Article May 22, 2017 Issue

Thinking about food, exercise, and a healthy body

Diane P. Dailey

Sometimes we may seem to be overly preoccupied and concerned with how to maintain a healthy body. While health is essential to our well-being, I’ve found there’s a more reliable basis for it than ever-changing diet and exercise theories. That basis can be found by reconsidering the actual source and nature of health, and learning about our true spiritual selfhood.

I love how the teachings of Christian Science reveal a Bible-based spiritual understanding that goes beyond widely accepted, but inconsistent and false, concepts about health and body. The acceptance of man’s spiritual origin as stated in the first chapter of the book of Genesis—man created “in the image and likeness of God”—impels a shift in thought to the realization that because we are Godlike, we are spiritual, not material, and therefore naturally possess health and well-being.

This understanding frees us from feeling held hostage to material hygiene, to fears associated with overexertion, calorie counting, weight gain or loss, or an increase or decrease in appetite. Essentially we realize that we can instead depend on the most reliable, genuine health-giver: our Father-Mother, God.

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