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Wisdom in Caring for Yourself

Our connection to wisdom does not depend on our age and experience.

We can gain wisdom through listening within.

There are so many new circumstances and situations which greet us throughout our life.

Our best way to know how to deal with them is through inner wisdom.

Our inner listening connects us with the Divine.

The grander view of the Divine, along with Its’ love for us, creates a trustworthy Source of wisdom.

We learn to use our resources wisely by depending on this Source.

We care for ourselves in important ways.

We learn how to balance the demands in our life.

We rest, we work, we take care of those in our care.

We listen for the wisdom to fulfill those demands in ways which continue to nourish ourselves.

We avoid rush, burnout, depression when we live wisely.

It is so important not to push ourselves constantly, only when absolutely necessary.

Wisdom serves us when we listen ot it.

Wisdom is useless when we ignore it.

Nothing we know is more important than the wisdom we gain through inner listening.

We can learn to live a balanced life through wisdom.

We must practice keeping our life in balance.

We can feel our balance when we are calm and can think clearly.

We maintain our balance by more than careful evaluation.

It is the wisdom we receive through inner listening that guides our action.

Our solid conviction and assurance and care for ourselves come from this wisdom.

We see the uplifting results.

We feel rested, renewed, clear and confident.

© 2023 Kathryn Hardage

www.shareinspirationandpeace.com

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Giving Through My Heart’s Desire

As I see the possibilities for unselfish giving, I am committed to sharing.

Supporting the idea that there is enough for all, I find solutions as I listen within.

I am led to generous sharing of ideas.

I become aware of how others share their talents.

We create an attracting energy which draws us together.

We create a community of uplifting and unselfish ideas.

We share freely.

Everyone is involved in how to expand our good ideas for the most benefit to our community.

We are so satisfied through our giving nature that we are eager for all to experience this feeling of unlimited giving.

Our foundation is our ability to listen within.

We see our personal needs met through our guided tiny steps.

We discover rich ways to contribute to our community.

We share the experience of inner listening so that others may have the freeing experience of having their needs met right where they are, right in front of them.

This feeling of expedited receiving overflows into generosity.

Here is a way which everyone can participate in.

When we have the experience over and over again of being guided to do the right thing at the right time and make harmonious connections, we naturally want everyone to have it.

My heart’s desire is to share the process of inner listening.

It gives everyone access to what they need.

We each hear the tiny steps to take in order to create a more harmonious and uplifting life for ourselves and others.

We see these ways demonstrated in our communities.

We are led to bring others together to share our ideas and work for their implementation.

We see the benefit of expanding our work to include everyone in our community.

We experience the release of fear and the connection to what is good.

© 2023 Kathryn Hardage 

www.shareinspirationandpeace.com 

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Newness Every Day

I experienced a lot of repetition in developing my ability to play a musical instrument on a professional level.  

Each iteration of repetition moved me to a new level of competency.

I learned how to practice with accurate, inspired repetition.

When I would sit down to play, all that build up of accuracy allowed me to play dependably.

It is not always novelty which creates newness.

One semester, a quartet of us met biweekly to practice our sight-reading.

We played through so many string quartets by many composers we had never heard of before.

It gave us a new perspective on the classical music literature which was available to us.

I remember the feeling of newness and excitement as we began our sessions.

We did not rehearse; this was purely to improve our sight-reading.

The basis for being able to do this was the daily repetition of scales and technique.

This was never approached as a boring exercise.

There are so many ways to practice scales and technique in order to build fluency and strength.

I can still feel the sense of commitment as I would sit down, take my deep breath and put bow to strings.

The feeling of laying the foundation for the rest of the practice session, warming up the fingers of the left hand, strengthening the bow arm.

A deep commitment in terms of time, excellence and all those thousands of tiny steps each day.

The ability to practice is indisputably one of the most important skills I have.

I do not argue with myself when I am developing any other new skill.

I  know what it takes. I simply take my deep breath and begin.

This applies to art skills, and study of any kind.

It is rigorous attention which yields results.

My expectation and knowledge of how to build excellence keeps it fresh.

© 2023 Kathryn Hardage 

www.shareinspirationandpeace.com 

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Where I stand now

In this moment, I stand on who I am.

Who I have demonstrated myself to be.

What my goals are, what my accomplishments are, my inner thoughts, my outer actions.

I stand on my new perception of myself as loved, cherished and adored.

I stand on my present happiness and the happiness I can expect.

I stand on my identity the way the Universe sees me.

