Article May 26, 1980 Issue

Who's in charge of your body?

BETTY ANN RIDLEY

Mankind generally is educated to believe a person can turn the responsibility for his body over to someone else. If the body is disordered, we are urged to take it to someone knowledgeable about bodies to fix it, thereby relinquishing responsibility for its health. This outlook is based on the belief that the body is a material object made up of components that can, of their own volition, function properly or improperly.

But many people are waking up to the fact (which Christian Science has taught for over a hundred years) that the body reflects and expresses an individual's thought; that one's health cannot be separated from the mental concept he entertains about himself.

Mrs. Eddy tells us in Science and Health, "Take possession of your body, and govern its feeling and action."^{Science and Health, p. 393;}