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The benefits of the Gentle Breath Meditation
A simple and invaluable way to let go of the stress, anxiety and overwhelm that many of us experience at times, if not on a daily basis. It supports true vitality and well-being and re-connects you deeply back into your body.
Self-empowerment, Healthy living, Meditation, Gentleness, Presence, Gentle Breath Meditation
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What is the Gentle Breath Meditation™?
The Gentle Breath Meditation™ can be done anywhere and is simple to introduce into the rhythm of daily life as a point of re-connecting, restoring inner harmony and as a balance for the external pressures of life.
Stress, Connection, Healthy living, Meditation, Anxiety, Gentleness, Breath, Gentle Breath Meditation
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Benefits of the Gentle Breath Meditation
It’s quick, healthy, I get peace of mind, more space, less pressure, no more panic attacks, refreshed, centred, less stress, joyful… just some of the benefits these Gentle Breath meditators have shared.
Testimonials, Healthy living, Meditation, Gentle Breath Meditation
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Taking a moment with the Gentle Breath Meditation
Have you ever felt like there aren’t enough hours in the day? Discover how a few minutes with the Gentle Breath Meditation created space and stillness in the busy lives of these people.
Testimonials, Connection, Healthy living, Meditation, Breath, Gentle Breath Meditation
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Gentle Breath Meditation in daily life
"With over 20 years of meditation under my belt, I was nothing short of amazed ...." Read testimonials from people who have included these techniques into their daily life and are experiencing profound and lasting benefits.
Testimonials, Self-awareness, Connection, Healthy living, Meditation, Gentle Breath Meditation
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Meditation Is not a quick fix
Meditation works when you build a quality that can be carried into life itself – a lived quality. Meditation is not a crutch nor is it the be all and end all. The Gentle Breath Meditation supports you in this, stripping away the false ‘benefits’ of meditation.
Connection, Healthy living, Meditation, Gentle Breath Meditation
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The Gentle Breath Meditation: a tool for life
Re-connect to the deeply restful and rejuvenating stillness within and feel the fact that all of the stuff that goes on in life is not actually who you are. Remind yourself that you can simply BE and bring that to your everyday!
Connection, Healthy living, Meditation, Gentle Breath Meditation
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Blogs about the Gentle Breath Meditation
Bloggers reveal how it was for them to start out with the meditations, the benefits they experienced in their daily lives, the beauty of re-connecting to their inner stillness and much more.
Connection, Healthy living, Meditation, Stillness, Gentle Breath Meditation
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Developing self-care as part of health and well-being at work
We regularly see in the media, the HR press that well-being at work matters. This article introduces an aspect that is seldom written about in health and well-being at work - self-care at work.
Well-being, Health, Career, Healthy living, Absenteeism, Burnout
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Self-care at work makes sense, why is it not common practice?
No one at work ever tells us NOT to take care of ourselves at work, and, we all know that it is needed. Why then is self-care not consistently practiced in workplaces?
Appreciation, Career, Healthy living, Culture, Productivity, Leadership, Absenteeism
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Always hungry for more?
Addresses the endless drive to eat to satisfy our never ending hunger and how we put a stop to that.
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How To Lose Weight
What if how to lose weight stopped being the goal and it was replaced with a focus on the quality of energy that you are living every day? Is it possible there is a way to lose weight that is very different to what you think?
Connection, Healthy living, Conscious presence, Weight, Weight loss
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Does the way I live affect my sleep?
A discussion on how the way we live during the day affecting the quality of our sleep.
Sugar, Emotions, Exhaustion, Healthy living, Sleep, Caffeine, Fatigue, Insomnia
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How hard is it to change?
Everyone wants to change, this article looks at the impulse and motivation to change and how to engage with change.
Well-being, Acceptance, Connection, Healthy living, Awareness, Gentle Breath
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Workplace Health and Safety: keeping it simple
Workplace health and safety starts with you and how you are caring for yourself. Simple changes in how you arrange your workspace to ‘fit’ you and the way you work can make a huge difference to your health and wellbeing.
