Though Christian Science treatment is simple, its precision and power demand something more of us than haphazard thinking. Whether we're new in Science or well established, we should have an expanding sense of what treatment is and how it works.
Christian Science treatment can be described in many ways. One way would be to say that treatment is the recognition of God, the affirmation of man's Godlike spiritual nature, and the denying of troubles on the basis of those truths.
Treatment should always be thorough —just as complete as we can make it— but this doesn't mean it has to be labored and long. The more spontaneous treatment is, the more healing it is, when that spontaneity comes from the treatment having a broad and deep spiritual base. Such treatment is typified by acuteness of perception, directness of realization. These brook no resistance from mortal belief. Mary Baker Eddy's crisp requirement characterizes spontaneity: "Treat a belief in sickness as you would sin, with sudden dismissal." Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 218; But whether treatment seems to the human mind (a time-mind that thinks in terms of material process) to be brief or prolonged, the important fact is that it does heal.
