Guard and Guide

What is going on in your mind right now?

Are you getting caught up in a seasonal or other agenda?

If so, take a moment.

Look at yourself.

What is it that you are involved in for yourself, your life’s purpose?

Haven’t defined that for yourself yet?

Well, it awaits you.

At every moment and in every place, your life’s purpose is waiting for you to discover and recognize it and put it into action.

When you do, it will negotiate all of life’s daily moments as well as the bigger overall ones.

It will let you walk through the busy times with poise, and let you enjoy the more peaceful ones more fully.

Having tried it both ways, I heartily recommend the purposeful one.

© 2013 Kathryn Hardage

www.InspiredPractices.com

Chosen Work

Filling your mind with ideas for your chosen work gives a very different feeling to your life.

It is a life full of adventure and happiness staring right where you are now.

It is a life of flowing and expanding ideas which fulfill you and enable you to contribute to the uplifting of society and civilization.

The first step is to give yourself permission to dream.

When you give yourself that permission, you are showing that you value who you are.

When you begin to value who you are, you pay attention to what you are thinking.

You direct it toward your own personal goals, not just what society is telling you your goals should be.

You find your own direction.

You are uniquely guided and directed by your own thoughts and ideals.

This is why you are here.

To carry them out.

So when you choose to look and think and move in that direction, you will be amazed at the new feelings you carry about yourself.

© 2013 Kathryn Hardage

www.InspiredPractices.com

Looking at Power

I am looking at where power or “the power” seems to lie.

It seems to lie in money.

Grass roots organizers have been able to reach a wider audience than ever before.

They are doing it right.

This is the right direction to go.

They are spreading increased awareness and knowledge.

Even though, for now, the media ads appear to be more powerful, this is not the same as spreading the truth about the issues.

The more people deal face-to-face with each other and learn about the issues, the more they will be able to tell the difference between what is true about them and what is merely an ad campaign.

The truth feels different.

The truth has a beneficial effect on everyone in the community.

The truth lives on long after the glow of an ad campaign when the community has to deal with the results.

Then the real cost will be seen and the real power will take effect.

© 2013 Kathryn Hardage

www.InspiredPractices.com

What We Hear

We are receiving all kinds of messages all day and even when we wake up during the night.

What, exactly, are they all about?

The most obvious and blatant of them are advertising messages, powerful colorful images with noisy, memorable catch phrases.

There are also embedded messages in our consciousness, put there from our first moment of arrival at birth.

There are all the messages we have picked up from our environments, home, school, work.

And there are the messages from deep within.

In order to hear the messages from deep within, we have to listen.

We have to consciously shut out all those other messages.

We have to provide a moment and a place for reflection.

When we begin to devote ourselves to quiet reflection and listening, we receive a different kind of guidance.

It is guidance by feelings.

We feel impelled to do something.

Not driven from the outside.

Not required by habit.

Not part of a business plan.

Instead, a quiet impulsion.

This is our deep individual nature being heard.

These are the only important messages we will ever receive.

These messages take care of our every need.

Once we start cultivating them, we will express our unlimited deep nature more and more of the time.

We will find that it meets our need for expression in the fullest, most satisfying way.

And it meets the needs of those around us who may most benefit from it.

It supports us and our family.

It makes a contribution to society and helps uplift civilization.

Let’s shut out the barrage and clutter of all the other messages and choose what we hear.

© 2013 Kathryn Hardage

www.InspiredPractices.com

While Your Vision Is Full...

...Of Where You Are, You Can’t See Where To Go

While you are listening for guidance, you are making room for your new vision.

As you see your new vision take shape, you have to be willing (and able) to let go of your present circumstances.

If you have asked in good faith and truly believe your next step is a good one, you have to be as trustful as you are willing to enjoy the vision.

Being trustful requires you to let go of where you are.

Your vision was given to you by going within to your Source.

How you get there is also up to your Source.

Since you have no idea where the original vision came from, you do not have to know how to get there.

Even if you have a plan to get there, it may not be the route that your Source is providing for you.

You have to let go of all your planning, and just consider it a good exercise in the reasoning factor.

You are being taken to fulfill your vision in the way that is best from the point of view of your Source.

Much more is being provided for you along the way.

Learning to trust, to take steps on faith, and through loving your new vision, a different kind of plan emerges.

