One of the surest ways not to be spiritually healed of believing in the reality of an inharmonious physical condition is to keep looking to see how it's coming along. This is like engaging in a tug-of-war by pulling at both ends at the same time—as though there were two you's: one, a mortal suffering from a matter affliction; the other, the spiritual idea of God, who, as the Father's child, could never be touched by any sense of physicality or suffering.
Such oppositional pulling declares sides. One side is cherishing the spirituality of your real and only self, the consciousness that is your God-imaging identity; the other side is looking to see what material sense is saying is troubling you.
For example: a student of Christian Science noticed a small growth on her face and at once began to discipline her thought to see the growth as the nothingness it is in divine Science. Day after day she confronted this thing with the healing Christ; and day by day it grew in size, even though she frequently declared aloud Mrs. Eddy's statement, "A spiritual idea has not a single element of error, and this truth removes properly whatever is offensive." Science and Health, p. 463;
