September the Nineteenth in the Year Two Thousand and Sixteen, London, United Kingdom
Dear Body,
There has been no other like you who has stuck with me through thick and thin, never to give up on me, yet ironically the very one I had used and abused like I would no other!
Who else would down those small or copious amounts of alcohol, a substance defined by our very own scientists as poison, and force it onto the liver, your sweet organ of harmony, whilst you patiently kept processing the killer substance? No other kind would do this. And yet we (I) call ourselves an intelligent species.
And no matter how high off the Richter scale the mass per blood/alcohol volume level went, you stayed. You’d even look for ways to help me… make me purge the poison circulating your veins. Get that: I spewed poison into YOUR veins! What an audacity!
Still, you’d ‘force’ me to rest and sleep so that you could get me back to my sober state, only for me to get intoxicated and indulge in another glass of chilled white a few days later. I did in those moments question the definition of my own sanity.
Any time I got cold, flu, fever, ah and those horrendous perpetual headaches, I’d get cross. With you. Yes, ironically YOU. To me, you and all the symptoms were a nuisance, a great hindrance preventing me from doing what I pleased. With two ears and impeccable hearing ability I remained deaf to every communication from you, to all those little and the big signs, the only ways you knew how to speak with me.
Remember when you ended up in an emergency hospital with a vitamin B12 injection because your heart nearly packed up? Just because I had long and hard hung onto my ‘vegetarian’ badge, deeply steeped in the belief that ‘meat was murder’ all whilst you craved meat and needed it to eat. Of course you always KNEW what you needed. You even knew what I needed too.
I’d slam doors, fist the desk, threaten to boomerang my electronic device through the window and get seriously annoyed with internet service providers when I could not connect to send or receive emails; yet I would not even blink once in consideration when pouring coffee/caffeine down your throat causing chaos within your web of nerves and giving shock to your nervous system. Go figure! A Hypocrite as well.
I allowed even more poison inside you through loveless sex, an array of emotions, sugar, salt, pasta, pizza, cheese and chocolate, to name but a few, than I would have flushed down the toilet or shoved into a rubbish bin. You must have cringed when I sniggered at the gluten free crowd and how gutless I was about your messages from the gut? Part of me felt really glad that you were not given a sound of your own – for you would have screamed like it had never been heard before.
Instead of getting closer to you and being ONE with you my dear Body, I had consciously built a gulf between us.
When I found a small lump on your right breast and fear kicked in almost instantaneously that something malignant might be going on, guess who was the culprit (yet again). How dare you ‘give me a lump’!
Instead of stopping to say SO DEEPLY sorry I had dumped way too much disregard, self-loathing, hardness, lack of self-worth, lack of self-care (and more) on you, you were left with no other option/remedy but to put it in a pea size ball to get my attention, like Hello, to make me stop so that I would even consider taking a U-turn on the road of Self-Love.
You dear Body always found a way to communicate with me – I on the other hand like a tantrum-ing toddler stubbornly and paradoxically kept refusing to so much as lend you my ears.
We are All part of the Universe, hence the Universe is part of us too. And if this simple equation is true, which it is, whoever gave me the right to treat you like a commodity, like I might my car, or that blue t-shirt I enjoy wearing and the brown leather handbag I own – however I please. No way this kind of behaviour is practised anywhere else in the Universe.
I get given a wonder (you, the body) that does not belong to me, but whose particles belong to the Universe, to love, to cherish and to behold and what do I do with it? I abuse it. Let’s call it for what it truly is – An ultimate in Arrogance.
And then one day with my will and your lovely legs you drove me all the way to Somerset to meet Serge Benhayon. Your cells tingled (visibly) with Joy at the encounter, however, unawakened I at the time couldn’t quite explain why. Yet you knew. To you and all your six senses it was easy to detect and register a man who holds his body like one might a little water in the palm of the hand in a desert – reads precious.
You knew Serge to be all ears, eyes, nose and much, much more when it came to honouring the body. You had been patiently asking me to go there since I emerged from my mother’s womb and when you met Serge you whispered to me in the silence of the Universe that we had met an equal, a role model, a spark that would ignite the inextinguishable eternal fire within. You and your boundless wisdom. You sussed it – that we had arrived at the U-turn point and were well on our way to Re-turn to the Love we are made to be and live from.
You my dearest Body knew what a body of Truth (Serge Benhayon) felt like when you met one. High five!
I did like the feel of Serge at first sight too, but you… You loved him. No. You Adored him. You sensed that everything about your treatment was about to change to how you and the stars had always known it to be. You found that One human body that reflected God back to me so that I would know You (my body) is NOT mine to own. That you were given to me merely as a vehicle for the one and only registered, responsible and fully comprehensively insured driver – my Soul.
Our Soul.
One Soul.
You could tell that almost constant abuse I had subjected you to was about to cease, and how could you not smile and sparkle in celebration of that fact. You knew the time had cometh when I’d clock that you were given to me to serve a much greater purpose, and for that I had to keep you sacred and to keep you in stillness so that you and I could live and reflect the Divine on Earth.
Just one meeting with the ordinary (but oh, how extraordinary) man called Serge Benhayon. It’s all that took for you to be released from the shackles of my arrogant self. It took less than a moment and faster than the speed of light to experience the power of body particles between each other and how much can be communicated with no words but through vibration! Quantum physics like no lab could deliver!
Ever since then I have cried many tears when remembering all the harm I had inflicted upon you, and yet you never held any grudges. Not even as much as a raised eyebrow ;-)…
I would have loved to have written this letter to you as “our body” for that is how it truly is, but how could I make such a claim when all I had done for aeons had been the antithesis of ‘our’ – a union of body and Soul – and the responsibility this sweet word commands.
I had willingly and consciously been your biggest enemy.
Never again.
And You KNOW it.
Yours in True Service and Love,
Dragana
By Dragana Brown, S.A.C. Dip. Diet and Nutrition Advisor, Writer & Correspondent
Further Reading:
Listening to Your Body
Claiming Back My Body
Listening to Your Body – A New Body Corporate
The Truth about Serge Benhayon 
It doesn’t make sense when we come to understand the immense wisdom and preciousness of our body that this isn’t shared with every child from day one. But then the majority of those who are raising the next generation were also raised by a generation who were not offered this knowledge either, and so the cycle repeats and repeats. It’s definitely time for this destructive cycle to be broken down and replaced by a cycle of self-care and self-love for this amazing vehicle that is our body..
Our body is our first home. It makes absolute sense that we should treat it with honour and respect. And if we are not treating ourselves right, with love, respect and gentleness, then how can we have a humanity that is harmonious and loving towards each other? Thank you Dragana for bringing it back to basics.
While we need meat it is indeed a huge disservice to our body and therefore our health to deny the fact and not eat it in order to serve an ideal and belief. When the time is truly right to not eat meat, the body will let us know. The true choice cannot be a mind-driven choice.
In honour of all our bodies… a love letter and commitment. Thank you, Dragana.
No wonder we often make such bad bosses and employers, it makes a lot of sense when you examine how we are with ourselves. The only thing that has been able to explain this crazy behaviour to me, is the fact of the spirit and the Soul. The thing I walk away knowing after reading your words Dragana, is for most of my life my spirit has been running me. The Soul is not about making things a little bit better – it works in a completely different way. And so, am I prepared to leave behind the familiar comfort of habits and step forward with Love as my way? We have everything we need to live this today.
I love your honesty Dragana and reading these words today allow me to take a moment and truly appreciate and confirm how much I love learning and deepening my own relationship with my body and see that yes it may not be perfect but we are constantly shifting and exploring the way we live life everyday and that is a pretty cool.
This blog is nothing short of sharing the responsibility we all hold in the way we choose to connect or not connect to the universe and what is on offer when we are willing to feel our grandness.
Dragana you have brought tears to my eyes, wow. What an incredible blog and one I shall reread over again to feel the depth of love and honoring that is needed for this incredible body that I have been blessed to move in. Thank you.
Definitely not the intelligent species when I only operate from one small part of intelligence rather than the whole body’s wisdom.
The resilience of the body is quite something!
There is absolutely nothing intelligent when we use and abuse our bodies the way we do these days, people might seem ok on the outside but the quality of movement and joy in their bodies is non-existent. It is only until we realize that our bodies are the gateway to everything there is and the more care and love we treat ourselves with the more wisdom and true joy we can live with, and that is true intelligence!
Thank you Dragana, great to read this again. Til today I hadn’t really considered the body a parcel of energy, and not just any energy but a divine collection of particles which belong to the universe. It really changes the approach and relationship to my body. We tend to look at the body for self only, and not in a caring and cherishing way, but as something to be selfishly used (and abused) with complete disregard to how that body affects others (and the universe) and as a confounding point – also the self! What we do to our bodies we would never do to a car. This has been a great wake up call to read today as I can see a myriad of ways I still harm and poison my body with emotions and stress – time for another clean out of behaviours and for love to take their place.
Super-spot on, Adam.
It’s so, so much better to be a friend to our bodies rather than treat them like the enemy. Attacking ourselves in this way just doesn’t make sense.
“You my dearest Body knew what a body of Truth (Serge Benhayon) felt like when you met one.” Yes Dragana, my dearest body also knew what the body of truth that is Serge Benhayon felt like when it met him too. It is crazy how we have ignored the signs of truth and love on offer for so long, but it is never too late to change and to live this truth that we innately know for ourselves.
Coming back to reread this blog Dragana is very humbling. To read that it is very much our responsibility as to how we treat our bodies, even though we don’t want to take that responsibility. But I feel a deeper sense of doing so having read this.
A pertinent reminder that emotions can also cause distress to the body…it can be easy to think only of the food, and drink but also the way we are with ourselves can either be harmonious or cause dis-ease with the body. When we are hard on ourselves, or think of ourselves less than the true magnificence we truly are, that is also abusive to the body.
This ‘love’ letter is so absolutely extraordinarily beautiful that it brought me to tears re-reading it. We sure do put our body through a lot and then expect it to be fine with whatever abuse we do to it. Of course it is not fine and that is why the rates of illness and disease are so much on the increase.
Wow Dragana, I have just come back to reread this and it is just as impactful the next time around. What a profoundly gorgeous blog. I am sure I am not alone in relating the every single line of this, how we can treat the body, our body. That we can abuse or love and listen. It is up to us.
What is amazing about the body is that it will always invite you to go deeper – deeper into the delicateness and preciousness we naturally all are. The more we care for our body in all ways – that is not allowing the smallest iota of assault or abuse from ourselves or others – the more our body beacons up the gateway to our essence, our soul. There, where only love resides. the depth of preciousness, which we can then bring to our daily lives, our relationships and to all.
I am inspired by this conversation with the gut…and whole body…”Instead of getting closer to you and being ONE with you my dear Body, I had consciously built a gulf between us.” how come we grow up and don’t get taught to connect with our body, we get told to be in our head and then everything starts separating….it is devastating for our health and our joy levels. We can not be joy-full in a compromised body – Fact.
There are many many conditions we have as human beings that could be prevented if we would listen to our bodies. Like your great examples of being a stick vegetarian to the point of ending in emergency units and drinking alcohol the other very obvious one. I could at the fact we can eat many times more than we need and all kind of foods we don’t need to end up with a body twice or triple times the size it should be with all the problems that come with that. We might say we have issues and yes there have things happened in life but it is great to remember we always have a choice just like you Dragana.
