You Can Hear Your Life (Excerpts from the book ‘You Can Heal Your Life’ by Louise Hay)

I read this book during the lockdown and when I was in home isolation undergoing post Corona medication. I found it interesting, a different approach to life and wellbeing, I am sharing excerpts from this book. Hope you too may find it useful and interesting.

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हम वो सब कर सकते है,

जो हम सोच सकते है

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1.    Life Is Really Very Simple

What we think about ourselves becomes the truth for us. Everyone is responsible for everything in one’s life, the best and the worst. Every thought we think is creating our future. Each one of us creates our experiences by our thoughts and feelings. The thoughts we think and the words we speak creates our experiences. Our subconscious mind accepts whatever we choose to believe i.e. what I believe about myself and about life becomes true for me. And we have unlimited choices about what we can think. The universe totally supports us in every thought we choose to think and believe. What we give out, we get back.

 

2.    The Universal Power Always Supports Us

The universal power never judges or criticises us. It only accepts us at our own values. Then it reflects our beliefs in our lives. If I want to believe that life is lonely and that nobody loves me, then that is what I will find in my world. However, if I am willing to release that belief and to affirm for myself that “Love is everywhere, and I am loving and lovable,” and to hold on that new affirmation and to repeat it often, then it will become true for me. Now loving people will come into my life, the people already in my life will become more loving to me, and I will find myself easily expressing love to others.

 

No matter what the problem is, our experiences are just outer effects of inner thoughts. The past has no power over us. It doesn’t matter how long we have had a negative pattern. We can begin to be free in this moment.

 

3.    Impressions of Early Life as Foundation of our Initial Thoughts

When we are a little child, we learn how to feel about ourselves and about life by the reactions of adults around us. It is the way we learn what to think about ourselves and about our world. If you lived with people who were very unhappy, frightened, guilty, or angry, then you learnt a lot of negative things about yourself and about your world. Whatever these beliefs are, they will be recreated as experiences as we grow up. We try to recreate the emotional environment of our early home life. We treat ourselves the way our parents treated us. We scold and punish ourselves in the same way. We also love and encourage ourselves in the same way, if we were loved and encouraged as children.

 

For example, you never do anything right. It is all your fault. How often you said this to yourself? You are wonderful. I love you. How often do you tell yourself this?

 

I never do anything right. “It’s my fault.” If I get angry, I am a bad person. Beliefs like this create a frustrating life.

4.    Resentment, Criticism, Guilt and Fear

The inner most belief in most of us is always “I am not good enough!” Often saying or implying or feeling that “you are not good enough”, then how can you possibly have created a loving, joyous, prosperous, healthy life? Somehow your main subconscious belief would always be contradicting it. Resentment, criticism, guilt and fear cause more problems than anything else. These four things cause major problems in our bodies and our lives. These feelings come from blaming others and not taking responsibility for our own experiences. If we are all responsible for everything in lives, then there is no one to blame. Whatever is happening “out there” is only a mirror of our own inner thinking. It is our beliefs that attract people who will treat us that way. Forgiving and releasing resentment will dissolve even cancer.

 

5.    All disease comes from a state of un-forgiveness

Whenever we are ill, we need to look around to see who it is that we need to forgive. Forgiveness means giving up, letting go. It is nothing to do with condoning behaviour. It is just letting the whole thing go. We do not have to know how to forgive. All we need to do is to be willing to forgive. The universe will take care of the hows.

 

Whatever be the problem – poor health, lack of money, unfulfilling relationships, or stifled creativity – there is only one thing to do is loving the self. When we really love, accept and approve of ourselves exactly as we are, then everything in life works. People who love themselves and their bodies neither abuse themselves nor others. Loving the self begins with never ever criticising ourselves for anything. Criticism locks us into the very pattern we are trying to change. Understanding and being gentle with ourselves help us to move out of it. Remember, you have been criticising yourself for years, and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.

 

When we are in a state of panic, it is very difficult to focus our minds on the healing work. We have to take time out to dissolve the fear first.

 

6.    Thought Patterns

Whatever the problem is, it comes from a thought pattern, and thought patterns can be changed! Usually, what we believe is only someone else’s opinion we have incorporated into our belief system. Initially, we copy and follow others ideas we like in real life, and frame them according to our thinking and perspective for life. They are all not our original ideas rather adopted ones. No doubt it fits right in with all the other things we believe. Other thoughts are very useful at the beginning, but as we grow older they are no longer appropriate/ relevant.

 

Your thoughts and beliefs of the past have created this moment, and all the moments up to now. What you are now choosing to believe, think and say will create the next moment and the next day, next month and next year. You are the power in your world! You get to have whatever you choose to think! In order to have better life, we must change inside. We must change our way of thinking, change our way of speaking, change our way of expressing ourselves. Only then the outer changes will occur. Some of the things we believe are positive and nourishing. These thoughts serve us well all of our lives, such as Look both ways before you cross the street.

 

Believe it or not, we choose our thoughts. We may habitually think the same thought over and over so that it does not seem we are choosing the thought. But we did make the original choice. The less self-hatred and guilt we have, the better our lives work, on all levels. Whatever we send out mentally or verbally will come back to us in like form. When there is a problem, there is not something to do, there is something to know.

 

7.    Current Education System Lacks Practical Knowledge

It is never understood the importance of having children memorise the battle dates. It seems like such a waste of mental energy. Instead, we could teach them important subjects such as how the mind works, how to handle finances, how to invest money for financial security, how to be a good parent, how to create good relationships, and how to create and maintain self –esteem and self-worth.

 

8.    Forgiveness

Forgiveness of ourselves and others releases us from the past, and is an answer to almost everything. When we are stuck, it usually means there is some more forgiving to be done. When we do not flow freely with life in the present moment, it usually means we are holding on to a past moment.  It can be regret, sadness, hurt, fear or guilt, blame, anger, resentment, and sometimes even the desire for revenge. Each one of these states comes from a space of unforgiveness, a refusal to let go and come into the present moment.

 

9.    Prosperity

True prosperity begins with feeling good about yourself. It is also freedom to do, what you want to do, when you want to do. It is never an amount of money; it is a state of mind. Prosperity or lack of it is an outer expression of the ideas in your head.

 

10. Love Your Bills

It is essential that we stop worrying about money and stop resenting our bills. Many people treat bills as punishments to be avoided if possible. A bill is an acknowledgement of our ability to pay. The creditor assumes you are affluent enough and gives you the service or product first. Bless with love each and every bill that comes to you. If you pay with resentment, money has a hard time coming back to you. If you pay with love and joy, you open the free flowing channel of abundance. Treat your money as a friend, not something you wad up and crush into your pocket.

 

Think always that the power within you that breathes in your body is the same power that provides all that you need, and just as easily and simply. The universe is lavish and abundant, and is our birth right to be supplied with everything we need, unless we choose to believe it to the contrary.

 

11. Make Room For The New

Clean out your refrigerator, get rid of all those little bits of stuff wrapped in foil. Clean out your closets; get rid of the stuff you have not used in the last 6 months or so. If you haven’t used it in a year, definitely get it out of your home. Sell it, trade it, give it away (donate), or burn it.

 

Cluttered closets mean a cluttered mind. As you clean the closet, say to yourself, “I am cleaning out the closets of my mind.”

 

12. Rejoice In Others’ Good Fortune

Don’t delay your own prosperity by being resentful or jealous that someone else has more than you. Don’t criticise the way they choose to spend their money. It is none of our business. Just take care of your own thoughts. Bless another’s good fortune, and know there is a plenty for all.

 

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