You know how, when someone feels especially sad, those internal thoughts and feelings can quickly translate into an obvious external, physical effect. You see it when the person’s eyes overflow with water. That can get you thinking. If there is such an obvious connection between thoughts and physical tears, what might be the connection between our thoughts and our overall physical well-being?
For a very long time now, people from diverse cultures and eras have been exploring the mental side to health and wellness. What might be the potential of us all, on a worldwide scale, learning how to gain a better sense of the connection between thought and healing? Imagine how it would be for everyone if health care were no longer considered from so narrowly material a perspective as it so frequently is.
Over a century ago, Mary Baker Eddy, a pathfinding thinker, and author of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, made this observation in her book: “Whatever guides thought spiritually benefits mind and body” (p. 149). She had experienced firsthand the connection between thought and body, but took it much further. She recognized that positive and permanent effects on health and well-being lay in something immensely more potent than the human mind. Through extensive study of the Bible, she recognized Christ Jesus, the Son of God, as a scientific thinker and healer who understood the potency of thought’s effect on health—particularly the beneficial influence of spiritual thinking—better than anyone ever had.