What a wonderful account of coming to that vital ‘U’ turn to the Re-Turn to Soul Dragana. Just ignore all road signs which say ‘No U-turn here’, and come straight back home.
Wow Dragana, it is such a joy to read this powerful letter and your deep appreciation to Serge Benhayon for consistently reflecting true love and wisdom always.
Our bodies are incredibly honest and masters of truth. But we treat them indifferently and with contempt. Even with that our bodies never waver and continue to present the truth to us day in and day out. Our bodies are the best friends we have always wanted and looked for but we choose not to see, even though they are right there in every moment with us. Our bodies are our greatest teachers.
What a rich and honest blog – sharing with us the openness to see how we have lived and the abuse we have allowed. No beating up is needed, just simply allow, observe and understand – appreciate that you are on your way to return to the love you are. There is nothing wrong about that. Neither we should make our journey heavy in any way shape or form. We return to the Soul which is Light.
I have loved re reading your wonderful “Letter to My Body” Dragana! Thank you for reminding me to not take my body for granted!
I love reading your letter Dragana. If we are going to harm ourselves – let’s at least be honest without judgment, guilt or any other emotional decoy so we can return to loving, caring choices immediately we become aware. Other wise we just feed the pool of harm.
Reading this really brings home the abuse we so easily put our bodies through, and still expect it to carry on, regardless of our behaviour.
A joy to read this again and the beautiful letter you share here Dragana. It is true we can use our minds as separate when in fact they are a key part of whole body intelligence. What an opportunity we have to deeply honour and connect to our bodies.
Dear body, you tell me when I’m caring for you, you tell me when I’m not. You never ever lie, you are patient beyond belief and will repeat what needs to be said again and again until I hear you. You love me at a depth that were I to feel that, I would never not care for you again.
We are quite good at using our body to get us what we want when we engage with the world. We are not that great though when we relate to ourselves and to the body.
We engage with the world in ways that somewhere deep inside us we know that does not honour us in full and sometimes even dishonour us. The body is the only thing we have to truly learn about life and to evolve. How we relate to is essential.
This blog feels like a code of conduct we could all be inspired to live by. There is so much here to stop and take note of. A clear letter of love to the body of how we choose time and time again to ignore the signals that are given in every movement that offer us harmony and stillness.
Wow that was a powerful read, I am about to go to bed and lovingly appreciate this glorious body for all it divinely is, a member of the universe.
Dragana this is a gorgeous, inspiring and powerful blog. I love the style of expression, it is deeply honest, open and relatable. It sounds crazy how arrogant and disregarding we can be to our body. No species I know on earth would self-harm to the degree humans do. This shows me how disharmonious and unwell we are as a race to accept abuse to our body as normal.
That is awesome Sarah. Amazing to appreciate when we love and support our body everything we do is a joy. Your comment Sarah inspire me to deepen my level of self-care.
Dragana, this is sooo beautiful to read, I can feel myself appreciating and adoring my body when I read it, I love this, ‘you were given to me to serve a much greater purpose, and for that I had to keep you sacred and to keep you in stillness so that you and I could live and reflect the Divine on Earth.’ Wow much to ponder on here.
‘Just one meeting with the ordinary (but oh, how extraordinary) man called Serge Benhayon. It’s all that took for you to be released from the shackles of my arrogant self. It took less than a moment and faster than the speed of light to experience the power of body particles between each other and how much can be communicated with no words but through vibration!’ The science of energy and vibration is yet to be discovered by the mass of people. This is the greatest science on earth and one that governs the whole universe. Very simple and powerful.
Learning to speak to the body is one of the most important things, yet we ignore ignore ignore!
I love coming back to read this blog, it is very confirming in that we can talk to our bodies, honour it, love it and listen to it. It is a wise and intelligent being, it is just up to us to be responsible in connecting to it and appreciating all that it offers us.
It’s refreshing to read something like this. Our bodies speak to us all the time in many little ways. We hardly ever speak back to them with kindness and understanding. To have a conversation with our body in this way is important and healthy. It is a self loving act rather than simply disregarding the body and its signals.
Conceding, recognising and accepting that our body is deeply tender and the vehicle through which we can express who we really are on this earthy realm is something we will all eventually need to come to. It is humbling and it is what will unify us all as a human race.
If we understood how much our bodies can support us to reconnect to the truth of who we are, and sidestep the crazy machinations of the wilful spirit then we would afford it far greater honouring and respect, and in that allow the body its true purpose as an instrument for the Soul’s expression on earth.
The concept that our body does not belong to us, but is made up of the particles of the universe, of which we are a part is a long, long way from how we are taught to see the body. As we baby step our way into an awareness that life is about more than we think it is, this revelation will unfold.
This letter – which is actually a love letter is written on behalf of the very many. I can certainly relate to all that is shared. I work with people who are sick all the time and observe how we punish our body for all that it is communicating. I can understand that we do not like the messages it is communicating, for it communicates responsibility. There is no judgement by our body just truth and all it does is ask us to observe and listen.
A dear friend and teacher of mine has been talking of late about all the ‘text messages’, that is communications, that we receive from our bodies all of the time that we tend to ignore, for example, painful periods, backache, aches here and there etc. If we continue to ignore these communications then of course the body will have to give us bigger and bigger messages so that we eventually STOP and ask what is going on. This is the absolute beauty of having a body, that it does reflect all of our choices and eventually we are forced at some level to look at how we are living.
What a gorgeous blog Dragana, from all angles thank you for writing what you have experienced your relationship with your body to be – and how it is now changing and how you are choosing now to listen to its communication.. I had this same feeling of absolute contentment within my own body when I first entered an Universal Medicine workshop, as the presenter was living this absolute respect to its body again. It is only by this lived expression (reflection of how he lives his life), that I got inspired that I could do so again.. Just like you Dragana.
Your words here Dragana could so easily apply to the people in our life. We so often ignore, berate and harshly block out those who are close to us. We angrily attack what they have to say if it does not fit in with our pictures. We sometimes look to the wars and squabbles we have and shake our head but do we dare see as you clearly show that the fight or harmony starts within us and the way we are with our body. What follows is just a mirror to show us the truth of how we are choosing to be.
Dragana, I just love how you have dismantled so many accepted normals in this conscious changing blog, normals that have lead so many of us to abuse our bodies in ways that have been hugely destructive. We chose to be deaf to its messages and blind to what it showed us, while we pretended everything was fine and that’s what we were doing and the symptoms we were experiencing were actually normal. And there was our precious body carrying us steadfastly through years of abuse until there came a time when it said – yelled – no more and lovingly offered us the opportunity to make a “U-turn on the road of Self-Love” knowing it was up to us whether we took it, or not.
Are we appreciating and celebrating our body and so allowing it to express and reflect everything that we all are, or abusing and reducing it to hide and not be here?
I love this Dragana – there’s no going back.
Most preciously expressed and written, thank you Dragana.
Our body is truly amazing. It does everything to keep it going. We don’t even have to ask the heart to keep beating, it knows exactly what to do at any given moment. It is nothing but Love. But the way most of us treat it just so does not equate to it, it makes no sense – unless we assume our mind belongs elsewhere and has a completely different agenda.
Honouring and treating my body with respect makes more and more sense to me these days. It’s a shame it has taken me decades to figure it out. People who have realised this and live in a way that demonstrates this care and respect are a great reflection for others and for the young people they come into contact with. To be honest I feel its something that should be taught in schools from kindergarten right the way up.
The body can carry us in our fullness each day if we honour it and allow it to.
When we truly look at the way the majority of us treat our body it would be fair to question just what it is that we call intelligent! For how can a true intelligence be one that is at ease with abusing our body whilst passing it off as normal..?
Wow, just love this blog, such a great reminder to truly honour what our body is constantly communicating with us and to have a loving relationship with that.
We have been given a body that is in constant communication with the universe if we so choose to, so to treat it like a vessel of energy through our livingness is the only way forth in our connection with the all.
I love how you have presented this subject and blog, yes our bodies are like our best friend, they are amazing.
“You (my body) is NOT mine to own. That you were given to me merely as a vehicle for the one and only registered, responsible and fully comprehensively insured driver – my Soul.” This is an enormous and gigantic shift in our current thinking and the way we are in relationship to our body.
Yes- and it makes total sense then that really looking after our body is the way to rebuild a connection with it and the deeper part of ourselves.
We all abuse our bodies in different ways! I agree that connecting to Universal Medicine and the Presentations of the Serge Benhayon, plus his example of being in the Livingness has been profound in its effect on me.
These tantrums that we have directed outwards to blame situations have proved pointless and also so damaging to our beautiful bodies. The way that we are, that we let our being be, is the most crucial choice to make in life. I can totally relate to the absurdity and hypocrisy that you expose here Dragana: ‘I’d slam doors, fist the desk, threaten to boomerang my electronic device through the window and get seriously annoyed with internet service providers when I could not connect to send or receive emails; yet I would not even blink once in consideration when pouring coffee/caffeine down your throat causing chaos within your web of nerves and giving shock to your nervous system. Go figure! A Hypocrite as well’.
Bodies are like dogs. They are our best buddies and never give up on us. It is us that give up on them. The problem, in this case, is that there is not them without us (while we are in incarnate form at least). We may choose not to become aware but mistreating the body and asking it to cope with the lot we throw at it is a mere reflection of how are we treating ourselves and what are we really choosing to do in this life. The body is a big treasure. It is not just flesh. It is also particles and nadies. It is the universe.
A gorgeous expression of developed understanding and appreciation of what you once ignored. Sadly we have all been guilty of disregarding the beauty and wisdom of the body and what it houses and the power that can be embraced when it is honoured as it should be.
Our bodies are amazing – they really do put up with so much and keep on presenting love back to us. What a gift that they can continuously give us signs of how we are living. They are the best consultant, advisor, therapist we could ask for! And it is all free – in the palm of our own hands. Connecting to our bodies – allowing them to communicate with us is life changing. And life saving.
Why is it that we find the body a nuisance when it stops functioning in way that prevents us from doing the things that we ‘want’ to do? If our young son or daughter fell sick with fever or broke their arm, we would not be annoyed and find them a nuisance. We would organise to take some time off and spend time caring for them and most likely delight in the fact that we were there for them! But we tend not to do the same for ourselves – as adults when we get sick, we ‘soldier’ on, AND we also tend to get annoyed or angry at ourselves/our body for slowing us down and we find the body a nuisance. This is very exposing in how we treat ourselves and our relationship with self/Soul. After all the body is our connection, our bridge to Soul and God, so if we get annoyed by the body we are essentially saying no to our deepest, oldest and most true relationship…Looking at it this way makes one think twice about what we do to our body and how we respond or react to being unwell, the foods we eat etc etc. Thank you Dragana for this refreshing blog on our body and our connection to Soul and God, which exposes our arrogance and offers us a choice to return to the humbleness that respects and honours the body, our body, the one body.
“I had willingly and consciously been your biggest enemy”. This is a common problem with the way we relate to our bodies. This causes all sorts of problems when we get sick. We blame our body, angry that it has ‘let us down’ and is stopping us from getting on with life as usual. This attitude stops us from looking at what we have done to create this illness, whether directly or indirectly. Having a loving and obedient relationship with your body changes everything, as there is a willingness and desire to do no harm.
