You Can Heal Your Life Review Part 2

Well, here it is 5:30am. I have been awake since about 3:00. I have been thinking about Louise Hay’s book, “You Can Heal Your Life.” To say that it is having an influence in my life would be an understatement. It is really giving me things to think about.

If you have done any work with positive affirmations, you may be a little discouraged about their effectiveness. I know I was. It seemed I could say my affirmations over and over again until I was blue in the face, and nothing much would happen. “You Can Heal Your Life,” gave me the key to making them work.

Louise Hay says that you cannot fix a problem with positive affirmations until you deal with the negative thought that is behind the problem. Now this may sound logical, reasonable, I have to say that I have thought the same thing many times before. The problem has been doing anything about it.

According to Hay, we need to do the work that allows us to see the problem for what it is and that might take some time and effort. I said in the last post You Can Heal Your Life Review Part 1, that the basis to all this is to love yourself. That still holds true. The trick is to find the issue or issues that keep you from loving yourself.

A little self disclosure

For me, one of the issues was a feeling that I was a failure. I was told many times, as a child, that I could not do anything right. It wasn’t so much in those words, but it was certainly understood. So normally, we would hear the advice that I would need to use a positive affirmation along the lines of, “I am successful in all I do,” The problem with this is that nothing has been done to work on the underlying problem.

Louise Hay says that first you must recognize the problem and your conditioning to it. You must release the need to have that negative thought in your life. For me that would look something like, “I release the need to feel like a failure”. Once you begin to release the negative, then the positive affirmation will have the desired effect. ” I release the need to be a failure and embrace success in my life,” will be much more effective.

Hay says that the more you dig at the problem, the more you get to the real root of it. Your affirmation may change over time, but that is a good thing as it gets closer to the real meat of it.

I have been awake since three, thinking about what is at the real root of the things in my life that I want to change. For me, it is actually kind of fun to look deeply into what makes me tick and work that the problem in such a way that I actually feel results that seem to be worth something. This is not how I have felt in the past using positive affirmations without working at the root problem.

I do suggest that you get a copy of Louise Hay’s book, You Can Heal Your Life. I think it is one of the best out there for working on the things in your life that you would like to change.

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