I have worked as a physiotherapist for 20 years and have been to many conferences and health and well-being workshops; so I was familiar with this kind of event. The usual format would be that the presenter would be introduced with much fanfare and talking up of their credentials and would be generally held as an expert in their field and someone we should all look up to for the answers.
 
The presenters at these events would usually act and behave as the ‘expert’, presenting themselves as superior or more knowledgeable than their audience. I had observed that often these experts would be super knowledgable in their fields of expertise in health care but would not look or act very healthy themselves. 

​Byron Bay and the local area are filled with any possible healing modality you can think of. The local newspaper and notice boards are jam-packed with advertisements from practitioners; there are a number of healing therapy directories available online and in print media to choose from, but Serge has never advertised his services. This in and of itself should stop anyone and everyone in their tracks. How do you become global without self-promotion?  

​Over the years I have had the opportunity to listen to many of Serge Benhayon’s presentations consistently emphasising the power of movement. I recall his first demonstration of this was in a guided Gentle Breath Meditation years ago when he suggested we think a negative thought or an emotional situation with the negative series of thought that goes with that and then he had us adjust our posture in a gentle way, demonstrating that when we moved in that way we could not sustain the negative thinking.

​I skill-fully kept people at arm’s length, mastering social niceties and politeness to ensure I was not challenged. I am in no doubt that this would have perpetuated unchecked had I not met Serge, and I would be struggling now with a level of mental ill health that would be impacting my physical well-being and the health of all my relationships.

During these years of indoctrination into the education system in its’ current form – we develop our ability to write in a way that ‘fits in’ with the way the world recognises ‘competent, scholarly or professional’ writing. As adult learners – we are taught how to reference the written work of other authors, and that an essay or thesis cannot be written credibly without the backing of reference material. Given the way the world is – we can say that all this has its place for now and indeed serves a purpose, in the way we live and move in all facets of the temporal world.

Connection meaning – true connection with the soul that allows one to communicate and express freely and truly from that essence. ​

 I used to find myself saying out loud, to no one in particular, things like: 

• Goodness I must have been really bad in a past life/lives as look at all the ‘bad’ things that are happening to me now.  
• I feel like I’m in a ‘pressure cooker’ class in this life to get rid of all the karma that I have accumulated so why, what’s coming?  
• I don’t want to be a teenager again, it’s just way too hard!

When I look back now, all these moments seem to be not just questions that I was looking to have answered but little lights shining on a path to somewhere – but to where I had no idea, just that I needed to be patient.

How do you not underplay the man, his wisdom, and how do you represent fully such love for people, such an understanding of life that he has? How to marvel at such a powerful ability to expose corruption and rot, seeding forth a way humanity can live, that will eradicate the suffering, illness, disease and our violent abusive ways that we accept as normal.

In life, we typecast our view on things, making those views manageable and easy to digest. With Serge Benhayon you can’t do this without creating injustice to the representation of who he is, what he embodies and what he shares with all, for all.