You Can Heal Your Life

“In the infinity of life where I am, all is perfect, whole, and complete, and yet life is ever changing. There is no beginning and no end, only a constant cycling and recycling of substance and experiences. Life is never stuck or static or stale, for each moment is ever new and fresh. I am one with the very Power that created me, and this Power has given me the power to create my own circumstances. I rejoice in the knowledge that I have the power of my own mind to use in any way I choose. Every moment of life is a new beginning point as we move from the old. This moment is a new point of beginning for me right here and right now. All is well in my world.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay)- Page xiii
“When we create peace and harmony and balance in our minds, we will find it in our lives.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay)- Page 1
“The Universe Totally Supports Us in Every Thought We Choose to Think and Believe” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay)- Page 2
“The Only Thing We Are Ever Dealing With Is a Thought, and a Thought Can Be Changed. No matter what the problem is, our experiences are just outer effects of inner thoughts.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay)- Page 5
“Believe It or Not, We Do Choose Our Thoughts. We may habitually think the same thought over and over so that it does not seem we are choosing the thought. But we did make the original choice. We can refuse to think certain thoughts.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay)- Page 5
“The more self-hatred and guilt we have, the less our lives work. The less self-hatred and guilt we have, the better our lives work, on all levels.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay)- Page 5
“I Find That Resentment, Criticism, Guilt, and Fear Cause More Problems Than Anything Else. These four things cause the major problems in our bodies and in our lives. These feelings come from blaming others and not taking responsibility for our own experiences. You see, if we are all responsible for everything in our lives, then there is no one to blame.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay)- Page 6
“Resentment that is long-held can eat away at the body and become the dis-ease we call cancer.” .” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay)- Page 6
“Criticism as a permanent habit can often lead to arthritis in the body.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay)- Page 7
“Guilt always looks for punishment, and punishment creates pain.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay)- Page 7
“Fear, and the tension it produces, can create things like baldness, ulcers, and even sore feet.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay)- Page 7
“I have found that forgiving and releasing resentment will dissolve even cancer.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay)- Page 7 You Can Heal Your Life
“We Can Change Our Attitude Toward the Past. The past is over and done. We cannot change that now. Yet we can change our thoughts about the past. How foolish for us to PUNISH OURSELVES in the present moment because someone hurt us in the long-ago past.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay)- Page 7
“Even our concept of God needs to be one that is for us, not against us.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 7
“I forgive you for not being the way I wanted you to be. I forgive you and I set you free.” This affirmation sets us free.” You Can Heal Your Life(Louise Hay) Page 8
“Forgiveness means giving up, letting go. It has nothing to do with condoning behavior. It’s just letting the whole thing go. We do not have to know HOW to forgive. All we need to do is to be WILLING to forgive. The Universe will take care of the hows.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 8
“I find that when we really love and accept and APPROVE OF OURSELVES EXACTLY AS WE ARE, then everything in life works.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 8
“People who love themselves and their bodies neither abuse themselves nor others.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 9
“Loving the self, to me, begins with never ever 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.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 9
“In the infinity of life where I am, all is perfect, whole, and complete. I believe in a power far greater than I am that flows through me every moment of every day. I open myself to the wisdom within, knowing that there is only One Intelligence in this Universe. Out of this One Intelligence comes all the answers, all the solutions, all the healings, all the new creations. I trust this Power and Intelligence, knowing that whatever I need to know is revealed to me and that whatever I need comes to me in the right time, space, and sequence. All is well in my world.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 9
“I believe that should is one of the most damaging words in our language. Every time we use should, we are, in effect, saying “wrong.” Either we are wrong or we were wrong or we are going to be wrong. I don’t think we need more wrongs in our life. We need to have more freedom of choice. I would like to take the word should and remove it from the vocabulary forever. I’d replace it with the word could. Could gives us choice, and we are never wrong.” You Can Heal Your Life(Louise Hay) Page 15
“What is there on your “should list” that could be dropped with a sense of relief?” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 16
“Many of the things they thought they “should” do are things they never wanted to do, and they were only trying to please other people.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 16
“When we are little, we learn how to feel about ourselves and about life by the reactions of the adults around us.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 17
“Love” to me is an appreciation to such a degree that it fills my heart to bursting and overflows. Love can go in any direction. I can feel love for: The very process of life itself. The joy of being alive. The beauty I see. Another person. Knowledge. The process of the mind. Our bodies and the way they work. Animals, birds, fish. Vegetation in all its forms. The Universe and the way it works.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 17
“Let’s look at some of the ways we don’t love ourselves: We scold and criticize ourselves endlessly. We mistreat our bodies for food, alcohol, and drugs. We choose to believe we are unlovable. We are afraid to charge a decent price for our services. We create illnesses and pain in our bodies. We procrastinate on things that would benefit us. We live in chaos and disorder. We create debt and burdens. We attract lovers and mates who belittle us.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 17
“Loving the self begins with never, ever criticizing ourselves for anything.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 22
“In the infinity of life where I am, all is perfect, whole, and complete. I am always Divinely protected and guided. It is safe for me to look within myself. It is safe for me to look into the past. It is safe for me to enlarge my viewpoint of life. I am far more than my personality — past, present, or future. I now choose to rise above my personality problems to recognize the magnificence of my being. I am totally willing to learn to love myself. All is well in my world.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 23
“Would you really dig into yesterday’s garbage to make tonight’s meal? Do you dig into old mental garbage to create tomorrow’s experiences?”
