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Anger Releasing
A powerful visualization meditation designed to help you release repressed anger in a positive, safe manner.
Runtime: 34 minutes.
Runtime: 34 minutes.
1 pages, Audio Cassette
First published January 1, 1990
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About the author
Louise L. Hay
627 books2,894 followersLouise Hay was born to a poor mother who married Hay's violent stepfather. When she was about five, she was raped by a neighbor. At fifteen she dropped out of high school without a diploma, became pregnant, and on her sixteenth birthday gave up her newborn baby girl for adoption.
She moved to Chicago, where she worked in menial jobs, before moving in 1950 to New York. At this point she changed her name and began a career as a fashion model. She was successful at this, working for Bill Blass, Oleg Cassini, and Pauline Trigere.
In 1954, she married Andrew Hay, but after fourteen years of marriage Louise was devastated when Andrew left her for another woman.
Hay said that she found the First Church of Religious Science on 48th Street, which taught the transformative power of thought. Hay revealed that here she studied the metaphysical works of authors like Florence Scovel Shinn and the Religious Science founder Ernest Holmes.
In the early 1970's Hay became a Religious Science practitioner. In this role she led people in spoken affirmations meant to cure their illnesses. She also became popular as a workshop leader.
She studied transcendental meditation with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi at his university in Fairfield, Iowa.
In 1977 or 1978 she found she had cervical cancer, and she concluded that its cause was her unwillingness to let go of resentment over her childhood abuse and rape. She refused medical treatment, and began a regimen of forgiveness, therapy, reflexology, nutrition, and occasional enemas, and claims she rid herself of the cancer. She declared that there is no doctor left who can confirm this story, but swore that it is true.
In 1976 Hay wrote a small pamphlet, which came to be called "Heal Your Body." This pamphlet was enlarged and extended into her book You Can Heal Your Life, which was published in 1984. As of February 2008, it is still on the New York Times best sellers list.
Around the same time she began leading support groups for people living with H.I.V. or AIDS that she called Hay Rides. These grew from a few people in her living room to hundreds in a large hall in West Hollywood. Her work with AIDS patients drew fame and she was invited to appear on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" and "Donahue" in the same week in March, 1988.
You Can Heal Your Life immediately landed on the New York Times Best Sellers List. More than 35 million copies are now in print around the world in more than 30 languages and has been made into a movie.
Louise Hay established Hay House Publishing. It is the primary publisher of books and audio books by Deepak Chopra and Doreen Virtue, as well as many books by Wayne Dyer.
In addition to running her publishing company, Hay runs a charitable organization called Hay Foundation that was established in 1985.
Information courtesy of Wikipedia.org.
She moved to Chicago, where she worked in menial jobs, before moving in 1950 to New York. At this point she changed her name and began a career as a fashion model. She was successful at this, working for Bill Blass, Oleg Cassini, and Pauline Trigere.
In 1954, she married Andrew Hay, but after fourteen years of marriage Louise was devastated when Andrew left her for another woman.
Hay said that she found the First Church of Religious Science on 48th Street, which taught the transformative power of thought. Hay revealed that here she studied the metaphysical works of authors like Florence Scovel Shinn and the Religious Science founder Ernest Holmes.
In the early 1970's Hay became a Religious Science practitioner. In this role she led people in spoken affirmations meant to cure their illnesses. She also became popular as a workshop leader.
She studied transcendental meditation with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi at his university in Fairfield, Iowa.
In 1977 or 1978 she found she had cervical cancer, and she concluded that its cause was her unwillingness to let go of resentment over her childhood abuse and rape. She refused medical treatment, and began a regimen of forgiveness, therapy, reflexology, nutrition, and occasional enemas, and claims she rid herself of the cancer. She declared that there is no doctor left who can confirm this story, but swore that it is true.
In 1976 Hay wrote a small pamphlet, which came to be called "Heal Your Body." This pamphlet was enlarged and extended into her book You Can Heal Your Life, which was published in 1984. As of February 2008, it is still on the New York Times best sellers list.
Around the same time she began leading support groups for people living with H.I.V. or AIDS that she called Hay Rides. These grew from a few people in her living room to hundreds in a large hall in West Hollywood. Her work with AIDS patients drew fame and she was invited to appear on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" and "Donahue" in the same week in March, 1988.
You Can Heal Your Life immediately landed on the New York Times Best Sellers List. More than 35 million copies are now in print around the world in more than 30 languages and has been made into a movie.
Louise Hay established Hay House Publishing. It is the primary publisher of books and audio books by Deepak Chopra and Doreen Virtue, as well as many books by Wayne Dyer.
In addition to running her publishing company, Hay runs a charitable organization called Hay Foundation that was established in 1985.
Information courtesy of Wikipedia.org.
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July 29, 2022
#95 of 100 self help books
#15 of 25 loa books
Good
#15 of 25 loa books
Good
September 10, 2016
This is working for me. In the past I've tried burning pieces of paper, hitting a pillow, etc., and all I got for my effort was stoking the anger fire. I liked that Louise talked me through a sequence to minimize the antagonist which enabled me to see that the person(s) had little if no power over me if I chose. I plan on listening to this at least once a day until I've released all my frustration.
January 18, 2022
I like this audiobook. It is validating the feeling anger.
I am glad that I am allowed to feel anger and that I don't have to put it away in a manner of speaking.
It is allowed to be here.
In this book you create an safe environment to release anger.
Thank you. This book is for everyone, because everyone feel anger.
I am glad that I am allowed to feel anger and that I don't have to put it away in a manner of speaking.
It is allowed to be here.
In this book you create an safe environment to release anger.
Thank you. This book is for everyone, because everyone feel anger.
January 11, 2018
Generating energy from crystals on the ceiling and shooting it from your finger to destroy the person you are angry at and reduce them to dust. All this a just a little too hokey for me, but if this sort of thing works for you I’d suggest giving it a try.
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May 5, 2017
see my other Louise Hay reviews... love all her books and listened to them as often as I have time...when I am not listening/reading to other books.
September 15, 2024
Found this on YouTube & it was incredibly helpful. My anger wasn't just released from my mind but from my body as well!! 💖
September 7, 2025
I didn't like that I was suddenly supposed to mentally obliterate anyone I was angry at - it was just too much to blast anyone to dust (!) & feel satisfied that my emotions were fixed. Trying to do this felt more like vengeance than healing. Louise has a pleasant voice & I was able to visualize clearly but I did not like the method.
March 21, 2013
Worked for me!!
February 27, 2016
I think if we choose to release anger we should do and face our own problems.
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