Some years ago, in the course of my work in Oncology, I went to see a young person who had just had major surgery around the abdominal area. For some reason the skin had not been closed over the site and a large bandage was in place.
“Would you like to see?” said the young person enthusiastically, gently lifting back the bandage for a brief few seconds.
An astounding sight met me, particularly the colours and the beautiful symmetry of the working organs. There was a creamy white, a dark, rosy but shocking pink, a lavender brown and a mild, milky grey, all nestled together like pebbles that had fallen next to each other on a beach. So still, yet with a purpose towards the larger body, sustaining it to move, to laugh, to live.
As I looked, TRUTH sent a direct ‘snapshot’ from their body to mine: I will try to paint in words what I felt, and saw, in my body:
“Beauty… The Universe… Truth… Working… Here I am… Powerful… Vulnerable… Strong… Delicate… This is you… A Life’s Purpose!”
No words, only a snapshot, felt and understood. A profound and direct reflection for me, of me, to assimilate into my consciousness, and a privilege to see and to know: we are One.
At that time I had a busy, pressured life, focussed on ‘keeping all the plates spinning.’ No time to fully appreciate what I had just seen and felt, and continued to feel – the truth in my body. My self-worth was low, exhaustion near, even though I loved my job. Occasionally the wonderment of that moment, the Universality of it, would come back to me, calling me to consider more…
As I approached sixty years of age I felt the winds of change, in particular, that the pension age was going to be changed. Charitable funding had run out for my job and circumstances were making it difficult for me to continue. I began to plan for retirement. I had a calling to work with animals and studied Animal Healing, which involved volunteering to work with a Charity in Sri Lanka. On that trip I met a fellow student at this course who had what I thought at the time were some odd ways: getting up at 3.00am, going to bed before 9.00pm, no partying and quite particular in what he would eat. He suggested that our current training was missing some valuable information on self-care and recommended I read a book titled The Way It Is by Serge Benhayon.
I returned home to my life, which even in retirement was again ‘busy’. When I read this book it was like pieces of a puzzle slotting into place, and I began to ponder… my new style of being. I knew then I had come back to my home, the Universe. I became a Student of The Livingness, where I have been given confirmation of my words that describe the snapshot, the reflection I received, of our beautiful bodies. These words I knew already, but I need to hear them in different contexts and expression until I ‘get it.’ I knew them already, but laziness and hiding was my way.
Gradually I came to know that reading books and watching videos was not going to get me in touch with the living truth I had felt in my body that day. This truth has to be lived every day, every moment. Through nurturing my body and caring for it with tenderness and love, my awareness is starting to grow. Why has it taken me so long to accept and appreciate this truth, and myself? There are many reasons and distractions in place for us to not look at ourselves in the mirror with love and tenderness – to not appreciate ourselves, to not be with ourselves. We are conditioned to ‘leave ourselves’ in childhood, taught that it is selfish and arrogant to think of our own well-being before we attend to the needs of other people, and this continues until we exhaust ourselves by looking for love outside of us.
My journey continues, and gradually – through appreciation, tender care and self-acceptance – I am beginning to feel the beauty and love in my own body, taking time, sitting with me, being me. I have returned to work as a carer and personal assistant to people who need help with their own self-care, and my strong foundation of love lived every day means I can express this in my work and daily life, and in doing so I find there is more to learn in supporting them and then the feeling comes: “I do that for them, do I not love myself enough to do it for myself?” The answer is “yes, of course I do!” Now the people I work with and those who I meet in my living each day can see that this love is there inside themselves too.
With thanks and deep appreciation to Serge Benhayon and his family, my wider family and all humanity who constantly challenge me to ‘come out here and Love Us!’ – to stop hiding and to fully live life’s purpose.
By C.M., Personal Assistant/Carer, Nottingham, England
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As the Love we have for another deepens then the perpetual way we live with our selves can-not but be more Loving.
C.M., this ‘coming home’ is a feeling I can relate to and cannot find the words for. Just hearing those words, brings tears to my eyes, the home is not the same home as the one we live in, its a home where I feel is where our heart belongs and many are wanting to go back to and don’t even realise that that is what is missing in their lives. It’s a no wonder there is so much unrest in this world, so much anxiety, depression, suicide and the list could go on.
We are so far from the truth, and when we find it, it is something that everything in us cannot go back to, as in the old ways. It is a personal experience and the physicality plays very little role in this, it is the thing that tells us we have strayed. For many this will be difficult to fathom, it’s only when we are going through this, that we can truly understand what is going around us and in life. It is time to wake up…
“The Way It Is by Serge Benhayon” is there for any of us to reconnect to truth when we respond to the call.
“Now the people I work with and those who I meet in my living each day can see that this love is there inside themselves too.” That’s the beauty of self love, in the beginning it helps us to put our own lives back together again and to reconnect to the love within ourselves, then we take that inner flame of love out to remind others it’s in them too – true purpose.
I agree, people around us can see the love that is in them too if they are willing to respond to the reflection. At the end of the day everyone has a choice, and that it is up to them whether they align to the truth or not. Our responsibility is to continue being that beacon…
We are an inspiration to those around us. ‘Through nurturing my body and caring for it with tenderness and love, my awareness is starting to grow.’
What an amazing blog, and when the student is ready the teaching is their and in this case it started with the sharing of a purple book.
And so it is – it is not about the mind and mindfullness and making the body do what the mind deems needs to be done or wants to be done, but rather ti is about the body being the true communicator of what is needed. A life truly lived is one that begins with self care and self love and from there expands to include all.
Life can be lived without knowing the full depth of it, but such a life will always be one that feels empty and hence seeks distraction from this emptiness. Once we understand that life is not meant to be empty, but rather to have a fullness that comes from within us, and once we turn within to seek the true fullness and connection with the Soul, then this gives permission for life to be truly lived. This is a work in progress, and as I am discovering one that never ends, but one that only gets more fulfilling as we learn to live in practical terms the life of the Soul.
There is certainly so much more to life than keeping the plates spinning! And what a blessing to know and then learn to live this.
It’s an extraordinary experience finding the work of Serge Benhayon, it’s changes everything if you’re open to it in the sense that ones whole foundation in life, including your relationship to self and to others can change. The understanding of who you are and your purpose for being here also becomes clear. Life is then sourced from the Magic of God and the soul, not the desperation and emptiness of individuality.
The I in individuality and the me in meandering takes us on many a strange journey, until as you have shared Melinda the True alchemical process of oneness with our Soul deepens the path of our return to who we all innately are.
Serge Benhayon makes so much sense in what he shares, it’s like he taps into a truth we have deep inside ourselves.
There is a journey one to be walked gradually it is okay I feel to take ones time so that no stone or aspect is left unnoticed because I realise from my own way of living that if we leave anything unattended it has the propensity to raise its self again until it has been completely cleared. So to take great care of oneself along the way is the best self medication to take.
So many people that I talk to know there is something missing in their life that they have yet to fully understand, Universal Medicine presentations can be the catalyst for the moment when everything falls into place and we realise we can stop searching because the answers to our questions have been answered.
Absolutely Mary, Serge helps us start to deeply understand life and put the pieces together.
‘This truth has to be lived every day, every moment’ We cannot learn what is true outside of ourselves, the body will tell us and from there we step outside and live the wisdom of our body.
Another beautiful commentary on life, where the understanding that we must care for ourselves 1st to be able to truly care for others is demonstrated in all its light.
Spot on Chris – what we do for ourselves and how we treat ourselves is the foundation or standard that we offer to all others – no more and no less. So how important is it that we look after ourselves with as much care and love as possible, with the realization that we are equally important in the equation of love.
Super important to care for, nurture and love ourselves deeply knowing we are then able to share this with others, ‘what we do for ourselves and how we treat ourselves is the foundation or standard that we offer to all others’.
Whenever I connect to myself and feel another person their essence always feels the same.
Recognising truth in someone, and feeling the same in ourselves is such a confirming, expanding feeling, that we are absolute equals, that we may have a different look and expression, but the same purpose, nonetheless.
I love how your awareness is growing CM from enjoying a deeper level of self nurturing and caring for your body. It has to be something we are actively engaged with – no book reading or TV can replace this.
“Gradually I came to know that reading books and watching videos was not going to get me in touch with the living truth I had felt in my body that day. This truth has to be lived every day, every moment. Through nurturing my body and caring for it with tenderness and love, my awareness is starting to grow”.
The more we connect to our own essence and live from our inner love the more we reflect to others that there is a different way to live.
When we realise the divine magnificence of who we are, we equally realise where we are from and that we all are equal in essence and of the same source. As such we can feel that our purpose in this life is to reflect the love we are through the lives we live.
And this is power, and this is loving others and ourselves equally so.
How great each reflection is when we connect to our heart and how much can we inspire our world by the reflection of being love again..
You can get a sense here of how meetings can be constellated and what must be going on behind the scenes to make these connections happen.
Yes and what beauty it comes with when we connect to who we are and why we are here for.
Isn’t it interesting how the path of life can lead us to meeting just the right person at just the right time, when we are willing and open to learning more.
No one changes his/her life by reading books or engaging mentally with the world. You change your life by changing how you are and feel in your body. Then, and only then, you can change the world by means of what you offer by means of reflection(s). The illusion that studying helps to change the world is just that pure and plain illusion.
I loved what you have shared C.M. “Through nurturing my body and caring for it with tenderness and love, my awareness is starting to grow. ” The body is an amazing teacher in the wisdom that it holds for us, the deeper our love and care grows so does our awareness of what is truth and what is not.
You highlight an important point, ‘this truth has to be lived every day, every moment’, for if we don’t we fall into speaking knowledge, without the wisdom of our lived experiences.
We need to live what we express or it is empty, and does not make a real difference.
Keeping the plates spinning is a great analogy to describe the craziness and pace of modern day life for all too many of us.
This is true Suse – and it is one that has us living in distraction from power of who we are and all that we are here to reflect. When we stop and connect to everything we are within we have no need to even reach for a plate, as we know that nothing can compare to being moved by the rhythm of love.
What a turnaround and what a powerful purpose. Amazing!
Gorgeously said C.M. If we just look beneath the surface of life, we’ll see the mechanics are divine. Why wait to have to be cut up to appreciate our true beauty?
It really is so simple isn’t it… It all starts with self-care, and from there everything is revealed that we need to truly evolve.
Wow every time I consider your description of witnessing the inside of a living body, I am reminded of not just the equality between us, but of the vastness and magnificence of the Universe we are every one of us a part of. I love it when we share the observations we have had about the reflections that have inspired us in life.
