Testimony of Healing October 6, 2008 Issue

TWO QUICK HEALINGS

BILL CONANT

This past winter, I noticed that a mole on my shoulder had begun to enlarge. I'd heard over the years from both friends and various media sources that such a change could be potentially dangerous, and, if not attended to by a physician, could develop into some kind of disease.

This concerned me at first, but I quickly put into practice what I call my "one-two punch." In my practice of Christian Science, I specifically deny whatever discord—or error—is confronting me on the basis that only good can come from God. Then I affirm the specific spiritual ideas that establish what is real and true about me. Science and Health clearly sets out this method of healing: "To heal by argument, find the type of the ailment, get its name, and array your mental plea against the physical. Argue at first mentally, not audibly, that the patient [me, in this case] has no disease, and conform the argument so as to destroy the evidence of disease. Mentally insist that harmony is the fact, and that sickness is a temporal dream. Realize the presence of health and the fact of harmonious being, until the body corresponds with the normal conditions of health and harmony" (p. 412).

Sometimes, I've found that denial of the error in itself scores a knockout of the problem. It really wakes one up to seeing past what appears to be such solid evidence of inharmony.

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