The Value of Orchestration

Since the age of nine years old, I have been playing in symphony orchestras, at first youth orchestras, and later professional ones.

I have been in the middle of the sensations of multiple melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic lines flowing all around me.

I have noticed, even in the years after my active involvement in playing and performing, that I still seek out the complexity of lines, relationship and flow to engage me.

Most often, I seek it out in conversation.

I see and feel it in art and dance.

I definitely participate in it in any and all of my create modes.

And now, I see it in business applications.

To be most effective, there must be enough of value going on with everyone contributing to the beauty, power, majesty, and sensitivity of the whole.

It must wash over all who come in contact with it, designer, maker, receiver.  

It must be a thing of reverent, passionate memory.

It must engage and enrich all of us.

© 2014 Kathryn Hardage

www.InspiredPractices.com

Astounding Wealth

But we don’t see it as wealth.

We in the Western world have been taught to value stuff as wealth.

And the more and bigger stuff, the more wealth.

But wealth is actually quite different.

For one thing, we all have it.

For another it exists as ideas first.

So, if we never listen to our ideas, we miss out on the first step to our wealth.

One of the things that lets us listen to ideas is all of our conveniences.

We don’t have to go to a well for water.

We have electricity available every day and all night.

We can sit quietly and listen for our ideas.

We have to practice the quiet, though, because of all the media noise and all the judgements in our own minds against ourselves.

But once we get started on our practice of quietness and deep listening, the ideas have a place to appear.

Then, they tell us the next step and the next, and the next.

And that is how our wealth begins.

© 2014 Kathryn Hardage

www.InspiredPractices.com

Spiritual Marketing

I watch as spiritual marketing unfolds and reveals itself to me.

For this cause, “I was brought forth”, in innocence and maturity.

Only I can listen and feel the deep within, which tells me which steps to take.

They are new steps which have never been taken before.

They are revealed, just as the ideas and products are revealed.

Spiritual marketing is a revelation to me for each product.

I am connected with the purest people and their companies for printing and manufacturing, just as I work with the purest minds on the planet as an early childhood music teacher.

Products are produced the same way they are conceived and received and written, with conscious spiritual qualities as the impetus for each step.

© 2014 Kathryn Hardage

www.InspiredPractices.com

Find Your Own Peace

What gives you the greatest sense of peace?

What lets you feel the depth of your own nature, your own being?

Take the time to listen for it.

Walk in Nature.

Sit quietly in a corner of the library.

Where are your quiet places?

They yield a different kind of beauty.

The beauty of “slow”, of “quiet”, of “peace”.

I can’t imagine doing that when I was in the full swing of college, grad school, orchestra gigs.

But now that it is part of my life, I really love what it is doing for me.

The peace leaks over into all the other areas of my life.

It lets me look at what is happening from a different perspective, one where I am not in control all the time.

The peace is.

I carry the feeling with me.

But I still love the opportunities to recharge it and feel its depth all around and through me.

© 2014 Kathryn Hardage

www.InspiredPractices.com

Going for the Highest

I acknowledge the presence and direction of the Most High in all of my life.

Whatever is the best, I am capable of it.

I listen and I receive and I strive.

I become aware and I practice and I achieve.

No door is closed to me, but I must walk through it.

The next step is always there, and I take it.

Guidance is with me from the inspiration to the first step and through all of them for every project.

Through totally trusting, celebrating and investing in myself, I achieve success and abundance.

© 2014 Kathryn Hardage

Different Seasons

“A time to sow and a time to reap”

So many ideas pass through our mind each day.

Which are the good ones?

When will they happen?

Often, thinking about an idea and developing it mentally is the “sowing” and the manifestation or “reaping” of it takes place much later.

The return from an idea may be the simple pleasure of thinking about it.

It may be the creation of an object or a business or a relationship.

Listening to the ideas which do pass through our mind lets us analyze which ones are original and which ones are just coming in through our surroundings.

It lets us discriminate between the ones which are productive and the ones which are just noise and repetition.

It shows us which ones are actually valuable, and which ones are useless.

We are able to refocus our attention on the ideas which we do want to see manifest and away from the undesirable ones.

We then “sow” what we do want to grow in our life, and we can expect to “reap” good things from it.

© 2014 Kathryn Hardage

www.InspiredPractices.com

Your Mind Leads the Way

The new ideas you discover argue with the old ideas you received when you were little.

You draw conclusions.

You take a new path.

Or you entrench yourself more deeply in the old one.

Your mind leads the way.

Experiences tell you which is the most effective path to reach your goal.

If the old way is working, you continue to take that path.

If it is not, you become open, or possibly desperate, to find a new one.

Even if you are comfortable in an old way, you may discover, with your increased awareness, that it is not good for everyone.

With you increased awareness, you may desire good for everyone.

Then you mind will go to work on a new path and you will find a different way.

© 2014 Kathryn Hardage

www.InspiredPractices.com