Inspired Practices

  • Being still

    Messages and Affirmations 2.12 Being still –

    As the holiday pace picks up, I am grateful that I have an active practice of being still.

    I can access my inner peace at any moment, and I do, often.

    I can pull myself out of depression or anxiety because I have a track record of remembering who I am.

    I do not get overwhelmed because I back away from it as soon as I notice what is happening.

    I value my peace of mind more than any other thing.

    I can think clearly as I step away from pressure or a rush.

    I make my preparations in advance as much as I can.

    I know that whatever needs to be done, will be, with a minimum of effort.

    Being still is good all year round, but it is especially good during times which have the potential to build up pressure.

    Even in crisis the stillness is available.

    I take my first deep breath and listen within.

    I know I am where I need to be and I can change where that is whenever necessary.

    I treasure being still during normal days.

    I relax in the presence of stillness.

    I feel fulfilled as I give gratitude for inner peace, quiet, harmony and stillness.

    Stillness is something I cultivate every day.

    I value it as a real commodity.

    It comes to me because I practice it.

    I am ready to receive calm, and peace and stillness.

    More and more quickly, I turn away from tension and stressful situations.

    I know who I am.

    I am one who loves being still.

    I receive continuous uplifting ideas to share in the presence of stillness.

    It is my best state of being.

    © 2025 Kathryn Hardage 

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  • Happiness and joy

     A Year Of Joy #50 – Happiness and joy

    Happiness and joy are partners.

    One always brings the other along.

    Little steps of happiness bring joy.

    Joy expands our happiness.

    Sustained happiness is one of the ways we express joy.

    We step from moment to moment of happiness and create a wonderful day.

    We anticipate another such day as we record our moments of happiness in our Joy Journal.

    We build up our expectation by the happiness we give ourselves every day.

    Creating moments of happiness is a legitimate way of reinforcing the life we want to live.

    The moments of appreciating Nature’s daily changes expands into appreciation of the seasonal changes.

    Noticing the rhythms of conversation, even if you do not understand the language, entices the ears.

    A new, delicate spice can create happiness for the tongue.

    Roasting vegetables in a spicy meat stew releases a rich smell of goodness.

    There is tactile delight of textures and surfaces in clothing and fabric.

    Small moments collect and join together to create happiness and joy.

    This gentle method of collection is a way to fill up with happiness.

    I love it when I can turn away from tension through focusing on something beautiful.

    The way light diffuses throughout the day through the clouds and through the leaves creates restful patterns.

    My happiness is more sustainable through noticing small moments consistently.

    I feel a sense of satisfaction and relaxation when these are natural parts of each day.

    There is a gentle flow when there are moments of happiness and joy.

    This way, tension and frustration do not build up.

    They are constantly interrupted with focused attention on happiness.

    We replace unwanted feelings with the true feelings we desire of happiness and joy.

    © 2025 Kathryn Hardage

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  • Deep Peace in the Mojave

    Pebbles of Peace – Word Walls 5.9 – Deep Peace in the Mojave

    Some years ago…
    Driving with husband in his new over-the-road bus to be converted into a PinewoodDerbyWorkshop…

    There is deep peace and deep isolation as we cross the Mojave Desert.

    The mountains and sparse vegetation vie a sense of largeness, with lots of spaces for the eye to wander.

    During our long ascents and descents, my husband adjusts to a lower gear in our 47-passenger bus (soon to become a mobile woodshop).

    The changes in greens, whenever there is a little bit more of it, are dramatic.

    The gray-greens, sand-browns and lava-blacks outline long stretches of contour.

    The cacti that are beginning to appear feel like a celebration.

    There is room for contemplation over the geologic upheaval which caused the Pacific Basin to recede to what is now the California coastline.

    Big changes across eons of time.

    © 2025  Kathryn Hardage

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  • Everything  beautiful comes my way.

    Love Note 1.50 –  Everything  beautiful comes my way.

    When I tune into the loveliness around me, I realize that everything beautiful comes my way.

    I have been consciously cultivating congenial surroundings for several years.

    I realize that it is my right to live in beauty.

    I am creating an atmosphere which allows me to create beauty.

    The resources I need, the connections, the recognition and appreciation are all part of the beauty which comes my way.

    I can choose to live in beauty as easily as I can make any other choice.

    I know how to draw beauty to myself as well as intelligence, good conversation and humor.

    Integrity and honesty are part of the beauty which comes my way.

    I love how beautifully in balance my life is becoming now that I am doing what I love.

    Making my life beautiful by doing what I love is a wonderful choice.

    I can see the beauty in the world and add to it.

    I can feel the uplift from the beautiful work I do.

    Making beauty attracts beauty.

    A strong commitment to beauty brings it my way.

    There is no doubt in seeking a beautiful life.

    It is natural to include beauty in my life.

    The purpose of my life is to acknowledge the beauty that I desire and to create it.

    I extend my reality of beauty by the way I express it.

