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"Senior moments"? Or moments of spirituality with God?
Originally appeared on spirituality.com
“Oh dear,” said my friend, “I just can’t remember the woman’s name. It’s so annoying to be losing one’s memory.” She’s not the only one who is troubled by such lapses in memory. Many people feel concerned by the commonly accepted view that the ability to recall information diminishes as one ages, that it can be lost entirely through disease, or that some people are just born with poor memories.
If a person believes that the ability to recall names or details can be threatened by any or all of these scenarios, then the fear of losing one’s memory may seem understandable. But this isn’t actually something anyone has to accept. No one has to lose their thinking capacity—or any other capacity, for that matter. By gaining a spiritual understanding of memory it’s possible to overcome the fear of not having instant recall and even to improve one’s mental capacities.
From a physiological standpoint, memory is usually thought of as residing in the brain. But when you begin to think of yourself in spiritual terms, then age and decline are no longer threats to your memory or your health. You stop thinking of yourself as being mortal and material. You find that you are actually spiritual, ageless, and always intact. You realize that you are totally exempt from medical theories that predict the inevitable decline of the body and subsequent loss of mental capacity. You discover that each of us is actually the much-loved image of the all-knowing, divine Mind, God.
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About the author
Beverly Goldsmith is a practitioner and teacher of Christian Science in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
