All my life I have been frightened to trust men. I was raised with a father who abused alcohol, which made him feel quite frightening to me a lot of the time. I also watched a few too many episodes of ‘Australia’s Most Wanted,’ where men were portrayed as dangerous and appeared to do terrible things to women and children. This was confirmed when an older man tried to kiss me and flashed at me when I was about ten years old.
Author: Words on Serge Benhayon
The Great Unsung Hero of Anatomy
The bodies that we occupy during this life – ‘our’ bodies – have many different parts in order for us to deal with a multitude of activities that are presented to us every day. Some of these parts, such as eyes and ears, are so important that most of us simply cannot imagine life without them.
Our hands are used not only to skilfully craft all manner of items, but also to welcome others when we meet, and in addition to express ourselves.
Our legs propel us around the planet, and if we are female are considered to be a great source of beauty and elegance, something borne out by countless advertisements for tights and stockings.
However, there is one area of our bodies that in my opinion, doesn’t get the acclaim and recognition that it deserves. Continue reading “The Great Unsung Hero of Anatomy”
The Life we Live, is the Art we Make
How often have we thought that art is something created outside of ourselves and our daily life? I am finding art to be more, in-truth, much more than the time we actually devote in ‘doing’ art, as how I have been living is always clearly reflected in the work I have done throughout the years.
Recently I had a meeting with a client and a photographer I am working with for the first time. I woke up that morning feeling a little tired. It was awesome to just observe how I was feeling and not go into judgment immediately or wanting to fix myself up because of the meeting later on. Continue reading “The Life we Live, is the Art we Make”
Being Still – With Joy
A couple of weeks ago I had a moment where the love that I am, and the love that is around us all, felt very present. In this moment there was a strong sense in me to ‘Be Still’.
So for the past couple of weeks I have been practising just this. Stilling myself whenever my head begins to wander away from the moment that I am in, I gently return to my body and make the very clear choice to be still with it.
I’ve noticed since making the clear choice to practise my stillness that whenever I am racing ahead and don’t pull myself up, something little happens to bring me back to my stillness. For example, I bump my hip, or I get a splinter when putting wood on the fire. Continue reading “Being Still – With Joy”
Our Charities: How Charitable Are They?
I was recently invited to write an article on ‘service to others’ for my yoga organisation’s magazine. This led me to ponder on what ‘service’ means. For me, and I suspect for many, the idea of ‘service’ is tied in with charities – either doing voluntary work for charities, or giving them money.
When I looked around me at the main charities in New Zealand and the public events they run/sponsor, or are run in their name to raise money, such as the ‘Ride to Conquer Cancer’ (a two day cycle ride to benefit the Cancer Society), ‘Fit for Life’ (a boxing event between celebrity non-boxers, to raise money for nominated charities) and raffles (Heart Foundation), I began to wonder what ‘service’ they were actually offering to the world and started to ask myself the following questions:
- Is it “true service” to sponsor an event that asks participants to cycle for two whole days, camping on the ground overnight?
- Is it “true service” to ask people to box who are not professional boxers, even setting aside the known dangers of boxing?
- Is it “true service” to encourage people to gamble?
It appeared to me that many of the events run by our charities could be putting people’s bodies and minds at risk!
WORDS on Serge Benhayon – Raw and Uncut
Who is this man Serge Benhayon?
Words about anyone can pump you up, fluff you up, pander to you, paint a picture of you, bring you down, trash you, crush you, bad mouth you, destroy you or sling mud at you.
This blog will Not be doing any of the above. This blog will bring words that are Truth only.
Amazing is a very cheap word to describe Serge Benhayon, but it will have to do. Continue reading “WORDS on Serge Benhayon – Raw and Uncut”
What is Truly Newsworthy?
When I switched on the computer this morning the following latest news headlines came up in bold typeface: “Video – baby rescued from toilet, Obama plays golf with comic, Man feeds raccoons, First transgender actress cast in Doctor Who”… and reading them stopped me in my tracks.
Could this be what the news teams think we want to read in the morning as we are eating breakfast before we go out to work? It made me consider the news, what we are fed and what we are not fed by the media.
The news teams, it seems, feed us what they think we want to read, not necessarily what will truly educate us. Continue reading “What is Truly Newsworthy?”
Oneness – A Confirmation from Within
Most of us learned the idiom “Don’t judge a book by its cover” when we were in primary school. The premise is that we cannot assess someone or something’s worth by what it looks like on the outside. I understood this in theory but found it difficult to apply in life the majority of the time: I had this tendency to look out into the world and measure people up, assessing their worth on their outer cover, so to speak.
Last month I had an experience that confirmed to me how much Serge Benhayon’s collections of books have supported me to become more open and real with people.
We Know More Than We Think…
Before meeting Serge Benhayon I had always noticed that there was often two conversations going on when I was listening to someone talk…
- The words that I heard coming out of their mouth.
- The truth of what I felt in my body.
I noticed there was often incongruence between the two and it wasn’t until I started studying with Universal Medicine and understanding energy that I could fully claim the truth of what I had observed and felt for all those years. Continue reading “We Know More Than We Think…”
Smiling from Our Hearts
Recently I read on the Truth about Serge Benhayon website, a lovely blog about smiling written by Carmel Reid. When I finished reading it, it inspired me to ponder on and feel deeply into – “where does a smile come from?”
From the moment we are born, our loved ones can be trying to get a smile from us, with tickles, funny faces and noises, all designed to prompt us to get the response they are seeking. As we grow up, our smiles can become polite responses to adults that, as children, we may not feel we want to smile at but do so, as it is a sign of good manners.