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World Healing Meditation
To affirm, alone or in synchrony with others, peace, love, forgiveness and healing for oneself and the planet—beginning the healing ‘with me’ and radiating it outward—as a collective intention practice.
The meditation in 5 lines: Become still (traditionally noon GMT, Dec 31). Begin with you—realize the divine Presence “in me, as me.” Recognize the same truth in everyone (God is all, all is God). Feel a warm affirmation of peace, love, forgiveness and healing enfolding the Earth, letting love be the dominant power. Close in silence and gratitude—joined, on World Healing Day, by others worldwide.
What it is
The World Healing Meditation is John Randolph Price’s collective intention practice—a guided affirmation of peace, love, forgiveness and healing for oneself and the world.
Price introduced it through The Planetary Commission, and through the Quartus Foundation he and Jan Price originated World Healing Day, first held at noon Greenwich time on December 31, 1986, when (by the Foundation’s account) a “global mind-link” of millions affirmed peace simultaneously.
It is repeated each December 31. Its structure is distinctive: the healing is not aimed “out there” at the world from a distance—it begins with the meditator (“I begin with me”), then radiates from the realized inner divinity outward to all.
It thus joins New Thought’s “outer mirrors inner” with a planetary, collective scope.
The Method
Faithfully synthesised from the World Healing Meditation text and Quartus Foundation instructions:
- Settle and become still. Sit quietly, relax, and let the mind settle. Traditionally one joins at noon GMT on December 31, but the meditation can be done any time.
- Begin with yourself. The meditation opens by establishing your own divine identity before extending healing outward. Price’s text begins, in part: “In the beginning… I begin with me. I am a living soul and the Spirit of God dwells in me, as me… I and the Father are one.” You first realize the indwelling Presence in yourself.
- Recognize the same truth in all. Extend: “What is true of me is true of everyone, for God is all and all is God.” The healing rests on shared, single consciousness (All Is One)—not on fixing separate others.
- Affirm peace, love, forgiveness, understanding for the planet. Hold and feel a planetary affirmation of peace and love, of forgiveness and understanding, picturing it enfolding the Earth and all beings. Let the feeling be warm and genuine, not merely verbal (The Inner Creates the Outer).
- Release the negative; affirm the positive. In Price’s framing, the collective intention is to “reverse the polarity of the negative force field” and let love be the dominant power—so consciously let go of fear/conflict imagery and rest in the affirmed good.
- Close in stillness and gratitude. Sit a moment in silence, give thanks, and—if doing it as World Healing Day—know you are joined by others worldwide in the same intention. (Sourcing note: short quoted lines are attributed to Price’s World Healing Meditation; the numbered sequence is a faithful synthesis, not a full reproduction of the text.)
Source & Lineage
John Randolph Price (1932-2014) and the Quartus Foundation. The “begin with me, then radiate” structure expresses New Thought’s “outer mirrors inner” at planetary scale, and the indwelling-divinity opening echoes Unity / A Course in Miracles.
As a collective intention meditation it sits alongside Lynne McTaggart’s group-intention work and the synchronized-prayer current in Larry Dossey; its distinct feature is the fixed global ritual day and the self-first sequence.
Common refinements
Skipping “begin with me.” Treating it as fixing the world from outside misses Price’s point: the healing is realized inwardly first.
- Force-fed positivity over real feeling. Reciting peace words without genuine warmth gives little; let the feeling be real (or work on what blocks it).
- Banking on remote effect. Don’t make the practice’s worth hinge on the unproven claim that it changes world events; value it for the state and the action it inspires.
- Doing it instead of acting. Affirming peace is not a substitute for concrete compassion, generosity, or service in your own sphere.