Does healing require the human mind?
Even if someone’s ability to think seems limited because of disease, drugs, pain, or fear, they can still be healed.
Faced with a problem that seems particularly challenging or never-ending, we may wonder if we can be healed. That fear may especially present itself when we find it hard to think because of pain, sleeplessness, addiction, or apparent mental incapacity. But the very premise of the question “Can I be healed?” is a misunderstanding of how healing happens in Christian Science.
To be healed ourselves or to help others find healing, it is essential to gain a better understanding of spiritual healing. The Bible and the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, are vital resources for this.
Christ Jesus showed us that the prayer that brings healing is neither a wishful repetition regarding a need nor a belief that we have to develop a personal healing ability. It is an active consciousness of the nature and power of God. He taught that God is all good and the only cause and proved that we can fully expect harmony to be manifested as God’s effect—like producing like. In Christian Science, healing is not a pursuit of better times or a healthier body; it is an opportunity to gain and demonstrate a fuller understanding of our unity with God—divine Truth and Love—and to demonstrate our heritage of harmony.
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