Developing regard for our bodies and refining our self care and self love is an ever deepening process but so worth it when we consider what we are really here to do.
I love this love letter to the body. Someone was telling me the other day how they went home from work, drank 6 beers while sitting in an outdoor swimming pool in 36 degree heat and he wondered why he did not feel so great the next day! The things that we expect the body to put up with are quite shocking really.
This is powerful. When we meet ‘a body of truth’ our own body knows it on a deep level. Knowing this comes with responsibility. The responsibility of knowing that if I live to the level of awareness I have, then I too can present a body of truth to others for them to feel.
Thank you Dragana. Our body only ever tells us the truth however much we try to ignore it. When we truly listen it becomes our true friend as we find our way back to the essence of our Divine being..
Rebuilding a connected relationship with our bodies is a labour of love – there’s a lot of abuse, habits and patterns to reverse out of. Yet I’m finding it one of the most satisfying projects I’ve ever undertaken. The closer I am to my body, the simpler and more delicious life becomes – and – the simpler and more delicious I become.
Like a loveless marriage, we only stay in our relationship with our body for what we can get out of it. We tend to see ourselves as separate to our body. Treating it as separate we can blame, abuse, fight our body and take not an ounce of responsibility for what happens to it. Doesn’t really make sense since it is our body and there is no one driving this vehicle except us.
I love this blog and the relationship I have and am developing with my body everyday. One that is going away from ignoring its messages and building the honouring of how it feels. Every message when listened to leads to absolute gold, a lightening feeling and joy that nothing outside of the body could ever match.
This is such a cool sharing and really makes me stop and consider all the ways I have abused my body in order to push through. And all the while it has stayed with me, ever faithful, ever responsive. A changing relationship that I can say is still developing, but developing in a more gentle and loving way that I would never of welcomed before. And now I have amazing role models around me who are so feminine and inspire me and my body to connect to the fact that I too am a gorgeous woman who does not need to push herself.
Oh my sweet God, I love this blog, I recognize it till the top of my awareness and so I can equally and will equally say this to my body: thank you for always supporting me it is time I got your back. In a nutshell this is what we can choose, hence our arrogance, which we thought that was us, will drop because we can then only drop more in our truth and hence we would never ever abuse our body. A way of living that is in alignment with the universe again.
What I would like to know is, what is the form of intelligence that invented alcohol as a drink? And why do we classify drinks which are chemically dangerous as a social norm and ‘okay in moderation?
Jstewart51 I love how you have referred to our relationship with our body as a marriage. It represents the true union that occurs first within.
A stunning piece of honesty and responsibility, thank you. How is it that we fight our body so much at every twist and turn, grab any opportunity that arises to inflict more disregard and disdain onto it? What is running us that tells and convinces us that it doesn’t care in those moments?
We live so separated from the body, as if it’s a giant inconvenience getting in the way of how we want to live life. We are so reckless with the body, in fact we can treat our car with much more understanding and respect. Your letter really highlights humanity’s relationship with the body and how that can change and reflect our true responsibility to ourselves and each other.
Our body is where the answers are found, not just from the mind alone.
Our relationship with our bodies is the most important relationship we can have to develop our reconnection with the divine
What a gift to come back to this blog and read this stunning ode to the body. We are indeed here to serve, and our body knows it and is here to support us to do that. So that our divine particles in our body, connect to the divine particles of the universe. So that we know the qualities of the Universe, Love, Stillness, Joy, and Harmony. It is what we all crave. No more bombing in Syria. No more trucks plowing down people. No more child/sex trafficking. No more fighting with our bosses/neighbours/friends/family etc…. To live in these qualities, we have to be open to them and to start that process, it does involve being much kinder to yourself and your body as your blog shows us.
So very true that we live in total arrogance towards our body, what it does for us and what it carries of us. When it does eventually create a stop moment big enough that we have to take notice, then we blame it for not keeping up with our lifestyle or try to rectify the ‘problem’ in order to get back to how we’ve been living. Our union with the body is only ever true once we can appreciate and honour its real purpose.
There is something working inside us that goes against every piece of wisdom and practicality that we know about the way we should lovingly treat our body. I go for a long time eating very well and then suddenly I imagine that I have some leeway and that I can dabble a bit. This lack of absoluteness is driving me nuts, but I must just see it, feel it, observe it and move on.
To consider our bodies as Universal, and thus that what we put in is not just about us but about our ability to be in service and care for all, now that changes how we view how and what we do, and the importance of discernment in every decision we make.
Absolutely Stephen – our bodies do not belong to us, the particles belong to God, and they form a vehicle through which we can serve our brothers on earth or alternatively we can choose to trash our bodies and get sick which does not leave us in a strong position to serve. It took me a long time to wake up to this simple yet all-important fact of life.
Dear body, thank you so much for being so open and share with me your wisdom. I just have to learn to listen again and when I do – you are there and support me in understanding and unfolding. And when I do not listen, you speak louder, but never give up on me or our relationship. What a dear friend you are!
hee hee… so true – life becomes delicious, joyful, purpose and meaningful when we connect to our origin, when we care and live our relationship with God.
Honesty allows us to see life for what it is, how we have used and abused our bodies and so move forth in a true and honouring way for who we are.
Re-visiting this blog and there it is again….. a picture of your incredibly sexy back
WOW – what if we were all to get this honest with how we are in our bodies, to really look at what we have ‘dumped’ on them in the past. Pretty scary if you think about it! I am certainly cringing when I look at all the toxic substances and movements I welcomed in, and my body is still loving me back. Feeling that brings a deep sense of appreciation that our bodies have an intelligence that cannot be matched by the mind alone.
Gosh.. the body can withstand so much as well as being super delicate. It’s interesting actually, that even though the body is not ‘tough as nails’ it can still manage and continue to function even when poisoned by food, alcohol and emotions. That shows to me that true delicateness is not weak, but has an amazing strength.
To honour and acknowledge our bodies and treat them with the utmost care is a missing link when it comes to growing up in this world. We focus on so many things but we do not learn to stay connected with our bodies and work with them, treating them as the precious vehicle it is that serves us our entire life.
Dragana, what you share here may well be resisted by many as the first time I read it, while I loved it and felt its deep truth, it is also a powerful wake up call to say that all is not what it seems. We accept abuse like we accept the weather as it is, and just like the weather we sometimes choose not to see that we also have the power to change our experiences through the way we live and hold ourselves. Abuse is a word that needs much re-definition as it is far more than just physical or emotional – it is hidden in even the slightest expression that does not honour the truth of who we are.
What a beautiful reminder of how the body is likely to be responding to way too many of the choices we are making. As I read your blog I felt the dedication to communication our body has, it never gives up trying to communicate what hurts and what doesn’t and I felt inspired to listen even more deeply than I already do. We can never be finished with deepening this connection and communication.
I would love to read your body’s response to this!!
What an awesome letter – this is so true for me too -in the sense that I would abuse my body then get fed up when I got sick – nothing short of an arrogance and unwillingness to see that we do not own our bodies and we are part of a much bigger picture.
Gorgeous….”Ever since then I have cried many tears when remembering all the harm I had inflicted upon you, and yet you never held any grudges. Not even as much as a raised eyebrow ;-)…” I can feel the in my body, since I have begun to care for it more….it has said Yes and got on with enjoying being more connected, alive and vital….our bodies are deeply intelligent and respond deeply to care and love.
So incredibly beautiful, honouring and humbling, as I can still play the game of not listening to my body with all it’s wisdom and instant reflection. It is no longer the wine etc. but it is the same energy, the not wanting to feel something so trying to numb against what is truth-fully – un-numbable! There is no hiding from what is felt, there are choices with the type of support though.
‘You dear Body always found a way to communicate with me – I on the other hand like a tantrum-ing toddler stubbornly and paradoxically kept refusing to so much as lend you my ears.’ We think we are ‘winning’, hiding, or getting away with something when we don’t listen to our bodies… yet, ultimately only fighting ourselves, and always needing to deal with the effect of our choices – no matter how hard we try and avoid them 🙂
Our body never punishes us – but doesn’t allow us to get comfortable in living a life that is so far below the magnificence we are and could be living.
Inspiring in its simplicity, honesty, humility and playfulness. A testament to a wonderful writer Dragana Brown and her commitment to truth.
So many ways we inflict harm upon our bodies then expect it to endure and continue with our next abuse. But this is to negate the very thing that can support us, hold us and guide us back to the truth of who we truly are. What if we gave it a chance and honoured our body and our being, what if this could awaken within us a remembering of the true fire that burns within constantly, the light that can never be sullied or dimmed but remains eternally pure as from the one source of Divinity we are all from.
One of the most beautiful experiences that is there within everyone to feel is the experience of our own bodies resonating with the vibration of our own voices expressing truth… this is such a profound experience that can be started simply by starting to listen to our bodies and what they have to say.
Love your opening line Dragana, ‘ There has been no other like you who has stuck with me through thick and thin, never to give up on me, yet ironically the very one I had used and abused like I would no other!’ We need to fully admit the truth in this and care and nurture this amazing vehicle of expression , our body.
This blog oozes responsibility without a grain of redeeming or self bashing. Just simple and clear, truth and facts about where we are or have been in our relationship with our gift of the body.
In the end the quality of our life depends on the kind of relationship we have to our body, to others and to the planet. We own nothing, not our body, not our children, not our so-called ideas. The particles of the body belong to Heaven and are here to support us on our way back home, and so there is only one reason why we would trash them, and that is to delay us going home. And who, pray, wants to do that? The little creator of this rogue creation that we live in.
This letter is a precious gem. Amidst all the normalisation of bashing, lashing and abusing our most precious companion, this letter exposes the devastation of what we choose to do to ourselves, treating our bodies as functional fodder so often perceived as an inconvenience in the way of what we want to go out and do.
Being aware that there is a bigger purpose for our lives allows us to connect deeply with the quality of love within us, the more we confirm and accept this the more flow and simplicity is offered in every way possible.
Dear Body, I am making a loving choice to reconnect to my essence or soul, and as “I get given a wonder (you, the body) that does not belong to me, but whose particles belong to the Universe, to love, to cherish and to behold and what do I do with it? I abuse it. Let’s call it for what it truly is – An ultimate in Arrogance”.
Humbly I share that the will of God shall be my choice to reconnect to in every way to the best of my ability, so that my arrogant spirit can feel the love through the particles of my body and that I reconnect with the love that is my soul.
Dear Body of Dragana, thank you so much for supporting her all along the way so she made it to meet me. You both together are a true power couple and a inspiration for everyone who meets you. So I am thankful for that. As you are connected to the Universe you must know also my body, which is also connected to it and very faithful to me, like you are to Dragana. Your indestructible connection to true love is what will bring us humans together again and reflects us on the way back to the stars our choices which supports and not supports us here. Thank you buddies. Very well done.
An inspirational piece of writing that brought me up short and showed me how i have only been paying lip service to my claim to be listening to and loving my body. I love the fact that it is not mine to own, but gifted to me to live my Divine purpose in this life. That makes me so much more responsible for listening and caring for it.