Self-care, Well-being, Work stress, Vitality, Healthy living
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Is change possible? Understanding the choices we make and why!
Have you ever wondered why we make choices that are not good for us? Is it possible there is more to making a choice than a simple yes or no?
Well-being, Lifestyle, Emotions, Intelligence, Healthy living, Awareness, Behaviour, Feelings, Over eating
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Lifestyle diseases (the way we live)
Lifestyle diseases account for 80% of all major chronic illness and disease. Is it possible there is a way to live that keeps us fit and healthy?
Empowerment, Lifestyle, Healing, Self-love, Lifestyle diseases, Healthy living, Death
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6 things all men need to know about exhaustion and fatigue
Exhaustion and fatigue can deeply affect the way men live – here are 6 tips to combat it. It is okay to seek help and/or professional medical advice when you are feeling excessively tired or fatigued.
Exhaustion, Work life balance, Healthy living, Healthy diet, Alcohol, Caffeine, Fatigue
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What is gluten?
With many people now asking “What is gluten?” this article explains what gluten is and outlines how our bodies can react to it.
Well-being, Nutrition, Gluten free, Healthy living, Digestion, Food science, Coeliac, Celiac
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Weight Loss Tips
To assist you with feeling healthier and to be more vibrant and active, here are some of our favourite weight loss tips which present a way of living that can support you to re-connect to your body and build self-care into your life.
Lifestyle, Self-nurturing, Sugar, Work life balance, Healthy living, Sleep
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How true service first begins with caring for self
The depth of this inspirational Reading from Serge Benhayon knows no bounds. Jane Keep shares how she was inspired to write an entire PhD on true service and how supporting others first begins with caring for self.
Health, Work stress, Self-nurturing, Medicine, Work life balance, Self-worth, Healthy living
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The College Of Universal Medicine
From its inception, the College of Universal Medicine heralds a revolutionary new way for education and group work.
Well-being, Lifestyle, Self-nurturing, Livingness, Healthy living, Humanity, Education, Ageless Wisdom, Community
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A student of our own body
The audio excerpt describes what it means to be a student of your own body: the best medicine is to create a way of being that lives the true you. You then become your own master at knowing and understanding your own body.
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Begin breaking the battle with the sweet poison
Is sugar (the sweet poison) leaving a bitter taste in our body as well as in the national health services around the world? This article begins to explore why we might be addicted to sugar ...
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Fighting cancer – What if there is another element, a fundamental element that we have overlooked?
Everything is energy – is the one absolute truth that applies to everything in the world we live in, including illness and disease.
Emotions, Cancer, Healthy living, Disease, Death, Ill health, Sickness
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Serge Benhayon – a real example of walking the talk
Discover how Serge, once a professional athlete, further developed his relationship with fitness, exercise and an inner-most connection.
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Serge Benhayon on fitness, physical exercise and the gentle breath
Serge works 16-18 hours a day and with retirement not holding a single breath of intention he maintains that 'in order to serve in life we must be fit for life'.
Lifestyle, Vitality, Role models, Healthy living, Gentle Breath, Yoga
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Serge Benhayon on Unimed Living
In this interview, Universal Medicine Director, Serge Benhayon, shares the story of a group of people who are living against the current societal trends of illness and disease and felt inspired to share this simple and practical way of living with the world.
Well-being, Lifestyle, Health conditions, Vitality, Healthy living
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Serge Benhayon on food and diet
Director of Universal Medicine Serge Benhayon talks about food and how to have a healthy relationship with it.
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Understanding mental health from an esoteric perspective
Serge Benhayon speaks about mental health from an esoteric perspective
Healing, Love, Human body, Healthy living, Hurt, Philosophy, Mental health
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Meditation, mindfulness, conscious presence – are these really the answers to a better life?
Can we continue to live the way we do and expect techniques and meditations to make us feel better and give us the life we have always dreamt of?
