beliefs

I'm All Grown Up, Who Do I Want to Be?

Is There a Conflict Between Who You Think You Should Be and Who You Are?

A few issues ago we discussed healing the relationship between the mind and the body. We explored how we rely heavily on the ‘mind’ to determine our identity – our   ‘idea’ of ourselves. It is usually the mind that ‘calls the shots’ and maintains our identity by dictating our choices, actions and behaviours. But the body and its senses, feelings and intuitions often has very different ideas about who and what we are. This difference of opinion can result in anything from a niggling source of dissatisfaction or discontentment to a full-blown inner conflict about our life purpose and choices.

What Does This Symptom Mean?

The Connection Between Our Beliefs and Our Health

Louise Hay’s book You Can Heal Your Life was first published in 1984 and fourteen years later it was still on the New York Times best sellers list. It has sold over 35 million copies worldwide and remains one the definitive self-help books. 

For those unfamiliar with Hay’s work, she was a pioneer in explaining the mind-body connection and the metaphysical nature of illness. Her philosophy is simple: the thoughts we think and the words we speak create our experiences and our reality. Hay linked physical ailments with mental causes or negative thought patterns and then developed positive thought patterns or ‘affirmations’ for reversing illness and creating health.