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Peaceful beginnings
Peaceful beginnings
Our peaceful beginnings, first thing in the morning, lead to peace during our day.
We may often have to reference our peaceful beginnings, but they are there.
By slowing our thought, and slowing our breath, we can begin to access the peace that is here within us.
I find myself going deep within, and deep below the busy mind, full of opinions and things to do.
Finally, when I quiet my mind by not engaging with any of the things it is presenting, I can feel the peace emerge.
And in the peace, my day begins.
I can hear my message for the day.
It is a message which comforts me, reassures me, directs me.
It is timely, and places me where I need to be.
It connects me with the people and resources I need for each day.
It gets my projects done on time.
Within the peace is everything I need, both in an expanded way, and in great detail.
Items I would not have thought of appear and are taken care of in a harmonious flow.
I may be asked to pause as I wait on the right idea.
It always appears when I maintain, or return to, my peace.
I am grounded by my peaceful beginnings.
I can begin at any time during the day.
Distractions, disturbances, concerns abate as I return to my peace.
Even long-term problems resolve through my practice of making room for more peace.
Peace makes room for a different kind of solution.
It makes room for all-encompassing solutions.
It prevents rash action.
It heals misunderstandings.
Peace makes room for every kind of harmonious interaction.
I am devoted to listening for my peace.
© 2022 Kathryn Hardage
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Be big enough to receive your worth.
Meditation Drawing 3.19 Be big enough to receive your worth.”
© 2022 Kathryn Hardage
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I am as I begin.
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Unknown beginnings
Unknown beginnings
When you raise your children, you do not know what will ultimately be useful to them as they move into adulthood.
You make sure they have good morals and good manners, and that they have been exposed to art and literature, and that they know how to do their chores.
The world will interact with all that you have taught them.
They will pick and choose over what they keep and what they discard.
They will shape their lives in accord with their priorities and with the pressures which are coming at them from directions you never thought of.
And they will deal with their own lives.
The Universe is taking care of them just as It has been taking care of you.
Everything, ultimately, is unknown.
The best knowledge that we can have about our children is that they have the intelligence to deal with what comes up.
They have their friends, their job skills, their own ideals and priorities.
They have the ability to act and to make choices, and they will not be yours.
The world operates differently for them than it does for you.
It operates according to their perspective.
You may observe, but there is no need to get involved with the lives of your children.
Release them.
Discover what is important to you in your own, new, separate life.
Develop your own new skills and friends.
This is a time which no one talks about, at least not very much.
It is a new time in all of millennia.
The feminine role has changed magnificently.
There are things you can offer which no one has ever been able to offer before.
There are insights which you can bring which have never been seen before.
You are valuable in a new way to a new community.
So deal with your own formidable new life.
© 2022 Kathryn Hardage
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Deepest Yearnings
Pebbles of Peace Pathways 2.34
Deepest Yearnings
As I follow my deepest joys,
I find that they meet
my deepest yearnings.
I never knew what it was
to do something
because I wanted to.
I was always forced, coerced,
guided, compelled, required.
Being let alone now,
with no other responsibilities to fulfill,
I am able, at last, just to listen.
Listen to my desires.
Listen to who I am.
Honor the sights and sounds
of my listening.
And they are wonderful.
They are beautiful.
They are peaceful.
So these are who I am.
© 2022 Kathryn Hardage
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Your Wealth of Solutions
Your Wealth of Solutions
The many aspects of your life require appropriate solutions.
How are you going to keep up with all the demands?
What is the one unifying factor to bring it all together?
When your goal is to live a harmonious and uplifting life, the many factors unite.
Through listening within for one solution, you are led to the piece that fits with all the other solutions.
The timing is according to the overall plan of the Universe Who Loves You.
You may realize that you need to take care of one element.
As you listen within, you sense that there is a solution, but you may not feel moved to take action at that point.
Later, when action is appropriate, your step may be modified from the original idea.
As you define your needs and take your tiny steps, even the ones which do not make sense, you begin to experience the harmonious fit of all the elements in your life.
As you begin to practice each new solution, it becomes an integrated part of your life.
Then you notice the next element which needs attention.
In this way, you gradually shift the direction of your life.
You continue to learn new practices and to make them yours.
Over a period of time, there is a natural evolution to your life which positions you securely in a higher place.
You realize that your desire to find solutions has created a different life-path.
Each solution which you discover through listening within opens you to deeper communion with your Higher Power.
You become willing to learn about your life in new terms.
You experience the results of listening within and the new life that it is creating for you.
You experience more inner peace.
You feel aligned with your higher purpose.
You are inspired to make a meaningful contribution.
Your wealth of perfect solutions becomes a new satisfying, evolving way of life.
© 2022 Kathryn Hardage
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Pebbles of Solutions
Pebbles of Solutions
Each little pebble added to a glass of water, lifts up the level of the water until it finally overflows.
This is how pebbles of inspiration lead to solutions which create peace.
Do not hesitate to acknowledge even one breath of peace.
It is flying in the face of the prevailing atmosphere in order to shift it.
When you acknowledge it, you give it power in the direction of peace.
Your recognition of that breath allows it to gather momentum for the next breath and the next.
In this way you can begin to prevail in the direction you desire.
Your mental shift reveals the beginning of the solution to you.
