Inspired Practices

Loved Cherished Adored –

Where you belong 

When there is no admission to a particular group, it is simply because you do not belong on their playing field.

Even if you are participating in the same group or organization and share many of the same beliefs and practices, you have a different, more expansive, expanded way of expressing them.

You belong in the Universe that gave you those ideas and practices.

You may find yourself refining and reforming them as you stop resisting and go ahead and move where you are being guided.

Your commitment to your practice redefines it for you.

Your life responds.

You move naturally in the direction of the most inspiration, the most uplifting comfort.

Not the comfort of the familiar painful path.

You have received better.

You feel your worth through your new practice.

It really draws you to it.

You find your footing as you balance in your new dance.

The pain of not belonging is transformed into radiance as you find your way.

What is no longer necessary in your life drops away and you make room for more of what your practice brings you.

You are renewed.

You are a new person.

What did not make sense to you no longer has to.

Your new Universe is full of your new gifts.

Your gifts are appreciated and recognized here.

You are seen as worthy and uplifted.

You have crossed what divided you from the expression of your gifts, and you are free to revel in them.

Grow and expand and dance.

© 2023 Kathryn Hardage 

http://www.shareinspirationandpeace.com

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A New Perception

After years of thinking of ourselves financially in a certain way, (we were two teachers raising seven children in a combined family), I got curious over what we had spent on our children’s education.

I was astounded at the figures that emerged. For one child, we spent over $20,000.

The total for two other children combined was  $22,000.

In addition to their education, we were paying a mortgage to buy land for a summer camp.

I began to think of us as more substantial financially than I had before.

Our land became a retirement retreat for us, and later got us to Europe, where we retired permanently.

I gained more respect for us.

It is astounding how the perceptions around us can shape our perception of ourselves.

We were always working to expand our income.

In some of my spiritual study, I was led to consider how to expand my service, my “outgo”.

This has resulted in obeying the directive I received when I began trying to fix my life.

I was directed to GIVE MORE, (written in double high lines of all capital letters).

Then I was supplied with something to give, inspirational writing and drawing over a number of years, and which continues to this day.

This became the basis for my healing of childhood trauma.

Our life is more than we think.

It goes far beyond a certain dimensional view.

Through the demands placed on us, we learn to “give more”.

It is like athletic training.  It adds up until the athlete becomes an “overnight success”.

Instead of scraping by, we actually have a reservoir of service which continues to sustain us.

It is what we develop by being willing to give more.

It takes us beyond what we think we can do. 

It builds a foundation for success and abundance.  

Who knew?

© 2023 Kathryn Hardage

http://www.shareinspirationandpeace.com

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Healing of Trauma and IBS  (Trigger Warning)

When I was six years old, my father began raping me annally.

For the next eight years, I simply shut down emotionally, by numbing out and dissociating.

I got good grades and excelled in music.

When I was fourteen, I broke my finger, and my father left me alone.

That was the end of that torture.

I always thought I had grown up in a normal family until I was fifty years old.

I read an account of a woman who had a memory come back to her decades later.

Her symptoms sounded familiar to me, – looking for exit signs, having emotional breakdowns over certain holidays, being triggered by things that did not make sense.

Gradually, my memories started coming back.

It was intolerable.

For six years, I was in denial, emotionally overwrought, but somehow able to function.

After I rolled my jeep, I realized I needed to get hold of myself.

In my spiritual study, I began listening for the key.

I realized I was supposed to prosper, even though I did not know how.

I began journalling to figure out how to fix my life.

One day, as I writing in my sprial notebook journal, the words came “GIVE MORE”.

I wrote them in double high capital letters.

I had no idea how to GIVE MORE.

I had left my job after neglectful treatment.

My body refused to function normally.

I had been dealing with IBS for several years.

It got worse and became a bleeding ulcer.

All this got turned around over many, many steps of healing.

It seemed like I would never find the key.

But everything kept adding up until I did.

In addition to my spiritual study, I had therapy.

In the therapy, I asked what the optimum outcome should be.

My therapist told me, it would be well-being for everyone, including the perpetrator.

That was news to me.

I kept listening for the next step.

I started being more patient with myself.

I told myself that my unexplained reactions were perfectly understandable, even if I did not understand them.

Later, things began to make sense.

But I still had to heal from them.

I applied every new technique that I could.

I learned about many new ways to help myself.

They all contributed to my healing.

Finally, it boiled down to one thing.

Not even resentment nor irritation about what I had gone through was allowed.

I had to drop even the tiniest bit of emotion about it.

That was the final step of healing.

Now I can go where I want, when I want.

All the past symptoms are erased.

That is the story of my healing.

There is a much longer story, with all the steps I took.

But that will come later.

In the meantime, for right now, I am celebrating.

© 2023 Kathryn Hardage

http://www.shareinspirationandpeace.com