“I get given a wonder (you, the body)……to love, to cherish and to behold” A union/marriage like no other, right here, right now.
Our bodies do love all the modalities that have been brought through by Serge Benhayon. they get a chance, at last, to align to the energy of the `Divine’ and to feel their true potential.
Each word written echoes around the universe. We all have a choice.
Since attending presentations by Serge Benhayon, it has been possible to make different choices by listening to the wisdom delivered from my body. It has been like a constant drip of water on rock, eroding away the hardness and protection that had been constructed over a very long time.
The more I chat and listen to my body the more it has to say… it is an incredible guide and font of wisdom and what I really love is that it is not a relationship that goes on in my head, there is no guessing or complicated mental processing… it simply is.
I am also remembering that in meeting Serge Benhayon for the first time my body completely surrendered or can I say melted in the presence of this man. I can describe it as a coming home, back to a state of being for my body it naturally is designed to.
The laws of the universe are perfectly synchronised the vast amazingness of this face never ceases to amaze me.
Respecting and honouring our body is also not about putting it up as a trophy of accomplishment, as I did as a sports man, fitness trainer and Yoga teacher. Look how I can score goals, run it ragged and contort it into knots. Thanks to Serge Benhayon, I have learned that true respect and honouring of the body means connecting to it with mind becoming simply receptive, able to listen as Dragana has well described and then understood what our bodies truly represent through the divine spark that offers a level of wisdom, care and tenderness communicated I never have before known is possible.
What you so beautifully and playfully bring to our attention here is, that our bodies know what is good for them and that they show us often in a very direct way and sometimes in a more subtle way, but they communicate with us constantly.
Our body is pure love, it is made of the particles of the universe and belongs to God. And though we mistreat it and abuse it and lack respect for it, our body never ever judges us for it, it simply does its best given the circumstances and then has to purge or spend time healing the offloading we have proceeded to hand to it from our reckless behaviour. But so too can this be reversed and we can spend time loving up the body, appreciating it, honouring its every call, and when we do that, we are actually developing a relationship with God, with the universe, a relationship that is one of respect, care, love, and dedication. And this latter needs to be our focus, in order to get us out of this huge mess that we have created for ourselves.
‘You dear Body always found a way to communicate with me – I on the other hand like a tantrum-ing toddler stubbornly and paradoxically kept refusing to so much as lend you my ears.’ It’s hilarious that we resist what our body is showing us is needed – when at the end of the day, we will need to live in and with the body of our choices.
Our bodies are divine, for if we look after them lovingly they can reflect and be the vehicles for the grandness of the universe.
‘There has been no other like you who has stuck with me through thick and thin, never to give up on me, yet ironically the very one I had used and abused like I would no other!’ This one sentence says so much as when I stop and feel for a moment the abuse I give to my body, both mentally and physically and ask myself what would this look like if I were to do this to another, I feel an overwhelming sense of sadness at the reality of this. It is like, I will continue to use and abuse my body until the day it says ‘enough is enough’ and I get sick with a life threatening illness or disease.
Never-ending Love is the relationship that is always on on offer with our body.
Developing a loving relationship with ourselves is well worth it – it is this loving foundation that we will then bring to all relationships.
“Of course you always KNEW what you needed. You even knew what I needed too.” it is amazing to feel this about our bodies if we let it communicate with us and respond to what is felt!
A beautiful letter, that captures exactly how our body is the doorway to the light of our soul
This is beautiful and how our bodies are not actually ours but merely a vehicle to in-house our Soul. To know God and that we are Son then we hold just the same quality and equal amount of responsibility to reflect all of who we are. Stopping and understanding this is amazing, to act with such enormity and not shrink it in any way is another.
It never ceases to amaze me that we as humans abuse our bodies so much, and I know that I am as guilty of this as anyone. There is no other species that abuses itself so, nor has the capacity for self-abuse that humans have. I find this almost unfathomable that we humans see ourselves as the most advanced and intelligent of all species, yet we continue to make choices that will actually harm our bodies. There is so much we have yet to learn.
The teachings by Serge Benhayon on our connection to the body is unique as far as my experience is concerned. The fact that we need to honour and care for our bodies, listen to them, and totally re-connect living in the presence of that body, is the key, crucial and vital factor for us being able to come back to who we truly are. Without this connection we are lost in ideals, ideas, beliefs, images of life, and consciousnesses – ever going around and around our axis and the sun, choosing the same-old, same-old, day in day out, and never evolving. This teaching was missing from all the ‘new age’ type things I looked at and explored for a while. This connection to the body brings in the vital living principle of life, the livingness . . . and re-connects us to multi-dimensionality.
Absolutely Lyndy, so much of what Serge Benhayon presents is ‘unique’ because love is always the only constituent!
I have put my body thorough so much from a very young age: massive amounts of drugs, alcohol, anorexia, bulimia, bouts of raw food, junk food, intense fasting, ridiculous exercise regimes and much more. Now at 58 years old my body has bounced back after taking care of it for the last 10 years. Our bodies are extremely forgiving and resilient and I am now so very appreciative of my beautiful body. I now release that my body needs to be cared for, so as to be able to be the vehicle of expression that its true purpose is.
Ditto, Mary-Louise, self abuse used to be my middle name until I started to listen to my body. After life times of abuse I am slowly eradicating the sneaky back door tactics of my wayward spirit, so I am starting to rejoice in the ‘union of body and soul’!
Listening to and loving my body have become normal for me.
Thank you Dragana for a reminder that my body particles, (our body) belongs to the Universe and in that there is a huge responsibility if you ask me.
We each have a job to do to not poison or disturb our grand universe that is supporting us in every way to evolve. Nothing more and nothing less.
My BSB (Before Serge Benhayon) was a deeply disregarding, abusive and harmfull way of living for my body. I don’t feel great about the choices I have made in this life up until that point which was 11 years ago. Whilst I cannot erase it, I can now choose to live in a way that holds deep care, regard and love for my body and I do this with the best intention to ensure I do not harm me or others. No perfection ever needed but a way of living that truly supports this precious body I have been given.
Finally I have come to realise how precious my body is and how out of whack I was living in the past.
THANK GOD FOR SERGE BENHAYON is all I can say now.
This is a sharing which reawakens the depth of love our body is holding. To truly appreciate this depth, this natural tender way of our body to communicate with us is the way for me to build step by step a deeper loving relationship with my body. And like you share, Dragana, the particles in my body belong to the universe. Looking to my body from this angle the abuse in overriding and not listening to my body sticks out even more and pulls me up to listen more refined to what my body has t o tell. And one thing I always experience, in listening to my body there is so much more joy and love in my life.
Great way round of looking at it, our body forcing us to sleep, be sick and recuperate after drinking alcohol, a whole other way of considering what we choose to do to our bodies and how our bodies respond to support us.
Every time I pull up this blog I cannot get past your sexy but!!!
A testimony to the unwavering love and care our bodies holds us with. An inspiration to honour this. Thank you, Dragana.
It is quite touching reading this letter. If any human friend was treated like thus, it is unlikely they would have put up with it. We have the most loyal, loving and dedicated friend in the form of our body that never gives up on us. To top it all it is far more steady, reliable and wise than the brain which we put so much faith in. The question is, like so many other areas in life do we wait until we no longer have access to the gifts offered us before we start to appreciate it?
Dragana, love this sharing! Our bodies deserve so much more than most of us have given them, such as respect, nurturing, harmony and especially Love.
Our body speaks to us all the time, if only we took the time to listen to it, then maybe the rates of illness and disease would not be so high. Thank you Dragana for sharing your letter to your body, and I am sure that many of us could add our own letters and together they would make rather a large and revealing book!
“No other kind would do this. And yet we (I) call ourselves an intelligent species” we really are living such a crazy messed up way that we actually pride ourselves with our intelligence reigning ourselves as superior to animals and nature because we can add up with a pencil. Geez it beggars belief that we survive considering how badly we treat ourselves and each other.
This is such an honest expose of your behaviours Nikki that you use to cover up the true you. Thank you for your honesty. It reveals much about my own life and choices.
A wonderful, honest and greatly expressed ode to the body.
So very beautifully and tenderly written with the tenderness our bodies long for.
Thank you Dragana for reminding me how clearly our bodies reflect the choices we make if we take notice.
Love this Dragana, it really brings home the responsibility we have with the abuse we give our body. When realising we are part of the universe and not a single unit .. firstly how utterly amazing this is to be connected to all things universally and secondly yes the responsibility, that each and every body needs deep and utmost care taken of it. Like you my light bulb moment was when I met Serge Benhayon for the first time that tingling and knowing in my body, a life changing moment meeting truth and love.
Fascinating to consider the battle we wage against our own body. It makes little logical sense, yet is one that is fought ever day, until such time that we choose to care for it and appreciate the wisdom that it offers.
Ditto, Leonne, I have come a long way from when I first heard about being at least self-loving to my body and I still have a way to go to fully claim all of who I am. As Dragana states, ‘one soul’, my soul our soul!
Thank God I took my body out of a tumultuous debacle I called life. I have also discovered the truth as Dragana has exposed so lovingly.
Reading this really makes one stop and consider the deep deep harm we perpetrate upon ourselves, and encourage others to do so too.. and the deeper consideration of exactly why we continue to do so until the point of serious pain and suffering? . . and the more honestly we consider this, the deeper understanding of what we are trying to avoid starts to become clear. Arrogance and prideful defence have never got us anywhere but more of the same suffering… yet we have a way now to connect to our body, let that all go, and surrender to the truth that lies within.
This is such a powerful and exposing letter. I know that I have abused my body over the years and this letter helps to expose how ridiculous this abuse is. The body we have been given this life is precious and I am committing to developing an ever deepening care for my body.
It’s incredible to feel how our bodies are here to serve a greater purpose for all. There is a huge responsibility with that in all we do, say, move, eat, dress, wash, exercise – everything. As it’s for all not just us.
Your letter is so revealing in the level of arrogance that we have when it comes to taking care of our bodies. I love how you have addressed this and made it so clear that is us, and only us who inflict so much pain and illness onto ourselves through our daily choices. It is a great wake up call for us all to really begin to take notice of the signs and signals that we are being sent, and to listen to those feelings that emerge from inside, which we so often dismiss as being there for no apparent reason, but actually are absolutley there to be listened to and acted on.
You describe so beautifully how illogical we live and still keep on going. An invitation to stop, reflect and start appreciating our body.
‘…remembering all the harm I had inflicted upon you, and yet you never held any grudges. Not even as much as a raised eyebrow ;-)…’ I find this totally amazing – when I think about having the conversation with my body about the absolute abuse I have put it through I would expect some backlash from it because I place human qualities on it but I really know this would not be the case as our bodies are universal and so respond to universal laws and judgement is not one of them.
Love how eloquently you’ve put this Michael: our bodies are universal and so respond to universal laws and judgement is not one of them. Gem.
I am really getting to understand from this blog the level of hypocrisy that I have lived with also in my live at the total expense of my body and how I left it functioning. So when you are introduced to another way of living that actually stops all the hypocrisy and allows you to make the choices to support, honour and love your body things start to change dramatically. Waking up and feeling vital and with an enthusiasm for life is such a refreshing way to be that once you start you don’t want to stop. Serge Benhayon presents that Life is Medicine, from the living choices I have made I stand here in complete agreement. The responsibility of every choice we make is the make up of our bodies and what they present back.
