Article March 21, 2005 Issue

God has given us "a sound mind"

Giulia Plum

Giulia Plum is a practitioner and teacher of Christian Science who lives in Redding, Connecticut, with an office in nearby Norwalk. She also gives public talks on Christian Science. Before becoming a practitioner, she had a private practice as a licensed psychotherapist. Below are excerpts from a recent conversation Giulia had with the Sentinel.

WHAT I FEEL most deeply when helping individuals who struggle with mental illness is the conviction that God loves each person—both the one with the difficulty and the caregiver. That love runs deeper, and bigger, and higher, and broader than we can possibly imagine. While this type of illness can be extremely challenging, I've found it helpful to begin addressing it by being willing to consent to the power of that love while praying to understand and practice it better.

In Christian Science, one definition of God is Mind—the universal, all-good, all-inclusive consciousness. Good mental and physical health has its source in this Mind and is our natural state. Therefore disease, or a disturbed mental state, is unnatural. As God's children, we all have the potential to show forth mental soundness, even when we are struggling with an illness that would seem to take it away. We can embrace each moment as an opportunity to draw a little closer to, and gain greater clarity about, our unity with the divine source of consciousness.

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