What Is Your True Path?

The knowledge of your true path is within you.

It is not what society tells you.

It is not what your significant other tells you.

It is what is in the deep heart and soul of your being.

When you find yourself needing some quiet time, or you are facing discouragement, or you find the direction you are going intolerable, this is when you can begin to discover your true path.

You will know it by its uniqueness, and by its perfect fit for you.

It may take you in a completely different direction from what you expected.

It may extend where you are now.

It may focus on one tiny little aspect of what you are doing.

But it will feel perfect.

And you will realize a new kind of satisfaction.

One that begins with what is inside you.

This is your path.

It will meet your every need.

And it will put you in touch with those who think as you do, and who are satisfied with what they have discovered for themselves from within.

© 2016 Kathryn Hardage

www.youngpersonsmentor.blogspot.com

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What I Truly Love

I am so grateful to discover what I truly love.

Everyone I know is so grateful to discover what they truly love.

Everyone I don’t even know, all over the planet, is so grateful to discover what they truly love.

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Even though I was taught what was “right” and “best” and to be obedient and disciplined into attaining it, I have discovered a different path.

It is the path toward what I truly love.

There is a requirement of the Universe to express our own individuality, despite what surrounds us.

We were created to utilize the infinite resources of the Universe, and we can’t do that if we are following someone else’s directive.

It can be society’s directive, or parents, or career counselors, or a significant other’s.

But if it isn’t ours, we will never be completely peaceful and joyously satisfied.

We need the wholeness and delight of our individuality.

It is fun to invent a new job, career, and product line and to know that the Universe is supplying It’s unlimited resources to make it happen.

All we need to do is to keep walking down the path of what we truly love.

The next idea and the next and the next will keep coming to us.

As we act on each tiny step, the next one will appear.

It is interesting to note how far and how divergent the path is from the one we were pushed into.

But we can change to our new path, gently and firmly, as we are directed by our joy and our delight.

And everyone and everything which belongs there with us will be there, too.

© 2016 Kathryn Hardage

www.takethreedeepbreaths.blogspot.com

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When the Rubber Band Snaps

Every once in a while, the rubber band snaps back and I am pulled into the old nightmare.

But I have learned something about establishing a new place of peace.

i can create a place that is compatible with my innermost joy and delight.

And so, when my old wild ride snaps, it flings me into a nice, comfy, happy place.

I discovered this metaphor when I was following a success practice of writing down my desire and repeating it to myself several times a day.

The goal was one thousand times.

When I got around the mid five-hundreds, it snapped back, and I realized after that many affirmations, it was not my goal at all.

I carefully looked at what I truly wanted at that point, and I then started building a new path toward it.

I can feel the difference!

The old definition of success was built on someone else’s version of my life and career.

Even though I had obediently followed it, it was never my own.

I didn’t realize that I had a choice until the rubber band snapped and pulled me away from the direction my affirmation was leading me.

Now, both my own goal and the affirmations which support it are in alignment.

And I am living in that new place I have always desired and I am developing a career which I love and which expresses who I truly am.

© 2016 Kathryn Hardage
www.pebblesofpeace.blogspot.com

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You Can Destroy It Every Time

You can destroy the old pattern every time, and put yourself in your new place of choice.

Whatever the old pattern is, it cannot move forward with you, because where you are now is a contradiction of it.

So, if the old pattern gets your attention once in a while, simply notice it;  after all, you may have gone for a short ride with it, but then you can move to the new place you have built.

I found myself torn apart after a ride with the old pattern, until I began creating a small graphic by simply writing “happy” all over it.

After a while, I realized that I could move into my wonderful new great place in my mind, which has now manifested into a wonderful, comfortable place with great surroundings.

My choice, ride breakneck along with terror, or climb off and walk down a beautiful and peaceful path.

The adrenalin fear and excitement generated by terror is no longer compelling.

I have much more powerful feelings along the lines of joy.

They let me take my tiny, repetitive steps to build my new career and product line.

My new feelings of joy and peace let me guide my choices of experiences and companions.

They let me live in a new way, one which I enjoy.

I am in touch with and immersed in joy every day.

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

© 2016 Kathryn Hardage
www.lovedcherishedadored.blogspot.com

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Appreciate Yourself

I have just been sorting through all my types of projects and materials and the resources which support them.

I love everything on all those shelves.

It makes me so happy to be around what I love to do.

It is all fitting into a nice busy flow, which feels completely comforting to me.

The early childhood music resources compliment the music teaching doll I am sewing.

My favorite knitting magazines can now join the yarn stash.

The weaving threads and rug yarns are behind the looms.

The washed fleeces and batts are behind the spinning wheel.

The art materials and drawing books are in several project bags.

All my joy in doing these fun things is organizing itself into gentle production.

I can add on to my short-term and long-term habits of drawing, sewing, quilting, weaving, spinning, writing.

It is simply easier to find everything now that I don’t have to hide behind them as distractions.

They are my work.

All my experiences have led up to this Studio as celebration.

