Why blessing?

In the dictionary, to bless means "to sanctify or consecrate something or a person to the worship of God". Clearly, in practice blessing is exactly that. It is extremely difficult to find someone born before the year 2000 who has not been to or met a witchdoctor in their childhood.

It can be affirmed that this practice is a cultural heritage of Brazil. In this way, the greatest ability of the benzedeira is her unwavering faith, which aligned with knowledge about herbs and prayers, makes a complete cycle to help the person who is looking for it.

The blessing is for almost everything because it is a supplication to God and a request for intervention on behalf of that person. If you want to know more, continue in this article and your questions will be answered.

How to bless?

To perform the blessing ritual, one must have a lot of faith and a genuine desire to help another person. To begin with, it is enough to remember that in each neighborhood or small town it was common to have its own witchdoctor, a woman who, most of the time, was elderly, lived in a simple little house and was always available to attend anyone who knocked on her gate.

Knower of ancient customs, she gathered a range of knowledge about herbs, prayers, customs, sympathies and everything that could help at that moment. With a generational passage, she learned to bless with her grandmother and received the call to help others through her faith.

The blessing does not belong to any religion, and is outside the dogmas of churches, there the only thing that matters is simplicity and love for others. Called affectionately grandma or auntie benzedeira, as soon as you entered you encountered that kind and generous figure, it was as if the solution was always there.

How to bless correctly?

With this new moment of redemption of the tradition of blessing, some courses became available on the Internet or in person, and the doubt whether they were legitimate arose naturally. Is it possible to teach or learn to bless in a course?

And the answer is yes and no, it is not enough just to take a course to become a benedictionist. You need to receive the call and, above all, have an unshakable faith, simplicity, humility and the legitimate will to practice the good. After all, the course will teach you practices and traditions, which formerly were passed on from generation to generation, and ended up being lost over time.

Therefore, let go of your pride and vanity, think of someone you do not have positive feelings for, and if you would have the detachment to donate your energy to heal that person. This level of detachment is what is needed to bless. To have the understanding that you are the vehicle and who judges the deservingness of the healing in that person is God.

The gift of blessing

There are two types of people, those who are born with the gift and those who develop this gift, one is not better than the other. The level of study, dedication and faith for both needs to be the same. There are people who bring this spiritual heritage in the family, in which they are prepared from a young age to assume this responsibility, always in a light way.

The grandmother taught which herbs were used for certain diseases, which teas a child could take, which herbs could not be consumed and had everything in the backyard of the house, with easy access. Today, this natural gift is already starting to be extinct in big cities, since it is not even possible to find a backyard with land in these new buildings.

Thus, developing the gift of blessing means strengthening your faith in God, it means practicing your evolution as a person and as a spirit, letting go of negative feelings and, above all, loving your neighbor more than yourself. Practice whenever possible, because this development demands time and above all a lot of dedication.

Use of herbs

The herbs in the blessing have an extremely important role, they help the healer with their magical properties, properties that each herb has individually. All herbs, plants, flowers and the like generate their own energy and have their own time and correct ways of being used.

In addition, they also prescribe certain herbs to be taken as tea or to put on the injury if necessary. Anyone who has been to a witchdoctor and was lucky enough to take a few pieces of aloe home and put on the injury, knows exactly the meaning of the phrase "rapid healing", as well as this there are other recipes.

For stomach related problems, the most common practice was to drink a boldo tea, becoming a unique experience for sure for those who have tried this tea. After all, one thing undeniable is its effectiveness in treating irritated stomach, heartburn, poor digestion, vomiting among others.

Herbs are part of society's culture, so healing with them has been happening for hundreds of thousands of years, including their use in the pharmaceutical industry. A curiosity that few know is that Dipyrone and Novalgine are two plants that you can have in your backyard and take as tea if you need for pain and fevers.

Knowing more about herbs is one of the great obligations of those who want at some point to become a healer, because without their help the work becomes extremely complicated, besides the application of other tools that are widely used.

