Healing can result through obedience to the Manual of The Mother Church.
In the Manual Mrs. Eddy gives the members of her Church this By-Law, entitled "Alertness to Duty": "It shall be the duty of every member of this Church to defend himself daily against aggressive mental suggestion, and not be made to forget nor to neglect his duty to God, to his Leader, and to mankind. By his works he shall be judged,—and justified or condemned." Man., Art. VIII, Sect. 6;
As one reasons from the basis of the allness and goodness of the one, universal, divine Mind and recognizes his true, spiritual selfhood as the likeness of this Mind, he can behold himself, not as a limited mortal, struggling to cope with problems, but as the spiritually enlightened reflection, or idea, of this one Mind, divine Love. Through spiritual alertness he can detect and cast off aggressive mental suggestions that would delay healing or attempt to slow his spiritual progress. His diligent study and practice of God's spiritual laws, as revealed in Christian Science, together with his obedience to the wise By-Laws of the Manual, enable him to develop an impenetrable spiritual defense. With the Psalmist he can say of God, "He is my defence; I shall not be moved." Ps. 62:6;
