Would you like to keep yourself healthy along with those you love and include in your prayers? Then here is some wise instruction to heed from Mary Baker Eddy.
“One should never hold in mind the thought of disease, but should efface from thought all forms and types of disease, both for one’s own sake and for that of the patient” Science and Health, p. 396.
Success in this endeavor takes regular, daily, vigilant mental prayer work!
If you have any kind of connection with civilization, through family, neighbors, the newspaper, TV, telephone, Internet, the mail, or sitting quiet and listening to whatever lands in consciousness, you will have opportunity to keep disease suggestions out of your consciousness. They seem to come from all directions in the human experience. And it is our responsibility to not accept them as real.
As Christian Science explains, disease is not a reality, yet it can feel and appear a reality to the mind that believes it either consciously or unconsciously. So it is incumbent upon all of us to watch what we think and believe. We are responsible for our own thoughts. So, we must remain extra alert to guard our thinking and keep out all arguments for disease.
If disease suggestions stay out of our thinking, they will stay out of our body.
And the best way to watch against disease is to watch for health. Stay focused on the real and the true!
God never made disease. God created harmony, life, strength, vigor and wellness as our norm state of being.
Our individuality is not vulnerable matter, but invulnerable Spirit. We were made in the divine image, and God maintains us in a perfect state of health every moment of our existence. As we understand this truth and practice it daily, it is real for us.
To be successful, know that sickness cannot invade your being any more than darkness can invade light. Spiritual consciousness immunizes you against all disease and is not prone to taking it in or believing it exists. Disease suggestions are automatically rejected by spiritual understanding and are as nothing to it.
Disease is nothing to be afraid of. But it must be seen for the error of belief it is. Permanent health is your reality as a child of God!
So, keep yourself healthy today. Think spiritual! Reject disease, and stay well.
ACIM also states : ” Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God.”
How very true Evan, though disease appears to be real, it is not a reality. We in Science have proved this fact many many times. All that God creates is real and good, and God made all that was made. Its so natural for students of Christian Science to turn to God when they are diagonised with disease, see the unreality of disease and get their healings. So, if we keep disease out of your thoughts and not allow it to enter into your consciousness, it will disappear from the body.
Keeping our thoughts pure is very important. Pure thoughts accept only purity in consciousness and there is no room for sinful or sick thoughts to enter into consciousness.
Once your consciousness is pure and untouched, how can any disease touch you?
We need to be very vigilant as Evan says, in our thinking – watch against disease, watch for health and stay focused on the real and true – our true identity as spiritual and pure.
Deeply grateful Evan for this reminder to keep our consciousness pure and not be mesmerised by thoughts of disease, cause in reality there is no disease.
Thanks Evan! In reviewing my thought processes one day I noticed something interesting in regard keeping disease out of thought. I noticed that when presented with a suggestion of disease that only applied to women, I was able to instantly rule the suggestion out of my thinking as “not applicable to me”. But when the suggestion of disease applied to men, or both men and women, sometimes it was a struggle to keep the suggestion out of thought.
Hmmm….why is that, I wondered? I decided it was due to two factors:
1) I knew wholeheartedly that a male, created of matter, does not have certain “parts” that are needed to get diseases that only apply to material females.
2) I identified 100% with being male.
By studying Christian Science I’ve learned that I’m created by Spirit (God) and therefore I’m 100% spiritual. So I started using the following thought process, instead, when confronted with all suggestions of disease:
1) A spiritual creation of God (i.e. me), doesn’t have material “parts”, and isn’t subject to material so-called “laws”, that are required in order to be affected by diseases that only apply to material humans.
2) I identify 100% with being a spiritual creation of God!
This idea of identifying with my spiritual selfhood as *thoroughly* as I previously identified with being a human male first came to me about 8 months ago. Since then I’ve used it over and over to quickly banish thoughts of disease and sickness from thought. I’d like to also point out that I study and pray regularly to realize what it means to be a creation of God and to understand and be aware of God’s laws. But that regular study/prayer, along with this newfound view of what it means to truly identify with my spiritual selfhood, has been very helpful to me in banishing negative suggestions from thought.
Wonderfully clear! And the comments are beautiful, thank you all.
HI Evan
thank you.
Nadine
Evan, thank you for the ideas, insights and experiences you share with us daily.
Thanks also to all your blog readers, for their views and comments.
I was wondering if this space could occasionally be used as a “Let’s Ask Evan”
forum!
I am looking for explanations of certain expressions Mrs. Eddy uses in her
writings.
Thank you Evan for the good clear thoughts you shared with us today. “If disease suggestions stay out of our thinking, they will stay out of our body”!!!! So TRUE!! We CAN keep our thought so full of God and His love and protection for “us , His perfect spiritual children, there will be No Room for anything “unlike good” to enter a Full mind. God is constantly telling us Good things about ourselves and everyone so keeping it clear in thought that there is Nothing but what God is and made to think about and that should knock out any lie about His perfect creation having something wrong within it…..Wrong Wrong Wrong and then replace that thought with one from our Father/Mother Good who speaks to our human consciousness in a way that we can hear and understand. Thank you, and Thank Christian Science, which is the Comfortor Jesus promised and IS teaching us ALL things…..God is so good!!!! caydee kittredge
Brian brings out a very good point by not being disturbed when disease hits (mortal) woman but when it hits (mortal) men, well, that’s a different story. BUT WE ARE SPIRITUAL AND NOT MATERIAL. That’s what has to be understood. Mortal mind is so very tricky. We have to watch and watch AND WATCH, our thoughts.
What you think about you bring about! We really do need to stand porter at the door of thought. It is often the sneaky little thoughts that slip in that you don’t even realize they were there. I always like to shout “cancel , cancel” or “Get thee hence”!!!
this gives us all something to do constantly, as we are all connected in one of the ways mentioned to civilization, I love this about this post!