Love this Book, Great Affirmations
November 30, 2008
Louise Hays books are very positive and uplifting. I love the affirmations in this book. I do believe that the mind's beliefs can manifest in the body. Whether or not it manifests from these certain beliefs into these certain parts of the body I am not sure. In any case the "gift edition" of the book is beautiful and it reminds me to be positive, believe that I am valuable, and helps me identify my beliefs which gives me the opportunity to change the one's I want to change.
Michelle
November 28, 2008
This is a great book. I highly recommend it. I have read it several times.
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
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.
