Hey Louise

In her book You Can Heal Your Life , in an interview with M. Oppenheimer ^[12] from the New York Times , and also on her website ^[13], Louise Hay talks about herself and her work. The following are excerpts from the above primary sources.

The personal philosophy of Louise Hay was determined by her upbringing. Her childhood was unstable and impoverished, her stepfather constantly beat her and her mother, in addition, in her early childhood, Louise experienced more than one serious psychological trauma, and her teenage years were marked by substance abuse and many other errors. At 15, Louise left her home and ended up in Chicago , at 16 she gave birth to a child, but gave it to strangers.

In the 1950s she moved to New York . She worked as a housekeeper, waitress, saleswoman. A few years later she changed her name and became a model, and quite successful. Married a prosperous businessman. After 14 years of marriage, her husband broke up with Louise.

In 1970, the foundation was laid for the “work of a lifetime”. Louise studied while attending meetings of The First Church of Religious Science in New York. She became a popular speaker in the church and soon found herself advising clients. This job quickly turned into a full-time career.

After several years of work, Louise Hay compiled a “Handbook” with a detailed description of the psychological causes of physical ailments and developed positive thinking models to exit them and create health. This compilation formed the basis of the 12-sheet Heal Your Body brochure. A print run of 5,000 was sold out over 2 years, and Louise was invited to lecture and conduct seminars throughout the United States.

After 3 years, after passing the exams, she received a license from a practicing teacher. In parallel, studied the works of authors such as Florence Sinn (Florence Scovel Shinn). Finally leaving her career as a super-model, Louise Hay continued her education at the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi International University in Fairfield , Iowa .

Louise was able to understand her philosophy in practice when she was diagnosed with cancer - 1977 - 1978. Louise says she doesn’t remember the date. She considered options for alternative surgery, drug treatment, and instead developed her own intensive program: affirmations, imaging, nutritional cleansing of the body, reflexology and psychotherapy. And, most importantly, realizing that the cause of cancer was her unwillingness to forget deep grievances about violence in childhood, Louise applied - her name is the “Forgiveness Scheme”, the essence of which was to completely “dissolve” the offense, as she expressed it.

During the six months of this work, Louise was completely healed of cancer. However, in the future, the doctor who observed her during this period, reported in the New York youth newspaper Village Voise that she had never had cancer, and her illness was an “suggestion” (the article contained ambiguity: it was unclear whether self-suggestion or suggestion to someone else).

In 1980, Louise returned to Southern California.

In 1984, her new book “You Can Heal Your Life” (“You Can Heal Your Life”) was published. In it, Louise explains how our beliefs and ideas about ourselves often become the cause of our emotional problems, physical ailments and how, with the help of certain tools, we can change our thinking and our lives for the better. This also includes an expanded and expanded table of ailments and affirmations from the previously published brochure “Heal Your Body” (“Heal your body”). The book "You Can Heal Your Life" was on the New York Times list of 1984 best-selling books in the United States and remained in first place for 13 weeks.

In 1985, Louise began working in The Hayride's support group with six men diagnosed with AIDS, meeting with them in her apartment. By 1988, the group had grown to 850 people and moved to an auditorium in West Hollywood. Louise began the movement of love and support long before people began to wear red ribbons in their buttonholes. It was at this time (1987) that she wrote a book on AIDS “Creating a Positive Approach”, based on experience with this group.

In 1987, Louise Hay founded and led Hay House Publishing, a publishing company. What started as a small “nonprofit” enterprise in the living room of her house has turned into a thriving commercial corporation publishing millions of books, audio books, CDs, DVDs, videos, various manuals and leading work around the world. The authors working with Hay House are many successful people, including doctors and psychologists who are professionally engaged in the sale of “achieving happiness” techniques, including Wayne Dyer, Suze Orman, Marianna Williamson, Sylvia Brown, Dorin Verche , Joan Borisenko - about 130 authors. Hay House is now the main publisher of Deepak Chopra .

In 2004, the book “You Can Heal Your Life” again became a sales leader thanks to the appearance of Louise Hay on a talk show with Oprah Winfrey and a talk show with Phil Donahue (both meetings took place in one month).

