How Reoccurring Styes Led To A Very Powerful Affirmation For Me…

In the past few months, I’ve had to deal with reoccurring styes in my right eye that I’ve determined are related to the difficult healing process I’ve been going through. Being a sound believer in the mind-body connection, I looked up in Louise Hay’s book, “You Can Heal Your Life,” what styes signify. Ironically, it totally made sense after reading it.

In Hay’s book, the probable cause of a stye is when someone has been “looking at life through angry eyes” and oh, how I can absolutely identify with that. Given the amount of pain and suffering I’ve had to endure for many years now, I definitely have found myself quite a bit lately being filled with anger. Angry with God, angry with my partner, angry with sponsees, angry with the way the world is, angry at far too many things really. While most of that anger hasn’t been expressed externally, because I’ve seen the damage my anger expressed outward has caused too many times, it’s remained repressed within me instead. But, when a second round of having a stye in my right eye occurred not too long after the first went away, and my upper eyelid became pretty swollen, I felt there was something I wasn’t paying attention to. That’s precisely when I looked up in Hay’s book and identified one probable cause of a stye.

This is a one of the main reasons why I like the “You Can Heal Your Life” book so much because not only does it list the probable cause of an ailment, it also lists a mantra that can be used to create a new thought pattern. In this case, the mantra given was perfect and one I’ve been regularly saying throughout my day now. It indeed has been helping me, as I’ve felt far less angry and far more accepting of many of the unfortunate circumstances of life I’m currently dealing with.

The affirmation in the book is as follows:

“I choose to see everyone and everything with joy and love.”

In the past bunch of months where my physical ailments have been so extremely challenging to deal with, I haven’t been seeing much of anyone or anything with joy and love. So, I began saying this mantra and started noticing a shift in my thoughts pretty quickly and decided to slightly alter the affirmation to encompass my specific spiritual journey.

Here’s how I say it now:

“I choose to see everyone and everything with absolute joy and unconditional love, including myself and all my health and healing.”

And there you have it. A very powerful affirmation that I’ve been saying quite frequently these days and benefitting from it. So, whether you have a stye or not, maybe you might find some benefit from this mantra as well…

Peace, love, light, and joy,
Andrew Arthur Dawson

Author: Andrew Arthur Dawson

A teacher of meditation, a motivational speaker, a reader of numerology, and a writer by trade, Andrew Arthur Dawson is a spiritual man devoted to serving his Higher Power and bringing a lot more light and love into this world. This blog, www.thetwelfthstep.com is just one of those ways...

32 thoughts on “How Reoccurring Styes Led To A Very Powerful Affirmation For Me…”

  1. I am so happy to have stumbled across this and is so the meaning and energy for me! Thanks for writing!

    I had googled “stye meaning Louise hay” and this popped up. And yup, for me too! In fact, have been allowing myself to get angry and let it out (been repressed and disassociated from) but there is a fine line. I woke up this morning after a pretty heated day yesterday and well, then was just a bit mopey today because of it.

    I allowed myself to rest and take cate of myself but then when feeling better got up and did physical therapy, got outside, made dinner, phones a friend, laughed, did restoratice yoga and watched a show with my husband… all in all… felt better!!!

    Then I saw your post and thought- THIS IS THE MANTRA I HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR . And apparently it’s been LOOKING for me!

    Thank you!

    1. Kim, you’re so welcome! I am so happy you found my blog and the article I wrote about styes. The mantra definitely works that’s for sure, as I’ve had to several times myself use it! I hope you’ll check out more of my blog and definitely, many blessings to you on your spiritual journey!

      1. I just read this as I sit here with my 2nd stye in my right eye; exact same story as you’ve have written. I know the mind body connection. It always made sense to me. I’m a follower of Louise Hay as well.
        I’m just so grateful that it’s a stye and not something more serious health wise considering what I’m going through. Originally I thought my feelings were sadness and disappointment but it is unexpressed anger in addition. It helps me just by identifying it properly. I have had serious issues with my spouse that is coming to a transitional state of being.
        A stye can keep you from driving, seeing people, and forces one to decompress. So today I’m just being and using the mantra. I’m going add to my mantra that it’s okay to be angry. It’s okay to feel these feelings and that I see love and joy as a byproduct of allowing my feelings to be felt.
        Thank you for taking the time write this article. It’s probably affected more people then you know. Love and light to you Andrew.

