The Way of Irish Blessings - The practice of Anam cara (Soul Friendship) as a Way of Life

The Irish Blessing Matter web site is dedicated to helping you realize your full creative potential. At Irish Blessings Matter we do this through the FREE Ebook titled New Irish Blessings for Life - 12 Blessings for the Journey Home.

Irish Blessing Matter because they help return you to the source of all Blessings. This is the Blessing that in truth YOU are and always are. The New Irish Blessings for Life is a unique Way. It is an ancient way. It is a way of coming home to the Blessing that you already are and have never truly left.

The New Irish Blessings for Life is a power packed way of well wishing and well being.

The New Irish Blessings for Life Ebook takes you on a journey that mirrors your journey in life. This is the journey from the birth until the end of life. It is written in three parts. There is the beginning of the journey when we are young. There is the middle of the journey to midlife. Finally there is the journey of homecoming.

This Ebook is written in a language that will lift the heart whether such heart is Irish or not.

This language includes the use of poetry, storytelling and inspirational ideas and practices. In The New Irish Blessings for Life the unfolding of these short power packed Blessings allows you to gain a deeper connection to your essential Self. This is the real one connection that will make you happy.

In this Blessing we learn the best that we can ever offer a newborn that allows this new life to give expression to the unique dance of Love in form that it is. This blessing invites this newborn to remain connected to their child heart.

In this way one need not be overly concerned with their welfare. This Blessing invites us not to forget their original source. This is the source that created them in Love and continues to do so beyond time in this eternal moment and this eternal now.

In this Blessing you meet with a wonderchild. He shares his name with Fionn Mac Cumhail. This is frequently anglicised as Finn Mac Cool. Finn Mac Cool is one of the most celebrated heroes in Irish myth.

We meet with this giant among toddlers on the shore of a Lake in the West of Ireland. He will take you to sit by the remains of a campfire. He will tell you stories. These are one-word stories. He is a fount of wisdom. He does not have many words. He only has his finger which he uses this to conduct dialogues with this mystery of life and share these with you..

When you have finished being with this child of the Universe you will for a short time have known again that place we that we in Ireland call Tir Na Nog - the place of the Forever Young.

This Blessing invites you to create your home as a place to nurture yourself and the world. It teaches you the foundation of hospitality. With this Blessing you are someone wearing a perfume of attraction. You become attractive to that which creates harmony. You are in tune with yourself and with your outer world. The world becomes a place you are in Love with rather than a place you need be afraid of.

In Ireland we have the idea of the Homeplace. This is a place which has family connections going way back in time. The New Irish Blessings for Life however teaches you about an even longer and deeper connection.

This is the Homplace we call Love. You learn to Return to Love and become what you were always meant to be. You come home to the Blessing that you are and realize that this is the place that you never left and can never leave. Maybe for the first time you will feel as if you really do belong in this world.

This Blessing is one that seeks to empower you as the unique individual you are. One of the major problems facing the individual in the world today is a felt sense of disempowerment and disheartenment. The above blessing is written to invite you into your true power.

In this Blessing you are invited to take ownershipof the unique power given to you from the Source of all Creation. It flows forever and is available to you at any time would that you take the time to honour and allow it to work through you. Alignment with this power is the one thing that can truly make a difference within your life.

New Irish Blessings for Life serves to allow you to sow the Blessing of Love in your life situation whatever that may be.

With The New Irish Blessings for Life you become one who is in Love with life and goes joyously celebrating their sense of true homeplace in this world of form. Not only are you grounded in the world of time and space but you can also go flying into the timeless world of Tir Na Nog. You can enter the world of the beautiful people and your heart will feel forever young.

Irish Blessings are not just old sayings or even new sayings. Each Irish Blessing is an invitation. It is an invocation to partake in the greatest adventure and to the experience the beauty of co-creation. This invocation and inviting is by way of the creative imagination. This is the place where all healing of body mind and soul begins. Each Irish Blessing is prayerful but not in a begging sense. Each Irish Blessing is the celebration of connection with the human and the Divine.

This FREE Ebook invites you to be your own Anam Cara. Anam in Irish means Soul and Cara means friend. This tradition of Anam Cara is the old Irish Blessing of deep friendship. In this 21^st Century of noise and haste this depth of friendship with others and ourselves is a rare thing. In The New Irish Blessings for Life you learn to renew that essential friendship of Soul with yourself. This allows you the realization that you are not alone and that you can never truly be alone.

The New Irish Blessings for Life serves to remind you of this unlimited creative potential.

This unlimited creative potential is not just is some of us but in every one of us. With The New Irish Blessings for Life you learn to harness the power of your creative imagination. You learn to co-create with the power of Love. This allows you to live a more balanced life. With this part of the practice you will be taught that you can accomplish more by doing less.

The New Irish Blessings for Life is a beautiful unbroken circle that takes you higher and higher.