“If we were to take a three-year-old child and put him in the middle of the room, and you and I were to start yelling at the child, telling him how stupid he was, how he could never do anything right, how he should do this, and shouldn’t do that, and look at the mess he made; and maybe hit him a few times, we would end up with a frightened little child who sits docilely in the corner, or who tears up the place. The child will go one of these two ways, but we will never know the potential of that child. If we take the same little child and tell him how much we love him, how much we care, that we love the way he looks and love how bright and clever he is, that we love the way he does things, and that it’s okay for him to make mistakes as he learns — and that we will always be there for him no matter what — then the potential that comes out of that child will blow your mind!” You Can Heal Your Life(Louise Hay) Page 28
“Each one of us has a three-year-old child within us, and we often spend most of our time yelling at that kid in ourselves. Then we wonder why our lives don’t work.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 28
“If you had a friend who was always criticizing you, would you want to be around that person?” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 28
“Blame is one of the surest ways to stay in a problem. In blaming another, we give away our power. Understanding enables us to rise above the issue and take control of our future.” You Can Heal Your Life(Louise Hay) Page 29
“It is imperative for our freedom to understand that our parents were doing the best they could with the understanding, awareness, and knowledge they had.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 29
“How much do you know about your parents’ childhoods, especially before the age of ten? If it’s still possible for you to find out, ask them. If you’re able to find out about your parents’ childhoods, you will more easily understand why they did what they did. Understanding will bring you compassion. If you don’t know and can’t find out, try to imagine what it must have been like for them. What kind of childhood would create an adult like that? You need this knowledge for your own freedom. You can’t free yourself until you free them. You can’t forgive yourself until you forgive them. If you demand perfection from them, you will demand perfection from yourself, and you will be miserable all your life.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 29
“There are the strong and very persuasive statements made by advertisements in periodicals and on television. All too many products are sold by making us feel we are unworthy or wrong if we don’t use them.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 31
“In the infinity of life where I am, all is perfect, whole, and complete. The past has no power over me because I am willing to learn and to change. I see the past as necessary to bring me to where I am today. I am willing to begin where I am right now to clean the rooms of my mental house. I know it does not matter where I start, so I now begin with the smallest and the easiest rooms, and in that way, I will see results quickly. I am thrilled to be in the middle of this adventure, for I know I will never go through this particular experience again. I am willing to set myself free. All is well in my world.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 32
“Whatever I choose to believe becomes true for me. Whatever you choose to believe becomes true for you. Our thoughts can be totally different. Our lives and experiences are totally different.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 33
“Look at the problems in your life. Ask yourself, “What kinds of thoughts am I having that create this?” If you allow yourself to sit quietly and ask this question, your inner intelligence will show you the answer.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 34
“Don’t trust strangers” may be good advice for a small child, but for an adult, to continue this belief will only create isolation and loneliness.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 35
“Better questions to ask are: “Is it true for me now?” “Where did that belief come from?” “Do I still believe it because a first-grade teacher told me that over and over?” “Would I be better off if I dropped that belief?” Beliefs that “Boys don’t cry,” and “Girls don’t climb trees,” create men who hide their feelings and women who are afraid to be physical.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 35
“If we were taught as a child that the world is a frightening place, then everything we hear that fits that belief we will accept as true for us. The same is true for “Don’t trust strangers,” “Don’t go out at night,” or “People cheat you.” On the other hand, if we were taught early in life that the world is a safe place, then we would hold other beliefs. We could easily accept that love is everywhere, and people are so friendly, and I always have whatever I need.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 35
“Did your family teach you, “There is not enough”? Then I am sure you often feel as though the cupboard is bare, or you find you just get by or are always in debt.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 36
“If we want a joyous life, we must think joyous thoughts. If we want a prosperous life, we must think prosperous thoughts. If we want a loving life, we must think of loving thoughts. Whatever we send out mentally or verbally will come back to us in like form.” You Can Heal Your Life(Louise Hay) Page 36
“Your thoughts and beliefs of the past have created this moment, and all the moments up to this moment. What you are now choosing to believe and think and say will create the next moment and the next day and the next month and the next year.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 37