Blessing to stop headache

Who has never suffered with that intermittent headache that had no medicine that cured? It is a fact that this type of headache has several causes and there is the sensitivity of the healer, because if the headache is caused by a toothache, for example, the correct is to bless and take care of the tooth and remove the headache in the background.

This comes as a form of intuition, as a form of sensitivity in the hands, or even by talking to the person in question to identify the causes and factors that led to that illness, so that the focus is directed primarily to her, thus avoiding a recurrence of the problem.

Indications

• Intermittent headaches;
• Migraine;
• Headache;
• Common headaches.

Ingredients

• A sprig of parsley;
• A glass of water.

Blessing

When you do the blessing, use a sprig of very green parsley and say the following prayer, making the sign of the cross in the air, just above the person's head, 3 times on the left side, 3 times on the right side and once in the center:

"Earth gave birth to holiness, Mary won Jesus, 'whistle' only the serene. To 'riba' those heights, take away that headache from this poor creature." At the end, ask the person to take all the water raising his head in God and asking for purification, of his body, soul and spirit.

Blessing itself to end with disease

Blessing is a little-exposed practice, but very useful in a moment of need. The ideal is that even the blessers have someone to help them in times of need. God made us to live in communion, but it is possible to bless yourself. If you are sick, this practice can help you.

Indications

• Diseases in general;
• Flu or cold;
• Sore throat;
• Allergies.

Ingredients

Blessing

Do this blessing for three days in a row. Before starting it, fill a glass with water, make the sign of the cross over it and say:

"I bless you by the name they put on the font, in the name of God and of the Virgin Mary, and of the three persons of the Blessed Trinity, I bless you. God, our Lord who heals you, God who helps you in your needs.

If your evil is trouble, envy, evil eye, or any other sickness, if they have given you in eating, in drinking, in smiling, in mocking, in your beauty, in your fatness, in your posture, in your belly, in your bones, in your head, in your throat, in your loins, in your legs.

May God, our Lord, who is to take away, an angel from Heaven come, lay at the bottom of the sea where I hear no hen nor cock crowing."

Blessing to stop torticollis or muscle sprain

The pain and muscle sprains are usually extremely uncomfortable and painful, there are pains resulting from trauma, but there are also pre-existing pains, that people end up dealing with them all his life. The act of blessing and praying in these pains can bring relief and healing for people who suffer with this evil.

Indications

• Torticollis;
• Muscle aches and pains;
• Dislocations;
• Muscle sprain;
• Back pain.

Ingredients

• A needle;
• A white line;
• A glass of water.

Blessing

In the act of blessing, the healer should pass a white thread through the needle, pretending to sew the part that bothers the patient, but without touching it. Meanwhile, he should say the following phrases:

"What do I cook? Broken flesh or a pinched nerve? If it's broken flesh, reweld it. If it's a pinched nerve, let it fall back into place. In the name of God and St. Alphonsus. Amen."

At the end, one must ask the person to drink all the water raising his head in God, desiring purification, of his body, soul and spirit.

Blessing to open the way

The blessing to open the way is very powerful and if done with faith, love and charity, being the deserving person, it gives a lot of result. He will provide good energy and sharpen the vision of the person for new opportunities, besides helping in spiritual protection and remove any negative energy that can hinder the paths.

Indications

• Attract good luck;
• Opening of the paths;
• Elimination of negative energies;
• Openness of vision for new opportunities;
• Openness of love;
• Opening prosperity;
• Openness of spirituality.

Ingredients

• 3 leaves of cornflower;
• A glass of water.

Blessing

At the time of the blessing to open the paths, you should have three leaves of the pathfinder in your hands, saying the prayer below. To begin, make the sign of the cross in the air, just above the person's head, 3 times on the left side, 3 times on the right side and once in the center.

When you have finished, say three Hail Marys and the Lord's Prayer three times. At the end, ask the person to drink all the water, raising his head to God and asking for purification of his body, soul and spirit. Check:

"I (say your name) proclaim that God is the one who made me, God is the one who healed me, God is the one who heals me, from water, from fire and from heat. With two they booted you, with three I am healed, with the power of God and the Virgin Mary.

