Inspired Practices

  • The members of my community are musical and artistic.

    Spiritual Treasure Note Series 5.42 

    The members of my community are musical and artistic.

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    We celebrate in dance and song.

    We draw, paint, sculpt, create in every form.

    We are writers and poets and dramatists.

    We imbue artistic energies into our community.

    We express every emotion through our art and music.

    We are thoroughly energized as we create and share our music and our art.

    © 2024 Kathryn Hardage

    http://www.shareinspirationandpeace.com

  • Different

    Meditation Drawing 4.3 Different

    What is different about today?

    What is different about you?

    The most wonderful thing is your difference, your individuality.

    You have uniqueness of awareness, of expression.

    You have particular tiny steps which are taking you to your destination.

    Each step creates a new day.

    It adds to the freshness, upliftment and purity of the day.

    As you listen inwardly for your instructions for the day, what do you hear?

    What do you sense?

    Do you feel the peace which is yours to share?

    Do you feel the harmony which permeates the atmosphere within and around you?

    That is a very different picture from what the world is presenting.

    This is your gift.

    Your different point of view.

    Right in the middle of all the chaos, is the moment of peace.

    It is the breath which you draw.

    It is the interruption of the chaos and fear.

    Your difference is that you do not accept it.

    You are presenting a different picture, and people around you feel it.

    You are saying “yes” to a different sense of life.

    This “yes” is full of divine power.

    You have a different practice.

    You look at the world with freshness, which invigorates you and others.

    We all feel the pressures of life, but we can look at them differently.

    We can add to the energy of peace and freshness and wholeness.

    © 2024 Kathryn Hardage 

    http://www.shareinspirationandpeace.com

  •  Comfort of living in joy

    Comfort #41 Comfort of living in joy

    My ability to live in joy depends on taking the tiny steps which come to me through listening within.

    I have discovered this efficient approach through my practice as I learned how to release myself from depression and despair.

    I journalled the ideas which came to me from listening within.

    I was led to create blogs, then art and affirmations.

    I spend my days in listening for creative ideas.

    It gives me joy to see them come to life through my work.

    Others respond to my uplifting messages and it increases their joy.

    I love bring bringing others into their natural state of joy.

    As we release the negative memories of the past, we make room for joy.

    We spend time in joy through reading affirmations and reflecting on their deep message.

    We are precious.

    We are loved, cherished, adored.

    We can live in this comfort wwhe we surround ourselves with these new uplifting messages.

    They become part of our vocabulary about ourself.

    We replace the old habits and words with new, uplifting ones.

    We study, read, write, speak in an uplifting way about ourself.

    This gives us joy.

    When we discover that our consistent practice redirects our life we feel genuine joy.

    It is a comfort to know we can create a joy-filled life for ourself.

    Whatever the situation, we can add more joy.

    Joy lifts us out of the situation by replacing our experience of it.

    We take our tiny steps over and over again as we add joy.

    Our new practice creates our new life.

    © 2024 Kathryn Hardage 

    http://www.shareinspirationandpeace.com

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  • Rebirth – Part Two

    Pebbles of Peace Pathway 2.52 – Rebirth- Part Two

    It may have been good if it took us a long time to get there, because then we have the practice to keep us in our new life.

    If not, we have to practice our new habits some more until they become part of us.

    We can tell when our practice is lagging because our circumstances reflect it.

    We can go within to listen for the new messages which will keep us growing and becoming more and more successful.

    The messages from within do not conflict with anyone else, they do not compete.

    They light our way and our way alone.

    No one can come in through your way, and I promise you, you cannot come in through someone else’s way.

    If you do, it is only temporary.

    Remember, the kind of success you are looking for is the rebirth of your soul, your right to success, not a job working for someone else’s dream.

    © 2024 Kathryn Hardage

    http://www.shareinspirationandpeace.com

  • Delight

    Artist Trading Card Series – Word #41 – Delight –
    and Mini-Meditation

    It is my delight to sing.

    It is my delight to dance.

    It is my delight to write.

    It is my delight to create.

    © 2024 Kathryn Hardage

    http://www.shareinspirationandpeace.com

  • My old path does not have to be my new path.

     Life-Path Story Mazes – #39 My old path does not have to be my new path.

    As I take my first deep breath of inspiration, I take in a new idea.

    I am listening for new ideas about my life.

    Even though I have the same thoughts over and over every day, I can introduce a new one.

    This new thought can be the beginning of a new life for me.

    I can be happier and more satisfied and fulfilled in my new life.

    I can approach things I do with a view for new opportunities.

    I can express myself with more clarity as I carry out my present duties.

    This gives me more focus on what I love to do.

    I can release what I do not love by replacing it with what I love.

    Since I love to be happy, I can practice being happy right where I am.

    My new happienss will attract more happiness.

    My new path will certainly include my new happiness becuase that is what I am looking for.

    The Universe can tell I am looking for more happiness because I am expressing more happiness.

    I can get my life in order beginning with my first tiny step.

