Paying Attention

I love everything I am doing.

It is a complete change of pace for me.

I feel truly led and truly blessed with a perfect fit.

I have acquired all the tools I need to express the ideas that have been given to me.

I have the confidence to keep doing what I have been given.

When I think about anything or anyone else, I check whether that is an old habit or whether my attention is truly needed somewhere else.

Then I come back to fulfilling my own purpose.

© 2013 Kathryn Hardage

wwwInspiredPractices.com

Listening for Good

I have been listening a lot for ideas for my Themes for pre-schoolers. (www.MusicandBooksforChildren.com).

I find when I am listening for them, I am in a receptive mode for goodness and purity because of the innocence of the children I write for.

When I am in the mode of listening for ideas for young children, the Universe is very generous with uplifting ideas.

When I turn to the news, I find my mood changes and I become very anxious and upset. 

Today, I turned to the Universe for ideas about the world after writing for my pre-schoolers.

The uplifting ideas I received from the Universe about the world were wonderful.

I have decided to go to the Universe for more uplifting ideas to share as an adult.

I am also grateful to www.CommonDreams.org and www.DemocracyNow.org for their responsible journalism and its antidote to the “news abuse” we are constantly bombarded with.

I appreciate the opportunity to give to both these organizations.

© 2013 Kathryn Hardage

www.InspiredPractices.com

Your Children Are Your Ideas

Your children are the ideas that come to you for release.

(In this view, they are not the people who are born into your household.

You are merely the transport for those children to get into the world for the experiences they have chosen to have.)

The children which are your ideas have come to you to be nurtured, strengthened and then released to do their jobs in the world.

Your ideas may be to inspire, or to provide a product or a service.

These are your real children.

You listen deeply for them and they appear, over and over again in your thoughts.

That’s how you know which ones are yours.

The way you see them, nurture them, provide for them lets them enter the world in a way that will bless and uplift the people who are looking for that kind of blessing, that kind of upliftment.

That is why there is no competition.

Your ideas are already connected to their receivers.

You are the conceiver; they are the receivers.

As you are guided to take the steps to release your children-as-ideas, they connect to the people they are designed to serve.

Your business is to listen and then take action.

You are supported by releasing your ideas, your children.

© 2013 Kathryn Hardage

www.InspiredPractices.com

No Anxiety Over Any Problem

How can we free ourselves from anxiety over any problem?

I think it is by finding the source of our power.

Looking within is a beginning.

Did you know about the power we each have within?

There, where it is quiet and still, we can truly listen.

We can hear out of the depths of the deep peace and quiet something we may not have heard before, our own nature.

We are so continually harassed by all the noise of daily life that we may not have heard our own voice.

But we have one.

It is tiny if we have not used it before.

But it is there.

As we discover who we really are and what we truly desire, we have immense power.

As we listen for the deep peace and think our way through the steps that come to us, we are empowered to take them.

As we take our individual steps, we connect with others who are also coming into their awareness.

And we find that what we truly desire to do also meets other people’s needs.

It is a great way to do business.

It is also a great way to live.

With our individuality guiding us from the deep peace we have learned how to find within, we find we are not in competition with anyone else.

We have our own attraction and our own product.

We have a team that works best with us.

We have whatever we need.

We find that even our relationships reflect our sufficiency.

We are freed from anxiety over any problem.

© 2013 Kathryn Hardage

www.InspiredPractices.com

Parenting

I have received excellent parenting.

Some of my parents taught me to read and to have good manners.

Some of my parents taught me other skills.

From some of my parents, I absorbed their philosophies.

From some of my parents, I received guidance.

From some of my parents, I saw happiness and commitment.

Finally, I had children.

And so, I learned some more about parenting.

I learned about the complex requirements of parenting.

I learned how to go way beyond my own strength day and night.

I learned to ask for Guidance because my own experience was not enough.

I watched them understand some lessons and miss some others.

I watched my children grow up.

And although I never felt it was enough, I knew that I had given my all.

And then, I released them to find the many other parents they needed, just as I had been released.

© 2013 Kathryn Hardage

www.InspiredPractices.com

My New Life

I did finally realize that I was in charge of one life only, my own.

What a revelation and also what a relief!

After taking care of the physical and emotional needs of so many for so long, it was hard to break the habit.

But gradually, the reduced number in the household came down to two.

Two adults.

And no children.

Not in the house.

All grown.

All grown children.

Adults on their own.

And now, how to experience this new kind of freedom?

I have been trying out many ways.

And now, I think I have found it.

My own rhythm.

My own balance.

And I am not in the place my children left me when they grew up.

And I am not of the mind of the time my children left me when they grew up.

I am in a new time, and place, and mind.

We remember each other, but we can not see each other in our new places, our new minds, our new times.

Life is so new for us all.

How could they possibly see me where I am now?

None of us have ever been there.

How can we keep up with the changes?

© 2013 Kathryn Hardage

www.InspiredPractices.com

Plan...or Listen

In order to “release the hidden splendor from within”, we need only develop a practice of getting quiet and listening from “the within”.

As this becomes a habit, the ideas needed turn up every time.

What is your project?

What is your life?

I used to go from project to project as they filled up my life.

Now, I fill up my life with listening and the projects just get done.

Such a different approach.

Using my mind for a quiet place to listen instead of plan.

© 2013 Kathryn Hardage

www.InspiredPractices.com