HEAL YOUR BODY – by Louise Hay
The Mental Causes for Physical Illness & the Metaphysical Way to Overcome Them
This little book does not “heal” anyone. It does awaken within you the ability to contribute to your own healing process. For us to become whole and healthy, we must balance the body, mind and spirit. We need to take good care of our bodies. We need to have a positive mental attitude about ourselves and about life. And we need to have a strong spiritual connection. When these three things are balanced, we rejoice in living. No doctor, no health practitioner can give us this unless we choose to take part in our healing process.
I suggest you make a list of every ailment you have ever had and look up the mental cause. You will discover a pattern that will show you a lot about yourself. Select a few affirmations and do them for a month. This will help eliminate old patterns you have been carrying for a long time.
It does not matter how long we have had negative patterns, or an illness, or a rotten relationship, or lack of finances, or self-hatred, we can begin to make a change today. The thoughts we have held and the words we have repeatedly used have created our life and experiences up to this point. Yet, that is past thinking, we have already done that. What we are choosing to think and say, today, this moment, will create tomorrow and the next day, ant the next week and the next month and the next year, etc.
The point of power is always in the present moment.
This is where we begin to make changes.
MENTAL EQUIVALENTS: The Mental Thought Patterns That Form Our Experience
Both the good in our lives and the disease are the results of mental thought patterns which form our experiences. We all have many thought patterns which form our experiences. We all have many thought patterns that produce good, positive experiences, and these we enjoy. It is the negative thought patterns that produce uncomfortable, unrewarding experiences with which we are concerned. It is our desire to change our disease in life into perfect health.
We have learned that for every effect in our lives, there is a thought pattern that precedes and maintains it. Our consistent thinking pattern creates our experiences. Therefore, by changing our thinking patterns, we can change our experiences.
In order to permanently eliminate a condition, we must first work to dissolve the mental cause. But most often, since we do not know what the cause is, we find it difficult to know where to begin.
The mental thought patterns that cause the most disease in the body are CRITICISM, ANGER, RESENTMENT, and GUILT. For instance, criticism indulged in long enough will often lead to diseases such as arthritis. Anger turns into things that boil and burn and infect the body. Resentment long held festers and eats away at the self and ultimately can lead to tumors and cancer. Guilt always seeks punishment and leads to pain.