Rediscovering Our Body’s Lovely Flow

by Kate Greenaway BAppSc (Physiotherapy), Australia

Recently I had a fascinating experience that highlighted to me the difference between moving and exercising in a gentle flowing way, or pounding and pushing the body. I was packing my car after a lovely time exercising in the local pool – two middle-aged men were running down a steep cement driveway near me – they were literally pounding and jarring their bodies. They were red and puffy in their faces and they looked miserable. I was feeling really fluid and content in my body from the gentle moving and swimming that I had just done, and then to feel what these men were doing to their bodies almost made me wince as they slammed their bodies with each step. From my work in physiotherapy over the last 28 years I know this sort of activity to be extremely damaging to the joints of the legs and spine, and to the deep soft tissue that supports them. Continue reading “Rediscovering Our Body’s Lovely Flow” →

Now I Take Responsibility for ME

by Glenda, Canada

My name is Glenda. I was introduced to Universal Medicine several years ago by a dear friend. My life has changed dramatically since Universal Medicine.

I remember as a child feeling pretty, expressive and full of life. Somewhere at a young age I gave up on being that little girl and started to feel the hurts of not measuring up.

So I went inward and became quiet and shy: this made it difficult to truly connect with others. Continue reading “Now I Take Responsibility for ME” →

The Goalposts For ‘I Feel OK’ Moved!

by Simon Asquith, Byron Bay, Australia

My name is Simon. I’m a 38 year old single male and I feel to share how I discovered, and my experience of, Universal Medicine.

At the time, I was a professional musician living a life that I had always dreamed of, and had worked very hard to make a reality. Some years earlier I had left a well paying career that didn’t “make me happy” to pursue my dream to live six months a year during spring and summer in Australia, and then six months a year in spring and summer in Europe, travelling the world performing my own music.

One time, I returned home to Australia and met another musician and his family that were my parents’ neighbours. Not long after, I began working for him helping him tour, as his roadie/sound engineer and selling CD’s. On an early morning drive once, he asked me if I had heard of this guy named Serge Benhayon, and he played a recording of a presentation on the stereo. Continue reading “The Goalposts For ‘I Feel OK’ Moved!” →

Hey, Maybe There Is Another Way

by Natalie Hawthorne, London, UK

My life is and always will be forever developing, and I’d like to share just two examples of where I started to look at it and say “hey, maybe there is another way”. Such as when I started to play with the idea of Self-Love and things stuck out like a sore thumb…

I was living the ‘normal life’ as a general manager of an extremely busy restaurant/bar; I started to realise that the way I was choosing to live wasn’t loving, nor did it feel right. I would take the deliveries, and as you can imagine, it’s with large quantities of stock involved with the beverage side of things… back then to me moving the kegs of beer and carrying all the bottles of wine to the storeroom to prove that I didn’t need any help and I was strong! (This being part of my Kiwi upbringing: girls can do anything – even play rugby!) I was ignoring any signs that I felt when I was straining myself, as it was good for me and making me strong! Continue reading “Hey, Maybe There Is Another Way” →

Colour and Class Distinction – Where Are You From?

As a woman of 38 years I have a mixed complexion that today is very normal, even the norm with the continuing integration of races, nationalities and cultures.

As a child growing up though, this was not quite so and ‘Skin Colour’ itself was a distinct theme which over the years had created a distinct sense of minority, inferiority, disadvantage, exclusion but also inclusion. And tainted by background or class, it seeded a supremacist ideal to spoil any ease or joy being felt or lived…

From a visual perspective I remember my looks confusing as much as fascinating and sparking wonder from people. I would get things like “…with that sounding name, where are you from?” and then they’d ask again “no, I mean where are you originally from?” And when I’d give the exact same reply to the first question, the third question came, “oh ok, but where are your parents actually from?”… Continue reading “Colour and Class Distinction – Where Are You From?” →

David Millikan: The Greatest Story Ever… Missed

by Matthew Brown, Subiaco, Perth, WA

David Millikan, your approach was so very wrong.

Most people have the ability of self-reflection or self-analysis to determine whether what they are doing has a sense of being right or wrong.

It seems that to gatecrash a Universal Medicine evening, lie to the host (Serge Benhayon) and attempt to incite reactions from those in attendance for a story, displays a complete lack of self-analysis. Such behaviour should be illegal! Continue reading “David Millikan: The Greatest Story Ever… Missed” →