Welcome Beautiful,
I’m really excited to share some of the ideas and expansions that come to me when I specifically look over the Louise Hay Vertigo section in her absolutely stunning book, Heal Your Body.
Louise Hay is such an angel, and listening to her recordings brings such joy into my life.
As a Holistic Nutritionist, I wrote an article a little while ago about the nutritional healing of vertigo (you can read that article here), and today I wanted to expand on the Louise Hay Vertigo section for you.
First, what do I mean by expanding the Louise Hay Vertigo work to your Life?
I *love* Louise Hay’s affirmations. In fact, I keep a few of her boxes of affirmation cards tucked into drawers and things like that for beautiful moments.
But if you’ve ever tried an affirmation, in a mirror or not (she frequently recommended mirror work), and you didn’t find it really sat deeply within you, I’ve found in my work that a little investigation is often required.
I like to picture it like this: You have a stunning photograph, in a frame. That’s your affirmation and the change(s) it can beautify into your life. Well, if you disbelieve the affirmation, it’s kind of like a layer of dust or grime on that picture frame, that allows you to see or live out that affirmation a little (or a lot) less clearly.
So I like to expand the affirmation work of the Louise Hay Vertigo section (or anything else I’m working with someone on, who’s open to metaphysical (mind-body) healing) so it can reach into the far sections of your life, and create holistic change across many areas for you.
So let’s jump in:
In the Louise Hay Vertigo section of Heal Your Body, it points you to dizziness. In that area, she explains that flighty and scattered thinking and a refusal to look are the metaphysical causes of vertigo and dizziness.
Her heart-melting affirmations for dizziness are, “I am deeply centered and peaceful in life. It is safe for me to be alive and joyous.”
As gorgeous as those are, if you’re feeling really scared that a vertigo attack is around the corner, it might be hard for you to fully believe those statements.
And if you can’t open up to fully believing them, it’s going to take a really long time of many, many repetitions per day to flip the scale of your beliefs to genuinely believing you can be alive and joyous, centered and peaceful in life.
Let’s expand on the Louise Hay Vertigo & Dizziness section:
Louise Hay Vertigo and Dizziness Practice # 1:
First, take a moment to feel how you do, fully. We often try to fight with unpleasant feelings, which takes an enormous amount of energy.
But when instead we focus our attention on how we do really feel in our bodies, we start to heal these feelings; slowly reducing and soothing them.
So be brave with me here. And let’s do this exercise completely on your terms:
Set a time limit for yourself. An amount of time where you’ll allow yourself to feel the emotions you do around your vertigo and dizzy spells. A time limit that feels comfortable, and a little bit nerve-wracking.
Maybe ten seconds is all you can manage. That’s GREAT.
Maybe it’s one second. Maybe it’s one minute.
The time doesn’t matter: your willingness to feel (and thus heal) matters.
Now set a timer for the amount of time you can handle just being with yourself and experiencing fully the fear you might feel about another vertigo attack.
In setting a timer for how much you think you can handle, you honour yourself and you don’t push past your limits or get lost in your mind during this exercise.
Once the timer is going, feel the fear in your body.
What does it feel like?
Does it come up from the pit of your stomach?
Is it a word in your head?
All you have to do is bring your awareness (focus) to the biggest sensation in your body, and hold it there.
Is it your heart rate speeding up, or suddenly feeling flushed?
You are stronger than that fear. So as new as it might feel, just keep your attention on the body part that initiates your scared-ness.
What are the feelings you experience by being scared of another vertigo attack?
Scan your body and see if there are any stronger sensations. Then, bring your awareness to those areas. And just keep your focus there, as new as this feels. If you pay very close attention, you may notice the sensation releasing ever-so-subtly.
This is truly loving yourself.
You’re not trying to change what’s going on. Nor are you trying to eliminate or release or add affirmations on top of where you are. You’re genuinely listening and just sitting with how you’re feeling.
And you should be very proud of yourself for that.
It’s an uncomfortable and also really loving skill to have.
This is not the time to let your mind wander into what-ifs. This is a time to sense how exactly your body feels when you think about vertigo.
As the timer goes off, stop. Thank yourself. You did a really big thing.
Moving forward:
As you feel that sensation come up through your days, see if you can use it as a reminder to stop for a simple second. Recognize that feeling. Trace back to where it starts in your body. Be with it for a moment, fully.
As you continue to feel it come up and be with it instead of fighting with it or trying to pretend it’s not there, you’ll find it lessens over time.
What you’re in essence saying to the fear is, “There is something in me that is stronger, and calmer, and more attentive than you. And peacefully, with patience, I will win.” And that is a beautiful thing!
Louise Hay Vertigo and Dizziness Practice # 2:
Add peace into your life.
That statement looks simple. But its effects can be profound.
Grab a piece of paper and a pen, or a good friend if you’re a verbal processor, or some beautiful meditation music if your insights most often come from meditation.
And ask yourself, “what feels chaotic and stressful in my life right now?”
Breathe.
