Not Torn, Not Broken

I am not torn.  I am not broken.

Everyone I know is not torn, nor are they broken.

Everyone I don’t even know all over the planet is not torn, nor are they broken.

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Challenging, and even horrifying, circumstances may come to us in some form.

Even if it is something personal and even physical, we are still only witnesses.

There is something deeper inside us, that witnesses to a deeper core truth.

This truth is that we exist in an unbreakable form, with an unresisting spirit.

When we do not resist the “evidence” that is flying around us, we can use our energy to focus on something else.

Something quieter.

Something within.

Something we know to be true whatever circumstances are around us.

The truth of unbreakable love, unbreakable spirit.

The truth of non-resistance.

Looking within at our love and our spirit, we find that they are part of an infinite Universe.

A beneficent Universe.

Staying focused and connected to the love and spirit within leads us down an entirely different path.

We can walk through the torn and broken countryside surrounding us with a peace and love that radiates outward.

It heals us from within and is a guiding and attracting presence to all others around us who feel it.

Not torn, not broken.

Healed.


© 2013 Kathryn Hardage
www.InspiredPractices.com

My Day of Harmony

Today is my day of harmony.

Today is a day of harmony for everyone I know.

Today is a day of harmony for everyone I don’t even know all over the planet.

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My harmonious day is based on what I know from within to be true.

I know that all my resources come from within.

They show up as I need them and as I become conscious of them.

My needs coincide with what others have to offer.

What I have to offer coincides with what others need.

When I tune in to my greatest gifts and express them, they attract those who are ready for them.

When I listen for my direction, I am led to follow the steps that are most beneficial for my growth and development.

I always have what is most important to me.

My path is a bright light.

All who can benefit from what I have to offer, see me.


© 2013 Kathryn Hardage
www.InspiredPractices.com

The Peace of Being Fulfilled

My first deep breath of inspiration is that I feel the peace of being fulfilled.

My second deep breath of inspiration is that everyone I know feels the peace of being fulfilled.

My third deep breath of inspiration is that everyone I don’t know all over the planet feels the peace of being fulfilled.

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Living and breathing in the peace of being deeply fulfilled is so satisfying.

Finding the path and walking in it is a completely different kind of experience than the search.

The search was necessary.

It was challenging.

It developed strengths.

It defined purpose.

But actually walking in it surpasses any of the combinations of events that has brought it to pass.

It is more than being obedient.

More than being disobedient.

More than either following or breaking the rules.

It is so much more than following someone else’s direction or listening to their opinions.

Good trials, though.

Everything has served to define purpose and path.

And now I have that fulfillment.

© 2013 Kathryn Hardage
www.InspiredPractices.com

Love Around Me

My first deep breath of inspiration for myself is that I see the love around me.

My second deep breath of inspiration for all the people I know is that they see the love around them.

My third deep breath of inspiration for all the people I don’t even know all over the planet is that they see the love around them.
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Sometimes I am so focused on the past that I do not see the present.

Sometimes, the pain of the past is so intense, that I forget that I am in a new place.

So, now I am remembering all the wonderful and good experiences, both from the past and from the present that have put me where I am today.

There are simple things.

There are birds chirping outside.

It is a beautiful, sunshiny day.

I have the most wonderful husband in the world.

Thank goodness he and I have had the time and opportunity now that our many children are on their own, to discover aspects of each other we have never known.

Thank goodness we have had the opportunity to unravel and address past issues that were always under the surface.

Thank goodness for all the solutions and the patience to search them out.

Thank goodness for the opportunity to let all the good ideas we have talked and talked about begin to take shape.

I am so grateful for the love all around us and I know that others will find that love all around them as they remain true to what is important to them and give it time to find its own path.


© 2013 Kathryn Hardage
www.InspiredPractices.com

Inside and Outside

My first deep breath of inspiration is that I listen to know what is my business and what is not.

My second deep breath of inspiration is that everyone I know listens to know what is their business and what is not.

My third deep breath of inspiration is that everyone I don’t even know all over the planet listens to know what is their business and what is not.

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I am finding that when I pay attention to what is going on in my life and do not put my oar in where it is not wanted, that I make a lot more progress.

When I start seeing lots of things around me that need to be “fixed”, I know that I am not trusting in the fact that every one is being guided to take care of themselves and that they have the infinite resources to do so.

Since my life keeps progressing in surprising ways that I would have had no way of knowing about other than through experiencing them and dealing with them, I am sure other people are having the same kinds of progressive life experiences.

We are each being given the resources we need for the greatest benefit to us and to others.

No one else can possibly see what is needed, no matter how well-intentioned.

When I go back to the things that mean the most to me, they are in a context of life experiences that are unique to me.

Everyone has that same situation.

We are each individually privileged to figure it out.

There is a reason we are here and have been given these experiences.

Not to let someone else figure it out from their viewpoint.

To listen, learn, work, struggle, be challenged, be strengthened, and then to build on that base, not someone else’s interpretation.

And honestly, no one else can do that for anyone else.

You are the source of your own strength and purpose, and you have the key to “release the hidden splendor” from within.

It is for you, and you alone, to do.


© 2013 Kathryn Hardage
www.InspiredPractices.com

On the Way Down

Even though things did not go as planned for me, I have the tools to adjust.

Even though things did not go as planned for everyone I know, they have the tools to adjust.

Even though things did not go as planned for everyone I don’t even know all over the planet, they have the tools to adjust.

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So, all the plans got ruined.

On the way down, I knew intellectually that there was room for resolution even so.

I went ahead and fell all the way down.

But not for as long.

I mostly bounced back up.

I am still having to use the tools and techniques I have learned for the past several years, but they are coming on-line and having the effect they need to have.

The present course will be carried out.

But nothing is final.

Feelings are not even final.

They are either just memories or reactions or responses.

There are new steps and new plans.

And some of them will be carried out and some of them will not.

But progress will be made.


© 2013 Kathryn Hardage
www.InspiredPractices.com

How To Be Safe

I can choose to be safe.

Everyone I know can choose to be safe.

Everyone I don’t even know, all over the planet, can choose to be safe.

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That seems to be a ridiculous thing to say, that simply by choosing, I and everyone else can be safe.

But that is because I am discovering that my safety does not depend on what is going on outside and around me.

It depends on the thoughts I am giving myself from within.

This is a very new practice for me and I am still having to get better at it.

Everyday, something happens that makes me feel scared and afraid.

I decided I had to do something about it.

Since I cannot change the news or other people’s motives or other people’s business or political practices, I had to find another way to address the issue of safety.

I decided to find it from within.

I can decide how I look at things, even though I can’t change those things.

I can look at them fearfully, because of how they make me feel, or I can look at them differently.

I can look at them with pity.

I can look at them with compassion.

I can look at them with understanding.

I can look at them with forgiveness.

This completely changes my view and my experience.

Somehow, while watching or remembering something cruel, by changing my observation to pity, compassion, understanding or forgiveness, I move myself out of harm’s way.

I can’t explain it, but somehow, by becoming the observer instead of the victim or even sympathizing with the victims, I give it a different spin, and I can see that there are solutions.

By moving myself and others out of the way of the perpetrators motives, I can see all of us in another context.

It calms my thought, lets me breathe in support for all of us, and with that breath of inspiration, makes room for something better.


© 2013 Kathryn Hardage
www.InspiredPractices.com