    As I take this tiny step and create more order for myself, the Universe will notice that I want more order.

    I will be impelled and empowered to move in the direction of more order.

    The order and happiness I am bringing into my present life will increase and overflow into other areas of my life.

    My new path will include more beauty as I notice it around me.

    I may buy myself flowers.

    I may compliment someone.

    I may find a way to uplift someone in conversation through appreciation for their work.

    The Universe is noticing and sending me more opportunities to add beauty to my life.

    My new path emerges as I continue to listen within and add more of what I want right where I am.

    When I am full and overflowing with new expression, I am on my new path.

    © 2024 Kathryn Hardage

    http://www.shareinspirationandpeace.com

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  • The members of my community give generously in every way.

    Spiritual Treasure Note Series 5.41 

    The members of my community give generously in every way.

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    My community is a place for giving.

    Everyone is seen as worthy.

    Everyone has worthy gifts to contribute.

    There are no limitations on generosity.

    Everyone is encouraged to express their gifts and to share them.

    We all feel so abundantly blessed.

    © 2024 Kathryn Hardage

    http://www.shareinspirationandpeace.com

  • Count

    MD 4.2 Count

    Count what you are doing as important, because you are worthy.

    Your daily commitment to excellence enables you to serve.

    Your devotion to service is your consistent contribution to society and civilization.

    You can count your stuff, your age, your friends, your accomplishments.

    You can count on your daily habit of inner listening.

    This will take you where you need to be and occupy your time with what is most important.

    You may have a day of reflection.

    You may have a day of running errands smoothly.

    You may have a day of creativity.

    What you can count on, is that you will be contributing to peace.

    Your inner listening launches you with a feeling of peace which goes into the atmosphere all around you.

    Despite the confusion and chaos reported by the news cycles, there are underlying moments of peace.

    The more we pay attention to these, the less overwhelm we will feel.

    We will keep disrupting and interrupting the feeling of getting carried away by emotional upheaval.

    We will add to the peace.

    Many thousands of people are doing this.

    We are seeing the results in the calm we are adding to our own lives.

    This shows up in our excellent work, family organization, calm during our commute and while standing in line.

    Every time we are not impatient, do not get angry or agitated, we are adding to the peace.

    Every time we appreciate someone’s artwork, compliment someone on how they are dressed, hold the door, offer encouragement, we are adding to the peace.

    This is an uplifting, spiritually mental process and it is available to us all the time.

    We have much to offer and we can count on doing it.

    © 2024 Kathryn Hardage 

    http://www.shareinspirationandpeace.com

  • Comfort of being happy

    Comfort #40 Comfort of being happy

    It is such a comfort to me that I have discovered how to be happy.

    Working my way out of depression and anxiety and despair began when I realized that I could take control of my life.

    I decided to be an owner instead of a victim.

    I learned that I could “outlove” the past.

    I could replace memories with new, current, happy experiences.

    I began to fill myself up with happy experiences.

    I choose to do what I love.

    I find fulfillment in making beautiful things.

    I learned the new skills I needed to continue to share my work.

    It is a comfort that the ideas continually flow and that I get to play with them.

    I see their uplifting results by the responses I receive.

    Each time we share an uplifting moment, it goes into the world and lessens the pain for someone.

    We are all working toward happiness.

    Each breath of deep peace which we bring into our body permeates our being.

    We can slow down and breathe.

    We can create new circumstances and environment for ourselves.

    Our comfort goes much farther than into our own life.

    We overflow with the happiness we create for ourselves.

    We share it freely and generously.

    We are comforted by the fact that the ways we find happiness spread to others.

    We are not in the world alone to live our life in isolation.

    We are here to share the comfort of happiness with others.

    We draw on our Source of happiness by listening within.

    It appears in the just the way we need it.

    Our tiny, guided steps bring us the comfort of happiness.

    © 2024 Kathryn Hardage 

    http://www.shareinspirationandpeace.com

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  • Rebirth – Part One

    Pebbles of Peace Pathways 2.51 – Rebirth – Part One

    Even if a life has not gone as hoped, the peace of rebirth is still a possibility.

    The Universe has unlimited resources of support which come to us as we are searching.

    Our disappointment is part of the process of rebirth.

    We do not accept our situation.

    It is unfair, whatever the reasons for it.

    We have the right to live well in the Universe of unlimited resources.

    Although it is a struggle to rewrite the patterns and habits of thought which have led to our disintegration and lack of growth, it can be done.

    As we realize what we desire is good and is possible, even starting from horrible and negative circumstances, we naturally look around for how to start.

    That spark from within is where it starts.

    It is also the place that all action comes from.

    The ideas are within and they lead us to the resources without.

    Constant practice and search begins to rewrite the patterns of despair.

    Our mighty effort over a sufficient period of time, it may be more, it may be less, (mine was more), will result in the steps which lead us into better and better circumstances, until the last obstacle is overcome and we step into our better world.

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    © 2024 Kathryn Hardage

    http://www.shareinspirationandpeace.com

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