The truth is – we are inside miracles, inside a universe of love – we are walking. So one thing we must ensure is: walking from that knowing miracle.. without hesitation.
Yep, that was a line that stuck out for me the truth has to be lived, it doesn’t matter how much we read, go to courses or meditate, if it isn’t lived, it isn’t worth a carrot.
“This truth has to be lived every day, every moment.” Yep, every day. every moment. And when we don’t, it creates a disharmony in our bodies. It is then up to us to clear that, and then choose it again and again and again.
Reading this today it really dawned on me that by being taught the ideal to care for others before ourselves it sets us up for an inner emptiness that we can then seek to be filled by the love of others. When we care for ourselves lovingly first we then are filled with our own love which can be shared with others – and even inspire others to reconnect to their own love. True self care is such a vital part of our foundation.
That is a fantastic realisation Melinda, and it makes perfect sense in so many ways. There are so many examples of this same backward approach of ‘putting the cart before the horse’ in society. Another one is how we approach modern education from the standpoint that children’s minds are like empty vessels that have to be filled with knowledge and wisdom, when in fact the kids are already full of the own love and understanding through their natural ability to feel everything and from past life experiences and wisdom that carries over to their present life.
Absolutely, building a strong foundation of care and love for self first is essential.
What a great story of re-awakening someone that could have easily slept on into another life time, these moments of pure inspiration have to be acted upon. It is an amazing thing to know retirement is not a given and we can work on for as long as we choose or until the body makes the decision to stop for us.
Our bodies really do communicate with one another all the time, but mostly we are not aware because we are choosing foods that numb and dull our awareness. The greatest gift to oneself is to listen to our wise bodies for they have much to tell us and can guide us through those periods we find challenging.
I am still in awe of what we can learn of ourselves and why we are here through our connection to our body. In returning to live in connection to our bodies we return to living guided by our being, our Soul, through which our true potential of all that we are here to live and breathe is realised. The magic of who we are in essence is a wonder that continues to inspire me to explore more and more.
I get very squeamish at the sight of blood and so hearing your story was so interesting to me, as it was obviously a profound moment for you. I have however had my fair share of wow moments that I could not fully take in at the time they were gifted to me. One of them will sound strange, as your story might appear odd to some onlookers but as you explain beautifully in this blog, it is not what happened, as much it is the feeling that came with it that stands out and makes it stick with you. I was in a park and it was in a rough part of town, I was getting my kids in the car and we overheard another mother with some very small children swearing and abusing them to get in the car, she was so aggressive it seemed odd compared to the 3 and 4-year-old children she was addressing. My kids were shocked, I was shocked and at that moment I realised that I never wanted to use my voice in an aggressive way with my kids, I didn’t care that I was never as bad as this woman or that I could stand on some kind of high ground, I just cared deeply that we are all equal and that having children does not give me the right to abuse them, we are here to raise adults that have purpose and grace, that will shine brightly and remind us all of how amazing we are. I will never forget that day in the park, for it was showing me how wayward we have become and it reminds me to keep on living in a way that can inspire others.
Thank you Sarah, as odd as it might sound that was beautiful to read! Moments that wake us up or inspire us can come in many different forms, including the abuse you witnessed.
Yes, thank you Sarah. These moments of confirmation, I feel, are alchemy. I too didn’t truly appreciate the significance of that brief moment, but something within me was confirmed. I once asked God to come into my life. I was a young mother, feeling emptiness with all the care I was doing for others. I didn’t realise God was already there inside me. He had to show me again the physicality of where he was, in that body! Still, years went by….
A poignant moment when human anatomy became a pertinent reminder that our differences are only ever skin deep, if that.
Beautiful point Gabriele – could it be that we only see the differences between us as a consequence of our obsession with physicality and our resistance to go deeper? As you have suggested, even the components of the physical world, including our body, are constituted of the same one source, as such in an intrinsic relationship with each other. Our interconnectedness is inescapable. There is much magic for us to explore when we are willing to open up and go deeper.
The whole community receives the benefits of another person choosing to care more and more deeply for themselves. Its such an important foundation for the wellbeing of people and communities.
Yes, we are taught many untruths as we grow up, and then have to re-learn to cherish and love ourselves,
‘We are conditioned to ‘leave ourselves’ in childhood, taught that it is selfish and arrogant to think of our own well-being before we attend to the needs of other people, and this continues until we exhaust ourselves by looking for love outside of us.’
How humbling it is to see what is beneath our skin and know that we are all the same. That we are all equal and that the way our organs operate is very rhythmic and amazing in its own right.
“….. through appreciation, tender care and self-acceptance – I am beginning to feel the beauty and love in my own body, taking time, sitting with me, being me…” Appreciating and loving ourselves is so important – how great it would be if this were taught in schools, rather than competing with self and with others- simply accepting and allowing an unfoldment.
We can choose what we feel is our home. We can choose whatever from a tiny physical unit to the universe. Our choice.
It is great that you have chosen to bring this level of care to yourself, ‘Through nurturing my body and caring for it with tenderness and love, my awareness is starting to grow.’
Beautiful, a capture of how we’re part of the Universe and how then we learn to integrate and be and live that in every moment in our lives, how we unfold it in every little moment through a deepening tenderness and care for us which of course then ripples out to all others.
It is remarkable yet so natural how taking loving care of ourselves, appreciating and accepting our inner beauty, the ripple effect this has on others from what they can feel.
I find it so interesting how people from all different places in the world come to know about the purple books. I happen to live around the corner from the author of these purple little life changing packages and have lived very close to Universal Medicine since I was a teenager, unbeknownst to me. So, I was amazed, when I read you were in Sri Lanka at the time you stumbled across a student that recommended the book. Now you are another point of light that is inspiring others to love and care for themselves, what a beautiful gift and reawakening, we sure need more of that with the current state of the world.
Without purpose, we are adrift and living without a compass. It might seemingly satisfy for a while but the inner unrest, the eternal unsettlement, is not quelled.
And in writing this blog you challenge us too, “come on out and love us”. I have noticed, over the years, that without a sense of purpose, a sense that we are part of a greater whole, we wander aimlessly trying to find meaning. By looking at the body on a deeper level, we can see that something has designed it to work in perfect harmony. Our body is a reflection of truth, love, stillness and harmony.
‘So still, yet with a purpose towards the larger body, sustaining it to move, to laugh, to live.’ What is more important than movement, joy and living (instead of surviving) in stillness.
Self-love and self-care is an every moment choice. In every moment we can choose to self-love and self-care. If we don’t, we equally have a moment in the next moment to choose it again. And so the process goes. A loving work in progress to choose self-love and self-care.
To consistently keep choosing self care and love, knowing we share this with others.
I really enjoyed reading this blog, it made me think how mad it is, how we are set up to get driven by life when with a few different choice we can be in the driving seat ourselves.
Returning to work at a time when most are considering or waiting for retirement is certainly something to write about. In fact this is something over time that will need to be studied. What is it that makes those committed examining the way that they live and changing this, want to work past the age that most are longing to stop work. What is it that supports someone to choose to work in an area where they is a lot of burnout?. This is huge and very much worth further study. As a society we need to know this and have it available for all to see that there is a way that we care live, where we not only serve people, but thrive.
In that moment you saw the universe in the physicality… a moment to understand the physicality in the universe.
The realization that there is actually a purpose to our life, and then allowing this realization to grow into a deeper awareness, and then allowing that awareness to really reconnect us to everything around us and to everyone… And then we can truly serve… And then… We evolve… It is a beautiful system with amazing symmetry.
The truth reawakens purpose and purpose inspires all that it meets. The fact that you are returning to work instead of retiring at 60 I might add and into an industry that typically is known to be very physically and emotionally draining, is a miracle in itself. But when it comes to students of Universal Medicine, it is quite normal to have a zest and commitment to life that has no age, cultural or gender barriers. Beautiful to read your story, thank you for sharing a look into your unfoldment.
Reading your blog again CM it has made me stop to consider how much there is to appreciate in life, and how I take so much for granted. Thanks for the reminder.
When we choose to stop hiding and choose to live life’s purpose, no mater what age we are, we have more energy because it is more draining to hide than it is to live in full with love and purpose.
What a blessing it is for those you care for CM having you come into their lives and provide such intimate and personal care. Supporting them and their families. The quality of your care would be very much felt.
Many people are looking for ways to retire as early as possible and yet it is clear you love working and serving more than ever as you age. It’s never to late to live our potential.
Beautifully expressed, Ariana. The magic of God is everywhere and inspiration can come at the most unexpected times and from the most unexpected places – all we need to do is to be willing to receive and respond and thereby become an inspiration, as you say, for others.
“We are conditioned to ‘leave ourselves’ in childhood, taught that it is selfish and arrogant to think of our own well-being before we attend to the needs of other people, and this continues until we exhaust ourselves by looking for love outside of us.” This is such a true observation that the present approach to childcare and education is back-to-front.
It felt so beautiful when you brought us to an understanding of “My journey continues, and gradually – through appreciation, tender care and self-acceptance – I am beginning to feel the beauty and love in my own body, taking time, sitting with me, being me”. It resonates with my body and feels true. Thank you for sharing!
Wow what a strong sense of re-committing to life – and showing that it is not about hitting a certain age and retiring because that’s what you do – but rather feeling the purpose of what is needed and choosing from that point.
Bringing purpose into all we do, ‘to stop hiding and to fully live life’s purpose.’
I love re-visiting this blog, C.M., and feeling how you responded to the ‘winds of change’ with a sense of wonder and inspiration, as well as a renewed commitment to love and service.
What you saw with the young person’s wound has really got me to see that it’s ok to look where I’d rather turn away and not see. I am so squeamish it’s not funny. I suspect it’s a level of non acceptance of being flesh and blood, wanting to not be a part of this very real world, and yet the universe is within the very flesh and blood I turn away from. A great inspiration to stay present and fully embrace being in my body and with everyone else, which is very much a next needed step in my commitment to being fully present and here.
I never considered why people don’t want to look but I love what you share here. What if we don’t want to accept the grandness of what is inside us, the Universal Order of what works within us that we either interfere with or not. I feel a greater responsibility to not impose on my body and to treat it with so much more respect because it may just be part of a bigger plan in a bigger body and who am I to mess with that reflection?!
Most people would feel squirmish if they saw what you did with the young man’s wound but your description of how you felt was absolutely beautiful.
It is inspiration in itself to read of some who takes self care seriously and deepens their own path of love, offering support to others concerning self care. It is a job that is so necessary and requires level of respect and care to support some one physically, that is to be frank often lacking. This is where we all need to be heading, to support others it is absolutely necessary to support ourselves first.
