Pebbles of Peace –

Comforting Myself

I begin to comfort myself by listening within.

That is where I find a moment of peace.

I may have to wait for it to come, as I sit quietly.

I am so desirous of finding peace, that I finally ignore all the noise.

I keep listening.

I feel a sense of quiet and peace begin to take over my mind and body.

I am so relieved.

I can breathe.

I take a deep, calming breath.

There is room for peace for me in that breath.

In the moment of peace is a moment of clarity.

I know what I need to do. I can take my first tiny step.

This comforts me.

Step-by-step, I can accomplish what I need to do and what I desire to do.

Both are important.

It is important for my voice to be heard.

I am here to discover what I love to do and to share my gifts.

By being heard, I am able to comfort others.

But first, I start with myself.

I am worthy of comfort.

I am worthy of safety.

I am worthy of dignity, and respect and consideration.

I exist as mind, soul and body.

Together, as one, we identify as myself.

I am comforted by my completeness.

© 2023 Kathryn Hardage 

http://www.shareinspirationandpeace.com

Pebbles of Peace –

The Power of a Peaceful Voice

My voice is powerful when it comes from a feeling of deep peace within.

I am connected to my Source when I speak this way.

Of course, I carry conviction.

I know that I am being guided and directed and led when I speak this way.

I am listening within for my very words.

The energy of each word conveys uplifting power.

It taps into the innate feeling we all have of goodness.

We are satisfied and assured when we connect to our goodness.

We know it can never run out.

There is always more goodness when we turn to our inner Source.

It characterizes how we think and act.

We always want good for everyone.

We can speak to well-being for everyone.

We are all worthy through our divine connection.

This is the resource we have within.

Naturally, we are peaceful as we explore this constant presence.

We seek ways to best serve the sharing of all our resources.

This is how the world is designed.

We express our strengths in unique ways and share them.

Everyone has their talents and gifts and ways of sharing them.

This is so uplifting as we increase our wealth of sharing.

One gift inspires another as we work and dance and rest.

We draw from the earth and we return resources to the earth.

We see our stability and harmony and wealth increase.

Our wealth is our well-being and it is available for all of us.

© 2023 Kathryn Hardage 

http://www.shareinspirationandpeace.com

Pebbles of Peace –

Take the By-Pass

Once a situation or relationship, or even work circumstances, no longer light you up, they have no claim on you.

You belong to that which lights you up, which energizes and inspires you.

This creates the uplifting exchange which you share with the world.

I realized I was devoting a lot of my time and energy to the negative past.

Even though I have made such good progress in learning to live in the present, memories float up and distract me.

I am learning that I can by-pass the old problem.

I have addressed it.

I have healed it.

I am ready to move into the life of my dreams.

If something reminds me of the past, I do not have to go all in.

If egregious wrong has been done, I can release the grievance and don’t have to be taken in by the wrongdoer.

That association is over.

I am making room for new friends and new experiences.

I am accepting the newness I desire and enjoy.

I release the habits and patterns from the past.

I create room for what fits me now.

It is totally okay to by-pass what is no longer relevant.

This adds to my momentum and energy in the present.

I have so much to share.

I can spend all my time on this highway.

I can feel uplifted and share what uplifts me.

This is a much better use of my time.

We are here to bring in what is relevant and uplifting.

© 2023 Kathryn Hardage 

http://www.shareinspirationandpeace.com

Pebbles of Peace –

Systematic Maintenance

Balance in the system of maintaining inner peace.

Once we are able to access our inner peace on a regular basis, it is important to learn to maintain it.

Fortunately, we have learned that our inner peace connection is only one breath away.

Each time we take our deep breath and access our inner peace, we are building a stronger and stronger connection to it.

It becomes the standard for our day.

Disruptive elements take up less and less room.

I like to observe my level of agitation when I think about the next thing going on in my life.

When I notice myself getting tense about something, I take my deep breath.

It gives me the moment I need to move myself into inner listening.

I do this over and over again during the day.

Peace, and even relaxation, are becoming standard practice for me.

I can get to peace faster and stay there longer after a disturbing encounter.

I bring in fewer disturbing elements by how I choose to spend my time.

It is more important to me to maintain my inner peace than anything else.

Inner peace lets me pay attention to doing excellent work in every detail.

It lets me be conscious of my surroundings and how I maintain their comforting presence.

It lets me appreciate the progress I have made in my health and well-being.

It lets me be considerate of my needs as well as my habitual awareness of the needs of others.

I am able to focus on creativity and harmony in my work and in my life.

I attract those of like-mind, peaceful mind.

I am balanced about my exercise and food, no bingeing, no slacking.

I take gentle, tiny steps to accomplish my big goals.

I am realistic in an uplifting, unlimiting way.

This is my system for maintaining my balance of inner peace.

© 2023 Kathryn Hardage 

http://www.shareinspirationandpeace.com

Pebbles of Peace –

Listening for the Peace of Your True Nature

It is our nature to make decisions according to our best information at the time.

Sometimes we are rushed or delayed into making decisions.

I have found that it is best for me to listen within in order to gain clarity.

Recently, I finished a simple project that required lots of decisions over a long period of time.

While I was undecided, I waited.

Each time I came back to the project, I checked to see if I was ready to make a decision that I trusted.

Slowly, I tried different solutions, and waited.

The project evolved on its’ own time scale.

Finally, I was ready to take the final steps.

What I really love is the peace that is in this project.

Any time I am associated with it, I feel a sense of peace.

I did not rush myself.

I did not hurry past my doubts.

I allowed myself to take as much time as I needed to reach a conclusion that felt good every step of the way.

Sometimes I have to make a quick decision, and I am grateful to receive the clarity I need in order to make it.

