Sixteen years ago I was diagnosed with two herniated disks in my lower back. After six weeks of daily physical therapy I was told that an additional six months of therapy would be required before I would be able to sit and that it might be a year before I could expect to resume all normal activities. Leaving the therapist's office I made a decision to discard the doctor's version of my condition and instead see whether I could apply what I'd been taught in church to this situation. The message that Christian Science asked me to accept on faith was that man was created by and is the reflection of a perfect whole being. By the end of the day I had accepted this premise and found myself waiting for my body to adjust itself to this new belief. A little after 7:30 p.m. it dawned on me that if the premise were actually true then my back would already have been "made whole." At the same instant that I understood my role to be to recognize the change rather than to wait for it the pain in my back was gone. Tests performed the following day by my physical therapist and later in the week by my physician confirmed that the disks were no longer damaged.

 

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