The oneness of Mind and our mental health

There is just one Mind, and that Mind is God. This was an arresting idea I learned early in my study of Christian Science. One divine and eternal Mind. One source of intelligence that is reliable, constant, and only good. The implications of this spiritual fact for each of us, and especially for those dealing with mental health issues, are enormous.

The spiritual fact that there is one Mind is a wonderful basis for prayer as we strive to demonstrate mental health. Sometimes this may take persistence, but the promise of freedom is there for each of us as we pray, because Mind’s oneness is already established. In fact, as we more deeply understand the many facets of this idea, we can find answers to, and healing of, a wide variety of mental health issues. 

At the time I began studying Christian Science, I was struggling with well-known symptoms of mental illness and overwhelmed with the fear that I was losing my mind. But I’d been reading Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer of Christian Science, and I was learning that Mind is a synonym for God. I was also learning something new about myself: that each of us is the offspring of God, so we can express only what originates in God, our divine Parent.