I started noticing the number of “Bless You’s” that I got in France.

It became a running joke between myself and Maman … how many times could we get blessed in one day? I hold the record at six.

And it wasn’t just the homeless who would bless us … even strangers, as we’d go about our day … I might hold the door open for the person behind me and be graced with a , “bless you oh bless you.”

Can I tell you how great it is to be blessed by perfectly random strangers? It’s one of the best things, ever. Because — you actually start feeling … blessed.

And tell me, who in their right mind, doesn’t want to feel blessed? You also feel like such a great person when you’re blessed, especially for no note-worthy particular reason.

So this morning as I was working away and downing coffee at a record pace, I was completely caught off guard when a man walked by and as I looked up, he nodded and proceed with a, “bless you, have a wonderful morning.”

Well, don’t mind if I do be blessed, thank you very much.

Naturally, I keep thinking of this blessedness … from my studies of yoga, there’s a lot of talk about blessing.

From blessing ourselves to blessing each other, so that a rain of blessings is then able to fall down upon us. I’m paraphrasing Yogi Bhajan’s words here … but basically my point is – we are meant to not only bless but be blessed, in all that we do.

I thought about this. I thought how easy it is for me to bless others {okay, when in a good mood — otherwise I might be opt to curse/not bless?}, but when it comes to blessing myself … well, not so easy.

Why is this?

Is it a worthiness factor … some part of me that doesn’t feel “good enough” to be blessed by me? To hold myself in such high regard?

Well, f that. I’m going to start, with some Yogi {Bhajan} advice, and begin with blessing myself in the morning when I wake up and then throughout the day.

Of course, I’ll probably forget to bless myself multiple times, but whatever … maybe I’ll just keep running into people who bless me for me. Which for some reason, seems and feels more meaningful to me.

And before I forget, since I already did forget like four times already … Happy Halloween.

I hereby bless you and your Halloween Eve. What do you think about that?