An easy-to-follow guide to affirmations from inspirational teacher Louise Hay.
Discover how to use affirmations to soothe your soul and heal your body in just 21 days.
Louise Hay's teachings on affirmations are multi-million copy bestsellers worldwide and have provided techniques that have comforted and healed countless people. 21 Days to Unlock the Power of Affirmations makes this infinitely powerful skill easy and quick to learn.
You'll discover the power of simple, soothing words and how these can be applied to any problem. Whether emotional or physical, Louise's teachings are available for you to call on at any time. You'll also learn how to create your own personalised affirmation to target persistent, perhaps lifelong personal issues and ailments. This is the ideal introduction to an essential technique, now presented in a format that fits your life. Start healing your life in just 21 days!
Studies have shown it takes only 21 days for a new habit to take root. If there's a spiritual interest you've always wanted to take advantage of, the answer is here with the 21 Days series.
Louise 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.
This book is nicely presented and structured: 21 chapters, one to read everyday, each focusing on a personal value (e.g. forgiveness, health, friendship, loving yourself, creativity, money and prosperity, love and intimacy, work…etc). Each chapter contains a few pages to read, journaling prompts, and a list of affirmations. The best part is that it was written lovingly by the late Louise Hay. Her work always brings me peace.
I always enjoyed listening to Louise each year at the summits. Now we get to listen to her everyday and here she takes us on a journey. 21 days will change your life as you work through everything in this book. Well, some of it may take longer than 21 days, but you’ll be on the right track. I enjoyed the affirmations and really worked with them as I passed a mirror. My kids laughed, but they will learn in time the power of an affirmations in time.
Cómo dice el libro, es mejor cuando sigues los ejercicios. Puede que por eso no me haya atrapado del todo. Aún así era reconfortante saber que hay otras formas menos dañinas para comunicarse con uno mismo.
Listening to this is fine to get the jest but i really needed to book form to make this work as its written. Love all the knowledge and tips plus the mirror work.