If it was for looks, if it was witchcraft, if it was white envy, black envy or red envy. If it was for beauty, if it was for intelligence, may it be out, may it be taken away and cast to the waves of the sacred sea.

In the name of God and the Virgin Mary, may my paths be opened to (love, profession, financial field, studies). Praise be to our Lord Jesus Christ and Forever be praised."

Blessing to stop cramps

The blessing to end cramps is done for acute pains that lead to extreme discomfort, it is a solution especially when traditional medicine does not work in that case. For many times, these pains can become something more serious and disabling, so it is good to count on this blessing.

Indications

• Intestinal colic;
• Menstrual cramps;
• Acute stomach pains;
• Acute pain.

Ingredients

• 3 Lavender twigs;
• 1 Glass with water.

Blessing

For the blessing that stops cramps, you must use 3 lavender branches, making the sign of the cross on the belly, just above the person's head, 3 times on the left side, 3 times on the right side and once in the center, saying the following prayer:

"Land, sea and sun. Land that God hid. Where is that belly ache? That my Jesus Christ took away. As it says, run wind. Run, heal, with Jesus Christ here in the healing. With that wind, run, heal. Run in the vein to stay put in this creature (say the name of the person).

In the name of God the Father, God the Son and the Holy Spirit, this evil will be removed, Amen."

Blessing to stop disease

The blessing against disease is something magical, people with much illness can be cured, it depends on the faith of each. The important thing is to understand that if the person is very sick, the ideal is to seek treatment, applying a blessing and repeating every 3, 5 or 7 days. Learn how to do below.

Indications

• Respiratory diseases;
• Skin diseases;
• Internal diseases in general;
• External diseases in general.

Ingredients

• 7 large orange leaves or a twig;
• 1 glass of water.

Blessing

To make a blessing to stop any disease, you will have to use 7 large orange tree leaves or a twig, making the sign of the cross on the belly, just above the person's head, 3 times on the left side, 3 times on the right side and once in the center. After that, you should pray an Our Father, a Hail Mary and the following prayer:

"Eternal Father, merciful and just Lord. Through the incarnation, birth, life, passion, death, resurrection and ascension of our Lord Jesus Christ. Through all these most holy mysteries, I firmly pray that (speak the name of the person) be healed of (say what the disease is).

Saint Sebastian, Saint Roque, Saint Lazarus, Saint Lucia, all the holy protectors against physical ailments, I beseech you for (repeat the name of the person). Heal him, Lord. Deliver him, Lord, from the sickness that torments him. In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen." At the end ask the person to drink all the water raising his head in God and asking for purification, of his body, his soul and hisspirit.

Blessing to end the evil eye

In the blessing to end the evil eye, will be made use of another important tool for the healers, which is a consecrated and prayed amulet. Stay with this amulet in your religious ritual, whether in mass or any other, light a candle for seven days and let it emanating and becoming a divine tool. Understand more below.

Indications

• Remove the evil eye;
• Remove quebranto;
• Remove envy;
• Remove goro.

Ingredients

One amulet enshrined in the Lord's faith.

Blessing

First of all, it is important to know that this ritual should be done during the early morning hours, preferably at the end of the month. To begin, hold your amulet and make the sign of the cross as an invitation to the blessing. Then, say the prayer:

"O pure and holy Virgin, come to us to calm our so suffering mind. Bless over our heads the meekness of any action that afflicts us.

Be merciful to us and to ours, being always majestic in our midst. May in this blessing our soul rejoice far from the scoffers, may we have the peace we so much seek.

O evil spirits, I command by the love found in God, that all that is not godly, all that is worthless and all that does not edify be cast out of my life now! God will take care of us, eternally.

God will take care of us, eternally. God will take care of us, eternally. Resurrect in our hearts the flame of tranquil waves and serene meekness. Elevate our being so that we may enjoy the wonders of life. Be with us, Jesus. Bless us, O Virgin. God, purify. Amen."