I am so grateful to be in this present moment where I can vector myself anywhere.

I am not a person living in the past.

I began telling myself that I live in beautiful surroundings long before it happened.

I began telling myself, “I  love me”, the most powerful thing I have ever learned.

I am standing on the ground created by those actions.

My inner listening has teamed me up with my Source.

I get my information and identity from inner Guidance.

I  take my tiny steps of action over and over again.

My new life is the result.

I can acknowledge many stepping stones on my way out of negativity and fear.

That is the only significance of the past to me.

Opportunities were created for me to move myself into a new view, and I have done it.

I embrace myself where I stand now.

I am grateful for the peace and the inspiration.

I am grateful for those who have done the work and pointed the way.

I am grateful to do the work and to add my voice of encouragement.

We can create a new life for ourselves.

We can love ourselves enough to take the tiny steps over and over again to form new habits.

This connects us with the Power to change our lives.

© 2023 Kathryn Hardage 

http://www.shareinspirationandpeace.com

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What I am passionate about

My passions are my commitments.

I am committed to writing every morning.

I am passionate about sharing the spiritual ideas and messages which come to me.

The first thing I do is listen within for what I am to share.

This has come about through my own need for healing.

As I dialogued with the Universe in order to figure out how to fix my life, ideas began coming to me.

I wrote down my thoughts in a series of spiral notebooks for years, and then began posting them as blogs.

My mental questions always came back as spiritual answers from the Universe.

This led me to think along different lines which have changed my life.

Instead of fixing the old life, I have been moved into a completely new one.

I am living on what feels like a completely different timeline.

I was passionate about my old life, distressed, disordered, diseased.

I am no longer stressed, my life has a different kind of order, and I am healthy.

My order is my priority.

I have discovered what I love to do and I am doing it.

I am aligned with who I am.

I am able to make healthy choices about what I do, and how I do it.

I listen within and am Guided.

I have an unlimited, wise Source.

I love me.

That is how the Universe sees me and how I see myself, as loved, cherished, and adored.

I maintain my commitment.

I am faithful and inspired.

I live a life of joyful devotion.

© 2023 Kathryn Hardage

http://www.shareinspirationandpeace.com

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The Value of Innocence

Innocence and purity are an effective means of discernment.

Whatever does not measure up to innocence and purity does not belong in our life.

We keep our environment pure by the thoughts we take in.

We keep ourselves innocent by actively cultivating the way we do things, through integrity and excellence.

Innocence and purity are not casual stances.

They are powerful attributes of our character.

They stand for the ability to discern what is good and acceptable and uplifting and what is not.

It is so important to include only the higher elements in our life.

That is the way we we propogate them.

When we have a choice in how to behave, we always choose the higher way.

We are courteous and respectful.

We allow room to consider others’ opinions and we are careful to maintain what is best in our life.

When we have the opportunity to share, we do so.

Otherwise, we maintain our deep listneing attitude in order to cultivate our best action.

As we maintain our stance, we do not judge others.

We simply notice the differences.

We continue to listen for what we choose to practice, to be on the side of well-being for all.

This constantly points to action which is inclusive, rather than exclusive, impartial rather than partial, unselfish rather than selfish.

This creates a flow where like responds to like and all are uplifted into the purity and innocence which we respect and actively practice.

Purity and innocence are not something which can be taken away.

Nothing can contmainate the mind which identifies purity and innocence as part of their relationship to the Divine.

The  Divine is always there and so are innocence and purity.

© 2023 Kathryn Hardage

http://www.shareinspirationandpeace.com

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Personal Standards

I enjoy maintaining my behavior in a way which is uplifting and responsible.

It shows good taste to be courteous and respectful.

It opens doors to interesting conversation with differing points of view.

As we share our ideas, we release practical inspiration.

We cut through the despondency and despair and frustration.

There  is another way to look at life.

We all have an important contribution to make.

We are all worthy to consider the kind of world and society we want to live in.

It begins with us.

Whatever we share uplifts or depresses the world view.

Every moment of peace in a deep breath, defuses a little bit of the tension.

As we release our peace into the environment around us, others feel it and add to it.

We create calm right where we are standing.

We prevent escalation of tensions.

We make room for enjoyable conversation while we are waiting in line.

We notice what we have in common.

We appreciate our shared situation.

As we do this throughout our neighborhood, we create opportunities for service.

We can gather our energies for a community project, such as a garden or a playgroup.

We can become vigilant for signs of sadness or lonliness in our neighbors.

