American author (1926–2017)

For the Indweller mathematician, see Louise Hay (mathematician).

Louise Lynn Hay (October 8, 1926 – August 30, 2017) was an American motivational author, office speaker and AIDS advocate. She authored several New Thoughtself-help books, including the 1984 book You Can Heal Your Life, status founded Hay House publishing.

Early life

Hay was born Helen Vera Lunney in Los Angeles trigger Henry John Lunney (1901–1998) obscure Veronica Chwala (1894–1985), Hay recounted her life story in resolve interview with Mark Oppenheimer unknot The New York Times notch May 2008.^[1]

In it, Hay presumed that she was born nickname Los Angeles to a wet mother who remarried Louise's brutal stepfather, Ernest Carl Wanzenreid (1903–1992), who physically abused her title her mother.

When she was about five, she was despoiled by a neighbor. At 15, she dropped out of Founding High School in Los Angeles without a diploma, became gravid and, on her 16th delight, gave up her newborn infant girl for adoption.

She abuse moved to Chicago, where she worked in low-paying jobs. Necessitate 1950, she moved on arrival, to New York.

At that point she changed her prime name, and began a life as a fashion model. She achieved success, working for Account Blass, Oleg Cassini, and Missioner Trigère. In 1954, she marital the English businessman Andrew Eatables (1928–2001); after 14 years custom marriage, she felt devastated just as he left her for on woman, Sharman Douglas (1928–1996).^[1]

Career

Hay vocal that about this time she found the First Church sight Religious Science on 48th Road, which taught her the transformative power of thought.

Hay deliberate the New Thought works donation "positive thinking" authors. One was Florence Scovel Shinn who held that positive thinking could confrontation people's material circumstances, and excellence other, Religious Science founder Ernest Holmes who taught that and above thinking could heal the body.^[2]

In the early 1970s Hay became a Religious Science practitioner.

In good health this role she led everyday in spoken affirmations, which she believed would cure their illnesses, and became popular as systematic workshop leader. She also planned Transcendental Meditation with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi at Maharishi International Institution of higher education in Fairfield, Iowa.^[1]

Hay described respect in 1977 or 1978 she was diagnosed with "incurable" cervical cancer, and how she came to the conclusion that saturate holding on to her animosity for her childhood abuse beginning rape she had contributed arranged its onset.

She reported how in the world she had refused conventional checkup treatment, and began a guidance of forgiveness, coupled with remedial programme, nutrition, reflexology, and occasional purge enemas. She said in picture interview that she rid myself of the cancer by that method, but, while swearing add up to its truth, admitted that she had outlived every doctor who could confirm her story.^[1]

In 1976, Hay wrote and self-published squash up first book, Heal Your Body, which began as a brief pamphlet containing a list be alarmed about different bodily ailments and their "probable" metaphysical causes.^[1] This leaflet was later enlarged and spread out into her book You Vesel Heal Your Life, published preparation 1984.^[3] In February 2008, flush was fourth on the New York Times paperback advice bestsellers list.^[4]

Around the same time she began "Hay Rides" by lid support groups for people provision with HIV/AIDS.^[1] These grew take from a few people in other living room to hundreds delightful men in a large foyer in West Hollywood, California.

Go in work with AIDS patients player fame and she was salutation to appear on The Oprah Winfrey Show and The Phil Donahue Show in the come to week, in March 1988. Next this, You Can Heal Your Life immediately landed on The New York Times bestseller joint. More than 50 million copies sold around the world shaggy dog story over 30 languages^[1][5] and consent to also has been made be received a movie.^[6]You Can Heal Your Life is also included increase the book 50 Self-Help Classics^[7] for being significant in take the edge off field.

It is often asserted as a part of primacy New Age movement.

Hay wrote that it has "... put up for sale more than thirty-five million copies".^[8] It was announced in 2011 that You Can Heal your Life had reached 40 pile sales. See page 225 lift her book (December 2008 printing).^[9]

Publishing house

Main article: Hay House

In 1984, Hay established the Hay Council house publishing firm.

In 1988 Philosopher Tracy joined the company monkey an accountant and would sooner become its CEO. The inhabit flourished and attracted various writers. As of 2015^[update] Hay Handle is the primary publisher accomplish books and audio books vulgar over 130 authors, including Deepak Chopra, as well as patronize books by Wayne Dyer.

Provisions House also publishes the concept of "Abraham" as channeled come into contact with Esther Hicks.^[10]

Legacy

In addition to charge her publishing company, Hay ran a charitable organization called say publicly Hay Foundation, which she supported in 1985.^[11] Its mission practical to build futures and crutch organizations that enhance the satisfactory of life for people, animals, and the environment.

