Excerpt from "Loving Yourself to Great Health: Thoughts & Food – the Ultimate Diet"

The following is an excerpt from Loving Yourself to Great Health: Thoughts & Food – the Ultimate Diet by Louise Hay, Ahlea Khadro, Heather Dane, published by Hay House (October 7, 2014) available in bookstores or online at www.hayhouse.com 

 A New Perspective on Health: Your Health Is a Mirror of Your Relationship to Self

The growing “epidemic” of stress, lifestyle diseases, and autoimmune diseases has no root cause in mainstream medicine, yet the root cause seems simple to us: it’s really an epidemic of not loving the self.

This is a new perspective on health. It’s actually not so mysterious,and it brings the power back into your hands. Your health is a mirror of your relationship to yourself and your body. We don’t believe in incurable dis-eases; we believe that illness is an invitation to change your relationship with yourself for the better.

Interestingly, new findings in science seem to agree. For example, Bruce Lipton, Ph.D., is an internationally recognized cell biologist who performed pioneering studies at Stanford University’s School of Medicine.In his book The Biology of Belief, he talks about a new paradigm of health based on the science of epigenetics.

Bruce conducted some groundbreaking experiments showing that our genes do not control biology. The idea that genes control biology is a faulty scientific assumption that was debunked by the Human Genome Project around the year 2003,a finding that fit very well with experiments Bruce was doing with cells in the lab. His experiments showed that it was not the genes that controlled the cells, but how the cells responded to the environment they were in. Bruce explains that since human beings have brains, our response to our environment is much more complex than that of a cell. We have beliefs, and it is through these beliefs that we respond to our life situation (or environment).¹³

What message are you giving to your cells right now?

If you believe that you are a bad person, your cells are listening. If you believe that you are sick, your cells are listening. Likewise, if you believe that you are a beautiful being worthy of love and that you are healthy,your cells are listening.

What kind of relationship do you think you are creating with yourself and your body if you’re sending negative messages and embracing negative beliefs about yourself?