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Wikipedia Summary for Louise Hay
Louise Lynn Hay (October 8, 1926 – August 30, 2017) was an American motivational author and the founder of Hay House. She authored several New Thought self-help books, including the 1984 book You Can Heal Your Life.
It is time for me to let go of my old beliefs about how relationships are supposed to be.
It's not what happens to you, but how you handle it. If Life gives you lemons, make lemonade. If the lemons are rotten, take out the seeds and plant them in order to grow new lemons.
The ability to relax and be mindfully present in the moment comes naturally when we are grateful.
I have learned over the years that the nicest thing I can do is to just say to myself, Good Morning Darling, I love you; we're going to have a really great day today.
Few parents teach their children how phoney the ads on TV are, how many lies and exaggerations they contain. How could they? These parents were also raised on television ballyhoo.
Instead of just getting old and giving up and dying, let's learn to make a huge contribution to life.
Right now is the time for you to visualize and create your future. Make it as healthy and bright and joyful as you can. It's your life, and you're going to live it.
I release all control to the Universe. I am at peace with myself and with life.
If you don't eat right and you don't know how to take care of your body, you're not going to have the energy to do anything wonderful.
When you choose to be angry you are affirming that you want greater anger in your life.
I meditate each day. Going within alleviates tension and stress, and allows me to hear what the Universe wants me to know.
Financial security puts me at ease and makes me feel good about my future.
We have a spiritual responsibility to be consciously grateful because that energy's frequency flows from us and assists in our own healing, our brother's and sister's healing, and ultimately the healing of the planet, our EarthMother.
I ask for help. I tell Life what I want, and then I allow it to happen.
Your security is not your job, or your bank account, or your investments, or your spouse or your parents. Your security is your ability to connect with the cosmic power that creates all things.
My best relationship is the one I have with myself. I know I am always connected to a Universe that loves me. I draw loving people and loving experiences to me.
If you eat one less candy bar or donut a day, you're doing your body some good.
We have to believe in ourselves more. It's all the same thing: We need to release the guilt. We need to forgive. We need to drop all the bullshit we were taught.
There are people looking for exactly what you have to offer, and you are being brought together on the checkerboard of life.
I am totally free to choose thoughts of joy. It is my Divine right to do so.
When we forgive and let go, not only does a huge weight drop off your shoulders, but the doorway to your own self-love opens.
Taking a step without knowing the end result is the only way we develop faith and not only this, it's a practice that connects us with a power greater than ourselves.
Explain to people that everything they say is an affirmation. Everything they think is an affirmation. Everything! What you want to do is to get control of what you are saying and thinking, so these things bring you good experiences in life rather than rotten experiences.
When we move forward into our future, knowing and using the treasures within, then only good lies before us. We can know and affirm that everything that happens to us is for our highest good and greatest joy, truly believing that we can't go wrong.
My home is a happy place to be. I bless everyone who enters, myself included. Pleasant experiences fill every room.
Love is the biggest eraser there is. Love erases even the deepest imprinting because love goes deeper then anything. If you childhood imprinting was very strong, and you keep saying: It's their fault. I can't change, you stay stuck.
Love who you are and what you are and what you do. Laugh at yourself and at life and nothing can touch you.
As I love and approve of myself and others, my life gets better and better.
I believe that animals are on the planet so that we can know love and compassion.
The only thing that keeps you from deserving, or loving yourself, or whatever, is someone else's belief or opinion that you have accepted as truth.
I am willing to let go. I release others to experience whatever is meaningful to them, and I am free to create that which is meaningful to me.
I am willing to release old negative beliefs. They are only thoughts that stand in my way. My new thoughts are positive and fulfilling.
Negative thinking is prevalent, in particular, among so many women in their later years, and, as a result, they live out their lives in discontent.
I choose to see my life moving in different directions, all of them equally good. Some things are even better now than the way they were in my youth.
Love is the greatest healing power I know. Love can heal even the deepest and most painful memories because love brings the light of understanding to the darkest corners of our hearts and minds.
We get too caught up in the moneymaking part of life. My own biggest concerns are to stay healthy and happy. I think the business will take care of itself and, when I put that thought out into the world, it happens. My company is absolutely growing and growing and growing.
I forgive myself for not being perfect. I am living the very best way I know how.
We may not know how to forgive, and we may not want to forgive; but the very fact we say we are willing to forgive begins the healing practice.
It doesn't matter how old you are, there is a little child within who needs love and acceptance.
Life can't give to you if your hands are closed. Open your mind, open your heart, and open your arms.
The past is over and done and cannot be changed. This is the only moment we can experience.
Think thoughts that make you happy. Do things that make you feel good. Be with people who make you feel good. Eat things that make your body feel good. Go at a pace that makes you feel good.
If you want to understand your parents more, get them to talk about their own childhood; and if you listen with compassion, you will learn where their fears and rigid patterns come from. Those people who did all that stuff to you were just as frightened and scared as you are.
Well, I believe you created those experiences over and over because they mirrored something you believed about yourself. It doesn't really matter how long we have had a problem, or how big it is, or how life-threatening it is. The Point of Power Is Always in the Present Moment.
I think you can learn to have much more pleasant thoughts moving through your mind that will help ease any situation, and it takes making a conscious choice to do so.
Today I do a mental housecleaning, making room for new, positive thoughts.
When we create peace, and harmony, and balance in our minds, we will find it in our lives.
That's the way life works: gratitude and appreciation just bring more goodness. Remember: Everything we give out comes back. Gratitude has all sorts of little, surprising rewards.
I monitor my self-talk, making sure that it is uplifting and supportive of myself and others.
Self-approval and self-acceptance in the now are the main keys to positive changes in every area of our lives.
I am so grateful for my beautiful life. I am cherished and loved. And I share my love and joy with everyone.
I have a special relationship with animals. I contribute to harmony and balance among all the living creatures of the earth.
I rejoice in the success of others, knowing that there is plenty for us all.
I know that I cannot take responsibility for other people. We are all under the law of our own consciousness.
Your unique creative talents and abilities are flowing through you and are being expressed in deeply satisfying ways. Your creativity is always in demand.
I have a thorough understanding of nutrition, and I feed my body only foods that support health.
I create easily and effortlessly when I let my thoughts come from the loving space of my own heart.
Wherever you go and whomever you meet, you will find your own love waiting for you.
All teachers are good for someone. There are some teachers out there who I cannot stand, for whatever reason. I cannot even bear the sound of one teacher's voice. Yet they are wonderful teachers for other people. They just are not for me.
I cannot change another person. I let others be who they are, and I simply love who I am.