Friday, November 28, 2014

New Awareness

I am so glad to see new awareness coming to light.

Everyone I know is so glad to see new awareness coming to light.

Everyone I don’t even know all over the planet is so glad to see new awareness coming to light.

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Extremes make things that were simply uncomfortable to the few who noticed it intolerable for the masses who are now becoming aware.

The groundwork of fore-thinkers has been laid.

More and more people are picking up on it.

The best communications from within are reaching mass communications without.

We can all feel it.

Awake!

Awake!

This is our time to notice.

This is our time to take action!

This is our time to become committed.

The ills that are showing up in such extreme light now are the same ones from forever.

We are now ready for a completely new way of looking at things, not just a fix, not just a step.

A leap!

There is so much more awareness now.


© 2014 Kathryn Hardage
www.InspiredPractices.com


Thursday, November 27, 2014

Providing Peace

I am grateful for the peace I have provided for myself today.

Everyone I know is grateful for the peace they have provided for themselves today.

Everyone I don’t even know, all over the planet, is grateful for the peace they have provided for themselves today.

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I am grateful for taking the stand for quietness.

I like that posture any day of the week, but I especially like it during the rush of the heavily-laden holidays.

Not only is it a personal stand away from painful family memories, but, also a stand for the right to be an introvert.

This combination works out best for me.

I have already taken care of some holiday expectations/obligations.

I will continue to prepare what I feel is important to me.

I will make my preparations in ways that I feel are most appropriate for me.

I am satisfied with my gifts.

I know the value of what I have to give.

I no longer compete in the rush of media harassment.

I step out of its way.

I proceed in my own way.

I make my own peaceful way.

This is what makes a holiday for me.


© 2014 Kathryn Hardage
www.InspiredPractices.com


Wednesday, November 26, 2014

Grateful Progress

I am grateful for the progress I am making.

Everyone I know is grateful for the progress they are making.

Everyone I don’t even know all over the world is grateful for the progress they are making.

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The progress I am making shows up in different ways.

Sometimes I receive a great idea.

Sometimes I am able to feel compassion about an event.

Sometimes I am able to be more understanding.

Sometimes I am able to take action.

But something always happens.

I become more aware.

Sometimes I am able to take a new step on a project.

Sometimes I am able to help out in some way.

Sometimes I am able to take the last step and complete a project.

Sometimes I am able to communicate better.

I am learning to see everyone as precious.

I am learning to treat everyone better.

I am learning to feel conscious of my Oneness.

I am making progress.


© 2014 Kathryn Hardage

Tuesday, November 25, 2014

My Thanksgiving Feast

I am so grateful for the quiet and peace of the season.

Everyone I know is so grateful for the quiet and peace of the season.

Everyone I don’t even know all over the planet is so grateful for the quiet and peace of the season.

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I choose to live in a different world.

I am watching the beginning of the shopping frenzy begin to hit, and I am watching the counter attacks against Black Friday and low wages.

However, I am living in a world of individual “outgo”.

What I am sending outward is my appreciation of the individuals that I know.

I am sending them peace and calm and poise.

I am sending this out to the people I don’t know as well.

I am adding to the peace and true joy of the season by keeping myself in this frame of mind.

Fortunately, I can feel the contrast when I go somewhere, and then I can reorient myself back to the peace and the calm.

Since we can feel the atmosphere of the places we go, and we bring our own atmosphere with us, it is important to be sure which attitude we are experiencing.

I am choosing to send out peace, calm, poise, appreciation, quietness and joy.

Please join me at my Thanksgiving feast.


© 2014 Kathryn Hardage
www.InspiredPractices.com


Saturday, November 22, 2014

Contemplating Light

I am contemplating light.

Everyone I know is contemplating light.

Everyone I don’t even know all over the world is contemplating light.

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What I am finding out about light is that is starts from within.

There is always a spark, sometimes buried very deep.

But it is there, safely hidden.

When we feel the warmth of the light from within, we shine brighter.

When we sense light from within someone else, it encourages our spark to begin to glow.

As we contemplate and reflect on our own light from within, we sense the light within others.

This light is what is bringing us loser together, to live and breathe and to act in harmony in community.


© 2014 Kathryn Hardage

www.InspiredPractices.com

Friday, November 21, 2014

Recognizing What I Love

I am taking time to recognize what I love.

