort, then why is illness and disease on the increase?’ – This is a great question Christopher, as we like to look at humanity’s technological advances, our success in globalisation and the available luxuries we have today with pride, yet we seem to be getting sicker and sicker alongside this. Thank you for exploring the reasons for this in your blog.

634. No matter how much comfort I amassed in the past, a gorgeous husband, abundant money, and a home with arguably some of the best views in the world I was never living a joyful vibrant life. The comforts of life do not give us what we are seeking.

635. Serge Benhayon’s presentations are the only way I have heard that makes sense of illness and disease rates, and shows a way forward.

636. It is not enough to look at our lives and say it’s OK, because it looks like it ticks the boxes, or even, it’s not Ok to go into comparison and judgment. Life is about constant change and we have the choice to have that change be about evolution or keep us stuck in a comfort that will eventually lead to something happening to teach us the next step.

637. ‘Is it that we don’t seem to think it can happen to us, until it does? People are more afraid of being killed by terrorists than the real killers listed above.’ It is crazy but so true that we hardly even mention the health problems of human beings which are killing people in enormous numbers annually and yet all are very aware of the terrorist threats around the world. It feels to me that we know that both are symptoms of our way of living which we know not to be true in accordance with our innate nature however we find it far easier to look at the terrorism, wars, drug gangs, refugees, political corruption, domestic violence etc. etc. as we can point fingers and blame other people in their choices for these, however if we are ill then we have to look to ourselves for the answer and this brings responsibility, which would appear we want to avoid.

638. The comfortable life can end up being a greater trap than for those not so well off, as it is so easy to entrench ourselves in a well-insulated protective fortress, using money and material security to foster the illusion of invulnerability… but if we create this cushion of wealth and comfort it is too easy to shut down and choose not to see the rampant disease poverty corruption and abuse that goes on around us and all over the world – and in our blindness, the ills continue to multiply and grow – until one day when they do impact upon our lives, we are seeminly powerless in the face of such massive evil.. But we can make the choice to see and to speak up now. Thank you Chris for your inspiration in you doing exactly this.

639. Individual or collective. How important that we keep focused on the one unified truth as presented by Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine. There are no boundaries to separate the ideals and beliefs that we choose to keep us irresponsible and individual. Thank you Christopher.

640. Thanks Christopher and it’s not necessarily great to see that other countries like Norway have similar statistics to other countries but there is a similar question to ask, what is really happening to us? As you are saying we can focus and throw attention at all myriad of things but the facts remain as a world we are growing sicker but yet we are more advanced? The statistics don’t add up and the ‘advanced’ part doesn’t make sense. Those that are telling us everything is ok and those that are telling us nothing at all are both in the same boat and we need to break this down and look at it. We have here a ever growing serious problem with the way we are living and it’s not country related it’s world related and so time to come together.

641. Wow Christopher this is a stellar piece. You raise a concern of UTMOST importance – we pay enormous amounts of attention to terrorism or other acts of violence that result in death, however ignore the reality that ‘mental illness affects between 30% and 50% of the adult population in Norway, at some time during their lives’, and that lifestyle related diseases are killing millions every year. It is truly shocking that we continue to ignore this, and not address the choices we are making as a society that are leading to/allowing this.

642. comfort is an interesting subject and can seep into so much of our lives. There is such a push in the world we live in to have an easy life. This is championed everywhere we look yet the way things are there is no way everyone can have two houses or more, the car, the boat, the lifestyle etc etc. So what are we asking to do? Have more than everyone else? Win at life? We need to come back to the solid foundation within ourselves, the one where we can build love, harmony and joy in our bodies. We need to value what is real rather than looking at all those things we think might fill us. We need to shake off this idea that comfort is what we want and value being in our lives and appreciating the love, joy and harmony that we can bring.

643. With the cases of illness on the rise, illnesses such as diabetes and cancer – serious illnesses, your statement Christopher is a bit like the elephant in the room – “People are more afraid of being killed by terrorists than the real killers listed above.”. When I stop and consider this, worrying about terrorism is crazy when the real killers are in our fridges, cupboards and general day to day activities.

644. When you talk about the race to attain material wealth, someone I love dearly comes to mind. They are young, sensitive with a big warm heart, and they’re found a way to work that will mean they will be mortgage free in their mid-thirties. However, they work excessive hours doing physical work day after day, and when they do take a break they are exhuasted and they are pushing their body very hard. The desire to be free of the rat race by working crazily whilst young may well come at a price…to their health, and then what..No mortgage but a body that is worn out?

645. “People are more afraid of being killed by terrorists than the real killers listed above.” This statement alone is a clear indication of where we (humanity) are in our levels of personal responsibility. To use the distraction of looking outside of ourselves for what may kill us rather than looking at our lifestyles speaks volumes.

646. Holland is in the top 10 of best countries to live in. Yet, we are the number one country in Europe when it comes to drug abuse and drug traffic, we have coffee shops everywhere in Amsterdam, we have issues with prostitutes and more and more people, like in Norway are getting sick and ill. We should look at how we are living as people on a daily basis and be honest about what is truly going on instead of looking at how much comfort and luxury we have.

647. This is gold ‘Living a privileged life in a beautiful place may make us feel better and more deserving than others, but while we bathe in comfort we are detaching ourselves from humanity, taking part in material competition with each other, isolating ourselves instead of living together in harmony with everyone.’ as it exposes that we are completely blinded by this comfort.

648. Thank you Christopher. This is a cracker of an article and I love the truth blended with the facts of the stats.

649. “… but while we bathe in comfort we are detaching ourselves from humanity…” and therein lies the illusion that material wealth is the ultimate goal in life. Thank you Christopher for exposing the myth that our happiness lies in material gain and wealth. Seen against the backdrop of our rising ill health, our incessant drive for material comfort and consumer indulgences can be truly seen for what they are, huge distractions that we willingly engage in so that we can ignore our responsibility to be leading healthy, joyful lives. When we begin to focus on the quality with which we choose to live our day we can re-introduce some true markers that are not dependant on our financial or material status. Honouring our innate wisdom, establishing a steady joyful expression and nurturing ourselves back to robust health will in time restore a quality of living that all can benefit by, rather than the few that currently benefit from our global materialistic goals.

650. Wow. This is huge Christopher. You covered the full range of behaviours that we enter into to maintain our comfort, focus on the external rather than the internal and our competition. All the while with this external focus we don’t look at what is really going on with our own state of health. Only when we truly care for ourselves and each other will we no longer seek this comfort in the fleeting.

651. Its so easy to look at our own lives and say “We are alright” , we don’t see anything wrong in the world because we can compare what is good, what is bad and say “Im okay”. This is the comfort of a few who don’t experience what the many experience, on the other hand there is a commitment to truth, love and harmony.

652. “Ignoring the true messages our bodies are giving to us is compounding in its effects to produce an ever-sickening global population that we none of us can escape, in spite of our wealth.” So true Christopher this is why we can no longer ignore the signs our body has been giving us for life times. We are all killing ourselves slowly by not listening to our body and missing out on the true vitality and joy we could be living. Wealth and technology are not the answer, the general health of people especially in some of the most wealthiest countries in the world is declining with more extreme, complicated and more long term illnesses than ever before.

653. With the global crisis in health – diabetes, obesity etc. -, the refugee crisis, human trafficking, the number of wars taking place, do we truly appreciate the life we are living?

