Eye-opening and soul-healing. I could not get through this book with a dry eye. There is truth in how we manifest dis-ease in our bodies through our thoughts. ( )

I think that this is a very useful little book. Self-harming thoughts create pain, and with this book (or even a web search based on what it says in it, but it’s not like it’s an expensive book), you can decode what self-harming thoughts your body is reacting to. Healing these patterns is, I think, a process, but it’s nice to know where you stand. Makes the world make sense, at least, even if sometimes you still have guck coming up from your past.

Of course, you don’t talk to people about Louise Hay, you know—lol. For most people, (not all, but most), being presented with a different or “opposite” viewpoint or alternative interpretation can be very unsettling. It can even come across as unsafe, or like an attack. (Even essentially new age type people can be like this, just like all other groups that betray their values, in one way or another.) This is where I’d think about Byron Katie. Louise gives what Katie would call ‘turnarounds’, alternate interpretations, briefly, suddenly, much like Leo (the actualized.org guy) who in one of his videos bluntly gives maybe two to four alternate interpretations for many many different questions in life, just to prove it can be done. Leo I guess is intentionally blunt—you take this medicine whether it tastes good or not, says Simon Hunt, the hero of “Secrets of a Summer Night”, a penny romance, to the girl—but I think Louise is brief purely for brevity, because it’s less complicated, but it might come across as blunt, you know. Your idea: health problem X is (medico-babble, it’s random), versus the sudden turn-around, it’s your self-harming thought Y (so the power is in you…. eating away at you! 😸). Some people would reject that, obviously, because that’s not what they think. Katie in her book—not primarily about health—talks about slowly getting to a turn-around, though, for example, considering whether your current belief causes you stress, etc. (Apparently in Jewish Talmud debate they have a phrase called ‘truth or peace’, which I think is meant to be one of those unanswerable questions. Which is more important? Does one lead to another? Can you ever have both? Can you ever have only one…. Kinda with scientism you go, Truth, BAM! and there’s an explosion, and you refuse to talk about it after that, and I think there’s a particular kind of laziness in that).

Anyway, it’s been a long time since I couldn’t decide between prosperity and acceptance—I’ve since come to find that acceptance is more important than prosperity, and even the “hard topics” of philosophy and learning are more important than prosperity…. (Partly I think I’m right, beyond a certain point; partly I think people differ.) But this is still a very useful little book, and it can be nice to learn about health and try to attain perfect health instead of passable health (and I think it’s fair to say I have the latter and not the former—I’m not usually sick, so to speak, but that’s not the same as perfect health). And I think it’s fair to say that health, despite often being lumped in together with wealth, is its own special kind of prosperity. “Skin for skin…. A man will give all he has for his own life.” (Job 2:4). (And if babes can speak the truth, so too can powerful and wise spiritual beings with slightly dramatic priority problems, lol.)

N.B. Oh, and I even think this is a better book than “Heal Your Life”, the signature Louise book, because it has much more unity and consistency, even though the longer book has much more information, in fact containing the text of this whole book. I don’t often read books of less than a hundred pages, it feels like they’re too short to compare to the others—but there are exceptions. This book for me is a “practical” book, (if the word has meaning); such books are about certain basic topics about more or less unavoidable things, not uncommonly in a slightly reference-y format, like this very very short reference…. I don’t know. The longer book is more standard intellectual-not-“practical” or reference book, spiritual psychology in general instead of health/practical/general mind-body healing…. But then you have to stop the flow of an “ordinary” book to read something quite different. Something which is really properly I think, its own book, and a better book. Anyway.

This is the small pamphlet sized quick reference to the list of conditions, causes and an appropriate affirmation. In dictionary format, alphabetically by condition, this little gem can be used for doing either mental healing, affirmations, meditations, and forming healing prayers for someone else. ( )

The mental causes for physical illness and the metaphysical way to overcome them.

Basically a book of Affirmations for any type of illness which is just another power of alternative medicine and control. Interesting health concept and book. ( )