Article March 15, 1975 Issue

Healing Stubborn Will—and Stubborn Illness

JOANNE SHRIVER LEEDOM

Stubborn physical problems often come from stubborn wills. Certainly it is not the will of God, who is infinite Mind, Love, for people either to be sick or willful. So if an illness does not yield to prayer over a period of time, perhaps the sufferer needs to correct self-will to gain his freedom.

Healing self-will behind an unhealed situation involves several steps. The first and most important one is to recognize willfulness as the cause of the unyielding problem. Unless one faces up to an error, it is left free to flourish in his thought like weeds in an untended garden.

Self-will often goes under the disguise of preconceived notions, habits, family traits, arbitrary decisions, or even under the deep disguise of righteous indignation or a display of what we sometimes like to call "standing for Principle." It needs to be unmasked and seen for what it really is—a flagrant imposition of mortal mind, the false belief in matter and evil, robbing mankind of its freedom.

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