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ALL DIS-EASE COMES FROM A STATE OF UNFORGIVENESS
By Louise
L. Hay
Excerpt from: You Can Heal Your Life
" Whenever we are ill, we
need to search our hearts to see who it is we need to forgive.
The Course in
Miracles says that " all dis-ease comes from a state of
unforgiveness," and that whenever we are ill, we need to look around
to see who it is that we need to forgive."
I would add to that concept
that the very person you find it hardest to forgive is the one YOU NEED TO
LET GO OF THE MOST. Forgiveness means giving up, letting go.
It has nothing to do with condoning behavior. It's just letting the
whole thing go. We do not have to know HOW to forgive.
All we need to do is be WILLING to forgive. The Universe will take
care of the how's.
We understand our own pain
so well. How hard it is for most of us to understand that THEY,
whoever they are we need most to forgive, were also in pain. We need
to understand that they were doing the best they could with the
understanding, awareness, and knowledge they had at that time.
When people come to
me with a problem, I don't care what it is --poor health, lack of money,
unfulfilling relationships, or stifled creativity--there is only one
thing I ever work on, and that is LOVING THE SELF.
I find that when we really
love and accept and APPROVE OF OURSELVES EXACTLY AS WE ARE,
then everything in life works. It's as if little miracles are
everywhere. Our health improves, we attract more money, our
relationships become more fulfilling and we begin to express ourselves in
creatively fulfilling ways. Al this seems to happen without our even
trying.
Loving and approving of
yourself, creating a space of safety, and deserving and accepting,
will create organization in your mind, create more loving relationships in
your life, attract a new job and a new and better place to live, and even
enable your body weight to normalize. People who love themselves and
their bodies neither abuse themselves nor others.
Loving the self, to me,
begins with never ever criticizing ourselves for anything. Criticism
locks us into the very pattern we are trying to change.
Understanding and being gentle with ourselves helps us to move out of
it. Remember, you have been criticizing yourself for years, and it
hasn't worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens."
YOU CAN HEAL YOUR LIFE
Copyright ©1984, 1987
by
Louise L. Hay
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