Back in the Calm

I have learned how to bring myself back into a calm state no matter where I am.

I am grateful to return to places where I was overwhelmed in the past and to be able to become calm.

As I have conducted my business, despite recurring anxiety, I have been able to find my way to whatever I needed.

I have been able to take the time I needed to take my deep breaths, settle myself, and to proceed on my course.

Throughout my day, I was where I needed to be in a timely manner.

I was able to include some valuable and inspiring time at art exhibits.

I continued with my spiritual writing and meditation drawing and visited classes on spirituality.

Every element which I needed was at hand.

I made new friends easily, and enjoyed participating in new activities.

I have gained valuable insight on my progress.

I appreciate the freedom which I am experiencing.

I am grateful for the new place I find myself in.

I am able to operate well, conscious of what I have overcome from the past.

© 2019 Kathryn Hardage

www.pebblesofpeace.blogspot.com 

Surrounded by Calm

I am creating calmness for myself wherever I go.

I have experienced the calm of sitting in an off-grid cabin and looking at Nature.

I have experienced the calm of living in a small town.

I have experienced the calm of reading a good book in the middle of a large city.

Each of these experiences allows me to feel calm.

I have created a “meditation drawing” practice which I can carry anywhere to create calm for myself. (www.shareinspirationandpeace.blogspot.com).

I now have a baseline of calm within and the techniques and tools to bring it back to me when I need it.

I am so grateful to have established this baseline from which to work.

I can measure other events against it.

How much excitement do I want?

Is it constructive excitement or worrying excitement?

I can live with the calmness which I prefer.

I always have access to the ideas which are important to me.

I share them through drawing on my calm within.

My life evolves through the calm which I create for myself.

I am able to learn new things through being calm.

I eliminate confusion and frustration through being calm.

I can reach out and take the tiny steps to reach my goals through being calm.

I am amazed and grateful to have redirected my life so that calmness is apparent.

I am able to life a life through which I receive inspiration and uplift others.

That is the strength of the calm I have learned to include within and without.

© 2019 Kathryn Hardage

www.lovedcherishedadored.blogspot.com

Sharing Happiness

I am grateful to learn that I can share my happiness.

Everyone I know is grateful to learn that they can share their happiness.

Everyone I don’t even know all over the planet is grateful to learn that they can share their happiness.

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I am discovering that one of the conditions for me to remain happy is the requirement to share it.

One of the things this does for me is to combat the life-long depression I was raised in.

My new habit of cultivating and recognizing happiness has reordered my life.

I now have an alternative to how I look at and respond to events which occur.

I can look at and interpret the tiny little nuances which create a series of reactions throughout the day in a way which creates happiness for me.

A huge dose of calmness is part of the requirement.

This takes away tension and the tendency from the past to be fearful.

Calmness allows me to look at the situation differently, and to allow a sense of well-being and happiness to come in.

Calmness allows me to check out my situation for safety, which it generally is.

Learning how to make room for happiness is one of the crowning achievements of my life.

Now I attract it all the time.

With my new ability to see and experience a happy life, I want everyone to have that ability.

It is my greatest privilege to be able to share it.

Since we all sense the mood around us and respond to it, I am grateful that i can contribute to an uplifting feeling.

I am grateful that my achievement in overcoming negative life experiences allows me to encourage others that they, too, can create happy lives for themselves.

Sharing happiness is my profound joy.

© 2019 Kathryn Hardage

www.takethreedeepbreaths.blogspot.com 

Creating Happiness

The new committed direction to creating safety for students has unified young people all over the country and all over the world.

Not only are they seeking to insure safety in their schools, they are actively involved in seeking solutions to deal with the environment and with climate change.

Stewarding the environment deals with creating a policy to nurture and protect plant and animal life.

It deals with implementing proven sustainable agriculture policies such as agro-ecology and dryland practices.

Facing the reality of climate change involves policy to reduce carbon emissions.

Policy to support renewable energy is a key goal.

These are some of the ways that young people’s awareness and action are taking hold all over the world.

The millennials are facing a tough situation and addressing it in vigorous and creative ways.