654. Great article Christopher, this stands out for me, ‘ Living a privileged life in a beautiful place may make us feel better and more deserving than others, but while we bathe in comfort we are detaching ourselves from humanity’, until reading this blog I had not considered this, I live in a beautiful place, with lovely views in a quiet village, I often compare where I live to others places and am pleased to be living where I do, I can feel how I’m holding these others places as less and that I’m feeling privileged to be living where I do, I can feel that this is arrogant and inconsiderate, great to be aware of this and how this causes seperation.

655. The title captures a lot. There are many countries in comfort. It is easy to picture this. Yet, the idea of comfort does not lend itself to be reduced to the material aspect of it and the eventual self-congratulating dynamics that this unravels. There is also comfort in misery. Comfort belongs essentially to the individuals. It is a way of walking in life confirming that the reality you are under is true.

656. Under the umbrella of wealth, disconnection is brewing from every angle. What is presented in this blog is gold for Norwegians, whether they accept it or not.

657. There are so many gold nuggets in here Christopher and it really does bring it home to the fact that by focusing on the material end result of what is around us we loose sight of and the true quality of what we live with on a daily basis. Wanting situations to be a certain way is failing us because those who materially have it all are or are in a first world country are not suffering less because they have more around them when compared to those who have less materially. From my own experience having an entire room full of toys (previously an avid beanie baby collector) did not bring me any true joy, they were a comfort to an inner child that related to the world as it being terrible and scary, a false perception that required effort and force to keep in circulation in my life. Sentimental items keep us trapped in a time warp that we suffer in as the world continues to move on and that static-ness takes it’s toll on the body.

658. “We might also conclude that material wealth is not our true happiness, as happiness is always temporary until we get the next fix,” – so true Christopher when searching for things to fill us this way, nothing is ever enough. Thank you for calling this out for humanity. We so often put materials over our health and the love that we are.

659. Christopher – you echo here a key message presented to us all by Serge Benhayon – that life is not about how great our lives are as individuals – but how we all are as a body of humanity. If humanity as a whole is our ‘true body’ we are offered a stark reflection of how we are really doing – rather than the apparently isolated perceptions we create through the ‘I’m alright Jack’ ‘philosophy’. Once again, we are being offered a reflection of true responsibility in life – one that perhaps we would be wise to embrace – for in responsibility lies out true power.

660. Top 10 best places to live are always based in comfort, security and individualism. When we let go of these things we find the truly beautiful places to live.

661. It’s a great point to consider that we so easily perceive the threat to life that terrorism brings. Yet health conditions like cancer, diabetes and heart disease present so much more of a true threat to us all. Is it possible that we ‘see’ the threat of terrorism more willingly because we can blame another for the actions – but we are less willing to look at health issues because they lead to a much more immanent sense that we have responsibility to accept? It seems to me that we do much to avoid accepting responsibility in our lives.

662. We rarely, if ever consider, that our own ill health is contributing to the ill health of others. It is true we all have a responsibility for our own ill health and well being, the way we live and the way we work. For those in the medical professions they are under huge pressure to deliver a particularly hard job with little financial remuneration. Their work load keeps building without appreciation or the support of more staff or care within the work place and their health and well being is impacted. We all have a responsibility to take care of ourselves which naturally would take the pressure off the young nurses and doctors working extremely hard to support us. It’s time we started asking questions about why we are so disregarding of the way we live and were more honest about the true impact of our choices.

663. This is so true Christopher, the happiness that material things bring is very short lived and it is such an individual thing, yes we get so called philanthropists, but more often than not its only to relieve the guilt or to show that I have so much I’m just giving it away. There is so many in this world with so little and a few with so much but you are right so many of us live in comfort. It doesn’t matter how much anyone has, if we don’t have our health we don’t have anything.

664. ‘Killed by Comfort’ or ‘Comfort kills ‘250 000′ per month’ should be headlines in the newspapers, and medical journals alike. The fact is that we actually don’t know just how many people die from the repercussions of living in comfort, and we do not talk about it; or expose it anywhere near enough. I love that you have pulled the blankets off comfort Christopher and exposed the monster underneath.

665. I used to wonder when I was a teenager – that we were all being trained to be a good consumer in this world wherever we live. The media tells us what to buy – and we follow; the money is spent to put us on this crazy loop of illusion where we think we are getting something out of it to enrich our life and call that ‘happiness’, but we are just feeding the system to keep us in perpetuation until we literally drop dead. There are many versions of this – we could be completely in denial of the consumer society and come off the grid thinking we are not feeding into it, or affected by it, but we don’t want to admit that we are merely driven by another ideal and in fact pretty much as lost as the majority. It is not about the end result of what our life style looks like and how ‘comfortable’ that is – because complete discomfort could be a comfort to some.

666. I was reading the sentence that more people are worried about being killed by terrorists than the listed diseases that kill so many more, and asked myself why? The reason is that we accept these diseases as normal, they are part and parcel of a modern life. This is terrible – totally disempowering and totally wrong in that of course we have the choice of how we live, and we should never accept anything less than the best.

667. 70 years ago, owning a TV was a luxury – our level of comfort seems to have been on the constant rise. It is when we displace our value outside of us, there arises false value and the consequential decline in the true quality of our life. Any choice made from a place of disconnection, no matter how different it may seem, is heading towards the same direction and sliding into even further separation is evident.

668. I don’t know where we get the notion that we are the lucky country, when we look around and see so many of us can hardly walk (needing hip or knee replacements) We see others of us overweight with diabetes , heart and liver diseases and also suffering from exhaustion! Yes we are fortunate we don’t have war, famine and not too many earth disturbances in the form of earthquakes, as many other countries have. Thank you for a great wakeup call Christopher.

669. ‘This begs me to ask the question, “What is it about the way we are living that is giving rise to this upsurge in ill health?”’
     This is a fantastic question to ask especially because we know the impact our lifestyle choices can have on our health.

670. Like many of us I’m sure, as a child I used to look around at the world and feel how weird a lot of things were. Everyone seemed to be hiding in their own cubby-holes as it were, their own little retreats where they would, as you say Christopher, carry on with a so-called comfortable life. TV, chips, ice cream, the treadmill and run-around with work and weekends, rushing in the kids with a stern hand and tongue — the whole bamboozle of what seemed to make up life. And then the angst, stress and pain with people falling ill, and frankly being downright mean to each other — and to themselves. At the same time I would daydream of a big change and transformation where everyone would remember that their family wasn’t just those people they would live with in their secluded little cubby-holes, but everyone around them too, and then more beyond what they could see — in effect everyone. I would have this day-dream often, until at one point I also grew up and then the cynicism of ‘this is just the way it is’ stuffed it down for being childish and totally unrealistic.
     Until I came across Serge Benhayon, the Way of the Livingness and the students of Universal Medicine who are from all walks of life, on all four corners of the world and who know that dream also – but they know that it isn’t a fairytale, but our true way of being. We are one family, one humanity and it is not our natural way to live in separation with the TV as our so-called friend as we slump in the sofa and fear of the terrorist threats that underpin a deeper dis-ease we’ve all abated – to live in separation from who we are, instead of from the one true brotherhood we are all from.

671. The scales we read about in the newspapers don’t measure health and joy. They measure all that love is not. Great exposure, Christopher. It is a form of distraction.

672. Great article Christopher, it is so true that we so often only look at the comforts in our live, that living in ‘our’ country provides. It is pretty arrogant to say the least that we only like to see how good we have it in our countries on a material level while we are getting sicker and sicker and forget that there is a world with the same or worse statistics than the country we live in. We don’t like to look at the whole, as that brings an enormous responsibility, that we don’t like to take.

673. The statistics on health conditions are a bit less re-comforting. The obvious question is what are they telling us regarding well-being and, hence, how do they talk to the other statistics?

