The Resilient Mind - Shift Your Mental Patterns & Transform Your Life - Louise Hay

Episode Date: May 24, 2024

Louise Hay, known as a pioneer in the self-help movement and even referred to as "a living saint" by the Australian media, made a name for herself with the publication of her debut book "Heal Your Body" in 1976. This book delves into the connection between the mind and body, a topic that wasn't commonly discussed at the time.Take action and strengthen your mind with The Resilient Mind Journal. Get your free digital copy today: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Download Now⁠⁠ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to the Resilient Mind podcast. In this episode, you will be listening to, shift your mental patterns and transform your life with Louise Hay. Get access to the Resilient Mind Journal by clicking the link in the show notes. Enjoy. I teach people to love themselves because I find that this is the answer for almost everything. You see, I believe that we're all 100% responsible for everything in our lives. I think we create all of our experiences by our thinking, feeling patterns.

The thoughts we think and the words we speak are enormously powerful. And it's almost as though we think a thought or we speak a word and it goes out from us and it comes back to us as experience. Now we learn how we feel about ourselves and how we feel about life when we are very, very little. By the time we are three to five years old, we have a total mindset about who we are and what life is all about. And from then on, we keep reacting to experiences through this mindset. And while very often these thoughts that we have and these beliefs that we create or decisions that we make or agreements that we make at that age are very good and they help us to survive in what may be a very different. situation we often take them forward into life so that when we become adults

we're still operating out of a three-year-old mentality or a three-year-old decision and that often doesn't work in our life so we learn these things when we're very young and we usually learn them from our parents and this is not to blame them because I really do believe that we're all victims of victims and there isn't possible for anybody to teach us anything that they don't know. If your mother didn't know how to love herself, there's no way she could teach you how to love yourself. And if your father didn't know how to love himself, then he couldn't teach you how to love yourself. And if you grew up

in a family that was very angry or frightened, then you're likely to be an angry or frightened person because that's what you learned as a child. It's not right or wrong or good or bad. It just is. Again, it doesn't matter what the problem is, or how long you've had it, or how difficult or chronic it is or anything else or whether it's brand new or whether it runs in the family. There's only one thing I ever teach anyone and that is loving the self. Because when we really love and appreciate and acknowledge who we are at this point in time and space, it's like little miracles happen everywhere. And life begins to flow for us. And we do what I call getting the green lights and the parking places and all those little.

things that make life so wonderful. And when we don't love and appreciate who we are, then we put up the barriers and the resistance to our own good. Now I'm not talking about vanity, or arrogance, because that is not love, that is fear. I'm just talking about appreciating the being that we are. And I do a lot of work with people with mirrors. You might I'm going to ask you if you could open your arms please. Thank you. You know, it's interesting because this is always a gesture of shutting off.

And it's interesting to notice what is being said when we do that. Now, I can remember when I used to live my life, I lived like this. I was always like this. People would say, are you cold? And we'd, oh, no, I'm not cold. I was terrified. I was frightened. I didn't want to let anything new in because I didn't know what I was doing

and I didn't know what would happen. And when I work with people, when workshops or classes or anything, I always try to get people just to open their arms so that we can let the new in. Remember, this is the subconscious mind and this is where we're holding. So this is saying nothing new will get in.

So I always like to feel that I'm open and receptive to new ideas and I'm willing to learn, and I'm willing to change, and I'm willing to grow. And sometimes I don't want to, and sometimes it hits areas that I don't really take. care to change at the moment and you know that's there always an area that I know is important for me to work on

another thing I do a lot with people is I do mirror work I have people do their affirmations in a mirror I have people talk to themselves in mirrors I suggest that you get up in the morning and the first thing you do is you go to the mirror before you go to the bathroom or do anything you know when you're really at your most delightful go to the mirror and say, I love you, then what can I do for you today to make you happy? And you may not get an answer for a while because that part of you doesn't trust you. But if you start doing that, you'll find a very good connection. A very healing thing to do is just a couple of times a day for a month or so is to look in a mirror in your own eyes and say, I love you.

