Testimony of Healing June 16, 2008 Issue

FREE FROM MIGRAINES

ALICE HAYNES MOSELEY

For several years, I was plagued with migraine headaches. At first, they occurred almost daily and were of such a debilitating nature that all I felt I could do was sit still with my eyes closed because of a sensitivity to light. Each time, I would call a Christian Science practitioner to pray for me because it was very difficult to pray for myself or to stay focused on spiritual truths. I felt under siege and needed some reinforcement to lift my thoughts above fear and the feeling of being victimized and helpless.

The next step toward healing came when I began to listen to recordings of the Bible, the writings of Mary Baker Eddy, and the Christian Science Bible Lessons during these episodes. As I more diligently disciplined myself to look away from a body in pain (see Science and Health, p. 261), and to think about the healing ideas I was hearing, I found it easier and easier to be inspired.

There were times when relief came quickly, either by my own prayers or those of the practitioner, but there were other times when the physical challenge did not yield so readily. A great breakthrough came, though, when I began to realize that these attacks were not ultimately going on in my body, since, as Christian Science explains, matter has neither sensation nor intelligence. I saw that they were mental intrusions—false suggestions, or lies, I was entertaining in thought only—and that defeating these suggestions with the truth of my real being was what was required if I wanted to experience complete healing.

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