© 2016 Kathryn Hardage

www.yourdiamondmind.blogspot.com

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Your Own Dream

Your dream is your own.

So are your resources.

Your dream will always challenge you to expand your resources.

Take the time to figure it out.

Take the temporary steps you need to take, but don’t let them substitute for your own dream.

Your own dream will keep building in your mind.

Get a quiet spot where you can consistently devote time to it.

What you nurture will grow.

Nurture your dream, not your dissatisfaction.

Turn within and look at your dream, often.

Let it take you in new directions.

Your life experiences will help you shape your dream.

Your dream will attract people who appreciate it to you.

When you dream is mature enough, you will find people who support it.

While you are nurturing it, remember that other’s opinions are irrelevant.

Only your love for your dream has any value.

Trust yourself.

You were put here for a purpose.

Love whatever that is.

Find out and create your dream.

© 2016 Kathryn Hardage

www.youngpersonsmentor.blogspot.com

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Peace for Myself

How do I create peace for myself?

By not placing ridiculous demands on myself.

By making sure I am living a balanced life.

By giving myself enough time to do things.

By having enough alone time to figure out what is really important to me.

By associating with those of uplifting character and service.

By respecting my own needs and talents.

By honoring where I am now.

By being happy.

By being so very satisfied.

By living my dream.

© 2016 Kathryn Hardage

www.pebblesofpeace.blogspot.com

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Really Good Care

How am I taking really good care of myself?

I am surrounding myself with beauty.

I am giving myself easy access to all my projects.

I am getting so many of them done!!!!

It feels so great.

I am eating really good quality food which I cook myself.

I am in a comfortable environment.

I am doing what I love to do, creating beautiful things.

I am basing my life on what is happening now, not the past.

© 2016 Kathryn Hardage

www.lovedcherishedadored.blogspot.com

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Building New Patterns

I am making progress despite the patterns from the past.

Everyone I know is making progress despite the patterns from the past.

Everyone I don’t even know all over the planet is making progress despite the patterns from the past.

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Many past patterns are no longer useful or helpful to me.

I have had to build new ones for myself in order to move forward.

Sometimes that has involved letting go of old situations and even physically placing myself in a new environment.

In some cases, it has even involved altering the family structure.

What does it take to heal?

If we don’t take the responsibility to take the steps for ourselves, who will?

If we don’t take those steps, we will end up where we started from, an intolerable situation.

So, triage.

Save yourself and let other people save themselves however they will.

Allow enough healing to take place until it generously overflows into as many areas as possible.

Break the old, build the new and keep building.

Life isn’t over yet and time keeps us moving on.

Growing is a choice for all of us.

Keep growing and don’t give up.

© 2016 Kathryn Hardage
www.takethreedeepbreaths.blogspot.com
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Immediate and Remote

My immediate past has nothing to do with my remote past.

As I have dealt with the issues of the past, I have replaced the way I approach things and the way I view things.

Therefore, I have replaced my past.

I can now move forward from a firm and healthy footing.

My immediate past is full of good.

Good friends.

Good occupation.

Good food.

Good exercise.

Good marriage.

Good family.

Good.

The old attachments have been loosened and replaced.

Any loose straggling thoughts can be dealt with effectively.

I have a happy and resilient way of living.

I do things I love and that I was meant to do.

That is the meaning of my life.

© 2016 Kathryn Hardage

www.lovedcherishedadored.blogspot.com

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Wholeness and Presence

In this moment, I am feeling the peace of being whole.

I am undistracted from who I really am.

I am living in the acknowledgement of my completeness.

I have everything at hand that I need.

I know that whatever I need will be supplied to me at the right time and in the right way.

I know that I live in the conscious identity of myself as a complete and whole spiritual being.

I have the peace of this present moment.

Each time I turn within to find answers, they are there, gently and completely.

I am able to share my answers in appropriate ways.

I am here to aid in giving comfort.

I feel the preciousness of all of us.

We are here to bless and be blessed.

This is how I spend my time and who I spend it with.

I am so glad to know all of us.

I am so glad we are here together to bring a happier life to all of us.

© 2016 Kathryn Hardage

www.pebblesofpeace.blogspot.com

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Wholeness

I am thinking about wholeness.

What we do to achieve it.

As though we are broken.

And yet, those experiences that tear us apart are only our feelings, our reactions to difficult situations.

One I get enough distance to recover, I realize there was a trigger, and then an escalation, and then I assigned certain meanings to those events.

When I back off some more, I realize that I am whole and always have been.

I momentarily lost my true sense of who I am.

Sometimes it seems as though its been years since I lost my way.

But then, when I find it again, I am restored immediately.

I am now starting with wholeness.

Whatever events from the past distracted me from my wholeness are now irrelevant.

I can rethink my way through them if that is useful.

But mostly, I just need to calm down and feel my wholeness.

I am related to the Infinite Creator of the Universe.

I am like that.

I am created without lack.

I have everything I need right where I am, right now.

I am whole.

© 2016 Kathryn Hardage

www.InspiredPractices.blogspot.com

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