Mortals develop their own bodies or make them sick, according as they influence them through mortal mind. To know whether this development is produced consciously or unconsciously, is of less importance than a knowledge of the fact.
Showing posts with label Physiology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Physiology. Show all posts
Friday, April 22, 2011
Day 103: Influence on the Body
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Day 102: Careful what you think
The less that is said of physical structure and laws, and the more that is thought and said about moral and spiritual law, the higher will be the standard of living and the farther mortals will be removed from imbecility or disease.
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Day 101: A case for Invention
Observation, invention, study, and original thought are expansive and should promote the growth of mortal mind out of itself, out of all that is mortal.
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Day 100: Human will and opinion
This chapter’s title is Physiology, but I always just think of it as the body. The chapter flows from the body –> materiality –> human thought –> human will\opinion.
In Science, you can have no power opposed to God, and the physical senses must give up their false testimony.
Whatever holds human thought in line with unselfed love, receives directly the divine power.
Monday, April 18, 2011
Day 99: The Brain
The brain can give no idea of God's man. It can take no cognizance of Mind. Matter is not the organ of infinite Mind.
Sunday, April 17, 2011
Day 98: Seen and the unseen
Sickness is a growth of error, springing from mortal ignorance or fear.
…mortals should no more deny the power of Christian Science to establish harmony and to explain the effect of mortal mind on the body, though the cause be unseen, than they should deny the existence of the sunlight when the orb of day disappears, or doubt that the sun will reappear.
Friday, April 15, 2011
Day 97:
The divine Mind includes all action and volition, and man in Science is governed by this Mind.
Thursday, April 14, 2011
Day 96: False Belief
Controlled by the divine intelligence, man is harmonious and eternal. Whatever is governed by a false belief is discordant and mortal. We say man suffers from the effects of cold, heat, fatigue. This is human belief, not the truth of being, for matter cannot suffer. Mortal mind alone suffers,--not because a law of matter has been transgressed, but because a law of this so-called mind has been disobeyed. I have demonstrated this as a rule of divine Science by destroying the delusion of suffering from what is termed a fatally broken physical law.
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Day 95: The Treatment
These two pages are crucial to demonstrating Christian Science. Read them any time you are working through a challenge.
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Day 94: Government & Belief
When man is governed by God, the ever-present Mind who understands all things, man knows that with God all things are possible.
Matter, which can neither suffer nor enjoy, has no partnership with pain and pleasure, but mortal belief has such a partnership.
Monday, April 11, 2011
Day 93:
In the quote below, Mary Baker Eddy is referring to doctors but the same could be said of anyone who deals without other people, which is all of us:
Instead of furnishing thought with fear, they should try to correct this turbulent element of moral mind by the influence of divine Love which casteth out fear.
Sunday, April 10, 2011
Day 92:
Mortal mind and body are one. Neither exists without the other, and both must be destroyed by immortal Mind.
Day 91: Mind & Body
When the mechanism of the human mind gives place to the divine Mind, selfishness, and sin, disease, and death, will lose their foothold.
Friday, April 8, 2011
Day 90: The footsteps of Thought
The footsteps of thought, rising above material standpoints, are slow, and portend a long night to the traveller; but the angels of His presence--the spiritual intuitions that tell us when "the night is far spent, the day is at hand"--are our guardians in the gloom. Whoever opens the way in Christian Science is a pilgrim and stranger, marking out the path for generations yet unborn.
Thursday, April 7, 2011
Day 89: The Fundamental Error
The so-called laws of matter are nothing but false beliefs that intelligence and life are present where Mind is not. These false beliefs are the procuring cause of all sin and disease. The opposite truth, that intelligence and life are spiritual, never material, destroys sin, sickness, and death.
The fundamental error lies in the supposition that man is a material outgrowth and that the cognizance of good or evil, which he has through the bodily senses, constitutes his happiness or misery.
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Day 88: Action
There can be no healing except by this Mind, however much we trust a drug or any other means towards which human faith or endeavor is directed.
Only the action of Truth, Life, and Love can give harmony.
The demands of Truth are spiritual, and reach the body through Mind.
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Day 87: Instructional notes for Health
We apprehend Life in divine Science only as we live above corporeal sense and correct it. Our proportionate admission of the claims of good or of evil determines the harmony of our existence,--our health, our longevity, and our Christianity.
Again, an error in the premise must appear in the conclusion. To have one God and avail yourself of the power of Spirit, you must love God supremely.
The scientific government of the body must be attained through the divine Mind. It is impossible to gain control over the body in any other way. On this fundamental point, timid conservatism is absolutely inadmissible. Only through radical reliance on Truth can scientific healing power be realized.
Disease being a belief, a latent illusion of mortal mind, the sensation would not appear if the error of belief was met and destroyed by truth.
Sunday, April 3, 2011
Day 86: Physiology
I didn’t want to focus too much on the exact problems but instead remember the general line of thought so I reshaped this sentence to allow me to stick in any problems:
You say that ___, ___, and ____ cause distressed stomachs and aching heads. Then you consult your brain in order to remember what has hurt you, when your remedy lies in forgetting the whole think, for matter has no sensation of its own, and the human mind is all that can produce pain.
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Day 103: End of the chapter
198:23-200:29
So today is the end of the chapter and I have lots of random stuff to cover. First off is the nickname for the chapter. Obviously from the chapter name, Physiology, this chapter is about the physical world. But based on the below quote, I've selected God's Man versus the 5 Senses as the nickname.
