Self-help book, part 3

    "You Can Heal Your Life" is another book that was recommended by my naturopath.
  I had read it ten years ago, but it was interesting to revisit this philosophy.
  This was my review ten years ago:
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   Louise Hay is a pioneer in the growing belief that mental patterns create diseases in the body.
Basic Beliefs:
   We are each responsible for all of our experiences.  Every thought we think is creating our future.  We create every so-called illness in our body.  Resentment, criticism, and guilt are the most damaging patterns.  We must release the past and forgive everyone.  Self- approval and self- acceptance in the now are the keys to positive change.  When we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.  What we give out, we get back.
   Almost half of the book is a list of physical problems, the probable cause and the new thought pattern (affirmation).
My affirmations:
"I know that Life always supports me". 
"Be anxious about nothing, but in everything give thanks".
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   Looking back, I realize that these things are easier to say than to put into practice.  Louise Hay's belief that disease is caused by mental patterns can cause great guilt when physical problems show up.  It also dismisses the reality that the body does age.
   However, each of these self-help books has something to offer for improvement and enjoyment of life.  They can each be revisited from time to time.