Article April 5, 1975 Issue

"Every thought tells"

KATHRYN PAULSON GROUNDS

"We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them."^{Walden, "Higher Laws";} So wrote Henry David Thoreau at a time when the world generally may have been less aware that it is today of the direct influence mentality bears upon physicality.

In marked degree, thinking finds expression in experience, as well as in facial features. Human thought holds within itself the responsibility for individual susceptibility to good or evil, and has a strong effect upon bodily, economic, and even atmospheric conditions. Many believe that certain people are prone to accidents and that the mental expectancy of the recurrence of sickness has often brought about an entire family's chronic liability to ill health. But what mankind classifies as disease is nothing more than the objectification of mental errors, such as resentment, fear, sin, worry, and so forth. The body itself is a mental concept, and its expression of concord or discord is influenced by the formative substance of thought. How important, then, that one's thinking be bulwarked by an increasingly spiritual approach to all issues, personal and otherwise!

Every thought we entertain, depending upon its spiritual or material content, carries weight either for good or evil, affecting health as well as character. Thinking must be spiritually improved before physical conditions can be permanently bettered; it must rest consciously in God, reflecting the love, joy, intelligence, and power that belong to divine Mind and are reflected by His individual ideas. Thought increasingly anchored in God, good, manifests spiritual stability, and this in turn has a telling effect upon success, happiness, and health.

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