Reconnecting with our body is indeed key to rediscovering who we are and returning to our natural flow.
Creating a foundation within through a dedication to self-care provides the basis from which to offer true support to others.
I love how the very body we live in naturally reflects the truth of universality and oneness. It really goes to show that we can study medicine and the wonders of the body, but why have we not made this natural pull to harmony our everyday way in human life if that is what our body naturally resonates to?
Hmmm.. A gorgeous blog on the truths of our body, and the confirmation that actually our body holds the most truth, more than our minds can think of. Equally our heart and inner-heart exists out of a power of love that once re-membered of (as it always remained) that one can choose to life that ( all of that) – again.
When we nurture and care for our own bodies and cherish it in a way that is truly loving, there is so much space within those loving moments that are truly exquisite.
Very beautiful, that we really are all connected and it is about taking time to make space to connect with ourselves.
We think we see the world every day ‘as it is’. We take foregranted that what we percieve is all there is to reality. But if we just stop and look again there is so much more going on. Between each word and action that we take, is a deeper level of meaning – where everything relates back to Love and divinity. So like the inner organs in your story CM why do we wait to see the beauty beneath the surface? For there is a side to life, that’s always there, that speaks of our heavenly connection. All we need to do is read and understand this is a vital part of me and you and what we are here to do.
Very beautifully expressed Joseph. Why wait for others to show us love when we can choose to be love at any time.
Retirement is often sold as the ultimate ‘nirvana’ to escape the rat race of the world or the intensities of the work environment yet nothing is ever shared about what is felt and lived when all the holidays plans no longer have the same buzzing effect and we start to question the meaning of life and it’s purpose.
It is so beautiful what you have shared C.M. I love these words “My journey continues, and gradually – through appreciation, tender care and self-acceptance – I am beginning to feel the beauty and love in my own body, taking time, sitting with me, being me.” I have given myself away so much through life, that it has taken some time to really feel me, when I do I feel so beautiful, tender and gorgeous, I am amazed at the beauty not just in me but in all of us.
I find the feeling and simultaneous knowing that we are all One is a return of relationships to the correct order in the universe, in harmony with all. It brings a feeling of expansion, ease and gloriousness and all the issues we try to create no longer have any substance. I love the way the living of what you innately know is what brought about the changes in your life, not more reading or accumulating knowledge.
Being nurtured with tenderness and love is as natural as breathing, why would we consider anything less is a question worth deep consideration. In the meantime we have the responsibility to choose this and actually live this for ourselves. Just because there may have been a gap in our loving care doesn’t mean that we are required to stay in that pattern.
‘Through nurturing my body and caring for it with tenderness and love, my awareness is starting to grow. ‘ Amazing how something so simple changes everything in ones life – but it does.
It feels beautiful to come to a moment where all those other moments suddenly make sense and what we have been feeling all along is confirmed. We can then build a foundation to deepen our commitment to life.
‘We know it (truth) already but need to hear it several times..” because we are so caught in the ideals and beliefs about life and ourselves that it needs some scratching and breaking of the cover that disconnects us from the underlying inner knowing.
Oh how we miss this, the more to life.
What an amazing experience you share of being touched by the magnificence of our bodies and what we are a part of, the grander plan.
Focusing on being present in our body is indeed key to returning to the truth we deeply know and expressing this forth in every moment.
We live our lives creating ripple effects depending on what it is we are choosing to align to, so the more we say yes to the love that we are the more we can reflect this to others and inspire them to live in a way that is to true for their nature within.
The instant feeling-seeing experience of understanding energetic imprints and communication is fascinating. The mind cannot explain it but the knowing is absolute anyway; knowing without knowledge.
‘reading books and watching videos was not going to get me in touch with the living truth I had felt in my body that day. This truth has to be lived every day, every moment. ‘ True C.M, the body is our vehicle of expression and we can express divinely from our living truth.
Amazing how much in our lives can change when we begin to bring gentleness into our movement and expression, and then deepening this further yet. It can transform things hugely and in very beautiful ways!
The body is a great reminder of the power of delicateness. If you take a microscope to the body and look in detail, we are so delicate.
This is super inspiring C.M. for it is never too late to return and embrace the love that we truly are. Thank you.
I love how you say that you take equal care of your own body and well-being as you do for those whom you care for; love is spherical and so it makes sense that it wouldn’t leave anybody out of the equation!
Living what we know is the most joyous thing, and we don’t have to know everything before we start to live purposefully, in fact, as we commit to living life with awareness, we discover that what we know is a lot more than we imagine and it all keeps deepening, but only when we start to truly live.
It is never too late to live a purposeful life.
As you have shared CM, ‘I am beginning to feel the beauty and love in my own body,’ and may I add that our bodies are a remarkable vessel that shares so much when it is allowed to because of the self-loving ways we bring to it. Before self-loving for me came a gentleness that starts from learning the Gentle Breath Meditation. For more on the GENTLE BREATH MEDITATION go to;
http://www.unimedliving.com/search?keyword=gentle+breath+meditation
“There are many reasons and distractions in place for us to not look at ourselves in the mirror with love and tenderness – to not appreciate ourselves, to not be with ourselves.” It is so true and it makes me wonder how normal I have found that nobody worries much about the fact that it is the case almost every woman picks herself apart in front of the mirror instead of truly adoring herself. Yet this should be one of our greatest worries as if we are not in harmony with ourselves, how can we be in harmony with others?
It has taken me some time to put delicate, sensitive, tender and strong and powerful in the same sentence or even in the same context in my life as for years I believed them to be opposites, but the human body is constantly reflecting to us all the fact that there is great strength in delicateness and fragility.
Our bodies are indeed miraculous, and capable of such intergrated harmony that supports our journey back to who we truly are.
Isn’t it true that in a moments connection to ourselves or another, the entire universe is with us, un-ending understanding, wisdom and divinity forever offered.
“Through nurturing my body and caring for it with tenderness and love, my awareness is starting to grow.” what a beautiful sharing CM and so real and true very inspiring and something we would all love to feel and know as part of our everyday living way naturally.
I have definitely had many a times the experience of feeling the entire universe through my own body, connecting to it deeply, but never have I had the chance to look into the organs the way you have described here. It’s inspiring and it is giving me an even deeper appreciation of the perfect harmony and symphony that our bodies are always responding to and calling us back to.
I feel we have all had experiences of being totally in line with our body the universe and oneness, some opportunities forgotten only to be remembered later. One of my favourites was on a walk slowly, I started to feel, hear and connect to all my different organs, tissues and systems and their unique rhythm/sound which when it all came together brought me to tears as it felt like the orchestra of the universe playing out in my body. Our bodies offer us so many blessings. At present I am really enjoying the building of one moments presence into the next and on and on I build, it’s infinite and is so very lovely.
When we treat each other with decency and respect we develop connection which enables us to love each other. For this to happen we need to deepen our own self respect, connection and love first.
What an amazingly profound experience for you to be able to look into the inner body of another and from what you felt know so very deeply that “we are One”. We can look at another from the outside and what we see at first glance is someone who is very different from us and we often judge them from this place of difference, but peel back our skin and we suddenly are all the same; an equality that flows from the inside out.
So true Ingrid. It seems much of life is coloured with ideals and beliefs that we are often not even conscious of, which tells us we are different and separate. Yet when we manage to break out of the stupour (accidents, shock and in this a case a literal close up look at someone’s inner organs seem to do the trick) we have the opportunity to connect to a far greater awareness of the oneness and the universality that we are all a part of.
I love the act that you had a glimpse of universality in that moment and that you recognised it. A great marker that allowed you to truly feel what is available.
How deeply we may appreciate that our body remains a loyal servant until our last breath, regardless if we have neglect it, negated its wisdom and abused it no end… forever our body provides us with feedback, wisdom and intel to navigate and truly live our lives.
Such a beautiful reflection of living the love that we are through self care and offering this to others as a way they could choose also.
A life without purpose is a life missed. It’s like sitting in a dark room unaware that the sun is shining brightly.
I still clearly recall the first time someone asked me what I do that is loving for myself – I cried. It was the start of the awareness of what it means to care, nurture and truly love myself and the loving delicious journey continues. It is a choice of a life-time.
I love the way you write C.M., in your description of how universality found its way back into your life.
I love the clarity you have around the future, the bigger picture and your own place in the all.
Your sharing is a great example of how retirement doesn’t have to mean a gradual withdrawal from being active in the community and with people.
You could take any part of human anatomy and find that it is reflected by nature, and vice versa. The Egyptians were masters of this, and understood the body through it’s channels as learnt and observed by the River Nile.
I would love to know more about this, Susie W. I have been musing over how the landscape we live in affects our lives, behaviour and how we express ourselves through our bodies.
“We are conditioned to ‘leave ourselves’ in childhood, taught that it is selfish and arrogant to think of our own well-being before we attend to the needs of other people, and this continues until we exhaust ourselves by looking for love outside of us.” This line stood out for me today as I could feel the importance of what here is being said. As from young we are taught to disconnect with ourselves and with that we are forced to live a life of exhaustion, a life where we will continuously seek for relief and to not feel that hurt we carry from living in this disconnection from our essence, that essence of which taking care for oneself is a natural and absolute normal expression..
The approach to self-care you share here – based on self-love – is an important one. How different our care of others is when we offer them this reflection and the fullness of our being. It is my feeling that the future of social care needs this foundation – a foundation that is truly supportive of both the carer and the cared for.
“I have returned to work as a carer and personal assistant to people who need help with their own self-care, and my strong foundation of love lived every day means I can express this in my work and daily life”. This is pure gold CM and showing the world how it is done….it is only when it is lived in our own bodies (not in perfection) can we truly offer it to someone else.
What a wonderful story. It is hard to put into words those moments when you receive a universal download but you have captured the feeling very well. Often these moments are so profound and yet the message is so simple – I am finding this is the way of the universe and therefore needs to be my way to be in harmony with all that is.
When I was 17 I had an accident where a pane of glass sliced deeply into the skin on my finger and I had to go to the hospital to be stitched up. As I was waiting to be stitched a nurse came in to spray some antiseptic on the wound. In that moment I was fascinated by the wound, looking beneath the skin to what was underneath but feeling very palpably that my body was a vehicle that there was so much more to me than my body, yet I felt very connected to it. I am not sure in that moment if I truly appreciated my body, being more inspired by the feeling that there was so much more than the physical body. Since then, however, I have stopped disregarding my body so much – respecting it so much more as a way to connect more deeply with the ‘more’ that I am. This blog has supported me to appreciate too the science and harmony of the body more and to respect it in just the same way as the ‘more’ – no less – equally so. Thank you.
