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Adding Joy
Adding Joy
I am so grateful to see more joy in my life and in my days.
I commited to discovering what I love to do and taking the steps to do it.
This has paid off over and over again and goes so much deeper into my entire life.
Even though it took several years to achieve the whole feeling, I am grateful I began adding elements of what I love to do wherever I could.
I began to look forward to collecting supplies for a project and then taking bits of time to work on it until it was done.
Often I had more than one project going at a time, because I would have to wait to figure out what I wanted to do at different points.
I was able to find others of like-mind and it was fun to work on similar ideas together.
This feeling of community broke the isolation I had been living in for so long.
Joy is an attracting factor.
It attracts you to what you love and it attracts you to others who celebrate the same kinds of enjoyment.
It is wonderful to have support as you figure out the next step;
It is uplifting to receive encouragement and suggestions as you ponder the overall effect.
Week by week, step-by-step, you create a monument to joy by your dedication.
You honor yourself in an uplifting manner.
You leave your sadness and desperation behind as you commit to a class or project.
You move yourself into the mentality of enjoyment.
You become more skillful.
You are willing to take chances and to experiment.
Your whole approach changes as you embrace this joyful aspect of yourself and make room to express it.
The more you do this, the more you move in the direction of your dreams.
And one day you live there.
© 2022 Kathryn Hardage
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Repetition and Practice
Repetition and Practice
Sometimes I think the most important thing I have learned in this life is learning to practice.
I took a weekly music lesson from age 5 yo with my mother, followed by many other teachers, all the way through grad school.
My mother taught a no fail methodical way of practicing with lots of repetition for tiny steps.
It worked out all the details along the way.
I find that I have a new application for practice when I receive a message through inner listening.
In order to honor the Universe, I am impelled to take my tiny steps toward my goal.
I practice inner listening regularly, and consistently take my tiny steps.
It works out all the details along the way.
Nothing happens too soon or in a sloppy manner.
There is no rush, but I must respond when I receive Guidance.
It is part of my contract with the Universe Who Loves Me.
Then, I am able to reach the goal revealed during my inner listening time.
I have to ignore distractions or even fight them off.
I have one priority.
To honor the Universe.
It cares for me, guides me, nurtures me, comforts me.
It strengthens me, persistently demanding that I go up Higher.
It stays with me, never deserting me, patiently waiting for me to listen once again.
Even my “lows” are higher now, because I have established a higher baseline.
The Universe expands my horizon in the way most useful to It.
As I listen and take my tiny steps, my life expands in joyful and generous ways.
When I learned a new musical piece, I knew what is was supposed to sound like, but I had no idea what it would feel like to play it.
Through repetition and practice of high ideals, I am experiencing the same sensation of moving toward a goal but with unexpected enjoyment of living in it.
© 2022 Kathryn Hardage
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“You can brighten the same elements in your character when you change your view.”
Meditation Drawing 3.15 -“You can brighten the same elements in your character when you change your view.”
© 2022 Kathryn Hardage
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Your natural attraction
Your Diamond Mind –
Your Natural Attraction
You are your best self and you are your worst self.
Whichever self you are being at the moment is reflected in what is attracted to you.
I used to attract bullies.
I had so much fear from the negative environment I was raised in.
But I also attracted good conversation from interesting and uplifting people, also because of the great intellectual environment I was raised in.
Same environment, just different things I took from it at different times.
In my adulthood, I noticed certain negative aspects taking over my life.
I had to take concentrated, rigorous steps to change that.
I poured more into the effort of techniques and studies to become uplifted and uplifting.
I had to move out of past memories and into the present moment.
I learned to respect my own desires and to follow my intuition.
I created more and more happy and radiantly fulfiling experiences for myself.
I built a new foundation for myself.
I consistently attract uplifting ideas and experiences.
My new friends are interesting and respectul.
I validate myself by the way I spend my time – in writing, drawing, sewing, weaving.
I love creating beautiful things.
I naturally attract what I practice.
I live in increasingly beautiful surroundings.
There is no limit to what the Universe Who Loves Me is giving me.
I am attentive to respond and to take my consistent tiny steps of action.
There is nothing I cannot learn in order to improve my life when I am tuned into this Universe.
I feel loved, cherished and adored.
I am held in high regard in this Universe.
I am so grateful to discover the good I attract around me in real time in the present moment.
© 2022 Kathryn Hardage
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Loyalties
Loved Cherished Adored –
Loyalties
What beliefs are you loyal to?
At your core, you contain the purest part of you.
You may have collected some bad habits along the way.
When you recognize the contrast, you can begin to change them and redirect your loyalties.
When you are loyal to your highest sense of right, you create an uplifting standard of life.
