Moving Into My Domain

It is an amazing pleasure to discover my heart’s own direction.

I am having a marvelous time setting up my new studio with all my supplies easily at hand.

They are overflowing.

Each step that makes it more convenient to work is greatly appreciated.

I am able to spontaneously step into my area and gather materials and make wonderful things.

Long-term projects which I have collected are now accessible and can be completed.

This is a completely different feeling from “blooming where I was planted”.

I have found richer soil in which to grow.

My work is being seen and appreciated.

I no longer have to divide my time and justify what I am doing while my heart waits to be heard.

If I knew how to do this earlier, I would have certainly done it.

Discovering the way has taken longer, but I am here now and I am so very grateful.

It is an amazing feeling to have a perfect fit.

It is possible.

It can be done.

I love who I am.

I love what I do.

I love being in alignment with myself.

© 2016 Kathryn Hardage

www.InspiredPractices.com

Your Mind and Your Soul

Listen to what your mind knows when it is attached to your soul.

What does it know?

Can you even feel your soul?

It is there.

It is telling you some amazing and wonderful things about yourself.

They just feel so natural and so good when they surface in your mind.

You have to listen.

You have to be very quiet and listen consistently.

That message is not going to appear unless you really devote yourself to it.

This is who you are.

This is your most fulfilling role.

This is your immense true worth.

Don’t listen to all the noise.

Get quiet.

Get private.

Go listen until you hear it.

It is the most satisfying feeling in your mind.

© 2016 Kathryn Hardage

www.InspiredPractices.com

Do Not Be Overtaken

Do not let your mind be overtaken by violence.

Even though I am in an environment of many painful memories, I am able to access my deeper peace by some effort.

By writing, I am able to focus on the Source of my ideas.

This Source has been with me for my entire life.

More recently, I have learned how to access it for purposes of finding deep peace.

I am in the process of finding my “new” family as described in the experience of Job.

After Job’s many trials and through his faithfulness, it is recorded that his life was restored, but with a new family, which did not include a new wife.

My own interpretation of this story is that Job’s new family consisted of his students.

Though Job’s family of origin dropped away from him, and he from them, his students were able to see the new foundation which he had built through his trials.

They wanted something of this new interpretation of life.

When we meet a series of long-term trials, we too, can diligently search for a new foundation upon which to build, and find a “new” family.

© 2016 Kathryn Hardage

www.InspiredPractices.com

What You Are Doing With Your Mind

All those millions of thoughts that you think every day are creating your life.

When you consciously choose what those thoughts are, you create a different kind of life.

Look in the direction you want to go, and watch how your thoughts match up to that goal.

Are they taking you closer or are they just taking up space and time?

With awareness about the thoughts that come to us, we can choose to keep them or to let them go.

With guidance from within, the best source for deep and powerful thoughts, we can recognize and cultivate the life we choose.

We can surround ourselves with those of like mind.

We can move in the direction of uplifting and purifying the atmosphere, both mental and physical.

Asking to be in the service of the Divine lets us choose a direction which blesses us and those we serve.

Do we have the humility and confidence to trust that kind of vision?

If not, what kind of power are we trusting our vision to?

What are we actually doing with our mind?

Our mind is an avenue of awareness.

Let’s not clog it up with media harassment or replays from the past.

Let’s clear it out and make room for some really great goals and fill up our life with that kind of vision.

© 2016 Kathryn Hardage

www.InspiredPractices.com

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