The Belief in Pain

I grew up watching my mother often complain of pain in some part of her body. All too often I saw my patients complain of pain during my career as a medical nurse. And I have had my own share of this belief called pain.

‘What makes it feel so real?’ used to be a frequent question? It wasn’t until I pondered and prayed about the truth Christ Jesus taught through His healings, which has been made clear through Christian Science, that I caught a glimpse of why pain is a myth, an illusion; something to be discovered as a lie, and overcome.

The fact that when thought is preoccupied with other things one feels no pain, convinces me that it is not something in the body but a belief in mind. Mrs. Eddy has given the Scientific Statement of Being (Science and Health, page 468), which emphasizes man’s spiritual being.

This assures me that should I wake up in the morning with the sense of pain, I can know that it is not of God, and therefore cannot be true about me! I can vehemently deny its apparent reality and defend what God knows about me with some of the truths Mrs. Eddy has given us.

The following are statements from Science and Health that have helped me overcome the false sense of pain, as I pondered, prayed with them and took them into my heart:

“There is no pain in Truth, and no truth in pain;... “ (page 113:28)

“Spirit’s senses are without pain and they are forever at peace.” (page 214:32)

“Banish the belief that you can possibly entertain a single intruding pain which cannot be ruled out by the might of Mind...” (page 391:9)

With “the might of Mind,” I can consistently discipline my thinking with the correct understanding of my true being, as having the substance of Spirit; then I too can rejoice in the statement, “When we wake to the truth of being, all disease, pain, weakness, weariness, sorrow, sin, death, will be unknown, and the mortal dream will forever cease.” (Science and Health, page 218:32-2)