Groundbreaking information and still very relevant today, Louise Hay brought us the idea that you could bring healing to your body, by understanding yet another important piece on your quest to wellness, the mental patterns associated with disease. “Heal Your Body” is a small pocket sized book that is a reference for hundreds of ailments, giving you the aliment, the possible belief and an affirmation to change your mental belief system that helped create it.

When I first got this book many years ago, I was skeptical, but I have to come to add it to my own arsenal and recommend it to others because it has merit.

In 2012, I was diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes after a dizzy spell while at work. I went to my physician of over 30 years to figure out what had occurred. She checked me over and said we’ll do some bloodwork to make sure all is good there but unbeknownst to me she added a glucose check.

The next day her nurse called and told me that my doctor wanted me to come in for a glucose tolerance test. “Why?” I asked, to which she replied, “she thinks you may have diabetes.” What????? I’m exactly the weight I should be, I don’t smoke, I eat healthy meals, no pop, very little refined or instant meals and I exercise regularly!! NO!!!

It was confirmed. I was devastated.

It took at least 2 years to totally wrap my head around it. It’s scary and in my mind I’d done all the right things and here I was with Type 2 Diabetes. Never saw that coming.

My doctor signed me up for a public health talk on the subject at a local community centre. There were 2 women in attendance and about 10 fellas. We began by going around the table introducing ourselves and sharing a little about our lives. Most were substantially over weight and admitted to not living a healthy lifestyle including the food they ate, which included large quantities of sugar through drinks and sweets and processed foods. Nobody I noticed, shared anything with regards to their life experience, it was only the, the lack of a good diet, exercise and their doctors getting on their case about their weight.

In my mind, their issues made sense, they were practical, concrete. The literature that was given to us supported what they affirmed. I wondered though, why am I here, I don’t have those problems? I was going through a very stressful time in my life, but could that have been the thing that pushed it over the edge?

As everyone was speaking I flipped through the booklet looking for answers. What I found was, within the other half dozen pages, paragraphs on diet, exercise and genetics, a couple of lines speaking of stress and emotions. When prompted by the organizers, for any questions, I put my hand up and asked about the few lines on the subject. They pretty much said, “They really didn’t have a lot of time, and needed to focus on was the typical issues associated with the disease and not the affects of the emotions and stress. They suggested that “perhaps I could read about that somewhere else at another time.”

Shortly after my class, I remembered Louise Hay’s book. Upon looking up diabetes I found the following, “Longing for what might have been. A great need to control. Deep sorrow. No sweetness left.” The affirmation, “This moment is filled with joy. I now choose to experience the sweetness of today.” Well that just pissed me off even further. “I’m joy filled I thought, how could I be anymore joy filled? Geez!! Clearly I’d hit a nerve.

After some time, I realized that there was some truth to this. I was overextending myself to the point of exhaustion. When I was really honest with myself, I was in prep mode all the time, getting ready for this, preparing for that. I was missing out on a lot because I was so focused on getting things done, getting through my day. I was missing out on really experiencing the moments of joy that permeate every aspect of my life and I was far from present.

From an energetic point of view, I was running on more cylinders that I had, for all wrong reasons. That created a toxic situation I believe, that affected me at many levels, an unbalanced flow of energy in my energy field created by my thought patterns, beliefs and ultimately my actions. Combined with genetics and stress, this was a huge contributing factor in my diabetes diagnosis, I believe.

Years later, I still have diabetes, but I am a controlled diabetic, controlled through, diet, exercise and inner work. It’s not easy, but it is possible to shift your perception, your thinking, to take steps to calm a busy brain and begin infuse your yourself with daily acts of self love, that contribute to a better, more balanced flow of life force energy within you. I look at my diabetic diagnosis now, as a gift to do that, and Louise Hay’s book was an excellent resource to support me getting there.