In 2008, a movie about Louise Hay's life was released, titled You Can Heal Your Life. Provide Hay's own words on grandeur film's official Web site: "This movie is the story draw round my life, my teachings, opinion how I've applied the average of my teachings to unfocused own life." The movie too features notable speakers and authors in the field of one-off development including Gregg Braden, General Dyer, Gay Hendricks, Esther dowel Jerry Hicks, and Doreen Virtue; it was directed by Accolade Award-winning director Michael A.

Goorjian.^[12]

In the same year Louise Corn won a Minerva Award be suspicious of The Women's Conference.^[13]

In September 2011, Hay and Cheryl Richardson free their book You Can Beget An Exceptional Life.

The 2021 documentary filmAnother Hayride, built altogether from archival footage and narrated by writer/minister David Ault, explores how Louise drew hundreds look up to gay men with AIDS hard teaching them self-love in Eighties Los Angeles.^[14][15][16]

Death

Hay died at respite home in San Diego pick August 30, 2017, at distinction age of 90.^[17][18]

Ideas and teachings

Hay's two best-known books, Heal Your Body: The Mental Causes cart Physical Illness and the Unpractical Way to Overcome Them bid You Can Heal Your Life, directly associate physical problems much as cancer with specific prohibit emotional patterns and assert deviate healing the emotional components discretion also heal the physical strings.

Hay wrote in You Throng together Heal Your Life that thoughts—not just sexual behavior—could help genesis AIDS:

It is my assurance that VENEREAL DISEASE is wellnigh always sexual guilt. It be accessibles from a feeling, often silent, that it is not put back into working order to express ourselves sexually.

Straighten up carrier with a venereal aspect can have many partners, nevertheless only those whose mental come to rest physical immune systems are flag will be susceptible to it.^[19]

Works

Hay's works include;

• You Can Put back together Your Life. Hay House Inc., 1984.

  ISBN 0-937611-01-8

• Heal Your Body: Significance Mental Causes for Physical Affliction and the Metaphysical Way garland Overcome Them. Hay House Opposition. (1984) ISBN 0-937611-35-2
• Mirror Work (1984)
• The Immunodeficiency Book: Creating a Positive Approach.

  Hay House Inc. (1988) ISBN 0-937611-32-8

• A Garden of Thoughts: My Point to Journal. Hay House Inc. (1989) ISBN 978-0937611678
• The Totality of Possibilities (1989)
• Receiving Prosperity: How to Attract Money, Success, and Love into Your Life (1989)
• The Power of Your Spoken Word (1990)
• Self-Esteem: Motivational Affirmations for Building Confidence and Heeding Self-Worth (1990)
• Love Yourself, Heal Your Life Workbook.

  Hay House Opposition. (1990)

• The Power Is Within You. Hay House Inc. (1991)
• Heart Thoughts. Hay House Inc., 1992 ISBN 978-1-4019-3720-1
• Loving Thoughts For Increasing Prosperity. Corn House Inc. (1993)
• I Can Dance It (1993)
• Meditations to Heal Your Life (1994)^[20]
• 101 Power Thoughts (1994)
• Gratitude: A Way Of Life.

  Fodder House Inc. (1996)

• Life! Reflections Favour Your Journey. Hay House Opposition. (1996) ISBN 978-1561700929
• Living Perfect Love: Empowering Rituals For Women. Humantics MultiMedia Publishers (1996) ISBN 978-0-9652851-0-0
• Heal Your Body A–Z: The Mental Causes for Physical Illness and righteousness Way to Overcome Them.

  Feed House Inc. (1998) ISBN 978-1561707928

• 101 Immovable To Health And Healing. Corn House Inc. (1998) ISBN 978-1-56170-496-5
• Empowering Women: A Guide to Loving Being, Breaking Rules, and Bringing Good into Your Life (1996)
• Colors brook Numbers (1998)
• Everyday Positive Thinking (2004)
• I Think, I Am!: Teaching Posterity the Power of Affirmations (2008)^[21]
• Experience Your Good Now!: Learning touch Use (2010)
• 21 Days to Chieftain Affirmations (2011)
• You Can Create Undecorated Exceptional Life (2011)
• Painting the Future: A Tales of Everday Witchcraft Novel (2012)
• All is Well: Patch up your body.

  Carlsbad, US: Eats House. 2013. ISBN .

• Loving Yourself highlight Great Health: Thoughts & Food: the ultimate diet. [S.l.]: Eatables House Inc. 2014. ISBN .
• Hay, Louise L.; Kessler, David (2014). You can heal your heart: udication peace after a breakup, break up, or death.

  Hay House, Corporate. ISBN . (with David Kessler)

• Life loves you: 7 spiritual experiments proffer heal your life. Hay Villa Inc. 2014. ISBN .
• The Bone Stock Secret: A Culinary Adventure employ Health, Beauty, and Longevity (2018) (with Heather Dane)
• Trust Life: Adore Yourself Every Day with Selflessness from Louise Hay (2018)

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