In 2005, Hay House Radio - Radio for your Soul® Internet radio broadcast was launched ^[8] by Louise Hay and her business partners. Web radio creates the illusion of interactive communication with the authors of the books, “and this is very important,” according to Louise Hey. In addition, program cycles of training and educational programs, affirmation cycles have been developed.

The Hay Foundation, a charitable foundation ^[9] created by Louise Hay, has been working for more than 20 years, a formally non-profit organization that, she claims, supports “other counseling organizations,” “pays attention” to patients in hospices and booklets ; translates Louise Hay's books into foreign languages, promotes her views on healthy lifestyles and “positive thinking” for AIDS patients, conducts “social targeting” of battered women.

In 2008, the documentary “You Can Heal Your Life” ^{[14] was released} , which was bought by tens or hundreds of thousands of participants in “seminars of happiness,” thanks to a special soft “positive social pressure” (peer pressure) controlled intensity. This brought the author an additional income of several million dollars. Due to the specifics of the distribution of film cassettes, the exact amount of profit received is unknown even to the US tax office and has never been published.

In February 2014, she opened her solo exhibition of paintings and drawings, “The Art of Louise Hay” ^[15] in California.

She died on August 30, 2017 at the age of 90.

Books in Russian:

• Haye Louise. “Heal your life.” M. 1987
• Haye Louise. "The path to a healthy life." M. 1987
• Haye Louise. “Heal Yourself”
• Haye Louise. “Heal your body.” M. 2000
• Haye Louise. "The power within us." 1991
• Hay L. “Healing forces within us”
• Hay L. “A healthy mind is a healthy body”
• Hay L. "The Power of Women"
• Hay L. "Heart Thoughts"
• Hay L. “The secret of success: How to achieve financial prosperity”
• Hay L. "With a new happiness"
• Haye Louise. "The Big Book of Wealth and Happiness." M. 2017
• Hay L. "Manage your destiny." M. 2016

Books in Russian reprinted in Russia: “Heal your life”, “The path to a healthy life”, “Encyclopedia of a healthy life from Louise Hay” - are translations of the same book You Can Heal Your Life , Louise L. Hay, Hay House Inc., 1984 ; ISBN 0-937611-01-8 (published in the USA).

Books in English:

• You Can Heal Your Life, Hay House Inc., 1984; ISBN 0-937611-01-8
• You Can Heal Your Heart: Finding Peace After a Breakup, Divorce, or Death by LOUISE HAY, DAVID KESSLER. Hay House Inc., 2014
• Heal Your Body: The Mental Causes for Physical Illness and the Metaphysical Way to Overcome Them. Hay House Inc., 1984 ; ISBN 0-937611-35-2
• Garden of Thoughts: My Affirmation Journal, Hay House Inc., 1989 ; ISBN 978-0-937611-67-8
• Love Yourself, Heal Your Life Workbook, Hay House Inc., 1990
• The Power Is Within You . Hay House Inc., 1991
• Heart Thoughts, Hay House Inc., 1992 ; ISBN 978-1-4019-3720-1
• Loving Thoughts For Increasing Prosperity, Hay house Inc., 1993
• Gratitude: A Way Of Life, Hay House Inc., 1996
• Life! Reflections On Your Journey, Hay House Inc., 1996 ; ISBN 978-1-56170-092-9
• Living Perfect Love: Empowering Rituals For Women, Humantics MultiMedia Publishers, 1996 ; ISBN 978-0-9652851-0-0
• Heal Your Body AZ: The Mental Causes for Physical Illness and the Way to Overcome Them, Hay House Inc., 1998 ; ISBN 978-1-56170-792-8
• 101 Ways To Health And Healing, Hay House Inc., 1998 ; ISBN 978-1-56170-496-5
• I Can DoIt, Hay House Inc., 2004.
• I Think, I Am !: Teaching Kids the Power of Affirmations, Hay House Inc., 2008 .
• All is Well: Heal Your Body with Medicine, Affirmations, and Intution by LOUISE HAY, MONA LISA SCHULZ, MD, PH.D., Hay House Inc, 2014.

• louisehay.com - Louise Hay's official website
• hayhouse.com is the official website of Hay House. INC. (eng.)
• youcanhealyourlifemovie.com - The official website for the film “You Can Heal Your Life”