Healthy living, Mindfulness, Meditation, Conscious presence, Presence, Gentle Breath Meditation
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Serge Benhayon on meditation
Serge Benhayon, the founder of The Gentle Breath Meditation reminds us that when we re-gather all of our parts together as one we have meditation. Taking this into our daily activity makes meditation an empowering way of life.
Wisdom, Healthy living, Meditation, Gentle Breath Meditation
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Are you fit for life? Part 2
Being fit for life – what does that mean. Have we got fitness wrong, and or, is it falling well short of the real mark?
Self-love, Lifestyle diseases, Healthy living, Body awareness, Fitness
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Overeating: are you eating until you feel sick?
Our large food portions have in fact become normal. The body will often tell a very different story to the ones our taste buds do as we indulge in every mouthful. Why are we capable of overeating even until feeling sick?
Obesity, Self-awareness, Self-worth, Healthy living, Over eating, Culture, Fatigue
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Gentle Breath Meditation tips for beginners
The Gentle Breath Meditation is very easy to do as a technique but initially you may wonder if you are doing it right or not – to help support you here are 3 tips that have worked for others.
Connection, Healthy living, Meditation, Gentleness, Breath, Gentle Breath Meditation
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International Coffee Day: October 1st
For International Coffee Day we provide a free audio that questions whether we are really being honest when we say “we love our coffee”.
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How many hoops will the food industry enthusiastically jump through in order to get to our purse ...
The Food Industry – how low does it go?
Nutrition, Healthy living, Sugar alternatives, Media, Food industry
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Self acceptance – the path to changing overeating
Many of us spend our lives lost to ourselves until we finally arrive at the knowing that love is not ‘out there’, it’s within us and that no amount of food is enough to fill the ‘perpetual hunger’ for love.
Vitality, Self-awareness, Healthy living, Awareness, Feelings, Eating disorder, Body awareness
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Your body is a living experiment
Every choice we make impacts the body – experiment with your choices and feel the effects on your body. See yourself as a living experiment and have fun with it.
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What is good medicine?
Good medicine is about living in a way that supports you as a whole.
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Why do people meditate?
Are we getting the true point of meditating and what meditation is designed to actually offer us?
Self-awareness, Connection, Healthy living, Meditation, Gentleness, Breath, Gentle Breath Meditation
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Before and after: Carmel Reid – the weight just dropped off
Carmel’s story on how her weight just dropped off after changing the relationship with herself.
Livingness, Self-awareness, Exhaustion, Self-esteem, Gluten free, Healthy living, Diets, Weight, Weight loss
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New Year’s Day – January 1st
At the start of the year is great moment to have a deep and meaningful chat with your body!
Chocolate, Self-awareness, Healthy living, Alcohol, Self-expression
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Gluten free crackers with sunflower and sesame seeds
Here it is! Easy to make and nutritious gluten free cracker recipe. Tasty, light and crunchy, this recipe’s an absolute winner with high calcium too! Great as a snack or light meal alongside your favourite dip, try the Cannellini Bean Hummus or Avocado Salsa.
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Relief strategies – the failings of our mental health industry
Tanya Curtis explores the current failings of the mental health industry and the harm that relief-based strategies are having on our society. She offers a new way forward.
Healthy living, Humanity, Behaviour, Alcohol, Mental health, Drugs, Evidence-based
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Berry green breakfast dairy free smoothie
This super yummy smoothie is jam-packed full of antioxidants and vitamins, and will sustain you for the day ahead. Fun and easy to make, it's a great one for the kids to help with too.
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Function, harmony and health
We are told that to be healthy we need to achieve a level of physical fitness, but even super-fit athletes get sick, so why are we placing value on our physical condition ahead of the quality and harmony that is needed to support our body?
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Living with connection
If we only focus on the physical body we are missing a key ingredient in what it takes to be truly vital and well.
