‘From this day on, I send you love’
Dr Wayne Dyer’s first book, Your Erroneous Zoneshas sold over 35 million copies,
and subsequent works, including Pulling Your Own Strings, Real Magicand The
Sky’s The Limithave inspired millions more. He speaks to packed auditoriums all
over the world. Yet it was not always so. In his early 30s, he was far from success-
ful, two stones overweight, trapped in an unhappy relationship and, by his own
admission, a candidate for an early heart attack.
Dr Dyer points to one specific incident as the turning point in his life – an act of for-
giveness. When he was a baby his father, a man with a reputation as wifebeater,
alcoholic and petty criminal, walked out, never to make contact again. He died at a
relatively young age. Dr Dyer had grown to detest him and frequently had night-
mares about beating him up.
Then, in 1974, he found himself at his father’s grave, angrily demanding an expla-
nation. Suddenly, something came over him. The hurt and hatred melted away and
he offered a prayer: ‘From this day on, I send you love.’ Then he walked away.
Immediately, everything changed. Within two weeks, he wrote Your Erroneous
Zones. He started exercising daily, terminated the painful relationship and forged a
reputation that is second to none in his field.
Ask him about his past, he shrugs his shoulders. ‘It happened,’ he says. ‘That’s all.’
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