Great call Dragana – I love the fact that the body is something that belongs to the universe and is hence something to honour, cherish and treat in a way that actually honours the universe. In that way living Life becomes a scientific excursion, a joyful and exploring one.
Great blog Dragana, I loved your words ‘You could tell that almost constant abuse I had subjected you to was about to cease, and how could you not smile and sparkle in celebration of that fact. You knew the time had cometh when I’d clock that you were given to me to serve a much greater purpose, and for that I had to keep you sacred and to keep you in stillness so that you and I could live and reflect the Divine on Earth.’ When we understand the purpose of the bigger picture, we can only treat our body with the greatest love and tenderness to ensure that we are ready and able to serve.
I used to get cross or frustrated by how my body would have symptoms because I wasn’t taking any responsibility for what I was doing to it. The acne I had from early teens up to my 30s was hormonal but it was also linked to dairy. As soon as I stopped having dairy, viola, my skin improved (as did my menstrual cycle). So how our body shows us that something needs looking at is such a blessing. Much like a car will break down, rattle or not perform as well as it could when it isn’t maintained and looked after.
It is true that we have an arrogance towards the body – one in which we feel we don’t need to listen until it’s too late. This blog shows how we all have the oppprtunity to listen and start to ask ourselves – how am I truly treating myself and would I be this way towards a baby? We have a responsibility more than ever before to at least be honest with our choices.
“I get given a wonder (you, the body) that does not belong to me, but whose particles belong to the Universe, to love, to cherish and to behold and what do I do with it? I abuse it. Let’s call it for what it truly is – An ultimate in Arrogance.” This really hits home for me. I walk around thinking my body is mine to do with as I please – no-one else’s business but my own and yet I am not am not an owner, I am a custodian, a guardian of a living miracle of nature – every particle a reflection of the divine design of the universe. I’m getting an image of my cells a neurons being constellations within the universe(s) which is leaving me breathless with its mastery of the body it is held within. All except my mind, my will – that I need to master and bring will and body together as one.
‘I did like the feel of Serge at first sight too, but you… You loved him. No. You Adored him. You sensed that everything about your treatment was about to change to how you and the stars had always known it to be.’ Yes I remember this exactly too, how my body so loved Serge’s hands on my wings, on my heart on my lower back. My body was being systematically freed from all the impositions that I had allowed and was fast melting into something glorious instead of something afflicted. It was instant return to our natural beauty and connection with the universe.
Dragana what comes through really clearly is the fact that our body is there to be treasured and lovingly taken care of not simply something that we use to further our minds pursuit. There is no doubt that when I listen to what my body is saying I feel far more confident in life and at ease being myself. Amazing to consider just how I’d neglected my body in the past though.
I sometimes wonder if Responsibility could go in a pill form would we take it 3 x per day or would it be the one medication we’d keep our mouth sealed for?
Great question Dragana, Responsibility seems to be thought upon as a bitter pill when, is it in truth it is the very remedy the body is crying out for? The elixir of life. What if it were to be prescribed as an intravenous drip 24/7? 🙂
Indeed Jeanette…. where I was raised there was/is a saying: his/her liver got completely consumed (eaten up) by his/her anger, meaning anger is a poison for the liver!
Good point Nicola. The way I see and feel about it – as long as we are moving in the right direction ie “imperfect but correct” (to quote Serge Benhayon) there will be evolution and so the ‘never’ here is about being ‘blissfully unaware’ rather than perfection
I laughed when I read this Dragana, having once walked 55km in one day across a desert was thinking how my feet were killing me… when the truth came back to me quite clearly – actually I was killing my feet. That was the first inkling that i was a willing party in the constant daily abuse of my body – not through drugs and alcohol, but constant stress, sugar, worry and anxiousness, adventuring and driving my body much harder than it could deal with. Now I am living with the consequences of that lifestyle but through the simple choice of living in a way that is honouring my body and connecting to its true purpose as an instrument of the Divine, (as is for all of us) there is now awakening a true vitality, true power and life energy that is unmatchable by anything the world of illusion can conjure up.
And I went: geeze Annie – a 55km walk in one day across a desert! (nice and shady 😉 But you reminded me of an interesting habit we’ve got and the phrases we have so nonchalantly adopted to describe (blame) the state of our body – my feet are killing me, my head’s (headache) driving me crazy, my period is a nuisance/inconvenience, my cough’s a pain in the neck, my exhaustion is a pain in the butt ,….where all along it’s the other way round!
Your body is certainly communicating your gorgeous sexy butt.
Another great blog Dragana. I can certainly attest to being a culprit of ignoring all signals from my body until I met Serge Benhayon. It was only then did I understand that our body is a vehicle of expression that I need to honour and take pristine care of as to be able to house my soul and allow only the energy of the hierarchy to pass through. With this knowing I am paying loads more attention to its messages and we are getting on much better since I have stopped poisoning it with my disregard.
There could not be a more important responsibility than being the vehicle through which my soul expresses. So I have a body and a soul. Who then am I, this voice, but a representation of my soulful expression OR that which is a representation of the self willed, self identified choice that at present, shuns the soul.
My body was definitely high fiving the day I met Serge Benhayon, its delight so evident, fueled by the fact that I had listened to its very loud whisper several months before and made the choice to make this meeting happen. And I know that its delight was also because it knew before I did that I was about to return to a way of living that I had left many lives ago, but was so very ready to return to.
We often get frustrated or annoyed that our body does not perform as we would want, especially when nursing a hangover, yet we are the ones responsible for how our body is by the choices we make.
I keep coming back to read this blog as it is so deeply felt, I know that I have not held my body in a loving, supportive way a lot of my life, negating what it has shown me, turning this around and loving our body, listening to what it says can be deeply transformational.
This blog is a gem, to read again and again. The love and appreciation pours forth after each read. My body has endured much in the past 60 years being at my mercy, emotionally, physically and psychologically. Thank God for Serge Benhayon showing us another way, and thank you Dragana for such an insightful blog.
Thankyou Kathleen.
Wow Dragana there is nothing to add as you said it all in your delicious love letter – “That you were given to me merely as a vehicle for the one and only registered, responsible and fully comprehensively insured driver – my Soul.” That is really something most of us has to ponder on!
The cycles of abuse and neglect for my body definitely have had an impact in the way I am in the world and with people. The more I can let go and allow myself to be the Love that I am the more I get to feel how amazing my body is.
One can live life and travel the world searching for that ‘something’ that makes them feel complete and whole, and yet this ‘something’ is right under our nose, our body. There becomes no way one can disregard their body once that ‘something’ (soul) is felt through reconnecting to it.
As Serge Benhayon says in his book, An Open Letter to Humanity, p 581 …. ‘Our body is the marker of all truth – it responds very honestly to what we put into it and how we treat it.’
Love your multi-dimensional way of seeing and writing Dragana. All systems are interconnected and consist of inter-relationship – something we rarely consider in our reactive, impetuous way of living. I can relate to every rage-ful frustrated thing you say in the following passage, and how these reactions are in fact the very damaging factor that is destabilising the technological networks that we have built ‘out there’: ‘I’d slam doors, fist the desk, threaten to boomerang my electronic device through the window and get seriously annoyed with internet service providers when I could not connect to send or receive emails; yet I would not even blink once in consideration when pouring coffee/caffeine down your throat causing chaos within your web of nerves and giving shock to your nervous system. Go figure! A Hypocrite as well’.
Oh Dragana how beautiful and revealing at the same time. The maltreatment of our bodies as such is us been abusive to ourselves. As you pointed out, our bodies never judge us, only being but our most loyal friend, this is gold.
Our bodies have a purpose, a designed purpose as you have said ‘That you were given to me merely as a vehicle for the one and only registered, responsible and fully comprehensively insured driver – my Soul.
When i take it to this level, i feel a whole new level of responsibility to my body!
I like you, when even considered this until met Serge Benhayon and as you said, when i met a body of truth, my relationship wiht my body changed forever!
Yes I agree Karoline. This ‘That you were given to me merely as a vehicle for the one and only registered, responsible and fully comprehensively insured driver – my Soul.’ . . . brings a whole new level of responsibility to how I see and feel about my body too and it completely takes the ‘i’ out of the equation. It makes one consider that treating our body well is for a greater purpose and it’s not about the ‘little me’ who looks at things like I’m missing out on the ‘chocolate cake’ things in life so to speak. For the All and because we are precious not for the indulgent I.
Above all else this is what we all want yet play ball with the desires of the spirit “I would have loved to have written this letter to you as “our body” for that is how it truly is, but how could I make such a claim when all I had done for aeons had been the antithesis of ‘our’ – a union of body and Soul – and the responsibility this sweet word commands.”
The absolute (!!) magnificence of our body and how much it cares about and loves us is incredible. I couldn’t have described it better in words. Thank you Dragana, I feel like you’re sharing on my behalf. The more loving I am with my body, the more my body responds with love. Amazing and also quiet logic and natural. Nevertheless, not the experience (yet) of the majority living on our earth. Sadly so.
It’s incredible what the body can endure but eventually it gives way and after we have ignored so many signs shouts at us much more loudly to stop.
Thank you Dragana for being all that you are and writing so honestly about your body – to your body. A greater science for us to understand that all choices effect our bodies and that we can either harm or heal our body by our choices as Serge Benhayon has presented and Myself have felt. To be aware of this again asks us to be way more responsible and act on it too. Thank God for Serge Benhayon for taking that responsibility and now for us to take it, the whole of humanity, so that we can expand our awareness and walk forth..
Thank you Dragana for this in depth observation of your body. It brings to the fore what a magnificent instrument/vehicle we are all blessed with.
Amazingly honest and open letter Dragana. This exposes the lack of love that most of us have for our bodies and questions the so called intelligence of humans in our abuse of the vehicle that is to carry us through this life.
There is no way I would feed an animal all the toxins I have put into my body, it would be classed as abuse and rightly so but I would happily fill this body with poison and call it entertainment in order to justify my choice.
My body certainly knew something extraordinary had happened when I met Serge Benhayon for my first healing session. I had been fighting with my body for some time over its need for meat and my stubborn desire to be a vegetarian. After the session and without a word spoken about food, I went straight to buy some chicken. I had known for so long that I needed to start eating meat again but meeting Serge gave my body a loud and clear voice that I had to listen to. This humbling experience was the beginning of reorienting my focus away from my arrogant mind and back to my endlessly loving and wise body.
Hello Dragana and we could all write a similar letter to our body. When you have done it you can see how many things just don’t make sense and in fact go against ourselves. You could almost take the letter as a report to a Government agencies and have yourself investigated for some type of abuse, to yourself? If you were afraid that you would find out that it was you that reported yourself you could send it in anonymously or sign it off in a different name. I know that sounds ridiculous and so is the fact of what we choose to do to ourselves, thank you Dragana for the letter and exposure.
I found this blog very touching, as I too have used and abused my body and can still have that incredibly unintelligent arrogance. Our bodies so beautifully reflect how steady, patient and unconditional love can be.
