This book is an amazing find. I love all of Louise Hay's books because of her attitude that we don't have to give up and just wallow in our circumstances. Her work with HIV patients was particularly inspiring.

I do have some problems with two of her primary permises. The first one is the idea that we choose our parents because of issues we need to resolve. Still, I have found real merit and healing in her belief that they were doing the best they could and forgiving them frees us to live in today.

The second concern is her belief that we create all of our own illnesses. As a five year cancer survivor, I don't believe that I created that illness in myself through not letting go of my resentments. I had been actively at work on them for years. Nonetheless, I increased my efforts because I was interested in trying any method of healing, including traditional surgery, chemo, radiation, and a drug trial, that was available to me. I have returned to this book repeatedly to deal with issues which have troubled me. Hay's positive approach to our destiny if we do the work, i.e. answering the questions, and doing the affirmations, is very life-giving. I recommend this book and her tapes, whether it is this book on tape or one of her healing series. She is extraordinarily insightful.