In this article, I write about when I reached out to God in prayer, and glimpsed a spiritual insight into the nature of God that healed me of the anxiety and illness that I was feeling that evening.
A God-centered view that heals
published 9.20.19
Tag: anxiety
Put more weight on your spiritual side
Spiritual sense is the discernment of spiritual good.
We don’t hear the words “spiritual sense” used too often, but spiritual sense is essential to our peace and wellbeing. Spiritual sense is how we perceive beauty, goodness, love, affection, tenderness, satisfaction, and fulfillment. These are spiritual qualities and because we are ultimately spiritual beings we have the capacity to use, see, and feel them now.
Spiritual sense is a conscious, constant capacity to understand God.
Spiritual sense is how we perceive the divine nature. It’s how we perceive the transcendent reality that is above the physical, material senses. This is important because everyone wants lives that reflect peace, health, wellbeing, and satisfaction. Gaining a daily dose of spiritual sense helps us have a consciousness that is uplifted and receptive to perceiving peace and wellbeing.
Spiritual sense, contradicting the material senses, involves intuition, hope, faith, understanding, fruition, reality.
When a consciousness that is imbued with spiritual sense reflects on the body, it manifests health, holiness, and wellbeing. Why is this so important? Because thinking and living with our spiritual sense releases anxiety, fear, and stress. It assures us of our oneness with God, divine Life, Truth, and Love. It shows us that we can never be separated from that Love no matter what the physical senses say. And as we hold to the spiritual fact, the wisdom, confidence, and courage that our spiritual sense communicates will take over. As we believe God more, and believe in physicality less, we tip our mental and spiritual scale. This allows God to tip the scale on the side of the divine and it brings blessings, healing, happiness, wholeness, and peace in our lives.
Material sense does not unfold the facts of existence; but spiritual sense lifts human consciousness into eternal Truth.
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All quotes in the quote boxes are by Mary Baker Eddy. You can read her seminal work, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, here.
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Clarity heals depression
Several years ago, I felt depressed and alone. I didn’t want my boyfriend at the time to leave my side (which of course added strain to the relationship). But one night when he had other plans, I was left alone wallowing in this deep depression.
I sat in bed crying and crying. I couldn’t go to sleep or do anything else, it seemed. I reached out in prayer (I had just been learning how to pray, although this was going to be a simple and desperate prayer).
“God, help me”.
The next moment I heard these words “you don’t have to be tempted by this.”
Well, in that instant, a light went on in consciousness. I was completely healed. I rolled over and went to sleep.
What I learned in that moment was this: thoughts of negativity (sadness, hatred, depression, etc) are unsolicited thoughts. They exist outside of us and are never within us. We can defeat them by simply recognizing who we are as the spiritual, beloved children of God.
Even though these negative thoughts seem to be prevalent, they have no actual power or life because they don’t originate in God, good (the only, true power). Through God’s help you can defeat them, like I was able to do in that moment of clarity.
Do you have an experience of spiritual, mental clarity that is meaningful to you that you’d like to share?
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