Yes our body is truly precious and does know everything that we need to know – what a joy to know this again! My body knows very well what is good for it and I am learning to listen to it instead of running my feet sore to be liked and please all the ideals and believes that I took on and are around in society to live up to.
The union of body and soul is what we are all here for. Everything we choose is either supporting this or denying this.
lovely experience Alexis and the stark difference when a decision comes from the body not the head – easy.
love the photo too… oh, and the photographer 🙂
AND Thankyou Liane x
yet how many of us would consider everything that the body is showing us as an “example of pure and committed love” (love the expression), which of course it is Sara
looking around, reading daily news… it would appear that not only should we all be spending more time in the self-love closet but that it ought to be compulsory
wasn’t that hard Sarah 😉 You have put it very beautifully and eloquently – thankyou
When we look around at the relationships many of us have, there’s a tendency to push and test the person we are with, that we call our lover. Will they put up with this? Will they accept this excuse in place of the truth? Makes perfect sense though when you consider how we all are with our bodies. Because as your words beautifully show Dragana we are constantly rejecting and fighting against the very friend who is here with us for life. What would all of these relationships be like if we committed to making them about harmony and light?
Ooh, now that you put it the right way Sandra (“it’s not a hangover, it’s alcohol poisoning”) it changes the game completely. We have deliberately moved the bar so the alcohol poisoning is when one has 8 beers, a bottle of wine and 1/2 bottle of scotch in one evening, but a glass of chilled white is not poisoning – we call that being ‘sophisticated’. A change in language is called for indeed. We should be having these conversations with our medics – imagine a patient walks in and says: I have a hangover and the Dr says, my diagnosis is you have alcohol poisoning! There is an ouch moment. Very different.
‘Of course you always KNEW what you needed. You even knew what I needed too.’ – The more I have learnt to listen to the constant signals and communication from my body, the more I get to understand that our true intelligence is found in our bodies and not at all in the mind. Just look where the mind got us in the first place.
how fooled have we been to think that love lives elsewhere!
“delicate” describes the body so well Elizabeth
Good point
He/she who dares knows true love 🙂
Countless are those who have much to thank Serge Benhayon for… Time sure will tell….
and we then don’t like it when the body chooses the only choice we offer!
Brilliant analogy Steve – the easiest job spec yet poor delivery!
beautifully put Henrietta: “our body is our bridge to God” Who would have thought given the (mis)treatment 😦
I know the feeling you are describing Denise
“Collectively we have the power to again live in union, and this is our true purpose.” Agree Victoria
as does the power of your voice Carola…. thank You!
thank you Sandra
don’t know if you’ve ever seen Faulty Towers, a British sitcom with John Cleese as the main character. There is an episode where he is meant to take his car for some fine tuning but procrastinates and as a result the car breaks down in the street in the middle of a very important dinner at his hotel where he is actually supposed to deliver guests’ food. He ends up beating his car and unleashes all his anger, fury and blame on the car. Great reflection about our hypocrisy of reaction
shudder is a great description – brrrrrr and yes the ‘rebellious’ side (at our own expense of course) comes from that ultimate in arrogance attitude that somehow we are ‘untouchable’. That is until a disease/pain/illness show us that it is not so
love that “a classic example of shooting the messenger”
If it weren’t crazy it would have been funny
In answer to the questions around what we consume being healthy for us or not, we only need ask our bodies. For example, if we were to ask our livers and kidneys if alcohol were good for us, the answer would be pretty plain!
Reading this blog does make me question how we allow ‘whole’ health to be such a one-sided show with the body being taken so much for granted – this blog has exposed the ignorance and the arrogance of the spirit or mind in it’s disregard. Our body is amazing and all of the Divine Wisdom you have claimed – thanks Dragana.
If we each reflect on our bodies every loving whisper, gesture and revelation we will arrive at an endlessly consistent expression of love since the moment we were born.
Our bodies put up with a lot from us, they also give us messages constantly should we choose to listen.
I am super thankful that I have also had the experience of meeting and getting to know Serge Benhayon and from his living example, waking up to the magic of my own body, our bodies and its/their innate wisdom.
Realising the love and support our bodies give us and that our particles we are made of are parts of the particles of the universe makes sense can be felt by us inside and is beautiful to claim and appreciate, thank you Dragana for this beautiful insight and offering .It is so welcome in times when our bodies are crying out to be listened to patiently and loved by ourselves and honoured tenderly to be in union with our soul as our very livingness.
‘Remember when you ended up in an emergency hospital with a vitamin B12 injection because your heart nearly packed up? Just because I had long and hard hung onto my ‘vegetarian’ badge, deeply steeped in the belief that ‘meat was murder’ all whilst you craved meat and needed it to eat. Of course you always KNEW what you needed. You even knew what I needed too.’ Oh yes Dragana, we have all had some mad beliefs or idea about life that bore no relation to what the body actually needs, yet we imposed them upon the body, simply to protect a hurt that we had. Thank Heavens for Serge Benhayon’s presentations which has helped us become aware of and deal with our hurt so that our bodies are not consumed by our madnesses.
It makes absolute sense that we take the possible greatest care of our vehicle of expression, which is our body.
“You my dearest Body knew what a body of Truth (Serge Benhayon) felt like when you met one. High five!” Everything in me felt the same, Dragana on my first meeting with Serge Benhayon! High five to me too! I also sensed at the time everything about my “treatment was about to change to how I and the stars had always known it to be.” My meeting with Serge Benhayon was profound and straightforward at the same time.
When I first met Serge Benhayon it was like nothing else I had ever experienced before, as I could feel my particles responding to what I later realised was Love. There comes a time when we must accept that the body knows. It knows because it is a part of God, so all we have to do is listen to it.
There is nothing that stands by us like our bodies, or that forgives us so easily when we finally choose to love them. How can we ignore and abuse such immense love that once honoured rewards us with vitality, wellness and joy? What are we choosing to really miss out on, “getting out of our heads” or feeling like a bright spring day everyday of our lives?
People that mistreat an animal can be jailed for cruelty, but when we do the same to ourselves its called lifestyle.
great call Steve. There is something very skewed here – – that we can be loving animals more than ourselves
” ….. of course you always knew what you needed”. Our bodies do know what we need, as you say, and are constantly giving us signals, but do we pay attention? Sometimes it takes a big medical crisis for us to ‘wake up’ and make different lifestyle choices. However I have noticed that often when the drama is over and a cure has occurred many slip back into old habits. Why are we then surprised that the medical problem reoccurrs.
It is time we all took a deeper look at what we have been doing to our bodies Dragana as you have done!
Gees this is amazing. I can just see it being preformed like a piece from Shakespeare. How often do we forget how important our bodies are and what they mean for ourselves – and in that, others as well
let’s take it to the world stage then Emily!
Having read this article yesterday morning my whole day was touched with an active dialogue with my body. Inspired by your letter, Dragana, and all that my body has to say. Thank you both!
You are right Dragana – it is like the body knew the truth of the enormity of what Serge reflected instantaneously… yet it took our arrogant selves a bit more time to catch up, and truly begin to listen to what our bodies have been sharing with us all along… that we are indeed precious and respond to being treated as such.
Dragana – yes your body is amazing for it’s forgiveness…but so are you amazing for your courage and humility to accept your erroneous ways and to ask for that forgiveness. Admiration and inspiration of you for that.
“willingly and consciously” – which is in fact a beautiful invitation, because it is absolutely the fact that we know precisely how to abuse our body and therefore, by definition, we also know precisely how to care for it. Which means that it is nothing more complicated than a choice.
Reading your blog is like reading a letter to your best friend ever…and in a grander scope of things, that is actually what type of relationship our body has with us. Once this is clocked and realised that the body is there to provide, serve and love you back, it makes the activity of ‘self care’ and ‘self love’ all the more purposeful as a way to love the body back.
Knowing that the body and the way we treat, respect, honour it through hearing and listening to its communication, is the way back to soul…and indeed is like finding water in an arid desert. It took me ages, years to find the waters of bodily-respect again, thanks to the galactic reflection of Serge Benhayon – no desert mirage, but rather the solid truth of an a much cherished oasis.
Thank you Dragana for a brilliant ode to our amazing body. It contends with so much , all that we put in it…. and how we drive it , and we expect it to run like a dream …well, what a dreamland we are in!
A great message Bryony Inge about the purpose of the body that is far from how we chose to support it in the truest sense. A humbling piece of writing that so far has read volumes in my body.
Dear body, so sorry that I still continue to abuse you even after all that I have learnt. I really do need to put you as more important than work, children, and everything else because without you I am no good for any of the things that need to be done.
It is remarkable how much we ignore the signs and symptoms that our bodies send us. There is such an irony here – we complain when we are ill or have a pain or injury, but then when we feel ‘good’ we indulge in things that make us feel bad. It begs the question, what is it that we are listening to when we make these choices? If it was a message from our bodies we wouldn’t do such things, so could it be that these messages are coming from somewhere outside of us, tempting us to choose things that will knowingly keep us feeling that we are not enough, and that we need to prove ourselves before we are totally accepted for being who we are.
It is incredible what our bodies manage to cope with and all that they do to process the ills that we put into them! Worth considering working with all that intelligence and wisdom rather than against it…
A tender, loving relationship with our own body has the power to change the world, to set humanity on a very different course than what it is heading towards today. A loving relationship with our bodies heralds a loving relationship with ourselves and all our brothers. It is the foundation needed for the world to truly change.
When I honour what my body feels it says an enormous thank you.
Does the world not want to sit up and take notice of how our bodies are reacting to the current lifestyle of many people on this planet? Illness, disease and obesity are prevalent, cancer is common place, people are exhausted and anxious. This is not a normal way to live but we seem to have accepted it as such. Our poor bodies are suffering and until we wake up and ask why, then our bodies will continue to suffer and shout louder and louder until we begin to do something about it. When I met Serge Benhayon my body jumped for joy at the recognition that I had met another body that was just like mine, made of pure love, only I had buried that love so deep I couldn’t feel it anymore… so thank you Serge for the reflection and thank-you Dragana for your gorgeous letter to your body, it is one I will take to heart and read often.
This is beautiful Dragana. I still marvel at the degree of abuse that I have inflicted on my body over the years and that there is no way that I would have accepted this abuse if it were another that was doing it to me. Yet when it is self inflicted it seems like it is OK or the abuse is not recognised. It is a lovely reminder that our bodies don’t belong to us but to the universe and that we are the carers for these bodies, this completely changes the way I view ‘my’ body and the care I take of it.
Accountability and responsibility do not seem to be qualities that humanity easily embraces. What a loving patient teacher we have in our bodies, offering us again and again the reflections that can support us return to the loving expression that we are and evolve.
I also felt a massive coming home when I met Serge many years ago now, and every time I listen to him speak and share how his life is and how the universe works my body feels very much at ease with the truths of life. My head on the other hand puts up a terrible fight!
haha, one hard head then 😉
Often we treat our bodies in a way that we would never treat someone else. Ironic isn’t it? The amount of abuse that I have given my body over the years came to a halt when my body delivered me breast cancer several years ago. It was my full stop moment and a gift from my soul to say “Hey isn’t it time you have a look at how you are treating yourself. It is time to stop this abuse and learn how to truly self nurture”. The body holds a deep wisdom that shows us the truth of the choices we have been making. It never leaves us and is always there as a reflection. The more we honour it in all that we do we then feel the beauty of inhabiting it.
