tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-246377353991411890.post1604616071798768109..comments2023-09-22T20:01:14.318-04:00Comments on Kyra Speaks: Louise Hay: You Disgust Me! (a review of You Can Heal Your Life)kyrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09231777917185762352noreply@blogger.comBlogger47125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-246377353991411890.post-63430657080451367292014-11-02T08:58:23.290-05:002014-11-02T08:58:23.290-05:00Hi Kyra,
I stumbled onto this blog and noticed th...Hi Kyra,<br /><br />I stumbled onto this blog and noticed that you haven't posted recently. I hope you will take up the torch again since woo is still prevalent. I used to belong to Unity and was greatly exposed to the scams that you are bringing up here. They are successful scams because even the gurus have convinced themselves that they are aligned with "truth." At the heart of the matter is arrogance and perhaps the need to be seen in high regard, plus lots of money. Louise Hay's book has that infamous chapter in which people get to place judgement on those suffering with illness. It's not intention, but that's the results. Though it is scientifically shown that stress and mental illness can cause physical illness, it does not necessarily manifest for the reasons she mention. Her chapter has all the tell tale signs of classic, literal use of analogy. "Having foot trouble?" You're having trouble moving forward in life. "Having eye trouble?" What is it you do not want to see? This is all too simplistic, having roots in outdated thinking prior to advancement in science. It overlooks genetics, chemical exposure, errors in cell duplication, and physiological reasons that can be studied tested and retested for confirmation - some reasons are yet to be scientifically discovered. Such simplistic new age approaches give the illusion of being an expert and offering easy to understand reasoning that humans who want personal control can latch onto. Long ago, plants were selected for medicine based on their physical appearance - jack-n-the-pulpits resembling phallic body parts were used for libido.etc. Frequently, medicine by analogy resulted in death, illness, but also provided a trial by error approach leading to unexpected results - such as bark leading to asprin.We know certain plants are toxic because someone long ago decided to eat it and suffered the results. <br /><br />We are pattern seeking beings due to our evolution and innate drive to keep ourselves safe. We see what looks to be a threatening animal in the grasses and we react. Not reacting we take the risk of being killed - so better safe than sorry. We see a series of dots. . . . . . and we fill in the blanks to make a line. Someone tells us part of a story and we fill in the details because not knowing is uncomfortable. All this woo you write about here is a reaction to these human flaws in thinking - the need for answers in unknown situation, the need for control, the need to be the expert, arrogance, the need for meaning in an otherwise meaningless situation. Many of us do not have the time, intelligence, nor patience to study, in-depth the science behind disease, yet volumes of journals, books and information fills up buildings called medical libraries at our local university campus. Many prefer the quick meaning people like Hay offer up. <br /><br />Keep thinking critically and you will find truth beyond empty words and promises.<br />Kathryn<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-246377353991411890.post-76380515284047067482014-11-02T08:24:48.217-05:002014-11-02T08:24:48.217-05:00Perhaps she went to a doctor and just did not give...Perhaps she went to a doctor and just did not give any credit to the real source of healing. The number of people who credit God with their healing is astounding. I recall one "guru" commenting that after twenty plus surgeries, he healed himself. Without doctors most people would be dead or likely suffering severly.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-246377353991411890.post-24447576030834395672014-04-17T17:20:12.519-04:002014-04-17T17:20:12.519-04:00I like her, but I can see how her work would be co...I like her, but I can see how her work would be controversial. Personally I just take some of her more extreme claims with a grain of salt. If it were true in the literal sense, then I suppose immortality through positive thinking would be possible.. lol. :x But I definitely believe our thoughts have a real impact that is far more powerful than most people believe.