Editorial April 24, 1948 Issue

THE REMEDY FOR PAINS FROM "PEEVES"

Paul Stark Seeley

Here is something interesting about the inelegant statement you sometimes hear, "That fellow gives me a pain!" A physician is reported in a news dispatch to have reached the conclusion that oftentimes one person has a pain because he is "peeved" at someone else. Of forty cases of a certain inflammatory disorder this physician found that every individual affected was entertaining a grudge or resentment against some "other fellow." He concludes that "peeves" entertained by one person toward another sour mentally the one who entertains them and in turn affect him physically, often making him nervous, irritable, sleepless, or dyspeptic.

The methods suggested by the physician for getting rid of these bad feelings include the blowing off of steam by writing a letter expressing one's pent-up feelings toward the other person involved, holding it a day, and not mailing it. Another antidote he offers is vigorous exercise or hard work to divert one's thought from the pain-producing "peeves."

The fallacy in these remedies is that they do not cut at the root of the trouble. They attempt to stop the weed of wrong thinking from growing, but leave its root untouched. The root, Christian Science shows, is the so-called material, evil mind, which forms and plants "peeves" of every shade and nature in the minds of mortals. It is the belief in, and surrender by the individual of his thought to, this devilish sense of mind through acceptance of its evil thoughts that must be annihilated before resentment, grudges, ill-will, and their bad effects disappear. In the teachings of Christian Science the way to do this is made plain. Briefly stated, it is to understand the unity of man's consciousness with the Mind that is God and the resulting separateness of his true consciousness from all thoughts that are contentious, unloving, and evil.

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