You are what you think!

I will never forget a profound moment in my life when I was in my teenage years. It was a Saturday afternoon and I was walking home from netball. It had been a great day. My team won their game and I had been helping younger players and socializing with my friends. While I was only half way home, I had started to feel tired and wished that I had now chosen another way to get home. I do not know why and I can not explain how I started to get on this train of thought, but I remember thinking about "what if I am creating my whole life with my own thoughts". I went through various motions of what impact this would have on my life. Just before I reached home I laughed to myself and said "I'm going to be really unhappy with myself if I find out that some of my hard learning experiences have come from my own mind". I shook off the thinking and walked through my front door to resume life as 'normal'. Years later I was introduced to Louise Hay through her book 'You can heal your life'. I am glad I was still young when I did learn that my thoughts truly do create and impact on my life I am living. Through the years I have not only used Louise's philosophy to benefit myself and my own life, I have also used it when working with clients in all types of different lines of work. Sometimes my clients understood this philosophy and worked with it and sometimes I could understand clients better from reading their body language. A good example of this is when I worked in an area where I conducted client intakes at a Women & Children's Refuge. Many times during an intake I would see a mother tug at her ear and I would know she didn't like what she was hearing or I would see a lady rubbing her eyes so I knew she didn't like what she was seeing. I would like to think that Louise Hay's philosophy has empowered me to assist others being empowered in many various ways.