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-246377353991411890.post-45969292088652722252014-04-03T06:10:46.414-04:002014-04-03T06:10:46.414-04:00This book is making its way through my families ha...This book is making its way through my families hands at this point. I read the book and am underwhelmed. I have had a sever mental illness for as long as I can remember and I feel a bit insulted by this woman's take on "illness". I was a kid, trying to be a kid, when I was hit with my disorder, and no amount of positive anything has ever made it go away...it just is.<br />I always advise people to look deeply into the background of all of these so-called "gurus". Even with the book "The Secret", once I started looking into these preachers, or examples of a "turnaround", I realized that most of these goons came from affluence or have as many holes in their stories, and characters, as a block of swiss cheese. <br />What most of us laymen look for are examples of those who truly attained spiritual, mental, and financial success that started from the BOTTOM. This is usually never the case. Dig deep, study these characters, and then try and take their "magical works" seriously.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-246377353991411890.post-10495275976619800632014-03-30T08:50:03.588-04:002014-03-30T08:50:03.588-04:00I wish there was some kind of proof too. Perhaps s...I wish there was some kind of proof too. Perhaps she was misdiagnosed in the beginning. There must have been some kind of medical records, that she would have wanted to have as proof, surely? Her philosophy is great, but this doesn't sit right.Menoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-246377353991411890.post-27499155710266567872014-03-19T17:35:38.506-04:002014-03-19T17:35:38.506-04:00Booooooo to kyra and all the other haters. Here...Booooooo to kyra and all the other haters. Here's a thought; you can be an eagle or you can be a duck—the choice is yours.<br /><br />Here's another thought; if everyone thinks the same way and does the same things—limiting themselves in fear, arrogance, and lack of curiosity—our world would be filled with drones, robots who are self-indulgent assholes that don't let themselves think out of the box and just keep on abusing other people, animals and the planet (...oh right—that's what our world is all about now).<br /><br />People like Hay and some other authors you mentioned are far too spiritually advanced for you to truly understand or to experience for yourself. This isn't critical thinking—you're just spreading your opinion from a negative mindset.<br /><br />Who do you think you are limiting yourself and the rest of us with your depressing, angry, immature thoughts?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-246377353991411890.post-92174475906457381222014-03-12T15:46:33.339-04:002014-03-12T15:46:33.339-04:00Hi there. I came across this blog after I startin...Hi there. I came across this blog after I starting searching for critical views of Louise Hay. I have bought into her stuff in the past but lately have become fed up with the heavy marketing of Hay House products by email. <br /><br />Your reply sounds really sane & grounded, & echoes a lot of my own experiences with finding ordinary people doing regular jobs to be much kinder than these guru types. And at the end of the day, i think human kindness is what really counts for a lot.<br /><br />I've pretty much stopped reading all the new age/spiritual books for a while now & I'm just enjoying reading stories, novels etc, which i also find i can learn a lot from.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-246377353991411890.post-23286084292600358122014-01-20T18:00:46.156-05:002014-01-20T18:00:46.156-05:00Follow the dollar, Hay House are just like large c...Follow the dollar, Hay House are just like large corporations making more and more money...where does Hay House millions go? Also be very aware of 'Conversations With God' bullshitter Neale Donald Walsch I went to a seminar of his where he said he could not work with Deepak Chopra as 'we dont think the same way' and he admitted he thought he could do these type seminars after watching Eckhart Tolle, so did he start getting messages after that??<br />The seminar cost £60 and they could not offer refreshments at all 3 breaks many other things to mention but I wont as I am not wasting anymore time on charlatans! !Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15414728632819684726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-246377353991411890.post-66091204553913387102013-12-13T18:33:11.269-05:002013-12-13T18:33:11.269-05:00Awesome job, Kyra. That some people think anyone e...Awesome job, Kyra. That some people think anyone exercising their critical thinking skills, as have I, is "negative" or "not spiritual", then that serves to underscore how vital our critical thinking skills are. This "Puffy Pink Cloud" of ceasing to actually think critically (granting most education systems discourage critical thought as a rule) is not of any "new age" most people in their right mind would ever wish to contribute to. And this leads to people that, instead of answering genuine concerns about parity and consistency, rather use the well-worn emotional coping mechanism of labeling and blaming across a dialectic of "good" and "bad", "normal" and "abnormal", distinctions woven from an utterly delusional landscape. An ounce of critical thought on the order of so grand a life is more spiritual than not, in my opinion.<br /><br />Magical thinking is a very well known human problem, that born of modern conditions of smog and toxic psychology that inhibits brain development itself more apt than not to think itself "normal" - because that is what the brain does best - adapt.<br /><br />Such a brain must defend itself, therefore, from any suggestion that its basic assumptions may not be consistent or even productive, and it will often do so very aggressively, even in the name of "Love".<br /><br />It is not a crime to not know everything, or to make assumptions, or even to make money on one's assumptions and the assumptions of others.<br /><br />But nor is it crime to question people, especially in the realm of healing, as an absence of truly critical thought about our lives and minds is what largely makes us sick in the first place.<br /><br />Re: Louise Hay. She has many positive affirmations. What concerns me, however, is that she very specifically matches various factors from a broad spectrum of emotional states with various specific diseases. This is just not logical or medically sound. Any qualified healer or doctor can tell you that any kind and range of disease can be created by any number of deficiencies, traumas, and toxins or stress. I don't blame Louise Hay. She is doing her best. We all need to do our own due diligence.<br /><br />And you, Kyra, have helped people do that. If that is not about "Love" then I would question the sanity of anyone making ad hominem attacks on you or anyone asking what used to be sensible questions before the "new age" of military-grade propaganda (with, yes, lots of spiritual bons bons).<br /><br />Like you, I also highly question the sanity of all the writers and "doctors" you mentioned. There are many ways to treat cancer (if it is not your time), and these "doctors" mention almost none of them but "thinking one's self well". Man, the money you can waste is endless. However, people often do get a benefit because most developmental disorders in our society thrive on being helped by anyone in "authority" by "icons" of "spirituality" and "health". These are often provisional control-based therapies. Yes, I too would LOVE to see the statistics on improved survival rates. Are they better than the independently set 2 percent for chemotherapy, which largely causes more cancer than it cures. *Note. If you have cancer, check out any antioxidant (which is largely anticarcinogenic), vitamin C and B17 in wheatgrass. Remember, thought that stress produces acidity in the body, which can also be carcinogenic. We need to carefully consider very many factors in our society, as we have more propaganda than oxygen most of the time. Responding to this, today, is very much a part of improving our immune system to all diseases, biological and sociopolitical.Rayn Gryphonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13979523767393814789noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-246377353991411890.post-87669637804754297322013-10-17T09:30:37.416-04:002013-10-17T09:30:37.416-04:00This isn't just about cancer, to which I'm...This isn't just about cancer, to which I'm facing a potential diagnosis. <br /><br />This is about someone pitching the tyranny of positive thinking upon those who are desperate and needy. There is much to be said in psychology about what human beings will do, or believe, when they are in pain. The interesting thing is that pain brings growth. The issue I have the with the tyranny of positive thinking is that it encourages us to REPRESS our emotions, which is unhealthy and can make us sick or, if we can't pull ourselves out of a 'negative thinking', we are blamed and stigmatized by it. It is INCREDIBLY dangerous to imply that one can 'positively think' their disease away, whether it is mental or physical health, and ti's dangerous to pathologize negative emotions to the point of completely obliteration from our psyche.<br /><br />Anything that asks us, whether directly, indirectly, covert or overt, to repress our humanity, is a fraud. Period.