Shared Global Vision –

Uplift, always uplift

When given a choice, which direction is best?

The direction which uplifts is always a good choice.

We can create uplifting situations for ourselves and others when we start from a basis of harmony.

The feeling of well-being is one we can trust because we implement it consciously every day.

When what we desire is common good, everyone contributes.

We are inclusive in our desire, so that everyone’s veiwpoint and skills are available.

We all value community harmony and we all do the creative and common sense things to maintain it.

We make sure that everyone is seen and heard.

We include everyone in activities which uplift our surroundings.

We  invite everyone to take part in the activities which pull us into dialog about our community.

We share our common interests and our common goals.

We find ways to support one another.

We share transportation and tools.

We help each other with meals at home, tutoring for our children and running errands when needed.

We help each other with simple home maintainence.

We become aware of the rhythm and patterns of our community.

We create opportunities for beneficial respectful, uplifting interaction.

We are creating a world of harmony through our commitment to this attitude and action.

We can reach out to others because we genuinely enjoy them.

We can continuously cultivate opportunities for enjoyable, uplifting interaction.

Our communities need this conversation.

We need to be involved in communicating with each other because we value the feeling of community.

This is something we can grow into as we practice.

© 2023 Kathryn Hardage
http://www.shareinspirationandpeace.com

Shared Global Vision –

Connecting to Powerful Action

The most powerful action I can take is to listen within.

I connect to the right thing at the right time.

I have come to trust this practice.

It is evident in everything which I do.

It shows up on the outside when I listen on the inside consistently.

I do not fight the fears and pressures around me, but they are naturally diluted and cease to have any power over me through my quiet, consistent practice.

This has been taking form in my life over many years.

There is enough power in each tiny step for me to take the next one and the next.

I have been building a new foundation.

It has moved me into beautiful surroundings.

It has given me new, good work to do.

It has given me new skills to develop.

Everything has moved me a direction of power over my environment through connecting within.

I am creating a new world for myself and for those who are being uplifted by my work.

By reading and studying and listening for ideas to journal on, each  person contributes the most powerful elements to world peace.

By not being moved off our peaceful track, or by getting back on it over and over again, we show a different power in our life.

The power of inner peace.

This power is infinite, it is available all the time, anywhere we are, under any circumstances.

This becomes our focus.

It changes our life.

It dilutes the atmosphere in a powerful, quiet, gentle, persistent, consistent way.

There is no stopping it.

That is how we connect to powerful action.

©  2023 Kathryn Hardage

http://www.shaareinspirationandpeace.com

Shared Global Vision –

Awareness through expanding

We can expand our awareness by sharing our skills.

As we experience the needs in our community, we can share the solutions we are learning about.

We can introduce constructive ideas in an informal setting such as regular pot luck dinners.

Solutions are often available as everyone pools their skills.

By creating a list of neighbors and their skills, we can recommend resources to those who have particular needs.

We can be aware of co-operative efforts and participate in them.

We can initiate community projects over a long period of time as we learn to get to know our neighbors and build trust.

We can spend leisure time together at the park.

We can build outward from where we live.

We can share through bookclubs and through playgroups.

We can let each neighbor know that we would like to get to know them.

We can learn their story and find out about their skills and needs by asking them a list of questions.

We can let our neighbors know that we are starting a story-sharing time.

We can be aware that we are all dealing with challenges.

As we walk through our neighborhood, we can share our feeling of uplifting well-being.

We can gradually build new friendships and trust.

We can widen our circle as we consistently, over a long period of time, reintroduce ourselves as partners in our neighborhoods.

We can work on a community garden, donations to a food bank, planting nut trees and other food forest species in our parks.

We cna set up babysitting co-ops and errand services.

And because so many people are suffering and just want to be left alone, we can send them our love when we think of them or walk past their house.

We can build a sense of unity and community as we expand our awareness.

© 2023 Kathryn Hardage

http://www.shareinspirationandpeace.com

Freeing the world –

You free the world through your unlimited view.

You do this through good resource management at home and throughout your community.

You are inclusive of everyone’s talents and abilities through seeing everyone with dignity and respect.

You utilize opportunities to assess and supply skills training.

You organize community-wide service projects.

You act as an uplifting influence at pot-luck dinner parties as you provide an agenda for sustainable action.

You create an understanding about how community gardens operate.

You lay the foundation for taking action to add nut trees and other food forest species to parks.

You inform yourself of landfill practices and start educating people in how to compost their kitchen waste.

You educate others about zeri-scaping to conserve water resources.

You share knowledge about front-yard gardens and back-yard chickens.

You create a sharing economy.

You learn about cottage industry regulations and encourage community members to work from home.

