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You Can Heal Your Life |  | Author: Louise Hay
Publisher: Hay House
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
Edition: 2
Pages: 251
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Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6 x 0.7
ISBN: 0937611018
Dewey Decimal Number: 158
EAN: 9780937611012
ASIN: 0937611018
Publication Date: January 1, 1984
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Louise explains how limiting beliefs and ideas are often the cause of illness, and how you can change your thinking...and improve the quality of your life.
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 Exactly What I Needed July 20, 2007
Alex Lovejoy (USA)
54 out of 61 found this review helpful
When purchasing self help books, I think it helps to remember that, like ordering food or clothing, you're choosing something for yourself, not anyone else. The book doesn't need to suit anyone's needs but your own and if a book doesn't suit your needs, that doesn't mean it might not offer someone else exactly what they need to work through their situations.
During years of researching the topics of healing, happiness and love and having read dozens of excellent books on these topics, Louise Hay's "You Can Heal Your Life" (YCHYL) is by far my favorite book of all. More than any other author, Louise Hay helped me get to the very core of the things I needed to know most in order to transform my own life from within.
I originally picked up this book because it was referred to very favorably in another book I'd read and I was interested in that portion of "YCHYL" that dealt with the link between physical ailments and the unresolved emotional issues we carry around inside us. Having already cured myself of an ulcer by addressing such issues, I was most interested, initially, in learning everything I could in order to free myself of some other problems that had plagued my body over the years. I found this portion of YCHYL VERY helpful in clearing up several problems I had at that time, but then set the book aside for a time, feeling I'd gotten from it about all I could.
Years later, my girlfriend and I began reading it again, and it was like rediscovering the book all over again. She had also read it when she was younger and we thought it would be good for us to read through it together. WOW were we right. Speaking only for myself, I can say that on a second reading, I realized at a much deeper level just how completely ALL the "less than wonderful" issues of our lives stem from one basic cause ... a lousy relationship with ourselves.
During all my years of researchings these topics, I'd become convinced on my own that Love ... true, unconditional acceptance of ourselves and others ... really was the central choice we had to make in order to have harmonious lives in every way. What Louise helped me REALLY understand was that I had not yet truly accepted MYSELF on an entirely unconditional basis. I had focused most of my efforts outward, toward other people ... forgetting ... or, more honestly ... not wanting to admit that I can't give to someone else what I haven't yet given myself. Paraphrasing from YCHYL ... "The most important thing you can do to help heal your entire life ... is stop criticising yourself".
For reasons I need not go into here, I was still carrying around a HUGE amount of self criticism ... most of which was so automatic for me, I didn't even notice it. Because I'd rid my body of most of the physical problems that were bugging me, I thought I'd done a pretty good job of clearing house emotionally, getting rid of most of my old "I'm not good enough" baggage. What a second and third reading of YCHYL showed both me and my girlfriend was that there was a lot more self criticism left inside us than we realized and that it affected areas of our lives ... relationships with friends ... our financial lives ... our job fulfillment ... that we'd never imagined.
For us, YCHYL has been a miracle in its own right. It's helped us make a committment to making total acceptance of ourselves, just as we are today, our number one daily task. Louise has helped us see that living our lives from a place of total self acceptance transforms EVERY part of our lives from "working far less well than they could" to "working so well, we're AMAZED".
Our work with this book is not over yet. But we both wanted to thank Louise for writing such a clear, easy to understand book about what we need to do to really come to grips with what throws our lives out of balance and what we can do, alone and together, to get things back on center and realize the full potential we have in every area of our lives. For us, this book has been PERFECT !!
The Holy Grail February 7, 2000
Elane Keenan (Albuquerque, NM)
26 out of 29 found this review helpful
I bought You Can Heal Your Life on Tape and recommend this to others because Louise Hay has a voice that seems to magicaly heal you. I have been able to heal my life from past childhood issues, rape, parents, and drugs. My life now, is one that allows my dreams to come true. I loan the tapes to others and they are having excellent results. I have saved myself thousands of dollars in therapy sessions. I now have the peace, contentment, success and happiness that I never knew was possible. This is the best money that I have or will ever spend.