We can call on them with a batch of cookies, and open the conversation.

We can sit in the  front yard and greet them as they walk by.

We can make a point to always have something to share, a card, a flower, something uplifting.

It says that the person is seen, recognized as worthy of inclusion in the community.

And as they learn to trust this, it will defuse any more build up of tensions.

© 2023  Kathryn Hardage

http://www.shareinspirationandpeace.com

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The Precious Body

The body is a  perfectly designed system.

When we treat it optimally, it works for us in harmonious and comprehensive ways.

It takes us where we need to go.

It functions in a healthy way.

We feel radiant with our perfect body.

We maintain our body through being aware of its needs and supplying them.

We are aware when our body is in balance and when it is not.

We are able to take corrective action to restore balance.

One of the simplest ways is to get enough rest.

We have made a virtue of overworking, but it is not.

It is cruel to our body.

When we honor our body, we give it enough rest.

This allows our mind to rest and restore and to become receptive to uplifting ideas.

When we maintain bodily harmony, we free ourselves for higher action.

We love our body and learn not to get distracted by imbalances in what we feed ourselves.

We pay attention to nutrition and stay away from stimulants.

Perfect balance allows us to discern the effects when we go out of balance.

We love the feeling of balance and happiness and freedom.

We do not rush or push ourselves unless we are training for a physical competition.

Our restful balance lets us enjoy our life and share our enjoyment with others.

We feel secure when our body is in balance.

We prevent emotional upset largely by keeping our body in perfect balance.

We are able to discern the best action to take regarding our body when we listen within.

We are able to pay attention to our body’s needs and honor them.

We respect ourselves through taking care of our body.

© 2023 Kathryn Hardage 

http://www.shareinspirationandpeace.com

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Living in Confidence and Trust

There are too many opinions and stories to be able to trust any of them.

They affect our self-worth, our economic status, our political identity, and our family relationships.

We all have different experiences and viewpoints.

The only way to deal with certainty about any aspect of life is through the confidence and trust which come from inner listening.

When we move ourselves into deep reflection, we are dealing with the Infinite Universe.

We become willing to see things from a different standpoint, a place where we are seen in terms of our spiritual identity.

We can trust that viewpoint.

We can move in accord with our highest standards and values and trust the interactions which proceed from that approach.

We gain confidence as we attract those of like-mind.

Others enjoy our high standards, and want to participate.

We can trust our interactions with people of integrity.

We are confident about our offerings and trust the way they are received.

When we experience doubt or feel as though we are misunderstood or under attack, we can go back to our inner listening.

The message which comes to us is very different in character.

It is a message of comfort, of reassurance.

It reminds us that we are here in an uplifting capacity as we express the ideas which identify  us as complete and whole.

Inner listening and its standard of peace is the message we convey as we go about our business in the world.

We are not dependent on the ups and downs of various opinions and viewpoints, nor on economic trends nor family dramas.

We adhere to our calm standard, the one we receive from inner listening, and we act in accord with that directive and those messages.

This gives us the confidence and trust to continue our steps each day and to see uplifting conclusions.

© 2023 Kathryn Hardage 

http://www.shareinspirationandpeace.com

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Becoming your own hero

I have admired people who became heroes as they dealt with the problems which came up in their own lives.

Mountain climbers, (“Three Cups of Tea”), environmentalists, (“Silent Spring”),  teachers, (“Drawing with Children”), those people who move us into greater awareness.

My own journey is teaching me that I am a hero to myself as I overcome the problems which come up in my own life.

I am learning that I can create a new environment as I create new language to describe myself.

I am creating a new self-concept as I my put new description into practice.

“I love me” was the first vital new statement.

Then I gave myself permission to discover what I love to do.

That helped me align words, feelings, and action.

I do many things purely for the love of doing them.

This has opened the door to a new career as well as a new way to think of myself.

We come here equipped with a purpose.

When all else fails, we become impelled to discover it.

Instead of contracting, this expands our life.

We are guided into what is most important to the Universe about us.

We are led into the discovery of our relationship to our Higher Power.

When I am in a new place, I relate to it differently.

I am not caught up in my daily routine.

I can listen to my inner voice.

This speaks more and more clearly to me.

I accept the new shape of my life.

I do the work which is required of me to fulfill my purpose.

I am uniquely poised to do this as I respect my relationship with the Universe.

This is my heroic journey.

© 2023 Kathryn Hardage 

http://www.shareinspirationaandpeace.com