What if you blessed yourself and the world?
Transformational blessings
- for refreshment of the spirit
and personal transformation
Why bother with blessings?
Most of us are familiar with the concept of blessing a
meal before it's eaten. It's an old-fashioned idea
now to bless people, places, and situations. The
practice arises out of a desire to wish others well
(certainly something as desirable today as ever before!);
to perhaps let a higher power take a hand in turning the
not-so-good into good. And it's a reminder to count
the blessings we have in our lives.
But blessing also has a curiously persuasive way of
magnetizing the mind to the positive - in both the giver
and the receiver. Perhaps it is because purposefully
pausing to bless opens up a window in life's
all-too-often-unmindful flow and roots us to the present
moment - the space where all healing takes place (where,
in fact, we are always well - and from which we can share
that with others).
When each blessing is an invitation to the world
to raise up out of negativity into lighter ways of
thinking and being, why wouldn't we wish to apply this
in our daily living? Don't we each need
all the blessings we can get?
And if we bless ourselves first, we're more apt to turn
our attention to spreading blessings in the world around
us.
It isn't always easy to remember to bless yourself or
others. And while a simple "Bless this" or "Bless
you" is a fine thing, truly transformational
blessings have the power to take you to another level of
thinking, and feeling. ...So that with a few choice
words, you can go some way toward transmuting troubles
into gifts.
May you, on this site, find such levers to lift and sustain
you and those you encounter...
"May you run across a golden nugget of a
blessing today that inspires you... and may you pass it
on"
:THERE ARE 2 THINGS YOU MIGHT LIKE TO TAKE ADVANTAGE
OF HERE:
eBlessings
(below) and...
FREE downloadable
Transformational Blessings Kit
Here's what your free
kit contains:
- Four pages of transformational blessings -
print them out, cut them apart, and use them however
you like, for yourself or others
- Suggestions for how to use them
(but you can always check here
for a growing list of ideas)
Examples of transformational blessings might be...
"May you step out of yourself and
your usual expectations of your surroundings today and
discover how extraordinary your ordinary, everyday
life really is"
May you see the wisdom in
blessing your dreams as they come true, each step you
take toward them, and the time you spent planning
them... and, backing up one step further, whatever
state of need drove you to set out on the path that
leads to fulfillment
"May this be a day that finds you
giving a message to someone from the heart which will
be remembered in gratitude by them until their dying
day"
"Think blessings" and DOWNLOAD
your Transformational Blessings Kit
And then...
eBlessings...
also free!
Just below is a selection of weekly
blessings you can choose to receive via email. Each
series begins the day after you opt in and continues on
that weekday for a whole year (or until you decide to opt
out) - reminders to think blessings every day.
There are ten sets of Transformational Blessings to select
amongst. (You might even wish to sign up for more
than one series - perhaps on different days? There may
be some small duplication of blessings... But you
don't mind being blessed twice, do you?)
See if any of these topics resonate with your current
needs, and allow each seed-planting thought to seep into
your awareness during the week...
Changing Habits
- Sign up here
Sample blessings:
"When negative emotions rise up in you
as a response to something you experience,
may you realize that you can choose not to
do what you have done before on such
occasions (...and thereby change your life)"
"May you find no barrier to beginning changes
you wish to make (knowing that each breath is
another beginning, and the next step comes
only after this breath)"
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Depression / Burnout
- Sign up here
Sample blessings:
"May you have the strength of mind to say no
where you should, and to say yes where it will
bring the most good to all the world"
"May you think today of a recent
experience that made your spirits soar...
and realize that what sent your spirits high
into the endorphin zone is what you thought
of that situation and not the event itself"
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Forgiveness
- Sign up here
Sample blessings:
"If you can't forgive your enemies, may
you concentrate on forgetting them, and reap
the benefits of deleting from your life the
harmful influence of acknowledging that you
have enemies"
"May you forgive truly and set free a prisoner
– you"
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Grief
- Sign up here
Sample blessings:
"May you learn to truly live in the moment,
letting go of your reactions to the last one
so as to be able to appreciate this one and
the next"
"When you feel the pain of grief at losing
someone you love, may you at least put a
ceiling on your grief by trusting that
you're not going to run out of people to
love while you're on this earth"
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Healing
- Sign up here
Sample blessings:
"May you reach into the bright center
of yourself to counter dark thoughts with
hope, anger with thoughts of love, self-pity
with determination to find the delights in
each day"
"May you consider each day a further unfolding
of the scroll of your life and record on it
only what you would like remembered"
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Impatience
- Sign up here
Sample blessings:
"The next time you find yourself enjoying
the shade of a gorgeous old tree, remember too
that someone planted it from a mere seed or
slip years ago – and that many of your
plantings will come to such fruition, even
beyond your knowing"
"May you continually choose to see
hindrances in your path as stepping stones
rather than as walls"
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Job seeking
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Lack / Loss
- Sign up here
Sample blessings:
"May you think of abundance not only as more
stuff, more money, or more opportunity, but
also as a greater appreciation of what there
is in every moment"
"May you, when a dream is shattered, look
to the changing kaleidoscopic pattern of
little shards... and let all your new dreams
encompass pieces of the old: no dream
is ever wasted"
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People difficulties
- Sign up here
Sample blessings:
"When you become angry at something or
someone disturbing to your peace, may you
give yourself a lever that will tilt you
into a new perception by asking yourself
what you can learn from this situation"
"When you hesitate to go into a group because
you don't know the people there, may you
remember how you met your friends"
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Self-reproach
- Sign up here
Sample blessings:
"When you're frustrated by not having done
something right, may you bring to mind some of
the many things you now do without thinking,
which took you awhile to learn"
"May you consider your life a work in
progress and expect from yourself not
perfection but continual improvement"
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...And then share the blessings with others as you
are moved to do so.
May the right words arise in your mind and flow
out with your voice when
the need for blessing manifests in your world
May you be the blessing that
you wish for
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