674. I love the point here Christopher that we are all too often leaving the internet to parent our children. Perhaps we should reconsider what we are doing here for whilst there is a lot of decent material on the internet, there is also a great deal of abuse on Social Media, a huge amount of pornography and goodness knows what else. If the internet were a person, would they be the person we would ask to babysit or have any influence over our children?

675. Very powerful blog Christopher bringing up so many great questions and topics that we need to address as a race. Yes we do live in comfort in our well-off countries imagining that we have the ‘good life’ and yet there is still so much misery and ill health in our communities. We are in fact not isolated from any other country in the world and are responsible for all that goes on everywhere. The only true medicine is that if each of us begins to choose to live harmoniously and gradually re-imprint the earth of all the disharmony we have dumped.

676. Making the assumption that our health is a means of communicating with us – which I suggest is not too big a stretch – we are being shown something fairly stark with our health statistics in the Western world. What we are doing is not working in terms of our true vitality – our health as a whole population is in quite serious decline. What is offered by Christopher here is a possibility that our pursuit of happiness is at least part of the problem. The lifestyle we apparently seek is not supporting true health and is in fact having the opposite effect. We are being shown very clearly that we need to radically change how we are living and I agree with Christopher’s assertion that Serge Benhayon is offering us an alternative that we would do well to consider.

677. Material comfort is taken by many as the most clear indicator of wellbeing. For those that adhere to this, and also fare well in regard to it, it has to be really re-comforting the fact that their well-being is not ever measured against harmony, joy, love. How we all fare against these may lead to a very different picture of where do we stand as human beings.

678. In our search for the reward of material comfort we lose sight of the bigger picture of how we are damaging our own health and wellbeing in the substances and emotions that we ingest and the unsustainable costs to government of our current way of life. We have got lost down the side road of searching for individual happiness rather than committing to working collaboratively and building harmony worldwide.

679. Christopher I feel it’s important to add that material comfort is different to behavioural comfort but both are aspects of retardation. Behavioural comfort is clinging to ways of being that keep us repeating the same old patterns of behaviour and relationships that we have always been in and indeed that can be found in the comfort of being poor and having to struggle. Material comfort is a sign that we have already chosen behavioural comfort.

680. The image is re-comforting. We are number one! The world says so! To be number one we have to have something as people they do not, or to do something they do not. We are special. We deserve it. We are the best! Without denying that different countries ‘talk’ differently to a series of selected indicators (and not others), the question is what is the real value of this kind of statistics if any? What is the image behind it? What is it really trying to prove?

681. Happiness in like a mirage in the desert that the whole world is constantly dragging itself on it’s belly to reach. Each time we get to the oasis we discover that it was only ever sand and then off we go again, hoodwinked by another glimmer of water on the horizon.

682. Given that we are living in so much comfort, then why is illness and disease on the increase? Great question Christopher. To keep it simple, one word says it all; ‘Disconnection’! We as human beings have ‘created’ our own little world filled with comforts with an attitude of, ‘as long as I am alright’ mentatlity…We are in fact lost and nothing ‘out there’, seems to be providing any real solutions or answers, but there is a lot of ‘quick fixes’ solutions to be found which only brings a deeper discontentment when one finds themselves on the same old hamster wheel of life existence. What is the answer? The answer is simple and the only ‘real’ solution is connection. Reconnecting with ourselves and our bodies and our inner hearts. Not so easy to do, as we must face ourselves and all our past choices. We have to clear all the stuff we have taken on, deal with our hurts and issues, clear and heal everything that is not love. This takes commitment and consistency and does not happen over night, but well worth the effort. Each one of us is responsible for walking the steps back to our natural birth right which is love and to express love in this world. And as we do, it is our reflections of this new way of living that will support others when they are ready to walk those steps too. One man has been a powerful reflection of living love, truth, harmony and joy to myself and the many thousands who attend his courses and presentations, this man is Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine. My life has completely transformed by his teachings and by attending the modalities/courses he presents .

683. To live in a place that offers a higher living standard is not an invitation to indulge and check out in the material comfort, but it comes with a responsibility to serve humanity in a way that supports us all to evolve. But the truth is that the improved living standards have mostly been used to manifest and ingrain harming behaviors and with this the reflection of irresponsibility.

     1. Very well said rachelandras — by indulging in the higher standard of living in the west we have abused ourselves, each other and what we have been given to serve our fellow kind. We have made it all about ourselves instead of the all. And hence the rates of illness and disease rates that are staggering higher and higher reflecting the ill way we have chosen to live.

684. Money has never bought us happiness. May West once said ‘I’ve been poor, and I’ve been rich, and rich is better’, is sought by so many. We consistently in persuit of ‘The grass is always greener on the other side’; that is chased by so many using the insidious jealousy of others and their material possessions is a treadmill that is killing us. We do chase the golden ring that even when we get it, it is never enough! If we could only remember that the greatest wealth ever is what lies within us what would that do to the soaring illness rates?

685. A great reflection to ponder on with the enormous comfort and separation we are all living in . The world is bankrupt illness and disease out of control and is being accepted as getting better and better whilst as championing the latest drug to maintain us and we are living thinking we are advancing in all ways when in reality all that is not love is being exposed. Thank you Christopher for opening our eyes to the falseness and what is really going on and the true wisdom of Serge Benhayon who by the consistency of his livingness and dedication to humanity is showing us another way to life as the love and oneness we all are.

686. We are so deviated from what it is to truly live as a human beings that we have normalized the fact that we are slowly killing ourselves by our lifestyle and at the same time focusing on external factors such as terrorism, environmental aspects, disasters, etc. pretending those to be the real threat of life. But what actually not only kills us, but let us live in a constantly harming way are our own choices to indulge in individualism and the illusion of happiness achieved through material wealth and indulgence in consumable goods and distraction. A great article Christopher that exposes the rot we have chosen to call life.

     1. Great comment Rachelandras, I agree with it all, the truly surprising for me is with terrorism, global warming etc we still seem to pit country against country, yet the true killers of people (lifestyle) does not discriminate across borders, genders or cultures.

687. People are more afraid of being killed by terrorists than the real killers listed above. This is very true… I have observed this at work when something is reported on the news,(a terrorist act) the next day at work, everyone discusses it, but the underlying energy is one of fear with the conclusion that this world is no longer safe, (no longer safe to travel anywhere). But what a great distraction we humans fall for so that we can stay in our comforts and in our own little boxes, taking care only of self and family… because what else do we have…if the world is not a safe place, don’t we need our comforts even more?

688. “In my experience, no true joy has been found in material wealth, only fleeting moments of happiness never sustained, always followed by a come down, a dip or a depression.” I have found this to be true also Christopher…From growing up in a relatively wealthily family the money we had did not make us any more joyful in fact my family were often quite unhappy. I have noticed that when on my travels to other countries around the globe those that have less material focus and are more community minded often seems more joyful in themselves.

689. It will be very interesting to see just how far we have to go before we accept that the unloving and irresponsible ways we are choosing to live is not it? Do we need to wait until everyone has cancer, diabetes etc, until all our bodies are falling apart and the earth shakes and floods more and more? Will we listen then?

690. I love how you have blown the lid – not off an urban myth- but on national myths, sharing how whole countries can basically collude with each other to stick their he’d in the sand and refuse to acknowledge what is actually going on around them – a collective ignoring of the facts of where we are at nationally and as a global society.

691. “People are more afraid of being killed by terrorists than the real killers listed above.” I had never considered this before, but what you say is so true! Why aren’t we taking more care of ourselves? Do we think we ae indestructible? even after serious illness, people want to ‘get back to normal’ – but what if their normal is the silent killer?