    © 2025 Kathryn Hardage

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  • My life holds a completely different course through my practice of connection through inner listening.

    Life-Path Connections #48 –

    My life holds a completely different course through my practice of connection through inner listening.

    © 2025 Kathryn Hardage

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  • With my hands, I can make many valuable things.

    Spiritual Treasure Notes 2.48 –

    With my hands, I can make many valuable things.

    © 2025 Kathryn Hardage

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  • I love the calm I can generate for myself

    Messages and Affirmations 2.11 – I love the calm I can generate for myself.

    Even in the midst of chaos and confusion, or its opposite, apathy and depression, I can generate calm for myself.

    This is a learned practice through listening within.

    Beneath all the busy speculation and distraction is a continuous peace.

    It is uninterrupted and uninterruptible.

    It is Source energy.

    There is no confusion or depression in Source.

    It is uplifting the moment I make contact with It.

    Source waits for me to remember that It is here.

    I do my part by listening within.

    Then, with relief, I receive the reassurance that I am in my right place and in my right mind.

    I have a purpose, I have a tiny step I can take.

    I am here to take one tiny step after another to build on a foundation of calm.

    It is working as I emerge from the confusion and chaos and it is felt as I share the inspiration and peace which comes to me.

    I am heartened and encouraged by the new realities I see around me as people solve society’s problems.

    Enough is happening in enough places that it is apparent that good has a lot of power.

    There is lots more work to be done to create well-being for all, but there is a lot that is going on in this direction.

    I take my deep breath.

    I look around my Studio to see what next steps I can take on various projects.

    I feel safe, secure against the mental and emotional disruption of the news cycles.

    I have always heard and responded to Guidance when there was any kind of a problem.

    It is my habit to draw on Resources beyond my own knowledge.

    The Universe never fails me.

    It is here for all of us as we listen for the calm connection within.

    © 2025 Kathryn Hardage

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  • Give joy

     A Year Of Joy #49 – Give joy

    You have an uptapped infinite treasure which is your legacy and your inheritance.

    It does not come from investments.

    It does not come from savings.

    It does not come from withholding and being careful about your spending.

    This infinite treasure is your joy.

    It attracts to you what you need to express it.

    If you need an idea, it comes to you through joy.

    If you need transportation, it comes to you through joy.

    If you need sincere friendships, they come to you through joy.

    The wonderful thing about joy, is that once you start the flow, it keeps coming.

    Joy overflows from your life into the lives most closely connected to yours.

    It overflows into people in stores and on the street.

    It overflows into the traffic in your city.

    Give joy at every opportunity.

    Hold doors for people.

    Help run errands.

    Set up a food bank.

    Connect with other joyous people to create projects for improvement in your community.

    Start with those who need it most.

    You will tap into amazing unused skills.

    Help cultivate them.

    See the joy pile up into community projects.

    Keep the joy flowing through the next project and the next until no one is left out.

    Hope will be renewed and fulfillment and satisfaction will be established.

    Joy will reverberate back and forth across every part of your community.

    Start the flow.

    © 2025 Kathryn Hardage 

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  • Outward and Upward

    Pebbles of Peace – Word Walls 5.8 – Outward and Upward

    What is the act that will lead outward?

    What is the act that will lead upward?

    What is the spontaneous act that will convert the world?

    We are looking for caring, giving, sharing, compassion, kindness.

    We are practicing self-centeredness, protection, and building walls.

    When will we see we are all loved, cherished and adored?

    That it does not depend on the things that walls are made of.

    Differences bring us together, invigorate us, expand our empathy.

    Needing less, we can share more.

    Forgetting self-justification, we can act with certainty and understanding.

    Can we restore ourselves to higher ground?

    Can we include everyone?

    © 2025 Kathryn Hardage

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  • Willing to go the distance.

    Love Note 1.49 – Willing to go the  distance.

    When we are willing to go the distance, we are willing to do whatever it takes to accomplish our goal.

    We listen within for Guidance and we take the required action.

    Our life must be centered around something which is really important and significant to us in order to make it worthwhile.

    The individuality which with we have been gifted is what directs us toward that worthy goal.

    It gives us courage and commitment.

    It gives us the imagination to apply to solutions.

    It gives us a high enough goal to apply all our resources.

    And then it is worth the effort.

    Investing in ourselves to successfully accomplish a challenging goal is worthy.

    Overcoming challenging circumstances proves to us that our goal has value.

    We are committed to expansion of our skills and of our view.

    We can reach higher as we fulfill the challenges which come to us.

    We lose our fear when we habitually take on new challenges.

    Our skills develop with each new task.

    Once we gain the skills and knowledge we need, we are empowered to do what is required.

    Our world opens up.

    We gain a new viewpoint.

    We are enabled to believe in ourselves as we commit to going the whole distance.

    We gain strength and poise and confidence.

    Then, we can take on the new goal.

    © 2025 Kathryn Hardage

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