Inspired Practices

  • Clarity in Aloneness

     Clarity in Aloneness

    You can begin to discover your own clarity.

    When you quiet the thoughts of others around you, there is space to become clear.

    You can feel the difference between your own thoughts and those of others.

    Your own thoughts have a serenity and belonging that is yours.

    They move you in a different way than you have been taught.

    Your goals are deeper and in a different direction.

    You value the aloneness that allows you to contact and communicate with your Higher Self.

    You seek it out.

    You are no longer satisfied to move in the direction of your previous values.

    You desire to maintain the quietness of mind which allows you to feel the deep peace.

    The deep peace has its own attraction.

    Everything which comes from deep peace is secure.

    Peace is its own protection.

    It is a force field which keeps chaos at bay.

    There is such a distinct difference between peace and chaos.

    It is easy to catch yourself when you get caught up in disturbing feelings.

    You can replace them with peace and remove yourself immediately from chaos.

    Your clarity continually calls you back to it.

    You are connecting to your Higher Power when you connect to peace.

    It is always a comfort to know the next step, and how and when to take it.

    It is a comfort to sit patiently in peace.

    Your peaceful and clear direction from within is always available as you practice quiet listening.

    It is assuring.

    This is the energy which is most effective and productive.

    © 2023 Kathryn Hardage

    http://www.shareinspirationandpeace.com

  • Alone, but not lonely.

    Meditation Drawing 3.23 – Alone, But Not Lonely

    “Alone, but not lonely, with my own good company.”

    © 2023 Kathryn Hardage

    www.shareinspirationandpeace.com 

  • Quiet Aloneness

    Quiet Aloneness

    Far from the noise, from the pressures, from the demands, there is a self that is only you.

    As you breathe in the quiet of your mind, you can sense this “person” that you are.

    You are more than your body, career, or fashion and entertainment preferences.

    The quiet lets you discover the rest of you.

    There is a peace about you when you discover this.

    There is an assurance.

    You feel a communion, a commitment unlike any other.

    It is the Presence of the Universe speaking to you, embracing you.

    This Presence draws you to deeper contemplation.

    It replaces restlessness.

    It gives a sense of contentment in stillness.

    What is it we are all rushing after?

    We discover what we have within.

    We are precious.

    We are valued.

    We are so very loved.

    And we feel this even more when we regard those around us as precious, valued and so very loved.

    What would we not do for them?

    The Universe is doing this for us.

    We let it spill over into our daily life and we live our deeper contemplation.

    We let elements from our contemplation and meditation flow into our interactions with others.

    We return to our quiet aloneness to feel, and then release, the peace we find there.

    When we discover this infinite Source, we relax into the assurance of this new life.

    We contemplate, receive and give.

    It is always available to inspire, energize and comfort us in our aloneness.

    © 2023 Kathryn Hardage 

    http://www.shareinspirationandpeace.com

  • The Message of Aloneness

    Take Three Deep Breaths –

    The Message of Aloneness

    I am satisfied with the person I am.

    Everyone I know is satisfied with the person they are.

    Everyone I don’t even know, all over the planet, is satisfied with the person they are.

    ————

    Being alone is the best way to find out about yourself.

    Not in terms of anyone else.

    Not in terms of anything else.

    Certainly not in terms of position or possessions.

    Just you, the self that is  you.

    What do you know for yourself that you have not been taught by someone  else?

    What information have you discovered on your own?

    What things make you happy for no reason?

    When you quiet your mind and just listen within, you are gradually led to discover what your true feelings are.

    You can discover your own priorities by watching how you respond to various situations.

    You can listen for the tiny steps you sense during your meditation practice.

    As you take them, you move in the direction of your own Highest Self.

    This precious time of aloneness will guide you in a deep way.

    You will find yourself drawn to a different contemplation.

    You will become attracted to a certain way of living and interacting with others.

    You will not be satisfied unless you are active in your new criteria.

    You will experience transformation.