Thank you too, michelle819, for sharing your experience confirming the ‘so much more’ that our bodies show us.
I love working and cannot even imagine retiring, I love communicating and staying active so working is the best way to do this.
‘to stop hiding and to fully live life’s purpose’ Beautiful and inspiring C.M. – this is simply all we ever need to do.
The fact that “we are One” is such a beautiful revelation to have, C.M., and it is inspiring to hear how this moment of truth had a ripple effect throughout your life and brought you back to the sense of universality and purpose in your relationship with yourself and the world around you.
“My journey continues, and gradually – through appreciation, tender care and self-acceptance – I am beginning to feel the beauty and love in my own body, taking time, sitting with me, being me.” Such simple steps C.M but very beautiful and absolutely confirming ones too.
There is no true wisdom without it being lived in our bodies.
I love working and plan to never to retire. Why would we retire from life when we have so much to share and enjoy – I am here until my last breath and beyond.
Purpose rocks!
It is very important to care for our selves every day, in fact it is a necessity, as we cannot truly care for another if we do not do it for ourselves first. When we were young many of us were told that we were selfish when we did something for our selves, this was not true, only some-one’s jealousy coming at us because they had lost the art of tending to themselves.
When we are offered a stop moment such as this, we can’t but not marvel at the intricate, delicate and beautiful workings of the human body, and appreciate that God really is in the detail of all that surrounds us.
This stood out on the page for me this morning
“Gradually I came to know that reading books and watching videos was not going to get me in touch with the living truth I had felt in my body that day. This truth has to be lived every day, every moment. Through nurturing my body and caring for it with tenderness and love, my awareness is starting to grow.”
And as we take tender care of ourselves this naturally spills over into our every way and enables others to feel this level of care which is like a radiance coming from us.
Thank You C.M. I was hard on someone yesterday and I really get how my being hard on myself led to this. If we are not true to ourselves and treat ourselves with the utmost care there is no way we can do this for others.
Our seeming insignificance becomes obsolete when we realise that we are an intricate thread in the rich tapestry of the Universe, without which there would be a gaping hole. From young to old and everyone in-between, we all matter and thus are living within matter (physical form) until we truly understand that we cannot move one without moving the other. When we return to this level of energetic responsibility and energetic integrity, matter won’t matter in the sense that we will be able to return to our true formless state of being and not need to live within a vehicle (our physical body) that shows serves as a marker for every choice we make upon this plane of life as being either aligned with love or aligned against it.
Love this C.M. confirming that true beauty and synchronicity come from within. Everything working together in harmony on the inside reflecting what we can live in our everyday with each other. The Miracle of Me-You = one = brotherhood.
‘Now the people I work with and those who I meet in my living each day can see that this love is there inside themselves too.’ How amazing is this?! So beautiful what we bring when we live from love. Such a beautiful reminder and offer of permission to return to this natural way of living.
I love the title of this blog it is simple truth when we look st our bodies and how they respond to love and disregard it is miraculous in so many ways. Appreciating this simple fact of how awesome we are beyond our bodies is a whole other level, but a good start is to really honour how fabulously incredible our bodies are.
Gosh I love this reflection that our organs mirror the harmony that is our natural way to be with each other. The deviance from this is the abnormal we can address, just as with illness and disease in our bodies.
I love this bit where you talk about the fact that we are ‘taught that it is selfish and arrogant to think of our own well-being’… this is a deeply entrenched belief that is a shocking lie. It is not only really important that we take care of ourselves, it is actually a responsibility we need to step up to rather than relying on others to pick up the pieces when we do fall apart. The writing is on the wall our mental and physical health stats are properly awful and will continue to be so until we start taking respectful and responsible care of ourselves.
Matilda I love how you expose this lie and how, when we don’t look after ourselves, we have to rely on others to do what are our responsibilities. It makes for a society that is dependant (and all the various unnecessary dysfunctional emotions that that entails) and not supportive in uncovering the depth of care we all have.
Thank you, C.M. I love how you are open to learning more and more each day in your work, about how love and deep care can be present in everything we do, and is universal.
A totally fascinating description of what the inside our body looks and feels like. Thank you for sharing. I have always held an image of something unpleasant, rather grotesque, not-to-be-seen hiding underneath the skin. And it is amazing how that was the moment you recognized the truth within you.
I love these words C.M.: “At that time I had a busy, pressured life, focussed on ‘keeping all the plates spinning.’ No time to fully appreciate what I had just seen and felt, and continued to feel – the truth in my body. My self-worth was low, exhaustion near, even though I loved my job. Occasionally the wonderment of that moment, the Universality of it, would come back to me, calling me to consider more…”
Our bodies are indeed our best friends for they are our markers back to true love; and never give up on nudging us into the right direction! It is then our choice to awaken and walk in partnership with them.
A beautiful blog about the enduring partnership we share. Thank you C.M.
It is miraculous how our body works – all the systems and intricacies that interrelate with a certain kind of magic. It is well worth appreciating the body that we have and the universal form of intelligence that we can connect with through the particles that we inhabit!
What comes to me today when I consider the image of the internal organs is that every human being, regardless of their skin colour, gender, culture, nationality or outer appearance or even behaviour has that marvellous magical beautiful order of the pebbled organs inside, which does indeed make us all one and unified in the fact.
Bringing purpose to retirement would definitely change things! Older people need to be appreciated and empowered to keep sharing their wisdom after they’ve finished working, because at the moment society segregates that age group as being people who need caring for, but not those who still have a lot to share and support with!
I agree Susie, I have worked with a lot of older people and when you truly connect with them and they know you are truly interested in what they have to say, the wisdom they share is so inspiring. I ran groups for the elderly and what I got to see was that they were so used to being dismissed that you had to encourage them to express and when they realised you were genuinely interested they shared gold.
Stop hiding and to fully live life’s purpose is great medicine and one we can all learn from, it truly does make a difference.
CM, this is very beautiful to read; ‘My journey continues, and gradually – through appreciation, tender care and self-acceptance – I am beginning to feel the beauty and love in my own body, taking time, sitting with me, being me.’ I can feel how important it is that we take care of and appreciate ourselves, it is so ‘common’ in society that we put the needs of others first, do not truly care for ourselves and do not appreciate our qualities and instead are hard and critical on ourselves.
I love your description of the snapshot. There are certain moments in life where the soul drops in and we are shown such undeniable magic. What I’m learning and observing through Serge Benhayon is that we can live and move in such a way that the soul doesn’t just pop in from time to time but fully resides within and that that is who we are.
CM, it is so true that in so many ways we are in our society conditioned to care for others first before we care for ourselves, and yet when we turn that the other way around then it feeds us the energy and the love to be there to care for everyone around us. We are as important as everyone else, and eveeryone else is as important as we are. There is an unspoken equality that we may sometimes forget about, but should we tune into it, we would feel the truth of it.
Thank you, Henrietta Chang, these unspoken qualities need to be expressed and brought to the forefront of our living way.
Thank you CM for sharing your experiences and how you have felt life to be full of purpose just waiting to be embraced!
I reckon this is one of the most amazing feelings – the realisation of our purpose and how it then touches every aspect of our lives, introducing responsibility as a gift rather than a burden.
‘We are conditioned to ‘leave ourselves’ in childhood, taught that it is selfish and arrogant to think of our own well-being before we attend to the needs of other people, and this continues until we exhaust ourselves by looking for love outside of us.’ – Sadly that is what we keep repeating, life after life and generation after generation – we follow the ‘norm’.
Absolutely – we are all one… connected, universal and magnificently divine
Living what you share with others in their own self care is so important otherwise it’s just all words with no felt, lived experience. That is why when we hear Serge speak it touches our whole being.
I agree Vanessa, it is so powerful when we feel others live truth and love, it inspires and supports me more than hearing empty words.
I love the way you have described your relationship with witnessing the inside of a living body and how that woke up something within you.
Today I was rushing down the road and all of a sudden my attention was transfixed onto a squirrel on the green to the side. I could not logically work out why that was, other than the fact that I enjoyed watching the playful swirl of the tail as it moved. And then my attention was back on the pavement on which I was walking. But now I was once more reconnected to the grandness of life. I was more aware that I am part of a far greater whole than the physical life I see around me and I could feel each step was helping my body re-align.
If we take a moment to observe, every day we have so many prompts to support us to to keep reconnecting to the miracle that we are.
Yes, Golnaz, I must have had so many of these moments and let them go by. Now I actively look for them, because each is an opportunity, as you describe, to reconnect and appreciate just being in the moment, which opens up space for all of us at the same time, I feel. Thank you.
Thank god growing old can be full of purpose too.
There is so much within what you share and what you actually were made aware of and it was done it a way that you would most definitely get it in that moment. Your soul was definitely working with you at that time C.M, no question.
Thank you, Julie Chung for bringing that to my consciousness that my soul was with me at that time. I hadn’t fully appreciated that. I feel I have a marker in my body for that experience now and will work on allowing more opportunities for my soul to fully be with me.
I know the habit of distracting to keep busy and then not seeing what there is offered to be seen. This can numb us for years until we feel the truth of what is being presented before us, the miracle of Us and the Universe.
I too can remember as clear as day the first workshop I attended with Serge Benhayon and it absolutely felt like I was coming home. How I knew everything and was knodding along. Everything makes complete sense from the Ageless Wisdom.
Thank you C.M., it is so true that although certain books and videos can be a great support, the way that we each live is what creates our collective world experience and ultimately what we all share together as life on earth.
Awesome how in that moment you felt the reflection of you and now you have connected to this more deeply you are a powerful reflection in your current role as well as in your life generally.
Beautiful C.M. and how delight-full to be out there at your age giving back the love you continue to build in your body, and serve others. Thus is the beauty we offer each other in truth just like Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine has offered us.
There are so many time wasting activities that have simply vanished from my life. In the past I would love nothing more than to watch a movie or a TV show and get caught up in the story line and then think about it for hours afterwards. Now I can feel the affects of this on me and on others and don’t choose to do it.
I agree Aimee, I also have given up the TV and movies, and find that there are far more useful ways to use my time, and looking back now it makes me wonder how I managed to waste so much of my life on these pointless activities.
Yet what is funny is that I used to say I was so busy! Really I was leaving things until the last minute to do because I was making sure I fitted in ‘my time’ with entertainment.
Me-You, everyone and the universe – universality and then, formlessness.
‘Through nurturing my body and caring for it with tenderness and love, my awareness is starting to grow.’ I have found this to be true also. The more I look after myself, the more aware I become and the more I am able to handle life.
