“Everything I need to know is revealed to me.” “Everything I need comes to me.” “All is well in my life.” These three pithy, heartwarming statements are by the late Louise Hay, the celebrated author of ‘Heal Your Body’.
Hay writes that it is her joy and pleasure to gather together wisdom and knowledge for the benefit of those on the healing pathway.
The healing pathway:
There is within us the ability to contribute to our own healing process. And our work is to awaken this ability within us.
Recognize your power: We have the power and ability to contribute to our own healing.
The joy of living is in balancing: Hay writes, “For us to become whole and healthy, we must balance the body, mind and spirit….When these three things are balanced, we rejoice in living.”
Be a partner in your own healing process:
The healing process accentuates when we take part in it. Hay avers, no doctor, no health practitioner can give us a disease-free life unless we choose to take part in our healing process.
Tracing diseases like cancer to thought processes that literally eat away at the body, Hay says ‘disease’ is ‘dis-ease’. She continues that dis-ease can be reversed by simply reversing mental patterns.
Hay was diagnosed with cancer of the vagina. With her background of being raped when she was five years old, it was not unnatural that she had manifested cancer in the vaginal area. As was very natural and on expected lines, her initial reaction to her disease was one of total panic.
Clearing the mental patterns:
“Being aware that cancer comes from a pattern of deep resentment that is held for a long time until it eats away at the body”. Hay realised that if she had the operation to get rid of the cancer and did not clear the mental patterns that created it, then the doctors would just keep cutting Louise until there was no more Lousie to cut. But if she had the surgical removal of cancer and she also cleared the mental pattern that was causing the cancer, then the cancer would not return.
Hay immediately began to work with her teacher to clear the patterns of resentment. Interestingly, up to that time, she had not acknowledged that she harboured deep resentment.
Forgiveness comes first. A lot of forgiveness work was in order.
She went to a nutritionist to completely detoxify her body.
The point of power is in the present moment. “This is where we begin to make changes. The smallest beginning will make a difference.”
Hay puts it beautifully:
“When you were a tiny baby, you were pure joy and love. You had such courage. You asked for what you wanted. You expressed openly. You loved yourself totally, every part of your body. You knew you were perfect.” This, says Hay, is the truth of your being. All the rest, she avers, is “learned nonsense” and can be unlearned.
As you get ready with this, take a moment and pause. What are your thoughts?
Any thought that is repetitive holds the key to your troubles.
(To be continued)
Vrinda Min Zutshi is a Punjab-based Journalist. Views expressed are personal.
