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I trust me to practice self-care

I have learned to practice self-care.

I can trust myself when I am calm.

I can see the situation with clarity.

I can tell what is important to me.

I can trust my decisions.

When I move myself into a state of calm, I know that I will take care of myself.

I am aware of the present moment.

I have no other obligation, no other duty.

My ability to do anything begins with my own well-being.

I must sacrifice what does not belong to me.

Other people’s problems do not belong to me.

My own condition belongs to me.

I am the only one who knows how I feel.

I am the only one who knows what my state of mind is.

My priority is to safeguard my inner peace.

I turn from distractions.

I am not in a hurry.

I live as a monument to my peace.

I take care of everything which is important to my well-being.

From my well-being, I can give generously.

I can do excellent work.

I can immerse myself in uplifting creativity.

First, I must devote myself to being of calm, mind and body.

I must release the cares of the world and move myself to inner peace.

That is how I trust myself to practice self-care.

© 2023 Kathryn Hardage 

http://www.shareinspirationandpeace.com

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How I support myself

Learning to love myself is the practice which turned my life around.

Learning how to support myself has been the next most valuable skill.

I  support myself by honoring my desires.

Discovering what I love to do and doing it is the way I began to support myself.

Taking tiny steps is the way I support myself.

I cannot begin if the goal is too big.

It is okay to have a big goal, but tiny steps are the way to get there.

I support myself by being aware of my environment.

I need a calm environment.

I cannot stay for long in a loud group, even if it is fun.

I leave when I cannot participate in a fun manner.

I support myself by honoring my skills.

One of my skills is the joy of learning.

I approach new things with joy and eager enthusiasm.

When I cannot embrace the feeling of joy, I find a different way to learn.

I support myself by making beautiful things.

I love to sew, quilt, weave, draw, and write.

I have set up my studio so that I have room to do each of these things.

I easily move from one station to another.

I can work on one project for a while, then move to another.

I can develop the things which I enjoy in a manner which supports me.

I support myself by learning things which are difficult and complex for me.

In order to expand my knowledge and my ability to share, I need to learn technology.

I repeat the steps over and over again until it is possible for me to do them.

I break the steps down into the tiniest imaginable particle in order to get started.

I read the directions or watch the tutorial over and over again, until I have the courage to take the first tiny particle of a step.

When I cannot do something, I find a way to honor myself in a supportive way.

This is how I support myself.

© 2023 Kathryn Hardage 

http://www.shareinspirationandpeace.com

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The answer you are receiving

When you are making progress in your own life, 

and  you are not connecting with other people the way you used to, 

or even the way you would like to, 

you are getting an answer.

The Universe is connecting you to where you need to be.

It is not where you used to be.

The Universe is connecting you to the people who belong in your current life.

Not the people from your former life.

We all retain the feeling of connection from the past.

If it were useful or productive or positive, it would be happening now.

Once you engage in your connection to the Universe, life is different for you.

Connections from the Universe are productive, positive, and useful and happy.

You no longer relate to people the way you used to.

You are in a new place in your own mind, and in your new life.

Wish everyone well, and move on.

You have done the work out of your pain and anguish.

It has compelled you forward.

Trust that work.

Let the Universe continue to inform you.

You have a place which loves, cherishes and adores you.

Become immersed in that place and in that feeling.

This is where you belong.

You have outgrown your old place and your old relationships.

You are ready for better ones.

Take your new steps.

Become skilled in your new way of living.

You can trust your feelings.

Which feels better?

© 2023 Kathryn Hardage

http://www.shareinspirationandpeace.com

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Lean into your strengths

Finding your balance does not mean balancing everything equally.

We do not achieve commitment or excellence when we try to cover all our bases at the same rate.

The perfect balance means that passion and joy go into what we do.

With happiness as the focus on the leading edge of what we do, everything else falls into balance.

We are able to act in accord with our highest integrity when we commit to our strengths.

We pull everything else in our life into alignment.

We are here to serve a purpose.

As we discover our purpose, we do everything we can to develop our strength.

We study, we learn new skills, we communicate with others.

We make rigorous efforts to create the product, to discover the solution.

We relax into the joy of what we are doing.

We revel in our happiness.

We celebrate our passion.

We find our flow.

We move into our stride.

We are able to maintain a level of excellence and commitment not possible in our other endeavors.

We are simply enthralled by the daily revelations which come to us by doing what we love.

This creates its own momentum and balance.

We draw resources to us in a timely manner.

We make new discoveries which lead us to new, uplifting conclusions.

We create a momentum based on pure happiness.

We live in daily satisfaction.

Everything which is relevant comes into our life.

We achieve a new balance based on joy.

© 2023 Kathryn Hardage 

http://www.shareinspirationandpeace.com

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Enjoying My Own Company

The first thing I realized was that I enjoy my own company.

I can spend hours reading a book or cooking or just thinking my own thoughts.

I can walk in Nature or just look out the window and listen to birdsong.

What I appreciate most is that I have learned to calm myself when I get agitated.

I have even refined what I take in around me to avoid getting agitated.

The news, advertising, conversation about illnesses, despair.

I look for the healing elements which I have learned to apply for myself.

I give myself permission to discover what I love and to do it.

I am able to make uplifting contributions.

How people respond to uplifting conversation is indicative of their life philosophy.

If they add to the upliftment, I feel at home talking with them.

If they bring the conversation back to disturbance or despair, I know to limit my time with them.

My state of mind is too precious and too important to be dragged down.

I am always happy to explore solutions.

I have seen them over and over again in my life as I have been lifted out of despair.

I know solutions are available with enough compassion and devotion.

I am committed to continuing to find my own solutions and to sharing them.

I am delighted when someone lets me know that I have added to the upliftment of their day.

