Editorial October 2, 1978 Issue

Healing multiple discords

Naomi Price

A phenomenon of spiritual healing that often surprises newcomers to Christian Science is that a discordant condition is sometimes healed even though the practitioner on the case, who is giving treatment for another condition, has no knowledge that the second discord exists. Treatment has been requested for one difficulty, and then another undisclosed problem is solved as well. How could this be?

The fact is, human discords—whether physical disease, business or relationship difficulties, loss or lack—are all mental. Christian Science explains that they are without exception objectifications of the false thoughts that are entertained in human consciousness. If we accept unhealthy beliefs that we are, for instance, separate from God, alone, friendless, joyless, unloved, we are liable to have these beliefs manifested outwardly as unhealthy bodily conditions. The only effective way to heal discords is to correct the false beliefs of which they are the objectification with the understanding of the truth of spiritual being. Then the outward manifestation will improve.

In reality, man and the universe are spiritual, the expression of the creator, divine Spirit, God. True being is invariably pure and good. Created by God, it is eternal and never less than perfect. As the Bible says, "Whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it." Eccl. 3:14; Man in his real being is invariably Godlike, whole, and harmonious. Anything appearing to human thought as material and discordant is not actual. It is an unreal image that disappears when the true nature of spiritual being is understood.

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