My Passion and My Purpose

If I listen deeply enough, I will find my passion and my purpose.

If everyone I know listens deeply enough, they will find their passion and their purpose.

If everyone I don’t even know, all over the planet, listens deeply enough, they, too, will find their passion and their purpose.

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I know that my best ideas come from deep within.

The idea that excites me the most and is the most interesting for me is the one I want to cultivate first.

As I listen, it comes to me what to do.

Sometimes, I find myself wandering through a bookstore or following certain news items on the internet.

Something will spark my interest.

If it comes back over and over again, I know that this is the idea I am to to follow.

There is something about it that is deeply satisfying.

It is how I want to spend my life.

It is the way that I feel best about myself in the world.

It is the thing that will allow me the most fulfilling life and will contribute in ways that I cannot possibly gauge.

This is the  kind of idea that comes from deep within, a truly complete way of living.

© 2014 Kathryn Hardage

www.InspiredPractices.com

Attentive Calm

I appreciate the calm in my life.

Everyone I know appreciates the calm in their life.

Everyone I don’t even know all over the planet appreciates the calm in their life.

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I am writing this after several very stormy news stories, some are resolutions, some are continuations of problems, and some are new problems.

But I have found a way to be calm, for myself.

When I hear or read something disturbing, I devote myself to spiritual contemplation and meditation and affirmation towards a solution.

Then, I let it go.

If it comes to thought again, I discover whether I need to give it that kind of thoughtful consideration again.

Then I go on to my next priority beyond supporting a solution in general.

This is the new way I am creating more and more calm for myself.

It allows me to get deeper into my business, product design, and production.

I am not distracted by problems of a large or small nature, because I know I have given them the best kind of attention.

I am weighing in on the side of solution, resolution.

My business proceeds in a strong, even way.

I feel more productive all around.

© 2014 Kathryn Hardage

www.InspiredPractices.com

Living Freer

Learning forgiveness has enabled me to live a freer life.

Learning forgiveness has enabled everyone I know to live a freer life.

Learning forgiveness has enabled everyone I don’t even know all over the planet to live a freer life.

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Learning to distract myself when I felt myself falling down the tube of emotional distress brought on by bad memories has been a great aid to moving on.

Beyond distraction was the key provided in Collin Tipping’s book, RADICAL FORGIVENESS.

Even using the radical forgiveness worksheet, available for free, has given me more control over my life as I would like to live it.  http://www.radicalforgiveness.com/pdf/RFWorksheetMarch.pdf

Now that I do not collect more and more layers when something bad is triggered, I am not knocked down so hard or for so long.

I am able to redirect my thought to what I am here to do, and to do it.

The freedom to live my life happily in the direction of my choosing is incredible.

I am willing to look at things differently, even if I don’t understand them, and that has given me much more room to move.

The heavy burden of bad memories and emotions is greatly lessened through forgiveness.

Give yourself this gift and share your true talents and gifts through your freer life, too.

© 2014 Kathryn Hardage

www.InspiredPractices.com

My Peaceful Move

I am moving peacefully into the next step.

Everyone I know is moving peacefully into the next step.

Everyone I don’t even know all over the planet is moving peacefully into the next step.

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I no longer carry many of the problems I had.

I have worked on them and found solutions to many of them.

I am seeing myself in a different light and in a different place.

I am surrounding myself with appreciation of my new place.

I naturally take the steps which support my new position.

When the call comes, I am ready.

Even what is last minute falls into place.

The support which I have been feeling from within manifests itself in the best ways.

It feels almost effortless.

A lot is accomplished in a very short time.

I am there.

© 2014 Kathryn Hardage

www.InspiredPractices.com

Concentration

I am learning a lot by concentrating on one thing.

Everyone I know is learning a lot by concentrating on one thing.

Everyone I don’t even know all over the world is learning a lot by concentrating on one thing.

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I am gaining the insight of taking all the steps to take care of one thing.

Even though there are lots of things to do to move an idea forward, I am learning the value of concentrating on just one of those things.

Once every detail is explored and the thing moves into action, it is a completed experience.

I will not have to visit it again, not to the extent that it took to bring everything together for a decision.

Gaining focus meant that I didn’t have to move in so many directions to get the information I needed.

Concentrating on just one thing meant that I would look at it completely and resolve any and all questions regarding it.

Remaining faithful to my task meant that I would find out everything I possible could before making a decision.

I dealt with physical and emotional roadblocks.

I looked at causes and effects.

I evaluated, discussed and reflected deeply.

Then I took action.

I know that my action is based on the most complete picture I could possibly put together.

I have followed up on intuitions.

I have made a solid decision.

This frees me to concentrate on the next step in my new undertaking.

© 2014 Kathryn Hardage

www.inspiredPractices.com

My Individuality

appreciate my individuality.

Everyone I know appreciates their individuality.

Everyone I don’t even know all over the world, appreciates their individuality.

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My individuality gives me a unique perspective on what I can do in the world.

It gives me ways I can serve to uplift society and civilization in my little corner of it.

When I come up with a new idea, I can listen to it to see how it could grow into something beautiful or useful.

I can see how ti makes me feel.

Joyful?

Happy?

Ecstatic?

Sad?

Grieving?

What do I need to do to feel fulfilled?

How will the ideas that come to me increase my sense of fulfillment?

How will they benefit me and others?

This is what my individuality is for.

This is what it is about.

© 2014 Kathryn Hardage

www.InspiredPractices.com

My Friend

I am a good friend to myself.

I am a good friend to everyone I know.

I am a good friend to everyone I don’t even know all over the planet.

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It is amazing and delightful to think of myself as having so many good friends that I don’t even know who they all are.

Now that I am learning how to be generous to myself and to others, I can be a better friend.

The same way that others do not know what I am facing, I realize that I do not know what they are facing.

We all have issues that we are working on.

They have come to us because we are in a position to find the solutions.

Since we are here to live generously and to uplift ourselves and others, we can be more compassionate, more understanding, more thoughtful.

That is the best friendship that can be offered.

Solutions come to all of us when we are able to go within and listen for them.

Just listening is the best way to find a deep calm center to our being.

Since we are here and now, the solutions are here and now.

Knowing this for ourselves and for everyone else helps calm the world down a little bit.

The more we each contribute our sense of generosity and compassion when we hear of a problem, the more we are supporting those who are in the middle of it all to find a deep peace and calm right there.

That way we are helping them listen for the solutions that are theirs, right here and now also.

That is a most wonderful and generous friendship.

One of the ways I share the ideas of friendship is through my musical work with very young children.  Here is a link to my Theme, “Friendship”.  It has a Chant, a Fingerplay and a song.  http://musicandbooksforchildren.com/?p=647.

© 2014 Kathryn Hardage

www.InspiredPractices.com