A Course in

Love & Healing 
 
Lesson 31

Praise Heals

By Dr.Scott Peck & Shannon Peck 

Praise heals – enormously!

People who praise well bring joy & healing to hearts that are often silently suffering. We all need vastly more praise – more encouragement to love ourselves, value our works, & feel more loved.     

Praise flows from a compassionate heart. A compassionate heart doesn’t need another person to fall apart in tears or agony in order to finally let loose the dam of praise. A compassionate heart feels so much inner reverence for every being on Earth that it cannot help but spill over in profuse praise and love to every person it encounters.  Praisers flow through life leaving a trail of healing.  If we could track their “praise trail,” we might see a day that unfolded like this: 

To one’s spouse or best friend, “Good morning love, I sure appreciate your …” To the store clerk, “You have lovely smile.” To the restaurant server, “Thank you for your delightful attitude.”  To a co-worker, “I really admire the way you ….” To a friend, “Your friendship means so much to me. I especially like your ….”  To the passerby, a twinkling smile that says, “I appreciate you without even knowing the details of your life.” To your child, “This (whatever) is wonderful! You are a gem!”  To your spouse or best friend, again, “Did I mention recently that I love you? I really appreciate your ….”  To yourself, “I’m very grateful that I’m so committed to growing.” 

Who cares what words you use. Love has the words. Let them spill out from your surrender to Love’s infinite caring. Genuine praise is never superficial flattery because true praise flows from a loving, compassionate heart that yearns to bless & honor & heal. Praise says, “I love you,” “I admire you,” I’m proud of you,” “You have touched my life in such a lovely way,” “I support your life,” “You are a delight.”  

If we were to track your “praise trail” today, what would it look like?  It’s so easy to withhold praise.  All we have to do is become unconscious and walk through life as if all the hearts we encounter have no value, no need for love.  What if those who were about to offer you praise withheld it? Such an unconscious life-orientation is enormously self-damaging. It places us outside Love, the very source of our life meaning.  We don’t want to be withholders of praise. We want to be profusers – generous in saying to all humanity, “I love you.”  Being profuse lovers with praise has miraculous consequences within our own hearts. We soften, open, smile, accept, surrender, and rise. We expand our light so much more. 

If you are not established in a life-flow of generous praising, ask yourself, “Why?” Your “life energy” reaches scores of people every single day, thousands of people each year, and, for some, millions of hearts in a lifetime. You have enormous influence on this planet. Praise leaves a legacy of healing – every single day. 

Nothing is more important to our individual lives, or civilization, that moving higher in love.  Slowly but surely, we are all becoming LoveMasters – experts at loving others and ourselves. Praise is such an easy door into Love’s riches and is a primary love skill of a truly loving person.  

Praise reminds us to unleash our compassion – our spirituality – to be unafraid to intimately identify a “stranger” as “oneself.” Praise heals so much more than you can imagine. More than twenty percent of the people you will pass today have been physically or emotionally abused in their lives.  As praisers, we see into the silent heart of humanity, looking for every opportunity to love, to say, “I honor you. You are so worthy.”

We praise you right now for reading this article. We praise you for caring. We praise you for opening your heart even more. We admire you for your courage to love more. We honor every single step you take to rise in love. Welcome to the heart of Love!

Copyright 2002 by Scott & Shannon Peck

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