Louise Hay, author of the pernicious little tome You Can Heal Your Life, passed away today.
My friends from back in the day when I was into "Energy Healing" (It's neither energy nor healing) are memorializing her memory.
They all had/have her You Can Heal Your Life, a book that lists ailments, diseases, and syndromes with their metaphysical/emotional/traumatic causes. The cure in each case is that you get your psychic crap in order, deal with your emotional issues, and practice positive thinking, then your body will heal itself.
Even in the height of my Reikisms, I told them that book was BS. Positive thinking is nice. Touch is nice. But people need to see a real doctor. And most of the reasons given for various conditions are laughably shallow.
The danger continues to be that people forgo necessary medical treatments and surgery, cause they think they can psych the problems away.
A dear friend of mine loved that book till she was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Then she saw that what it said was cheap and worthless to her own life. She began chemo, but her friends kept slapping her with the book and the whole load of Affirmations kyarn.
The cancer was too advanced. Even after her passing they sullied her memory with accusations of how she'd brought it all on herself by negative thinking and not following the Law of Attraction.
This woman, Louise Hay, left unnecessary deaths in her wake. And since her wretched book will be published for generations, there will be more.
My friends from back in the day when I was into "Energy Healing" (It's neither energy nor healing) are memorializing her memory.
They all had/have her You Can Heal Your Life, a book that lists ailments, diseases, and syndromes with their metaphysical/emotional/traumatic causes. The cure in each case is that you get your psychic crap in order, deal with your emotional issues, and practice positive thinking, then your body will heal itself.
Even in the height of my Reikisms, I told them that book was BS. Positive thinking is nice. Touch is nice. But people need to see a real doctor. And most of the reasons given for various conditions are laughably shallow.
The danger continues to be that people forgo necessary medical treatments and surgery, cause they think they can psych the problems away.
A dear friend of mine loved that book till she was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Then she saw that what it said was cheap and worthless to her own life. She began chemo, but her friends kept slapping her with the book and the whole load of Affirmations kyarn.
The cancer was too advanced. Even after her passing they sullied her memory with accusations of how she'd brought it all on herself by negative thinking and not following the Law of Attraction.
This woman, Louise Hay, left unnecessary deaths in her wake. And since her wretched book will be published for generations, there will be more.