“These words I knew already, but I need to hear them in different contexts and expression until I ‘get it.’” I so understood that sentence. I will often need to hear the same words from different people to understand the true meaning of them. I wonder now is if they have been used in a different context from the way they were initially meant to be used to distract us from our life being about love. Therefore we are able to wallow in comfort and distraction and not make it about people and supporting ourselves and each other to build a loving way together.
“Gradually I came to know that reading books and watching videos was not going to get me in touch with the living truth I had felt in my body that day.” It is great to realise that life’s purpose is not our comfort and that retirement is not healthy if it is done this way. Purpose is very important for our physical and mental well-being and the purpose is first and foremost to be deeply caring of ourselves, to keep doing things that make us feel useful in the world be it voluntary or paid work and to feel worthy till our last breath.
I can relate to the constant busyness and how it hinders us to ever settle within ourself, always being on the go to the next thing, not allowing ourselves to take in every moment in its fullness with all that it brings and communicates with us.
And I have found, Esther Andras, how when I have opened up a space, it quickly gets filled up with distractions. This is a constant work in progress to de-clutter my life to create space again to just be and appreciate that.
Thank you C.M. so it is well worth remembering the quality of our ‘retirement’, old age and health in later years, will be as a result of our commitment to ourselves and others in the lead up to it.
‘With thanks and deep appreciation to Serge Benhayon and his family, my wider family and all humanity who constantly challenge me to ‘come out here and Love Us!’ – to stop hiding and to fully live life’s purpose.’ Acts of true love and generosity of heart are truly inspiring.
How strong is that; ‘come out here and Love Us!’ No doubt that we are One so no time to hide or wait any longer.
I love how you describe being open to messages and signs on this article. Life is rich with them and we really miss out when we are not open to them.
It is true that there are many things in life that distract us or numb us from our awareness and deep knowing of truth.
I really appreciate your honesty and humbleness towards life – it’s true it can take us ages to really look at the truth of who we are and why we do things, and the surface layer can be quite ugly – however what’s underneath is magnificent and it’s very much worth exploring that magnificence and bringing it out and living it every single day.
Thank you, Meg, that is lovely.
Nothing happens by chance, whether it is the appreciation of the intricate workings and connections within the human body or travelling to Sri Lanka to attend a course where you meet someone who connects you back to the truth.
Thank you for sharing your amazing snapshot and how you connected to the purpose of how us caring and nurturing our bodies allows our awareness to grow which is then available to share with all whatever we are doing and at whatever age.
We have to take all the steps in self-care, no steps can be skipped. If we did not commit to life earlier in our years, just sleeping at 9pm may not be the only answer to care for ourselves. There are many points to re-correct and feel, and it is true that self-care is something what we truly need at that moment and we have to be very honest about it.
“Gradually I came to know that reading books and watching videos was not going to get me in touch with the living truth I had felt in my body that day. This truth has to be lived every day, every moment” – absolutely and self-lived practice [over any regurgitation or recall to make it theory] is the solidity that is the Way of The Livingness taught by Universal Medicine, presenting that wisdom is lived through self-study and [self] observation of whole life to make bodily sense.
In a similar way to seeing into the body’s organs the way you describe CM, sensing the energy that impulses life lets us look ‘underneath the bonnet’ of our days. We can see why and how people are moved, get a sense for why things occur and marvel at the intricate and detailed way energy plays out. In all of this you can’t help but see the purpose of us aligning to an energy of Love, it promotes and provides our body with health.
I love this connection Joseph, looking under the bonnet, not only of our bodies, but of our life, how it runs, what source are we getting our fuel from and how does it support our bodies.
How well- worth it is to honour our body and to value ourselves no end… to make our lives the Love that we are and to not settle for a less or reduction of our own light.
There is so much out there that we see, but really do not. Your experience CM was most definitely one of receiving with your eyes, the truth of us and the universe within the internals of the body that was confirmed within yourself and stirred within you, of a knowing of our truth.
Yes, Julie, that is how it was. I saw this with my eyes and I was quite prepared to be shocked at what I would see, but in that split second my body took over and seemed to resonate in accordance to what was really being presented me -the Truth of who we really are as Universal beings. It was beautiful.
Through you caring for yourself in the way you do, all the people you care for are receiving a true reflection of self-care and that you are never too old to turn your life around and feel younger every day when your actual age is increasing. What a blessing for all.
I love your description of the organs and the deep connection you felt. What a beautiful reminder that the Universe can be reflected to us in the most amazing ways.
To overcome the hurdle of ‘selfishness and arrogance’ fed as false beliefs paired with the ideal of selflessness and self-sacrifice for the good of others is crucial to develop self-acceptance and self-love. Only then can we restore the innate love within that is our true making.
And undo the social patterning that buries this innate love in our children.
CM your snapshot of the universe and of our greater beauty and purpose through the workings of the body was an amazing experience. We do all deeply know this, that we come from something greater and there is more to life, but we get so immersed in our human world we need those little wake up calls and moments to call us back.
Beautiful to feel the quality of this writing, I could feel your appreciation and care for yourself, us and all in relationship with the universe. What a way to live, very inspiring to feel the potential depths we have available to have a relationship with the All and not Live a selfish life.
It is inspiring Samantha, and I’m feeling that the selfish life as you named it, is really only a protection from living a truly full life.
‘Through nurturing my body and caring for it with tenderness and love, my awareness is starting to grow’. This is gold, yet is very simple to put into practice, it is a choice to love oneself. From this one choice our life transforms in so many wonderful ways.
Yes, the call of humanity: ‘come out here and Love Us!’ – and as you say, before we are not giving that love to ourselves we are not able to share it with others. We cannot share what we don´t have hence we need to live first what we see the world needs, then the simple way of being who we are with everyone is the sharing.
How often do we stop and appreciate the incredible intricate and exquisite workings of our bodies?
True Fiona – and yet it is not possible to appreciate our vehicle if we do not firstly value and appreciate the divinity and Love that we each are.
When I was little I spent hours upon hours catching, gutting and dissecting fish. Reading your description of the organs has brought memories flooding back of my wonderment at the amazing intricate internal workings of fish.
If just our physical internal workings are incredible – imagine the rest of our internal workings!
CM thank you for sharing how that moment with your patient sent you a snapshot of truth that required no words. I have had similar experiences in my life, as I imagine we all have. One question is then what do we do with this knowing? How do we then choose to live life? I enjoyed reading about your journey and how you have changed the way you live.
I like what you say about how we’re conditioned as children to ‘leave ourselves’ – simply having this awareness makes it possible to change the ways of our past and the future, even if it is one by one.
A glorious ‘snapshot’ you share C.M.. It is so ridiculous for people to claim we are different when the body shows so clearly we are one no matter what colour, culture or race we are. And as you share that it is committing to honouring one’s body and living truth through it one also lives that oneness.
We are so much more and are connected to an ancient wisdom that innately is part of us. There is an ignorance in us that keeps us away from this wealth. It is the ignorance that wants to give our own creation to life but at the same time closes the doors to this wisdom and knowledge that would normally be at our fingertips.
Serge Benhayon and his entire family are re-establishing the real meaning of respect, love and community, with their feet on the ground and a strong commitment to life, work and humanity. Consequently their living example is supporting so many of us to step up our self care and respect so that we can serve others with the same degree of integrity, care and absolute joy, resulting in some miraculous transformations in the quality of our health, inner wellbeing and love of life.
I love your description of the inner working’s of the human body as you observed it and made me appreciate more and more just how beautiful our bodies are and how we may all have different outer layers but what’s inside is equal exquisite. Stunning thank you C.M.
Thank you also CM your journey is totally inspiring for those who read this blog as well as those that are in contact with you and your Livingness. It can’t be stressed enough how all this comes about by us learning to love and care for ourselves first so this can then brim over into others.
We are forever unfolding the deep richness within and in doing so, inspire others to re-connect too, to their innate truth.
I love your ever-deepening relationship with self-care C.M. – the care you have developed for yourself is in the care you bring to your clients, and the new levels of care you go to with your clients is then returned to yourself… which feeds back to your capacity to bring even more to your clients. And so on and on it goes, a beautiful to-ing and fro-ing that endlessly expands.
There are many benefits to self care and as you share, this is one of them…”Through nurturing my body and caring for it with tenderness and love, my awareness is starting to grow..”
“The Miracle of Me-You” is the Miracle of You-Me
Thank you, Zofia, it certainly is.
I was deeply touched with the snapshot you painted and the words with which you described them. It offered me a snapshot of my own. I cried in appreciation. How often are we faced with such snapshots that offer profound appreciation and expansion of our relationship with life. It seems they keep getting presented again and again, until we finally get it.
How gorgeous is this perception of our internal organs…”So still, yet with a purpose towards the larger body, sustaining it to move, to laugh, to live.” A profound reflection of who we truly are, and the universe – the Grand Plan – we are all an important sacred part of.
It is great that you have found your connection to yourself and the universe. It is worth celebrating.
We often hear people say that when we remove our skin we are all the same but your sharing takes this to a whole new level C.M…looking into the abdomen of another…”A profound and direct reflection for me, of me, to assimilate into my consciousness, and a privilege to see and to know: we are One.” The universality of us all – we even have the same skin its just the colour that is different… an outer superficiality that doesnt define the magnificence within.
‘…I am beginning to feel the beauty and love in my own body, taking time, sitting with me, being me.’ This is really beautiful and confirming to read. Brought up like most of us with it being good to sacrifice oneself for another’s well being and being selfish and arrogant not to, I have lived acting out a state of unworthiness that I am not good enough to look after myself. Stepping away from what I know to be a very toxic way of being sometimes feels like stepping out into the limelight and anticipating being booed – there feels to be a backlash waiting for me should I fully embrace honouring of myself. But, when I stay true to me, whatever others say, even if it is trying to put me down, I can see is an envy of theirs for them not choosing to honour this equal love in them. It is also to ask ‘what care do I bring to others if I am not reflecting true self-care and love?’ Well, I am communicating it is ok to accept poison into the body.
We thrive when we become honest, take responsibility and make self-loving choices. And there is no end to this unfoldment.
The human body is incredible in so many ways and a great reflection of the order and balance/harmony the universe is capable of.
“taught that it is selfish and arrogant to think of our own well-being before we attend to the needs of other people”. This is such a strong message that goes out to the world. I have heard some words expressed around “true love” is putting other people before you, but that is not true love because it is not equal. It is in loving yourself first, and learning to be the love that you are, can you truly then bring love to another, and encourage them to do the same. That is true love.
