Healing of intense headaches
About a year and a half ago, as I was getting up one night, I felt a sharp pain in my head. My immediate thought was that this pain was a dream, an illusion of the physical senses, and that I could treat it as such in Christian Science.
However, on the heels of that thought, I was suddenly tempted to attribute reality to the condition by considering the possibility that it was the result of my having sat for an extended time while knitting—from time to time I’d dealt with headaches like this after knitting. But I refused to connect those dots. Mary Baker Eddy writes in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, “Disease arises, like other mental conditions, from association” (p. 154). So I knew I needed to not associate the pain with any condition or activity.
This was the focus of a Sentinel article titled “ ‘Don’t connect the dots’ ” (Sue A. Spotts, February 18, 2019) that I’ve appreciated ever since its publication. The article brings out the ability we all have to wholeheartedly accept, in a childlike way, that God, good, is All and the only cause. It also says that by refusing to participate in drawing mental connections that would seem to justify pain or suffering, we can see that these negative effects have no actual substance and be free of them.
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