And then write, speak or listen to your intuition.
Journal whatever comes to your mind. List them out verbally while your friend listens. Or make a mental list from your meditation.
If everything in your life feels stressful, I can nearly guarantee that your stress glands are overworked and exhausted. That’s one of the things I’m passionate about helping. I know first-hand the huge difference it can make to your mental state, and your general state of healing when you heal your stress hormones. So if you’re feeling stressed about everything right now, get in touch with me here. I would love to help you lift yourself out of stress with a blend of nutritional help and metaphysical help so you can feel centered and peaceful again in your life.
If there is one area of your life that feels especially chaotic and stressful right now, ask yourself another question:
What is ONE thing I can do this week to make this situation even a little bit easier on myself?
Maybe your answer will be finding a book on the subject from someone who can help you best. Or maybe your answer will be planning a special night or hour out for yourself. Maybe it will be signing up for a race or a lecture that’s been on your heart and mind for a while.
Whatever it is, trust it and do it. Next week you can ask yourself another ONE thing question. So there’s no need to worry if you “got it right” or “chose the right thing”.
Life will give you many chances to correct this, and help yourself out.
So just settle on one thing you can do to make a stressful situation in your life feel easier for you; more peaceful.
And follow through with it this week.
Then next week, ask yourself, “what is one thing I can do THIS week to reduce chaos for myself in X situation?”
And complete it again the week after, and so on.
Stay away from blame during this process. Keep focused on you, as the only person you can control. And keep your actions focused entirely on what it is you can change. Happiness and peace come from you.
Remember: chaos is a really big, strong emotion. And it built up over a lot of mini decisions made, very likely, over years of time. It can take a little practice, consistent action and time to start noticing some dramatic results in your life.
But as you stick with it, you should start to feel like cloaks of darkness and pain are coming off of you, and slowly slowly, you feel brighter, a little lighter, and happier or more free.
Louise Hay Vertigo and Dizziness Practice # 3:
Add more peace.
In the last practice, we looked at an area of your life that was feeling chaotic, and asked you how you could make that area more peaceful, one step at a time.
This practice comes from the side of delight, which is a subtle but also beautiful difference.
Without attention on the areas you’re struggling with at this moment, ask yourself (journal, meditate, chat with a trusted friend), “what peaceful thing would completely delight me this week?”
This can be a goofy thing. For example, I love seeing free space on even one shelf, or just one really pretty item on a table top (that doesn’t start to collect more items).
Perhaps it would be a meditation you’ve dreamed of having the time to listen to, but you haven’t made the time for yourself yet. Or maybe it’s a book you’ve been really inspired about, but haven’t opened yet.
What is something that would absolutely delight you, for no other purpose than making you happy on the inside, that you’ve wanted to do, and that feels peaceful or like peace to you?
(I want to add here that my examples above are very much me. But maybe listening to a rock-screamo band puts your brain state into the most peaceful place. Or maybe going to a rest and recharge yoga class makes your heart sing. Or maybe standing outside in the rain for a few minutes is one of your purest pleasures. We’re all different. And that’s beautiful. So when something comes to mind that makes your heart feel even slightly lighter for a moment, trust it! And be willing to delight yourself with peace!).
Complete this practice week by week, first by trusting what idea comes to you. Then by committing to make it happen each week. And finally by making the time to ensure it is happening, as the week flows.
You can do it!
Putting it all together: Louise Hay Vertigo and Dizziness Practices:
Louise Hay is beautiful and wonderful and world-changing in so many *amazing* ways!
Her work is some of the most stunning that I’ve been able to find, and I absolutely delight in it when a client is open to using aspects of it in a unique way during healing with nutrients with me.
In this article, you learned ways to grow and access Louise Hay’s insights for vertigo and dizziness in a new way, while transforming your life. They were based on her beautiful examples in her book, Heal Your Body.
Practice # 1 is all about feeling however you feel about your vertigo and dizziness. Just giving yourself the grace to listen to yourself, and your body. And by witnessing those feelings, by just being there with them, you begin healing.
Practice # 2 is all about dealing with some of the chaotic-feeling parts of your life in manageable steps, so that slowly, over time, piece by piece, you start to heal your life. And bring back peace, calm and confidence to your deepest being.
And practice # 3 is focused on delighting yourself with peace. Doing something you’ve wanted to, and committing to it. Letting yourself work through the hard, but also allowing yourself to be open to the beautiful, all at the same time in a perfect blend of heaven (light, love, or what you call it) and Earth.
As you make progress with these, notice how the Louise Hay Vertigo and Dizziness affirmations slowly start to feel more true, more beautiful and more uplifting.
Don’t beat yourself up if this takes a while. You’re making amazing strides, and I know that you can do it.
If you need any help along the way, do not hesitate to reach out. I am here for you and so excited for your transformation.
And if you’d love to see another article from me soon on another problem in Louise Hay’s book, let me know in the comments!
So much love,
Nathalie Norris, CNP, NNCP
Holistic Nutritionist
Glow Nutritional Consulting
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