I really, really love you. And just let all those feelings come up and notice them. And if it's difficult for you to do that, notice that it's difficult for you to look in your own eyes and say, I love you. And ask yourself, now where did that nonsense come from? Remember, little tiny babies when they're born, they absolutely adore themselves. And they're totally open, and they're full of love. They express themselves freely.

They ask for what they want. for what they want. They love their bodies from the top of the toe to the top of their head to the tip of their toes and every point in between including their own feces which they'll gladly rub all over their bodies because nobody's taught them guilt and shame. They know how wonderful they are. And then somewhere along the line we get this idea that we're not good enough and we start putting our tape, tape measures around our waistline to tell us if we're acceptable. Or we read magazines that say that we have to be a certain height or a certain weight before we're acceptable, or we listen to the media that says we have to use a certain deodorant before we're acceptable. You know, it just doesn't make sense. We are absolutely divine, magnificent expressions of life, all of us. And like when we were in the circle looking at each other, each face is another unique expression of God.

And we're not supposed to be alike. time began on this planet there have not been two snowflakes alike and there's certainly not been two people alike and we're always trying to be like everybody else so we're acceptable our uniqueness is what makes us wonderful so we want to love that and cherish it and acknowledge it you see if we really believe in our uniqueness and the wonder of each being then there is no competition and no comparison. There can't be. We're just different and we're meant to be different. And that's wonderful. And that's another thing we can acknowledge in the mirror. Do your affirmations

in the mirror. How many people do affirmations on a daily basis? Well, okay, let's talk about affirmations for a moment. Every single thought we have or every sentence we speak is an affirmation and it's either positive or negative and it's going out from us and it's creating our experiences however when we talk about doing affirmations what we're talking about is making definite positive statements to create something in our life or to remove something in our life you see if you stand there and say I don't want this job or I don't want this relationship or I don't want these hips or I don't want whatever that does not get you what

you want. That's what I call fighting the negative and it doesn't do anything but keep what you have that you say you don't want. However if you start saying and doing affirmations that I have a wonderful new job or I have this most absolutely marvelous relationship then you're beginning to create what it is you do want. Affirmations are like planting seeds and if you think for a moment when you put a seed in the ground you do not instant tomato plant or instant strawberries or instant oak tree that seed goes in the ground and it has to germinate that's the first thing which means it breaks

open its little shell and little roots begin to go down and it gets nourishment from the earth and only then does the first little shoot come up through the ground now when we're doing affirmations too often people say well that isn't a million dollars and they stomp on that first little shoot. They don't give it a chance to grow. Doing affirmations is like planting a seed in the ground and watering is it is like repeating your affirmations and you just keep doing them and you keep doing them and you keep doing them. And it doesn't matter whether you see the results or you don't see the results. And sometimes it just takes time and too many people will do affirmations for two or three days and say,

see it doesn't work you know if everything happens in the perfect time space sequence and we want to trust that and we want to know that so if you begin to do affirmations for yourself and I think it's important that we do that on a daily basis decide what you want and begin to do positive statements in present tense for what you want you never want to say I will have or I'm going to have because if you do that it keeps it in the future and remember if you say I have a wonderful new apartment and you're living in a dump it doesn't mean that this is not a true statement it means you are planting the seed that will germinate and grow and

become the new apartment so you just keep doing it no matter what where you are also if you're leaving a situation if you're in a job you don't like if you're in a relationship you don't like if you're in a house you don't like and you want something new, begin to bless with love, interesting, to bless with love where you are and know that you're releasing your current situation with love. If it's a job, release it with love to the next person who will be delighted to have it. If it's an apartment, do the same thing. If it's a relationship, release that person with love to happiness which is meaningful to them.

