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Publisher's
Information: Hay's internationally acclaimed bestseller--in
which the author shares her personal experiences with healing, including
how she cured herself after being diagnosed with "incurable"
cancer--is now available in a beautifully bound gift edition. Here's
Louise's basic message: "What we think about ourselves becomes the truth
for us. I believe that everyone, myself included, is responsible for
everything in our lives, the best and the worst. Every thought we think is
creating our future. Each one of us creates our experiences by our
thoughts and our feelings. The thoughts we think and the words we speak
create our experiences."
Pat's Review:
Creative visualization uses
imagery to change one's own neural structuring—and thus the blueprint for
what one is able to see and experience in the three dimensional world. The
more powerful the imagery, the more powerful the changes one can create.
Equally important to the change process, however, are the thoughts and
feelings that go along with the images. The most powerful creative
visualization session brings together the mental image or scene of getting
what you want with the attendant thoughts and emotions that support that
scene.
For example, if you are
visualizing a scene of being offered a much-desired promotion, the imagery
is made more powerful by also thinking thoughts such as, My work is
appreciated, My work is valued by this company, I am
successful at my job, etc., as well as feeling the feelings of joy,
success, achievement, satisfaction, or whatever you would expect to actually
feel when the goal was achieved.
There is no better book to
recommend than Louise L. Hay's, You Can Heal Your Life, to assist one
with the task of understanding how thoughts create—for good or for
ill. In the author's own words:
What we think about ourselves
becomes the truth for us. I believe that everyone, myself included, is
responsible for everything in our lives, the best and the worst. Every
thought we think is creating our future. Each one of us creates our
experiences by our thoughts and our feelings. The thoughts we think and
the words we speak create our experiences.
First published in 1984, this
New York Times bestseller has sold over 17 million copies world-wide. Her
work is published in 25 languages, and this title is currently available
from Barnes & Noble (use book link above) in both English and Spanish.
Louise L. Hay writes in clear, simple language. Her key message is, “If we
are willing to do the mental work, almost anything can be healed.”
When learning the creative
visualization process it's very helpful to supplement your reading with
books that support and enhance your understanding of the basic steps that I teach
in my course. You Can Heal Your Life is at the top of my
recommendation list for this purpose as it feeds the reader a steady diet of
inspiring case examples, positive affirmations, and meaningful discussions
of how (and which) thoughts can stand in our way and block our success.
There are books that give
detailed descriptions of the quantum physics, brain functioning, and
mechanics of mental imagery, etc. that are involved in the creative
visualization process. And these books are certainly helpful as they flesh
out human creativity for the data-gathering intellect in terms it
understands. But sometimes the most powerful teaching speaks directly
to the heart, informing on an emotional level and leaving one feeling closer
connected to the Divine. And that's what Louise L. Hay does best in every
book she has written—most especially this one.
Recently, one of my students
who has been working to heal a financial situation experienced a significant
turn-around for the better. He could clearly see that the energy he was
creating using the visualization process was beginning to take him very
specifically in the direction he wanted to go. He told me that this was
partly due to his growing understanding that his situation wasn't something
chiseled in three-dimensional stone, but was, as Louise L. Hay teaches,
"only a thought and a thought can be changed."
–Patricia F. Hare
© July 2005
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