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You Can Heal Your Life | 
 enlarge | Author: Louise L. Hay
Publisher: Hay House
Category: Book
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Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 5.8 x 1.3
ISBN: 1561700940
Dewey Decimal Number: 615.851
EAN: 9781561700943
ASIN: 1561700940
Publication Date: August 1994
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Amazon.com Review
If you haven't seen Hay House's Lifestyles series of gorgeous gift books, there is no better way to acquaint yourself than with publisher/author Louise Hay's You Can Heal Your Life. A bestseller for many years, You Can Heal Your Life has been republished with bright, beautiful illustrations in full, living color and exquisite typography--each and every page is a work of art by artist Joan Perrin Falquet. The timeless message of the book is that we are each responsible for our own reality and "dis-ease." Hay believes we make ourselves ill by having thoughts of self-hatred. She includes a directory of ailments and emotional causes for each with a corresponding affirmation to help overcome the illness. For example, the probable cause of multiple sclerosis is "mental hardness, hard-heartedness, iron will, and inflexibility." The healing "thought pattern" would be: "By choosing loving, joyous thoughts, I created a loving joyous world. I am safe and free." --P. Randall Cohan
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Hay's internationally acclaimed bestseller--in which the author shares her personal experiences with healing, including how she cured herself after being diagnosed with "incurable" cancer--is now available in a beautifully bound gift edition.
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 Offensive and deluded little book for the bourgeoisie, compacent and worshipers of the self November 15, 2008
What can I say but that the thought process (seasoned with narcissism and treacled with worship of the self) which underpins this little book goes against all that I hold dear. I should add that this was given to me as a present!
Further, it is downright bizarre and borders on the offensive at times. I will quote from it liberally below to support what I have said. Pseudo-religion for the bourgeoise, complacent and self satisfied. I quote from it below (using the page numbers in the UK edition)
"We are each responsible for all our experiences" (page xiii)
This is plainly wrong. We possess a human nature which is subject to the vagaries of the external world - famine, disease, earthquakes. These are simply beyond our control and you bet they affect our experiences. Further this ignores the fact that we are surrounded on all sounds by other persons, who themselves are free agents. They impact on us and thus impact on our experience of life. This statement only can make any sense if it is intended to mean: it is up to us to determine how we respond to internal and external stimuli. But I am not sure she means this limited sense.
"We create every so called illness in our body" (page xiii: Deeply offensive
"Each one of us decides to incarnate upon this planet at a particular point in time and space. " (page 4) "I agree with the theory that we choose our parents (page 30).
Bizaarely we chose our parents as well. Note how in her narcissistic world, she chooses her parents which implies her parents own free will has been impaired in some way - why would they agree to this? Where did she get this from?
"No matter what the problem is, our experiences are just outer effects of inner thoughts" (page 5)
This thinking is dualistic - when our bodies are in pain, we are in pain, our whole being is in pain - we experience pain. Again, she ignores impact of nature and other free agents impacting on us. This echoes Gnostic thought.
"Whenever we are ill, we need to search our hearts to see who it is we need to forgive" (page 8)
I agree that non-forgiveness can cause huge problems for the psyche but if she is suggesting that diseases are caused by non-forgiveness always and everywhere, then it is offensive.
"Self approval and self acceptance in the now are the main keys to positive changes in every area of our lives" (page 9)
I think this statement is one of the keys to her little narcissistic philosophy. There is no imperfection in us - its just all about acceptance of ourselves. Is this Lady oblivious of the 20th century drenched in the blood of the innocent, killed by villains and murderous thugs. All these actions were committed by human beings!
"In the infinity of life where I am, all is perfect, whole and complete" (page 9)
What planet is this lady on? We are all broken creatures struggling to make our way through life.
"They (babies) already are perfect and they act as they know it. They know they are the centre of the Universe" (page 19)
Babies are lovely alright but they are not perfect. They howl like mad in the middle of the night when hungry!
"I love you and accept you exactly as you are" (page 19)
A complete loss of the wisdom of the ancients is evident here. The writings of Socrates, Plato and Aristotle are replete with talk of virtue and educating and training oneself to be a virtuous man or woman. The point is: when we look at ourselves, if we are anyway self aware, we must know that things need to be changed.
Not sure I quite follow her because later on she talks about being willing to change - why would we change anything we wholeheartedly and unreservedly approve? A perfect being does not need to change!
"We are here to recognise our own magnificence and divinity" (page 31)
We are not divine - we are creatures albeit creatures endowed with wonderful gifts.
"Whatever we believe becomes true for us" (page 33)
This is plain nonsense. If in her philosophy we are all divine, and one divinity exercises his free will to impact on another divinity, does that not have any effect. Complete and utter individualism.
"My personal nutritional approach is simple, If it grows, eat is. If it does not grow, don't eat it. (page 45)
I wish her all the best eating the lovely wild mushrooms in the neighbourhood!
"I think its is our natural birthright to go from success to success all our life" (page 109)
Oh dear - the mantra of success. This lady is oblivious to the suffering of the multitude - this book is definitely for the bourgeoisie and those who want to continue remain blissfully ignorant of the cries of the poor, the moans of those starving and dying of malaria, typhoid and other conditions.
"I believe we create every so-called illness in our body": Deeply offensive!
"I find that most BLADDER problems come from being "Pissed off", usually at a partner" (page 132)
Well, what can one say to this piece of wisdom!
"Cancer is a dis-ease caused by deep resentment held for a long time until it literally eats away the body" (page 138)
Tell that to the million dying of this nasty disease including young kids and even babies!
"Even if constipated people are not actually stingy, they usually do not trust that there will ever be enough! (page 135)
Well, what can one say to this piece of wisdom!
"Everything I need is revealed to me. Everything I need comes to me" (page 242: Oh dear, very sad really.
 You Can Heal Your Life November 10, 2008
This book is a wonderful tool to learn self love and self acceptance. I read and reread it. There is always more to learn and ponder with every rereading.
 great book, lousy kindle edition November 8, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
bought the kindle after reading this wonderful book. very disappointed in the kindle version: bad layout and punctuation, actually interfering with reading. needs a real editor.
The Psychological Side of Healing November 4, 2008
70 out of 71 found this review helpful
You Can Heal Your Life (Gift Edition) 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 The Divided Mind: The Epidemic of Mindbody Disorders and The 5-Minute Plantar Fasciitis Solution. Thank you Louise Hay!
Great book. Helped gain perspective November 2, 2008
This book had a calming effect on me. I learned of Louise Hay and her writings on an Oprah show that was following up on The Secret by Rhonda Bryne. I ordered the book and began to read it immediately. It has helped me gain perspective and I've learned techniques for dealing with stress and racing thoughts. I've put positive thinking to work and have seen results - which - despite believing in the ideology - still surprised me.
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