You create transportation sharing and tool sharing.

You set up an on-line newsletter for community members to share their services and products.

You create a safe neighborhood where everyone knows each other and their children.

You explore before and after school care within the neighborhood.

You set up playgroups and errand running pools.

You set up a schedule to look in on elderly or sick neighbors.

You set up a schedule to assess needs for home repairs and to connect service providers in the community.

You provide on-line meetings and in-person skills training to make sure neighborhood needs are met from wthin the neighborhood.

You are an uplifting force for sustainability through your awareness, compassion, and organization.

© 2023 Kathryn Hardage

www.shareinspirationandpeace.com 

Shared Global Vision –

Travel to learn new ideas

I have been in my new country for two years as I write this.

I have only recently discovered a language teacher who can teach me in the ways I prefer to learn.

I am grateful, even though I was figuring out ways to get around without knowing the language.

I used one of the on-line translators, wrote down the translation and showed it to the people I needed to do business with.

It is better, now that I am learning how to interact in my new language, of course.

I continue to travel to more new places and am always delighted to learn new things.

There are particular ways of setting a table for lunch and for dinner.

There are particular combinations of foods at different times of the day.

There are ways in which people interact, different courtesies to respect, and traditions in carrying out certain activities.

There are always food traditions.

It is wonderful to discover these little things while visiting the historic sights.

I enjoyed learning a traditional embroidery pattern in a cultural class.

When I went to a store to buy more red thread, the ladies wanted to see my work and passed it around.

It was a way of bonding through respect and participation in another culture.

I still want to return to finish my project.

When I travelled to take a weaving class on a traditional loom, I enjoyed my walk past the local plants and shrubs.

Even travel to the next city by train provides a new aspect.

I enjoyed the lunch I had with new international women friends, the setting on the beach, and the tour of a friend’s new apartment.

I am preparing to travel to another new country to visit a museum, where I do not know the language.

After that, I will be guided to connect with my flight, the local trains and the trains across three countries on the way to a sewing class in a fourth country.

I am taking deep breaths as I pack and anticipate my experiences and delightful new friends.

© 2023 Kathryn Hardage

http://www.shareinspirationandpeace.com

Shared Global Vision –

Contribution through balance

As we maintain our firm footing and clear thinking at home, we are able to contribute our uplifting attitude in the world around us.

We listen within and bring our peace to any situation we hear about or in which we are involved.

We interrupt the chaos and panic induced by the disasters we hear about in the news, and even the ones which are occurring around us.

There is always an effective path to take in the midst of a fearful situation.

Our habit of listening within keeps us in constant contact with the Divine and Its’ comprehensive care.

Our calm attitude calms those around us and we are all able to think clearly to know what to do.

When we practice this on a daily basis, we are able to engage in discussions with those around us in a courteous and respectful manner.

We are able to share our expectation of harmonious results with our neighbors and friends and associates.

We are able to take our tiny steps to accomplish our goals and to encourage others to do so.

There are always solutions to any problem, big or small.

When we consistently find the solutions to our problems we are contributing that attitude in the world.

We draw to us those of like-mind and enrich our power to find the best solutions.

We engage our imagination and are open to unexpected and innovative ideas.

We engage at the grassroots level throughout our community.

We treat everyone with the dignity and respect we want for ourselves.

In this way, we uplift the expectancy to find solutions because we are engaging with everyone who is affected.

We include all the elements which need to be considered.

We move at the right pace as we introduce new ideas.

We let everyone know as completely as possible how they will be benefitted.

We expand our consideration toward everyone.

We adjust and readjust our solution as we find the perfect balance.

© 2023 Kathryn Hardage

http://www.shareinspirationandpeace.com

Shared Global Vision –

Strength in the World

What you bring into the world determines the kind of world you live in.

You attract the same qualities which you share.

When you are engaged in uplifting community work you attract others who are willing to contribute.

When you are forward-thinking about the possibilities for healing and upliftment in the community, you set up a frequency for communication.

All the resources which bear on your project have a clear path to come to you.

You can explore community resources.

You can meet the people who are responsible for allocating them.

You can partner with those who are involved in community outreach.

Be clear in your offering.

Do not let others throw you off track.

You may decide to direct your efforts through neighborhood action.

Building from the grassroots is very sustainable.

It takes its direction from those directly involved.

As you deal with others, you may sense confusion or a different interpretation.

There are always those who think they know better.

Comfort them and continue to take the lead.

You are directed from your Higher Power.

When there is a willingess for cooperation, you can proceed.

When there is resistance, this may not be your time or place.

Let the Infinite continue to guide you.

You may be guided to a more receptive location.

You may take many years to see your idea come into manifestation.