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-246377353991411890.post-90241706659142311362013-05-23T19:09:29.280-04:002013-05-23T19:09:29.280-04:00I would just like to find ONE legit source that ca...I would just like to find ONE legit source that can verify her claim of healing her own v-cancer. She said in one interview that "It was 30 years ago. I can't remember exactly what stage the cancer was at." <br /><br />(http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/3348269/How-positive-thinking-helped-me-beat-cancer.html) <br /><br />As someone who has cancer right now, and can medically verify it, I guarantee you that you remember what stage you're diagnosed at and I will presume that will be true for life, absent any dementia etc.<br /><br />I've found that many in the New Thought movement do not walk their unconditional love talk. You should see how fast they scatter and abandon when the "c" word comes in to place, but since I have it, I must deserve it and given it to myself.<br /><br />Thank goodness I woke up from all that nonsense. An ethical naturopathic doctor told me to take allopathic treatment because so many alternative "cures" are there because people are trying to make a buck off of vulnerable people. I am totally disgusted by the wasted time I spent on all that hooey and am glad to be back on terra firma. <br /><br />Yes, Louise Hay, give me measureable PROOF that you healed your own cancer using your methods. If it is so I can avoid chemo and all that other stuff. Hurry up though.<br /><br />:-DAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-246377353991411890.post-28803878243092228222013-05-12T10:39:03.438-04:002013-05-12T10:39:03.438-04:00This is an interesting discussion. In 1986 I was a...This is an interesting discussion. In 1986 I was at rock bottom in my life and picked up You Can Heal Your Life. I had nothing to lose so I tried the methods in the book, and was astonished at how some affirmations came true almost immediately while others I am still waiting for almost 30 years later.<br /><br />I decided to investigate why sometimes it works and other times it doesn't. I have found the answer to that question and I am satisfied.<br /><br />I've been a holistic healer for almost 30 years, but I have never told anyone to give up their regular physician. You have to find what works for you. If your house is on fire, your first call should not be to the feng shui expert. Begin by managing the symptoms, but use holism to dig into the root causes. All the healing arts have their place in restoring oneself to balance. Illness is the manifestation of a complex web of causes, and winding those back to the source can be like untying the Gordian knot.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-246377353991411890.post-27126969600016463412013-04-04T18:13:22.056-04:002013-04-04T18:13:22.056-04:00Kyra my dear, I read your blog and I cannot believ...Kyra my dear, I read your blog and I cannot believe how horrible I feel. The negative energy, pointing fingers, shame and blame is just horrible. First we need to take responsibility for everything that happens in our life. We can’t go around pointing our finger at everyone blaming them for everything that has or hasn’t happened in our lives. We are the captain/creator of our lives. Some of the people you mentioned in your blog I’m aware of however; don’t know much about them. The other folks I know very well, have read their books, watched their videos and taken training. I LOVE them. I am grateful to these people for shining as bright as they do to give us guidance. Counselors can only give each of us the tools to use to heal our lives, Life Coaches do the same thing to inspire us to make the needed changes in our lives so we will aspire to fulfill our dreams. Sure there are people in this world that will look at the easiest way to make money. There are horrible scamming thieves in every profession. As a psychic-medium I do my very best to give folks the loving guidance to heal, answer questions or give comfort or closure. I know that each thought and action changes our future. How can anybody give you scientific proof of Angels, of miracles or even God? You have to believe and once you really believe in your heart you will see what is right before your very eyes everyday. I see miracles everyday. I see people changing and healing them self with positive thought, positive changes in their lifestyle. I don’t need to try and prove anything to you or try to convince you of anything because I know the truth. I have peace. I’m sorry you are so angry, bitter and hurt that is a very dark uncomfortable place to be. I pray you find peace and love one day my dear. I also must say I agree 100% with Angela Abbott because I have seen the healing within myself, disease can’t live in a high alkaline body. I wish you all well.Tina Starkeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06766629636245910514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-246377353991411890.post-14057404844078440282013-03-17T00:49:03.273-04:002013-03-17T00:49:03.273-04:00This is new age movement. no basic and no guidance...This is new age movement. no basic and no guidance whatsoever to believe this lady ( Hay's). I just can't imagine how people are being misguided by her teaching. So sad...