and that leaves you free to create and accept happiness that is meaningful to you. Some of you know my little blue book and the fact that I've been doing a lot of work with dis-ease for a long time. And for every part of the body, there is a mental pattern. And for every dis-ease in the body, there is a mental pattern. And when you know what they are, you can begin to change the mental patterns so that you can change the dis-ease. See, we don't want to be sick. Now that's a blanket statement. Sometimes people do want to be sick because it's a good way to get out of something. The rest of us know how to say no. If you

don't know how to say no, you may have to create an illness in order to say no. Because that's, we've made in society, we've made that a legitimate way of getting out of things. But basically, we do not want to be ill, and yet we need every dis-ease that we have, because it is the body's way of telling us that there is a false idea in consciousness. Something that we're doing, something that we're believing, something that we're saying is not for our highest good. And the body is saying, please, and it's sort of almost like tugging, saying pay attention.

So when we know what these patterns are, it gives us again a choice of whether we wish to do something about it or not. See, some people do not want to release their diseases. I read something very interesting the other day. It seems that only 30% of people who go to doctors follow instructions. Most people go to doctors not to cure their illness, but to have the acute symptoms relieved so that they can stand it. And it's like an unspoken agreement between,

the doctor and the patient, that the doctor on one level almost promises not to cure them if the patient will pretend that they're doing something about it. And for this, one person gets to pay and the other person gets to have the authority. Very, very few people will really do what they're told. See, I have a thing, when I was seeing people that I got to the point where I would not see anyone who did not make their own appointment. I have found occasionally people have sent people to. me as a present. Oh, you must go see Louise. Here, I'll give it to you as a present.

Every one of those has turned out to be a disaster. Half the time the people didn't turn up. When they did turn up, they weren't really interested. When they seemed to be interested, they never went away and did anything, or if they did it was a little bit and they never came back. We have to be ready to do it ourselves. Remember, each person has come to this planet to learn a lesson. You have your lessons. You have your lessons, I have my lessons, you have your lessons. They're all different. We cannot learn the other person's lessons.

We are not here to change other people. We are here to change ourself. That is what we've come to the planet for, to change ourselves. If we try to do it for someone else or learn their lesson or make it nice, they don't get to learn it. And even if we fix it, isn't it amazing how they turn around and recreate it again? And we all know people like that. We've paid their rent, or we've gotten them out of some mess, or we've done this for them, or that for them. And two months later, they're in the same problem, because it's their pattern. It has nothing to do. Teaching them how to get out of it, it is much better if they're willing to learn.

So it's like, you know, the student must come to the teacher. And when the student is ready, the teacher is there, always. You know, so many people think that money is the most important thing in the world, and if they don't have money, they would just die. But that's not true. There's a substance that is far more precious and far more important to us that we literally can't live without. What is that? Love.

Plenty of people are miserable and lonely most of their life and live. Air? Air. Your air. Your breath. Your breath is the most important thing that you have. have the most precious thing. If you didn't take another breath, you wouldn't last three minutes and you'd never get out of this room. And yet we absolutely take for granted that our next breath

is there. Look at us. We're all in this room breathing and I'm not saying, don't breathe. There's not enough for me. We assume that it's there. And when we exhale, we don't think about where's my next breath coming from. Now, if the power that created us has given us, given us enough breath to last for as long as we shall live, can we not begin to trust that the other things will take care of themselves? See, life is here for us. Life is here to support us, to take care of us, to be here for us. The entire planet has been put here for us to play with. We have everything that we shall ever need. It's already here. Only we have to know it and we have to trust it and we have to acknowledge it.

Do you realize that there is more food on this planet than people could possibly eat? There's an incredible amount of food. Yes, it is true that there are people starving. The food is here. There is more money on this planet than we know how to count. The money is here. Now, there are lots of people who are very broke, but the money is here. There are billions of people on this planet.

And yet you will have people tell you that they're lonely. It has nothing to do with not being people. It's what we're doing with our heads. Everything is here for us. Everything. Everything is here for us. And the more we begin to trust life and acknowledge the beauty and magnificence of our own being,

the more we find everything we need. It just pops up. Thank you for tuning in. Continue strengthening your mind by listening to our other episodes.