A Friend who is a student of Christian Science related that some years ago after she had recounted to her family all that she had to put up with, what a hard time she was having, and how painful it was for her to carry on her duties, one of her daughters replied lovingly but pointedly, "Mother, I am not impressed." The mother saw that this was the right attitude, for she certainly had no desire to imprint any belief of a real and awful error upon others. To do so would help no one.
She saw that she could herself reject the lying arguments of fear, pain, and self-pity by refusing to be impressed by them. Every time temptations came to feel confused, discouraged, or fearful she would refuse to be distracted from knowing that the only communication to man is that which comes from God. She would not let any subtle suggestion or denial of God's presence and goodness impose itself upon her thinking. She allowed herself to be impressed only by right ideas of the one Mind, God. She declared her right to be inspired, to be well, to be unafraid, to express integrity, and to know herself this way, for this is the way God made her. Thus replacing evil suggestions with true thoughts, she soon found herself entirely well.
When another friend told me of unhappy family troubles, I related the foregoing experience. She began to refuse to be impressed by material sense testimony, and inharmonious conditions were corrected. Still another individual, wrestling with an illness of long standing, decided that she did not need to be impressed by the illusion that a long period of time makes error valid or potent. She too gained her freedom.