It is not of your making, as your vision is not.

The vision and the way to get there and see it manifest is all up to your Source.

As you listened and received your vision, listen and receive the rest of the plan.

© 2013 Kathryn Hardage

www.InspiredPractices.com

What I Am In Charge Of

I am in charge of listening.

That is what I am in charge of.

Whatever is happening to me is on the outside.

My response, if I am doing it right, is to listen.

Then I do not react.

I am lead to respond in the most appropriate way.

Although my life is full of my own opinions plus all the ones I have accepted about myself from other people, these are not  reliable guides.

They are merely based on what has gone before.

They are based on the past.

They are based on collective experiences.

These are not necessarily solution-based.

Reacting to present circumstances based on the past only guarantees more of the same.

What I am listening for is solutions and guidance.

I want to move forward.

So many times that means I have to give up the past.

Usually it does.

The past is not a reliable guide to the future.

It is not a reliable guide to what I want since my past included a lot of problems.

Even if my past was pleasant, it still would not necessarily be a reliable guide, since there are so many new factors to take into consideration.

So, when I listen deeply, I receive the most up-to-date and appropriate guidance from the Universe.

Far more than I can be aware of in taken into account when I listen from guidance from deep within.

I am not listening for my best guess.

I am not even listening for the assessment and evaluation of someone with more experience and reputation.

I am just listening within.

Quietly.

To hear the message and to find myself in movement carrying it out.

It just is.

That is what is.

That is how it happens when I do my job and listen.

© 2013 Kathryn Hardage

www.InspiredPractices.com

Springing Forward

Do not give up.

All too often, we hear of people putting in lots of effort for a very long time and finally giving up.

Do not.

The lessons you have learned are ripening and just coming to fruition.

The idea is almost ready to leaf out and bud.

The time of most resistance is when the work has been done and just a little more trust, patience, belief in oneself, absolute conviction of the rightness of the idea are necessary.

Remember how much you love your idea.

Remember this precious and wonderful idea came to you, only you.

You are the one who can bring it forth.

You are the bearer of the idea.

You are the vessel.

You have received it and listened to it and developed it.

Now, just now, it is ready to birth, spring forth, take its first steps, become, be manifested.

Trust the Universe and let it spring forth.

© 2013 Kathryn Hardage

www.InspiredPractices.com

Emotional Chemistry

My emotions are sometimes triggered by present day circumstances even though the original cause of the reaction is long gone.

Learning to rewrite my life so that I have so many positive, enjoyable, pleasurable activities which comfort me and make me happy has been a most rewarding challenge.

I have longer and longer periods of happiness and productivity.

Now, on the more and more rare occasions when an emotional reaction shuts me down, I know it will be for a fairly short time.

Overcoming my reactions to situations which used to keep me incapacitated for weeks at a time has been tough, only because I had no idea how to do it.

I knew how to survive.

I knew how to “bloom where I was planted”.

I knew how to distract myself from abuse.

But I didn’t know how to rewrite myself from the inside in order to stop attracting negative circumstances.

Learning that I could rewrite my life has helped.

Learning tools and techniques with which to do so has been powerful.

Learning to listen from within to find those tools and techniques has been most rewarding.

Since I knew how to listen within for creative ideas, it was a case of gaining a new vocabulary for my emotions.

I learned to seek out and enjoy activities which I like.

I learned I did not have to endure situations which took away from my happiness and self-respect.

I began trying out doing things that I like.

I found organizations composed of other people who do those activities.

I began to feed my soul.

Now, I have taken so many steps in the direction that matches my best sense of myself.

They have been simple steps, but are so effective.

I love me.

I love what I like to do.

I love me doing it.

I have built a new life for myself.

I still have to add reinforcements.

The old stuff is that persistent and deeply ingrained.

But I have made great progress and I will continue to do so.

© 2013 Kathryn Hardage

www.InspiredPractices.com

A Quickening Spirit

Rather than having to prod myself forward, I feel happy about all the steps that are happening.

Aligning myself with my divine purpose is easing the way.

The strength, purpose, and dedication that has made it possible to keep studying is reshaping me and my life.

I now enjoy my new direction.

I am very aware of the steps that have brought me here.

But I am now more than an accumulation of steps.

I am launched into flight.

© 2013 Kathryn Hardage

www.InspiredPractices.com