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You Can Heal Your Life

by Louise L Hay

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ISBN13: 9780937611012
ISBN10: 0937611018
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Louise L. Hay, bestselling author, is an internationally known leader in the self-help field. Her key message is: "If we are willing to do the mental work, almost anything can be healed." The author has a great deal of experience and firsthand information to share about healing, including how she cured herself after being diagnosed with cancer.

 

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Life Is Really Very Simple. What We Give Out, We Get Back

 

What we think about ourselves becomes the truth for us. I believe that everyone, myself included, is responsible for everything in our lives, the best and the worst. Every thought we think is creating our future. Each one of us creates our experiences by our thoughts and our feelings. The thoughts we think and the words we speak create our experiences.

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In this book, Louise Hay, believing that we make ourselves ill by having thoughts of self-hatred, tells us that we are each responsible for our own reality. The book includes a directory of ailments and emotional causes for each with a corresponding affirmation to help overcome the illness.

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This New York Times bestseller has sold over 1.5 million copies. Its key message: If we are willing to do the mental work, almost anything can be healed. For all who are looking for a source of inspiration on the path to self-discovery.

Synopsis:

Louise L. Hay, bestselling author, is an internationally known leader in the self-help field. Her key message is: If we are willing to do the mental work, almost anything can be healed. The author has a great deal of experience and firsthand information to share about healing, including how she cured herself after being diagnosed with cancer.

An excerpt from You Can Heal Your Life:

Life Is Really Very Simple. What We Give Out, We Get Back

What we think about ourselves becomes the truth for us. I believe that everyone, myself included, is responsible for everything in our lives, the best and the worst. Every thought we think is creating our future. Each one of us creates our experiences by our thoughts and our feelings. The thoughts we think and the words we speak create our experiences.

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anonymous, February 23, 2009 (view all comments by anonymous)
The Psychological Side of Healing

"You Can Heal Your Life" is all about using your thoughts to fix the problems in your life. What kind of problems? Well, the book specifically looks into healing some pretty major life areas: relationships, work, success, prosperity, and your body. But wait a minute, did I say the book is using thoughts to heal your body? What's up with that? Is that even possible? Well, after reading this book, I think in many cases, yes, it is possible.

While I think it is the way to go to treat things such as an acute appendicitis with surgery, fractures with a cast, and pneumonia with antibiotics, there are many conditions where conventional medicine blatently falls short. Of course I'm talking about health problems such as migraines, backaches, or stomach ulcers- you know, those kinds of nagging disorders where we all know that stress/mental processes DO play a role. But while few would argue that psychological factors can cause an ulcer, what about more serious conditions such as, say, arthritis?

Well it may not be too far fetched. Consider this. One study of 1,198 subjects found that only 56% of men with SEVERE knee arthritis had any pain (Lawrence 1966). Another study X-rayed 84 seventy-nine year-olds and 76 eighty-five year-olds and found that only 43% of them with SEVERE knee arthritis had any pain complaints (Bagge 1991). There are plenty more examples in the scientific literature, but obviously there two alone show us that there is NO clear-cut association between severe knee arthritis and pain.

ON THE OTHER HAND, when one looks at the relationship between psychological variables and knee arthritis, one does see a clear association. For instance, one study looked at 65 patients (ages 55 to 87) with hip and/or knee arthritis. X-rays, pain, depression levels, anxiety levels, coping styles, and functional impairment were all assessed. The findings? Researchers discovered that the severity of one's arthritis showed little relationship to pain, BUT, psychological variables were strong predictors of who had pain and how impaired they were (Summers 1988).

Along the same lines, Salaffi examined 61 women (ages 51-79) with knee arthritis. Here again, results showed that how disabled someone was, was more related to psychological variables than how bad their knee looked on an X-ray film. Interestingly, both anxiety and depression WERE important predictors of pain (Salaffi 1991). Any one conducting a literature review on Medline will find more such examples IF you're looking for them. While I used knee arthritis as an example, there are MANY more studies on other health problems with similar findings.

All of this should be causing us to raise an eyebrow. The literature is telling us that it is far from being clear cut that things like bad knee arthritis ALWAYS mean pain. And the research is also giving us clues that the mind and our thought processes definitely play a role. So the question now becomes, if bad thought patterns can play a role in health problems such as arthritis, why not in other diseases such as cancer, as the book suggests?

You be the judge. I found that the main value in this book was getting me to look at how our thinking does influence the functioning of our bodies- as well as our life in general. Note that I'm NOT saying that you can think yourself well all the time either.

Remember that while Louise Hay did change her thought patterns and was cured of cancer, she has also written that she used other alternative treatments as well, such as foot reflexology and colon therapy (Chapter 16). Therefore, my advice is to look at ALL the options when dealing with a health problem, one MAJOR one being changing your mental patterns (which is the what the book does a nice job of addressing). And for this reason, I can recommend this book to anyone who needs physical healing or otherwise. Other alternative healing books of interest include "5-Minute Plantar Fasciitis Solution". Thank you Louise Hay!

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Product Details

ISBN:
9780937611012
Foreword:
Braun, Dave
Afterword:
Hay, Louise L.
Foreword:
Braun, Dave
Author:
Hay, Louise
Author:
Hay, Louise L.
Publisher:
Hay House
Location:
Santa Monica, CA :
Subject:
General
Subject:
Mental & Spiritual Healing
Subject:
Self-actualization (psychology)
Subject:
Healing
Subject:
Mental healing
Subject:
Mind and body
Subject:
Holistic Medicine
Subject:
Change
Subject:
Self-actualization
Subject:
Adaptation, Psychological
Subject:
Healing - General
Subject:
Self concept.
Subject:
Holistic health.
Subject:
Personal Growth - General
Subject:
Motivational & Inspirational
Copyright:
Edition Number:
Rev. expanded ed.
Edition Description:
Bibliography: p. 207-209.
Series Volume:
1363
Publication Date:
January 1984
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
247
Dimensions:
8.40x5.46x.70 in. .82 lbs.

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