Hiking In The Mountains is something my family and I have always loved to do. The smell of the pine needles is delightfully fragrant. But 40 years ago, there was a two-year period when I couldn't smell them. In fact, I couldn't smell anything. The difficulty became so acute that at night I couldn't even breathe through my nose.
One night I remembered something that a woman I knew told me. She had been taught about Christian Science healing by Mary Baker Eddy. She said, "Life is a thinking process, not a breathing process." For me, this meant that I already had the means through which to breathe, but that those means were mental, not physical.
I knew that I could think—or pray—in order to heal this problem. With that, I closed my mouth and decided there was no power that could prevent my responding in a healthy way to that truth. I trusted these words: "Realize the presence of health and the fact of harmonious being, until the body corresponds with the normal conditions of health and harmony" (Science and Health, p. 412).
