Article April 19, 1969 Issue

We Can Overcome Chronic Beliefs

PATRICIA M. GRUMAN

Mankind have been educated to believe, and have accepted as true, the limiting theory that there are two types of disease: the acute, which needs urgent and immediate attention, and the chronic, which is not always serious, possibly not easily healed, and which therefore may have to be tolerated as an unavoidable part of daily living.

Christian Science teaches that all illness or discord, whether acute or chronic, is an erroneous belief based on a mistaken concept of man as a material, vulnerable mortal. Mrs. Eddy makes no distinction between acute and chronic disease when she states unequivocally, "There is no disease."^{Science and Health, p. 421;} Elsewhere in the same book she says: "One disease is no more real than another. All disease is the result of education, and disease can carry its ill-effects no farther than mortal mind maps out the way."^{p. 176;}

Students of Christian Science should daily—hourly if necessary —vigorously deny the suggestion of any chronic or unhealed error. The only place where the mesmerism of disease or discord can seem to be is in mortal mind, the finite and material sense of being, which Christian Science declares to be a mortal dream, a myth. Many of us go along for months and even years catering to and making allowances for some annoying or mildly incapacitating physical disorder. We may even eventually accept it as an incurable and inescapable part of our existence.

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