“If you hear yourself expressing negative words of any sort, stop in mid-sentence. Either rephrase the sentence or just drop it. You could even say to it, “Out!” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 37
“Imagine yourself in line at a cafeteria, or perhaps at a buffet in a luxurious hotel, where instead of dishes of food, there are dishes of thoughts. You get to choose any and all the thoughts you wish. These thoughts will create your future experiences. Now, if you choose thoughts that will create problems and pain, that’s rather foolish. It’s like choosing food that always makes you ill. We may do this once or twice, but as soon as we learn which foods upset our bodies, we stay away from them. It’s the same with thoughts. Let us stay away from thoughts that create problems and pain.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 37
“Dr. Raymond Charles Barker would repeatedly say, “When there is a problem, there is not something to do, there is something to know.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 38
“In the infinity of life where I am, all is perfect, whole, and complete. I no longer choose to believe in old limitations and lack. I now choose to begin to see myself as the Universe sees me — perfect, whole, and complete. The truth of my Being is that I was created perfect, whole, and complete. I will always be perfect, whole, and complete. I now choose to live my life from this understanding. I am in the right place at the right time, doing the right thing. All is well in my world.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 39
“Let’s use the affirmation, “I am willing to change.” Repeat this often. “I am willing to change. I am willing to change.” You can touch your throat as you say this. The throat is the energy center in the body where change takes place. By touching your throat, you are acknowledging you are in the process of changing.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 39
“My personal nutritional approach is simple. If it grows, eat it. If it doesn’t grow, don’t eat it.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 45
“In the infinity of life where I am, all is perfect, whole, and complete. I now choose calmly and objectively to see my old patterns, and I am willing to make changes. I am teachable. I can learn. I am willing to change. I choose to have fun doing this. I choose to react as though I have found a treasure when I discover something else to release. I see and feel myself changing moment by moment. Thoughts no longer have any power over me. I am the power in the world. I choose to be free. All is well in my world.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 47
“If you want to move to another room, you have to get up and move step by step in that direction. Just sitting in your chair and demanding that you be in the other room will not work. It’s the same thing. We all want our problem to be over with, but we don’t want to do the small things that will add up to the solution.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 50
“It’s hard enough to make changes when we want to, but to try to make someone else change when he or she doesn’t want to is impossible, and it can ruin a good friendship.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 56
“One of the first affirmations to use is: “I am willing to release the NEED for the resistance, or the headache, or constipation, or the excess weight, or the lack of money or whatever.” Say: “I am willing to release the need for. . .” If you are resisting at this point, then your other affirmations cannot work.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 57
“You need to very gently and patiently unravel the knots. Be gentle and patient with yourself as you untangle your own mental knots.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 58
“I am willing to release the need to be unworthy. I am worthy of the very best in life, and I now lovingly allow myself to accept it.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 60
“When we want to change a condition, we need to say so. “I am willing to release the pattern within me that is creating this condition.” You can say this to yourself over and over every time you think of your illness or problem.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 60
“You are no longer helpless; you are acknowledging your own power. You are saying, “I am beginning to understand that I created this. I now take my own power back. I am going to release this old idea and let it go.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 60
“Almost all of our programming, both negative and positive, was accepted by us by the time we were three years old.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 61
“What was done in the past is done, and it is over now. But this is present time, and you now have the opportunity to treat yourself the way you wish to be treated.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 61
“Be kind to yourself. Begin to love and approve of yourself.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 61
“In the infinity of life where I am, all is perfect, whole, and complete. I see any resistance patterns within me only as something else to release. They have no power over me. I am the power in my world. I flow with the changes taking place in my life as best I can. I approve of myself and the way I am changing. I am doing the best I can. Each day gets easier. I rejoice that I am in the rhythm and flow of my ever-changing life. Today is a wonderful day. I choose to make it so. All is well in my world.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 62
“I now realize that I have created this condition, and I am now willing to release the pattern in my consciousness that is responsible for this condition.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 65