I hear the healing messages for myself in deep aloneness.

These messages comfort, calm and guide me.

They come in practical ways, as simple as avoiding a traffic jam, or as deep as reminding me of the present moment and moving me out of painful memories.

My aloneness lets me hear that I am not alone.

It reminds me of my connection to my Higher Power.

It connects me with resources beyond my own imagination or experience.

I move myself into a deep reservoir of resources and comfort through being alone.

© 2023 Kathryn Hardage

http://www.shareinspirationandpeace.com

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Imagine Peace, Love, Comfort

In my imagination, I am sitting in a cozy, safe, comfortable place.

I am surrounded with all the things I love to do.

I am comforted by the fact that this has become my direction.

I love the fact that I trusted my intuition and followed my dreams tiny step by tiny step.

I am so pleased and happy that I took that first, almost impossible, step.

I found the most powerful saying that I could tell myself.

It is “I love me”.

I still tell this to myself.

It opens more impossible doors.

I am able to walk through them because my desire is so strong.

I am sincere and true to who I am.

I am grateful that I did not leave myself where I was.

I imagined something different.

The more I thought on it, the more real it became to me.

Finally, I simply wanted to be in a new place.

And then I took the first tiny step.

“I love me” is what opened the door and it still does.

© 2022 Kathryn Hardage

http://www.shareinspirationandpeace.com

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Energy of Listening

The energy of listening is a healing energy.

When we listen to our body, we can hear how it is doing.

We can moderate our stress.

We can eat better, rest better, stop rushing and harassing ourselves.

When we listen to how we talk to ourselves, we can hear the language we are using.

Are we supportive or disrespectful?

What we say comes from deep residual feelings from our experiences.

I began rephrasing how I speak to myself when I discovered the heaviness and unworthiness I was carrying.

I remind myself that I have permission to do what I love.

I listen to my heart’s desires and take the many tiny steps to get me there.

I listen for direction from within.

That is where I hear the purest and most direct and effective guidance and instruction.

I listen to what calls me.

I listen to how I am treated.

I am not stuck.

If I am not treated well, I can leave.

It can be gracious or sudden.

All that matters is that I move myself into an uplifting and positive surroundings.

If I am uncomfortable for any reason, I can change my situation.

After a lifetime of being compelled to take care of other’s needs first, I am free to take care of my own.

I am grateful to be an attentive listener and to be able to take immediate or long-term action for my own comfort as well as for that of others.

© 2022 Kathryn Hardage 

http://www.shareinspirationandpeace.com

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Willingness to Listen

 I typically have my own opinions.

They are built from my experiences.

But sometimes, when things do not work out, I become willing to listen.

In quiet reflection I find my peace.

I release confusion.

I release disturbances.

The gentle feeling of comfort and guidance appears.

I am willing to listen, to take the tiny step of action.

In this quiet communion, I find my answers.

Peace is always the answer.

There is sure guidance as I practice my willingness to listen.

I am building a platform of listening instead of opinions.

My experiences become the result of listening and guidance.

I am more successful.

I am connected to my infinite Source.

I am able to meet timelines.

I find the resources which are available in the Infinite.

The quality of my work is raised.

I am willing to refine all the details.

Living in the consciousness of Spirit connects me to everything I need at the right time.

I am able to see far-reaching solutions.

Connections appear in the best ways.

My willingness to listen becomes a consistent practice.

© 2022 Kathryn Hardage 

http://www.shareinspirationandpeace.com

Precious beginnings

Our preciousness is beyond description.

We must realize that this is true in order to take the next step.

Seen from the view of the Universe Who Loves Us, we can take steps for the well-being of every precious one of us.

Our trust that everyone is loved, cherished and adored leads us to find ways of treating each other well.

We each have special talents and special needs.

Each one is there to be fulfilled.

We achieve a balance in how we respond through giving and receiving.

We cultivate our talents in order to serve.

Others are doing the same.

We share our joy and happiness through recognition and exchange.

This is our grassroots practice.

We see it in community organizations.

It permeates our cultural attitudes.

Everyone is looking for ways to take the next step.

Our uplifting attitude can cut through the many layers of discouragement which some have experienced.

This helps to create a new beginning.

We can begin again several times a day.

We can begin again throughout the different stages of our life.

We can support new beginnings for those we know and those we do not know.

It is an expectation that we are here to express our talents and gifts for the purpose of upliftment.

This always allows us to create new beginnings.

© 2022 Kathryn Hardage 

http://www.shareinspirationandpeace.com

Perfect Solutions

The perfect solutions come when we listen within.

The Universe Who Loves Us has a bigger view and can bring us to the best solution.

Through our consistent listening, we begin to hear an idea.

As the idea persists, we know that it is our solution.

It may be a tiny step.

It may be a feeling of relief, and then peace.

It is a noticeable difference to how we were feeling before.

Note the difference and see what else matches this new feeling.

This guides you to your solution.

It may take you in a completely new direction.

It may not make sense.

It may be a mundane step, which also does not make sense.

It does not have to make sense to your current position.

It makes sense to where you want to be.

The Universe’s broader view leads us in an uplifting direction.

We simply want our life to improve.

That leads us to be open when we listen within.

We move ourselves into that most intimate of conversations with our Higher Self.

Instinctively, intuitively, we know we belong in a different framework.

If we knew what it was and how to get there, we would do it.

Our intuitive listening lets us know when we reach alignment with our highest values.

Then we make the connection and can take our guided step.

Step by step we move into our solution.

We trust our inner listening more and more.

We move into our new solution with consistency.

Our new habit and its’ results allow us to trust our new way.

© 2022 Kathryn Hardage 

http://www.shareinspirationandpeace.com