"Isness"

All through your life, you have been getting prepared.

Each and every experience is building up an arsenal to help you do what you came here to do.

Why did this or that happen?

Why didn’t something else happen?

All to prepare you.

Now, stop reacting and listen within.

When you turn away from the outside happenings and your feelings about them, what is left?

Something quieter.

Something very still.

In that deep calm, there something simply is.

And that’s it.

That is the thing you came here to do.

It may become an action.

It may become a product.

It may become a service.

It may become a relationship.

But those are the effects of something that is.

Find that moment of “isness”.

That is it.

That is all.

© 2013 Kathryn Hardage

www.InspiredPractices.com

How Will You Lead?

Will you accept what is coming at you from all directions?

Or will you find your own preferred direction?

Will you use your valuable time to react?

Or will you step back and direct yourself to your harmonious purpose?

Will you add your energy to destruction?

Or will you guard and nurture it to be unselfish and productive?

Will you let others set your agenda?

Or will you remain faithful to your guidance from within?

This is a tough choice when we are surrounded by even closer violence.

But, why are you here?

Do you really have any power over these things?

Yes!  Absolutely!

Go within.

Find your deep self.

Find that power.

And let the power of peace within spread and diffuse itself throughout your thought, 

throughout your body, 

throughout your action, 

throughout your attitude toward others, right within your neighborhood.

Practice peace.

Practice peace and appreciation from within.

Then let that practice expand.

As we all do this, we will run into more and more of this practice.

This is a practice that can embrace everyone.

We all, even individually, have unlimited resources with which to spread this practice.

It makes everyone feel good.

It attracts solutions.

No one is left out of this practice.

Lead from within.

© Kathryn Hardage

www.InspiredPractices.com

Start With Your Dreams First

When you start with your dreams first, your happiness will attract everything else you need to live.

Spend your early morning time, before you get up, daydreaming and meditating.

They are two different mental processes, but each will put you in a different mental state from doing your work.

It is very important to spend time in these other places.

You will only repeat what you consciously engage in.

If all you do is your job, that is all you will ever do.

When you start giving your daydreams validity by spending time with them, your favorites will begin to come more and more often.

You will find yourself drawn to one thing more than all the others.

Watch for that one thing.

Then, cultivate it with your time.

Meditation will remove you from any kind of design for your dream and connect you with the Universe.

Your dream comes from the Universe, so It knows best how to bring it into manifestation.

Release your dream to the Universe through meditation.

You will find yourself coming into contact with what you need to see your dream manifested.

You will find yourself taking action that you did not know how to plan for.

This is how it looks when you dream your dream and, through meditation, turn it over to the Universe.


© 2013 Kathryn Hardage
www.InspiredPractices.com

Breathe Peace

When is your mind most useful?

When you are distracted by some emotional event?

When you are able to think/breathe deeply and feel the solution of peace all over and throughout your entire body and being?

Breathe deeply.

Cultivate your entire being.

Feel the peace within.

Let it leak out through every pore, every thought.

As you drive, as you walk, just in your daily life.

Let this peace be part of what you are sharing.

When you create, let it be for peace.

Let all your expression, everything that you share, breathe peace, and exude peace and embrace peace.

Let your peace fill up all the atmosphere around you so that everyone who walks by or thinks of you, feels it, too.


© 2013 Kathryn Hardage
www.InspiredPractices.com

One Direction

No controversy within or without.

Begin as you mean to end.

Agree while you are in the way with the outcome you desire.

Then you will not have to correct your course.

How to remain true to your deepest ideals throughout your daily course.

These are the challenges to remain in complete agreement with yourself.

It is done best, so gently, so tenderly.

Then you can have no resistance to what is in your best interest.

You desire to take a step, and you take the tiniest, little baby step in that direction.

Don’t even tell yourself you are taking it.

Then, take the next one, and the next.

Celebrate your true honesty with love for yourself.

Love yourself, and take the next step.

Love yourself, and you will surely get there.

Move in the direction of your dreams, of your love.


© 2013 Kathryn Hardage
www.InspiredPractices.com

How I Live and Prosper

 

I am in the right place

I am at the right time

My life is beautiful

And I am whole.

I have right livelihood

I practice my deep  purpose

I am confident and serene

I am fulfilled.


I have intimate and trusted friends

Good companionship

I’m part of a supportive community

Considerate and cooperative.


As a community

We grow our own food

Our collective industries

Support all our needs.

Each one’s gift

Fulfills his own purpose

While fulfilling a need

For the community.


Excellence, trust

Love and delight

Beauty and strength

Caring and sharing


Are what our community

Is best known for.

Others seek us out

and trade for what we have.


We are unequaled

In our practice

And sharing of these qualities

and so we prosper.

© 2013 Kathryn Hardage
www.InspiredPractices.com

Thinking About Communication

 

I am so grateful.

I am so grateful for all the communication.

I am loving the internet and all my blog subscriptions.

I am loving quick glimpses into people’s activities and how easy it is to share a new interest and a new page.

I love how easy it is to track down information, schedule home repair estimates and get-togethers.

However, I am also thinking about electricity.

I am remembering communication through writing letters.

I grew up writing a weekly letter to each set of grandparents, so I had their addresses memorized.

I learned how to write, how to construct sentences, and how to create paragraphs to transition to other topics.

And my grandparents took to time to read my letters.  Since they lived out-of-state, it was a regular activity for both of us.

And it took time.

Real time.

Real hands-on time with regular guidance from my parents on topics, vocabulary, sentence structure.

A real blessing all around.

With limited electricity, long distance phone calls were a luxury.  Minutes were sacred and costly.  There was preparation in my house for such calls, with topics decided and time allotted for each family member.  A long distance call was a precious shared moment.  It was possible to memorize the phone number (singular) of everyone’s family,(one number per family).

These communications were deeper, more precious.

They were more intimate and thoughtful.

I love being able to contact everyone by phone and by texting, but I certainly don’t have all those phone numbers memorized!

I am just taking a moment to appreciate the communication and what it represents in both frameworks.

To celebrate, I might just look up everyone’s address and write a letter!


© 2012 Kathryn Hardage
www.InspiredPrctices.com