Everyone I know is taking time to recognize what they love.

Everyone I don’t even know all over the planet is taking time to recognize what they love.

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When I take time to recognize what I love, I am being authentic with myself.

When I don’t think I can do what I love, I am robbing myself.

Recognizing and acting on what we love places us in the world in a different and fulfilling way.

I am not torn away.

I have not forced myself to act on less than authentic reasons.

My expression is a priority.

This is a different way to live than we are normally presented.

If you are not living the way you love, what is your life about?

Who is it for?

Developing what you love is the surest way to a happy, productive, fulfilling and rich life.

Work for yourself, for your own goals.

Be willing to start so very small that no one will even notice.

Keep nurturing what you love.

Let it grow at its own rate.

And then, it will bloom, and you will bloom along with it.


© 2014 Kathryn Hardage

www.InspiredPractices.com

Thursday, November 20, 2014

Right Where I Am

I have what I need right where I am.

Everyone I know has what they need right where they are.

Everyone I don’t even know, all over the world, has what they need right where the are.

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I was surprised to see some old fence being torn down in the neighborhood I temporarily reside in.

I had “old fence” on my list of things I needed.

I have been knowing and affirming that I have what I need and want right where I am, right away.

My project needs a significant amount of old fence.

And now, some weeks away from when I first recognized a use for it, it has started appearing on my path.

This is, of course, the way the Universe takes care of us.

We receive the good ideas we need, and then they appear as the things we need to carry out the ideas.

Its all part of the flow.


© 2014 Kathryn Hardage
www.InspiredPractices.com


Tuesday, November 18, 2014

The Beauty of My Surroundings

I breathe in the beauty of my surroundings.
Everyone I know breathes in the beauty of their surroundings.
Everyone I don’t even know, all over the planet, breathes in the beauty of their surroundings.
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When I realize that every leaf turns toward the sun to receive and release its treasure, I feel the beauty and support of my surroundings.

When I listen for the thoughts that feed me and release me to share their inspiration, I feel the beauty and support of my surroundings.

I have had so many experiences where I am led to take a certain route, or I meet someone in an unexpected way, to know that there is a Higher Power and that I live in a Beneficent Universe.

I am surrounded by the beauty and power of this Universe and It expresses Itself as me and through me.

I receive ideas and I listen for direction.

All the ideas that all of us receive, when shared, are enough to bless and uplift everyone to live well and in harmony with each other.

These things show me the beauty of my surroundings.


© 2014 Kathryn Hardage

www.InspiredPractices.com

Sunday, November 16, 2014

Luxuries Around Us

I am grateful for the luxuries all around me.

Everyone I know is grateful for the luxuries all around them.

Everyone I don’t even know, all over the planet is grateful for all the luxuries all around them.

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I have luxuries that I don’t even think about until they are interrupted.

One of these is heat.

The heating went out during a very cold spell.

Between Wednesday and Sunday, we were unable to have it repaired.

We were reminded of the luxury of having neighbors who loaned us a space heater.

We were reminded of the luxury of having quilts made by relatives who knew how to do that.

We were reminded of the luxury of being able to bake, which heated the kitchen, and to have good meals.

We were reminded of the luxury of layers of clothing.

We were reminded of the luxury to go other places to keep working - back to work, libraries, and internet cafes.

We discovered that it takes a lot of energy to stay warm; we just felt like hibernating.

With the heat back on, we are enjoying the luxury of not having to think about it and just doing what we need and want to do.

An incredible luxury.

© 2014 Kathryn Hardage

www.InspiredPractices.com

Friday, November 14, 2014

A Wider Range of Friendship

When I see you, I know that we are friends.

When everyone I know sees you, they know that you are friends.

When everyone I don’t even know all over the planet sees you, they all know that you are friends together.

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I am aware of all the people that I don’t know.

Wherever I go, I mostly don’t know anyone else.

But, I know we are friends.

This is how I am choosing to look at the world.

We all want the same things, to raise our families peacefully and in prosperity, and to live harmoniously in community with each other.

I think it is vitally important to think about and voice what we do want, because we are being harassed by the media so much of the time with negative and untrue images and attitudes.

What I enjoy with my friends everywhere is conversation.

I love what I learn about them and how they celebrate their lives.

