Louise Hay had a great deal of experience and firsthand information to share about healing—including how she cured herself after having been diagnosed with cancer. Navršivši treću godinu, mi smo već prihvatili gotovo sve svoje programiranje, kako negativno, tako i pozitivno. If you consider that she is about 30 years older than us, it’s pretty remarkable that she was such a pioneer.

To suggest that if you love/accept yourself enough, you can cure anything, even cancer, feels to me more than a little bit like blaming the victim for not wanting/committing to healing enough.When you can come from a space of totally loving yourself, then everything in your life must flow with ease, harmony, health, prosperity, and joy. She refused medical treatment, and began a regimen of forgiveness, therapy, reflexology, nutrition, and occasional enemas, and claims she rid herself of the cancer. While neither of us had any interest in traditional religion, we felt drawn to explore alternative spiritual paths.

I have to say that this book lightly touches these concepts and so it is a great read for someone who would know nothing about psychology or spirituality. Like Louise, Thom and I eventually included many other teachers and philosophies into our belief system.Louise Hay told a generation of dying gay men that it was their fault they were dying because they didn't love themselves enough. I know that similar people have been in the exact same situation I was and had their lives next-to-ruined because the wrong person happened by or such-and-such a substance was available to them when it wasn’t available to me. By 1988, the group had grown to a weekly gathering of 800 people and had moved to an auditorium in West Hollywood. Due to this book, Louise Hay has now created one of the largest New Age publishing houses in the world. THIS CLASSIC SELF-HEALING BOOK WAS EXPANDED INTO THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER YOU CAN HEAL YOUR LIFE THAT HAS SOLD OVER 50 MILLION COPIES.

And yes, thank you for pointing out the tremendous work she did at the beginning of the AIDS crisis when so many people were afraid of gays. What a beautiful book for someone with a semi-open mind and who wants to change their thought processes and create a life they want to live. Apparently she had some thyroid thing that required half of it to be removed also, but nope, she was kicking about with the whole gland her whole life. Life itself is a fatal condition; human beings are not meant to live in perfect health, forever (not that we should resign ourselves without a fight to acceptance of illness and dis-ease, as Hay puts it so eloquently, either.I was first introduced to Louise Hay in the 70’s in New York City when my sister, a singer, was given a copy of a little pamphlet by her voice coach.