Video Source: Guided Meditation & More
Louise Hay reminds us that love is the answer, and that we each play an important role in creating peace and harmony on our planet.
Transcript (Louise Hay):
To me, love is the answer. I really believe that love is the answer. It's powerful. It helps us; it helps other people.
How do you give love to the world? What are you doing to create your own inner harmony? What do you do on a daily basis to make yourself feel good inside?
Or do you just sit and bitch about what you don't have? Well, it's one way of handling it, but doesn't change the situation.
You know you're not gonna do it by being mad at yourself or being mad at other people. And you're not gonna do it by blaming people. And you're not gonna do it by being a victim.
So what is it you do? How do you express unconditional love in your life even a little bit? Is there a small area of your life you where you're willing to give unconditional love?
How are you experiencing peace within you and around you? And if you're not doing it now, are you willing to begin? Are you willing to start creating inner harmony and peace?
Another question to ask yourself is: do you really want to change? Do you want to change or do you want to just sit there and complain about what you don't have? Or do you want to be a person who really has and creates a much more wonderful life than you have now?
And if you're willing to change, you can if you're willing to do the work involved, which means changing the way you're thinking. Then you can change your life for the better.
People come up to me a lot and say oh Louise you've changed my life. Well, I don't change anybody's life. I don't do that. I'm not a healer. I don't heal anybody. I don't change anybody I don't have that kind of power.
Only you can change yourself and only you can clean out the pain within you. I can't do that for you. I can stand up here all evening and say wonderful things and give lots of good advice, but you're the only thinker in your mind. And you're going to make the decision of what you want to do with the information that you're being given. I have no power over you. You have the power and you need to know that!
We think so often that we are helpless, but we're not helpless because we have our minds. We have our minds. And you shape and mold your life from moment to moment by your thoughts and your beliefs and your attitudes.
And you also want to know that you really are important to this world. You might say well I really don't do anything, but you are just the fact that you're alive is important. And your life has meaning, it really does. And you can contribute to the peace and the harmony of this planet just by using your mind.
Now some people get involved politically, and some people march and some people do the Peace Corps, and some people help feed the homeless and do all sorts of things. And that's fine, but you can also contribute to the peace and harmony of the planet just as much by how you use your mind.
And remember every time you're thinking, you're connecting with like-minded people. Think of that for a minute.
I heard a quote not long ago that I really like. Robert Schuller, who's with the UN, said that the human species needs to know that we deserve to have peace. We have to accept it mentally.
See, a lot of people believe that war is inevitable and that war is forever and that we're always going to have war. And I think those people are contributing to it by their thinking – contributing to the continuance of wars.
But if we know that we deserve to have peace and that it is possible, it can become true for us. And as we begin creating peace within us and then within our small circle of family or friends and at our workplaces, and then we let this peacefulness ripple out, we will find more and more peace on the planet.
So remember that practicing inner peace will help us to connect with like-minded peaceful people all over the world. Spirituality connects us all over this planet on a soul level. And the sense of cosmic spirituality that we're experiencing now is just wonderful!
When I talk about spirituality I don't always mean religion. You know religions have a tendency to separate us. And religions often tell us who to love and how to love them and who's lovable and who isn't.
To me were all lovable. I really believe that we are all worthy of love. For love to me is the only thing that's gonna bring about lasting change, positive changes to our planet. Our spirituality is a direct connection with the ultimate higher source and we don't need a middleman for that.
Begin to see our spirituality connecting us all over the planet on a very deep soul level.
So what sort of like-minded people do you want to connect with?
Every time you get into judgment and criticism you're connecting with like-minded people out there who are judgmental and critical, and this will come back to you. Remember, what we give out always comes back. And every time you meditate you're connecting with like-minded people out there who are meditating.
And meditating to me really means just closing your eyes and going within and being quiet long enough to hear your own inner wisdom. You really have the answers within you. You have all the answers within you. And you need to quiet down long enough to hear them.
And that to me is the purpose of meditation. It's a connection with yourself, with your higher self. So every time you do that you're also connecting with other people who are also doing that. And every time you do visualization for healing your body or for healing the planet, you're also connecting with like-minded people who are doing the same thing.
And several times during the day you might stop and ask yourself: what sort of people am I connecting with now? Just sort of catch your thoughts where you are.
Are you sort of going, oh grumble grumble grumble it's all your fault? Or are you thinking thoughts to create inner harmony and inner peace? Because if you create inner harmony, you're gonna have outer harmony too. Remember if we want to heal the world we really have to start with healing ourselves because the center of your world is where you are!
You are the center of your world. And so are you, and so are you. Each one of us, we are all the center of our own world. So the world goes out from us like ripples in a pond. And when we create harmony inside, when we're peaceful within, that goes out into the world. That harmony and that peacefulness radiate out, touching people and places and things.
You know how it is, somebody can walk into a room and they don't have to say a word and you can be attracted to them or you can be repelled by them. We react to what they're giving out. Somehow we feel those vibrations. We pick up what people have going on inside of them. So let's make sure that we are radiating harmony and love.
