“Louise Hay’s first book, Heal Your Body, was published in 1976, long before it was fashionable to discuss the connection between the mind and body. Louise was able to put her philosophies into practice when she was diagnosed with cancer. She considered the alternatives to surgery and drugs and instead developed an intensive program of affirmations, visualization, nutritional cleansing, and psychotherapy. Within six months, she was completely healed of cancer.”
She writes, “Being aware that cancer comes from a pattern of deep resentment that is held for a long time, until it literally eats away at the body, I knew I had a lot of mental work to do. I realized that if I had the operation to get rid of the cancer and did not clear the mental patterns that created it, then the doctors would just keep cutting Louise until there was no more Louise to cut.
So I bargained for time. The doctor grudgingly gave me three months, at the same time warning me that my life was endangered by the delay. I immediately began to work with my own teacher to clear old patterns of resentment. Up to that time, I had not acknowledged that I harbored deep resentment. We are often so blind to our own patterns. A lot of forgiveness work was in order. The other thing I did was to go to a good nutritionist and completely detoxify my body. So between the mental and physical cleansing, in six months I was able to get the medical profession to agree with what I already knew: I no longer had any form of cancer. I still keep the original lab report as a reminder of how negatively creative I could be. 
These days, no matter how dire a person’s predicament seems to be, I KNOW that if he or she is WILLING to do the mental work of releasing and forgiving, almost anything can be healed. The word incurable, which is so frightening to so many people, really only means that the particular condition cannot be cured by ‘outer’ methods and that we must GO WITHIN to effect the healing. The condition came from nothing and will. go back to nothing.”
From her book, Heal Your Body A-Z, page 21 states that Cancer comes from ‘Deep hurt. Long-standing resentment. Deep secret or grief eating away at the self. Carrying hatreds. Feeling – What’s the use?’ The New Thought Pattern would be to think, ‘I lovingly forgive and release all of the past. I choose to fill my world with joy. I love and approve of myself.’
Maria Shriver presents Louise with the Minerva Award for women who are extraordinary leaders, role models, and visionaries.
https://www.louisehay.com, Heal Your Body A-Z – The Mental Causes For Physical Illness And The Way To Overcome Them, Louise L. Hay, pgs. v – vii.