Self-nurturing, Livingness, Connection, Healthy living, Fitness
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Our choices do influence how we die
We will all die at some point, so how we die should be of profound interest to us … right? Let's start the conversation.
Appreciation, Ageing, Palliative care, Healthy living, Death, Passing over
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Fresh herb summer salad
This salad is sure to be a favourite at summer barbeques or shared lunches. It is super simple and not shy of flavours; fresh and crisp with a combination of yummy herbs that really make this salad something special.
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Diabetes Nation
Most cases of Type 2 Diabetes are entirely preventable through lifestyle choices, yet diabetes continues to rise at alarming rates. What will make people stop eating the foods they know are an assault on the body?
Lifestyle, Health conditions, Sugar, Healthy living, Sugar free
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REVIEW: Serge Benhayon presents on 'Life is Medicine' in Sydney
Sept 2017: International presenter, author and philosopher, Serge Benhayon, returned to Sydney on Sunday September 11th 2017 to further unfold the topic of Life is Medicine.
Healthy living, Awareness, Education, Community, Unimed Living Sydney, Events
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Competitive sports: the pursuit of emptiness
What happens in competitive sport, one man's story of the aftermath of an endurance cycle race.
Human body, Competition, Connection, Healthy living, Fitness
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A career – is it everything?
Is a career in advertising everything it is made out to be? Is it worth sacrificing our own health? Hannah Morden shares her story.
Career, Exhaustion, Performance anxiety, Work life balance, Healthy living
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Goodbye Coffee Machine
Can a café be successful without a coffee machine? Paul O’Hara shows us how he has done this and is expanding the concept into other areas.
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Being my own masterpiece
From living a life in parts to living in harmony
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Care, relationships and postgraduate students: no ‘one size fits all’.
Education can be a cold and lonely place. Competing for higher marks relationships take a poor last place, leaving students feeling downbeat when they don’t achieve what their peers ‘achieve’.
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Self-care – the gift of you
Is self-care simply caring for yourself, or is there a greater gift on offer? If so, why is taking care of yourself no longer enough, and what has true self-care to offer?
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Toasted sesame seed and herb salmon bites
Simple, quick and fun to make, this is a novel way to use salmon and a versatile recipe that can be used for canapés or as a delicious light salad.
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Penelope Scheenhouwer – reflecting on her journey
Penelope Scheenhouwer’s inspiring story of how she changed her ideal about her body image and came to her true size.
Self-worth, Body image, Healthy living, Fitness, Ill health, Sickness
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‘All that glitters’ … design trends, latest fashion and our self-worth
Is it possible that we are actually caught in this culture or cycle of having the latest and the greatest, the newest and the fastest, the hottest & the sexiest and it’s not actually what we truly want – or who we truly are?
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Women, excessive tiredness and Christmas stress
How many women are left feeling exhausted after the month of December and how long does it take our bodies to recover?
Well-being, Exhaustion, Stress, Raising children, Healthy living, Body awareness
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Choosing our way out of depression
One person’s experience with depression — How they found their choices resulted in depletion and therefore depression, and how they made choices that supported them out of it.
Depression, Self-love, Acceptance, Healthy living, Awareness, Body awareness, Mental Health
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Depression, exhaustion and adrenal fatigue
Depression and exhaustion could be a result of adrenal fatigue, meaning a depletion in kidney energy. Self-care is a great tool to have up one’s sleeve to help heal.
Well-being, Depression, Exhaustion, Connection, Healthy living, Body awareness, Fatigue, Mental health
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Is sugar really a poison?
Is sugar really a poison? Best answered by discovering what happens to you when you don’t have it for a while …
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The tangible way of Godliness…
What does it mean to live religiously on a very practical, everyday basis?
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Did you know that singing together makes our hearts beat as one?
What is it about singing that can turn complete strangers into family? Researchers have found that singing together makes our hearts beat as one – literally. A microcosm of human life, a choir speaks volumes about how we are and can be with each other.
