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Based on Hay's work in her weekly support group, here are real-life experiences of people with AIDS. But the references, affirmations, and awareness exercises are equally as valuable for anyone facing any life-threatening illness.

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Library Journal Review

Hay offers a positive approach to handling the HIV Positive/ARC (Aids Related Complex)/AIDS diagnosis. Beginning with an examination of Western attitudes towards ``dis-ease'' in general, she thoroughly explains what AIDS is and what can be done about it. She then explores the problems gay men and others encounter when they are diagnosed with AIDS, castigating society's view of AIDS as a ``gay disease.'' Hay argues that accepting the disease is a way of fighting it. She emphasizes the immense power of the mind over the body, encouraging the use of affirmation, visualization, relaxation, meditation, and nutrition as ways of stabilizing the immune system. Included are notes on alternate therapies and a resource list of books, audio and video tapes, and support groups. Highly recommended.-- Kevin M. Roddy, Oakland P.L., Cal. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Publishers Weekly Review

This follow-up to Hay's bestselling You Can Heal Your Life repeats and further elaborates on her philosophythat self-love can create salutary changes in physical healthby applying the theme specifically to AIDS. Hay's discussion of reincarnation and other issues, however, will comfort sufferers of all varieties of disease, especially those labeled ``terminally'' ill by the medical establishment. The author believes that AIDS is ``a message from the body, the final attempt of one's own consciousness to communicate''; at the same time, she maintains that worldwide famine and poverty as well as the universal threat of nuclear holocaust are forms of AIDS that affect the whole planet and that will force us to ``look at what we are doing on an individual and collective level.'' Hay's methods of safe sex, nutrition, exercise, and of dealing with parents, doctors and hospitals, living wills and the like are highlighted throughout by case histories of People with Aids (PWAs) ``in the process of healing themselves,'' who explain what combinations of diet and spiritual exploration they employ. While some will surely object to Hay's basic premise (``From the many PWAs I have come to know, it seems clear that the lack of lovelove of themselves, love of and from othershas played a large role in their acquiring the disease''), her dual message that the mind is a powerful healer and that we must all take responsibility for our own lives and health has broad appeal. (September) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

Booklist Review

Hay is one of the regnant gurus of positive thinking as a means of healing-but not necessarily curing-life-threatening illness. Although successful before the advent of AIDS, she was in the right place-predominantly gay West Hollywood, California-to minister to AIDS sufferers when it hit, and she has done so most potently. She conducts a weekly open forum for persons with AIDS (PWAs) that, starting with six, now regularly has 600 participants. This book, relaying her advice on achieving self-love and serenity, is the latest of several attempts to bring her message to an even larger audience. (Several audio- and videotapes-e.g., Doors Opening, Booklist 84:335 O 1 87-have preceded it.) In the book's three sections, she provides counsel; suggests exercises involving such New Age techniques as mirror work, meditation, and imaging; and proffers testimonials from PWAs who have substantially improved the quality of their lives, quite often even curing the opportunistic infections that plagued them. Part of her success is surely due to excellent communication skills, evidenced here in splendidly lucid inspirational writing. To be indexed. RO. 616.97'92 Acquired immune deficiency syndrome

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Louise L. Hay was born in Los Angeles, California on October 8, 1926. She was abused by her stepfather and raped by a neighbor. As a teenager, she dropped out of school and gave birth to a girl, her only child, whom she gave up for adoption. After living in Chicago for a time, she moved to New York, where she worked as a fashion model. In the mid-1950s, married English businessman Andrew Hay. When her marriage ended 14 years later, she started attending the First Church of Religious Science in Manhattan and began training in the ministerial program. Through her work as a Science of Mind minister, she compiled a reference guide detailing the mental causes of physical ailments and positive thought-provoking ways to cure them. The compilation, entitled Heal Your Body, is also known as The Little Blue Book.

After moving back to her native Southern California in 1980, she wrote and published the book You Can Heal Your Life in 1984. Her other books included The Power Is Within You, Meditations to Heal Your Life, Empowering Women, and Life! Reflections on Your Journey. She also co-wrote You Can Heal Your Heart: Finding Peace After a Breakup, Divorce or Death with David Kessler.

She founded Hay House, Inc., in 1984. Beginning as a small venture in the living room of her home, it became a multimillion-dollar company with an extensive line of products including books, CDs and online courses. She died on August 30, 2017 at the age of 90.

(Bowker Author Biography)