If I were cast away on a desert island and could have only one book with me there, I might well choose Louise L. Hay’s You Can Heal Your Life.
Not only is it the essence of a great teacher, it is also the powerful and very personal statement of a great lady.
Louise shares some of her journey to where she is in her evolvement now in this wonderful new book. I resonated in admiration and in compassion to her story—too briefly sketched here, in my view, but perhaps that’s another book.
It’s all here, is my point. All you need to know about life, its lessons and how to do the work on yourself is right here. And this includes Louise’s reference guide to probable mental patterns behind dis-ease, which is truly remarkable and unique—in my experience. A person on a desert island who found this manuscript in a bottle could learn all he or she needs to know to make this life be the one that gets the job done.
Desert island or not, if you have found your way to Louise Hay, perhaps even “accidentally,” you’re well on your way. Louise’s books, her remarkable healing tapes, and her inspired workshops are wonderful gifts to a troubled world.
It was my own deep investment in working with persons with aids that led me to meeting Louise and utilizing concepts from her healing work.
Each aids person I worked with and for whom I played Louise’s tape, A Positive Approach to AIDS, got Louise’s message on the first hearing—and many made playing this tape part of their daily healing ritual. One man named Andrew told me, “I go to bed with Louise, and I get up to her every day!”
My respect and love for Louise grew as I observed my beloved aids people make their transitions enriched and at peace and complete—more full of love and forgiveness for themselves and everyone else for having had Louise in their lives—and with a quiet respect for having created that precise learning experience.
I have been gifted in my life with many great teachers, some of them saints, I’m sure, and even avatars, perhaps. Yet Louise is a great teacher one can speak with and be with because of her enormous capacity to listen and to be in unconditional love while sharing doing the dishes. (In the same way another teacher I hold as great makes terrific potato salad.) Louise teaches by example and lives what she teaches.
I am deeply honored to invite you to make this book part of your life. You—and it—are worth it!
DAVE BRAUN
VENTURES IN SELF-FULFILLMENT
DANA POINT, CALIFORNIA