Healing Testimonies
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.
Please write your experiences here…
The helping hand of blessing
Today we attended an organ concert at a local church. The organist, a young virtuoso, announced before intermission that he was having trouble with his right hand but was planning to continue the concert anyhow. He asked the audience to "lift him up in prayer." Right...
Blessing transforms a long-standing problem with a neighbor
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...
What impact do my blessings/prayers/meditations really have?
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...
New experience in the practice of blessing
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...
B is for Blessings
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/
A testimony from Cameroon
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...
Office dispute between two colleagues healed by blessing
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...
Long-standing antagonism healed by blessing
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...
Blessing helps in a difficult financial situation
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,...
Feedback from sharing ‘The Gentle Art of Blessing’ with a meditation group
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...
Impossible work situation resolved
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...
Saved from Tuareg rebels by blessing
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,...
A four year old furnishes mother with keys to healing
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...
Blessing restores peace … and results in a cleaner living environment
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,...
Resentment and nightmares healed through blessing
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...
Family conflict solved
“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...
Healing of psychiatric problems
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...
I refused to judge
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...
Wife blesses husband who leaves her, and her “rival”
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...
Blessing heals hate and contempt
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...
Blessing heals resentment and solves a problem
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...