    Your own identity will become evident to you.

    You will sacrifice everything for this authenticity.

    You will feel amply compensated for what you left behind.

    You will embrace your new life with great energy and satisfaction.

    © 2023 Kathryn Hardage
    http://www.shareinspirationandpeace.com

  • Enjoying my own company

    Loved Cherished Adored –

    Enjoying My Own Company

    The first thing I realized was that I enjoy my own company.

    I can spend hours reading a book or cooking or just thinking my own thoughts.

    I can walk in Nature or just look out the window and listen to birdsong.

    What I appreciate most is that I have learned to calm myself when I get agitated.

    I have even refined what I take in around me to avoid getting agitated.

    The news, advertising, conversation about illnesses, despair.

    I look for the healing elements which I have learned to apply for myself.

    I give myself permission to discover what I love and to do it.

    I am able to make uplifting contributions.

    How people respond to uplifting conversation is indicative of their life philosophy.

    If they add to the upliftment, I feel at home talking with them.

    If they bring the conversation back to disturbance or despair, I know to limit my time with them.

    My state of mind is too precious and too important to be dragged down.

    I am always happy to explore solutions.

    I have seen them over and over again in my life as I have been lifted out of despair.

    I know solutions are available with enough compassion and devotion.

    I am committed to continuing to find my own solutions and to sharing them.

    I am delighted when someone lets me know that I have added to the upliftment of their day.

    I hear the healing messages for myself in deep aloneness.

    These messages comfort, calm and guide me.

    They come in practical ways, as simple as avoiding a traffic jam, or as deep as reminding me of the present moment and moving me out of painful memories.

    My aloneness lets me hear that I am not alone.

    It reminds me of my connection to my Higher Power.

    It connects me with resources beyond my own imagination or experience.

    I move myself into a deep reservoir of resources and comfort through being alone.

    © 2023 Kathryn Hardage

    http://www.shareinspirationandpeace.com

  • Imagine Wholeness

    Pebbles of Peace –

    Imagine Wholeness

    I imagine a feeling of completeness and wholeness within myself.

    I imagine being completely satisfied with who I am.

    What a platform to begin my day!

    I cultivate this platform from the beginning with the statement, “I love me”.

    This changes my whole perspective and reverses negativity.

    It gives me a way to begin my day in peace.

    Step by step, I build new, uplifting experiences for myself.

    I create new memories.

    I move myself into peaceful action by doing what I love to do.

    Living in alignment with what I love creates even more peace.

    Each step of peace allows me to take on the next thing that needs healing.

    I am still working on peace and wholeness, and it is getting more and more refined.

    I can practice the behaviors I prefer and see the outcomes I desire.

    This gives me confidence.

    I am able to share my steps with others to give them courage.

    Each of us, moving ourselves into peace and wholeness, are imagining a world different from the one we grew up in.

    We are connecting through our new frequency.

    We are just beginning to imagine what the whole world can feel like through our actions as we grow out of isolation.

    Our collective sharing and healing is creating wholeness on a much wider basis.

    This is a powerful movement as we gain individual strength and share it with each other.

    We reverse the wave of negativity and create room for more light and wholeness.

    Our tiny collective steps are bringing this about in an unstoppable way.

    Our new foundation is revealing itself to us day by day and we are sharing it as widely as we can.

    We are creating wholeness for ourselves and a whole new generation.

    © 2022 Kathryn Hardage 

    http://www.shareinspirationandpeace.com

  • Imagine Genuine Care

    Young Persons Mentor/Uplifting Parenting –

    Imagine Genuine Care

    Genuinely caring for yourself leads to genuinely caring for your children.

    Imagine being aware of your own needs and being able to meet them.

    Drawing on ideas from the Universe is always fulfilling.

    The atmosphere around you grows calmer.

    This establishes a baseline for your children.

    You step out the door with your calm, and your children bring calm with them.

    You add calm to your workday.

     Your children add calm to their school day.