I too am starting a new career path at 59 years of age, I have recently accepted a job in aged care working as an Assistant in Nursing(AIN). Most people at my age are looking towards retirement, but like many, who are Students of the Livingness, I do not consider age as a determinant, I feel what is needed and get on with it, at the same time looking after my body, so it can handle the work load that is asked of working as an AIN.
Thank you C.M. – it is beautiful that you were able to observe and feel the divinity that is the human body rather than focus on what many would find quite grisly. You remind me that everyone knows the truth and when each is ready they will return to what is known.
Just because we see something every day – we can so easily get blasae and say inside of ourselves ‘oh yeah it’s that same thing again’. But this is not and never is actually true. Everything is in constant flux and change in this life, our every cell is regenerating and being replaced, our blood and our atoms flowing into new shapes. We hang on to the idea of us as concrete fixed units for certainty but this lie only leads to feeling stuck and far from alive. No wonder as nothing could be further from the truth. As you shown CM there is so much more going on in our life behind the cover of the book. Let’s not fall for the ‘cover story’ of separation any more.
WOW! A testimony of the Oneness we are and where we come from. There’s so much to learn from each other simply by truly connecting to each other’s essence and the love that can be felt within every body. Thank you C.M.
It is all about connection, truly connecting to each others essence and the love that can be felt within everybody.True Oneness.
‘…We are conditioned to ‘leave ourselves’ in childhood, taught that it is selfish and arrogant to think of our own well-being…’ This is very true and yet it is the exact opposite of what needs to occur if we are to be truly supportive of others. By caring for ourselves first, we have the energy, openness and space for others. By negating ourselves in favour of others we drain ourselves and can often build resentment.
You make some good points here Rachel. When I used to ignore my needs in favour of others, I ended up drained and often resentful. Putting ourselves first is not selfish as it actually means we are the best we can be for ourselves and others, not a drained burnt out exhausted version.
The beautiful thing about the Way of the Livingness is that even if you only apply the smallest amount of its wisdom, it has the potential to offer massive change in the most positive ways. Reading just a page of a book or listening to one audio or applying the gentle breath, all offer a connection to the ease with which life can be lived with meaning and purpose.
You express yourself very beautifully C.M. Thank you for reminding me of the true beauty within us all.
How awe inspiring that moment was for you, I can’t really imagine it but can fully appreciate that it would be amazing and confirming that we are all one.
What an amazing experience, I am in awe of the beauty of the organs and workings within as you have described them. You have brought another dimension that we never really consider and made the miracle of our bodies, of us, tangible. Proves too that we are no different from another despite what the outer surfaces say.
You describe beautifully the body and the wonderment it brings and how extraordinary that you were presented with this opportunity to have a glance at our bodies’ inner work.
I couldn’t agree more, C.M. Since meeting Serge Benhayon, I too have had the experience of all the “pieces of a puzzle slotting into place”. It moves me beyond words to consider how much more life makes sense to me now and is super joyful, in comparison to feeling lost and given up in earlier days.
Agree Janet before I met Serge Benhayon I was a depressed mess, who hated her life but did not want to take any responsibility for changing it. now I am super joyful, love my life and know that I am responsible for the quality of life I live.
I remember hearing Serge Benhayon speaking about Karma for the first time and it was like music to my ears. Karma had been something that I had quizzed over for years puzzled by it and yet holding a knowing there was a truth. This is just one small piece of a ginormous puzzle which Serge is supporting me to slot into place.
I agree Janet, before I met Serge Benhayon my life was as spiral going down, I was already in depression and no matter what I did to support myself I was just going into deeper depression where life was coming to a point of ‘whats the point of it all’. Now I love everyday of my life, I feel inspired and a purpose to life.
Love how you highlight the fact that if you are feeling reactive to others and hence not seeing the beauty in them, choosing to see more of that beauty inside you and honouring it as such is your best medicine.
‘An astounding sight met me, particularly the colours and the beautiful symmetry of the working organs.’ I have never seen human organs except in pictures and because of this have never really thought of them much in this way. Thank you for sharing your appreciation here as it has supported me to consider them in a new light!
Yes, neither have I and my initial presumption is that there would have been a shock at seeing internal organs exposed but it makes sense that the workings of our internal would be beautiful as they are an exquisite part of nature.
What you’re sharing with the world is the ‘back to front’ version of what currently is considered ‘retirement’. The fact that you are starting work rather than finishing it, the way you are giving back rather than the tempting retirement option (for example) to sun oneself or amuse onself, and the openness to something far grander than the thoughts of winding down life in retirement. Very wonderful C.M.
Yes Rosanna, it is absolutley inspiring to read how C.M is approaching this stage in life with an openness and willingness to ‘be’ more than ever, rather than seeing getting older as an excuse to begin to shut down and make the latter years about self indulgence and ones own wants and desires. Its very refreshing.
It is back to front, so often we are geared up to work up until retirement and then bask in the glory of old age! But what state and quality are our bodies when we come to retire? Can we truly then enjoy life? and what about life up to that moment?! I know for me I love to work and so do not feel I will ever retire after all when I have no purpose to my day or try to take time out or away from life I feel pretty bad. We are here to work and connect with others, thank you for sharing.
What an amazing snapshot to receive C.M. and how inspiring it has never left you but laid a foundation for living these words in years to come. ‘A profound and direct reflection for me, of me, to assimilate into my consciousness, and a privilege to see and to know: we are One.’ Beautiful how the connection with the universe is in us all.
This feels like one of those unforgettable moments of deep connection that reveal so much.
Stunning blog C.M. You say “we are One” – Amen to that.
The beauty shared here shows we innately know how to be and live lovingly in the world, we all feel it, but for myself personally I never thought it could be lived until I saw it done so by Serge Benhayon and his family.
It is amazing how those moments can open up where we get a snapshot of life being so much more than the 3-dimensional version we so often live it as. Serge Benhayon and his books most certainly presents ‘the way it is’ in it’s multi-dimensional form, and in my experience makes sense to the everything we are and come from that occasionally makes itself known in our view.
“I have returned to work as a carer and personal assistant to people who need help with their own self-care, and my strong foundation of love lived every day means I can express this in my work and daily life, and in doing so I find there is more to learn in supporting them..” What comes through so clearly in your writing CM is the shift from arrogantly going through life being driven by the need to do, which reduces who we are to a mere speck of our potential, to the exquisite humbleness of you today and the way you are living your life in a way that accepts the responsibility we have to live ourselves in full to the best of your ability; being open to learning evermore.
I know I have often not appreciated how wonderful my body is and how it all works together. I am currently doing a diploma in massage with Evolve College and it is great to learn how all the muscles work together in harmony for us to move. Some we do all the time without realising all the parts that are at play.
Coming out of retirement to work, as a personal assistant/carer is far more profound that any words can convey. To let go of having a picture of how life should be to then feeling a sense of purpose is hugely healing so thank you very much for sharing how you did it.
Yes I agree, Elizabeth. It is very inspiring when someone resists the lures of retirement in order to continue to contribute to the community and commit to love til their very last breath.
As you have said C.M., we are taught to not put ourselves first before helping others. But how can we do that, without knowing how to help ourselves?
‘To stop hiding and to fully live life’s purpose’ is a great way to live it can be super exposing but well worth it, totally life changing in every way.
I have to say again and again C.M, this is a stunning blog. Reading it the second time, the beauty and universality in the way you express is absolutely gorgeous. Your have reminded me to appreciate the beauty in us all, the magnificence of our body and how deeply connected we all are to each other. Underneath the colour of our skin, we are all exactly the same.
What a powerful, inspiring and beautifully expressed blog C.M. I love your deep appreciation of the organs and the body in relationship to the Universe – an innate knowingness – no words, simply an instant knowing of that which is true.
Wow the words of this blog are exquisite, your description of the wound so unexpected and beautiful.
It is interesting how it would be normal to gently sail into the sunset for several decades of volunteer work while not having great financial circumstance but, once the energy was back, it could be used in a way that was both enjoyable and others would pay for it as well, that we then have the choice.
I can feel your steadfastness, commitment and consistency reading your blog it is truly inspiring and as another has shared in a comment it just shows we are never to old to reconnect, remember and live all that we are.
I had a similar experience watching surgery on work experience – the human body is absolutely incredible down to the tiniest detail, and it is such a privilege to see it in the divine raw flesh (literally!)
The word that stands out strongly to me after reading this is Awe. Like receiving the beauty of a landscape or a starry night sky, you’ve shared that same joy in receiving such awe in everyday life and in that connection with people and yourself. Thank you C.M.
What a beautiful snapshot to experience and then later to have it confirmed by a book of ancient wisdom.. The Way It Is by Serge Benhayon.. we are All One.
“Through nurturing my body and caring for it with tenderness and love, my awareness is starting to grow. Why has it taken me so long to accept and appreciate this truth, and myself?” what a beautiful sharing, thank you for inspiring us with what you’ve felt and how you have made such changes in your life, like you it seems so simple yet so profound to develop a level of care with tenderness and love.
A lovely read. You share and show lovingly that loving oneself first, and living that love is not selfish but the foundation to enable others to love themselves.
I love reading this article. Opens with this astonishing image that I then carry, as you have in your life, through the rest of the article. I can totally relate to what a profound and recurring effect it must have had on you because I can feel how the truth of the body and of what you saw underpins your choices since then – in the same way that the image underpins my knowing of the truth as I read your article. It’s super cool to be able to feel what you felt – and that is because of your awesome expression. Thank you.
Beautiful sharing CM and thank you for you have shown us all that our true way forward is through Love, a quality of care that begins with our selves and then naturally expands to everyone we meet. The more we care for our body and inner well being (early to bed, early to rise) the more we innately know how to care for others. Serge Benhayon masterfully answers all those gaps in our education, restoring our true awareness of who we are and how to live in true alignment to the precious and miraculous beings we all are.
So cool that you have returned to your work as a carer and personal assistant to take what you have discovered into service.
I am truly beginning to understand and embody the fact that when we are truly loving with ourselves, the ripple effect this has on everything, and just how powerful and supportive the reflection is of a person who lives and breathes love. Our loving reflections are way more powerful than words.
I remember years ago as a student, I had the privilege to observe operations in theatre, and marvelled at the inside of the body, how huge the lungs were, how everything was so compact and inter-related and how many different parts made up the whole. I felt the same snapshot and it stayed with me as one of those pivotal moments that you know are crucial to your own development and love of how the body supports us.
Through having awarenesses such as these and understanding the absolute precision of our bodies there is a grand new appreciation for what happens in side of them.