Blessing to end constipation

A very common problem that leads pain and suffering people is constipation, which can be more common in women and children. This disease causes a lot of pain and abdominal discomfort, often requiring hospitalization, but this is something that can be treated with faith and dedication. Understand how to do the blessing to end this discomfort below.

Indications

• Constipation;
• Belly ache;
• Abdominal discomfort;
• Swelling.

Ingredients

● 5 Sene leaves;

● A glass of water.

Blessing

The blessing to end the evil eye consists of using 5 sene leaves, making the sign of the cross on the belly region of the person, 3 times on the left side, 3 times on the right side and once in the center. Then say the following prayer:

"Land, sea and sun. Land that God hid. Where's that bellyache? That my Jesus Christ took away. As you say, run wind. Run, heal, with Jesus Christ here in the healing. With that wind, run, heal. Run in the vein to stay put in this creature (say the person's name).

In the name of God the Father, God the Son and the Holy Spirit, this evil will be taken away. Amen." At the end ask the person to drink all the water raising his head in God and asking for purification, of his body, soul and spirit.

Blessing to stop toothache

The blessing to stop the toothache is a case in which it is important to know the actual cause of the pain, but the whole mouth will be blessed. It is very good, in addition to the blessing, the person also put a little pomegranate rind to help inflammation and reduce swelling. Learn how to do it below.

Indications

• Mouth pain;
• Toothache;
• Gum pain;
• Sore throat.

Ingredients

• A green twig;
• A glass of water.

Blessing

It is necessary to pray an Our Father to Saint Apollonia and three Our Fathers to the Holy Trinity before beginning the blessing. Then, the healer should make cross-shaped movements with a green branch near the mouth and cheeks of the sick person, without approaching, saying the prayer below.

At the end, the healer should ask the person to drink all the water raising his head in God and asking for purification, of his body, soul and spirit.

"Blessed Saint Apollonia, who by your virginity and martyrdom merited from the Lord to be instituted an advocate against pain of gums and teeth, we beseech you, intercede with the God of mercies that this creature (say the name of the sick person) may be completely healed.Amen."

Blessing to end indigestion

Boldo is a well-known herb for indigestion ailments, its tea is a holy remedy, it seems to take it away with your hand, and that same efficacy of the tea is also transferred to the blessing.

Indications

• Excessive vomiting;
• Abdominal pain;
• Belly ache;
• Indigestion.

Ingredients

• 5 boldo leaves;
• A glass of water.

Blessing

When blessing, take 5 Boldo leaves and do the prayer below, making the sign of the cross on the belly region of the person, 3 times on the left side, 3 times on the right side and once in the center. Do this blessing for nine times.

Pray an Our Father and a Hail Mary to finish and ask the person to drink all the water raising his head in God and asking for purification, of his body, soul and spirit.

Jesus, that is the holy name of Jesus! Where the holy name of Jesus is, no evil can enter.

I bless this plank of the spleen, this plank of the aphito and this plank of instruction, may it come backwards yes, forwards no, may it not reach the heart.

In praise of the holy Sunday, in praise of the holy Monday, in praise of the holy Tuesday, in praise of the holy Wednesday, in praise of the holy Thursday, in praise of the holy Friday, in praise of the holy Saturday, in praise of Saint Euphemia, Saint Amaro and the most holy Sacrament of the altar, here is to be dried, here is to be myrrh, and henceforth shall not pass away."

Can anyone bless?

To bless comes from the Latin "bene dicere", which means to say well, and in our Portuguese dictionary, it means to sanctify or consecrate (thing or person) to God's worship. Therefore, any person who has faith, wisdom and knowledge of the tools that can be used in the act of blessing can perform this benefaction to others.

It is important to use intuition, spirituality and kindness to become a benzedeira person, and this is available for every human being to acquire as a skill and gift. With the advancement of the internet, it is possible to learn a lot about this subject and develop yourself with knowledge and assertiveness.