4.0 out of 5 based on 6 reviews. – Customer review on 02/09/2009

A great little book to keep with you. Whenever you have a health problem you can look it up and see the possible reasons it has manifested and the affirmation to help counteract it. My Mum told me about this book. Just another great addition to my Louise Hay colleciton.

5.0 out of 5 based on 6 reviews. – Customer review on 13/01/2007

Author Louise Hay is a teacher, lecturer, and founder of Hay House Publishing. She contends that disease is caused by mental thought patterns, especially patterns of criticism, anger, resentment, and guilt. Festering resentments eat away at the self and can ultimately lead to tumors and cancers. Anger turns into things that burn, boil, or infect the body. A pattern of criticism can turn into diseases like arthritis, and guilt seeks punishment and leads to pain. In this book, Ms. Hay outlines hundreds of diseases and conditions, alphabetically, and the mental patterns that are associated with them, including each vertebrae of the spine. She has discovered these patterns through many years of study, her own work with clients, and her lectures and workshops.

She knows the power of healing by changing mental thought patterns firsthand: she was diagnosed as having cancer of the vagina several years ago. She was already a teacher of healing for several years, and saw it as an opportunity to practice what she preached. Despite knowing the power of replacing negative thought patterns with positive and affirming beliefs, she felt panic like most would at this kind of diagnosis. However, she felt that if she allowed the doctor to operate without changing the mental pattern that created it, the cancer would just come back. In fact, she believes that when cancer comes back, it's not because the doctor "didn't get it all", but because the individual never addressed the mental patterns that created the dis-ease in the first place.

In Ms. Hay's case, she had never acknowledged the deep resentment she carried for being raped when she was 5 years old and being battered as a child. As she says, we are often blind to our own patterns--even if we're healers or teachers.

Ms. Hay bargained with her doctor and asked for 3 months to work on the deep resentments and thought patterns that created her cancer. He grudgingly agreed, warning her that she was putting her life in danger. She began working immediately with a teacher to clear up her patterns of resentment, as well as working with a nutritionist to detoxify her body. Six months later, the medical profession agreed with what she already knew: she was completely free from any form of cancer.

She still keeps the original lab report as a reminder of how negatively creative she could be.

5.0 out of 5 based on 6 reviews. – Customer review on 07/08/2008

great pocket sized guide. a great addition to You can heal your life. Love it!

5.0 out of 5 based on 6 reviews. – Customer review on 15/12/2009

This is a fabulous book on so many levels. I actually had it for years and never read it....waht a crime!! This book relates the 'dis-ease...' in our body issues to the many emotional, intellectual and other types of situations which manifest IN our bodies...as well as outside them. Western medicine per se...has MUCH to gain from these pages...most illness hs a definitive casusal base...and it is so often emotional. I am a professional Psychic and Spiritual Healer and I use this book every day...it is a fine reference guide and it is written in 'easy speak' English so that everyone can 'gt' the message. I recommend this book regualrly and have just bought 2 more for Clients......Louise Hay is amazing and her works are so timely. We NEED alternative medicine....conventional medicine is about the drugs....alternative medicine is about the HEALING. I would encourage every household to buy a copy of this book.

5.0 out of 5 based on 6 reviews. – Customer review on 28/10/2009

This is a wonderful book, easy to quickly find answers and makes a huge difference in your life!

4.0 out of 5 based on 6 reviews. – Customer review on 18/11/2006

Louise always puts together good info and this little book is no exception. Her stuff like most methodologies work only if you put them into action. She has said herself that until she got cancer she didn’t realize that she wasn’t walking that talk and it was only afterwards that she really came into her own as a healer and teacher. Take that as you will. In any case a good and worthy book.