Myrtle Fillmore’s Healing Principles Meditation
Hello. My name is Cherie Ruffo. I’m the Spiritual Leader of Unity Radiant Light in Providence, Rhode Island.
If you are faced with the need for healing of the body temple or your mind, emotions - whatever you have a need for, let these words today bring you faith, strength, and assurance.
Unity was founded in the late 1800s when co-founder Myrtle Fillmore was told by her doctor at the age of 40 that she had 2-3 months left to live. She had struggled with tuberculosis her entire life and was now in the end-stage of the disease. Shortly after she found this news out, she and her husband, Charles Fillmore, attended a healing seminar by Dr. E. B. Weeks. And it was there that she had a revelation about healing, one that has since healed millions of people from all types of illnesses over the past 125 years. Myrtle realized that in order to heal her body from the disease, she needed to first see herself as God sees her - a perfect child of God.
Every person, including you, is a perfect child of God. God doesn’t create junk! But sometimes in the midst of a challenging experience, we forget this truth. It doesn’t matter how old you are, how young you are, what your illness is, what mistakes you may have made. There is no situation or health challenge that is too big for God.
Once Myrtle had this realization, she began every day by saying several times to keep reminding herself is, “as a perfect child of God, I did not inherit illness.” And you can write this statement down and place it somewhere where it will remind you throughout the day so you can keep saying it. “As a perfect child of God, I did not inherit illness.”
And with Unity, when you say a denial it is always best to follow it up with an affirmation - an affirmative statement. And you can say something like, “I am perfect health,” or “Every cell in my body radiates perfect health and wholeness,” or just simply, “I am healthy.” Claim it! These are all great affirmations, or you can write one of your own.
When you say the denial and affirmation, then spend a few couple of moments just really feeling the impact of your statement and have faith. Know, without a doubt, that these statements are true.
It took Myrtle’s body two years to finally eradicate the tuberculosis and after that, she was never sick with any illness again in her life. Myrtle passed away at the age of 86, and on the day she did, she walked around at work, hugging people and saying goodbye. She had no appearance of illness. She had simply decided it was time to go home to God. She went to bed and gently left her body that night.
Her husband Charles also used these principles to heal his body. When he was a boy, he had a bad fall and broke his hip socket. His leg was withered, painful, and four inches shorter than the other leg. Over the two-year period that he was healing, he did it through prayer and meditation, and his leg grew three and a half inches and straightened out. He felt so good, he wrote this at the age of 94: “I fairly sizzle with zeal and enthusiasm, and I spring forth with a mighty faith to do the things that need to be done by me.” Charles lived until the age of 94, and they say that he was so healthy that he was surprised the day he made his transition that this lifetime was over.
I invite you to use these techniques and to join me now in a meditation - meditations based on Myrtle’s healing principles. I just invite you to sit in a comfortable position - whatever you use to meditate, or if you don’t, just make sure you’re comfortable. In this, we’re going to do some healing work on our bodies.
So I just invite you now to take a nice, deep breath in… and release.
Take another deep breath in… and release.
And as we begin to speak to our body, we’re going to speak to the cells in our body. And what we’re going to do (I invite you to do this out loud, I’ll pause after each statement so that you can say it out loud) is we’re going to affirm out loud God’s truth for you. And as we do this, it will permeate every cell in your body temple, every cell of your being, wherever you need that healing.
So I just invite you to start with these affirmations:
“Every cell of my body vibrates and radiates with God-life.”
“My body is the temple of the living God, pure, perfect, whole, and filled with the harmony of divine order.”
“I let God’s perfect healing take full possession of my mind and body.”
“The miracles of healing that Jesus performed among his followers were made possible by faith - faith on the part of the healer, as well as those who were healed. The great physician responded to those who expressed their gratitude for healing with the words, “Your faith has made you well.””
So right now, just repeat after me.
“My faith is making me well.”
“With God, all things are possible.”
“In spite of appearances, there is only perfect God-life in me and flowing through me as radiant strength, vitalizing life, and perfect harmony.”
“My life processes are perpetuating the vision of youth in my perception, in my mind, and body.”
“Every atom and every cell is renewed.”
“Old ideas - any idea of age is eliminated from my mind and is erased from my body.”
“My life processes are stamped by the renewing, youth-giving idea and I am eternally young and vigorous in God.”
“I am ever-renewing, the ever-unfolding expression of the child of God I am.”
“My eyes, my ears, and all of my faculties are quickened and renewed through the youthful life processes working in and regenerating throughout my whole being.”
“I am now young, strong, and healthy. My body knows it. My body shows it.”
“I feel totally alive.”
“I am young because I am perpetually being renewed.”
“My life comes new every moment from the infinite source of life, my dear God.”
“I am new and fresh every morning because I live, move, and have my being in God who is the source of all life.”
“I am constantly renewed, constantly refreshed by God.”
“Through God inspiring, and literally living in my brain, my brain cells are rejuvenated.”
“My mind is quick, keen, alert, and intelligent.”
“My mind constantly creates the youth pattern instead of the pattern of aging.”
“My body is strong and buoyant.”
“I sit, stand, walk, and even run with perfect mobility.”
“God-life has perfect expression in my circulation through my veins and arteries.”
“I am always filled with ever-increasing vigor.”
“I am rested, and relaxed, and recharged.”
“I have an endless reservoir of strength directly from God in mind and body.”
“I feel young, act young, and look young, for I am truly perfect - pure healing made manifest every moment of every day.”
“I feel stronger and stronger, more alert, and more intelligent with God-inspired ideas.”
“I have God-given life to press forward towards the goal of becoming the full temple of the living God, filled to the brim with the perfection of pure regenerated aliveness.”
And for these truths, we are so grateful, grateful for the blueprint that Jesus our way-shower left us so that we can claim this path to wellness.
We claim health, and we do so in gratitude knowing this is already done.
And so it is.
Amen.