How do you sense a blessing?

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By blessing I mean when you have received positive or healing energy from another source which made a difference to you. A blessing is described as "God's favour or protection" which I think doesn't do the word justice. I, personally, have felt it as a sense of peace and stillness even if lasting a few moments.

I wondered if people could describe instances when they felt they had been blessed. Could they sense it when it occurred and how did it manifest? I experienced being blessed when I was in the presence of the Dalai Lama last year. I was standing a few feet away from him and it felt like being bathed in a positive flow of energy which left me feeling upbeat and energised for the tasks ahead.

Another time, I sat through the night holding my mother's hand while she slept, a day before she passed away, and felt a deep peace. It resulted in a healing of a niggling ache in my wrist.

Once an old man in the market, who thought I was from his country, placed his hand on my head and said 'you are my child". It was wonderful and I felt deeply touched. It felt like a blessing or maybe it just felt nice because someone had called me their child. Co-incidentally, I had been remembering my father earlier that day and, perhaps, this was the universe sending me a kind message.

[Ava]

Beautiful, @astrokeen ,

I've read a similar story about meeting the Dalai Lama. I believe it was from the author Rachel Naomi Remen, MD. She went to see the Dalai Lama along with her friend who had brought some large and cumbersome poster boards in a bag, to show him. After she showed him, she was struggling to put the boards back in the bag. Rachel said something like, it is impossible to communicate how joyfully he helped her and how much love was communicated through that one act. It always stuck with me.

I had a similar experience feeling my father was sending me a message. On his birthday a few years ago I went to pay for my coffee at a convenience store and the clerk informed me it had already been paid for. I turned and the old man who was ahead of me in line winked at me. He was wearing an Irish tweed cap like my dad wore.

The other day I went to see a doctor I hadn't seen in over twenty years. He was great, I just don't go to doctors often. Everything about him, his staff, their office, their energy, it all felt healing. Some kind of oasis in this crazy world. I feel blessed to return to that practice. I was just thinking of that when you posted this thread.

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Ava, the Dalai Lama just radiates joy. And he loves to make people laugh.

Lovely incident about the kind message from your dad.

[Lionessmind]

Hi @astrokeen

Very nice post.

That is always a very strong, and beautiful experience, indeed!

I feel very much thrill, full of loving, like it be something magic! I feel totally in aware. Like if to be in a lucid dream, or like a divine light that covers me!

I am free, boundless

Thrill, awareness, loving!

Thank you!

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Lionessmind , thank you! Were you describing what it feels like when you receive a blessing? Can you tell us of one example?

[Lionessmind]

Hi @astrokeen 🌼

Yes....I remember once, we had a Kirtan progmam in Mandir,l was sitting down, and listening, while suddenly, I felt very much aware for my self.

I was thought: "I am very strong! Why, sometimes,I think that I can not achieve this or that?"

Was a revelation!

My body was in Earth, but, my inner being, my soul, unite with the source, and my body was very light and I felt the energy flows inside me, like slightly warm energy waves.

I felt love for all! And enthusiasm! I was like crazy of love.

Crazy but.... totally in aware.
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Lionessmind, how lovely!

[Lionessmind]

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