I take my deep breath and listen within, and I trust what I receive in the moment.

If I need to take another deep breath and listen again, I am ready to do that.

Over the period of time that it has taken for my inner listeng to become a habit, I have been able to compare the results between types of decision-making.

My experiences and opinions and even the opinions of others can only offer so much guidance.

What I can really trust is the Guidance which comes from within.

I am grateful for the patience of the Universe while I have been figuring this out.

My life is more secure by putting it on this firm footing.

© 2023 Kathryn Hardage 

http://www.shareinspirationandpeace.com

Pebbles of Peace –

Embrace the Upset

While I am feeling unbalanced by being upset, I cannot think.

My feeling of upset and imbalance leaves me shaken and ungrounded.

I know that I have a right to my peace of mind.

Operating from peace of mind, allows me to see what is important to me.

Is it more important to me to be shaken up by what just happened, or is it more important to find my way back to peace of mind?

I know how to ground myself.

I know what to do when I have been upset.

I know how to move myself back to peace.

I expand my view, just even a tiny bit.

I am not isolated, alone, abandoned, deserted.

I have contact with what is important to me.

I remember that my resources do not come from my immediate surroundings.

I can recreate my surroundings as I move myself back into peace of mind.

I take a deep breath.

Of course, I am connected to what is important to me.

I am loved, cherished, adored.

I have proved my knowledge of this over and over again.

I love me.

I love what I do.

I love my strengths and how they lead me to happiness.

This is where my happiness lies, in my strengths.

I have a strong character and it brings me happiness.

I appreciate my character.

I love who I am.

 I am back in my own mind, now, and I am grounded, happy, and peaceful.

© 2023 Kathryn Hardage 

http://www.shareinspirationandpeace.com

Pebbles of Peace –

The Deepest Peace

I feel the deepest peace when my ideas are flowing into action.

They are ready to be expressed and I am the one who expresses them.

I receive ideas, messages, and I express them, as the messenger.

They are always ideas which have an impact on those who are also seeking to express peace.

They crave inner peace, and they desire to see it enacted in the world around them.

This is the effect of the deepest peace, its ability to spread into all the niches of despair, fear and broken-heartedness.

There is always a moment, when we pause in our despair, and we take a breath.

We decide to go on living.

This is almost always unconscious.

We want to continue in something different from our despair or fear.

This expresses expectation that there is something better.

Even if we have no idea how to connect with it, something better exists.

In the moment of one breath, there is space for the deep peace to fill in the gap.

This is a tiny fragment of the message of something better.

The peace surrounds us from the moment of the first breath, that first pause.

We take in more and more peace with each breath.

We find our emotions stabilizing and we are able to think more clearly.

An idea comes and we move toward it.

Each day, when we take our breaths, we are taking in more expectation and this begins to manifest in appropriate tiny ways.

We take our breaths and we take our tiny steps.

We are graced with the flow towards something better.

We begin to trust as we take our tiny steps.

We see what they become.

We are assured of our direction as we move into something better.

© 2023 Kathryn Hardage

http://www.shareinspirationandpeace.com

Pebbles of Peace –

The power of peace

I breathe in peace and I breathe out calm.

I can access my peace at any time, once I become aware of my state of agitation.

Sometimes, I am so caught up in confusion and distraction that I lose track of my peace and calm.

The power of peace communicates itself to those around us.

It is a state of mind and a state of body.

It calms and comforts us and our children.

It allows us to think clearly.

It guides us to take the steps to keep ourselves and our families safe.

We are always in the presence of peace each time we remember this.

Peace has a power which even reaches into the past to resolve questions which have remained unaddressed.

When we desire to live a life of peace, this feeling permeates our past, our present and guides our future.

We can always remove ourselves from disturbances when we remember there is a powerful peaceful Presence within and all around us.

I have been led to walk away from unruly situations, to take an unexpected route home, to suddenly schedule an impromptu meeting when directed from within.

Each of these instances has put me in a more peaceful situation.

I can feel this power any time I need it.

It is always available for me to receive.

I become part of the power of peace as I maintain my poise and equilibrium.

There are so many things which can throw us off balance so it is good to tap into the ever-ready power of peace.

The power of peace guides my decisions.

The power of peace places me in safety.

The power of peace prevents me from responding fearfully.

I can always act with the power of peace when I tune into it.

© 2023 Kathryn Hardage 

http://www.shareinspirationandpeace.com

My realization of peace brings it to me

I love the peaceful surroundings of beautiful gardens and being in Nature.

I love the gentle transitions between seasons as this cycle occurs.

The dramatic catalysts of winds and rain have their role and new life is born.

We, too, have seasons and cycles of demands and renewals.

We, too, find new life within us as we transition from one concept to another.

We find expanded peace as we embrace the resources for peace within us.

We are able to move gently as we take our tiny steps through guidance.

When we release our opinions and the opinions of others, we are able to find the peace that is available to us.

I can realize peace by feeling it within me, and then acting in accordance with that peace.

I bring peace into my life by envisioning it and accepting its reality.

I do not have to work from what is in front of my eyes.

I can create a better vision for myself.

I am not dependent on past experiences and their imprints.

I am grateful to discover this and also to take on the work of redirecting and rewriting my life.

Those are my choices.

I can bring more peace into my life.

I can align with what I love to do and realize an entirely new career.

I can share the inspiration of my new direction abundantly.

I welcome everyone to discover their peace within.

We can all create a new reality for ourselves.

I know this looks impossible.

However, we can respond differently to the resources around us when we receive guidance from within.

Working together from the desire of well-being for all, we can see more and more peace in our communities.

© 2023 Kathryn Hardage 

http://www.shareinspirationandpeace.com