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From: Calm Blue Ocean, Calm Blue Ocean
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posted July 31, 2008 12:38 AM         

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I saw her on TV.

I love this woman.

All is well. Everything is working out for my highest good. Out of this situation only good will come. I am safe!

Anyone read her book, you can heal your life?

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posted July 31, 2008 05:11 AM         

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I love this woman

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O RLY?

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From: Calm Blue Ocean, Calm Blue Ocean
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posted July 31, 2008 12:55 PM         

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Yes rly

Louise Hay (born July 19, 1926) is a motivational author, and the founder of Hay House, a publishing company. She has authored several self-help and New Thought books, and is best known for her 1984 book, You Can Heal Your Life.
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1 Life story
2 Ideas and teachings
3 Bibliography
4 References
5 External links
[edit]Life story

Hay recounted her life story in an interview with Mark Oppenheimer of the New York Times in May 2008.[1] In it Hay stated that she was born in Los Angeles to a poor mother who married Louise’s violent stepfather. When she was about 5, she was raped by a neighbor. At 15 she dropped out of high school without a diploma, became pregnant and, on her 16th birthday, gave up her newborn baby girl for adoption. She moved to Chicago, where she worked in menial jobs and in 1950 moved on to New York. At this point she changed her name and began a career as a fashion model. She was successful at this, working for Bill Blass, Oleg Cassini and Pauline Trigère. In 1954 she married the English businessman Andrew Hay but after 14 years of marriage was devastated when Andrew Hay left her for another woman. Hay said that she found the First Church of Religious Science on 48th Street, that taught the transformative power of thought. Hay revealed that here she studied the metaphysical works of authors like Florence Scovel Shinn, who said that positive thinking could change people’s material circumstances, and the Religious Science founder Ernest Holmes, who taught that positive thinking could heal the body. In the early 1970s Hay became a Religious Science practitioner. In this role she lead people in spoken “affirmations” meant to cure their illnesses. She became popular as a workshop leader. She studied Transcendental Meditation with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi at his university in Fairfield, Iowa. Hay recounted that in 1977 or 1978 she found she had cervical cancer, and she concluded that its cause was her unwillingness to let go of resentment over her childhood abuse and rape. She refused medical treatment, and began a regimen of forgiveness, therapy, nutrition, reflexology and occasional enemas, and claims she rid herself of the cancer. She declared that there is no doctor left who can confirm this improbable story, but swore that it is true.[1]
In 1976, Hay wrote a small pamphlet, which came to be called “Heal Your Body”. It contained a list of different bodily ailments and their “probable” metaphysical causes.[1] This pamphlet was enlarged and extended into her book You Can Heal Your Life , published in 1984 [2] As of February 2008, it is still on New York Times best sellers list.[3]
Around the same time she began leading support groups for people living with H.I.V. or AIDS which she called her "Hay Rides". These grew from a few people in her living room to hundreds of men in a large hall in West Hollywood. Her work with AIDS patients drew fame and she was invited to appear on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” and “Donahue” in the same week, in March 1988. “You Can Heal Your Life” immediately landed on the New York Times best-seller list. More than 35 million copies are now in print around the world in over 30 languages.[1] [4] and has been made into a movie.[5]
Louise Hay established Hay House Publishing. It is the primary publisher of books and audio books by Deepak Chopra and Doreen Virtue, as well as many books by Wayne Dyer. In addition to running her publishing company, Hay runs a charitable o

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posted July 31, 2008 01:12 PM         

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltJJbYvMagE&feature=related

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posted July 31, 2008 03:30 PM         

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yeah, i got it.
whenever anyone tells me whats ailing them i have a little look in the illness and probable causes bit and its probably right. dont really get ill in our house

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posted July 31, 2008 07:44 PM         

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I have her book, "you can heal your life", too.

She's a fascinating lady, and she's been through a lot.

There is also a newly released film of You Can Heal Your Life.

Great video, BR! Thanks!

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posted July 31, 2008 08:00 PM         

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I love what she says about babies:

"They express their feelings.
When a baby is happy, you know it.
When a baby is angry, the whole neighborhood knows it.
They're never scared to let people know how they feel.
They live in the moment, and they're filled with courage."

~ Louise L. Hay

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posted July 31, 2008 08:24 PM         

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tmc0BvY96ss

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posted July 31, 2008 10:29 PM         

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I(had) three copies of You Can Heal Your Life, but kept giving them away. I read the first one of course and was recommending it to people who needed it so gave it to them.

She is a very inspiring woman.

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posted July 31, 2008 11:35 PM         

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Such a nice lady! Good, simple wisdom we too often forget.

I've never run into her. Thanks, BR.

"The Universe loves Gratitude"

Wonderful.

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