Myrtle’s Five Steps to Healing
Taken from the Unity booklet: Your Healing Journey
1. Know the Truth of You
You are a human being made in God’s image.
Your essence is divine.
Myrtle advised: “We accept the God-given perfection.” Can you do that? Most of us could instantly name dozens of things wrong with our bodies or health.
She didn’t mean whatever is showing up right now is necessarily perfect. She meant the ultimate you—the Spirit you—is never sick…
Fix your undivided attention upon the Creator and inner pattern of perfection, Myrtle said. Keep bringing your thoughts back to the ultimate Truth: Know that God is bigger than any disease or injury.
2. Notice Your Thoughts and Actions
Are you dwelling in fear and worry? Cleanse your thoughts the way you cleanse your body. Go back to Step 1 and keep adjusting your mind to the larger truth. Keep remembering the divine power of health flowing through you.
Myrtle advised to look into memories and see whether you are carrying anything from the past that affects you today. …
Myrtle never claimed that you could heal only with your thinking. She also emphasized eating good food, exercising, and taking care of your body. But most of all, she said, health reflects consciousness.
Lissa Rankin, the doctor who wrote Mind Over Medicine (Hay House, 2013), says she used to ask her patients what their bodies needed to heal. The patients were astonished at what they knew deep down…
Your body might be expressing the need to take action beyond going to the gym and to practice radical self-care.
3. Use Your Creative Power
Myrtle wrote, “Rejoice and remember you have the God power to change conditions.”
Time and again, she said to keep your attention centered in Divine Consciousness. Remember that the same power in Jesus is in you.
Scientific studies have shown repeatedly that positive expectations are more likely to make us well (placebo), while fears and a focus on illness can make us sick for no reason (nocebo).
If you are sick it’s not an illusion, it is your current experience. Seek treatment as you feel guided, but look past the appearance of illness. Never forget you are a spiritual being having a human experience. Your soul is longing to express through you. It’s a tight bud that wants to blossom—a light waiting to shine forth.
4. Health Is Your Natural State
Myrtle said you were created whole, perfect, and complete. Your body naturally returns to balance.
This is where Myrtle might get an argument from today’s readers. She wrote, “We know very well that God would not create a person with imperfections or shortcomings or disease.”…
Myrtle seemed to believe disease was the result of free will gone awry—if you were sick, something was wrong in your consciousness. However, maybe having something “wrong” is merely the label we give to differences…
In some cases, what we have declared to be in need of healing might only need to be accepted as an individual’s natural state. Perhaps Myrtle is right that God does not create imperfection.
5. Realize Oneness
Myrtle’s fifth step is the only destination possible. If you know you truly are an expression of the Divine, if you keep your thoughts focused on the power of the Infinite within you, and if you remember health is your natural state, then what could you be but one with All That Is?
The more you practice this awareness, Myrtle said, the more powerfully it lives in you. It becomes part of your self-image and your expectation for living. You feel at home within the great whole and absolute good.
God as love and health reigns supreme in you, Myrtle said. It’s who and what you are.
The excerpt above is taken from an article written and compiled by Ellen Debenport for the Unity booklet: Your Healing Journey.
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