Bless It or Release It prayer for decision making
The Bless It or Release It prayer is a great tool for decision making. I use it for making both big and small decisions from whether to attend an event to whether to take a job.
I’ve found that this prayer often brings clarity in one of two ways. Either I get a strong sense of what to do and it will be easy. For example, if I’m meeting a friend and I feel too polite to cancel, suddenly I will realise my self-care comes first and find it easy to cancel. Sometimes, something happens that makes the decision for me, such as the other person cancelling. Other times, I go ahead with the meeting, really enjoy myself and I’m glad I made the decision to go.
A few years ago, I used this prayer regularly when I was job hunting. Each time I had doubts about a potential role, I used the Bless It or Release It prayer to guide me. I went for several job interviews where it seemed obvious that I would get the job. Each time I didn’t get the job and in hindsight I could see all those jobs weren’t right for me. There was one job that I was convinced I would be offered. After the interview the hiring manager ghosted me for about two weeks and then emailed me to say there had been a recruitment freeze.
How to say the Bless It or Release It prayer
Is it right for me to take this job? Decide for me. I’m leaving it in your hands.
If it’s right for me to take this job, please increase my desire to take this job, send me the willingness to take this job, make it easy for me to take this job and please bless me taking this job
It if it’s right for me to release it, increase my desire to release it, send me the willingness to release it, make it easy to release it and bless me releasing this opportunity out to the Universe for someone else.
Or the short version, “Bless It or Release It”.
Then forget about it. Let it go. But if you find yourself thinking about it, or obsessing about it in my case, say,
“I surrender and let go. I trust that everything is working out for my highest good.”
Where the prayer comes from
The Bless It or Release It prayer is based on bless it or block it, which I learned when I was a member of a few 12 step programmes. I changed it from block it to release it after getting migraines and my homeopath at the time pointed out that we want to avoid the word block as it can mean energy can get stuck in our body.
What decision do you need to make? Let me know in the comments and try the Bless It or Release It prayer.
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This post was originally written for Happiness-Club.co.uk.
