Saje Dyer - Good-bye, Bumps!: Talking to Whats Bugging You

Copyright 2014 by Wayne Dyer and Saje Dyer

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Editorial assistance: Kristina Tracy and Jenny Richards Interior design: Jenny Richards Illustrations: Stacy Heller Budnick

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Library of Congress Control Number: 2013955834

ISBN: 978-1-4019-4585-5

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1st edition, February 2014

To my beautiful daughter Saje, thank you for
sharing your wonderful story with the world.
I love you.
Wayne Dyer

I would like dedicate this book to my father and
mother, Wayne and Marcelene Dyer, who gave me
the wisdom to know that I can always heal myself!
Saje Dyer

Im going to tell you a story about something that happened to me.
Its pretty amazingyou might even wonder how it can be truebut it is!
Have you ever had something that bugged you a lot? Well, I did

When I was five I had these bumps on my face.
They felt icky and they really bothered me.
I thought about them all the time.

My mom and dad took me to the doctor.
The doctor said I could take some medicine, or
I could wait and they might go away on their own.

I decided to wait and see.
So, I waited

and waited

and waited but they were still there.
My bumps were making me mad!

One day, I was stomping around the house, pouting about my bumps. My dad said, Hey, those bumps sure seem to be making you unhappy.
I have an interesting idea that you could try
maybe you could talk to your bumps.

What do you mean? I asked.
Well, Dad said, look in the mirror
and really talk to them. Out loud.
Say something like, Hi, bumps,
maybe there is a reason you are
here. Thanks for coming, but I
am ready for you to go now.
And whether you stay or go, I am
done feeling bad about you.

It sounded weird, but my dad is a smart guy
and by then I was willing to try anything.
So that night I crawled under my covers with a
flashlight and had a little chat with my bumps.
I said, I dont know why you are here, but I
would really like you to leave. Im letting
you gogood-bye, bumps!

I did this every night for a week, and one morning
when I reached up to touch my face, I couldnt
believe it my bumps! They were gone!

I couldnt wait to tell my dad. Look, Dad, it worked!
Theyre gone! I shouted. Whats the trick? Does it
work for anything else?

Dad smiled and said, Its not a trick
its just a way of thinking about things
and yes, it works for lots of stuff.

Think of your cousin Curtie. He is very shy. If you were shy like
him, you could say to yourself: Hey, self, I know you are shy. There
is nothing wrong with that, and I know it is a part of me. But I am
ready to say good-bye to being shy and feeling bad about it.

Now, you wouldnt instantly become not shy at all, but as you change your feelings about being shy, you will begin to notice a difference in the way you act.

Sometimes, you may not be able to change
somethingmaybe you were born with it.
I am a good example of that. When I was
younger, I didnt like my freckles. I had millions
of them. I wasted a lot of my time thinking
about them and wishing they would
magically disappear. Then one day, I decided
to let go of my bad feelings about my freckles
and make peace with the fact that they are
a part of who I am. After a while, I even
started to like them a little bit!

Now of course, some things that people were
born with they can change, right?
Look at Ally hereshe wanted her teeth
to be straight, so she did something
about itshe got braces.

But whether you can change something or not,
the point is: Stop giving it power over you. That means,
dont let it be the most important, biggest thing in
your life, and you will notice some changes.