Article December 28, 1974 Issue

Seasonal Suffering and Loneliness Can Be Prevented

SHARON SLATON HOWELL

Happy to see your favorite season roll around, but unhappy to think of the ailments generally associated with it? You can stop dreading certain times of the year. Seasonal suffering can be prevented. Freedom, ability, and health can be maintained the whole year through—without interruption. The preventive art taught by Christian Science is available to all, and offers more than partial or temporary relief. The earnest student can learn to deny the fruition in his life of mortal mind's aggressive suggestions.

Mrs. Eddy has given us innumerable truths with which to successfully thwart illness. One of these is, "Banish the belief that you can possibly entertain a single intruding pain which cannot be ruled out by the might of Mind, and in this way you can prevent the development of pain in the body."^{Science and Health, p. 391;} Thousands of people are effectively warding off pain and disability—proving them to be untrue —by applying what they know of spiritual facts.

One evening I began to suffer symptoms of influenza. Without realizing it, I mentally resigned myself to a week or more of discomfort and disability. But at this point the above rule came to mind. I had always been healed eventually when this problem arose, but for the first time I saw I didn't have to submit even for a moment to the various phases of suffering generally associated with the flu, but could prevent them altogether.

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