While reading this chapter and found that I have been looking over to see what the title off in the margin is. Sometimes these help me to see what MBE was going for as the overall thought. But in this chapter, when I want that margin heading, it's not there. So I've been thinking of adding my own. Risky that. What if I'm wrong?
If I were to build a website that helped other people read S&H in a year, one of the features I would have is a full citation arrive in the person's email box with a link back to the blog/journal engine. The full citation would have relevant links to tricky words, historical figures. In the online journal, I would let people select certain words in the text and add their own comments or thoughts that came to them while reading it. I would also add the ability for margin notes and chapter titles (any text really). I would build an index on the fly via search instead of the index that is in the back of the book.
I also find myself correcting her grammar. Clarity is king. I think I may be editing too much in my other life.
So for my insight into the reading today, it's something about grand human capacities and man being upright and Godlike -- but I'm still working on it.
So today is the end of the chapter and I have lots of random stuff to cover. First off is the nickname for the chapter. Obviously from the chapter name, Physiology, this chapter is about the physical world. But based on the below quote, I've selected God's Man versus the 5 Senses as the nickname.
These so-called material senses must yield to the infinite Spirit, named God.Lately, I've been writing a lot and thinking a lot about our current point in time: now. If Mary Baker Eddy was, instead of writing Science and Health way back then, writing a blog today, imagine what it would look like. Each reference to a word, person, biblical story, or anything could be linked up to another web site. Imagine following along with her as she cited source material and offered more explanations and further insight. Imagine commenting on her blog post asking for further information or adding a testimony or just letting her know you're there. Imagine a searchable, viewable community of people wanting to join together with MBE now.
While reading this chapter and found that I have been looking over to see what the title off in the margin is. Sometimes these help me to see what MBE was going for as the overall thought. But in this chapter, when I want that margin heading, it's not there. So I've been thinking of adding my own. Risky that. What if I'm wrong?
If I were to build a website that helped other people read S&H in a year, one of the features I would have is a full citation arrive in the person's email box with a link back to the blog/journal engine. The full citation would have relevant links to tricky words, historical figures. In the online journal, I would let people select certain words in the text and add their own comments or thoughts that came to them while reading it. I would also add the ability for margin notes and chapter titles (any text really). I would build an index on the fly via search instead of the index that is in the back of the book.
I also find myself correcting her grammar. Clarity is king. I think I may be editing too much in my other life.
So for my insight into the reading today, it's something about grand human capacities and man being upright and Godlike -- but I'm still working on it.
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Day 102: The Elasticity of mortal thought and the fear farmer
196:11-198:22
The Elasticity of mortal thought is a great function. We can bounce around from fear to love to anguish quickly. I do this all the time when I watch a movie. It's a little harder when the situation seems real. I've been thinking a lot about human will lately. Another term for this is free will. People often use this as some sort of great thing. We have free will! Isn't that wonderful. You can choose. I've always ignored the argument because it seems contrived but now I want to take a side.Free will versus God's will.
I've been examining my thoughts closely while reading this book. It's easy to tell myself I can change my mind, ignore error, do the right thing. But free will can swing both ways. I can listen to fear and anger and wear it as though it were clothes.
Mary Baker Eddy said:
But the elasticity of mortal thought needs to be applied. I will change my crop. I've been watching my actions for human will or willfulness. That's a good step but now I want to actively apply love to my actions. That's easy on the surface. I take care of my obligations, my family, and my house. But what about my thoughts? What am I thinking as I sweep the floor for what feels like the millionth time this week? Am I grateful to even have the floor? And what about when something I want doesn't work out? I say "no big deal" but I stew inside. That needs to change.
A technical note: I'm going to be making some changes to the previous posts: adding labels/tags, adding a link to the pages, etc. This is clean up. At the end of the year, I plan to export off of Blogger to a Wordpress site. In order to make that export easier, with less cleanup, I'll start now.
The Elasticity of mortal thought is a great function. We can bounce around from fear to love to anguish quickly. I do this all the time when I watch a movie. It's a little harder when the situation seems real. I've been thinking a lot about human will lately. Another term for this is free will. People often use this as some sort of great thing. We have free will! Isn't that wonderful. You can choose. I've always ignored the argument because it seems contrived but now I want to take a side.Free will versus God's will.
I've been examining my thoughts closely while reading this book. It's easy to tell myself I can change my mind, ignore error, do the right thing. But free will can swing both ways. I can listen to fear and anger and wear it as though it were clothes.
Mary Baker Eddy said:
We should master fear, instead of cultivating it.I know a lot of productive fear farmers. I'm not going to worry about them though. Just me. Am I a fear farmer? Do I bring my crop home? More than I care to admit.
But the elasticity of mortal thought needs to be applied. I will change my crop. I've been watching my actions for human will or willfulness. That's a good step but now I want to actively apply love to my actions. That's easy on the surface. I take care of my obligations, my family, and my house. But what about my thoughts? What am I thinking as I sweep the floor for what feels like the millionth time this week? Am I grateful to even have the floor? And what about when something I want doesn't work out? I say "no big deal" but I stew inside. That needs to change.
A technical note: I'm going to be making some changes to the previous posts: adding labels/tags, adding a link to the pages, etc. This is clean up. At the end of the year, I plan to export off of Blogger to a Wordpress site. In order to make that export easier, with less cleanup, I'll start now.
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