[Main Blog Post] [Book] Thoughts on The Gentle Art of Blessing

[jprussell]

This week I've written up my thoughts on Pierre Pradervand's The Gentle Art of Blessing. If you're already familiar with the Modern Order of Essenes blessing work, you might not find a ton new here, but if not, this is a pretty ready practice that can be added onto just about any religious approach without too much trouble.

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[thinking_turtle]

Thanks for your reply! You write effortlessly. I appreciate your comments on permission.

To me it seems anger is one of the horses my soul is given to manage. If I mistreat it, by suppressing it, interrupting it or calling it names, it will misbehave. Yet things created with anger seem better than things without. I assumed all followers of Thor enjoy anger and embrace it or even surrender to it, so it your writing about anger remains a surprise.

Looking forward to the next blog!

[jprussell]

Well, thank you again for the kind words! There are some downsides to having a mainly verbal way of thinking, but writing quickly in my native language is one of the perks!

As for your further thoughts on anger, fair enough. I don't suppose I had considered Thor's anger as something to emulate and learn from Him, but now that you say it, it seems pretty obvious. I guess I have too much of the Stoic in me, seeing "unwanted" emotions as something to be reasoned into submission, rather than harnessed and learned from. I'll have to give that one some thought.

And glad to hear it, I'm hoping to have it ready soon!

Jeff