Your desire to share uplifting ideas in the world will take its rightful and most effective shape.

Let the Infinite continue to uplift you until you see the manifestation of your wonderful idea.

© 2023 Kathryn Hardage

http://www.shareinspirationandpeace.com

Shared Global Vision –

Expectations for the World

We can turn away from the limitations we hear about in the news.

There are other ways to interpret the vast resources available to all of us on this earth.

I read about them in “Drawdown”, by Paul Hawken, with an analysis of how to conserve and create specific resources all over the world.

I am drawn to writers and speakers who have a generous worldview.

I am grateful they send their ideas into the atmosphere around them.

I love hearing about innovations for collecting moisture from the air.

I love hearing about recycling tires to build insulated houses and to create long-wearing sandals.

I love learning about Intentional Communities and Co-ops and Transition Towns.

I love learning about co-operative manufacturing projects.

I love learning about Mandragon, Spain, an entire co-operative city.

I love learning about Damanhur Intentional Community in Italy with its own currency.

I love learning about the Eco-Camps which are being established all over the world.

There are so many ways being demonstrated that work on small scales.

The solutions offered for large scales also have many of the technologies in place waiting to be applied through the right mind-set.

The expectations we give ourselves depend on the difference between the current world view we are living through and possibilities offered by other world views.

Thinking in terms of a generous Universe, we can adopt good practices.

We can apply generous thinking to our neighborhoods and expand our work based on the results we experience.

This changes our expectations as we see new/old co-operative models working once again.

We can participate in grassroots movements which recognize the importance of each of us and implement this philosophy in community gardens, skills training and valuable community projects.

We can look to the models offered by the Transition Town movement with its hundreds of local variations on how to supply all the needs of a local community.

I have great expectations for the world when I look at what is working.

© 2023 Kathryn Hardage

http://www.shareinspirationandpeace.com

Shared Global Vision –

Listening and Responding

What we agree to determines the kind of world we live in.

When I take in the disturbances and agitation of the world around me, I feel bad.

I have to turn away from the news in order to rediscover my inner peace.

Once I find my inner peace, I can release that into the world around me.

It is a feeling of humility which enables me to do this.

I do not have the personal power to counteract all I hear about.

I have a right to mental, emotional, and bodily peace.

The world has a right to express harmony and abundance in its ecology.

It was designed with beauty and balance.

All our experiences in managing earth’s resources have radically altered this.

Only our humility and respect for the original design can help us restore it.

Well-being for all can be achieved through balance and respect for all of us.

Humility leads us to discover true solutions.

Releasing our fears about limitations dispels greed.

Compassion allows us to distribute the abundant food resources which are being stored.

Respect for everyone’s skills allows everyone to be employed in productive ways.

Co-operatives create effective sharing of labor and other resources.

Co-operative housing and transportation answer multiple needs.

Creative financing allows investment opportunities on small scales.

Micro-loans have proven effective in significantly reducing poverty.

When world leaders appear to have run out of solutions, humility allows the many compassionate and small-scale solutions from grassroots sources to be implemented.

We are all part of world compassion when we want for others what we have for ourselves.

We release fears and limitations through humility.

We trust the design of the Universe.

We move in harmony with the ideas we receive to create good for all.

© 2023 Kathryn Hardage 

http://www.shareinspirationandpeace.com

Shared Global Vision –

Prestige in the world

The world sees you as you are.

When you have many gifts to share with the world, you command respect.

Your influence is accepted.

You add your prestige to the world.

The kinds of gifts you can share are your deep sense of order and peace.

In a time where everything looks confused and chaotic, your influence is felt.

It is a strong contrast.

Your ability to lead and to infuse a sense of upliftment is vital.

People in an uplifted state are able to think clearly and to take effective, gentle steps.

As we create an uplifted state for ourselves, we attract those of like-mind.

We are able to be generous with this view, because it is the basis for our life.

Even if you are in despair about the world, it is possible to admire those who have taken action to improve it.

Children who become concerned about water in Africa have been able to raise money for wells.

Children who have a sense of compassion for  people living on the street are able to convince others to provide “care bags”.

Their sense of compassion and innocence and trust attracts those who can help fulfill those needs.

Others who feel strongly fulfill their mission to uplift and lead in some way.

We owe it to ourselves to improve our own life by listening with and taking our tiny steps of action.

This prepares us to encourage others who are ready to begin their own journeys.

I am grateful for the authors and workshop leaders who have encouraged me.

I am in a new place and a new life because of the action I was motivated to take.

The influence I have received from prestigious leaders continues to inspire me.

As I embody uplifting teachings, I am able to share prestige with the world.

© 2023  Kathryn Hardage

http://www.shareinspirationandpeace.com