Anyone having had a meaningful experience with blessing is invited to share it with visitors to this website. Kindly do not write more than 2/3 of a page, unless the testimony is quite exceptional. The editors may occasionally edit a text for clarity or length. Please sign at least with your first name and the city, place or country where you reside. This section constitutes the heart of the site, because it shows that blessing changes lives, sometimes very deeply, including in immensely challenging situations.
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I have being going through a period of “dismantling”. Everything seems very difficult. But fate put on my path Pierre Pradervand’s book on the art of blessing (The Gentle Art of Blessing) I started to work daily with blessing the beings and the difficult circumstances I encountered. I share a common courtyard in the country…
Many people wonder if their blessings have any significant impact. So, I would like to relate the experience of Alyna Rouelle, a young French spiritual leader who, at the time I followed one of her workshops and had a personal coaching session with her, lived solely from light (prana). When she was still young, she…
I would also like to give a testimony of my very new experience in the practice of blessing. In the 3 or 4 days I have been practicing it, I have started to bless everyone and everything that I meet, everything that comes to my mind and I have immediately noticed very big changes –…
In this short video, Lynda Drake shares her approach to the practice of blessing and its benefits. She is an Author, Professional Speaker with Bayaud Speaker’s Network and Parent, and Coach https://www.facebook.com/powerfulimperfectparents/
I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for this site (www.gentleartofblessing.org) that you have made available. I am Cameroonian and always looking for personal and spiritual development sources. Of all the sites I have found, yours is the most helpful. I tried several methods of prayer but didn’t really find the…
One morning at work, two colleagues of mine, both with rather strong personalities, got into a lively quarrel in front of me. Dalila*, who had initiated the dispute, having finished her diatribe, went out to the terrace, slamming the door. Tina*, with whom I had shared the link to The Gentle Art of Blessing video…
My husband and I belong to a choir and one of my responsibilities as a member of that organization is to select venues for our concerts. I had obtained an invitation for us to sing at the Abbey of Vezelay, in Bourgogne, France. Our group of 40 people arrived one or two days prior to…
I just finished reading your book “The Gentle Art of Blessing”. It is so wonderful, the best book I have ever read! It should be taught in every school on this planet! It touches my heart & soul, gives me hope for a better life and world. I just practiced it once, and it worked! It…
I wanted to give you some feedback from sharing ‘The Gentle Art of Blessing’ with a local meditation group. We had an exceptionally large turnout for this discussion. And some people who were present have shared with me their experiences with Blessing: One woman already has a practice where she reads the basic text each morning to…
The testimony that follows is particularly interesting because it is from someone who rediscovered this practice of blessing even before she happened to see my interview with Lilou Macé ~ https://youtu.be/y9CniM_9IDw ~ It shows very clearly the three fundamental qualities needed in everyone pursuing a spiritual goal: intention, sincerity, and perseverance I had had a…
It is truly a joy for me to give this testimony of an adventure that might well have ended very badly had it not been for the power of blessing. I am an anesthetist physician, and in 2007 I get a call from a surgeon colleague in Toulouse on behalf of an association, “Les Enfants…
Marylin, a mother of two, had divorced a year earlier and was raising her two children aged four and two alone. Her husband had rebuilt his life elsewhere. Like many mothers who raise their children alone, she was occasionally at the end of her tether. She shared the following story with us. « One evening,…
At the time I was living in Yverdon, Switzerland, on the ground floor of a small four-storied building and I had access to a little lawn with some flowers. One day, I noticed several cigarette butts on the lawn; irritated, I picked them up. From then on, every day, new butts were tossed in front…
The testimony which follows is a short excerpt from a wonderful article, Feel Free To Shower Blessings On Yourself, by Marguerite Theophil, Ph.D., of Mumbai, India published March 14, 2015. “The act of blessing – whether for others or oneself — interrupts the habitual way we see, feel and think about things, the shift allowing…
“I am using my vacation time to read your books. Thank you is the simplest word that comes to mind for your spreading of the practice of blessing. It is such an essential key which opens up the invisible and which enables us to detach ourselves from the such widespread and morbid idea of returning…
Translated from the German After a burnout, I had to give up my job as the head of a store belonging to a supermarket chain. With medication, a stay in a clinic and a psychotherapy, I tried to put my life together again, and in the past year I have again been working in a…
Hi Everyone. I’d like to share a story which left me flabbergasted. Recently I read the book, The Gentle Art of Blessing. It filled me with love. I already believed lots of the ideas but I never found how to stop someone from doing something wrong in any book I have read…. I am referring…
I won’t ever be able to thank you enough for the comfort and joy your book has given me over the past year and the strength and courage it has given me in recent months. My husband S. fell in love with another woman and then left a couple of months ago to live with…
