Article July 30, 1979 Issue

The healing of shock

SHARON SLATON HOWELL

Mental stress resulting from a physical ordeal can be quickly and completely healed. No matter how severe it seems, regardless of what appears to have caused it, shock can be healed through scientific prayer.

I know. Last winter I slipped on the ice, cracking my head hard on the ground. Unable to move, I turned to God and prayed with all my being. The pain soon left, and I was able to get home with the help of a passer-by. But the feeling of shock hung on. I couldn't seem to dismiss the thought that I had been through a terrible ordeal. That whole night I clung to spiritual truths I had learned in Christian Science, including the allness of divine Spirit as the only substance and Mind.

The next day, still suffering, I continued to reach out to divine Truth for healing. I read a few pages of Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, and then my attention was riveted to this: "Nothing can interfere with the harmony of being nor end the existence of man in Science. Man is the same after as before a bone is broken or the body guillotined."  Science and Health, p. 427;

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