Thought and Physical Health

Part 1 your body reflects your ideas
Future generations will be taught the need of quiet contemplation that they
may sense and realize the presence of God in their minds, in the activities
within their bodies, and in their affairs. Let us think about this. We can
heal ourselves of most of our physical troubles if we go about it rightly
and we can heal others just as well. We should not think that we have to
wait for some spiritually enlightened person to come along or until we
attain the ultimate in maturity ourselves.

All dis-ease is unnatural and does not belong to the real person-if it did,
no one could heal it. Any doctor will tell you it is the nature of the body
to heal itself of every dis-ease, and that it is the nature of the mind to
fight off every psychosis and neurosis. If they didn't, no one could be
healed. There is no physician who thinks he or she heals anything or
anyone. They only assist nature in reestablishing the normal processes of
circulation, assimilation, and elimination in both body and mind.

Spiritual thinking means the realization and affirmations that God is all
there is. When we properly identify ourselves with the ultimate Perfection
we realize that there is a necessity for us to experience perfect
circulation, perfect assimilation, and perfect elimination through our
physical body as well as through the body of our affairs.

We are our own best practitioner, our own best physician, because the
Spirit within us is God. Spirit knows all things, sees all things, hears
all things, understands all things because it is all things. Therefore,
spiritual mind healing means that we identify our consciousness with the
One Mind, the mind that is God. The greatest trouble we have in our work is
to convince people that what they are looking for, they are looking with,
that the God they are trying to become good enough to understand is at the
center of their being now, and that the creative word they want to use is
the word they are using. Though for their most part they use it
unconsciously and deny their good instead of accepting it.

There is a Spirit in us that bears witness to the truth. Though we may not
look it, and often may not act it, we are perfect right now. The knowledge
and use of this truth of being will make us free of the limitations, that
our ignorance has brought upon us.

If one has a pain it should be relieved because it is foolish to think that
God wants us to suffer. That is ignorance. We therefore do not deny that
hospitals are needed as well as doctors and surgeons and nurses. But isn't
it wonderful that the great Physician is right where you we are, always?
Always ready to be called upon by either ourselves or the medical person.

It is so very simple! There is perfect circulation, there is perfect
assimilation, there is perfect elimination, for there is no congestion and
no limitation in the Divinity at the center of our being! We should glory
and delight in it.

From the Science of Mind By Ernest Holmes