    Your calm allows you to act with compassion.

    You are able to move gently through your day.

    You compassion comforts in a caring manner.

    You are able to sense where there is a need.

    You are led to contribute in ways which extend and expand care and calm.

    You may plant a garden, or participate in a community garden.

    You may participate in a reading circle.

    You may set up cooperative cooking.

    You may consolidate an errand running service.

    You may clean your house in tiny steps and teach your children to do so.

    You may prepare nutritious meals for your family.

    Everything which you design with genuine care in mind adds to the calm in your life.

    Everything which you can contribute through cooperative action helps to expand calm in your community.

    Supporting yourself in a genuinely caring way allows you to live calmly.

    This is the most effective contribution you can make for yourself, your children, and your community.

    © 2022 Kathryn Hardage

    http://www.shareinspirationandpeace.com

  • Imagine Unity and Progress

    Shared Global Vision –

    Imagine Unity and Progress

    Imagine common cause with everyone in the world.

    Imagine sharing our priorities across the board.

    Imagine that those priorities are peace and well-being for everyone.

    Where do we begin?

    We begin within and let our thoughts and actions expand outward.

    We live in alignment with our values and make progress outwardly.

    We draw others into cooperation who are like-minded.

    We create a sense of well-being across the board of our activities.

    This creates a wave or frequency of attraction.

    Whoever can most benefit is drawn to our activity and can make progress.

    Their progress adds to the wave or frequency in the community.

    A natural attraction expands on the quality and outreach of our service.

    When we reach a certain point where there is an established frame of mind, an upliftment takes place.

    There is a new practice.

    It becomes the new baseline.

    As we become stabilized in our expression and we add to the stability of the community, we are able to work with other communities.

    This is how we build outwardly and transform from a feeling of isolation and limitation.

    We gently transition into a powerful frequency of effective action, which is characterized by upliftment, and which creates well-being for everyone.

    We no longer feel isolated and limited.

    We interact daily with those who have moved into alignment with the idea of well-being for everyone.

    Our community activities work from the idea of inclusivity.

    This becomes what we share with the world.

    © 2022 Kathryn Hardage 

    http://www.shareinspirationandpeace.com

  • Receive Valuable Ideas

    Meditation Drawing 3.22 – Receive Valuable Ideas

    “I am in a perfect place to receive valuable ideas to share.”

    © 2023 Kathryn Hardage

    www.shareinspirationandpeace.com 

  • A New View

    Take Three Deep Breaths –

    A New View

     I am grateful for the need to discover a new view.

    Everyone I know is grateful for the need to 

    discover a new view.

    Everyone I don’t even know, all over the planet, 

    is grateful to discover a new view.

    ———

    Beyond the realm, even of the imagination, is the divine.

    To discover it is an act of pure Grace.

    I feel that I am being led into the realm of the divine through grace.

    Through the steps of solving long-term childhood trauma I have been  compelled to find a different way, a new way, of looking at the world.

    Instead of a career, parenthood, and retirement, I am looking at the continuing download of ideas from the Universe.

    I think they come to all of us in one form or another.

    Scientists and inventors receive ideas.

    Artist and dancers receive ideas.

    Very young children and all children receive ideas.

    As we maintain our focus on ideas they continue to come to us.

    As we narrow our focus into career, parenthood and retirement, we crowd out many of the ideas.

    I am grateful for the need to solve my problem, becuase it led me into a realm of ideas which were completely new to me.

    I am now aware of a Universe Who Loves me.

    I am aware that I receive ideas from that Universe and that I can share them.

    I notice how those ideas have shifted my view about myself.

    I am willing to share them so that those who are interested can shift their view about themselves and heal.

    My new view is leading me calmly in a new direction.

    Every time I establish calm for myself, I add to the calm around me.

    I see this happening continually.

    I am grateful for all the ideas which I receive and the ways I can share my new view.

    © 2022 Kathryn Hardage

    http://www.shareinspirationandpeace.com