Healthy relationships, Connection, Healthy living, Community, Music
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Healthy lifestyle
We think of healthy lifestyle in order to lose weight as food and exercise choices – what if a truly healthy lifestyle is more about the quality of energy that we use to do things, rather than the things we do?
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Current ‘self-care’ fads – do they really work?
Do populist self-care strategies in the workplace actually work, or do they just further add to our already full schedules; our various lists of tasks, goals, aspirations and resolutions?
Work life balance, Connection, Healthy living, Mindfulness, Meditation, Presence
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Food Porn
Food Porn manipulates consumers on levels we’d be shocked at.
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The importance of breathing
The way we breathe affects our health and even the way we feel. Read more to find out about the benefits of breathing and how to breathe to feel relaxed and reduce stress
Health, Stress, Healthy living, Gentle Breath, Breath, Relaxation
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When you’ve gotta go…. you’ve just got to go
Can self-care be as simple as taking a toilet break?
Lifestyle, Health, Medicine, Self-awareness, Healthy living, Ill health
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Championing the myth of living longer
People are living longer. Do we consider how they are living and what quality of life they have in their final decades? Is it truly living if we are medicated, drugged and artificially sustaining life in a body that is carrying so much illness and disease?
Well-being, Health, Vitality, Medicine, Ageing, Healthy living
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REVIEW: Well-being for Women 2017
Review of Well-being for Women groups 2017: Often when we think about our health and wellbeing, we consider it as something we 'do', but have you ever considered that your state of health comes from within?
Well-being, Healthy living, Women’s health, Unimed Living Sydney, Events, Women's health events
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REVIEW: Life is Medicine 2017
How we live either heals us or harms us. Everything we do, think, feel or say and how we move in life affects us, being either ‘good medicine’ or ‘bad medicine’.
Well-being, Self-awareness, Healthy living, Unimed Living Sydney, Events
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Let food be thy medicine – outdated quote or ageless wisdom?
How powerful are our food choices in influencing the health of our bodies?
Nutrition, Medicine, Lifestyle diseases, Healthy living, Healthy diet
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WARNING – Words could be damaging your health!
What if good is not good and better was bad? Suppose normal is harmful? What is truly good and what is truly healthy?
Love, Livingness, Abuse, Corruption, Healthy living, Soul, Reductionism, Unimedpedia, Truth, Energy, Expression, Sickness, Spirit, Ill Heath
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The identification of dealing drugs
Growing up, drugs were never really spoken about; they were considered bad and for those who did not achieve much in life. Yet among my extended family, drug use was commonplace.
Self-nurturing, Healing, Self-love, Healthy living, Addiction, Drugs
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How stimulants keep us away from feeling amazing all of the time
Do stimulants give us energy? Find out what stimulants, like sugar, coffee, alcohol, etc. really do to our body.
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How I quit smoking and found me
Today I am in my early 60’s and I have been smoke and alcohol free for seven years now, but the battle to quit smoking took me 16 years.
Lifestyle, Emotions, Self-worth, Healthy living, Addiction, Drugs
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Exercise for weight loss – a myth?
This article explores whether exercise is the answer to losing weight or if that is indeed a myth.
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Nutritional Dogma – Food rules or loving impulse?
When we categorise foods and diet into ‘good’ and ‘bad’, are we truly supporting ourselves or creating restrictions and dogma?
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REVIEW: Life is Medicine 2018
Review of Life is Medicine workshops 2018: How we live either heals us or harms us. Everything we do, think, feel or say and how we move in life affects us, being either ‘good medicine’ or ‘bad medicine’.
Well-being, Self-awareness, Healthy living, Awareness, Community, Unimed Living Sydney, Events
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Can food and love co-exist?
The FDA of America has slapped Nashoba with a warning for its use of the word Love in its Food Products!
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Exercise and Newton’s 3rd Law
Newton’s third law of motion, “For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction” considers the measure of force that returns to our body in movement. What does this actually mean?
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Your best medicine?
