Article May 8, 2017 Issue

Stick to the perfect model

Martin Vesely

While I was watching a little television just before going to bed one evening, the program I was viewing was interrupted by a commercial about cold sores. It explained how they come about, and it pitched the product a particular pharmaceutical company sells to treat them.

When I woke up the next morning and looked in the mirror, I was startled to see what appeared to be a large cold sore. Yet there had been no sign of the sore when I went to bed the night before. I recalled the commercial, and I immediately realized what had happened: What I was seeing on the body was simply “an image of thought externalized” (Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 411). In fact, Christian Science teaches that all disease is an image of thought externalized.

I realized I had unconsciously let the image of the cold sore presented in the commercial and what was stated about cold sores impress me, and this was objectified on the body. In hindsight, I should have hit the “mute” button.

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