Now that we know how food can affect our health, let’s turn now to another kind of nourishment — this one for the mind. We all know that stress can be bad for your health. But did you know that criticism, anger, resentment and guilt can actually cause disease to develop in our bodies?
According to Louise Hay, the author of Heal Your Body, if you’re someone who is constantly criticizing everyone and everything, this could lead to diseases such as arthritis. Anger, she says, turns into things that boil and burn and infect the body. And holding on to resentment ultimately can lead to tumours and cancer, because it eats away at the self. And guilt? Well, that’s the beginning of punishment, and that leads to pain. As Hay rightly points out, it’s easier to release negative thinking patterns from our minds when we are healthy, than to face dealing with arthritis or a tumour when we are too sick to think straight!
Heal Your Body shows you that if you are willing to do the mental work, almost anything can be healed. Here's Hay’s quick guide to the probable mental patterns behind the disease in your body, as described in her book:
Addiction: Running from the self. Fear. Not knowing how to love the self.
New thought pattern: I now discover how wonderful I am. I choose to love and enjoy myself.
Appetite: Excessive. Fear. Needing protection, judging the emotions.
New thought pattern: I am safe. It is safe to feel. My feelings are normal and acceptable.
Constipation: Refusing to release old ideas. Stuck in the past. Sometimes stinginess.
New thought pattern: As I release the past, the new and fresh and vital enter. I allow life to flow through me.
Depression: Longing for what might have been. A great need to control. Deep sorrow. No sweetness left.
New thought pattern: This moment is filled with joy. I now choose to experience the sweetness of today.
Hypoglycemia: Overwhelmed by the burdens in life. “What's the use?”
New thought pattern: I create a new life with new rules that totally support me.
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