Our arrogance is exposed when we get annoyed with our body for being sick, and yet it is us who is not taking care of it, or appreciating that it just may be clearing stuff we have imposed upon it!
“You knew the time had cometh when I’d clock that you were given to me to serve a much greater purpose, and for that I had to keep you sacred and to keep you in stillness so that you and I could live and reflect the Divine on Earth.” – wow, if this was understood from birth how different our lives and our world would be.
There is a wealth of wisdom in this beautiful letter. ” No way this kind of behaviour is practised anywhere else in the Universe.” This line alone speaks volumes. When I look at the stars I see and feel only divine order. When I observe the way I am with my own body and the way we as a human race live I see struggle and chaos. We make movies about enemy alien invasions and yet we are are own worst enemies, wreaking havoc on our bodies and the universe.
ha, funny and so true – who needs aliens to invade and wreck havoc when we are do a pretty ‘good’ job!
Dragana, I could cry reading this. I shall read it again and again. Giving myself permission to really feel how I’ve disregarded my body is huge. The realisation is here already as I feel this every time something that is disregarding happens so strongly.
Dragana, I love this article, it is gorgeous to read how we are made to be united with our bodies, ‘‘our’ – a union of body and Soul’, I too abused my body for years, that is changing now and when I do move in a way that feels gentle, graceful and tender this feels divine and natural – the way my body wants to move, now when I don’t move with this gentleness and grace and move in a hard, jarring way instead it feels very unnatural and painful – it’s very clear when I am in union with my body and when I am not.
The willingness to become humble defines the level of experiencing “our” and “us”.
‘You dear Body always found a way to communicate with me – I on the other hand like a tantrum-ing toddler stubbornly and paradoxically kept refusing to so much as lend you my ears.’ – It is shocking to wake up and realise the gigantic harm we have relentlessly put our bodies through – it is no less than a miracle that the body has survived.
We use and abuse our bodies constantly, yet they belong to the divine scheme of things. And hence we don’t actually get away with any of this abuse, because it all comes back in some way or another, and thankfully so, to reign us back from too much waywardness. Thank you Dragana for this very powerful and lighthearted yet poignant and amazing blog.
In reading your article tonight I feel deeply the level of responsibility you have owned in knowing, without doubt of the divineness that you are. That your body is not something to use for indulgence, but instead there to be honored, loved and respected as the way our world will again remember the beauty from which we all came. Deeply inspiring and a call to consider my own responsibility of living my divineness from within.
“Instead of getting closer to you and being ONE with you my dear Body, I had consciously built a gulf between us.” Dragana, this has been so familiar to me and it was in an Esoteric Healing course that Serge said a few simple words to me that allowed me to recognise my own body and the relationship I was to have with it, that my body was in fact THE only way through which I could know truth. The truth of my innate essence.
What a spectacular blog Dragana, bought tears to my eyes, because I could relate to so much of it. How very much we abuse ourselves and then wonder why our body responds in the way that it does, a very sobering read, I loved it.
thankyou Raegan
In the past, I was deeply irritated when my body attempted to interfere with the lifestyle I was choosing. It never occurred to me that it was trying to help me by slowing me down or making me unwell. If I had listened to the messages from an earlier age, I would have made very different choices. It shows how important it is to build a foundation of love for the body and listen to it from an early age, but later is better than not at all.
A truly stunning article. You, Dragana, have brought through here alone enough for humanity to ponder on for many lifetimes, and if the lesson is heeded social issues such as healthcare, workplace wellbeing and so many others will be a very minute fraction of what they are currently. Thank you for Leading the Way
I love the bit where you apologise. I love it because I know that that apology will be accepted in total grace and fullness by your body – and you will be utterly forgiven. That is how awesome our bodies are. I know that I would find it almost impossible to forgive someone doing to me what I have done to my body. Amazing.
The cutest love letter ever. When’s the wedding?!
oops you must have missed it – it was very private – 101 and a ring… No ocean but the sun, the moon and the stars were there 😉
You mention the gulf between us and our body, Dragana, and I can feel such sadness when I feel this. We have been given a very caring, sensitive and loving friend in our body but many of us have ignored this friendship and the support the body offers us. This letter is such an honouring of the body.
This letter is a letter to all our bodies and the wonder and preciousness that it is. And I deeply appreciate that you have written this letter on behalf of all our bodies.
When I look back at the 65 years and all the things I have done(many of them in disregard of my body), I am amazed at how well my body is still working.
Thank you body for all that you have done. I will be taking much better care of you for the rest of my life.
We often do not consider that our best friend is our body. It took me also to meet Serge Benhayon to realise that in fact I could have a relationship with my body and that the way my body was feeling actually was my body communicating with me. We are always with our body so why not create this deep relationship with it as it comes from the universe and thus has the wisdom of it. Thanks Dragana.
We may wonder where true beauty and majesty come from and claim it to be in nature, the things we do or the way we look. But when a person speaks wisdom from their body, words cannot encapsulate the beauty that is felt. Thank you Dragana
It really is quite atrocious the length of disregard, self abuse and harm we inflict on our bodies. At times I wonder how they still function to take another step. And on the flip side how quick is the healing and restoration process when we commit to self loving and supporting ourselves. Our bodies are amazing.
It was gorgeously visual as I read about the particles. And this had an absolute feeling that no matter what we continue to choose from our mind and even harm our body with – our particles know all and are connected to the all forever bringing us back.
Pure brilliance that only the Soul can deliver Dragana. Thank you. I absolutely love this letter and all it shares.
thankyou Johanna
We do as a race abuse and mistreat our bodies endlessly. This is currently normal and not even recognised as an issue, it is rather seen as something to keep doing, pushing our bodies to the nth degree with extreme sports/ thrills/spills/risks is seen as heroic. Time for change in this area.
Wow Dragana what an amazing great, clear, open and honest and so powerfull piece of writting, sharing, expression. Stunning! I love to feel the clarity and power in your words. Than You. So inspiring! With love Nadine
Thank You Nadine
This was beautiful to read Dragana. Our bodies know everything about everything because it is a part of everything. Particles and energy doesn’t stay static so the belief that our particles stay with our body and never leave or interchange is a convenient perception to avoid feeling our affect on the world and also that the universe, the all that is bigger than we have chosen to focus on, is flowing in and through us.
I adore this blog and will no doubt re-read over and over.
I have cried deeply Dragana at the truth expressed here, and for the abuse and chosen ignorance of my own universal particles, and knowing within me that this body was given to me “to serve a much greater purpose, and for that I had to keep you sacred and to keep you in stillness so that you and I could live and reflect the Divine on Earth”.
Its quite revealing how the choices we make take so long to wear off, that we don’t consider what we are doing may be harming us, for instance drinking alcohol, what drives us to drink it again if we know it doesn’t agree with us?
great question Harry – hence why I examined my own sanity – for no sane, intelligent person could feel foul, dislike how something feels in the body and then go and do it again. Crazy is an understatement
Dragana, what an amazing beauty of writing, and not only words, but body lived experience (that is rich of honesty and self-love). And so we must obey our body, as equally Serge Benhayon has reflected by his own livingness and teachings. There is no such thing as rendering forth without contact to our body and Soul, as if we do we walk on empty trails. I have too walked around like the warrior of my own kind, thinking I could handle life, living in the arrogance and denial (illusion) that I had gone my way and I could do whatever I want.. But , up until that same day I met this other well taken care of body, that even ants would smell, I was shown that self-care must be admitted to further life in balance with the body.. And that the arrogance spirit inside me had a way too long hold and so had I caused much abuse and despair to my own self, my body.. So I came to know that Serge Benhayon once had done so the same, but had changed things around.. And so was I here, right there shown a precious body in front of my face, knowingly I could change too. And so I was inspired, so I did and continue my path now so.. Obey your body in the fullest and truest way.
Glorious, thank you Dragana. Our body is truly the most patient ‘thing’, forever putting up with and putting away what we inflict upon it – until it can’t any longer.
Wow, this is a powerful letter. If we all have conversations like this with our body, how much will we learn? How differently will we treat our body? This letter exposes how common it is that we frequently mistreat, discard and ignore our body. It is the key to discerning truth, yet I know many of us have looked high and low searching for truth, without realising our body is the vehicle to our connection to absolute truth.
Love the eloquent way you have expressed your heart felt apology to your body which feels like it is on behalf of us all. I relate so much to the levels of anger and frustration from my arrogance at expecting my body to carry on regardless whatever abuse I heaped on it and had a wry smile at the analogy of the responsible driver – if we had to take a test before we were allowed loose with our bodies how many would be allowed to take their ‘L’ plates off?!
haha – like it “if we had to take a test before we were allowed loose with our bodies how many would be allowed to take their ‘L’ plates off?!
I am seeing L plates in places where they are not 😉
I love how you’ve written this Dragana – it’s very insightful into the attitude many of us have towards our bodies. It’s easy to say that we love ourselves as we drink a glass of champagne (that’s what I once would have said) but my body has and continues to speak very loudly when I don’t treat it with the preciousness it deserves.
Glorious letter to your body Dragana. Thank you! I said it all to my body too, again! I too treated my beautiful, fine, healthy, strong divine-particled body like a rubbish tip and dumping ground of food, drugs, emotions, illusory beliefs and ideas, and much more. I too am in deepest wonder that my body did all it could to offset the poisoning and damage I did to it and repair itself while I carried on sabotaging it relentlessly, thinking only of my own pleasure and wantonness, not giving a stuff about the body and then cursing it for not standing up to it all – after getting drunk I would have to spend a day, yes a day in bed before I could get up. And then some weeks again later would do it all again. How I have reached the age of 68 with a still healthy body is beyond belief. A huge gift was given to me and the whole world by Serge Benhayon to assist in bringing my body and our bodies back. Incredible to have felt his healing hands revive us from the dead and teach us how to care for, love and respect our precious vehicles.
how SO many of us reach ‘old’ age is a miracle indeed and the proof that this machine (body) has unfathomable endurance… I mean what other species on Earth can down copious amounts of coffee, alcohol, drugs, sugar, emotions, dramas….. and still be around?? I bet it would knock down an elephant in no time!
Only this morning after reading something I reflected on the complete disregard I lived in particularly with my body and drinking alcohol. The U-turn for me as well was having sessions with an Esoteric Healing practitioner that when her hands where on my body I knew that she truly understood about energy and the body and after meeting Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine this no longer became a guessing game or ‘stumbling around in the dark’ but a known and a truth that all I need is within my body and the way back home was through my body and the love I had for it. It is still an ongoing learning but the love for and connection I now have in my body is so much more than it used to be and can be tangibly felt.
the ‘stumbling around in the dark’ image reminded me how much that we do know where the switch for the light is – we just kept stumbling around feeling every other part of the room we know the switch is NOT there – avoiding the unavoidable aka the delay game…
Our heavenly bodies are our soul’s vehicle and yet we treat our own cars with better care and support at times. What you have shared here Dragana is a letter that relates to us all, for we have a body that loves to communicate with us and yet sometimes we choose not to connect to what it shares so openly so.
What an awesome and profoundly felt blog Dragana. Thank you.