An amazing blog CM! You have clearly and concisely described something that you saw and felt so long ago and we are the receivers of as gift. It rings a bell with me also when you say we are asked to “leave ourselves in childhood”!
When I was young I worked at a Zoo and on my days off worked with the Vets and got to participate in the post mortems of a lot of different animals. And I was always fascinated by their innards, and as you say they are some amazing colours within the intestines that we could not reproduce. I was fascinated how their bodies worked and why some animals had 4 stomachs and some one. Work colleagues could not understand my fascination of the post mortems but for me it was an insight to how delicate and fragile we appear to be whether it be human or animals. and yet we are so robust and so intricately designed at the same time. How many of us actually stopped to wonder at just how detailed and delicate we all actually are?
Absolutely cracking blog. And you’ve hit the nail on the head, the answer to potentially everything “This truth has to be lived every day, every moment” – if we did this we would have far less dilemmas, complications, questions and woes. And much more joy and simplicity instead.
‘through appreciation, tender care and self-acceptance – I am beginning to feel the beauty and love in my own body, taking time, sitting with me, being me’ . Such a simple statement and yet one shared by so many who have changed, and are changing, the way they live to bring greater purpose, love and truth to all they do, inspired by the works of Serge Benhayon.
I’ve been hiding for eons. Too scared to come out and be seen. But when I do come out it feels amazing.
CM, I love this; ‘With thanks and deep appreciation to Serge Benhayon and his family, my wider family and all humanity who constantly challenge me to ‘come out here and Love Us!’ – to stop hiding and to fully live life’s purpose.’ It is beautiful to be challenged in this way, to be asked to be out in the world being love, it’s great to read how simple our purpose in life really is.
Life as I get older is definitely one of the busiest times of my life and retirement is definitely never going to enter at any stage of my life. All this without any TV or distractions, which would only waste my time.
We should never doubt our power to inspire others – as your encounter with the gentleman in Sri Lanka attests. It also demonstrates there’s no need to evangelise. If someone’s ready for change, paths will cross and connections will be made and from there’s it’s a simple matter of sharing of information.
Self love and self care have to be our building blocks of the future because what a world we would live in if we all lived the love we all so deserve and stop all the cycles of abuse in whatever form they appear in.
Wow that moment when you had the opportunity to see and feel the divine design and perfection of the human body and that you were open to understanding the significance of the moment is awesome.
We are never too old to find our way back to our true selves!
It takes just one ‘stop’ moment to deeply appreciate the magic and divinity that is our body – do we truly want to feel and claim that? Once this is claimed then that marker will never leave us and how we are with our body will be forever changed.
C.M – yes, humanity is crying out for us all to …‘come out here and Love Us!’ – to stop hiding and to fully live life’s purpose’ and the way for this to happen is through the power of reflection, just as you share …
‘Now the people I work with and those who I meet in my living each day can see that this love is there inside themselves too.’
C.M, I really love the way you write, you have a very beautiful way of expressing yourself. ‘These words I knew already, but I need to hear them in different contexts and expression until I ‘get it.’ I knew them already, but laziness and hiding was my way.’ – innately, we do all know the truth, but we have allowed life to pull us away from this knowing, in place of pictures that tell us to be something we are not.
What a loving way to express the universality you always have been but not lived in some phases of your life and how your knowing is confirmed by the book you read and how ready you were to bring this wisdom into your life.
I love it that I can feel through your words how the body works inside – the wonderland of everything working so perfectly together. You felt what is true and it is beautiful that you have not hold back to share this with the world.
‘Gradually I came to know that reading books and watching videos was not going to get me in touch with the living truth I had felt in my body that day.’ This is so how it is – the books, videos and courses are wonderful but they’re not ‘it’. We have to live what we know, every day, in the world, with others. A beautiful blog CM – keep writing!
What I find amazing and fascinating is how when C.M. described the human organs as seen inside their patient, I really felt the divine nature of this event, even though C.M. mentioned there were no accurate words to describe it. I feel this shows how Universal we all are as well- when we connect with each other we can feel the same thing the other person felt.
The snapshot you describe is a wonderful example how the many parts work together as one whole body. We have this organised and harmonious way each part does what it knows and is skilled in, within our body but do we see this way happening in our current state of humanity? Despite the current state of the world, the potential for a one humanity is at our core of Being human.
What amazes me is that what Serge Benhayon presents is just common sense- but because of the way I was living previously what he presents, like to care for others we first need to care for ourselves, just never occurred to me.
Thank you for sharing your story here CM and for ‘busting’ the all too prevalent myth that to care for ourselves first is selfish. It is far from selfish. In fact it is essential and an act of love that touches everyone.
Thank you for sharing CM – I love the way you describe the experience of seeing the inner workings of the body. What a powerful metaphor this is for the way we tend to be in life – always dwelling on the surface and complaining at the slightest thing, when we think it doesnt work as it should. Just imagine what our world would be like if we lived with an appreciation of everything – not just the bits we can see. How could we not marvel and live with purpose in our everyday?
The universal magic that interconnects us all really does show how we all know the truth and yet we all come to see, feel, express and appreciate this way of living in our own time. It may not happen this life either but it will become the truth at some point for all.
What a wonderful story of self and people realisation CM, i’ve had those very specific one-off brief meetings with people too that say just a single word or line/comment to an exchange i had with them quietly sticks out… and that then (years) later their situation, what they said, resonates in me as ‘me being them now’ and that the sense of truth they spoke applied to me directly and that when i look back see ‘i was them’ at that time of our exchange…. that they were the future coming towards me. I love how people are messengers of Truth or universality.
A deeply purposeful sharing CM, and one that had me consider my way, in particular when you speak of laziness and hiding being your way and that indeed has been mine too, with flurries of frantic busyness and searching for distraction, and yet this too is changing as I unpick and unravel those old ways which weren’t even mine but useful props I’ve gathered to take me away from purpose, my purpose being here and the fact that as you share we’re all part of a vast grandness, all of us linked and one.
Beautiful, powerful and unique – in a way that is showing us to be really us, not hiding away our beauty, our divine touch, our loving moves – simply giving it all. Our body is clearly showing us that it is always with us and supporting us , we just have to listen closely and surrender to what it tells us.. When we disconnect from who we are, we disconnect from our body, mind, spirit and Soul, and hence there is emptiness that fills this lack of connection to who we are.
If we open up, understand, accept and appreciate this fact – we instantly know that living who we are is our one and only way forth.
You can see more and more how we are all connected, linked or one. If not only by the fact of how we are made inside but by the fact of what we all know is true. We may deny it at different levels or walk away from it at different distances but it doesn’t change the fact that the truth is known.
One feels like a step or a bridge to the other. Feeling something for me is more of the exploration, the learning and the initial step possibly where as the knowing is the embodiment. There is still the feeling but it comes with the authority of knowing what you are precisely feeling. With any connection there is forever a relationship, it doesn’t reach a point and just stop as there is always more to expand.
It is truly amazing the different ways our bodies find to speak to us and the wisdom our bodies share is indeed profound
Such a beautiful description and sharing CM, and I can see how this experience would have stayed with you because you connected to absolute truth and felt it to the core.
It is beautiful how you are sharing your experience with your body, the magical connection we have with the Universe and each other.
The wonder of the physical body. I get what you describe CM, that it is all there, I’m blown away every time I see part of us under a microscope, here the scale is changed and I am asked by that, to understand our selves differently, as part of something expansive and entirely ordered.
I marvel at our bodies and the way every cell contains within it the space of the universe. We are truly multidimensional, and what this means and looks like in daily life is something I am working to bring from the inside to my outer expression through deepening my connection to and with my body.
A wonderful blog that allows us to fully consider why we are here and what out greater purpose is. If we reach retirement age should we think of winding down, or is the counter to what is natural for us, to be at work in one way or another until our last breath.
I loved reading this and how the universality of life is expressed. So much beauty in what we bring, there is a expansion that is without limit. I am reminded of how I have been in jobs and how I didn’t bring the universe because I wasn’t connecting to it. And I felt this loss and thought perhaps it was because I lived in small towns not doing jobs that suited me ( always searching for the perfect job) but actually life is always flowing and universal.
Thank you CM, it is amazing to consider, even just for a moment, that there are organs working away on the inside of all of us all of the time, and how this really does bring a sense of unity – a common ground that we share just by the fact that we are all here together.
This blog is a celebration of the universality we feel, when we go within first, caring deeply and simply for our bodies. As I read your blog I was reminded how simple this access to so much more actually is – we have added complications to make it appear difficult and inaccessible.
This is an unique and interesting article C.M, thank you for sharing your observations and your realisations. It is amazing the changes that can occur through this simple adjustment . . . “Through nurturing my body and caring for it with tenderness and love, my awareness is starting to grow”.
It is gorgeous to read of the steps you have taken that have lead you to nurturing and caring for yourself and in doing so allowing your awareness and understanding of life to grow. There is much to appreciate and accept and the reflection you are now offering from the foundation you have chosen for yourself is of a quality and purpose that desperately needs to be seen in the world, for too many are suffering in hiding their light or keeping their love to themselves and can’t but be inspired from feeling there is another way.
“I do that for them, do I not love myself enough to do it for myself?” I love this question and it is one that I am starting to ask myself more and more…not always connected to am I doing it for others and not for me, but asking myself do I care enough/love myself enough to do it for me – to take great care of me. And then the trick for me is to be super-honest with my response, not in judgement, but with love, and quite honestly, I found the the answer can be no when I notice I have chosen a non-loving behaviour.
‘As I looked, TRUTH sent a direct ‘snapshot’ from their body to mine…’ Your example of seeing an Oncology patient was startling. The profoundness of what you saw was tangible through your witting of it and when taken time to connect to the order, “Beauty… The Universe… Truth… Working… Here I am… Powerful… Vulnerable… Strong… Delicate… This is you… A Life’s Purpose!” We all know this deep down, even if it’s not a conscious thought at the forefront of our thinking.
The body can’t help but show us that we are all one.
So true Michael, it is our minds that often creates separation and our body always reminds us we are all the same, divine beings.
It is truly exquisite to feel that we carry the wisdom and the beauty of the Universe within us and this can be seen and felt in a very tangible and relatable way, just as you have described for us here C.M. I had a very similar experience many years ago in a cadaver lab at university. I was a bit apprehensive about being so close to ‘cut up corpses’ but when I saw my first cadaver, it was a torso that had been carefully sliced open to reveal the organs and tissues below the surface. I forgot I was looking at a ‘dead body’ because what I saw in that moment was the intricate patterns of nature that spoke to me a universal order I knew deep down but had long forgotten. From the underside of a mushroom (earth), to the ripples in the ocean (water) and the movements of clouds (air), I saw in the human body a capturing of the movement of these elements and a symmetry and order that reminded me of the ancient and timeless truth as spoken by Hermes ‘as above, so too below’.
