Loving Me

I am loving me.

I am loving you.

I am loving everyone.

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Sometimes it is easier to love someone else rather than loving oneself.

But, in order to love someone else, we must first love ourselves.

That was a really difficult thing for me to do.

I had had early childhood trauma, including sexual molestation, until I was fourteen years old.

Because of wonderful spiritual tools I learned in Sunday School, I was able to function on a high level academically and musically.

The enduring trauma was buried deep and did not come out again until I was fifty years old.

Learning to deal with that and to heal took another eleven and one-half years.

I began to truly love, cherish and adore myself, bit by tiny bit.

At the same time, it worked out for me to receive help in stopping a bully in a business setting.

I was every encouraged that I could receive help and relief.

Over a longer period of time, I was harassed by a neighbor.

It became necessary for me to practice loving myself more every time I was harassed.

Finally, it became natural for me to love myself very consistently and consciously.

Then, one night, I found myself awake and led to truly love my neighbor in the way I had learned to love myself.

I feel as though I am on an entirely different life-track now, one that has nothing to do with a job or career.

It has entirely to do with my new viewpoint.

To love others as I have learned to love myself and to see that attitude spreading around me.


© 2012 Kathryn Hardage
www.InspiredPractices.com

Overcoming Limitations

I am so grateful for the progress I am making in overcoming limitations.

I am so grateful for the progress everyone I know is making in overcoming limitations.

I am so grateful for the progress everyone I don’t even know all over the planet is making in overcoming limitations.

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Sometimes it is easy to see what is still to be done and we forget how much progress we are making.

If we are overcoming limitations, we were lied to in a very impressionable way.

Otherwise, we would be living our dreams.

So, it is our work to change the deep impressions made by the lies.

As we do this, our life improves.

Every little bit of improvement represents overcoming multiple reinforcements to overcome the lies.

So progress is definitely being made.

When you recognize that you can smile, think of a new solution, or slow down your reaction, you are making progress.

Recognizing your progress is incredibly significant.

It means you have overcome part of the lie.

Keep building on your progress.

Recognize your little steps.

You will reach your goal and then you will see you have another goal.

You know you can reach it, too.

Overcoming limitations is continual.

After all, you are infinite within.

Now, you can begin to see it manifested without.


© 2012 Kathryn Hardage
www.InspiredPractices.com