CLASSIC BOOK REVIEW: “You Can Heal your Life” Louise L. Hay
I LOVE BOOKS, especially those that teach me and awaken realities that I was unaware. Louise Hay “The Queen of the New Age” wrote several books and started a publishing company which flourishes.
“You Can Heal Your Life” has sold in excess of 50 million copies.
Louise Hay 1926-2017 “espoused an upbeat message with a metaphysical underpinning.” She believed that a person can heal their mind and body through the power of affirmation or positive thinking and that people’s thoughts were responsible for their condition in addition to unforgiveness and resentment. In the book she lists almost every disease and the mental cause.
“I heard someone say If you’re willing to change your thinking, you can change your life.”
Ms. Hays relied on catchphrases and affirmations:
“LIFE LOVES YOU”
“EVERY THOUGHT WE THINK IS CREATING OUR FUTURE.”
“MY HAPPY THOUGHTS HELP CREATE MY HEALTHY BODY.”
“ONLY GOOD CAN COME TO ME”
“I ALWAYS WORK WITH AND FOR WONDERFUL PEOPLE.”
“I LOVE MY JOB.”
“IN THE INFINITY OF LIFE WHERE I AM, ALL IS PERFECT, WHOLE AND COMPLETE.”
Louise Hay: “I find that when we really love and accept and approve of ourselves EXACTLY AS WE ARE, then everything in life works. It’s as if little miracles are everywhere. Our health improves, we attract more money, our relationships become much more fulfilling and we begin to express ourselves in creatively fulfilling ways. All this seems to happen without our even trying.”
“Self-approval and self-acceptance in the now are the main keys to positive changes in every area of our lives.”
“Loving the self, to me, begins with never criticizing ourselves for anything. Criticism locks us into the very pattern we are trying to change. Understanding and being gentle with ourselves helps us to move out of it. Remember, you have been criticizing yourself for years, and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.”
“CANCER is a disease caused by deep resentment held for a long time until it literally eats away at your body.”
“THE BODY, like everything else in life, is a mirror of our inner thoughts and beliefs.”
“WHEN the child feels unsafe, it creates a lot of trouble. If you’re not comforting the child within you, then that is very sad indeed.”
“WE are all here to transcend our early limitations, whatever they were. We’re here to recognize our own magnificence and divinity no matter what they told us. You have you negative beliefs to overcome, and I have my negative beliefs to overcome.”
I AM OPEN AND RECEPTIVE TO ALL THE GOOD AND ABUNDANCE IN THE UNIVERSE.”
MS. HAY SUGGESTS SAYING: “I approve of myself” 400 hundred times a day.” I find it works miracles.
“You Can Heal Your Life” Hay House 1984 Louise L. Hay
isbn 0-937611-01-8