Just what I need... July 22, 2006
Debbie Savannah George (rural Arkansas)
32 out of 37 found this review helpful
I have never been big on self-help books; many of them are too stuffy, or technical, or don't really relate to what I'm going through. "You Can Heal Your Life" is different. It is easy to read, and well-written, and helps you see/realize/re-affirm that you are the master of your destiny, that only you can change your life, that you are loveable and perfect as you are - and best of all, the process is not "hard" - you just have to be willing to do the mental work. The book gives practical advise, it's non-judgemental, and it's real and true.
I have been struggling with depression my whole life, and doing lots of work to heal myself. Reading this book at this point of my life-journey was just what I needed. I'm happy! Since I started reading the book (a week ago), I have not had any trouble sleeping. That may not seem like a lot, or a long time, but I've also struggled with insomnia most of my life too. Falling asleep peacefully is a triumph, and a joy.
Another great thing about the book is that I'll be able to refer to it often. The index in the back has already come in handy when I wanted to look up something I read a few days ago.
If you're not sure, and if you resist the book & its message, if you think "oh, this author must have it all together, she must have had a great childhood, things must just come easy to her, that's not me, my life sucks", then read the last chapter, "My Story." It will make it obvious that no matter what you go through, no matter what you've experienced, you can be happy. All it takes is you.
A loving book with useful tools January 10, 2008
A customer (South Australia)
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
It has been very interesting reading through the multitude of varying reviews on this classic work.
Personally, I view this book as having been written by an author who experienced a violent childhood, who managed to find some useful tools in helping herself overcome many of the effects of those experiences and feel good about herself. Through this work, Louise is reaching out to others to share the tools which have worked for her.
I noted that many poor reviews of this book cited the lack of research, scientific methodology etc, and this may actually be the case. This does not mean that the tools and methods explained in the book can not work for people. Many self help books are simply authors reaching out to others to share what has worked for them in creating meaning in their lives, and are not designed to be scientifically proven methods. Use what works for you, disregard what does not. Not all methods work for all people.
As with all things, discretion and discernment are required when looking at what might work for you. Choose wisely for yourself- be gentle on yourself. Louise is sharing her beliefs about life and the world. You are free to choose your own thoughts and beliefs- it is your choice. You will presented with some options of choice you may not have thought about before, which may or may not work for you. Choose that which does!
Many negative reviewers seemed to have the impression that this book claims that tragedies which occur (such as rape) are the victim's fault. I did not interpret the book in this way, although I can understand the above perspective. Lousie herself was raped at five years of age, and sexually and physically abused until she left home at fifteen. At no point did she claim that these experiences were her fault. She does say that healing began and continued as she opened to taking responsibility for her ideas ABOUT herself. Rather than continuing to be internally victimized by the effects of abuse in her adult life, she chose to find ways to release the emotional and mental pain associated with her early experiences and empower herself with loving thoughts about who she is. The ideas presented worked for her, and can work for others- but they are not for all people. Our job as readers is to discern which ideas might be beneficial to us.
The ideas in the book seem to be backed by Quantam Physics (but I am no expert!), in that our thoughts create certain vibrations, and these vibrations attract similar (or like) vibrations. Louise proposes that we can shift our thoughts to ones which work positively FOR us, so we attract loving things in our lives. As far as I am aware, most religions use similar ideas- treat your neighbour as yourself (in other words, treat yourself well and lovingly so you can treat your neighbour in the same way), what you give out comes back to you etc. This book takes these ideas to the thought level.
This book is presented lovingly and in a matter of fact way. Change takes time- and can feel uncomfortable at first. Be gentle on yourself!
Enrich your life with positive information February 29, 2008
Kaye Loraine (Oregon, USA)
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
I'm always looking for positive messages that will keep me on track. Louise has a missing link to why we're not getting ahead. I play the video every night to erase the negative and create a compelling tomorrow. Thank you, Louise
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