“I am willing to let go. I release. I let go. I release all tension. I release all fear. I release all anger. I release all guilt. I release all sadness. I let go of all old limitations. I let go, and I am at peace. I am at peace with myself. I am at peace with the process of life. I am safe.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 67
“The past is over and done and cannot be changed.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 69
“Even when we lament about the past, we are experiencing our memory of it at this moment, and losing the real experience of this moment in the process.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 69
“If you have a child who has habits that irritate you, I will guarantee that they are your habits. Children learn only by imitating the adults around them. Clear it within you, and you’ll find that they change automatically.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 101
“This is the only way to change others — change ourselves first. Change your patterns, and you will find that “they” are different, too.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 101
“Blame is useless. Blaming only gives away our power. Keep your power. Without power, we cannot make changes. The helpless victim cannot see a way out.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 101
“Don’t settle for anybody just to have someone. Set your standards. What kind of love do you want to attract? List the qualities in yourself, and you will attract a person who has them.” You Can Heal Your Life(Louise Hay) Page 101
“In the infinity of life where I am, all is perfect, whole, and complete. I live in harmony and balance with everyone I know. Deep at the center of my being, there is an infinite well of love. I now allow this love to flow to the surface. It fills my heart, my body, my mind, my consciousness, my very being, and radiates out from me in all directions and returns to me multiplied. The more love I use and give, the more I have to give. The supply is endless. The use of love makes me feel good; it is an expression of my inner joy. I love myself; therefore, I take loving care of my body. I lovingly feed it nourishing foods and beverages, I lovingly groom it and dress it, and my body lovingly responds to me with vibrant health and energy. I love myself; therefore, I provide for myself a comfortable home, one that fills all my needs and is a pleasure to be in. I fill the rooms with the vibration of love so that all who enter, myself included, will feel this love and be nourished by it. I love myself; therefore, I work at a job I truly enjoy doing, one that uses my creative talents and abilities, working with and for people I love and who love me, and earning a good income. I love myself; therefore, I behave and think in a loving way to all people for I know that which I give out returns to me multiplied. I only attract loving people in my world, for they are a mirror of what I am. I love myself; therefore, I forgive and totally release the past and all past experiences, and I am free. I love myself; therefore, I live totally in the now, experiencing each moment as good and knowing that my future is bright and joyous and secure, for I am a beloved child of the Universe, and the Universe lovingly takes care of me now and forevermore. All is well in my world.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 102
“If you are in a job you don’t care for, if you want to change your position, if you are having problems at work, or if you are out of work, the best way to handle it is this: Begin by blessing your current position with love. Realize that this is only a stepping stone on your pathway. You are where you are because of your own thinking patterns.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 105
“I am totally open and receptive to a wonderful new position, one that uses all my talents and abilities, and allows me to express creatively in ways that are fulfilling to me. I work with and for people whom I love, and who love and respect me, in a wonderful location and earning good money.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 106
“If there is someone at work who bothers you, again bless them with love every time you think of them.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 106
“In the infinity of life where I am, all is perfect, whole, and complete. My unique creative talents and abilities flow through me and are expressed in deeply satisfying ways. There are people out there who are always looking for my services. I am always in demand and can pick and choose what I want to do. I earn good money doing what satisfies me. My work is a joy and a pleasure. All is well in my world.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 108
“What does “failure” mean anyway? Does it mean that something did not turn out the way you wanted it to, or the way you were hoping? The law of experience is always perfect. We out-picture our inner thoughts and beliefs perfectly. You must have left out a step or had an inner belief that told you that you did not deserve — or you felt unworthy.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 109
“The old saying, “If at first, you don’t succeed, try, try again,” is so true. It doesn’t mean beat yourself up and try the same old way again. It means to recognize your error and try another way — until you learn to do it correctly.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 109
“I think it is our natural birthright to go from success to success all our life. If we are not doing that, either we are not in tune with our innate capabilities, or we do not believe it can be true for us, or we do not recognize our successes.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 109
“When a little child is learning to walk or talk, we encourage him and praise him for every tiny improvement he makes. The child beams and eagerly tries to do better. Is this the way you encourage yourself when you are learning something new? Or do you make it harder to learn because you tell yourself that you are stupid or clumsy or a “failure”?”