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-246377353991411890.post-75589439166205913942013-02-05T01:35:53.772-05:002013-02-05T01:35:53.772-05:00I found this discussion interesting. I have never...I found this discussion interesting. I have never really dug Louise Hay, simply an energy thing. I have an inbuilt resistence to gurus, and New Age stars for some reason. I do not follow human beings due to the "feet of clay" syndrome. I do sense and listen to my Higher Self, for want of better words. Anyone who pontificates about Spirit, has a touch of the egocentric, attention seeking fantasist to me. But I have met some amazing channelers saying that who do it automatically and free. Who express God's love in their every day life. Anyone who lectures on God from a podium does not attract me. On the other hand, I have gone on my own spiritual search. I found basic therapy very helpful when it comes to defusing my negative perceptions and thinking modes. Also regular meditation and spiritual practice is useful, as long as one does not shut oneself away in a rarified world, because life tends to hit for six in such cases, it happened to me.However, I also sense that all these gurus serve us too, we learn as a result of experiencing them. We do learn that we are are powerful creators and our thoughts create resonance and attract situations or refute them, so even though I do not like the New Age blurb, I get some aspects of creative thinking. But narcistic New Age Gurus have never, ever been my thing. They always fail because they become corrupted by their self importance, their ego, and fail in their own spritiual growth and evolution. I have met more enlightened people than they doing every day jobs, mothering families, driving cabs, cooking great food, being wonderful friends, caring people who would never claim to talk to God, but express God just by being alive. Misery does make us look for answers, yet I have never found them in a New Age guru, but in my own heart and yearning for truth. And also in the beauty of life and friendship around me. I do believe in experimenting with energy, and therefore am interested in some of the new healing techniques, such as quantum healing, and I love Reiki. I also like my yoga teacher, and friends who teach me about life, God and love more than anyone. I also find my son to be a great spiritual teacher, and think, I do not have to pay him anything to mirror my inner world back to me. I also am "psychic", in that I can sense and feel others energy, that is why I don't dig Louise Hay. I respect her knowledge but not her energy vibe, I am glad that people are questioning her, because that is necessary. Questioning and doubt are good things. They express the other side of the coinc. Anyway, to cut to the core, I always take those who make million dollar claims about God with a pinch of salt. Thanks for the discussion and for listening. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-246377353991411890.post-24269479950485429092013-01-28T11:12:55.385-05:002013-01-28T11:12:55.385-05:00Angela Abbott,
I would be very interested in see...Angela Abbott, <br /><br />I would be very interested in seeing the studies that <i>scientifically prove</i> that cancer and disease cannot survive a high-alkaline body. I do a lot of research in studies of this sort, but I have not seen any empirical research that suggests that this is possible.kyrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09231777917185762352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-246377353991411890.post-18902355810666709192013-01-27T13:46:11.036-05:002013-01-27T13:46:11.036-05:00I have a letter of written permission from Hay Hou...I have a letter of written permission from Hay House Publishing to give away FOR FREE all of the You Can Do It CD's I wish! About the Aids comment. It has been scientifically proven that cancer and disease cannot survive a high alkaline body. I went from robbing drug dealers for a living to opening a rehab and doing a box office movie and I credit the teachings of Louise for my success. Her teachings helped me love and believe in myself and that was the foundation I needed. Until we believe we will, will