Editorial September 13, 1958 Issue

THE HEALING POWER OF AFFECTIONAL CONSCIOUSNESS

Harold Molter

Much has been written on the subject of the heart. Mankind generally consider that one's life depends upon the action and condition of the heart; and it has been regarded, figuratively, as the seat of happiness or sorrow and as the center of all feeling and affection. Reference is often made to a grateful heart, a hard heart, a brave heart, a heavy heart, a heart of gold.

One's feelings and affections, joys and sorrows, content or discontent, love or hate—all mental qualities—often seem to cause disturbances in one's body. And it is a generally accepted conclusion that one's feelings and affections, aims and ambitions, do change, for better or for worse, the activity of the physical organ called the heart.

Mary Baker Eddy says (Miscellaneous Writings, pp. 50, 51): "The human affections need to be changed from self to benevolence and love for God and man; changed to having but one God and loving Him supremely, and helping our brother man. This change of heart is essential to Christianity, and will have its effect physically as well as spiritually, healing disease."

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