Why I love Louise Hay

200 hour RYT teacher training.  I'm over the halfway mark.  There is a lot of reading and self study involved in this journey.  I read the Yoga Sutras first then "How Yoga Works" by Gesne Michael Roach.  I started my readings three months before the training began. I started my inward angst during those same three months.  Between Patanjali, the yoga sutras and "how yoga works" i was filled with so much sorrow and remorse for my past and how i had live my life, i fell into a deep sadness.  I re- imagined how i could have lived my life and made better choices based on the knowledge and tools i was learning.  That was so painful when i looked back on decisions i had made and so many poor outcomes that happened.  Then I read Louise Hay, "You Can Heal Your Life".  
Louise Hay has been around for a long time writing multiple self-help books. I don't do self help books, i thought. But, one of the things she asks in this book is that you look into a mirror and say to yourself- yes you! "I love You and i am worthy of love".  Hey, no problem! I can do this! But, I couldn't.  I looked into that mirror and struggled with why i could not say that to myself without crying. How on earth could i love so many people in my life and not myself?  I realized I needed to keep coming back to the mirror and telling myself "I love You" .  
Now I can look at myself, my imperfect beautiful self and love her. Wow, thanks Louise! Thanks for asking me to take that step.