Spirituality: At the heart of healing

I grew up in an extended family that includes more than thirty doctors, but I gained a whole new perspective on preventative and curative therapeutics when I found Christian Science. Through understanding God as perfect, infinite, all-powerful Spirit, and man as God’s perfect, spiritual expression, I have come to see that spirituality is at the very heart of healing. 

Inherent in our spirituality is spiritual sense, which the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, defines as “a conscious, constant capacity to understand God” (Mary Baker Eddy, p. 209). Spiritual sense enables us to perceive what is real and true. It affirms the presence of God as Spirit and the power of God as supreme. It moves thought away from the objects of physical sense, which are transitory, to the ideas of Spirit, which are enduring, and this shift in consciousness reforms, rejuvenates, harmonizes, and heals.

I reasoned that I must address the disease as a phenomenon in my thought rather than a development in my body.