What Are You Valuing Most About Yourself Today?

Your bank account?

Your body mass index?

Your closet full of clothes?

Your friends and their opinions?

Current news topics?

The state of your household?

As I used to watch the millions of thoughts that fly through my mind during the day, I realized that very few of them were taking me in the direction I wished to go.

They were not adding to my value.

I was spending lots of time in thoughts about various topics, and many of them were negative thoughts.

Through a lot of study, I have become very selective about what I think about.

I want it to add to my value.

I value most my ability to stop and become conscious of what I am thinking about now.

I value most my ability to choose which direction I want to send my thoughts.

I value most my ability to change my direction in life and to make it more productive and positive.

As I do this, I notice my bank account, body, clothing, friends and the news take up a lot less room in my thoughts.

Everything feels better about me.

© 2013 Kathryn Hardage

www.InspiredPractices.com

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Wonderful Things

I had to remind myself that there is peace and calm in a sense of expansion.

Instead of getting so excited that there is not room for any other feelings, I can be pleased and appreciative in a sincere and happy way, and still feel the glow of being myself all over.

That glow is the Universe’s interpretation of me.

The Universe already knows about all the exciting things that are happening.

So, getting the jolt of excitement isn’t what is really the most fruitful feeling.

Of course, wonderful things are happening.

That is our expectancy.

Feeling good about an event doesn’t mean we have to lose our perspective on the glow that is all-pervading throughout our lives.

We can’t even really add anything to an all-pervasive glow.

We can just notice that there is a little something extra that we and others are perceiving at that moment.

When we are living in expectation of wonderful things, of course they show up.

© 2013 Kathryn Hardage

www.InspiredPractices.com

Receiving A Clear Message

When you are receiving a clear message to do something or to go in a particular direction, do it.

Do not try to figure it out.

It will not necessarily make sense.

I found myself thinking I wanted to set up certain areas to do certain projects.

But the message was very clearly to abandon everything else except the preparations I was directed to make.

In taking on a new activity, everything points to the birth of it.

I found I could not do the kinds of projects I love, while in the midst of preparing for this new birth.

It finally became evident that the thing which I had desired and worked for so much was truly coming to pass.

And now was the time to take the physical action to support it.

In fact, it was so strong, that I was not allowed to get distracted or to do anything else.

During the birth of my children my entire body and mind were completely focused on the birth.

I mentally and spiritually and physically supported that process.

I am experiencing something like that now on a household-wide basis.

Only that which supports this new birth is allowed to be in my thought and actions.

Nothing else.

This is totally impelled by the Universe, 

I am amazed.

And willing.

And obedient.

And happy.

What a supported and clear and natural experience.

© 2013 Kathryn Hardage

www.InspiredPractices.com

Your Own

Written July 24, 2013

If you weren’t going to someone else, what would your own revelation be?

Read.  Study.  Reflect.  Listen.

Draw your own conclusions.

They are the ones that mean the most to you.

They are the ones which will guide you in your own true path.

Trust yourself, or if you are not ready to do that, trust the One that made you and brought you here.

The Universe sees you and supplies you as an individual, not as part of a group.

The more you practice your individuality, the more directly you will receive your resources, the ones intended for you.

© 2013 Kathryn Hardage

www.InspiredPractices.com

Doing What I Love, Who I Really Am

Written July 23, 2012

When you free yourself from limitations, you are practicing the most effective form of freedom.

You can learn a new skill.

You can practice to become better.

However, the most limiting factors of anyone are the habits and attitudes we accept about ourselves.

Finding freed from limiting habits and attitudes involves redirecting our thought consistently.

In EVOLVE YOUR MIND, the author describes how we have arrived at our present state and how to change it.

Choosing a new attitude and practicing it more and more consistently, redirects our lives.

We can do this one habit at a time

When we choose our new direction, we can see what no longer serves us and we can replace it.

© 2013 Kathryn Hardage

www.inspiredPractices.com

No Interfering

Written on July 20, 2013

I get to learn this lesson over and over again.

The same way great and useful ideas are coming to me when I need them, they are coming to everyone else.

Even if I want to help someone or ease their way, that is irrelevant.

What they need is coming to them in the way they can best receive it.

I trust the Universe for myself.

I trust the Universe for everyone else.

© 2013 Kathryn Hardage

www.InspiredPractices.com

Savor the Feeling

When you and your mind are aligned you are happier and more productive.

In fact, when you are carrying out someone else’s dream, you are actually not yourself.

You came here to be yourself.

You came to celebrate your unique gifts.

Take a moment to consider doing what you love

Savor the feeling of doing what you love.

Trusting what you love to do to support you is a big step.

So don’t take that one yet.

But do take a little one.

Go back and savor that feeling.

Make that your practice, to savor the feeling of doing what you love.

If you will open yourself to the feeling of doing what you love after a while you may actually feel you could consider a baby-step.

But not yet.

© 2013 Kathryn Hardage

www.InspiredPractices.com