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Experience Your Good Now!: Learning to Use Affirmations

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I'm a big fan of Louise, and have gotten a lot out of her books, including this one. However, I was disappointed that this book contained so little new material, and the CD is identical to the one that accompanied I Can Do It -- not similar, but identical, only with a different label. And unmarked tracks, so you can't repeat a chapter or skip around among sections. It's all on one track. That's odd, because the I Can Do It version has tracks. And none of the new material from the book is on the CD.

I bought the book in advance after receiving an email from Hay House (the publisher) encouraging fans to buy the book right away so that it could get high sales, which would boost its Amazon ranking among best sellers. So, I ordered the book without benefit of any reviews. I thought it might be helpful to folks who are not familiar with Louise's writings, that boosting the sales might help them find this wonderful resource.

But I do feel a bit deceived, in that so much of the material is just a repeat.

Nonetheless, if you are new to Louise Hay's books and philosophy, I would highly recommend either this book or I Can Do It. This book does have a little bit of additional material. However, if you are primarily interested in listening, I'd get I Can Do It for a more satisfying listening experience.

Louise Hay has been a long-time favorite author of mine. She has helped me to have the inner confidence to believe that what I think about will come into my life.

This is another delightful little book that she has written, but it's more comprehensive than her others. In fact, she has given us affirmations for nearly every important area of life: Health, Fearful Emotions, Critical Thinking, Addictions, Forgiveness, Work, Money and Prosperity, Friends, Love and Intimacy, and Aging.

I would highly recommend getting this book along with another that I just finished reading. I've been so inspired by Serendipitously Rich: How to Get Delightfully, Delectably, Deliciously Rich (or Anything Else You Want) in 7 Ridiculously Easy Steps, which was written by Madeleine Kay, along with a foreword by Joe Vitale. This book gives you that same fun and delightful feeling as it moves you positively on a path of change. However, it also gives you some practical steps which are akin to putting these life-improving affirmations into practice.

Yes, I took a chance and now I can say for sure that if you already have
"I can do It" book with cd you have heard 95% of this already. And since its of no
value to dwell on lack (out $12.00) this will conclude my review.

We hear the word affirmations and how affirmations are effective for changes in our lives. But, until Louise L. Hay's book, Experience Your Good Now, the importance of affirmations particularly when they are written down were not as powerful. It's a wonderful book written by a delightful author who has given so much to our metaphysical culture. She has contributed to our well-being and taught us to empower ourselves particularly with our health. Another one of her must have books on our shelves.


Confessions of a Feng Shui Ghost-Buster

This booklet on using affirmations is clear and easy to read, with an attractive cover and a CD at the back, but, if I am honest, nothing new is said that has not already been written about before either by Louise Hay her self or other self help/ motivating coaches or writers. Still, it would be a pretty present for somebody who is new to the self help/ self improvement world .
Wendelien Verbeek, www.alexandertechniek.eu

Affirm your way to a better life. Louise Hay brings us another gem of a book filled with superb little nuggets of wisdom that if practiced can help pave the way to better thoughts which will ultimately lead to a better life experience. Louise Hay has firsthand knowledge of what is teaches. She healed herself with many different forms of alternative medicine and her own "mental work" from a cancer diagnosis many years ago.
Louise defines an affirmation as:
"Every thought you think and every word you speak is an affirmation."
Louise's words speak to our souls and offer gentle loving guidance as how we should talk to ourselves on a daily basis, replacing our self defeating thoughts with new patterns of better serving beliefs as it relates to health, fear, critical thinking, addictions, forgiveness, work, money and prosperity, friends, love and intimacy and aging.
Each chapter is eloquently laid out and begins with a checklist of sometimes all too familiar negative statements that we say to ourselves, probably without much thought, which is why she wants us to begin to identify the way we think about ourselves so that we can begin the healing process. Next she introduces several exercises to help us further examine why we may have the beliefs that we have and where they may have originated from in preparation to release those old negative beliefs. She then takes the reader on a journey back to those original negative statements and transforms them in a new positive affirmation, giving the reader clear examples of how they can start to affirm the good and not focus on the bad. Here are a few examples of a negative thought pattern transformed into a positive affirmation:


Heart dis-ease runs in my family
I am not my parents. I am healthy and whole and filled with joy.
I'd do it if I weren't so fat.
I appreciate the wonder of my body.
It's all my parents fault.
My parents treated me in the way they had been treated.
I forgive them- and their parents too.
Why does everyone else have money?
I have as much money as I can accept.
She then ends each chapter with a Treatment, which is a longer more detailed and beautifully flowing affirmation. You cannot help but feel the shift in energy when you are done with each chapter.
Her style is well thought out, organized and easy to follow. Each chapter is methodical in its delivery of the information and a perfect find for the newbie to affirmations or the seeker who would like to expand their practice. The book come with an enclosed CD to listen to in the car or whenever you feel like you need a shift from negative to positive.

If you have ever been skeptical or thought "affirmations don't work", well Louise would say to you that that is an affirmation and one that may not be serving your highest good. Pick up the book, do the work and start the healing of your life.


Kelly Stratton
Leading Edge Life

The Kindle version of this book DOES NOT INCLUDE the cd which everyone is enjoying. I purchased the book via my Kindle last night without realizing that there even was a cd.

Kudos to Amazon Kindle Customer Service, however, because I am already in the process of receiving a refund.

I strongly believe in Louise Hay's work...and for good reason. Her message throughout the past several decades has consistently been empowering, positive, and uplifting. We can all use a lot more of those ideas!

Experience Your Good Now! is the reminder some people need to stay or get back on track. There are always people starting an awakening process, or those who are awakened but still need reminders, or those who mostly just appreciate positive thinking as a valuable way of manifesting. Because of Louise, I catch myself when I start saying, "I don't..." and turn it to a positive thought or spoken word. I participate only in positive journal writing. I surround myself with positive people. All due to Louise's books and movies and their influence on my life.

Everyone will relate to at least one of the negative thought examples given and benefit from the positive alternative. As Louise says at the start of Chapter 2, "An affirmation opens the door. It's the beginning point on the path to change." Open your own door and see the value in your life and what you can make of it through positive affirmations. What Louise is doing is providing the tools, but it's up to you to show up and do the work.

Heather Hummel, Author of The Universe Is My Sugar Daddy

I love Louise Hay and her work. And "I Can Do It" is a great book and the CD is wonderful. But I was very disappointed that the CD included with this book is recycled from "I Can Do It." While there is some helpful, new material in the book, kind of a condensed form of some of the material from "You Can Heal Your Life," it's really too bad that none of the new material was even considered for the CD.

I like the book, it's wonderful for someone just starting to use affirmations. I like the CD that's included even better than the book.