Your Mind Creates your Peace

Imagine finding an unending pool of peace.

You can dip into it at any time.

You can drink a single swallow or a whole cup.

You can dip a toe into it, or immerse yourself completely.

There is an unending pool of peace and it is deep within the quiet of your thought.

As you take your three deep breaths of inspiration (www.takethreedeepbreaths.blogspot.com), one for yourself, the second for all those you know, the third for all those you do not know, you share what is in your unending pool of peace.

It is you private retreat at any time of day or night wherever you are.

It sets up an energy field around you.

When people walk into it, they feel the peace.

The peace you create expands into your community.

© 2016 Kathryn Hardage

www.InspiredPractices.com

Finding Your Place, Finding Your Voice

As you live your life you find our what your priorities are.

You may be swayed to go one way or another at times, but eventually, you adjust to your true nature.

At times, it is important to speak.

At other times, it is important to be silent.

But at all times, you are thinking.

You are being aware of what is going on around you.

And over time, as you listen deeply within, you become aware of what is coming to you from your deep Source.

This, then, becomes what radiates out from you.

You find your place.

You find your voice.

Not from what is coming at you, not from what your were trained to do.

But from what is within, what appears as your innate and true nature.

This is your guiding voice.

This creates the place you were meant to be.

This gives you your purpose.

© 2016 Kathryn Hardage

www.InspiredPractices.com

New Ideas Building on Old Ideas

What ideas have you nurtured this past year?

Which ideas are still dear to your heart?

Are you seeing action being taken?

Are you feeling the sense of joy and progress?

I had an experience of several ideas coming together in a unique way.

Then, as if to prove it to me, the Universe placed me in a position right away to carry out some of the steps in an entirely unanticipated way.

It confirms the power of the idea.

It shows me that progress is being made through the support of the Universe, even as I do my part to keep listening for ideas and taking the steps I am guided to take.

I am learning to treasure my relationship with the Universe.

It is providing me with all I need.

A sense of purpose.

Resources to carry it out.

Timely encouragement.

Supportive fellowship.

Congenial and beautiful surroundings.

Appropriate activity in temporary locations.

All I need, I have, indeed, right in front of me, every step, every day.

The ideas keep building.

© 2016 Kathryn Hardage

www.InspiredPractices.com

Do What You Enjoy

I have been making time to discover what I enjoy doing.

Now that I am doing it more and more, I am so happy.

Many more ways of sharing what I love to do are opening up.

I almost began to feel rushed to do them.

But, rushing and pressure are not part of joy.

So I am scaling back to infuse even more joy into what I do.

The most wonderful thing is how this commitment to joy is erasing the old pressures and anxieties.

It is making more and more of my life joyful and joyous.

I had o idea I could layer more and more happiness into my life.

Searching for ways to consciously define what I love to do have done this for me.

The joy is infusing itself naturally into all area of my life, the more I do what I enjoy.

© 2015 Kathryn Hardage

www.InspiredPractices.com

Do You Trust Yourself?

Do you trust yourself to learn what you need to know?

Do you trust yourself to figure it out?

If you can read directions, and you give yourself the time you need, you can put it together.

If things are not working out, no matter what yo try, do you trust yourself to go get advice ad help from someone else?

Then you can take the next step.

The more you do this, making the modifications you need for your particular situation, the more you will be able to trust yourself for the next adventure, project, goal.

You are building up connections within yourself, specific competencies which then give you the experiences you need to be confident.

Every practical skill requires knowledge and practice.

You give this to yourself every time you take on something new and develop it.

© 2015 Kathryn Hardage

www.InspiredPractices.com

Working in Pure Ecstasy

I have just begun setting up my mobile fiber art studio in our 5’ x 10’ trailer.

It is so exciting to find that everything fits with a generous amount of room.

I am astounded.

As I complete the settling in of supplies, I will give it the kind of test run Barbara Sher describes for “scanners”, that is, people who like to do a number of different things.

She advises us to set up each project with all the supplies we will need, and then do each one for fifteen minutes, to make sure everything is at hand, just for a test run.

I tend to spend lots more time on a project than that, but that will let me know I am not missing anything I need.

Having everything close at hand will allow me to work in pure ecstasy.

Once I get started, I like to keep going.

It is such a joy to play with fabric, create the designs that please me, to write the meditations to go with the journals the fabric will become.

It makes sense to practice drawing zentangle shapes to illustrate words of inspiration.

It makes sense to prepare yarn both to knit and to add to the designs.

It makes me happy to see the collection of ribbons, raffia, and embellishments which give the fiber art a little special focus.

In addition to creating the original fiber art, I am now creating kits, due to a conversation and request from a quilt shop owner and fellow quilters.

It is fun to anticipate how far the fiber art can travel and the inspiration that people will write to fill their journals.

We can all contribute to the delight, fun, depth and ecstasy in the world.

© 2015 Kathryn Hardage

www.InspiredPractices.com

Unlimited and Whole

I cannot accept the idea that I am limited in any way.

I have broken through too many barriers.

I hold exception to the many deteriorating and degrading practices I see people accepting about themselves.

I want to say, “No! You don’t have to think that way!”.

There are many other paths you can take.

We are precious, wonderful, lovely creations.

We live in an Infinite Universe of beautiful possibilities.

Imagine it!

Let your heart guide you to what you love.

Immerse yourself in doing it.

Let that wonderful feeling of doing what you love radiate around you.

Let it enhance the atmosphere of everyone you encounter.

Others will note your natural, uplifting feeling and it will make them feel good too, less burdened.

Many of us, taking the steps to do hat we love, will add to the wholeness of our world.

© 2015 Kathryn Hardage

www.InspiredPractices.com