Liane, this is beautiful. What a loving description, like CM.
What a profound experience Liane. I appreciate you sharing this.
I love to read your awe with the body. That the snapshot you were given was a miracle, a life changing moment in which much was communicated. I can feel the truth in your words which make me feel still and humble, realising how important it is to value my body deeply and that it is up to me to have a loving and caring relationship with it.
Yes, seeing and knowing how the body works is deeply inspiring and it makes you feel the reality of your body and how it is important to care for it as it is so intricate and working so meticulously for us to be able to do all the things we want to do. So what are we doing to care for our body?
Your sharing is definitely felt on a body level, which means to me you are sharing what you have experienced from your body not from the mind. You are a wonderful career for us all so we too may understand what selfcare is truly and then choose this for our selves.
What a blessing to read this today. I feel like you are reminding us of our purpose here in life – to reflect back to others that we have the magic of the Universe living inside us!
I really enjoyed reading this CM, and commend you for going back into caring at your age and taking what you live into the community.
It is interesting. For many, there is a feeling that life is not it. Yet, not many say, and this is not me either. Life is what it is and, we have a register of us that we do not question. Yet, both can shift and when they do we can definitely that life goes to another level.
The link between caring for the physical body and how we feel about ourselves and then how this increases our awareness is huge.. reconnecting back to what we can feel through our body is not rocket science but it does take a bit of loving firm commitment to feel everything, no matter how confronting of uncomfortable. The more we care for the physical body the easier this becomes because actually feeling what it feels like to connect to the body, feel how naturally sensitive and delicate it is, becomes more enjoyable than not feeling anything at all other than emotional highs and lows.
I love the wonder and appreciation that you share here of the magic and universality in our body and also how instead of ‘retiring’ you are committing to life and love more than ever!
Yes me too. I am more and more awed by our physiology and the incredible symbiosis of all our parts… a point of great inspiration for us and how we live alongside one another.
What I can feel from this sharing is you really connecting with your sense of purpose and seeing the bigger picture. It is very cool to hear how you now volunteer your time and have a bigger purpose in life and what you bring. And the fact that we are so much bigger than the physical body.
It is so amazing that through your loving ways you can return to work helping others, when most people would be putting their feet up. What an inspiration you are C M to those you care for and humanity in general.
The connection that you have made here is so important; “through your loving ways, you can return to work helping others. This is what humanity needs – true care that comes first from a care of ourselves.
Loving us – is the calling from many and what better way to do that than offer that helping hand that everyone is craving to be part of.
I am so grateful that so many are choosing to recommit to themselves and to humanity by deciding to not retire and continue to serve as much as they can. Humanity deserves their wisdom and it is a blessing to us all that we can all be fully committed to sharing all the love we are with each other.
Wow – an amazing glimpse into the literal inner workings of someone’s body, a great reflection of the delicate intricacy and perfect balance of fragility and strength found in the human body if only we could honour it.
Thank you for sharing your profound moment that day in the hospital. I love those moments when we are offered something we can connect with that supports us to feel the bigger picture. Even if at the time we can’t digest them fully, they were given to us for a reason – for a time when we would be ready. The energy of them opens us up for when the next one comes along!
Thanks, C.M., for making it about the bigger picture, all of us, highlighting that there is always more and that we are universal.
The interconnectedness of our body, how it works and why it works is part of an intelligence that the human mind has trouble to fathom. It is all explainable, yes, but we need to take into account the grandness of energy we are from first.
Totally inspiring and gorgeous blog. Your deep love and absoluteness of truth is felt through out, calling one who reads these word to remember it resides within them too.
No accident that you met a guy who gave you a book that transformed your life. If we are genuinely asking for support we receive what is needed. We are so taken care of by God but often we can not see nor feel it as we have shut down from our connection to universality.
Absolutely I completely agree we are taken care of by God, but it is us who don’t stop to appreciate this. When there is a genuine call we recieve what is needed, not what we want.
This resonates with me today Mary-Louise, because we truly are taken care of and held in the arms of God. There is so much support available to us. We cannot get enough reminders of this fact. And all we have to do is surrender, (let go of the control and the battle with life) and just be ourselves, and accept all of our imperfections that goes along with being human, which allows the space to accept all of our divineness. Acceptance is key.
I agree. So often we call these events coincidences, which is such a irresponsible denial of what is truly at play.
The most amazing gifts can present in the most unexpected ways and naturally so when we are fully with ourselves – Thank you CM.
“My journey continues, and gradually – through appreciation, tender care and self-acceptance – I am beginning to feel the beauty and love in my own body, taking time, sitting with me, being me. ” We are not taught to nurture or love ourselves deeply as young ones – and this has got passed on down through the generations. What a beautiful reflection you now offer to all in your care CM.
Its is so true, we are all the same on inside the core of our being. Our physical body is a great reminder of this as you have shared.
” We were conditioned to “leave ourselves ” in childhood , taught that it is selfish and arrogant to think of our well-being before we attend to the needs of other people ”
I was brought up with similar teaching as per the roman catholic church, it was considered a ” sin ” to put yourself first no matter what condition you were in .
Yes, John, in many cultures it is a mortal sin to have self regard, which goes to show how values have got distorted over time. In truth it is not about self but all of us as one, however we need to firstly learn how to heal ourselves and care for the body in order to remember that we are made from love.
Do they still preach this? It feels a bit like abuse.
Self care allows us to bring a greater care and understanding to others so it can never be selfish.
Wow, what a snapshot! It’s amazing what we feel and what we know, even if we are not choosing to live in a way that enhances or supports it.
I agree, Rebecca, it’s very beautiful how C.M instantly felt the Universality of what she was seeing in the young person’s wound, without really being able to join all the dots in that moment. However, it was a profound marker for her which she held for many years until things finally started to make sense after reading the book ‘The Way it is’ by Serge Benhayon.
What a strong blog! It seems that universality is always communicating to us, and the way our world is doesn’t allow for a confirmation of that, but the way you have shared that you came to your own healing and re developing the ways of your soul is beautiful, and a testimony that there is a grandness to life we absolutely can not deny.
Thank you, harryjwhite, I was looking for ‘something’ and then came this ‘snapshot’ I couldn’t ignore, but even then I let it fade into the background being too busy with work to stop and act on the message therein. Work was my distraction at that time, now it is my true purpose. Work allows me to express the love I naturally have in my body, for myself, the people I work with and for all humanity. What a joy!
I love how you knew the beauty and love you held of the body when you saw it on the inside years ago, and how now you have re-developed your connection back to it more recently. There may be a time difference from the past experience to the now, but the knowing within you has always been there.
Yes, gillrandall, I remember as a baby enjoying, watching the leaves of the trees above me swaying in the breeze- I would be in my pram. Then years later, as a school child watching a beige and white cow in the meadow chewing her grass in the warm sunshine and knowing I was an essential part of the whole scene- I remember the warmth of the sun, the smells of grass and sea (it wasn’t far away) and the buzzing of insects, and feeling the beauty of it all. The memory is held in my whole body in that way. Gorgeous!
we are a being living in a vehicle that reflects back to us all that we are as well as all the choices we have lived. That body needs to be cared for, honoured and respected so that the love that we naturally contain can move and express and become a way of life that supports more love to unfold.
When explained like that, it is so simple and so obvious and seems so insane that we would do anything other.
This care makes our body surrender and be in connection with all that we truly are. Divine and Universal.
Wow C.M, this is a stunning blog, the description of what you saw of the young person’s wound was so beautiful. It was something I did not expect to read and leaves me appreciating how there are many beautiful ways we are reminded of who we are and that we are all One.
I agree. When I started reading I didn’t expect such glorious and expressive appreciation. Beautiful and very inspiring. The magic of God’s work.
So true. This was unexpected for me too, but the workings of the body are literally miraculous and to see them in action is nothing short of seeing Gods work in action. Thankyou CM for this wonderous reminder.
It is never that the wonders of the world are not there, they are everywhere in our daily living, it is just that we have learned to value other things and thus do not see the universe in everything we do. As you show, we register it anyway but do not stop and appreciate the grandness that is there and that we are from.
Ester I agree “we register it anyway but do not stop and appreciate the grandness that is there and that we are from” and therefore do not see the universe in everything.
Very true Esther – there are universal inspiring moments everywhere in our day if we are open to receiving them and reading them for what they are.
To be taught in childhood: “that it is selfish and arrogant to think of our own well-being before we attend to the needs of other people” seems to me like a crime against humanity. It is so far from the truth and has, as a result caused the majority of us to live our lives in such a way that we exhaust ourselves trying to fix others and the world whereas all the while we are suffering the consequences of a lack of self-love and self-care. Caring for ourselves first make so much sense as then the care we have to bring to others carries a loving and nurturing quality that all will definitely benefit from.
We should surround ourselves with people, things and hobbies in our spare time that offer the same reflection of universality as what you’ve shared C.M.; time ‘off’ or away from work is precious and can be used to deepen our connection to this bigger picture!
Great sharing Susie ‘to deepen our connection to this bigger picture’
True Susie – There is no time off from universality, only space for more of it.
Love that expression Rachael. Beautifully said and a great offering for if ever I am feeling over-whelmed I know that I have lost sight of the bigger picture.
Love that Susie, fill our time off with purpose full time off where we can learn as much about life and the universe as when we are at work. Really there is no difference!
Yes, Susie W, I didn’t waste a precious moment. I did the ladies who lunch thing a bit, but it just wasn’t me, so I found the space to allow myself to really look at what was being offered to me, and I said “yes”
Life should confirm us in full so we can then clearly read and feel what does not.
“…and this continues until we exhaust ourselves by looking for love outside of us.” There is so much gold in this blog. But this jumps out – the root behind the most prevalent dis-ease in humanity; exhaustion – just walk down any high street and observe how many people are consuming the drug of coffee to enable them to exist.
You have a profoundly universe way of expressing; it is a treat to read your words that naturally open me up to the bigger picture.
I agree! I was left feeling the magic of the Universe and as such, if that is in another, then it is in me and I have a responsibility to live that level of wonder in my day to remind others what wonders lie in them too!
Yes, I agree with you both. Such a beautiful sense of wonderment of our oneness with the Universe and to reflect that.
Simply gorgeous. I agree Otto. I personally love the bigger picture talk and expression. I find it keeps me focussed on purpose.
There is no space for idle banter.