Creating happiness involves recognizing each individual as valued and able to contribute to society.

Micropreneurism allows individuals to create jobs for themselves where they see a need.

Social businesses are another way of doing business where all the profits are fed back into the business.

Those who work in social businesses have the benefit of the job and others receive the benefit of the product and services.

More happiness is possible where the energies of everyone can be applied to what is important to them in ways which benefit the community.

People have the dignity of choosing their work and doing it.

More creativity and imagination is applied to real needs and the improvement of everyone in the community is addressed.

As young people turn their attention to solving problems in new ways, people who have been neglected traditionally and currently can be benefitted.

© 2019 Kathryn Hardage

www.youngpersonsmentor.blogspot.com 

Completing a Task

There is peace which comes upon completing a task.

Sometimes it takes a long time for the elements to all come in focus which allow a task to be completed.

Once it comes into mind, everything will move together at the right time, and completion will become effortless.

This is true for short-term and long-term goals.

It is true for simple tasks and complex tasks.

The right elements will occur in unpredictable ways when least expected and the task will get done.

As a high school cello student, I remember following all the instruction I was given to learn how to create an bowing style called “spiccato”.

For several weeks, I could not get it.

Finally, three weeks after my teacher left for her summer gig, as I was practicing, it just happened.

Everything came together and I was able to play “spiccato”.

I actually remember pulling my bow out just a little farther on the string and that was the moment that created the right balance of all the elements.

Another time, I was given the opportunity to acquire some special materials.

I felt overwhelmed and burdened at the time as well as feeling a certain sense of obligation.

Perhaps a year later, the opportunity came to follow through on the offer when I was least expecting it and under what would certainly have been called adverse circumstances.

Those elements came together in an unusual way and acquiring the materials turned out to be easy and fun.

I was relieved of the obligation at the same time.

When a goal is right and desirable, the Universe will create the opportunities which allow for completion and peace.

© 2019 Kathryn Hardage

www.pebblesofpeace.blogspot.com 

Releasing Attachments

As I prepare to follow through on a life-long goal to travel, I am considering many aspects of my current life.

My attachments and possessions have been continually reduced.

It is amazing how the emotional attachments to things works.

In order to move beyond all the things, a more important goal is requisite.

Remaining with the familiar has such a strong pull.

By being willing to sacrifice our attachments we release ourselves.

It becomes possible to move toward a higher, more far-reaching goal.

Things come into our lives for a reason, and then we can let them go for a higher reason.

Sometimes it is our decision and sometimes it is not.

When we release our attachments, it creates a new opportunity.

Because I have made a decision to travel, I have committed myself to releasing my attachment to most of my things.

This is new territory for me.

It is both exciting and scary.

I am glad to have the opportunity to explore it, because it is worth it to me to see the possibilities in a new kind of living.

© 2019 Kathryn Hardage

www.inspiredpractices.blogspot.com

Wealth on the Outside and on the Inside

The first way I discovered prosperity was though an increase in ideas.

The ideas became more consistent until I was sure that they would always continue to flow.

As I now build on the abundant presence of ideas, I am finding ways to express them and to share them.

As I continue to expand on the promise behind the ideas, I am generating more wealth through well-being for everyone who comes into contact with them.

This is much farther than I expected to go in my study of prosperity, wealth, and abundance.

I became aware of an ability to give which I had not experienced before.

The ability is what is expanding my wealth and causing the ideas to continue to flow.

Ideas take shape and assume the form which will allow them to serve in the most appropriate ways possible.

As we listen for ideas, we, too, are shaped and assume the forms most appropriate to bring them into service.

The wealth we experience on the inside takes shape on the outside.

We are able to track our progress as we put the ideas into practice which will allow us to give more.

When we realize our own prosperity in terms of how our uplifting nature is manifesting through service, it uplifts others and moves them towards their own prosperity.

This is how it appears to me.

Prosperity as a sense of well-being expands throughout society as it expands through consciousness.

Once we reach the point of seeing all as worthy, our ideas of prosperity and well-being assume the most appropriate forms through public policy.

© 2019 Kathryn Hardage

www.inspiredpractices.blogspot.com