My “bonus” healing
/Last year I was so, so, so happy to be able to report a healing of two long-standing physical problems: attacks of pressure and pain in my torso that had gone on for ten years or so, and frequent painful stomachaches that occurred numerous times a week for five years. (See Association fruitage, July 7, 2025, “Basking in God’s love heals long-standing pain.”)
I specify these time periods to remind myself that conditions that had seemed to be just a part of my life and would never be healed are now completely gone. In March of 2024, a particularly aggressive version of the torso pain occurred, and after a month or two of working with a practitioner, both problems vanished.
Here are two ideas from the practitioner that were especially prominent in this healing:
Learning to practice spiritual composure, in not being mentally/emotionally pushed around by symptoms and pain. I worked to maintain a calm and exalted thought, no matter what the body was saying.
Understanding a bit more that it’s not me trying to do/receive healing. In fact, as Mary Baker Eddy wrote, “The ‘I’ will go to the Father when meekness, purity, and love, informed by divine Science, the Comforter, lead to the one God: then the ego is found not in matter, but in Mind. . . ” (Miscellaneous Writings 195:31–2).
This was all healed in the spring of 2024. About a year later, I suddenly realized that a claim of constipation, which had gone on for 40 years, had also completely disappeared, with no specific prayer. The body is now quiet and normal.
So grateful for this side effect of the healing work!