“Divine Intelligence gives me all the ideas I can use. Everything I touch is a success. There is plenty for everyone, including me. There are plenty of customers for my services. I establish a new awareness of success. I move into the Winning Circle. I am a magnet for Divine Prosperity. I am blessed beyond my fondest dreams. Riches of every sort are drawn to me. Golden Opportunities are everywhere for me.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 110
“In the infinity of life where I am, all is perfect, whole, and complete. I am one with the Power that created me. I have within me all the ingredients for success. I now allow the success formula to flow through me and manifest in my world. Whatever I am guided to do will be a success. I learn from every experience. I go from success to success and from glory to glory. My pathway is a series of stepping stones to ever greater successes. All is well in my world.” You Can Heal Your Life(Louise Hay) Page 111
“I deserve the best, and I accept the best, now.” If you want the above affirmation to be true for you, then you do not want to believe any of the following statements: Money doesn’t grow on trees. Money is filthy and dirty. Money is evil. I am poor but clean (or good). Rich people are crooks. I don’t want to have money and be stuck up. I will never get a good job. I will never make any money. Money goes out faster than it comes in. I am always in debt. Poor people can never get out from under. My parents were poor, and I will be poor. Artists have to struggle. Only people who cheat have money. Everyone else comes first. Oh, I couldn’t charge that much. I don’t deserve it. I’m not good enough to make money. Never tell anyone what I have in the bank. Never lend money. A penny saved is a penny earned. Save for a rainy day. A Depression could come at any moment. I resent others having money. Money only comes from hard work. How many of these beliefs belong to you? Do you really think that believing any of them will bring you prosperity? It is old, limited thinking. Perhaps it was what your family believed about money because family beliefs stay with us unless we consciously release them. Wherever it came from, it must leave your consciousness if you want to prosper.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 113
“Whatever we concentrate on increases, so don’t concentrate on your bills. If you concentrate on lack and debt, then you will create more lack and debt.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 113
“There is an inexhaustible supply in the Universe. Begin to be aware of it. Take the time to count the stars on a clear evening, or the grains of sand in one handful, the leaves on one branch of a tree, the raindrops on a windowpane, the seeds in one tomato. Each seed is capable of producing a whole vine with unlimited tomatoes on it. Be grateful for what you do have, and you will find that it increases.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 114
“Be sure you are not rejecting prosperity now. If a friend invites you to lunch or dinner, accept with joy and pleasure. Don’t feel you are just “trading” with people. If you get a gift, accept it graciously. If you can’t use the gift, pass it on to someone else. Keep the flow of things moving through you. Just smile and say “Thank you.” In this way you let the Universe know you are ready to receive your good.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 115
“Love Your Bills It is essential that we stop worrying about money and stop resenting our bills. Many people treat bills as punishments to be avoided if possible. A bill is an acknowledgment of our ability to pay. The creditor assumes you are affluent enough and gives you the service or the product first. I bless with love each and every bill that comes into my home. I bless with love and stamp a small kiss on each and every check I write. If you pay with resentment, money has a hard time coming back to you. If you pay with love and joy, you open the free-flowing channel of abundance. Treat your money as a friend, not as something you wad up and crush into your pocket.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 115
“The bills that come in I rejoice over, thanking the companies for trusting me to pay.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 117
“Don’t delay your own prosperity by being resentful or jealous that someone else has more than you. Don’t criticize the way they choose to spend their money. It is none of your business. Each person is under the law of his or her own consciousness. Just take care of your own thoughts. Bless another’s good fortune, and know there is plenty for all.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 117
“I sit at least once a day with my arms stretched out to the side and say, “I am open and receptive to all the good and abundance in the Universe.” It gives me a feeling of expansion.” You Can Heal Your Life(Louise Hay) Page 117
“Meditation, treatments, and affirmations are mental deposits. Let’s make a habit of making daily deposits.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 118
“Just having more money is not enough. We want to enjoy the money. Do you allow yourself to have pleasure with money? If not, why not? A portion of everything you take in can go to pure pleasure. Did you have any fun with your money last week? Why not? What old belief is stopping you? Let it go.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 118
“Compliments are gifts of prosperity. Learn to accept them graciously.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 121
