Article August 18, 1997 Issue

Can I help how I feel?

Barbara Corbett Myers

FEELINGS play a large role in human behavior and well-being. Researchers have drawn parallels between emotional feelings and bodily health. Yet feelings may at times seem beyond control. If fear is producing a prejudice, depression holding back progress, or a sense of injustice prompting hurt or a desire for revenge, you may acknowledge that you ought to eliminate such impulses. Still you may think, "But I can't help how I feel."

To heal rather than merely control such feelings requires recognizing Soul, God, as the one true source of feelings. The power of such acknowledgment is illustrated in this comment about Christ Jesus in Science and Health: "Knowing that Soul and its attributes were forever manifested through man, the Master healed the sick, gave sight to the blind, hearing to the deaf, feet to the lame, thus bringing to light the scientific action of the divine Mind on human minds and bodies and giving a better understanding of Soul and salvation" (p.210).

In summarizing God's law and the commandments, Christ Jesus taught: "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment. And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself" (Mark 12:30, 31). To have no other Mind or Soul but God is to find God to be the only real animus for motives and feelings.

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