HEAL YOUR BODY A-Z, Part 3

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HEAL YOUR BODY A-Z, Part 3 "Mental Equivalents: The Mental Thought Patterns That Form Our Experiences" Written by Louise L. Hay "Both the good in our lives and the dis-ease are the results of mental thought patterns that form our experiences. We all have many thought patterns that produce good, positive experiences, and these we enjoy. It is the negative thought patterns that produce uncomfortable, unrewarding experiences with which we are concerned. It is our desire to change our dis-ease in life into perfect health. "We have learned that for every effect in our lives, there is a thought pattern that precedes and maintains it. Our consistent thinking patterns create our experiences. Therefore, by changing our thinking patterns, we can change our experiences. "What a joy it

was when I first discovered the term METAPHYSICAL CAUSATIONS. This describes the power in the words and thoughts that create experiences. This new awareness brought me understanding of the connection between thoughts and the different parts of the body and physical problems. I learned how I had unknowingly created dis-ease in myself and this made a great difference in my life. Now I could stop blaming life and other people for what was wrong in my life and my body. I could now take full responsibility for my own health. Without either reproaching myself or feeling guilty, I began to see how to avoid creating thought patterns of dis-ease in the future. "For example, I could not understand why I repeatedly had problems with a stiff neck. Then I discovered that the neck represented being flexible on issues, being willing to see different sides of a question. I had been a very inflexible person, often refusing to listen to another side of a

question out of fear. However, as I became more flexible in my thinking and was more able, with loving understanding, to see another's viewpoint, my neck ceased to bother me. Now, if my neck becomes a bit stiff, I look to see where my thinking is stiff and rigid." ********************************************************************************************************** "Replacing Old Patterns" "In order to permanently eliminate a condition, we must first work to dissolve the mental cause. But most often, since we do not know what the cause is, we find it difficult to know where to begin. So, if you are saying, "If I only knew what was causing this pain," I hope that this book will provide both a clue to finding the causes and a helpful guide for building new thought patterns that will produce health in mind and body. "I have learned that for every condition in our

lives, there is a NEED FOR IT. Otherwise, we would not have it. The symptom is only an outer effect. We must go within to dissolve the mental cause. This is why willpower and discipline do not work. They are only battling the outer effect. It is like cutting down the weed instead of getting the root out. So before you begin the new Thought Pattern affirmations, work on the WILLINGNESS TO RELEASE THE NEED for the cigarettes or the headache or the excess weight or whatever. When the need is gone, the outer effect must die. No plant can live if the root is cut away. "The mental thought patterns that cause the most dis-ease in the body are: CRITICISM, ANGER, RESENTMENT, and GUILT. For instance, criticism indulged in long enough will often lead to dis-eases such as arthritis. Anger turns into things that boil and burn and infect the body. Resentment long held festers and eats away at the self and ultimately can lead to tumors and cancer.

Guilt always seeks punishment and leads to pain. It is so much easier to release these negative thinking patterns from our minds when we are healthy than to try to dig them out when we are in a state of panic and under the threat of the surgeon's knife. "The following list of mental equivalents has been compiled from many years of study, my own work with clients, and my lectures and workshops. It is helpful as a quick-reference guide to the probable mental patterns behind the dis-ease in your body. I offer you this list with love and a desire to share this simple method of helping to heal your body A-Z!" ************************************************************************************************************** "Further Comments" "I have learned that children, and animals, too, because they are so open, may be largely influenced by the consciousness of the adults

around them. Therefore, when working for children or pets, use the affirmations both for them and for also clearing the consciousness of the parent, teacher, relative, etc., who may be surrounding and influencing them. "Remember, the word METAPHYSICAL means to go beyond the physical to the mental cause behind it. As an example, if you came to me with a problem of constipation, I would know you had some sort of belief in limitation and lack and, therefore, were mentally frightened to let go of anything out of fear of not being able to replace it. It could also mean you were holding on to an old, painful memory of the past and would not let go. You might have a fear of letting go of relationships that no longer nourish you, or a job that is unfulfilling, or some possessions that are now unusable. You might even be stingy about money. Your dis-ease would give me many clues to your mental attitude. "I would try to

make you understand that a closed fist and a tight attitude cannot take in anything new. I would help you develop more trust in the Universe (the power that supplies your breath) to provide for you so that you could flow with the rhythms of life. I would help you to release your patterns of fear and teach you how to create a new cycle of good experiences by using your mind in a different way. I might ask you to go home and clean out your closets giving away all the useless stuff to make room for new things. And as you were doing this to say aloud, "I am releasing the old and making room for the new." Simple, but effective. And as you began to understand the principle of release and letting go, the constipation, which is a form of gripping and holding on, would take care of itself. The body would freely release that which was no longer useful in a normal way. "Perhaps you have noticed how often I have used the concepts of LOVE, PEACE, JOY, and

SELF-APPROVAL. When we can truly live from the loving space of the heart, approving of ourselves and trusting the Divine Power to provide for us, then peace and joy will fill our lives, and illness and uncomfortable experiences will cease to be in our experience. Our goal is to live happy, healthy lives, enjoying our own company. Love dissolves anger, love releases resentment, love dissipates fear, and love creates safety. When you can come from a space of totally loving yourself, then everything in your life must flow with ease and harmony and health and prosperity and joy." Excerpted from: "Heal Your Body A-Z", Written by Louise L. Hay, Published by Hay House Inc., copyright 1998. For more information, http://www.hayhouse.com or http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/AffirmationstoDe-Stress A positive thinking, positive affirmations support group, that empowers us with ways to sail through daily life stress. Come aboard! PJ and Gang