“THE HEAD represents us. It is what we show the world. It is how we are usually recognized. When something is wrong in the head area, it usually means we feel something is very wrong with “us.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 124
“THE HAIR represents strength. When we are tense and afraid, we often create those bands of steel that originate in the shoulder muscles and come up over the top of the head and sometimes even down around the eyes. The hair shaft grows up through the hair follicle. When there is a lot of tension in the scalp, the hair shaft can be squeezed so tightly that the hair can no longer breathe, and it dies and falls out. If this tension is continued, and the scalp is not relaxed, then the follicle remains so tight that the new hair cannot grow through. The result is baldness. Female baldness has been on the increase ever since women have begun entering the “business world” with all its tensions and frustrations.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 124
“Deafness represents longstanding refusal to listen to someone. Notice that when one partner has a hearing impairment, the other partner often talks and talks and talks.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 124
“THE EARS represent the capacity to hear. When there are problems with the ears, it usually means something is going on you do not want to hear.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 124
“THE EYES represent the capacity to see. When there are problems with the eyes, it usually means there is something we do not want to see, either about ourselves or about life: past, present, or future. Whenever I see small children wearing glasses, I know there is stuff going on in their household they do not want to look at. If they can’t change the experience, they will diffuse the sight so they don’t have to see it so clearly. Many people have had dramatic healing experiences when they have been willing to go back into the past and clean up what it was they did not want to look at a year or two before they began wearing glasses. Are you negating what’s happening right now? What don’t you want to face? Are you afraid to see the present or the future? If you could see clearly, what would you see that you don’t see now? Can you see what you are doing to yourself?” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 125
“HEADACHES come from invalidating the self. The next time you get a headache, stop and ask yourself where and how you have just made yourself wrong. Forgive yourself, let it go, and the headache will dissolve back into the nothingness from where it came.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 125
“Migraine headaches are created by people who want to be perfect and who create a lot of pressure on themselves. A lot of suppressed anger is involved.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 125
“SINUS problems felt right in the face and so close to the nose, represent being irritated by someone in your life, someone who is close to you. You might even feel they are bearing down on you.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 125
“We forget that we create the situations, then we give our power away by blaming the other person for our frustration. No person, no place, and nothing have any power over us, for “we” are the only thinkers in our minds. We create our experiences, our reality, and everyone in it. When we create peace and harmony and balance in our mind, we will find it in our lives.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 125
“THE NECK AND THROAT are fascinating because so much “stuff” goes on there. The neck represents the ability to be flexible in our thinking, to see the other side of a question, and to see another person’s viewpoint. When there are problems with the neck, it usually means we are being stubborn about our own concept of a situation.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 125
“THE THROAT represents our ability to “speak up” for ourselves, to “ask for what we want,” to say “I am,” etc. When we have throat problems, it usually means we do not feel we have the right to do these things. We feel inadequate to stand up for ourselves. Sore throats are always anger. If a cold is involved, then there is mental confusion, too. LARYNGITIS usually means you are so angry you cannot speak.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 125
“The throat also represents the creative flow in the body. This is where we express our creativity, and when our creativity is stifled and frustrated, we often have throat problems. We all know many people who live their whole lives for others. They never once get to do what they want to do. They are always pleasing mothers/fathers/ spouses/lovers/bosses. TONSILLITIS and THYROID problems are just frustrated creativity, resulting from not being able to do what you want to do.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 127
“THE ARMS represent our ability and capacity to embrace the experiences of life. The upper arms have to do with our capacity, and the lower arms have to do with our abilities.” You Can Heal Your Life(Louise Hay) Page 127
“THE FINGERS each have meaning. Problems in the fingers show where you need to relax and let go. If you cut your index finger, there is probably anger and fear that has to do with your ego in some current situation. The thumb is mental and represents worry. The index finger is the ego and fear. The middle finger has to do with sex and with anger. When you are angry, hold your middle finger and watch the anger dissolve. Hold the right finger if your anger is at a man and the left if it is at a woman. The ring finger is both unions and grief. The little finger has to do with the family and pretending.” You Can Heal Your Life(Louise Hay) Page 127