These days I am spending a great deal of time reading and meditating on (the book) The Gentle Art of Blessing. I cannot tell you how much good it does to me. Its strange. I read it quite a few years ago, underlining the passages that seemed important but it seems that the seed did…
Some time ago I gave a very precious garden bench to a local carpenter for repairs. The bill for the job hit the ceiling, but I decided to pay without comments because this bench (which could comfortably seat four people) was so precious to me. However, immediately after paying the bill just after the work…
Recently, I was on the train, entering phone numbers into my i-phone, with my laptop in a closed black cover in a black bag touching my thigh. Some time later, I happened to look for my laptop … and no laptop. Someone had managed to steal it without either me or the many people on…
With a Cameroonian friend, I was organizing a benefit concert in favor of peasant-farmer groups in Senegal. The concert had been publicized on the radio and in the local press and was to be held in a large auditorium of a Geneva college which was lending it to us free of charge. However, the technician…
On my way to visiting a friend who lived close to Lausanne (Switzerland), I boarded the train in Geneva on a Saturday, and left my small rucksack on the seat nearest to the carriage exit while I went to the toilet. I returned less than two minutes later – no bag! It had simply vanished.…
Mahfoud and Idriss were brothers, living near the city of Mopti (Mali, W. Africa). Mahfoud was the eldest brother – and in the African tradition, that means other brothers and sisters owe him special respect and obedience. On the occasion of his third marriage, he asked Idriss for two sacks of rice for the festivities.…
Emmanual (name altered) was a gentle man who ended up in the Geneva jail on drug charges. He was a modest businessman in his native Ghana. His mother was severely ill and serious medical care was extremely expensive. Friends told him he could make excellent business in his field if he went to China. So…
For a great deal of my life I was centered on myself. Now that you have taught me to apply this practice I ignored, I spend days on end just blessing silently and sincerely all the people who cross my path. As I am the owner of a business, I send blessings and messages of…
Just a year after the first French version of the book The Gentle Art of Blessing (now available in seven languages*) I came across an amazing article in one of the leading German-Swiss newspapers, (the Tages Anzeiger of April 15, 1999), concerning a retired nurse, Frieda, who felt led to undertake an amazing task –…
For 17 years I was a visitor at the local Geneva jail. One day, I was asked to visit a young man who had read the book by Roger McGowen “Messages of Life from Death Row” who speaks at length of the powerful impact on him during one of the most challenging periods of his…
I am the busy mother of two young sons and am expecting a third baby in just a few weeks time. Like many women at this stage of pregnancy, I am not sleeping well at night and am very tired at the end of the day. This means I can be grumpy with my two…
“I started using blessing the next morning with my daughter. We were both beating heads, so I stopped and started blessing her. You know what she said after about five minutes? “Mama, I love you and I can feel your love coming to me.” I think my draw dropped to the floor. And many more…
“I am “living” in The Gentle Art of Blessing. It is my closest companion. A softening is happening. I can “see” and “feel” beautiful things happening in me and my two sons. Hope is now a strong foundation, not illusive, not dead. True blessing is the heart expression of (spiritual) Science, this is evident. I…
“The Gentle Art of Blessing has changed my life already. – and I doubt I am anywhere near expert in it. Everything has changed – the reception I receive from my classes, the kind of day I have, etc. Most of all I am loving the peace in my heart and the improvement in my…
Some years ago I bought The Gentle Art of Blessing from you. The title just touched me. I gave it as a present to a friend and even bought it in Dutch to give as a gift. I was very moved by the content. The Power of Blessing is in its essence a true Art,…
“I am a Christian Science nurse and when I first began to practice blessing there was a certain “bed ridden” patient with whom every nurse seemed to have a difficult time and I was no exception. I would go in her room when assigned to it and she would (seemingly) bark orders in a tone…
A couple of years ago I was contacted by a Spanish woman from Barcelona who told me that her husband, a great admirer and practitioner of blessing, was going to be celebrating his 60th anniversary. She wanted to prepare something special for him and asked me if I would be ready to come and give…
My friend Mamoudou Kassambara of Mali (W. Africa)is one of the most wonderful persons I have met in my life. A devoted and tolerant moslem, he has adopted blessing as a way of life and witnessed amazing healings among the people he recommended it to. Here is one of his stories. You will find the…
Anne was a participant of one of my workshops on blessing. A schoolteacher in an average-sized school, she had a colleague who stubbornly ignored her very existence. Anne had not the foggiest idea why. When they would cross in the school corridor, the other teacher would simply look the other way, conveying the clear message:…
My friend Mamoudou Kassambara of Mali (W. Africa)is one of the most wonderful persons I have met in my life. A devoted and tolerant moslem, he has adopted blessing as a way of life and witnessed amazing healings among the people he recommended it to. Here is one of his stories. You will find the…
“I feel I must write to tell you how much your wonderful book ”The Gentle Art of Blessing” has helped me. I live in Zimbabwe and read your book with great interest some months ago. Shortly after this my house was broken into in the early morning by four men armed with knives. I am…