692. “Given that we are living in so much comfort, then why is illness and disease on the increase?” This is such a great question Christopher. we all really need to look at the way we are living, as our current way isn’t working. As you say, “Ignoring the true messages our bodies are giving to us is compounding in its effects to produce an ever-sickening global population that we none of us can escape, in spite of our wealth.” The body is the marker of all truth. So true!.

693. This is so true Christopher that comfort is short lived, an empty hole filler that sends us from one quest to another. We know it’s temporary, needing to be topped up all the time because it is a stop gap to give us a break from the intensity of life and we think we deserve it. There is so much more when we feel true love and live in harmony with ourselves and humanity..

694. Thank you Christopher for sharing the story of how people are living in Norway which is, I think, similar to how people are living in many countries around the world. Material possessions are indeed seen as symbols of happiness and success but are they really if in the acquisition of them we damage our biggest treasure, our own bodies?

     1. Yes Carmel, regardless of the country this is what we tend to do. And even though there is nothing wrong with material possessions and success, they become a reflection of an ill way of living when we make it all about our material success and define ourselves from it. Our external surroundings and things can be there to support us, but they are never meant to define us. If we let them do the latter we sell ourselves out so deeply that we forget the grand beings we innately are. A life without our inner most connection is a very poor life.

695. “People are more afraid of being killed by terrorists than the real killers listed above.” – disturbing how we have accepted ill-health and disease as a normal part of life yet the diseases you have mentioned impact far more people on a daily basis than terrorism.

     1. As do the after effects of these diseases. We are left always wondering will that family member get that sick again.

696. There are many things that are getting exposed in this blog. I think for me what stands out is the danger of aligning ourselves to a set of values based on culture alone and based on the boarders we have created. When we live by a set of values that come from separation rather than from an all encompassing whole it constricts our world view and our views and feelings about each other. It invites protection, distrust and dismissiveness, rather than understanding that we are all equal and all connected and that what affects one person in one area affects another in another! With the latter understanding awareness, understanding and responsibility come to the fore, which makes much more sense to me.

697. The greatest wealth is that which comes from inside of us. No amount of money or material possessions can ever come close to the love that comes from reconnecting to our soul.

     1. Right on the money Donna. Nothing compared or can match the richness within and I for one would be willing to lose anything material or false that is not aligned to the gold within.

698. Thank you Christopher, a long over due expose of the limitations and true dangers of living in the so called affluent west where wealth not health is equated with success.

699. The world feeds us the illusion through TV, newspapers and government that the biggest threat is the ‘outsider’ be it terrorist, immigrant, refugee. This masks the truth of devastating statistics that tell us that millions of people die each year as a direct result of making lifestyle choices that lead to illness and disease. The cause of most deaths in the modern, affluent western countries are self-inflicted.

700. All these ‘lucky countries’ and yet as you expose Christopher illness and disease is not only on the increase it is reaching catastrophic proportions everywhere, even to those who think they are doing better in comparison to other people, or countries. We need to start asking the questions, why this is the case, for although we may be living longer what is the true quality of our lives are we truly living or just existing from one day to the next? Is it possible that these statistics show us that maybe its because we are avoiding taking full responsibility for our choices in the way we are choosing to live each day? Or even more insidious, using comparison to make ourselves feel we are doing better, keeping ourselves wrapped up in our small cocoon of comfort and illusion, when in fact as the saying goes we are ‘not seeing the forest for the trees’ and how we are, effects the all.

701. Christopher, these lines are very powerful – “our disregard for our bodies – how we use them as an instrument for our own pleasure and self-indulgent habits.” – it does highlight the disdain that we hold for our own bodies when we treat them with such carelessness and one might even say resentment, by forcing down food and drink that would other wise be considered poison.

     1. True Joel and worse is that many do not consciously consider that these things are degrading to the body.

702. The emptiness we crave to be filled as a society can’t be quenched by security in the form of government policies, what law is passed, who gets voted in, food, money, houses, cars, gaming, sport, music, even nature. It isn’t wrong to have these things, but we will always remain thirsty, unless we build a loving relationship with ourselves that can replenish us. This will then translate into the quality of our relationships and how we go about our daily lives.

703. I love what you have shared here Christopher and agree that whatever the form of comfort we use wether it be material items, wealth, food, alcohol etc, it still distracts us from looking at the bigger picture. These things might bring us happiness for a short time but to keep making ourselves happy we need to keep indulging in these things to keep the momentum of happiness close. What’s important to note though is through the pursuit of happiness it negates our responsibility to our one solid foundation and that is the truth of our bodies and how they feel in the pursuit of this “happiness?”
     When we are really able to stop for a moment and consider how we are living with honesty and not judgement, we can explore how taking responsibility can truly change the paradigm and open up a new conversation that deserves some air time.

704. Fantastic blog Christopher, posing the questions and relationships between illness, disease and lifestyle… “Given that we are living in so much comfort, then why is illness and diseases on the increase?…” is summed up potently with your ending statement …”worldwide health issues …. embedded in the lives of all of us…”
     Calling it ‘World wide health issues’ brings home the relevance that there is no one country that tops the list for being the best place in the world to live. Every country is affected. These global ill-health statistics demonstrate that.

705. Christopher, you raise a pertinent point about where someone lives, and the seemingly ‘better off’ position they think and speak they’re in… and makes me think of the same being applied not just to countries or geographical regions, but also jobs, professions, industries, offices, neighbourhoods… the scenery can change, and yet the underlying disharmony remains to fuel further the depth of comfort i.e. choosing to not see what’s really there underneath any ‘picture’ [of ‘happiness’] [or discontent].

706. Thanks Chris a great blog addressing many issues that we need to discuss. From experience I know that no goal or material item can ever be ‘it’, we always want more. I now know and understand from the great presentations and teachings Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine continually give that how I live, each moment of every day and the choices I make affect my life. That is the bottom line; it’s not the latest phone, dress or car but how I am actually Living! and I feel this is what we both have to live and teach to the next generation/s because there is so so much more to life than what we currently allow ourselves to feel, see, choose and live.

707. Could it be that our focus on terrorism ‘out there’ is taking us away from feeling our own terrorist within? The one that sabotages our choices moment to moment, holds us hostage whenever we look like we may be making loving choices that are inclusive of all and jealously guarding its right to create havoc, to live separated and unloving. Could it be that we put our own gun to our heads?

708. Your have raised many amazing points in your article here Christopher. My first wondering is on the role or responsibility if you will of countries in the situation like you have shared, where they are doing so well, so comfortable that life has become all about excesses in so called pleasure and yet we have countries that are really struggling to feed themselves. I’m not necessarily talking about charity as it is, for that really is not an answer. but more of a pondering on if we come from such a country then is there is responsibility to share such fortune? I wonder to if part of the reason for such ill health is that this fortune is not more widely shared and kept within? Is this the effect of greed perhaps?

709. By the very fact that so many are of the opinion that at best one can strive for happiness, all but forgetting the possibility that so much more is possible for us to feel – Joy.

710. Christopher, I love your blog and I feel it is so important that we don’t make it about our one country but as our world. I have always felt it such a shame that the countries are considered separate yet we are all the same. How can we allow a country or nationality to divide us. Who made up this rule?

711. It is amazing to consider that material comfort in its many forms still does not seem to reduce one’s state of anxiety. And, yes, what a wonderful world we live in where infectious diseases no longer plague us and where we no longer have to hunt for our food. And yet we are still discontent with life, as though it is still not enough. That surely is telling us that something is missing, if we can have all the comforts of life on our doorstep and still not be fulfilled.

