you need to know this to make progress in your life
i have in my hands the book by louise l. hay "you can heal your life" is a book that I highly recommend to all of you to read. i have reread chapter 1 and i have underlined what I found important to know that also has a lot to do with the topics I am dealing with in the blog recently, that's why I have come up with the idea of sharing with you what I consider most important so that altogether we can be aware and we can apply it in our lives.
these are excerpts from the first chapter entitled "what i believe".
life is really very simple: we get back what we have been given.
what we think of ourselves becomes true for us. everything we think is creating our future. each of us creates our experiences with what we think and what we feel. the things we think and the words we say create our experiences.
no one, no place or thing has any power over us, because in our mind the only ones who think are us, we create our experiences, our reality, and everything in it.
what we believe about ourselves and life becomes our truth.
the universe fully supports us in everything we choose to think and believe.
what you choose to think about yourself and life becomes true for you. We have unlimited choices as to what we can think.
universal power never judges or criticizes us.
love is everywhere, and i am capable of love and worthy of love, and i adhere to that new affirmation and repeat it often, that will become my truth.
however, i would not blame our parents.
if your mother didn't know how to love herself, nor did your father, it was impossible for them to teach you to love yourself; they were doing the best they could with what they had been taught as children.
i believe we choose our parents
from a very young age, we learn our belief systems and then we go through life creating experiences that harmonize with our beliefs.
the moment of power is always the present
your moment of power is this present.
perhaps you are aware of what you are thinking at this moment. is it a positive or negative thought? do you want that thought to be determining your future? ask yourself, be aware of it.
the only thing we have to deal with is always an idea and an idea can be changed.
self-hatred is nothing more than hating the idea one has of oneself. an idea that tells you "you are a bad person" that idea generates a feeling, and you accept the feeling. however, if we don't have the idea, we won't have the feeling either. and ideas can be changed.
change the idea, and the feeling will go away.
the past has no power over us. the moment of power is the present.
believe it or not, we choose what we think.
you can also refuse to think anything negative about yourself.
the less guilt we feel, the less guilt we harbor, the better our life will function, at all levels.
i feel that resentment, criticism, blame, and fear cause more problems than anything else.
if we are responsible for everything that happens to us in life, then there is no one to blame. whatever is happening "out there" is nothing more than a reflection of what we think internally.
it is our beliefs that attract the people who treat us that way.
if you find yourself saying that everyone always does this or that to you, criticizes you, never helps you, treats you like a doormat, and insults you, think of that as your model. In your mind, there is some idea that attracts people who exhibit that behavior. when you stop thinking that way, they will go somewhere else to do it to someone else, because you will no longer attract them.
we can change our attitude toward the past
it is foolish for us to punish ourselves in the present because someone made us suffer in the distant past.
to renounce the past, we must be willing to forget.
to renounce the past and to forgive, even ourselves.
"i forgive you for not being the way i wanted you to be. i forgive you and set you free."
all sickness comes from not having forgiven something
"every sickness comes from not having forgiven something" "every time we get sick, we must look around us to see who we have to forgive"
it is necessary that we understand that they were doing the best they could with the understanding, consciousness, and knowledge they had at that moment. (here he is referring to the people who hurt us).
when we accept and approve of ourselves exactly as we are, everything works well in life.
if you love and approve of yourself, creating a mental space of security, confidence, merit, and acceptance, will increase your mental organization, create more loving relationships in your life, and bring you a new job and a new and better place to live.
people who love themselves and love their bodies do not abuse themselves or others.
approving and accepting yourself in the now is the first step towards positive change in all areas of life.
love for ourselves begins by never criticizing ourselves. criticism immobilizes us in the very pattern we are trying to change, understanding ourselves and being kind to ourselves helps us to get out of it.
make the experience: approve and see what happens.
hope you have learned something from this, it has helped me to reaffirm these things that I already knew but it is always good to remind myself.
i recommend you save this post and read it as many times as you need.
if you like this kind of post i can "summarize" more books or share what i find valuable or important.
obviously i will not summarize the whole book but if i find something of value that i feel can help you, i will share it.
my intention is to give you clarity since many of you come to me with similar problems and if you understand this and start applying it, it is a big step you are taking. of course, as I mentioned at the beginning, i recommend that you read the book.
as always i remain open to your questions and o also welcome suggestions for future posts.
here you can listen to the complete audiobook
