"Mood Indigo" is the name of a classic blues number that sounds great as music but quickly loses its appeal when it denotes a state of mind. A blue mood is no fun at all.
What's more, because, as Christian Science proves, our thoughts directly affect our health and every other facet of our experience, it is imperative that we halt mental depression dead in its tracks and replace it with the buoyancy that comes of spiritual understanding. The Psalmist must have been down in the dumps when he asked himself, "Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me?"Ps. 43:5; But evidently he knew the sure solution, for at once he said to himself, "Hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God."
Christian Science teaches that happiness is the natural state of man, who is the image or expression of God, ever-buoyant Soul. The real man is ever at one with the divine Mind in substance, Life, and intelligence. He reflects all of Mind's qualities, so he is actually complete, needing nothing. In Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures Mrs. Eddy writes: "Mind, joyous in strength, dwells in the realm of Mind. Mind's infinite ideas run and disport themselves."Science and Health, p. 514;
