Keeping Peace Within

The best way to utilize your mind is to keep it in peace.

You can have happiness, delight, joy, excitement, but they must all be within peace.

A disturbed thought cannot create.

It cannot listen within to the deep and beautiful guidance which leads us to take every right step toward our goal.

Only peace can do that.

Shallow thinking does not include all the beauty possible in a life.

It does not allow us to take action inspired by deep thought.

It skims the surface and may stop at anger or self-justification without discovering the beauty of unselfishness or forgiveness.

Deep, quiet thinking puts us in touch with our greatest creativity.

Then the action which proceeds from that includes many facets we would not have thought of in anger or in haste.

We want expression which is creative and beautiful and which really offers complete solutions which take care of everyone.

That comes from a practice of keeping your mind at peace and in peace.

Accessing those deep resources is amazing.

© 2014 Kathryn Hardage

www.InspiredPractices.com

Balanced Priorities

I am loving what I am using my mind for lately.

I am using it so calmly and productively.

I have found a new rhythm in my new location and I think I’ll be able to maintain it wherever I go.

I have just eased into it, but discovering my priorities and arranging everything to follow them.

That is, I have acknowledged my priorities and now it seems everything just follows in a natural way.

I begin with spiritual study, and then when everything is feeling really peaceful, I move to self-education.

From there, I get lots of ideas and I do product design and implementation in the form of publishing and making prototypes.

At that point in the afternoon, I am so satisfied and happy.

It is possible to follow up on a few little household requirements.

I cook and then have conversation with two other very intelligent and interesting, giving people.

Recreational reading is what is left for my day.

I make sure that the last thing I do is to go to bed, following some more inspirational reading.

It gives a nice flow to my day, with inspiration and productivity balanced with a tiny little bit of household work.

I am so satisfied and happy, and then it begins all over again.

© 2014 Kathryn Hardage

www.InspiredPractices.com

Freedom Through Forgiveness

I know that I have found greater freedom to move in positive directions through forgiveness.

Instead of being tied into the same old pattern of panic attack and depression, I have been able to let go of some of the deep long-term child trauma.

In using Collin Tipping’s Radical Forgiveness Worksheet, (http://www.radicalforgiveness.com/pdf/RFWorksheetMarch.pdf) I have been alerted to the idea of looking at things differently.

That willingness, to look at things differently, is the key to letting in some light and to breaking the cycle of panic and depression.

It is a radical approach, but it sidesteps the old cycle.

It has allowed me to move from distracting myself, which is also very useful, to moving forward with my life.

I now have more room mentally to think and do other things.

I am no longer shut down by negative memories and emotions.

When a trigger does happen, I am only momentarily thrown off balance.

I can right myself again.

I have a sense of purpose.

I have the right to accomplish it.

I have the tools I need.

I have learned something of forgiveness, not to benefit the evil perpetrators, but to free myself.

Everyone has to work out their own destiny.

I am much freer to work out mine.

© 2014 Kathryn Hardage

www.InspiredPractices.com

Evolving into Peace

Creating room for expression is moving me into peace.

I no longer feel I am struggling against my environment.

I feel in harmony with it.

I carry it with me as I have always done.

Now I have a community around me that supports my expanding creativity.

I have the surroundings of the natural environment.

I have travel plans that allow me to serve others.

I have multiple locations for teaching and sharing.

I have technology skills that allow me to communicate almost as fast as I can create my teaching materials and inspirational products.

I am no longer faced with the frustration of the limiting factors of ignorance all around me.

I have the peace of my own integrity in a beautiful place that feeds my soul.

© 2014 Kathryn Hardage

www.InspiredPractices.com

Cultivating What You Love

Your gift leads you to prosperity.

No one else has it.

It is an exclusive.

No one else has your fingerprint, voice print, eye print.

No one else has your identity.

No one else has your prosperity and abundance.

If you do not have it, it is because you have not discovered it within.

That is where everything that you need or could possibly want lies.

It all lies within through your individual gift.

As you listen deeply within to hear your gift, you will become so involved in releasing your gift that you will not think about anything else.

You will find that what you need shows up in the most appropriate form at the most appropriate time.

You will have no need, no want that is not met.

Cultivating your gift from within is you only job.

You can discover it while you are working at your regular job.

If you do not have a job, you can employ yourself by looking within.

You will discover your purpose.

You will discover your unlimited resources and be guided in sharing them.

As you release them, there will be room for the things you need to flow in to your life.

© 2014 Kathryn Hardage

www.InspiredPractices.com

Within Is the Only Place

Within is the only place to find out who you truly are.

It is the place where you have not been influenced by your surroundings.

There is a deep purity within you who knows who you really are.

Once you have the tools, it is easily accessible always.

You have to get familiar with the access code.

It is one which you have to practice.

The access code is Listening.

Listen quietly within.

Have nothing else to do and quiet your thought when it keeps suggesting things for you to do.

Eventually, as you practice listening and shutting out all the mundane thoughts which keep coming to you, you will be able to listen a little bit.

The more you practice, the longer you will be able to listen at a time.

Eventually, you will turn within every time you need direction or guidance.

It is the most pure form of guidance you can receive with only your welfare at heart.

It provides the best way you can be of service.

It provides the most fulfillment.

It is the most private and intimate way to get in touch with your thoughts and to hear them from their Source, the Universe.

It is the safest, most protected place to hear the most beneficial guidance you can ever receive.

You can trust what you hear within and act on it.

© 2014 Kathryn Hardage

www.InspiredPractices.com

Your most important contribution

Keeping your mind calm so you can receive messages from within is your most important contribution.

It contributes to yourself and to society and civilization as a whole.

When your mind is calm, you can feel the excitement of a new, true idea.

You can discern the difference between a solution you have created and one you have received.

The received solution always turns out to be the most far-reaching and beneficial and powerful.

Listening from within is where individuality and effectiveness come from.

Keeping calm is best, but restoring calm is also very powerful.

Taking the time to learn techniques for refocusing and restoring calm is worthwhile.

Sometimes I take three deep breaths (www.takethreedeepbreaths.blogspot.com), focusing on myself, then everyone I know, then everyone I don’t even know all over the world.

That lets my thoughtful consideration go beyond myself.

Sometimes, I remember a good event I have heard about.

Sometimes, I practice gratitude.

Sometimes I sing a little appreciation song to myself.

I am also listening for new ways to expand my sense of calm and well-being.

I know that I have a valuable and important contribution to make so I take the steps to make sure I can make it.

© 2014 Kathryn Hardage

www.InspiredPractices.com