Inspired Practices

  • “Inner Peace Living” On-line Retreat

    “Inner Peace Living” On-line Retreat

    As part of my on-going “Inner Peace Living” On-line Retreat, I invite you to join me as I explore topics through meditation and art.

    My long-term twenty-five year healing is based on this on-going work which has opened a whole new life for me.

    Being relieved of depression and anxiety from childhood sexual trauma is a gift I happily receive every day.

    I invite you to join me in this uplifting work through your purchase of one of my ebooks.

    Your study and journaling on the same topics I explore helps anchor inner peace based on a daily uplifting vocabulary of powerful affirmation and meditation.

    My first exploration is found in “Meditation Drawings and Their Meditations Book One”.

    Here is the link: 

    Meditation Drawing Book One

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    Kathryn Hardage

    www.shareinspirationandpeace.com

  • Ready for joy

     A Year Of Joy #39 – Ready for joy

    Are you prepared for joy?

    Is your life ready for more joy?

    You are ready for joy when you tire of negative experiences.

    You prepare for joy by directing yourself to think about it.

    Where does joy come from?

    How can you have more joy?

    Joy takes up space.

    What is currently taking up space in your life?

    You replace the negative experiences when you take the first tiny step toward joy.

    Can you have joy?

    Yes.

    Where do you get it?

    It comes from listening within.

    The thought which comes to you in a quiet moment is the one that is directing you toward your joy.

    It takes you in the opposite direction from where you have been going.

    It is a radical redirection.

    You have the power of radical strength in order to move yourself into joy.

    All the tired, negative things which are so old and familiar cannot compete with the freshness of daily, renewable joy.

    Joy has its own power.

    When you make joy your priority, you take on joy’s power.

    There is a Universe Which Loves You and which continually supplies you with joy.

    Live in that Universe.

    Your desire will take you there.

    Be consistent in your desire.

    You are ready.

    © 2025 Kathryn Hardage 

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  • No Conflict of Interest

    Pebbles of Peace Pathway 4.50 – No Conflict of Interest

    The conflict of interest we are seeing currently is an evolution, not a revolution.

    Although we are used to seeing it as a fight over resources, whatever ideology is used, it is actually happening through a growing awareness.

    Since there have always been solutions when generosity and compassion are at the core, we will see this happen.

    As we embrace the idea of compassion and generosity with insight in our individual lives, we will be drawn to others who practice in this same way.

    Our conflict of interest will dissolve, and we will discover paths which take all parties into consideration with their real needs.

    When we stop seeing ourselves in competition for limited resources, and start seeing all of us as both precious and important, we will act differently.

    We will find different kinds of solutions and we will take care of all of us.

    © 2025 Kathryn Hardage

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  • We are all precious.

    Love Note 1.39 – We are all  precious.

    We come into our higher sense of existence through a sense of being valued.

    In reality, we are all precious.

    Our individuality consists of the special talents we we each possess.

    It is important to live in situations which allow us to feel precious.

    In community, we find a balance with everyone’s skills and abilities.

    Each set of skills and viewpoint is important.

    It allows us all to find a way to adjust in such a way as to be inclusive of all in our community.

    What we have in common is far more important for community than anything else.

    By emphasizing our common ground, we create a foundation which can hold the many and varied viewpoints which constitute our precious individuality.

    Promoting “the general welfare” allows individuals to develop the resources to support themselves and creates vibrant community.

    Wide inclusion gives a community the give and take to survive and thrive.

    A narrow outlook is brittle and will be strained.

    When all are precious, we find ways of nurturing all those who live in our community.

    We find ways of comforting those who have been hit with hard times.

    We find ways of supporting and encouraging everyone to get back on their feet.

    We respect the fact that circumstances change and that we are all vulnerable.

    When we realize that, we are able to bring out the precious nature of everyone in the community.

    © 2024 Kathryn Hardage

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  • I am connected to happiness every step along my life-path as I listen within.

    Life Path – Connections #37 –

    I am connected to happiness every step along my life-path as I listen within.

    © 2025 Kathryn Hardage

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  • I, myself, receive good ideas and I act on them.

    Spiritual Treasure Note 2.37 –

    I, myself, receive good ideas and I act on them.

    © 2025 Kathryn Hardage

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  • Expand

    Meditation Drawing 4.52 Expand

    We expand from a harmonious base.

    Each step we take from this base adds to harmony.