I too have overridden the absolute wisdom that my body consistently and lovingly gave, without an instance of holding back. It shows very clearly that our mind is no match for the wisdom and honesty of our body – no matter what we may think. Our body will never lie and never play tricks, which is much more that we can say about the quality of some of the thoughts in our mind.
True Jennifer – the body cannot, in fact does not know how to lie, yet, there is a great big lier occupying the body. We need to teach this lying temporary tenant a lesson or two in Truth!
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Thankyou, Dragana, for the most beautiful and profound letter to your body which brought tears to my eyes and such a feeling of resonance of how I used to treat my body and how much I have grown to love it. I will always treasure your loving words that echo what we all feel.
…tenderness is the way…
So beautiful to read here what is written about ‘The Body’, in this way Dragana. So often the body is treated as an object, an unfeeling, unresponsive object yet here we connect with the truth. Writing from this perspective opens us up to what is on offer – a gift from the universe and a wisdom older than the ages just waiting to be claimed – Thank you.
“My dear body” – these three words contain already a lot for me. Have I considered my body as dear? Have I considered my body as my best friend? Have I treated my body in a way that I know it would love to be treated? Am I taking time to be with my body and listen to what it communicates to me? Have I appreciated my body for the patience, for it’s power and possibility to recover? Have I appreciated my body for the support it offers me in everything that I do / am to do? Am I willing to accept my choices and behaviours away from the body? And finally, do I appreciate myself for having come to a point where I am clear enough to ask these questions. These questions are not the solution, they are just a beginning, an offering of building a different relationship with my own body. Allowing tenderness to be part of me and part of the way I am with my body. And the beauty I feel now and become aware that my body instantly offers me the feel of tenderness back in a physical way. Wow, how interrelated are my choices and how I feel within my body.
Another thing…..the title may be a “letter to my body” but this divine package says everything about OURS!
indeed it does….
“You knew the time had cometh when I’d clock that you were given to me to serve a much greater purpose, and for that I had to keep you sacred and to keep you in stillness so that you and I could live and reflect the Divine on Earth.”
A full bodied HIGH FIVE Dragana…..a letter graced with the inevitability of our equal return.
What a beautiful honest and powerful message to your body for us all Dragana thank you for an amazing sharing. Covering so much depth, truth, and purpose and so relatable to us all . “Being shown the way of union of body and Soul – and the responsibility this sweet word commands.” Serge Benhayon is here for humanity to reflect and reignite the way.
“There has been no other like you who has stuck with me through thick and thin, never to give up on me, yet ironically the very one I had used and abused like I would no other!’ By writing about the body in this way it is very clear you have broken through the consciousness that allows us to abuse our bodies and not think twice about it. There is such an irony that the body’s natural and infinite ability to heal itself is so abused and taken for granted, all whilst we rail at it and hate it for the signs it shows us about our choices! I am learning to really appreciate my body and to love it too and yet there are still times when I try to numb (and therefore abuse) it. Clocking this is so important as I am being shown how I am in resistance to the love my soul and it wants me to live.
A brilliant perspective Dragana to really show in full all the ways in which we think we own and control our bodies with our minds, but how very far we are from understanding that the body is here to support and guide us. I love the way you have written it and it really hits home the extent to which we litter our bodies and expect a happy return. This makes me stop in my tracks and consider my next movement and what is truly loving of the body.
I loved reading each line, in fact my body loved reading each line in full agreement with everything you have shared here. How humbling to stop and reflect on the fact I too would blame my body when it was my body that was loving me.
Our body has always spoken to us and always will. We will always have the chance to listen or to ignore. No matter what age, no matter how low we might go, our body always offers that chance to listen and ultimately choose love first.
A powerful delivery, a powerful message, a powerful reminder that our bodies hold all of the wisdom of the Universe, they are our vehicle back to Soul. Our job is to deeply honour our body, surrender and let it guide us with its innate intelligence.
This is a stop and pay attention blog. A letter I know I could easily have written myself. Very sobering, and it makes me ask the question, ‘why are we so irresponsible with this amazing body made up of particles that belong to the Universe?’
Serge Benahyon did and does help me and so many others to understand my body language. He does not by telling me what my body saying, but by supporting me in becoming aware again.
To truly learn a language the best is to go into the country and talk it with people who are natural speakers. To find a natural speaker of love (that is what the body speaks) these days is not that easy…or it is, when you are willing to learn it. I was willing and the Teacher did find me. Others who are willing to learn the body-language again, the language of love, found me in the shop I work in or wherever, to reconnect again. Who truly seeks is guided by love, because it is love they chose already.
Dragana, this is simply gorgeous and so deeply honouring of your body with the truths you have revealed.
This is very exposing of how we, as a society and humanity, treat the body as some sort of slave to our unloving and abusive choices and then blame it for our woes when it needs to clear the poison we have lived. There is a real call here to take responsibility for our actions and know that our bodies are on OUR sides, and not working against us. It is us who work against the body.
So true. We do blame rather than take responsibility.
The seeming only way to drown out the messages our body gives us when we disregard ourselves and make self-abusive choices is to create a ‘gulf’ between it and us, but even this is powerless and little use as we cannot avoid the voice of something we are with every moment of every day. We can choose to ignore this voice, but never avoid it.
no gulf is big enough, deep enough, long enough to drown the voice that cannot be drowned…
Dragana, this is beautiful, ‘I get given a wonder (you, the body) that does not belong to me, but whose particles belong to the Universe, to love, to cherish and to behold’. Reading this I can feel how abusive I have been to my body and how I have not treated my body with the love and care that it deserves and that it is asking for. No wonder there is so much illness and disease when we treat our bodies in an abusive way.
I wish we had a ‘love’ button for this article – it speaks volumes – for all of us who have disregarded our bodies in similar ways – thank you Dragana, I have tears in my eyes as I recognise the truth you are presenting and the way forward – tenderness, nourishment and love is how we need to treat our bodies, to listen to their smallest messages, to be constantly in union, and not dumping so much junk inside so that they are constantly clearing up the trash and the self abuse with which we live.
I love the way this is written as it really brings home the abuse we put our bodies through by not listening to the communication it constantly offers us.
I agree, Julie, it’s a really cool perspective – and a healing for Dragana no doubt. It would be an awesome exercise for us to all write a ‘Dear Body’ letter.
Ah yes, Dragana, I can totally resonate with all that you say here about meeting Serge Benhayon – an ordinary, humble, family man and worldwide presenter of the Ancient Wisdom Teachings who constantly emanates and reflectsGod back to us as our natural and true way of living. Everything changed in the instant of meeting Serge – there was no longer any need to continue the long-term and fruitless search for a ‘missing piece’ externally to myself.
“You sensed that everything about your treatment was about to change to how you and the stars had always known it to be. You found that One human body that reflected God back to me so that I would know You (my body) is NOT mine to own.
It’s super-interesting how we rail against our bodies when they ‘let us down’. I know I have had the arrogance to feel ‘betrayed’ by my body when I’ve been ill but it’s me who has created the situation by my choices, by my own hand. Is it too extreme to say we should all go down on charges of grievous bodily harm?
What is presented here is so, so true. We owe our bodies so much gratitude. Would we dare to put another human being through what we put our own selves through? Not likely. We are master self-abusers and our bodies tolerate us for a long, long time before they have to let us know that we have to stop.
Thank you Dragana, for giving substance and words to an apology letter to all of our body’s that has been long over do.
Dragana, this is an epistle for humanity that calls us to responsibility and livingness that unites body with soul as is divinely planned. Deep gratitude for this reflection.
What a beautiful reminder to realise the truth that the body holds – it is made up of particles from head to toe and these particles belong to the universe. This sentence exposes just how blind, arrogant and loveless my / our behaviour and choices are that blatantly override and ignore the profound and natural, universal wisdom of the body particles to support its own true wellbeing.
“I get given a wonder (you, the body) that does not belong to me, but whose particles belong to the Universe, to love, to cherish and to behold and what do I do with it? I abuse it. Let’s call it for what it truly is – An ultimate in Arrogance”.
You write for us all Dragana. An honest tender loving letter to yourself and all of us. We are blessed to receive it.
Wow, Dragana I love the style of your writing here. The format makes me stop and deeply consider all my choices and how I treat and have entreated my body like no other. Thanks for bringing the message home in such a beautiful way!
Our body belongs to us all, not just ourselves. A powerful message Dragana. When we, in arrogance, disregard and abuse it we are in effect abusing all every body and when we love it in the most precious of ways, this is what we share with others.
It is so easy to blame the body when it shows signs and symptoms of illness, disease and disharmony. A rather large ‘ouch moment’ when we finally stop and realise the fact that, it has been our irresponsible way of living and continuing to make ill-choices to be functioning rather than living harmoniously, that are the true cause of the illness or disease.
Thank you for sharing your body-journey Dragana. “I get given a wonder (you, the body) that does not belong to me, but whose particles belong to the Universe, to love, to cherish and to behold…..” Yet we so often treat our bodies with such disdain. When we start to love and care for them they feel very different – and so do we.
Dragana, I love this letter to your body with its clarity, humour, playfulness, compassion and awareness throughout.
Thank you Dragana for these loving words dedicated to our precious bodies. An inspiration for our education system. A letter to our own body and the communication with our body on a regular basis would bring a whole lot awareness to how we treat and how to treat our bodies.
Thank you Dragana and yes my body too instantly fell in love with the vibration that Serge Benhayon’s body radiates. It was an instant body knowing, a moment when my body could push aside everything I had imposed upon it and declare loud and clear that this was IT, what this man was saying, doing and feeling is what IT is all about – Immense Love. And now so many people, you and me included are learning to treat our bodies like “a little water in the palm of the hand in a desert”, constantly refining a truly loving relationship that empowers our bodies to glow with radiant health and to amplify the vibrational message of Love that Serge Benhayon perpetually, consistently broadcasts to the benefit of all of us without exception.
These words are awesome in their simplicity and truth “We are All part of the Universe, hence the Universe is part of us too.” I can feel I am part of the universe as do my particles. My body is and does feel and correspond with the universe.Bigger picture, we are all part of the whole.
This is so true Dragana, how we abuse the body but it stays with us, continuing to look after us as best it can, while we continue to put harmful substances into the fuel tank. We are given the freedom to make those choices, it is great to see this so clearly and observe the difference of how the body feels when we look after ourselves more. It jumps for joy.
Thank you Dragana for writing the love letter of apology that is for us all.
Beautiful Dragana. “you were given to me to serve a much greater purpose, and for that I had to keep you sacred and to keep you in stillness so that you and I could live and reflect the Divine on Earth.” It is our responsibility to care for the particles of our physical body to reflect the unbounded love of the Universe.
You write for us all here in your letter to your body Dragana. I consistenly abused and neglected my body and chose to check out for many years. The turning point that brought me back was meeting Serge Benhayon, just as you have described here. I feel blessed and thank my body for taking me to Somerset and to the first 10 days I spent there participating in the courses by Serge. Those 10 days changed my life.
Music to the ears, tears of joy, nods of wisdom… all of this in reading this glorious blog from my body to yours.
Ahh, to feel the sweet love in your words Dragana and the precious regard you hold your body in today is very inspiring. A very different approach to look at your body and not only consider it but actually listening to it.