The New Irish Blessings for Life takes you on a journey. This is the journey of the heart into higher levels of awareness. This journey takes you, metaphorically speaking, up the mountainside where the road rises up before you. From the heights of knowing who you are you realize the Blessing is already here and you are it. Not only are you blessed in time but also you learn to know that you are the Blessing of all time. When you know this you have returned home to the place you never in reality left.

The New Irish Blessings for Life is a Way that teaches you that you are enough as you are.

When you know this you will feel truly Blessed and you in this experience of joy will spontaneously bless others. These blessings are like seeds. You plant them and you tend them. You allow them to flower in their own time. With The New Irish Blessings for Life you are gentle and you are kind. You do not go forcing the natural rhythm of your unique creativity.

You do not need to be Irish or have Irish ancestry. It is more important that you have a desire to engage with your heart. It is more important that you are intent on creating a deep friendship with yourself.

In The New Irish Blessings for Life you can read a review of many traditional Irish Blessings. These old Irish Blessings have been made relevant to this modern time and to the modern mind.

These stories are written to inspire and lift the heart. These stories are written from a place of enchantment in the West of Ireland. To read The New Irish Blessings for Life is like having a conversation with an old friend before a turf fire.

Before this fire there is only you and an old séanachie (storyteller) who engages you in Soul Friendship and who invites you into the world of magic and the timeless. He is ultimately inviting you to know the treasure that is hidden within you.

In this Ebook you can learn techniques and ways in which you can feel less stressed and more at home with who you are. In The New Irish Blessings for Life you are reminded that you are already more wonderful than you can ever imagine.

More than this it is a way to allow you to know this emotionally. It is a way to allow you to return to knowing your real place in this world. It reminds you that you are one of the beautiful people and can never be apart from that beauty.

This Ebook is given to you for FREE. It is the wish of the writer that you become the Blessing that you truly are. When you realise this then you will want to share this experience with others. When enough of us begin this journey into the beauty of who we are then the world will be seen and transformed in a very different way.

You are invited to share the FREE Ebook New Irish Blessings for Life - 12 Blessings for the Journey Home with anyone you feel may benefit from its reading.

In addition to this FREE Ebook you will receive a free report entitled 7 ways to a Wonderful Life. This report is designed in such a way that you can easily remember these 7 ways. Apply these 7 ways to your life situation and you will move from a sense of woundedness to a sense of wonder.

This report is short and to the point but it provides you with a foundation on which you can build a real life that has within it the flow of the wonderous being you are.

In order that you learn to develop the beauty and grace inherent in your nature you need to feel connected to inspiration. To keep this connection active you will receive each week an ezine entitled Blessing for YOU. This is delivered to your email address each week.

The opening series of emails takes you through a heart centred focus on the most common of Irish Blessings beginning with the

This is not simply a well wishing for a safe and swift journey. This is a deep well wishing for a journey that takes you into the wonder that you truly are. In this Blessing the wind is not just any wind. In this Blessing the sun and the rain are not just elements. This Blessing is about your connection to your intellectual, emotional, phyical and spiritual well-being.

Following this series of emails you will be taken into the heart meaning of other traditional Irish Blessings. Then through a continuing series of emails we will move into a wider focus on Blessings. These are Blessing from different countries, different traditions and are expressed in many different and beautiful and grace filled ways. In this way you are invited to realise the Blessing inherent in your nature.

Blessings for YOU introduces you to the language of the heart. Without your heart connection a sense of wonder is not available to you. The best that you might experience is a high degree of satisfaction dependant on the arrival of circumstances within your life situation that you judge positive. This tends to fade and you seek satisfaction in other ways. The Blessing that you are is beyond mere satisfaction. You do not have to earn it you are already more than you could ever imagine.

This series of ezines are available to you for as long as you wish to avail yourself of them. Following the heart entry into Irish Blessings you will be taken into other heart language via poetry, storytelling, song and other heart practices. This is intended to provide you with a foundation wherein wonder becomes YOU. All this is available to you FREE. You can unsubscribe to this ezine at any time.

In addition you will receive the introduction to the eCourse entitled The Anam cara Experience - Ready to Radiate. This invites you into the heart of real friendship with yourself. The word Anamcara means Soul Friend.

This introduces you to the deep healing of language through the use of storytelling, the use of song and the use of poetry. It takes you deep into the heart to Irish poetry, Irish Folk song and Irish Storytelling. This material then invites you to live the story of the beauty and grace within yourself and to share this with others. There is no requirement that you be Irish or have Irish connections. This material is Universal because it addresses core issues relevant to the human heart.

The next step in the journey into Blessings and wonder is to accept this invitation by completing the email address and name box below. Please be assured that we do not sell email addresses and that you can unsubscribe at any time.

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New Irish Blessings for Life - 12 Blessings for the Journey Home"

together with the bonus material entitled

7 Ways to a Wonderful Life and the weekly inspirational ezine

Blessings for YOU together with

the introduction to Soul Friendship - The Anam cara Experience