The book “Heal Your Life”, written by Louise Hay, has had a profound effect on my life. I have learned to look at my aches and pains a new way.

Louise Hay is a phenomenal woman. The book explains her philosophy and her beliefs and how she came to believe that we may create healing in our lives by changing our thoughts. She helps us to explore the negative self talk that we may not even be aware is constantly going on in our heads.

She was a spiritual counselor and as she worked with people she saw that people’s thought patterns were related to what illnesses they had. She also believes that dis-ease comes from a state of not forgiving others. She believes that we are all one and so anything that we hold against someone else we also hold against ourselves. So by forgiving them, it heals you at the same time.

By looking at what we think, changing it by doing affirmations and mirror work, we can begin to shift our thinking. Much of her mirror work focuses on learning to love yourself. This in turn heals our bodies.

When I first used this book I had frequent difficulties with a stiff neck. The corresponding thought pattern was “unbending, bullheaded” and her corresponding positive affirmation is ” It is safe to see other’s viewpoints. I did not want to believe that my beliefs would show up in my neck. But as I began to work with her mirror work and affirmations, my life began to change. Now when my neck flares up, I am able to ask myself what is going on in my belief system is creating this problem.

Another example is the problem of constipation. The probable cause is ” refusing to release old ideas. Stuck in the past. Sometimes stinginess.” The affirmation is “As I release the past, the new and fresh and vital enter. I allow life to flow through me.”

She has a list illnesses in the book and corresponding affirmations.

Her book can be ordered at her website