Article October 12, 1998 Issue

Love that wipes out fear

Removing fear is key in healing injury and disease.

By Rosalie E. Dunbar

I had never experienced profuse bleeding before, and I was afraid. I had injured my head when I slipped on a ladder and fell forward onto a ceiling joist. Despite my fear, I felt completely lucid, and I began to pray to God for help. Having relied on Him for many years, I knew that He is ever present and that He does not abandon us in time of need.

As a student of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, I also knew that one of the most important aspects of Christian Science treatment was overcoming the fear I was feeling right at that moment. The book says specifically: "Always begin your treatment by allaying the fear of patients. Silently reassure them as to their exemption from disease and danger. Watch the result of this simple rule of Christian Science and you will find that it alleviates the symptoms of every disease. If you succeed in wholly removing the fear, your patient is healed" (pp. 411–412).

In this case, I was the patient, and I earnestly needed that reassurance. I affirmed that I was not afraid because I knew that God was with me and that He was—and is—my Life. I knew that my life is spiritual because He is Spirit, and therefore I was not subject to death or to any threat posed by or through the material body, including the bleeding. I continued to pray along these lines for a few minutes longer. Suddenly, I had an insight into the spiritual substance of my being that I had never had before, and the moment this insight came, the bleeding stopped.

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