Blessing: The Art and the Practice

Recently I had the privilege of visiting with David Spangler at a conference and to experience his practice of blessing! It feels like the love of a lilting song, the light of the sun, and a clearer view of the world. In this book Spangler guides the reader with wisdom and love gained from his years of experience, expression, and expansion.Blessing demonstrates with many examples how much difference a blessing can make. Blessings do not require physical presence; they can be received thousands of miles away. They do not require a special religious belief. A blessing from the essence self travels instantly to its destination. In Blessing we realize that we simply cannot make this clear connection with anyone without rising into greater light ourselves. David Spangler makes it easy to connect the best and highest part of our being with that of another.Do not be surprised if you find yourself standing in the splendor of the soul when you practice sending blessings. It is healing for everyone involved. This practice would be a great addition to the Temple of Healing in  Healing Yourself with Light: How to Connect with the Angelic Healers Whether you are giving or receiving a blessing, the joy is deep and fulfilling. I urge everyone who would like to experience greater love within and without to read this book and begin practicing the art of blessing.

The book is filled with Spangler's concepts and experiences around the act of blessing. He begins with the feeling most have of being unworthly of blessing others and helps the reader dispel this myth. No matter your level of knowledge in metaphysics, this book will expand it. Be prepared to put his ideas into practice with exercises to ready you for blessing.

Inspirational and a good read.

In this busy, hurry up world it is refreshing to read about ways that we have available to us to connect with others. I might add in a very meaningful way.

Inspiring! Easy to understand and to practice. I'm blessing as a way to live.

this book is written in a clear, concise manner to allow each reader the ability to understand his/her own individual authority to bless - people, places, buildings, pets, experiences, and situations. An easy read, yet profound in its message.

If you are interested in the blessing of blessing, I recommend this book. The author writes compellingly about the gifts inherent in blessing.

This must be one of Spangler's best books - at least, it's the best I've read so far. It is so exquisitely written and is thus a joy to read.He covers all the various angles on blessing and gradually approaches the core of its art. He begins by recounting an episode he experienced at the age of twenty, when a woman asked him to give her a blessing. He had no idea how to do so, but knew he couldn't refuse. He realized already on that occasion that "what was most needed was simple human caring and presence, a wonderfulness of being present to the other". He understood that "it required nothing more magical or grandiose than meeting her halfway, for a blessing .... is a two-way street: not something someone does for someone else, but something we become together in order that a spirit may flow".In this first blessing of his "there was a sense of opening out to a vastness ... a sense of something flowing". The author himself felt blessed by the blessing.He explains what is and is not a blessing; he distinguishes between blessings and acts of kindness. He comes to the conclusion that a blessing is a "gift given freely"; it carries a feeling of spaciousness.He also explains the concept of "unobstructedness". In the unobstructed world synchronicities abound. It is a condition in which "life and spirit flow in an unimpeded way". The unobstructed world is also found in the "flow state". In this world there are no barriers between "my heart and yours, my soul and yours, my power and creativity and yours". It is this state that the author finds to be at the heart of blessing.There is no single right way to carry out a blessing, no technique.He divides the process of blessing into four steps: 1) Identification - where you identify yourself as someone capable of giving a blessing 2) Opening - this is opening oneself to the person to be blessed and to spirit, surrender to what wants or needs to happen. Out of this comes a clear sense of what to do. 3) Synthesis - this involves entering the "blessing place", the state of mind in which one can give a blessing, where we "garb ourselves in the robes of the Blesser". 4) The actual blessing.He discusses what he terms "the empersonal spirit" (not to be confused with "impersonal spirit"). This is "the nourishing and transformative spiritual power that radiates from our ordinary, embodied personhood".Much of the book consists of wondrous exercises in the art of blessing, exercises which allow us to practice processes of "atonement and reflection", which will enable us to enter the numinous state which is a precondition of blessing.I find it exceedingly difficult to do justice to this book, which seems to have been composed not by the ordinary self of the author but by his Higher Self, if not his Soul. This is particularly apparent in the exercises he, or his Higher Self, has created. In all of these you go into your inner world, into your inner theatre, a place of stillness. Some of the exercises involve lighting candles physically, and finally imagining that you yourself are a candle and light yourself. This teaches you how to shift into an appropriate mood of benevolence and compassion, thus enabling you to enter the state required for blessing.The exercises become more and more inspired and inspiring.The book concludes with examples of blessings.This is on the whole an inspired and inspiring book. I recommend it highly,

Once again, David Spangler addresses the importance of Blessings that is so underestimated and not highly popular in current culture. It is a must read for every human!!!

David Spangler's clear and simply articulated thoughts help us to keep perspective in a world that tends to emphasize all that is wrong; to be aware of the healing power and presence of 'blessing' in our lives, every day.

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There was one teacher and writerHe thought that the world would be brighterBy trying to spread the words wiseThat it’ll help him and his students to riseAlas, it’s not so simple and safeOne needs to be both vulnerable and braveAnd jealousy is as old as mankindIt can cloud the mind and the heart to grindKeep my fingers crossed for this manTo be free and not to stay smitten by this ban