We often have differing goals, but so far, they don’t conflict with each other.

Our goals often turn out to be complimentary.

Often, we can even suggest more friends for them to talk to to expand their projects.

We certainly have more friends than we think we have.

We couldn’t possibly get them all together in one place unless we see that place as the whole earth.

Then we have room for all our friends.

Let’s make sure that we help give everyone a good place to live.

That’s what I want for my friends.


© 2014 Kathryn Hardage
www.InspiredPractices.com


Sunday, November 9, 2014

Inspiring Work in an Old Setting

My first deep breath is gratitude for my ability to do new work in an old setting.

My second deep breath is gratitude for everyone I know being able to do new work in an old setting.

My third deep breath is gratitude for everyone I don’t even know all over the world being able to do new work in an old setting.

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I am grateful for my new view of my work, and how it evolved in a new setting.

I felt freer to think in new directions.

I was able to release it into new thought paths in a new setting.

I have been collecting materials to bring the designs into production.

Now, back in my old setting, I have proven to myself that I can continue to move forward, despite old associations.

I am grateful for the inspired ideas which continue to come to me.

I am grateful for the concise physical set-up which allows me to keep working.

I am grateful for the appreciation for what I am doing.

It all supports me and makes me feel good in the work I am doing to uplift others.


© 2014 Kathryn Hardage

Saturday, November 8, 2014

Old and New

I am grateful to be returning to an old setting with a new view.

Everyone I know is grateful to be returning to an old setting with a new view.

Everyone I don’t even know all over the planet is grateful to be returning to an old setting with a new view.

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Even after being away for a short time, there is a higher sensing of the old situation because of new inputs from the new one.

New routines which have been established have to be interrupted, but their knowledge is there on a return to the old routines.

It gives me a dichotomy.

Not painful.

Somewhat more convenient in certain ways.

But different.

A return is never just a return.

We bring new insights with us as we compare and contrast old and new and old again.

I love my new situation but I am content to return to the old one as a temporary base.

My new chosen life continues here in the old setting.

It is different.

I am freer.


© 2014 Kathryn Hardage

www.InspiredPractices.com

Thursday, November 6, 2014

Deep Perceptions

My deep perceptions create my real life.

The deep perceptions of everyone I know create their real life.

The deep perceptions of everyone I don’t even know all over the planet, create their real life.

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The more I read and study about our own influence on our individual lives, the more I realize how important our own thoughts and actions are.

I want to be part of a “real” culture of kindness.

I want to provide “real” value by what I create.

I think we are all tired of harassment by the media for purposes of advertisement for products, politics, educational fixes, physiological and health phenomena.

What are our own deep feelings about?

How are they directing us?

Do we even have an idea of how to listen for them?

What does that feel like?

After a rigorous program of reading and study to rebuild the direction of my life, I can say that it is worth learning how to listen within.

All of our resources lie there.

When we feel our deep and peaceful connection within, all the ideas we need come to us.

It may be a simple direction to go to a certain place for an unknown reason, and there we find an element or run into a person who helps us take the next step with what we are creating.

It may be a deeper sense of peace about an emotional relationship.

It may be to fulfill a deep yearning to be of service.

Whatever it is, after this period of quiet and watchful silence, things happen.

They connect.

They lead to a better and higher and more uplifted sense of living and being.

It happens over time and with practice.

Then it happens all the time.

I grow more and more unwilling to sacrifice my time and efforts to anything but this direction from a deep sense of purpose.


© 2014 Kathryn Hardage

www.InspiredPractices.com

Monday, November 3, 2014

My New Role

I am happy in my new role.

Everyone I know is happy in their new roles.

Everyone I don’t know, all over the planet, is happy in their new roles.

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My new role means that I am choosing what I love to do in order to live and contribute to society.

I am amazed at the energy this produces in my life.

If I had known how to do this sooner, I certainly would have.

I listen to my deep inner self.

I hear what I love.

I listen for guidance.

I do this over and over again.

And it is made possible through the unlimited resources of the Universe.

Too simple.

The hardest thing has been getting quiet enough for the many, many times it has taken for me to realize this is the way to achieve my new life.

It has taken over four years of doing this.

But it works.

In a different way than a college degree or job training.

© 2014 Kathryn Hardage

www.InspiredPractices.com