Love is something that we all crave; we all want to be loved and to love back in return. Could love be our best medicine?
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Millions of dollars and still no cure for cancer
Millions of dollars and many decades of research have gone into finding a cure for cancer and yet we still have no answers, no solutions and no way of preventing this dreadful disease.
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Exercising to lose weight – a personal story
Anne discovered that she could keep her weight down with excessive exercise, but at what cost to her body?
Body image, Connection, Healthy living, Body awareness, Weight loss
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Before and after: Rowena Stewart on her relationship with food
Rowena shares how her awareness around food and healing her hurts has completely changed her weight, shape and health.
Gluten free, Dairy free, Healthy living, Hurt, Body awareness, Weight, Weight loss, Coeliac, Celiac
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OFFICIAL VIDEO: Celebrating 10 years of Universal Medicine Vietnam Retreats
After more than a decade of International Philosophical Health Retreats, Universal Medicine takes a moment to reflect back on the 10 years of Vietnam Retreats thus far, enjoy!
Livingness, Brotherhood, Connection, Healthy living, Ageless Wisdom, Philosophy, Events
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Esoteric Women's Health Newsletter September 2018
What gets in the way of Purpose? What might be driving us to repeat behaviours that we know don't support us and how we can make true and lasting change?
Well-being, Healing, Esoteric Women's Health, Women's health, Healthy living, Mental health
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Esoteric Women's Health Newsletter October 2018
In this month's newsletter we offer various articles, videos and more to support with an understanding of what living Health from Within truly means, and how we can live this in our lives.
Well-being, Esoteric Women's Health, Women's health, Healthy living
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11th of November Remembrance Day, 100 years on, was their sacrifice worth it?
One hundred years on from the First World War ending, was the sacrifice of all those young men who died in the trenches in the most appalling conditions worth it? Is the world we currently have created a good testimony to their sacrifice? Do we have anything to feel proud of?
Evolution, Harmony, Connection, Healthy living, Humanity, Conflict
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REVIEW: Universal Medicine Retreats: Practical Wisdom (2018)
Forget spa treatments and days of silence and introspection – the Universal Medicine Retreats are focussed on living life so that you don’t want to escape it.
Livingness, Brotherhood, Connection, Healthy living, Awareness, Community, Body awareness, Events
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Alcohol consumption: Is there a recommended daily intake?
Dr. Amelia Stephens busts the myths behind “recommended daily drinking”
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REVIEW: The Livingness 2 (2018)
October, 2018: This one-day healing workshop offered each year by Universal Medicine is an open invitation to explore a fundamental truth that we are all, every single one of us, deeply sensitive.
Healing, Livingness, Brotherhood, Stress, Healthy living, Tension, Community, Events
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Esoteric Women's Health Newsletter January 2019
Welcome to the January 2019 New Year newsletter dedicated to exploring the quality in which we live our lives.
Well-being, Esoteric Women's Health, Women's health, Healthy living
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Is there a healthy way to be ill?
None of us are immune from ever being ill and we have many phrases that reflect that this is an everyday part of life. We cannot always prevent ourselves from getting sick, but is there a healthy way to be ill?
Health, Lifestyle diseases, Healthy living, Disease, Sickness
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Lifestyle vs. Livingness
This article explores the difference between lifestyle and livingness and how living life from your true essence leads you to healthy living.
Lifestyle, Livingness, Illusion, Harmony, Essence, Healthy living, Behaviour, Culture, Philosophy
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Esoteric Women's Health Newsletter February 2019
Welcome to our February newsletter where we explore the theme of Power. What does Power for a woman actually mean?
Well-being, Empowerment, Esoteric Women's Health, Women's health, Healthy living
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Esoteric Women's Health Newsletter August 2019
Living Health From Within – In August, Esoteric Women’s Health reminds women that what they truly seek is not found outside of themselves but rather from exploring what is deeper within.
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Turn and face the change
Men are notorious for resisting change and having habitual behaviours that they do not want to let go of. Why is this?