will not. Your negative beliefs are why it won't work for you. Let go of them and give it an honest try for 90 days and you will retract ALL of this nonsense!Angela Abbotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10115048420905074760noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-246377353991411890.post-76304471666488546032012-12-05T14:28:24.359-05:002012-12-05T14:28:24.359-05:00I really have to agree with you. I am not sure ho...I really have to agree with you. I am not sure how positive thinking can "hurt" someone, but your disdain and need for "proof" let me know that you are not familiar with the term "faith". I can see that you are not a spiritual being but rather a factual one, which is fine and you have your right to your beliefs but to slander and discredit people that think positively and help others think positively astonishes me. If I choose to purchase a book to find hope and think positively how is it possibly harmful to you? There are many people out there that you could witch hunt, but an 86 year old woman that has written books to help with positive thinking? A woman that built herself and her business from the ashes, really? If for no other reason she has my respect BECAUSE she is a smart business woman. Surely there are more deserving targets out there for you? Good luck to you and I hope you find a better use of your energy. One that will serve people in a positive manner rather that a way for you to spew hatred around. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-246377353991411890.post-38215937218385013292012-11-27T14:53:59.011-05:002012-11-27T14:53:59.011-05:00Maybe its your bad energy that has got you deleted...Maybe its your bad energy that has got you deleted. lolAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-246377353991411890.post-51044980095014806272012-10-31T13:39:24.804-04:002012-10-31T13:39:24.804-04:00Great articulation of what should have been said l...Great articulation of what should have been said long time ago and accepted as the main stream truth instead of Louise Hay's work. I used to be young and her biggest fan but with time I set to prove my own beliefs by adhering to every word in her books and in the books of others alike. I also declared of my beliefs aloud and brought them up with people who criticized me I resented them and saw them somewhat of a lesser individuals. In my quest to find those who did support Louise Hay's way of thought I found an MS patient and his family, amazing people with the purest of hearts I had the pleasure of knowing who blamed themselves for not being loving or believing enough to heal the MS. I found a wonderful beautiful giving woman who was abused as a child and instead of acceptance she practiced denial, hiding behind feeling as if it was has way of thinking that got her abused and molested; I blamed myself for the autoimmune disease I was BORN WITH, saying I must have done something in my past life to deserve it. I refused medications, wasted way too much money on alternative medics (not to say all of it is bad)... The result? I came to resent Hays irresponsible claims and the life it had me lead. I revised, reversed and changed a lot of my thinking but am now regarded and an angry less of a person by those still fighting to right to wrongs in their life using Louise's methods. <br />I believe she did not work out her issues and dragged people down with her. She might have been innocently misled by her own experience but it does not make her less responsible in admitting the shortcomings of her method. The popularity of her books must have convinced her that she was right and erased every drop of doubt she might have had regarding the validity of her claims.<br />Overall, it's important her take ownership of out thoughts and choices and Louise taught me that. However, if her books were guided by common sense and pointed out the ambivalence in thinking it is "all in your head" they could never make glorious promises or sell 40 million copies. Or more.Alisa Fulshtinskyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02242960349759695536noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-246377353991411890.post-13653930944301020042012-10-10T16:26:59.578-04:002012-10-10T16:26:59.578-04:00Light and love ;).Light and love ;).kyrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09231777917185762352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-246377353991411890.post-90403593183155980622012-10-10T15:07:11.147-04:002012-10-10T15:07:11.147-04:00xoxoxoxoAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-246377353991411890.post-478108912269670352012-10-10T14:56:40.084-04:002012-10-10T14:56:40.084-04:00Hey again Anonymous,
Thanks for the reply.