You will certainly face challenges, but your core loyalty will always take you in the best direction.
You may have hidden loyalties, which are unconcious habits.
When you consciously choose your loyalties, you may experience a radical shift as you confront the beliefs you grew up with.
Your wider view of the world may expose some of the limiting beliefs around you when you grew up.
Your new personal experiences may challenge what always seemed to be a part of you.
As you operate in your current world, you may have to shift your behavior in order to be true to your new loyalties.
Your life-practices change as you interact in new ways.
Your pure core sees everything impartially.
When you are loyal to your highest view, you, too are impartial.
Your life experiences change and your interpretation of life’s events changes.
Your world view affects how you carry out your service.
You are loyal to the idea of well-being for all.
Your actions reflect earth stewardship, regardless of practices around you from your early life.
You view the earth’s resources in terms of good for all.
Loyalty to the highest good allows you to see others in uplifting ways.
You see everyone as precious, as worthy of the means to protect themselves and to prosper.
It guides you to consider the needs of the community as a whole.
You help activate the resources in your community in terms of good for all.
© 2022 Kathryn Hardage
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What you extract from the environment
You are always extracting from the environment wherever you are.
You feel the atmosphere provided by Nature or buildings, in rural or urban settings.
You take your feelings with you and they influence your day.
What are you contributing back into the environment?
You contribute back your attitude.
It is a feedback loop.
When you appreciate your environment and want to make it better, you practice earth stewardship.
You spend time in parks, in slowing down, in taking deep breaths.
When you respond to the incessant harrassment to rush and to hurry, you compromise your well-being.
It is important to notice what gives you energy and what takes it away.
What nourishes your soul and what drags you down.
You can make the adjustments to your current environment or change environments to support your healthy need for good energy.
Do not downplay the way you are feeling when you get ready to go to work.
Notice what in your life gives you joy and open yourself to the possibility that the Universe Who Loves You has a good place for you.
You can listen within when you feel bad or when you feel doubt.
In the inner listening, the Universe is connecting with you.
It is guiding you to a lovely environment in which to live and to work.
Your good environment contains good friends and satisfying and fulfilling work.
It exists.
You are the one who has to allow for that possibility.
Show up inwardly to make the connection.
Then what you give to environment will match the happiness you extract from it.
You will create a lovely, happy, uplifting life for yourself in a healthy way.
© 2022 Kathryn Hardage
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Pebbles of Peace Pathways 2.28
Melting into Peace
When we go to visit our land in the country, I find myself just absorbing the peace.
Looking at the layers of green and the sky overhead expands my feelings so far beyond anything I have been dealing with day-to-day.
It is a gift to feel the Universe so close.
I listen to the bird calls during the day and the coyote calls during the night.
There is a rhythm to the Universe, to Nature.
I watch the trees blowing and listen to the sounds of wind in the high trees.
I hear the rustle of small creatures in the leaves at night.
I use different senses.
At night, I wake up and watch the slow progression of the constellations across the sky.
I feel encapsulated when I return to the city.
But I know another place in the Universe.
© 2022 Kathryn Hardage
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“The one wonderful thing is more powerful than anything else.”
Meditation Drawing 3.14 -“The one wonderful thing is more powerful than anything else.”
© 2022 Kathryn Hardage
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Accept Yourself
For total happiness, accept yourself as you are.
Your characteristics, positive or negative, are giving you an amazing identity.
You can change the negative characteristics and move in the direction of your dreams.
The positive characteristics are indicative of your core identity.
The negative ones provide contrast until you redirect them.
You gain your strength through redirection as you define your goals.
You discover what is holding you back and then you can ask for the help to change it.
Through inner listening, I have found definition of my problem, and simultaneously, the way to correct it.
The Universe does not leave you in a problem for very long.
It provides an answer right away which you can begin implementing with tiny steps.
You have to ask for the answer, though.
I keep measuring myself against the current “standard”, whatever that is, and falling short.
When I move into my Universe of originality and creativity, I am ecstatically happy.
I work on my projects and create beautiful things.
I see ideas and play with them.
It is my happiest aspect of myself.
Everything about me supports this core identity.
My awkwardness in social situations, my inability to relate to popular culture, the fact that I dont’ “get” certain references until much, much later, if at all.
During these periods of awkwardness, my mind is working on creative ideas.
I support myself by carrying a sketchbook to deal with the panic attacks which happen as I am not able to make normal connections.
I respond to the Universe’s direction to continue being creative anyway.
I am able to be in public places even though I am going through difficult emotional responses.
It is who I am and how I have learned to deal with being who I am.
It is okay to be uncomfortable and still be your wonderful self.
© 2022 Kathryn Hardage
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