712. We are sold the images that success equals wealth and the accumulation of the possessions that amount of money brings, but we’re also buying, why? Is it we have not discovered for ourselves where in fact our true wealth lies?

713. I love reading your blog today as it was only yesterday morning that I was speaking with my father about how much the younger generation have these days as material possessions yet their is no appreciation for them as it is an easy come easy go mentality. There is no waiting and saving and really wanting things as there were many generations before and there is no value.

714. I live in Hong Kong, the city of glamor and comfort, safe and protected compared to many places in the world. A good life here is a life rich with luxury, good food and beautiful clothes, all our human woes can be solved with money. We do not choose to see anything outside of this bubble, but unrest is boiling and ready to explode. The escalating rates of people, especially the younger generation deeply checked out and living in a surreal world of video games and cos play or seeking recognition and wealth with disconnection to ourselves and others, this diseased normal is our every day in which we do not want to feel because of comfort.

715. The greatest comfort in comfort is accepting the picture that everyone is doing it and that is the way, we seek more comfort to not be aware of the discomfort this is creating in our lives, until we are forced to face with this discomfort when comfort can no longer cover up the truth our bodies reflect, and yet do we face it with honesty?

716. We prioritise our focus on the good life, when in actual fact right under our noses we are being shown the self destruction we choose, from alcohol to drugs to porn etc all on our radar but not enough to have us stand up and say this is to be stopped now…. It is the result of a masked way of living that we hide behind to not reveal our real stories of hurt and deep sadness we all live behind, to expose the truth would mean we would all have to be honest and responsible …. But we all want to hide our little bit of comfort.

717. Our illness and diseases are reflecting we are not living in a way that truly supports us, life or life’s of us not living our glorious potential. Illness and disease and are also part of the correction that is necessary for us to move forward. Just as our earth has to clear via our weather patterns so do our bodies have to discard what is not in harmony with our true rhythm.
     This can be very healing as we return to living in a way that is in respect to our own bodies and therefore with responsibility to all others.

718. This is so important to consider. I remember watching a show where contestants were discussing what they loved and one said travelling. I was struck by how we cannot actually go anywhere to escape the issues facing our fellow men. I once traveled around the world in the belief that I could see the sights and even if what I saw upset me, at least I could go home to where it’s at least safe. Now this is becoming hard to sustain, traveling solely for ones pleasure.I saw a program on Greece and with people escaping the troubles in Syria were crossing the sea then walking through a main holiday destination. I remember the commentator described it as too surreal for words. What it is, is us trying to ignore we are not all connected and responsible for what’s happening – the energy I live my life in impacts the energetic quality of the world.

719. I know in the past I have felt arrogant about living in the ‘lucky country’, feeling like I was safe from the heinous acts that are an everyday occurrence in other countries. What I was choosing to ignore was the level of corruption that is underlying, comforted by how it looked on the outside, I’ve avoided wanting to know what’s really going on. No country is free from the responsibility it has to contributing to the world’s disastrous state, each and every one of us has an equal part to play. simple.

720. Great article Christopher. I have pondered much of people being in comfort but hadn’t equated this to whole countries being in comfort. I know I have championed in the past living in Australia, it being “the luck country” and have felt proud to be an Australian. Yet, as you have pointed out, this type of attitude breeds separation. With countries comes borders, yet in truth and underneath our skin our blood is all the same. We are universal and whilst we champion countries and borders we will never come to a point where we live in brotherhood.

721. I find it astounding that as a society we are still avoiding the reasons behind why we are in such a mess. I’m still in complete shock at the level of arrogance and ignorance we choose every day to avoid accepting our responsibility of not only the contribution we make to society but of our own bodies. It’s no wonder humanity is at an all time low, we simply refuse to look after ourselves in the true sense, so how on earth can we be of any service to anyone else when we haven’t learnt the basics?

722. It’s quite indicative of our attitude to life that we ignore our responsibility in our own lives, but focus on and condemn another group like terrorists that may just prove a threat to us. How ridicilous is ithat, when every day we are causing ourselves a slow death by the way we choose to live in indulgence, stress, anger, etc. without a moments contemplation of the harm we are doing to ourselves and the community at large. We are getting a massive reflection in these statistics but I don’t feel many have heard the penny drop yet!

723. ‘Material competition’, what a perfect way to put it Christopher. This is such a spot on statement. We absolutely do compete with eachother non stop. There is no harmony amongst us, everything is a competition. Have we actually stopped to consider what this means? Do we really think we’re happy when we’re always in the struggle of finding ‘better’??

724. “People are more afraid of being killed by terrorists than the real killers listed above.”

     This is the uncomfortable truth – that we have become so embedded in our loveless way of living, we can no longer see that the way we choose to live is like a slow suicide. That is, we are responsible for our illness and disease in the same way that we are responsible for our health and vitality. Where we fall on this spectrum will depend on the choices we have made throughout our lifetime and the many that preceded it and how willing we have been to live the love that we are.

     As a humanity, we have yet to fully understand that it is our ‘lack’ of love that is killing us. That is, it is our unwillingness to express the love that we are and the resistance we employ to offset expressing what we are so naturally designed to express, that is bringing on our global health crisis. We are sick and the greatest, if not only, medicine universally available to all at no charge, is love – available on tap through the deep well of our hearts. Yet to date we have made such a drama out of being sick, and complicated and confused things to such a degree that we can no longer see that the answer is really, really simple. Look after yourself, look after your body, take what medicine you may need to support you in this process but more important that anything – live your love and all that is not of this love will be eradicated. We introduce all the complication to offset this simple truth. A truth that Serge Benhayon tirelessly presents over and over again until it becomes the very breath we breathe and in breathing it are able to save ourselves from the darkness that has so consumed us across the globe on which we all live.

725. ‘People are more afraid of being killed by terrorists than the real killers listed above.’ Wow, this is a statement that rings absolutely true. The sheer arrogance of the human being, refusing to take responsibility for their bodies is beyond alarming. We so rarely consider that the way we live makes these diseases a strong possibility, instead we leave it all to what we ignorantly call ‘chance’.

726. The more we indulge in ‘the good things in life’ the more we are saying yes to the very things the body does not require to support itself. Which means the body is working overtime dealing with all the foods, energies and lifestyle choices that completely disregard any signs and symptoms the body is giving out. Definitely with the attitude that ‘it will never happen to me’. We are so arrogant to think we can override a simplicity in which the body functions and ask it to perform on demand without the care and consideration our amazing body requires. When we continue to abuse ourselves we end up with a reflection of the way we have been living and we don’t like it…

727. Thank you Christopher, what isn’t so comfortable to feel is that we have been living in this illusion, that we are separate, and that how we live does not affect everyone else. If you scratch beneath the surface we are all in the same boat here and so a more expansive view is necessary while bringing the attention to ourselves and how we are truly living.

728. The reflection offered here holds a truth that we all experience in our lives and the cycle of comfort that never ends until we chose to be honest and take responsibility for the way we live. The separation can happen in so many ways, both on an individual level and also globally – regardless the statistics do not lie and they all share a commonality no matter where we live in the world. Thank you for writing this blog Christopher as it is these small choices that go on to bring greater awareness and healing for all that read it. I am learning slowly to be the love in the world that I have reflected back and that others can be and this feel pretty amazing.

729. When we pride ourselves on the ranking of our countries, it is a distraction away from what is really going on. We do not live in brotherhood or even community and our bodies are suffering more and more from illness and dis-ease. Yet if we keep telling ourselves how well we are doing and compare ourselves with those who aren’t doing so well, we can quite comfortably ignore what is really going on and knowing that the quality of our lives would not receive a very good ranking at all.

