When I had Christian Science class instruction years ago, I was inspired to write the phrase “It is all thought” at the top of every page in my notebook.
Everything we see and experience is a result of thought. When we ride in an automobile, we are reaping the benefits of years of accumulated knowledge, from the invention of the wheel to the advanced electronic firing of an ignition. When we listen to the thrilling strains of a Beethoven symphony, we are benefiting from the composer’s inspired thought more than 200 years ago. The melodies he put to paper with a quill pen, we have the benefit of hearing today as a result of laser technology that interprets microgrooves on a round piece of plastic (compact disc), and the resulting symphonic sound flows out of our stereo speakers. These are just two examples of how thought shapes our world.
Today more and more people are realizing what Mary Baker Eddy, the discoverer of Christian Science, saw more than a century ago—that thought influences one’s health and well-being. After her discovery she wrote in her Christian Science textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures: “A material body only expresses a material and mortal mind. A mortal man possesses this body, and he makes it harmonious or discordant according to the images of thought impressed upon it. You embrace your body in your thought, and you should delineate upon it thoughts of health, not of sickness” ( p.208).
