I first read Louise Hay’s book, You Can Heal Your Life
The thrust of her message in You Can Heal Your Life is that our physical ailments are a manifestation of our emotional ailments. She asserts that all dis-ease comes from a lack of self-love, so this is the only thing she ever works on with her clients. In her own words, the essence of her work “is to bring them back to the time when they knew how to really love themselves.”
Louise says that our ailments are usually caused by limiting beliefs we learned as children –she encourages her readers to release the past and forgive everyone. Her book is filled with exercises designed to help uncover limiting beliefs, release resentment, and promote healing in all areas of life.
According to Louise, cellulite is the body’s way of storing anger and self-punishment. Lymph problems are a warning sign that the mind needs to be recentered on the essentials of life: love and joy. She says we can counter cellulite by learning to forgive ourselves and by freeing ourselves to love and enjoy life.
I’m not sure what I think about Louise Hay’s theory. It does make sense on a collective scale. Could cellulite be a reflection of stored anger and self-punishment? What do you think?
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I do beleive that there is a more spiritual conections to health, but I do not think my but is cheesey cause I don't love myself. My butt is cheesey cause I have built up toxins in my body and I need to learn how to nurture it correctly.
You mean, because you need to learn how to love that butt?!
I'm teasing, Rosy! Your take is very practical. I don't think Louise Hay would disagree that there is a physical reason for the cellulite (i.e. a toxic build up in the lymphatic system), only that the physical cause is accompanied by an emotional cause and that when you release one, it will unlock the other as well.
The reason this idea intrigues me is because of my experience with acne –how I bottled up all that negative emotion and when I released it, I found the physical reason for the acne. (I wrote about it here). It just makes me wonder…