ALSO BY LOUISE HAY
BOOKS
All Is Well (with Mona Lisa Schulz, M.D., Ph.D.)
The Bone Broth Secret (with Heather Dane)
Colors & Numbers
Empowering Women
Everyday Positive Thinking
Experience Your Good Now!
Gratitude: A Way of Life (Louise & Friends)
Heal Your Body
Heal Your Body AZ
Heal Your Mind (with Mona Lisa Schulz, M.D., Ph.D.)
Heart Thoughts (also available in a gift edition)
Inner Wisdom
Letters to Louise
Life Loves You (with Robert Holden)
Life! Reflections on Your Journey
Love Your Body
Love Yourself, Heal Your Life Workbook
Loving Yourself to Great Health (with Ahlea Khadro and Heather Dane)
Meditations to Heal Your Life (also available in a gift edition)
Mirror Work
Modern-Day Miracles (Louise & Friends)
The Power Is Within You
Power Thoughts
The Present Moment
The Times of Our Lives (Louise & Friends)
Trust Life
You Can Create an Exceptional Life (with Cheryl Richardson)
You Can Heal Your Heart (with David Kessler)
You Can Heal Your Life (also available in a gift edition)
You Can Heal Your Life Companion Book
FOR CHILDREN
The Adventures of Lulu
I Think, I Am! (with Kristina Tracy)
Lulu and the Ant: A Message of Love
Lulu and the Dark: Conquering Fears
Lulu and Willy the Duck: Learning Mirror Work
AUDIO PROGRAMS
All Is Well (audio book)
Anger Releasing
Cancer
Change and Transition
Dissolving Barriers
Embracing Change
The Empowering Women Gift Collection
Feeling Fine Affirmations
Forgiveness/Loving the Inner Child
How to Love Yourself
Meditations for Loving Yourself to Great Health
(with Ahlea Khadro and Heather Dane)
Meditations for Personal Healing
Meditations to Heal Your Life (audio book)
Morning and Evening Meditations
101 Power Thoughts
Overcoming Fears
The Power Is Within You (audio book)
The Power of Your Spoken Word
Receiving Prosperity
Self-Esteem Affirmations (subliminal)
Self-Healing
Stress-Free (subliminal)
Totality of Possibilities
What I Believe and Deep Relaxation
You Can Heal Your Life (audio book)
You Can Heal Your Life Study Course
Your Thoughts Create Your Life
DVDS
Receiving Prosperity
You Can Heal Your Life Study Course
You Can Heal Your Life, THE MOVIE
(also available in an expanded edition)
You Can Trust Your Life (with Cheryl Richardson)
CARD DECKS
Heart Thoughts Cards
How to Love Yourself Cards
I Can Do It Cards
Life Loves You Cards (with Robert Holden)
Power Thought Cards
CALENDAR
I Can Do It Calendar (for each individual year)
THE ESSENTIAL LOUISE HAY COLLECTION
(comprising You Can Heal Your Life, Heal Your Body, and The Power Is Within You in a single volume)
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Copyright 2004 by Louise Hay
Published in the United States by: Hay House, Inc.: www.hayhouse.com Published in Australia by: Hay House Australia Pty. Ltd.: www.hayhouse.com.au Published in the United Kingdom by: Hay House UK, Ltd.: www.hayhouse.co.uk Published in India by: Hay House Publishers India: www.hayhouse.co.in
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The author of this book does not dispense medical advice or prescribe the use of any technique as a form of treatment for physical, emotional, or medical problems without the advice of a physician, either directly or indirectly. The intent of the author is only to offer information of a general nature to help you in your quest for emotional, physical, and spiritual well-being. In the event you use any of the information in this book for yourself, the author and the publisher assume no responsibility for your actions.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data for the Original Edition
Hay, Louise L.
I can do it! : how to use affirmations to change your life / Louise L. Hay.
p. cm.
ISBN 1-4019-0219-7
1. Affirmations. 2. Self-talk. 3. Change (Psychology) I. Title.
BF697.5.S47H388 2004
158dc21 2003003792
Tradepaper ISBN: 978-1-4019-6560-0
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4019-1961-0
Audiobook ISBN: 978-1-4019-6664-5
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
THE POWER OF AFFIRMATIONS
BONUS CONTENT
AUDIO DOWNLOAD INSTRUCTIONS
Today is a new day. Today is a day for you to begin creating a joyous, fulfilling life. Today is the day to begin to release all your limitations. Today is the day for you to learn the secrets of life. You can change your life for the better. You already have the tools within you to do so. These tools are your thoughts and your beliefs. In this book, I will teach you how to use these tools to improve the quality of your life.
For those of you who arent familiar with the benefits of positive affirmations, Id like to explain a little about them. An affirmation is really anything you say or think. A lot of what we normally say and think is quite negative and doesnt create good experiences for us. We have to retrain our thinking and speaking into positive patterns if we want to change our lives. An affirmation opens the door. Its a beginning point on the path to change. In essence, youre saying to your subconscious mind: I am taking responsibility. I am awarethat there is something I can do to change. When I talk about doing affirmations, I mean consciously choosing words that will either help eliminate something from your life or help create something new in your life. Every thought you think and every word you speak is an affirmation.
All of our self-talk, our internal dialogue, is a stream of affirmations. Youre using affirmations every moment whether you know it or not. Youre affirming and creating your life experiences with every word and thought. Your beliefs are merely habitual thinking patterns that you learned as a child. Many of them work very well for you. Other beliefs may be limiting your ability to create the very things you say you want. What you want and what you believe you deserve may be very different. You need to pay attention to your thoughts so that you can begin to eliminate the ones creating experiences you do