The Basics of Blessing
Have you ever tried to tell someone how to walk? If so, you've probably discovered that trying to explain how to put one foot before the other and move forward is not all that easy. Trying to fully explain a process that is, in essence, simplicity itself, tends to make it sound much more complicated than it is.
That's because walking is an intensely personal act and none of us walks alike. Nor do we walk the same way all the time. We may saunter or speed walk; walk with our toes out or our toes in; place the weight on the ball of the foot first or on the heel first; step lightly on tiptoe or with the heaviness of a march. There is no one way that works the same way everytime for everyone.
The same can be said of blessing.
Blessing, too, in an intensely personal process with no one generic method that will work everytime for every person, object of situation. In the next few days, however, we will be exploring various ways you may incorporate the simple act of blessing into your own life. Please understand that none of the ways suggested is the "be all and end all" of blessing. These are simply suggestions of ways that may appeal to you or, ideally, spark the idea for a technique that works especially well for you.
The important thing to remember, I believe, is that when we bless, whether we are calling upon the Sacred and Divine to pour forth its richness, or we are simply setting an intention of good for the subject of our blessing, we first must step into our imagining and feeling nature.
We do not physically see a difference, we imagine it. We do not physically recognize the arc of love going from our heart to the heart of the one we bless, we feel the love being sent from one heart to the other. Through our imaginations and our feelings we change our energy state, charging it with good and then sending that good forth. That is what a blessing does. That is how a blessing works.
In its purest state, the act of blessing removes us from our little selves, taking us away from all the petty concerns and grievances that clamor for our attention and into the light of Inner Spirit where our own thoughts and opinions dissolve into nothingness, replaced by a willingness to allow the best to be for ourselves, for others and for our world.