        1. Renee, thank you for taking the time to respond today. Ironically there has been a big increase in people getting styes in the last year. Even myself have dealt with a number of them. I’m glad this article and mantra have helped you find some guidance. And may you be blessed as you continued forward on your spiritual journey of healing! ?

  2. Hi Andrew. This resonates with me a lot. Thank you for sharing. How long after did the stye go away after you started saying these affirmations?

    1. Most styes I’ve had take about a week and usually relate to a release of energy I didn’t want to face/see. When I acknowledge it, it truly helps the healing process go a little easier and to just accept it will heal in the time it takes. In other words, trusting it’s there for a greater purpose and using affirmations to see more clearly why it it’s there and then releasing it all. 🙂

  3. Thanks so much for this post, Andrew! I got a stye last week for the first time in my life and it’s been very stubborn. Not surprisingly I’ve been dealing with a ton of anger and frustration over the past few weeks – this post just confirmed that it’s time to release it.

    A question for you: There’s a part of me that feels like choosing to see everything and everyone with joy and love means I am not “allowed” to express my anger (how I was raised and reflected in last relationship), so I feel internal push back to that. Do you have any recommendations on how to acknowledge and honor the anger in tandem with choosing to see things with joy and love?

    This post has been so helpful for me. Thank you!

    1. Dear Carrie, thank you so much for your comment and grateful you found connection to my words on your spiritual journey in life! I’m grateful that Louise Hay’s books helped me much to discover things like this on my own spiritual journey.

      To answer your question, what I learned about anger, especially on some of my Buddhist studies, and even my Christian studies, is that it is impossible not to get angry. Everyone will experience anger at times. Even Christ did when he cursed a fig tree or turned over the tables in the temple. The key in that is not to express it in a way that hurts another person which will only create more pain and suffering for you in the long run. I love how Tom Hanks in the A Beautiful Day movie about Mister Rogers expressed his anger on a piano playing a bunch of mismatched lower keys. I personally have at times purposely gone in my car to release it at the top of my lungs and in the depths of the water as well. Sometimes I have done it with a pillow on my bed hitting it as hard as I can until I cry. While it must come out to heal, that doesn’t mean it has to come out upon another, even the ones who hurt us, because deep down they have been hurt too and only acted out in the mean ways they did to us because of similar frustrations.

      I truly hope this helps and God bless… ❤️

      1. Andrew! What a lovely, thoughtful response – thank you so much.

        This absolutely resonates with me. I tend to take my anger out on myself rather than other people, which is obviously something to explore. I think because many of us aren’t taught how to safely and healthily express anger when we’re young we just have to figure it out (or bury it) as we get older.

        For me, by giving anger power, seeing it as the enemy or something untouchable is what results in messy, painful outcomes. Well, I may have just had a little breakthrough…thank you again.

        All the best to you <3

      2. Thank you for this post! First time having a stye here at 56. It “popped up” right after a Powerful emotion code releasing of pain and anger I have held onto for almost a decade. I am working on forgiveness and your mantra will be so helpful to me. Thank you again for the wonderful work you are doing here.

  4. Wow! Thanks for this great post! I guess I stumbled your post for a reason. Universe is amazing! I don’t have any stye now. But in the last year, I had it thrice in a row which was weird because I’ve never had stye in my eyes before and when I reflected back… I think I was pretty much in a very negative mood. I constantly filled with anger, frustration, sad and annoyed because of certain things in my relationship and life. However, I am in a much better place for now. I’m thankful! Thanks for sharing this post! Stay safe!

  5. I googled “spiritual reason for stye in eye” and this is what came up. Nothing is by accident. A very beautiful reminder. Thank you ??

  6. Very helpful article, especially how you tweaked Louise Hays affirmation. I’m not sure if anger is the main thing going on for me, but I’m definitely not seeing certain situations with unconditional love. I think your affirmation will assist me in finding more acceptance. Thanks for sharing xx

  7. Thank you Andrew. I, like many on this thread, am healing from long term repressed emotions. In May I asked God to break me and let me say I did not expect the onslaught of pain and a physical breaking of my body. My most recent form of emotional detox is the stye.
    A friend gave me Louse Hayes book and that plus googling “spiritual significance of _(insert pain spot or illness here)_” has really helped me to move to a place of awareness as opposed to confusion.
    Your article really helped put things into perspective about the stye.
    Thank you again, Erin

    1. Erin, I’m grateful you’ve found this article. Ironically, it’s become the most found article out there from the many thousand I’ve written! Regardless, I’m thankful you have found connection to what I wrote. I totally get the onslaught of pain and physical breaking of the body. Truly, I’ve learned that sometimes it’s in the breaking of our bodies that the true health can form beyond that and that in the breaking, it may not be comfortable in how it manifests, but it really is for our highest good in the long run! Much love!

