Your Amazing Hands Deserve
a Hand Blessing Ceremony
Are you a healer who uses their hands? Many of us are. Our hardworking hands that do so many practical things are also sacred channels for energy, powerful conduits for healing. For anyone who uses their hands for healing, blessing, or any other sacred work, hand blessings ceremonies (common in hospitals, I'm told) are a lovely form of self-care. I encourage you to take good care of your hands, both on a physical level and on an esoteric level.
I would envision this happening outdoors, with participants sitting in a circle with a small table in the center (or a cloth directly on the ground), on which the various physical elements of the ceremony would rest. To minimize talking during the ritual, you can explain how it will work beforehand.
Simple Hand Blessing Ceremony for a Group
Welcome and gather the group
Ground and center; spend a little time together in stillness
Speaker 1: Bless these hands and the sacred work that they do.
Speaker 2: May they be able to lay their burdens down when they are weary.
- Each participant is given two rocks (one for each hand), which they hold to clear the hands of energy that doesn’t serve their highest good.
- Thank the rocks and return them to the ground.
Speaker 3: May they be channels for the light.
- Clear and re-charge the hands by pouring over them water that has been left outside for 24 hours to absorb the energy of the sun, moon and stars.
- Thank the water, the sun, moon and stars.
Speaker 4: May they receive as well as give.
- Participants face each other in pairs. Person A holds Person B’s right hand sandwiched between their two hands, sending loving, healing energy. Repeat with left hand. Then A and B switch roles.
- Thank each other.
Speaker 5: May they be instruments of love and consciousness.
- Each person holds their hands over their heart chakra for a few moments, then turns them palm up toward the sky, sending loving, healing energy out into the universe.
- Thank the universe for being.
Speaker 1: Bless these hands and the sacred work that they do.
End with a “namaste” or other suitable gesture. You could adapt this ritual for yourself alone if that makes more sense for you.
It’s always nice to share food after a ceremony. Food helps ground us and return us from sacred time/place to our everyday world.
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Whether or not you decide to do a hand blessing ceremony with a group, please accept my blessing:
Bless
your hands and the sacred work that they do. May they bring you joy,
connection and meaning. May they be sensitive, feeling what words cannot
say. May they be tender, bringing loving witness to suffering. May they
be strong and useful, bringing into the world what is needed. May they
channel light and express the love in the divine heart.
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