The pressures that often plague human experience come from a sense of limitation. The pressures may be those of limited time or capacity, of supply or personal relations. They may be pressures of pent-up emotions, anxiety, fear—all of which have a common element in them, the element of limitation. Through an understanding of the infinite and eternal nature of God and of His creation, we can counteract this basic error and realize a new sense of freedom and release.
In the physical sciences pressure is also related to limitation. When one builds up pressure in a steam boiler, the steam is confined to a limited enclosure. The pressure is intensified by the limitation. When the confines of the enclosure are released, the pressure drops immediately. And when there is no limitation whatever, there is no pressure at all.
This illustration can be useful in a metaphysical sense. The belief of life in matter is a sense of limited life. It includes all the erroneous pressures that result in sin, disease, disintegration, and death. As mortals begin to see beyond this belief of limitation, they gain release from the confines of such belief and taste the peace and freedom of Life divine. Mrs. Eddy tells us in Science and Health, "When we realize that Life is Spirit, never in nor of matter, this understanding will expand into self-completeness, finding all in God, good, and needing no other consciousness." Science and Health, p. 264;
