Article November 28, 1994 Issue

Change of thought is the heart of healing

Judith H. Hedrick

More and more medical professionals today discern a relationship between the human mind and body, and acknowledge that thought has an impact on health. They may even engage a patient's thought positively and encourage his participation in his cure. Of course, these efforts also include reliance on physical remedies, therapies, and drugs.

There's a need, however, to go much deeper. Ill health is, at base, thought. And a change of thought, or regeneration, through spiritual means alone is the heart of Christian healing. The Christian Science textbook, Science and Health by Mary Baker Eddy, states: "The procuring cause and foundation of all sickness is fear, ignorance, or sin. Disease is always induced by a false sense mentally entertained, not destroyed. Disease is an image of thought externalized" (p. 411).

Christian Science also teaches that there is only one real cause—God, who made all as the expression of His perfect nature. God is divine Mind, holy in purpose, complete in power, utterly good. Man is the likeness of God, Spirit, and as such includes no material or discordant element. The true nature of creation is spiritual and good. Hence disease is not reality; it is a false belief about creation. A false sense or error has no truth, so it has no substance or life. It can seem very real and powerful, but it is a lie. When destroyed by spiritual Truth, which transforms thought, disease disappears.

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