    The harmony expands from within to the world around us.

    It has a multiplying effect.

    More peace comes.

    More calm, more inspiration, more happiness.

    We create a different kind of atmosphere as we let ideas of loveliness and beauty expand.

    As we embrace the most uplifting ideas and consider them, we add calm and peace to the world.

    What are the ideas which we love the most?

    This is where we place our attention.

    This is what an artist does, a musician, a dancer, a writer, an inventor.

    A beginning idea comes and then it expands through each step into a whole work.

    This is how we are creating our day.

    This is how we are creating our world.

    We filter the ideas which come to us to make sure we are only incuding the ones we want to expand.

    We work on those.

    We take each next step.

    We are always creating the kind of day and the kind of world we carry within us.

    We take a moment to pause and take a deep breath.

    In that moment we let in the most uplifting idea we can.

    I love to remember that we are all precious and worthy and so very beautiful.

    I love to listen for ideas which build harmonious community.

    The ideas which I invite in to expand are ones which embrace all of us.

    We have the ability to listen for each precious idea which will expand to include all of us.

    © 2025 Kathryn Hardage

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  • A joyous experience

     A Year Of Joy #38 – A joyous experience

    Life is a joyous experience.

    I am so grateful to be able to say that.

    I had to turn my life around in order to fill it with joy.

    It became my priority because the alternative was unacceptable.

    The first step in finding joy was the powerful statement of “I love me”.

    That was radical.

    From “I love me” came permission to discover what I love to do.

    I took the steps to do it.

    Living by doing what I love to do is full of joy.

    I move from joyful project to joyful project.

    I create experiences which are joyful every day.

    My life is full of joy because I choose beautiful things to do.

    I enjoy expressing myself through making beautiful things.

    My joy attracts more joyful experiences.

    We all deserve to live in joy.

    We can create joyful experiences for ourselves when we reject negative ones.

    We can learn to take the tiny steps which lead us into joy.

    We gain courage through each tiny step.

    We see the results of reversing our course.

    Our joyous life is an attracting force.

    We inspire others to create joy in their lives.

    Our community benefits from the joy we and others express.

    We spread joy into every aspect of our communities.

    Joy is for all of us.

    We are inspired to create joy for all of us.

    © 2025 Kathryn Hardage

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  • Provision of Peace

    Pebbles of Peace Pathway 4.49 – Provision of Peace

    The perfect peace of an early morning, sunlit drops of dew on meadow grass.

    A young raccoon makes his way across it, pausing as it searches for food.

    The perfect balance of Nature all around me.

    Trees shielding the rising sun until it peeks, then bursts over the ridge.

    Birdsong changes as the light envelops us all.

    A perfect rhythm unfolding of the day, and me in it, too.

    I have been canning and cooking food, some of which we will pack for a camping tour.

    Our increasingly tidy arrangements in the 12’ x 20’ cabin where we live, make it easy to pack.

    We have discarded most of our belongings in our desire to move into peaceful surroundings.

    Mostly all we have retained is materials for our wealth of projects.

    There is relief and then the peace flooding in.

    We know we now have unrestricted room to express all our built up desires.  

    This lets us serve in the way we are each designed.

    It is a glorious day in our new paradise of peace, part of the Beneficent Universe’s provision for us.

    © 2025 Kathryn Hardage

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  • I feel my  completeness and perfection

    Love Note 1.38 – I feel my  completeness and perfection

    I feel my completeness and perfection when I am expressing my high ideals.

    I naturally find a way to share them through doing what I love to do.

    People naturally gravitate toward what is uplifting to them and which is satisfying.

    I feel that I am in the right place at the right time.

    The world is ready to see more ways to live by expressing high ideals.

    I feel I am placed here through a deep sense of purpose.

    There is nothing more challenging and satisfying than staying true to one’s purpose.

    My connection to my high ideals is creating a natural flow of projects which are accessible to those who love them.

    My empowerment comes from the rhythm of the flow of creating things I love.

    I feel connected to an uplifting force and which impels me to create.

    I find new support as I put my ideas into a visible form.

    I feel grounded and secure as I commit my ideas to a visible form.

    I feel confident and aligned with my purpose as I see my ideas take shape in a form which is accessible to others.

    My commitment to honesty and integrity and beauty all come together in my original creations  which express my ideals.

    I create solid ground for me to stand on as I create my art based on my ideals.

    © 2025 Kathryn Hardage

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