With self-help books a plenty, how do we know which ones are genuinely going to help us through our struggles? Author, Louise L. Hay’s teachings are about as genuine as they come! With 25 years of experience, an international best seller, 40 million books sold and an appearance on The Oprah Winfrey show, it is hard to doubt the miracle work she performs!
Modern-Day Miracles is a compilation of letters Hay has received over the years, from appreciative readers who believe her advice has been the driving force behind fixing their problems. She addresses a broad range of subjects, from work, relationships, finance and health, all the while focusing on the creative power of the individual on their journey of personal growth and self-healing.
An emotional read, Modern-Day Miracles will have you laughing, crying and nodding with understanding as you turn every page. The added bonus, at the conclusion of each chapter Hay includes affirmations and exercises to help readers overcome life’s struggles, big and small.
With Modern-Day Miracles you can bring in the New Year, as a new you!
Expert Exert: Louise L. Hay Shares Her Top 10 Tips For Transforming Old Beliefs With Rescu. Readers
What do you want to change in your own life? Do you know which of your thought patterns are contributing to the unwanted situation? However long you’ve held on to these beliefs, understand that they no longer support you, and it is okay to let them go now. You can manifest a new future for yourself, one filled with joy and love.
When you feel ready to start on the mental work, the following tips will help you examine and transform your beliefs.
- Discover where you have unconsciously picked up you negative and detrimental messages from. For instance, what are the things you parents said were “wrong” with you? What did they say about money? What did they say about your body? What did they say about love and relationships? If you can, just look objectively at your list and say to yourself, “So that’s where that belief came from.” Remember, you cannot make positive changes in your life until you recognize the beliefs you currently hold.
- Replace your “shoulds”. I believe that should is one of the most damaging words in our language. Every time we use it, we are, in effect, saying that we are wrong, or we were wrong. Replace should with could.
- Stop berating yourself. Ask yourself, “Why haven’t I?” You may find that you’ve been scolding yourself for years for something that you never wanted to do in the first place, or for something that was never your idea.
- For each category listed below, write down your greatest fear. Then place a positive affirmation that would counteract that fear next to it.
- Career
- Living situation
- Family relations
- Money
- Physical appearance
- Sex
- Health
- Relationships
- Old age
- Use some of my powerful affirmations every day and watch your life become more fresh and vital. Affirmations are like planting a seed, and the more attention and energy you give to it, the more they begin to grow and bring new experiences. Say often, “I see myself in a new light. I love myself”, “It is safe for me to move beyond others’ limitations”, “I am willing to release all old negative concepts and beliefs that are no longer supporting me.”
- Try this mirror exercise. Look in your mirror and say, “I deserve to have or be __________, and I accept it now.” Say it two or three times. How do you feel? Always pay attention to your feelings, to what is going on in your body. Does it feel true or do you still feel unworthy? Repeat this until you get the acceptance feelings, even if you have to do it several days in a row.
- Use visualisation to create a better version of you and your life. What does your ideal life feel like? What do you look like? What do you feel, see, taste, touch or hear?
- Approve of yourself. When a negative thought comes into your mind, such as “I’ll never amount to anything”, give the thought no importance Just see it for what it is – another way to keep yourself stuck in the past.
- Read You Can Heal Your Life where I go in even greater depth to help change your negative thinking patterns to positive affirmations that bring greater changes to how you see yourself and your life.
- Be kind to yourself. If you love yourself, everything in life flows better and you will begin to attract more positive energy in your life.
Modern-Day Miracles is available from Dymocks ($26.95)