It reveals that a solution does exist.
You do not have to see the whole solution to know that a solution exists.
People who discover mathematical solutions follow one tiny hunch.
Based on their mathematical experiences, they know the significance of one shift in a formula.
Scientists are trained to notice shifts in data when there is a shift in procedure.
Sociologists are trained to observe shifts in behavior.
We can train ourselves to notice our willingness to look at something differently.
That is when we tune into the Universe Who Loves Us.
We open ourselves to a new direction, a new possibility.
We open ourselves to a solution.
The solution comes to us as a series of tiny steps.
It comes to us as far as we can see at the moment.
It comes to us despite what we see at the moment.
It comes to us in the moment we expand our view with a breath.
This is a sure and certain way to involve yourself in the solution.
You may create the solution or you may receive the solution.
Your participation in the solution guarantees its effect in your life.
© 2022 Kathryn Hardage
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Perfect Solutions
Perfect Solutions
The perfect solutions come when we listen within.
The Universe Who Loves Us has a bigger view and can bring us to the best solution.
Through our consistent listening, we begin to hear an idea.
As the idea persists, we know that it is our solution.
It may be a tiny step.
It may be a feeling of relief, and then peace.
It is a noticeable difference to how we were feeling before.
Note the difference and see what else matches this new feeling.
This guides you to your solution.
It may take you in a completely new direction.
It may not make sense.
It may be a mundane step, which also does not make sense.
It does not have to make sense to your current position.
It makes sense to where you want to be.
The Universe’s broader view leads us in an uplifting direction.
We simply want our life to improve.
That leads us to be open when we listen within.
We move ourselves into that most intimate of conversations with our Higher Self.
Instinctively, intuitively, we know we belong in a different framework.
If we knew what it was and how to get there, we would do it.
Our intuitive listening lets us know when we reach alignment with our highest values.
Then we make the connection and can take our guided step.
Step by step we move into our solution.
We trust our inner listening more and more.
We move into our new solution with consistency.
Our new habit and its’ results allow us to trust our new way.
© 2022 Kathryn Hardage
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The Human Race
The Human Race
It is wonderful to realize that there is only one race, the human race.
We have everything in common with each other, including needs and solutions.
Starting with the physical environment, we all live on the same planet.
I am always impressed with the story of George Washington Carver, who came up with so many solutions.
His deep appreciation of the beauty of Nature gave him his perspective, not the times he was living in.
His ability to discover and share what he observed gave him the ability to create abundance in agriculture.
He benefitted others far more than they benefitted him.
Overcoming the handicaps of blindness and deafness through the devoted work of her tutor, Anne Sullivan, gave Helen Keller the ability to benefit others of all races.
The seed saving initiative developed by Dr. Vandiva Shiva is benefitting the entire human race.
Nelson Mandela’s resistance to apartheid in South Africa, even though he spent decades in jail, benefitted all those who were being hurt by it, of all races.
We may be curious about a particular aspect of industry.
Botanical Colors, a natural dye company started by Kathy Hattori, is benefitting the entire human race, through education and its’ products.
As we listen for personal solutions, we are contributing to the upliftment of the human race.
Tama Kieves focused on creating a life she loves and wrote about it after facing despair in her highly educated profession in law.
We see the results, first in our own life, then, in the lives of others.
Nancy Swisher is helping women develop their own voice as a result of searching for hers.
We may be drawn to a group which helps people take steps toward healing in their own lives.
Janet Laird hosts Art for Insight, introducing techniques for managing trauma through art and writing.
We may be drawn to a group which practices high ideals.
Dave Huston started Curious Knights of Coimbra, Portugal, a service organization which picks up trash in his adopted city.
We may create ways to support people in healing their own life.
I create weekly series of art and affirmations which directs my focus on a healing vocabulary to redirect my own life.
You can see my work at www.shareinspirationandpeace.com and on FB at Inspired Practices.
We all have valuable ways to contribute to the well-being of the human race, when we listen within for an uplifting idea.
© 2022 Kathryn Hardage
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Listening for the Solution
Listening For the Solution
I can listen for a solution.
Everyone I know can listen for a solution.
Everyone I don’t even know, all over the planet, can listen for a solution.
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Right now, right where you are, you can listen for a solution.
You do not have even to be knowledgeable about the problem in order to desire a solution.
You can offer support to the knowledgeable people, simply by acknowledging that there is a solution.
That relieves a tiny bit of the pressure as people look for a solution.
I love reading about the solutions in “Drawdown”, by Paul Hawken.
His book collects the conclusions of experts in their fields who have collaborated with one another to find solutions.
I love to acknowledge the fact that so many solutions exist.
This helps to create a climate for implementing them.
We are mislead by conclusions which make us feel stuck.
There is always a solution.
Solutions are available on a personal level and they are available on a world-wide level and everything in between.
There are always knowledgeable and inspired people who find solutions.
When we begin to implement the solutions which are available to us, we help create an atmosphere which supports solutions.
We begin to see their results and how they spread throughout our communities.
We see life improve as we implement solutions.
We enjoy seeing the results for everyone as we implement solutions which are meant to benefit everyone.
Steps which move toward solutions create more and more possibilities.
We lift the level of expectancy and well-being as we create more solutions.
© 2022 Kathryn Hardage
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