The perspective you hold outlines the experience you have, so be sure to let spiritual truth outline your point of view.
One perspective that helps me stay in a healing frame of mind is to remember that as a child of God, I am never a mortal striving to get better. I’m an immortal thriving in the kingdom of heaven.
As the offspring of the Divine, you are an immortal thriving in the kingdom of heaven too. Accept and enjoy the experience!
Thank you Evan. Back when I was in college I prepared the readings for my Christian Science Organization meeting and the subject of my readings was “instantaneous healing”. I included many references from the New Testament where Jesus or the disciples healed people and the text indicates the healing was “immediate” (see Matt 8:3, Matt 20:34, Mark 1:31, Mark 2:12, Luke 8:47, Acts 3:7, Acts 9:18, etc., etc.).
Fast forward to a few weeks ago…It occurred to me that many Christian Science healings I’ve experienced, or even healings that I’ve read about in the Christian Science Sentinel or Journal, happen in a similar time frame as would occur if some material means were employed to bring about healing. For example, when suffering from the symptoms of a cold, I’ve found that when I pray about the problem I usually start feeling better in a few days which is similar to what commercials advertising cold medicine describe as the length of time the medicine requires.
It dawned on me that I, and perhaps other Christian Scientists, were not having instantaneous healings because our “perspective” for how long the healing should take was based on a material view of the healing process. So I decided to change my perspective and I prayed to realize that since Christian Science healing is not based on changing matter, but instead it is based on realizing our true spiritual identity as a reflection of God, healing doesn’t have to be a function of time and therefore I could expect healing to be instantaneous.
Well I happy to report that since coming to this realization I’ve had two instantaneous healings in just the last two weeks.
1) One day I woke up feeling badly. I’m not sure what the problem would be called, but I just wasn’t feeling normal. At first I thought perhaps if I took a nap I would feel better, but after taking the nap I didn’t feel any better. I then decided to pray to know that good health is a reflection of God and since God is all good I could only have “good” health. I also remembered to pray to know that healing doesn’t have to take time since healing is just awakening to what is already true. While in the middle of praying in this way I suddenly felt good again…immediately!
2) After suffering from a sore neck for a few days it finally occurred to me to pray about the situation (lol…it’s funny how often I just try to wait out a problem and hope it will just go away without any effort on my part). Again, after praying for 5-10 minutes it occurred to me to pray specifically to understand that Christian Science treatment IS effective (see step 3 of the prayer process I described in a comment I posted to the June 8, 2016 SpritView). I spent another 5 minutes doing that and then totally forgot about the sore neck problem until later in the day when I realized my neck had stopped being sore immediately at some point while I was praying earlier that day.
So the moral of this story is that we CAN experience “fast”, “quick”, “instantaneous” healings “immediately”, “without delay”, “right away”, “promptly” if we only change our perspective and realize that healing does not require some lengthy process of changing bad matter into good matter…but instead realize that healing is just an awakening to the good we already reflect continuously from God and experiencing what already exists takes no time at all.
Thank you Brian,
This is exactly what I needed to read, I have often pondered the same issue of my expectation of healing.
The one time I was able to CLEARLY see that, as a refelction, we are immediate, therefore healing can be expected to be as prompt.
I realised I was, as I drove considering this, in the midst of a healing which I had begun to think, after so long, would never happen.
I was heading to a Lecture and the beautiful Truths being shared bolstered my changing thought. by the end of the evening I walked away free.
I have tried to see that freeing thought again, but been unsuccesful, you have just captured it beautifully!
Thank you
Thanks Brian. You should submit this to the publishing society. I, too, have tried to wait it out for healing, but as Evan has said in his class. In reality all healing is instantaneous for the reasons you stated in your comments above healing is not time dependent because it is established on a timeless principle of God good and we his eternal creation of that self same truth.
Thank you, Brian!
Thanks Brian WELL SAID!! This is such an obvious way to think but yes, we all too often don’t see the forest for the trees! We try to fix a material situation then we wait and wait praying endlessly over days or weeks to heal someTHING, when a thought is instantaneous! the right thought brings instantaneous healing ….of our incorrect PERCEPTION of our health. This is such a progressive thought…it’s like “eliminating the middle man”! and the way you have written it is great.
Oh yes, thanks a lot Evan, will enjoy that truth, living and being in God, Spirit with all His wonderful spiritual qualities he bestowes to us every minute!
Brian, Thanks for that information re instant healing, it has been on my mind too lately, and you have given a new perspective, one I had also thought was truth, that truth exists now, not some time soon.
Thank you Brian, for your testimonies and your very clear explanations, why healing can always be instantaneous – helps me a lot!
Thriving versus striving … what a key distinction! There’s such a sense of progress and freedom when you think of yourself as thriving. Thanks so much, Evan!
Thanks Eve! I love it how the comments often highlight ideas in Evan’s blog that I missed when I read it. I totally missed the “thriving versus striving” idea until you pointed it out Eve. So thanks again for pointing that out!
Thank you Evan and Commenters. So grateful to begin the day with such inspired thoughts.
Thanks, Evan and Brian! Wow! Exactly what I have been struggling with! I noticed symptoms of a cold a couple of days ago and just thought it would go away on its own. Then I realized that I was accepting it as REal and started to do some studying and praying, but way back in my thought I was noticing that I was believing that this cold would follow a normal path of material healing, and sure enough…..it IS! I’m basically just following the “outlined program” of a cold! Yikes! I’ve never really Believed that a cold could be healed instantly…..but it can, can’t it, in Christian Science! I also haven’t called a Practioner because in my mind….”It’s just a cold and not something really serious.” Another Yikes! Thanks for the Wake Up Call You All!
Thanks, Brian, for your inspirations on instantaneous healings. David Hohle gave a wonderful lecture “Time is not a Factor.” One of the thoughts that has remained with me from that lecture is that if something is necessary it’s possible. I recently listened online to a lecture, “To Begin Rightly” by Daniel Jensen. He very strongly pointed out that there was no matter – perfect or imperfect. We are not trying to heal matter. Therefore, rather than declaring that I am not material, I declare that there is no matter. I am so very grateful for all of the inspirations available to us.
Thanks Evan, Brian, and all. I am reminded of Mrs. Eddy’s statement on page 14 of Science and Health, “Entirely separate from the belief and dream of material living, is the Life divine, revealing spiritual understanding and the consciousness of man’s dominion over the whole earth.”
Thanks Evan. I have noticed that once a vaccine is developed, the disease disappears. This is true even though they no longer need to administer the vaccine. It just seems very clear that once the fear is gone, so is the belief of the disease.
Great article. Thanks, Evan and Brian!
Lori, could you give us a link to the Begin Rightly lecture? I couldn’t find it on You Tube. Thanks!
It is hard to stay the course and know that you are not healing matter. That everything is all-ready all right but a thought of something other than God is what needs to go. thanks for all the comments and thank you, Evan.
a website Christian Science in CT ( connecticut)
had the Jensen talk and has many others.
Thank you, Nadine. I had forgotten about the “historical lectures”. It’s nice to find them again.
http://christiansciencect.org/historical-christian-science-lectures/
Thank you Evan and Everybody who has commented today, it has been most informative and enlightening as all the blogs are.
Thanks Kathleen for giving the link to the historical lectures. I hope readers make a note if it. I use it daily. There’s nothing like listening to a lecture before going to bed, or when my eyes get tired of reading.
Just what needed. Thank you Evan and Brian.