  8. Thank you Andrew and to all that have commented here. Strangely I also am experiencing styes for the first time this year, as I do some focused work on releasing some old energy blocks. And it’s true that I have been a bit of a volcano lately emotionally. I had not thought of anger being the root of it; I was more thinking that the styes might be an indication that I wasn’t seeing certain challenges clearly. So this blog is obviously exactly what I needed to read to redirect myself. Self awareness is elusive sometimes. I’ll try the mantra – and check out your other work Andrew.
    Thanks! Hilary

    1. I’m so thankful this article has provided so much insight to so many including you. Affirmations have been a part of my life for years and they do help. If you can believe it, I have about 27 of them that I utilize daily!!! Anyway, thank you for commenting and checking out my blog Hilary. ?❤️

  9. Amazing! Have never had a stye but had bad one last year. I ended up having to have it drained as it wouldn’t heal.same month, new year and another stye! And yes…I’ve been having some moments, thanks for reminder and information. ❤️

  10. Hi Andrew! I’m so happy I stumbled upon your blog. I’ve never had a stye before and they’ve manifested twice in the same month ? Life has been extremely difficult to deal with and my anger/resentment has been through the roof. I truly believe our emotional body will cause a physical reaction and your affirmation soothed the pain bubbling inside. Thank you!
    Namaste ?? ?

  11. Thank you so much for the post, and thoughtful replies as well. Dealing with a stye in my left eye for the second time! Reflecting here, I’m not aware of anger, but frustration does resonate… frustration at where my life is right now, the current situations in the world as a whole… feeling a bit stuck and uncertain… will be using a version of this lovely, powerful mantra and feeling the relief that I’m not alone 🙂 Time to re-focus on love & joy, and trust in the mystery.
    Thank you for your good work and being a light in this world. Blessings!

    1. Jenna, thank you for taking the time to respond! ❤️ Glad you found some connection in my article! I’ve also found that sometimes the anger is towards myself too and that needs to be released. 🙂 many blessings … ?❤️

  12. Andrew,
    Thank you for writing this. I woke up this morning with my third one this year. Your words and the comments have been so helpful as I have been trying to navigate through a lifetime of pushed down anger and trying to see clearly the relationships around me. I appreciate you all ?

    1. I actually have had a number of them this what too and am feeling that the energies leaving me there are indeed anger I’ve held on to and things I have not wanted to see. I’m working on saying the affirmation myself again each time I’m done in the bathroom. 🙂

  13. Thank you for this. I started looking into it today because I noticed I keep getting recurrent styes and it was never an issue for me before. There seems to be a pattern too. I’ve began working as a pharmacy technician, its not my field of choice and previously I did design work. Although there are aspects I like about this job, there are also many I hate and I’ve been hard on myself and feeling so disappointed that I wasn’t able to get the kind of design job I always wanted and progress in that career so now I had to do something for survival purposes, change myself entirely and keep plugging along for lower pay than I used to have. I thought maybe its the meds I’m dispensing even though Im mostly wearing gloves i can still itch my eye with pill residue on the gloves. And I wanted to blame it on this, however I’ve been working there for 3 months and I have a stye usually once every month at the end of the month. I’ve had 1 my first month on the left eye, then I got 1 again on my left eye the following month. Tomorrow is month 3 since I’ve been working there and also my birthday. I currently have a stye on my right eye. I feel relief putting warm chamomile tea bag on it. I know it will go away but the way this keeps happening lets me know that something is healing or being evoked, that I need to dig and unravel. I’ve been on a spiritual and physical healing journey for a few years now. So I’ve been training myself to be more intuitive with my body and what its doing or trying to tell me. Anyway I wrote too much and rambled but thank you for the affirmations I will write them down and repeat them, hopefully the styes stop coming back.

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