“Do you feel real “burnt out”? Are your finances in a mess, or do you worry about them excessively? Then your lower back may be bothering you. The lack of money or the fear of money will do it. The amount you have has nothing to do with it.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 128
“Our breath is the most precious substance in our lives, and yet we totally take for granted when we exhale that our next breath will be there. If we did not take another breath, we would not last three minutes. Now if the Power that created us has given us enough breath to last for as long as we shall live, can we not trust that everything else we need will also be supplied?” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 128
“THE LUNGS represent our capacity to take in and give out life. Problems with the lungs usually mean we are afraid to take in life, or perhaps we feel we do not have the right to live life fully. Women have traditionally been very shallow breathers and have often thought of themselves as second-class citizens who did not have the right to take up space and sometimes not even the right to live. Today, this is all changing. Women are taking their place as full members of society and breathing deeply and fully.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 128
“Emphysema and heavy smoking are ways of denying life. They mask a deep feeling of being totally unworthy of existing. Scolding will not change the habit of smoking. It is the basic belief that must change first.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 129
“THE BREASTS represent the mothering principle. When there are problems with the breasts, it usually means we are “over-mothering” either a person, a place, a thing, or an experience. Part of the mothering process is to allow the child to “grow up.” We need to know when to take our hands off, when to turn over the reins and let them be. Being overprotective does not prepare the other person to handle his or her own experience. Sometimes our “overbearing” attitudes literally cut off nourishment in a situation.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 129
“If cancer is involved, then there is also deep resentment. Release the fear and know the Intelligence of the Universe resides in each one of us.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 129
“THE HEART, of course, represents love, while our blood represents joy. Our hearts lovingly pump joy throughout our bodies. When we deny ourselves joy and love, the heart shrivels and becomes cold. As a result, the blood gets sluggish, and we creep our way to ANEMIA, ANGINA, and HEART ATTACKS. The heart does not “attack” us. We get so caught up in the soap opera and dramas we create that we often forget to notice the little joys that surround us. We spend years squeezing all the joy out of the heart, and it literally falls over in pain. Heart attack people are never joyous people. If they do not take the time to appreciate the joys of life, they will just recreate another heart attack in time.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 129
“When there are stomach problems, it usually means we don’t know how to assimilate the new experience. We are afraid.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 129
“ULCERS are no more than fear — tremendous fear of “not being good enough.” We fear not being good enough for a parent, we fear not being good enough for a boss. We can’t stomach who we are. We rip our guts apart trying to please others. No matter how important our job is, our inner self-esteem is very low. We are afraid they will find out about us.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 129
“The next time you have a knee problem, ask yourself where you are being self-righteous, where you are refusing to bend. Drop the stubbornness and let go. Life is flow, life is movement; and to be comfortable, we must be flexible and move with it. A willow tree bends and sways and flows with the wind and is always graceful and at ease with life.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 135
“ACCIDENTS are no accident. Like everything else in our lives, we create them. It’s not that we necessarily say, “I want to have an accident,” but we do have the mental thought patterns that can attract an accident to us. Some people seem to be “accident-prone,” and others go for a lifetime without ever getting a scratch. Accidents are expressions of anger. They indicate built-up frustrations resulting from not feeling the freedom to speak up for one’s self. Accidents also indicate rebellion against authority. We get so mad we want to hit people, and instead, we get hit. When we are angry at ourselves, when we feel guilty, when we feel the need for punishment, an accident is a marvelous way of taking care of that. It seems as though any accident is not our fault, that we are helpless victims of a quirk of fate. An accident allows us to turn to others for sympathy and attention. We get our wounds bathed and attended to. We often get bed rest, sometimes for an extended period of time. And we get pain. Where this pain occurs in the body gives us a clue to which area of life we feel guilty about. The degree of physical damage lets us know how severely we felt we needed to be punished and how long the sentence should be.” You Can Heal Your Life(Louise Hay) Page 138