730. Thankyou Christopher for raising our awareness to see that the much desired comfort that we seek does naught to alleviate our suffering. In-truth, a country is only as wealthy as it is healthy. True health comes from taking stock of where we fit into the grand scheme of things and having a great appreciation for the part that we play in the Whole picture we form as a humanity. This fosters responsibility and a genuine call to look after ourselves and each other so that we can do what we are here to do here on Earth, which is to arise back to the love that we are. Our disease and illness statistics are an indication of how much we are resisting living the grandness of the Love we are and are from. A measure of true wealth is the degree to which we are willing to live the whole of who we are and share this with the world. Thus, our wealth and our health go hand in hand and never apart and only under illusion can we think we can separate the two.

731. In my early twenties I travelled a lot, mostly to poor countries. I was blown away by the generosity and genuine happiness of the people. Yes they had daily struggles, limited food and access to clean water, corruption to deal with and so on, but they shared everything they had, the word family include many and there was much joy and laughter. I compared this with life in Australia – the lucky country, and I began to wonder why we didn’t live with such joy.

732. And also I agree, there is a level of smug arrogance when it comes to living in ‘the lucky country’ that denies the harsh reality for so many. Poverty, drug and alcohol abuse escalating particularly amongst our youth, violence and abuse rife amongst couples and families, ill-health statistics that will soon cripple the nations health service providers… it is not a pretty picture. So to refer to ourselves as ‘the lucky country’ is far from the truth.

733. You so clearly point out truth here Christopher, and make it very hard to ignore, although I’m sure many will try, preferring to stay in their apparent comfortable lives with all of their possessions around them. We all have differing levels of comfort within our lives but this is a great starting point for us to delve deeper into those pockets we have wanted to ignore, but do not serve us or anyone.

734. It is so important that what you have offered here is being highlighted for contemplation… for the world is undoubtedly suffering in their comfort-seeking ways without realising it is in fact the comfort that is contributing to their woes not relieving them from them. The concept of self- responsibility is a gift that will change the world once appreciated and embraced for the difference it can make to our health.

735. What is happening at a global level with countries, as you’ve shared Christopher, is also happening at a micro-level with us as individuals… caught up in our own little world, concerned only for ourselves and our immediate family and friends, but little in truth beyond that. We are designed to be global, to think for the true good of all and not just ourselves or those immediately around us, but we have lost this connection and relationship with our greater communities.

736. A truly awesome presentation of the facts here, Christopher, there is so much to digest, so much to consider, but actually, I can see what you have shared mirrored in all the western countries, including where I live in Australia. We think that the western world is doing well, but actually, I can feel that we are truly in a very great mess, we are hiding from the facts, not willing to take responsibility for ourselves, just hiding away in comfort as you have said. It sometimes seems to me that we have less chance of pulling ourselves out of this than countries which have reached rock bottom, and the only way for them can be up, they can fall no further (maybe?). We, in the west, have to face the facts and actually see the mess that we are in. This is a blog I feel to return to daily for a while.

737. A powerful and exposing blog thank you Christopher, living in the so-called ‘lucky country’ of Australia I can say that we are deep in the comfort you refer to. A walk through my local shopping centre, which is in middle class inner suburbs of Brisbane, is not so comfortable when I let myself really see how others are faring. From the junk-loaded shopping trollies, to the partly crippled, often overweight or debilitated many, to the lack of vitality and engagement, it is clear we are not doing well. Ill-health statistics back these observations up… and yet I suspect most would consider themselves to be ‘doing well’. It seems our deep comfort is not so comfortable, and what is so extraordinary about this is our ability to maintain a ‘she’ll be right’ and ‘it’s all good’ attitude to cover it.

738. Seeking material health is like a slow poison that is killing us without us consciously choosing to be aware of this fact. In fact, we’re fighting this Truth. Isn’t it obvious that if there’s a rise in any form of illness and disease that we are to reflect on ourselves as a (Human) race in a very honest way what might be the root cause of the rise(s). There are countless studies that tell us that sugary intake, going to bed late, drinking alcohol or coffee, etc. isn’t supportive for our body. And it’s our body that eventually gets sick. So if we want to prevent ourselves – as a society – we are (indeed) to choose much more honesty, regard, care and eventually love for ourselves! Why not… Could it be that it only can get better?

739. What strikes me about how life is for most of us, is that we strive to have the material things, at the expense of our health and relationship. Not really a great deal.

740. Christopher this is such a powerful piece as you don’t hold back from exposing the truth of so many of the choices we can make daily. We so often can choose not to see the effect of the choices that we make, making it about self (but not in a loving sense) and disconnecting from community and humanity. What your article so beautifully exposes is the fact that all of our choices do have an effect and to shut our eyes to this is to not see ourselves as part of the greater whole that is humanity. This is a true call to everyone to see that we each play a part, not through living in separation and taking care of our patch but through seeing that our every choice matters as we can no longer close our eyes to this truth.

741. Your blog does pose a lot of interesting questions Christopher. With the good life that so many are living on a material level, the statistics you shared are shocking. And you are right; we should be more alarmed by our disease rates than being killed by a terrorist. In the UK one statistic I read said that 24,000 dies per year of diabetes related illnesses. That’s 2,000 people per month.

742. It is true there are so many people from within certain nations that believe that country ‘is the best one on Earth to live’ and promote it as such without really looking at the statistics you mention or look into the crime, violence, social disparities and general unease. As you suggest Christopher as soon as we get into “our country is better as are our ideals and beliefs” we start to cause distrust through hurt and upset. When we fail to realise that we are all simply people and are all made the same way we promote the idea that separation and competition and war is the norm.

743. There is no such thing as comfort in Heaven. And all the riches of this world do nothing to make us better as people, at least when they are not used with true love for all

744. “People are more afraid of being killed by terrorist than the real killers above”. This was another statement that leapt out at me! When so obviously exposed like this it doesn’t make sense that we have so bought into the illusion that wealth ‘is it’. It reveals beautifully how we are on a hamster wheel of our own making that we are blind to, still believing that if we run hard enough or fast enough we will get somewhere but in reality are getting no where and burning ourselves out in the process ignoring that burn out as we go.

745. Ha Ha I had to laugh (even though really it is not that funny when you consider what is being said) when you talk about people being more afraid of terrorists that the true killers in our society such as diabetes, heart disease etc. The latter is all about us making simple life changes so as not to have such a massive incidence of illness and disease which kills countless numbers of people each and every year and costs the health care system and us as taxpayers billions of dollars each year.

746. It is sobering to think that people are more afraid of terrorists than getting cancer, diabetes or some form of mental health considering the rising rates of these three illnesses, and I am sure this is not isolated only to your country.

747. There are a number of things that jump out at me in this blog, but chiefest of them all is that we are chasing a nebulous and false illusion if we think that materialism and luxury can bring us joy. What is the point of living ‘the high life’ if it is with emptiness, loneliness, sickness and disease?! My feeling is those at the so called ‘top’ are perhaps more lost than those at the so called ‘bottom’ because they are not so open to the fact that in most cases severe compromises in relationships has to be made to get there…

748. “In my experience, no true joy has been found in material wealth, only fleeting moments of happiness never sustained, always followed by a come down, a dip or a depression” – and the same could be said about different forms of entertainment and how none of this brings any lasting contentedness to anyone. There is a pervasive idea of material wealth and entertainment as bringing us the happiness we so seek and crave for, but in reality this is all empty and holds no true joy and even no lasting happiness, but actually allows the discontent and unhappiness to fester and grow. And so we get to see that our joy does not come from those things that are paraded to us on the outside, but rather it comes from the relationship we cultivate with ourselves on the inside.