...yo...Hey again Anonymous,<br /><br />Thanks for the reply.<br /><br /><i>...your responses seemed like funny feeble attempts to make a come back.</i><br /><br />...or attempts at clarifying my positions.<br /><br /><i>You actually didn't sound like you disagreed with Louis Hay much at all.</i><br /><br />I very much so disagree with her, for the reasons discussed in the post above.<br /><br /><i> But I think it's fair to say that you back pedal a lot when faced with facts that contradict your initial rantings but you know make sense.</i><br /><br />I can't imagine what in my statements are considered back tracking. I assure you, my statements support my original post.<br /><br /><i> And really you're no authority to deny her claims as it sounds like it's bases on a person to person basis.</i><br /><br />And Louise Hay has no authority to make her claims because she has no proof that they are even true.kyrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09231777917185762352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-246377353991411890.post-30979696162478620742012-10-10T14:23:24.062-04:002012-10-10T14:23:24.062-04:00For all the time spent on breaking down nearly eac...For all the time spent on breaking down nearly each point of my comment to you, which by the way wasn't joining you in anger even though I'm sure that would make you feel better to think someone would stoop low with you, your responses seemed like funny feeble attempts to make a come back. Not sure if that was on purpose but you did sound more rational that your first rant. You actually didn't sound like you disagreed with Louis Hay much at all. Which is odd compared to the "disgust" you said you had initially. Well that's great! If you had sounded so rational and reasonable the first time you "shared information" I think it actually would have been constructive rather than full of negativity. It's hard to respond to some of your retorts i don't agree with because a couple of them make such little sense it seems like a waste of time to try to show you that. But I think it's fair to say that you back pedal a lot when faced with facts that contradict your initial rantings but you know make sense. But most importantly, I think the reason why what you're saying sounds so offensive to people who don't agree with your negative opinions, is because it misrepresents Louis Hay. It puts her in a shadow that really is only cast by the negativy inside of you that you wanted to spread just because your experience doesn't match to the one Louis describes, not promises. And really you're no authority to deny her claims as it sounds like it's bases on a person to person basis. Based on the effort and experiences they have. You can't deny what you don't know. You don't know what that power of the mind can do and that's unfortunate for you, but it doesn't say it isn't possible for others who do have that power. Try not to be so bitter maybe. Maybe then you will realize that you thoughts are more powerful than you realized. Maybe the answer to fix your problem doesn't have to be found outside of you. Maybe it will take more than just a thought, which I think she encourages as well. But to deny the foundation of what she's teaching is basically denying your own power. If that's fine with you, that's fine with me. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-246377353991411890.post-27511167003019287552012-10-09T17:21:57.406-04:002012-10-09T17:21:57.406-04:00Hey Anonymous,
Thanks for the comment.
You may ...Hey Anonymous,<br /><br />Thanks for the comment. <br /><br /><i>You may think she's taking advantage, but most people are not blind and can make up their minds for themselves, just as you have.</i><br /><br />My writing a blog about how I feel in no way inhibits people from making up their own minds. If anything, it just offers another perspective to help them reach their own conclusions.<br /><br /><i> You see, the point that Loise hay wants people to accept is that your thoughts do make your world.</i><br /><br />There is a certain, philosophical level I can agree with this on. However, the fact is, though a person may believe that they don't have cancer, and that may be <i>their reality</i>, if you will, if they actually do and die from it, it doesn't really matter what <i>their reality</i> was.<br /><br /><i>Just as you've created angry thoughts within you that most likely created physical symptoms of anger and created a negative mind set that led to you wanting to attract even more negativity from others who'd join in your rantings. You created that. And that's her point.</i><br /><br />Well, I appreciate you taking the time to join me in my little angry nucleus.<br /><br /><i>Doctors already know that stress leads to health issues.</i><br /><br />I do not claim that there is no mind-body connection. My issue is the sort of exaggerated mind-body connection that Louise Hay claims exists.<br /><br /><i>What is true is that Louise is sharing information.</i><br /><br />As am I.<br /><br /><i> It's easy to think of scientist or physicians in the medical world are the authority, but it really wasn't that long ago that we were using mercury, a toxic substance, to fill our cavities or labotomizing people, or saying that homosexuals suffer from mental disorders.</i><br /><br />I have never claimed that scientists or physicians are beyond error. My only claim is that the scientific process allows for us to catch mistakes and eventually correct our biases or erroneous conclusions. Certainly, there are errors being made within the medical community even today. My problem with those like Louise Hay is that the only "proof" offered is in the form of anecdotes, which any crackpot fraud can offer effortlessly for any nonsensical idea.<br /><br /><i>Wake up.</i><br /><br />I wasn't asleep when you wrote this, and I am not asleep now, but it's likely that I will lie down for a good night's sleep in a few hours.<br /><br /><i>First of all imagination is one of the greatest forces on this world and second, your thoughts made you write this rant in the first place.</i><br /><br />I have not denied that there is power in the imagination. I have denied Louise's claims about what that power has the ability to do.<br /><br />xoxokyrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09231777917185762352noreply@blogger.com