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Overview

In You Can Heal Your Life (1984) by Louise Hay, the author explains how people’s thoughts and beliefs about themselves can cause longstanding physical and emotional problems. This book is an anniversary edition that includes a new afterword describing its success since publication. The approach to living a better life is to learn to love yourself in the present moment, which requires replacing negative thoughts with more positive ones because your thoughts shape your future experiences. Thoughts you put out into the world always come back to you.

People’s souls travel from one body to another. They do this because they need to learn certain lessons and advance on their spiritual journeys. When people die, they choose when and where they want to be reborn in order to work out these lessons. These choices are usually based on the problems that people had as children, which often continue into adulthood.

How people feel about life and the world around them is affected by how adults react to their environment. If those adults are depressed, angry, and unhappy with their surroundings, children grow up believing they’re not worthy of good things or that they can’t do anything right.

As people grow older, they often develop negative beliefs about themselves and the world. These beliefs follow them for a long time and influence their behavior toward themselves and others.

All diseases are caused by negative beliefs formed in childhood. The most difficult thing to forgive is one’s parents, especially if they’ve done something horrible like abuse you. If you can’t get over that, then it’ll lead to a lot of other problems in life including poor health and lack of money.

Lacking self-love can cause psychological disorders. Self love is achieved by taking care of oneself properly through exercise, meditation and good nutrition. It also means creating a living space and career in which to develop one’s talents. Most importantly, it means treating others with love and respect. By releasing negative thoughts about the past, people can focus more on what they truly want in life.

Holistic healing is about caring for your entire being. That may include yoga, endurance sports, foot reflexology or other forms of bodywork. Visualization techniques and positive affirmations help you think positively. Meditation and prayer enrich the spirit.

It is not easy to overcome negative thoughts and find self-love. Most people resist change by criticizing themselves. They avoid change and the fear of failure by procrastinating. However, it is possible to enjoy success and prosperity by first changing their beliefs about themselves with discipline and an open mind.

Book Structure

Louise Hay uses simple language to convey her ideas. She writes in a warm, friendly, and encouraging tone. Each chapter is broken up into small sections with clear headings. She includes many examples from her clinical practice to ground her theories in day-to-day life. Hay shares details of her difficult childhood and how she became successful as a motivational speaker later in life.

The book provides exercises to help readers apply the concepts from each chapter. It also offers poems that summarize key points and a directory of diseases related to thought patterns at the end of the book, so that readers can explore this topic further.

About the Author

Louise Hay’s writing and teaching are strongly influenced by the Church of Religious Science. The church is based on New Thought, which teaches that all illness originates in the mind, and that negative or erroneous beliefs are the source of disease. Following from this, New Thought teaches that if people change their negative beliefs to more positive ones, they can cure themselves of disease. Additionally, New Thought also teaches that God is one omnipotent power in the universe and all humans have a connection to God.