749. Christopher, so true what you say about bragging about our country – you have nailed it: “I am here considering this and realising how this attitude may be arrogant, indulgent, individualistic and inconsiderate. The focus becomes less and less about community and working together for the common good of all, instead shifting more and more to how good a life an individual can attain, or the individual family, or just smaller groups, no longer caring for the whole, just about the self and one’s closest.”

750. Christopher – thank you for sharing and exposing this illusion we have of thinking things are ‘great’ when really we base this assessment on material values rather than to truly see what is going on. As you share;
     ‘… with our overeating and alcohol consumption, but also our disregard for our bodies – how we use them as an instrument for our own pleasure and self-indulgent habits.’ – We seem to have got to a stage in the world where illness and disease are on the rise and somehow the counter to this is to have a comfortable and rich life – But what if the rise of illness and disease has come to us to make us truly look at how we are living and our responsibility to not be individual, but to live as a community and with everyone?

751. Christopher, a compelling blog offering the reader much to consider. This line particularly stood out “but while we bathe in comfort we are detaching ourselves from humanity”. I saw a still photo recently from a video on a website and the headline said “man beats a woman whilst people watched” and a few things came to me…firstly was the violent act against another human being and I realised how far removed that is from my life but as I saw this image, this is happening all around the world, right now, constantly. And then I thought, what would I have done? But the first point really struck…I live a comfortable life – home, food to eat, place to work, friends and family who love and support me and it is easy to live in this bubble but as you well point out, we can easily detach from humanity (even our neighbours) and pretend that this violence etc… does not effect me. But it does. In more ways than we know.

752. Amazing sharing Christopher “For instance, becoming more disengaged from one’s true inner values, thinking that material wealth collates to happiness and that happiness is the ultimate goal in life, instead of realising that life can be about true love, joy and harmony.” This line captions the ultimate illusion of a comfortable, good or happy life. A good comfortable life can blind us from the fact that we are as a humanity not truly well, with so much war, poverty, abuse and illness we can honestly not say we are doing well – yet the comfort of having it all can just numb and distract from seeing this important fact and leave us not seeking for true love, harmony and joy in the world and in our own lives… because all is good but is it really?

753. We have our focus so much so on what to gain and who to become that we totally forget to be with each other and as a result of that do not know how to simply be with each other anymore. This is most horrible to feel and experience for children as they are thrown into a world which is not congruent with their natural way of being. In fact it is very horrible for all of us to be so disconnected from ourselves, each other and the world. No wonder so many of us feel lonely, which in itself is ridiculous and does not make sense when we live on a planet where there is almost 7 billion of us. We are not alone we simply need to connect and be present instead of lost in our own thoughts, virtual world or whatever distraction we have adapted.

754. In regards to boasting how well a country is doing, in Germany I have actually always been very surprised how very little regard we have for what we have. I would say the average German does not boast, we rather keep things for ourselves, particularly when it comes to what we own and our living standards. But what really seems to be missing is the gratitude for what we have; we are so focused on the next thing we want or what others have and we don’t that we do not realise what is there already and where we could build upon, not as an individual but as a community and country and then even beyond our borders worldwide.

755. The fact is we are all one country, one group, one whole. But when we champion individual bits it can make us feel ‘better’ temporarily. Yet as you show Christoper this doesn’t actually come close to truly satisfying the longing we all feel within for Love, brotherhood and equality. We are all worth truly amazing riches but we are settling for lots of little trinkets.

756. Chris, what you have shared here is very awesome and is the truth of how we are living. While we continue to seek individual gratification over true brotherhood there will always be the haves and the have-nots and harmony in living is far away from being restored.There is much for me to personally ponder here.

757. Great topic Christopher to talk about. I have been living in this better than community, with moving to such a beautiful country. When we only focus on what a country ‘gives to us’ we fail to see or not want to see everything that is there… how is the community living, are we just functioning, living a life of comfort or truly being engaged and committed in our relationships and life? There is a lot to ponder on here.

758. Christopher, you really blow apart the self satisfaction that many of go into when where we live is seen as the place to be, whether it’s a country, or indeed a town. It excludes everyone else and indeed it feeds the idea that as long as me and mine are ok then we don’t care about the rest. We cut off from the rest of humanity when we do this and despite our best efforts, chasing that next material item, it does not work, as indeed our illness and disease stats show us; if all was truly well these would not be climbing and indeed this is not limited to Norway. That shows that our measures of success are completely false, firstly we need to consider all of humanity in any measure of true success and secondly it needs to be a true measure and not just material goods but people’s true well being and indeed those countries who consider themselves on the best place to live by those measures have dug a deeper hole for themselves as they think they’re fine but as you show here on digging deeper stats on illness suggest otherwise. We have a lot to learn as a humanity about what true wellness is and how it encompasses us all, thanks for writing and highlighting this issue.

759. We have become so distracted chasing the ‘bling’ the material things outside of ourselves, that we are working harder, faster, smarter at the expense of our bodies, and other people. We have allowed these ideals and beliefs to erode our relationships with ourselves and others around us. The world then panics and goes to war because there may not be enough resources – we don’t need as much as we have, there is enough, for Is it possible that we actually need less than we think we do, and what we are chasing is connection?

760. In this day and age the amount of things out there to distract us is incessant. I like how you describe the difference between truly living life versus a life that is just privileged with money but with no purpose or direction. You just have to look around you to see the misery which makes people reach for the stimulants, drugs, alcohol, excessive careers and all the worldly distractions available just so they don’t have to feel what is truly going on. Universal Medicine has been presenting another way for over 10 years with an array of modalities and philosophies which offers the complete opposite – Joy, Purpose, Presence, Clarity, True Health, Wisdom, Harmony and much more more!

761. We are living in distractions and when there is a correction i.e. illness and disease we find another round of distraction rather than feeling our bodies and pondering on how we are living. This article is a great reminder of going back to basics and feeling or bodies. Thank you for sharing.

762. When we lose our connection with ourselves and how it feels to be us, the outer world becomes the place that we look in order to confirm whether we are doing well or not. This quickly becomes “if I have more stuff/better stuff/prettier stuff I am doing better”. In this, competition with one another easily slips in, because judgement of my stuff vs your stuff is how I determine whether I am doing well or not. Remove the need for things, by bringing our measure of success back to expressing ourselves from the endless field of love that we inhabit within, and not only does the weight upon our body lift and the stress we carry diminish, but the fact that we are one becomes abundantly clear.

763. It is true that we are all equal. There is not a thought nor action or intent on earth that is our own – it certainly is well worth consideeing which all we are with? For we can live the All with the All or we can all but live the all with all that do.

764. Looking to improve our lives, to aquire, to rule over and to compare are little more than games we distract ourseves with and by, employing the mind to repaint the truth of life into a more palatable shade for we know we have sold out and are living a lie.

765. We are so busy telling ourselves we have it all and comparing ourselves to those who have less or more and yet all the while we are a fragment of something once whole, a shell, a fracture and an empty glass.

766. It is as you say – we are fearing death by terrorism or tragic event when all the while we are killing ourselves at varying rates and degrees everyday. The real killer is firstly to not breath our own, true breath – from here any number of illnesses will come of the disharmony that results in our body and the assault on our natural flow.

767. “shifting more and more to how good a life an individual can attain, or the individual family, or just smaller groups, no longer caring for the whole, just about the self and one’s closest.” When we become wrapped up in ‘Self’ we leave no space for any other. This makes for a very lonely existence.

