Article December 7, 1968 Issue

Restoring the Lost Sense of Health

KATHRYN PAULSON GROUNDS

The English poet Robert Bridges once wrote, "Sickening thought itself engendereth corporal pain." ^{The Testament of Beauty ;} How futile to treat bodily pain or apply material remedies to discordant matter, when the procurator and maintainer of the malady is fearful, willful, sinful, or unenlightened thinking!

If a room becomes chilly or overwarm, one does not tamper with the thermometer to adjust the situation, for the thermometer is an indicator, not a controller, of temperature. And the same might be said of the human body. No abnormal physical condition can appear upon the body unless it has first been formed in thought, whether consciously or unconsciously. Through suggestion and acceptance physical experiences are mental experiences before they are physical. What is needed, then, is spiritually restored or reformed thought, which in turn outlines itself upon the body in the normalcy of health.

Christian Science teaches that disease is mental, not physical, that the antidote is spiritual truth, and that this divine remedy is to be applied directly to the belief, not to the apparent condition or circumstance of inharmony. This divine Science restores the spiritual consciousness of good as the only reality and of divine Mind, or God, as the only source of good. It refreshes one's concepts of life and harmony and establishes the awareness of health as divinely natural and never at the mercy of matter or material circumstances.

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