768. This is an amazing piece of writing Christopher. I live in Australia – it is known as the ‘lucky country’ we have many people immigrate here to escape the war and poverty of the countries they were born in. How ignorant it is of us to not connect with the world at large or to pretend we don’t even care about it convincing ourselves it doesn’t affect us.

     1. I agree Abby. It is crazy. I went for a swim today and was noticing how every single person in the pool would impact the whole pool with how they were with themselves. All of us that is, including me. Every movement would have massive ripple effect everywhere in the pool. Life and the world we live in is just like that — we think we can live in our closed up homes, switch on the telly and go to whatever vice we want to because it’s our right to do so, but even behind closed doors there is the same ripple effect. We still affect everyone else with our choices, our behaviours our quality in every single moment. We might not like this (and hence we tend to try and numb ourselves to oblivion with alcohol, sugary foods etc etc), but it is undeniably true.

769. An awesome expose Christopher, there are so many that put financial gain, security and family to the top of their lists and then doggedly live forcing selves to make sure each of the above is sorted and cared for. All because we want to be able to live comfortable, knowing we are ok. The amount living this way disconnects us from humanity is staggering. However, it is only since choosing to live a full loving life that I began to feel just how far away from the reality of life and humanity I had allowed myself to be when my only concern was my comfort. Living now with the focus being on no longer my comfort, but instead a deep care for myself, as I know that the deeper I go with this care and love of me the more love I feel for others, and this love constantly propels me to live in a way that supports myself and those that I am in any contact with. It is also possible that living this way supports all in the world, as it lays a foot print that cannot be erased. A foot print that is there for others to follow.

770. Brilliant blog Christopher, Í agree material wealth does not mean we are happier or healthier. I used to believe that material wealth was the answer to our woes and sadness, now I know this is not true. It seems no matter where we live if we are live choosing comfort, indulgence, disregard, disrespect, superiority and generally choosing an unloving way of living affects us in more ways than we’d like to admit. Your blog really asks some very thought provoking questions and very much needed ones because I definitely agree that our health is globally declining and there is a reason for this. By simply looking at the way we live and our choices in life is a great starting point.

771. Great article Christopher, nationalism asks us to champion the good and great of our countries and ignore the real issues, like the health statistics you point out. What is interesting is that all countries are facing similar health issues, so on that level, we have more in common that you would think.

772. I agree with you, there is a kind of careless smugness in patting ourselves on the shoulder and gloating how good we’ve got it when it is only ever superficial and conveniently overlooks what is really going on when you scratch the surface just a little.

773. I live in a country Christopher that likes to refer to itself as “lucky” – THE lucky country. Great beaches, great lifestyle, all promoted to make overseas people envy us…want to come here for a holiday. But our cracks have been showing for a long time. Declining health rates in an ageing population are driving us to bankruptcy. Only the rich can afford the healthcare they need.
     On that note, let us take our eyes from the page of statistics and go for a walk in the regions and suburbs of these great nations that statistics blur into non existence. Lets see how everyone is living, not just the comfortable many. The reality of some people’s lives in the these comfortable, lucky nations of ours is far from comfortable, and very far from lucky. They are struggling to survive. The arrogance of “I’m all right” is playing out on local and global fronts. An indictment of comfort and luck if ever there was one.

     1. Sydney Morning Herald yesterday – 1/3 western Sydney – i.e. 1/3 of a one million people – have, or high risk of having, diabetes.

774. Thank you Christopher! There is indeed a difference between appreciating our technologies, and our instruments, cars, houses and scenery etc and making these the focus of our lives, with tastes and preferences, desires and palate. The latter is at the sake of living for the all, bringing the energy of love to our every day. This is quite achievable, and because of all of the great materials we have we can make things very accessible. In the end of the day if we don’t have love but we have a lot of possessions, we still don’t have love.

775. it does seem peculiar that we are, indeed, more concerned about the next terrorist attack oppose to the killings that are occurring in our own communities, schools and hospitals. We are a sick species and things aren’t getting better.

776. Great observations Christopher. There is so much divisiveness in the world today, separating us into groups and fractions rather than seeing the equalises that we all are. We are designed to work together and together anything is possible. Currently in the UK there is all this talk of UK referendum and all it serves to do is keep us sepearate as us and them. We are all together, the sooner we have a world without borders the sooner we will collectively realise this.

777. A profound and inspired writing Christopher.
     We seem to have well and truly lost sight of the truth of true brotherhood and looking out for each other in favour of bettering our life with acquisitions and separating ourselves further from love. This is highlighted in your shocking health statistics as being the real killers and yet, we are ‘more afraid of being killed by terrorists than the real killers listed above’.

778. “Inspired by the presentations of Serge Benhayon, which I feel offer a genuine way out of these worldwide health issues that are embedded in the lives of all of us.” Absolutely Christopher – these presentations of a way of living have already had thousands turn their lives around and these people are now living in a way that is full of vitality, commitment to life and work, truly joyful and a far cry from the illness, disease and disability for which humanity is heading.

     1. You have echoed my immeditate thoughts Deborah to a great blog written by Christopher. The excesses of the modern world are grotesque and are very quickly being exposed.

779. Many of us have no regard for our bodies and trash them with copious amounts of drugs, alcohol, late nights, extreme sport, etc. Imagine if we were to honour them as our vehicle of expression that they actually are and treat and support them accordingly ?

     1. And there is no end to how we can honour our bodies. As we deepen this relationship, what is loving today may be abuse tomorrow.

780. “People are more afraid of being killed by terrorists than the real killers listed above.” The sudden death from a terrorist is painfully obvious and shocking but more insidious is the slow death from the way we are living that is seemingly going unnoticed and of which we are the wilful participants.

     1. Indeed, we are not aware of the slow death that is occurring under our noses – in our bodies. To honestly review our living habits and make choices is one step. To focus on the wellbeing of our whole community and not only on our own wellbeing is an important other movement out of our current situation into a more inclusive one,

781. This article is so powerful. Thank you Christopher for seeing through the quagmire that we have all contributed to and for speaking with such plain and accessible truth. Like you I feel that Serge Benhayon and the teachings of Universal Medicine offer us all a way out of this mess. A way that we all can understand, access and bring into our lives. Super, super simple steps. One at a time.

782. “People are more afraid of being killed by terrorist than the real killers above”. So, so true…amazing how we hide the truth of what we are actually doing to ourselves. What strikes me about this is the total absolution of responsibility here. We love to worry about terrorists because they are out of our control. It is the perfect excuse to continue on our errant ways, to not care, to live selfishly…..Yet all the while we continue to make zillions and zillions of choices that are absolutely in our control yet are way, way, way more devastating to ourselves, our brothers the whole of humanity than the sum total of all the global terrorists activity could ever be. It would be comical if it were not so true.

     1. Well said ottobathurst; it is rather interesting to see how we can get so worried about the distant possibility of terrorist attacks, but we avoid the truth of what we do to ourselves and our bodies daily, with our constant un-loving choices; with what we eat, what we drink, what thoughts we allow and ‘think’ through to the nth degree, getting caught up in emotions that drain us, not sleep when we are tired, and so on and so on. These are all things we can control, especially once we come to a point of really loving ourselves for who we are, without needing to be perfect. Terrorism we cannot control, so it’s totally dis-empowering, and giving us an ‘out’, we may as well ‘enjoy’ ourselves, as you never know what might happen. Also interesting that we ‘think’ we are enjoying ourselves, when doing things that we know is are actually harming the body we live in. Often we don’t want to know, and ‘everybody’ is doing it, so it must be ‘normal’ and ok.

783. What you present here, Christopher, is so true. All these components of comfort that you identify are but distractions from what truly brings us joy.

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