Joyful Creation

It is such a wonderful feeling to be engaged in joyful creativity.

Today, after doing my spiritual work, I decided to continue working on a sewing project.

The next two steps are done, and I have laid out the third step.

I am so grateful for the feeling of progress in such a happy way.

Committing myself to being able to do what I love has been a rigorous process, full of the usual obstacles involved in breaking a deeply ingrained habit.

But it is worth it.

I now have a mental, spiritual and physical basis and base for doing my work, and I love every minute of it.

As I received the inner guidance of my identity through listening deeply within, I have learned to trust my desires.

As I have acted on that guidance, I have been able to set up congenial space for my projects.

Through my study and deep listening, I continually find the ideas which I love to share.

Then I make them.

I make beautiful things.

I celebrate my originality which comes from my deep meditation and listening.

I joyfully play with the materials which I collect from fun places.

This is truly a restoration, a resurrection of my soul.

To be involved effortlessly in such a daily joyous expression is truly the Universe’s gift to me.

© 2018 Kathryn Hardage

www.inspiredpractices.blogspot.com 

Whatever You Need, Right When You Need It

Sometimes I need something and I can not find because I put it down and forgot where it is.

Sometimes I need information or services.

Sometimes I need calm.

There is a teaching which tells me that whatever I need is right where I am, right in front of me.

When I get calm, I have taken the first step.

Then as I either sit quietly, or begin a search, or look on-line, the right ideas come to me and I am presented with what I need.

This has happened in many different ways.

One time, I couldn’t find my cell phone.  Calmly, as I began moving cushions on the couch, It was below one of them.

Another time, my husband and I needed someone to brush hog the near growth on our cleared acre.  As we rounded a turn on a country road, there was a sign and phone number offering that service.

In many other instances, I have been able to connect in easy but unpredictable ways with the materials, people, and information I have required.

The Universe loves us and takes care of us by providing what we need, right where we are, when we listen deeply and peaceably.

In that calm, quiet sense within, we can always hear the direction we need to turn and the steps we need to take.

© 2018 Kathryn Hardage

www.inspiredpractices.blogspot.com 

Finding Your Deep Peace

I am grateful to find my deep peace.

Everyone I know is grateful to find their deep peace.

Everyone I don’t even know all over the planet, is grateful to find their deep peace.

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To find your deep peace, take a moment to slow down.

Take a deep breath and do so again until your begin to find your calm.

Once you can maintain your calm, go deeper.

Listen deeper, and deeper.

As you find your focus shifting inwardly, you can begin to listen for a feeling.

Maintain your calm and listen even more deeply for the feeling of peace.

Once you can feel your deep peace, maintain your focus and go deeper.

At a certain point, your deep peace will hold you and embrace you and cushion you and comfort you.

In this deep security, you will find your deep peace.

And here is where you can listen and find the messages and guidance which are meant for you this day.

You can do this at any time during the day and hear the messages and guidance that you need for that moment.

Find your deep peace and listen, and be guided.

© 2018 Kathryn Hardage

www.takethreedeepbreaths.blogspot.com 

Grateful for Time to Build

I am grateful for time to build on my new peace and happiness

Everyone I know is grateful for time to build on their new peace and happiness.

Everyone I don’t even know, all over the planet, is grateful for time to build on their new peace and happiness.

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Right now, my experience of peace and happiness is relatively small.

I have learned how to overcome long-term negativity in my life, but I have not been practicing it very long.

I have discovered that I need time to expand my practice.

I need to build a wider foundation with more experiences of peace and happiness.

I can continue doing what I have discovered that I love to do.

I can continue meeting with my supportive craft guilds and women’s groups.

I can continue enjoying living in the country.

I can continue building up my collection of beautiful things that I love to make.

But, it is not time to go out and sell.

Every time I try to lead or push or encourage myself in that direction, I get rebuffed.

I pushed it last year and lost out on a lot of booth fees.  Even the weather caused events to be cancelled.

So now, I am continuing to work and to prosper and to create and to enjoy.

This is my time for building those kinds of peaceful and happy experiences.

© 2018 Kathryn Hardage

www.takethreedeepbreaths.blogspot.com 

Gentleness, Not Pushing

I am amazed at the amount of time I have by doing things gently instead of out of anger or by pushing myself.

The gentle nudges which come from listening deeply within are powerful agencies when translated into action.

I have tried to hurry things up, but it is useless.

When I feel the strong deep gentle power within and know that feeling of Guidance, that is the time.

That is when I am in sync with the Universe, and that is when things happen easily and naturally.

Even though I may be able to see where I think I am going, it feels different to get there when I am in alignment with the Universe and Its guidance and power.

I can take gentle steps and explore new skills and still know that I will be where I need and want to be.

I can leave the anxiety and tension behind me as I feel the gentle direction being given me.

A natural order takes over and the project emerges in its own time with many more beautiful elements than if it had been rushed.

I know to simply not work on something until I feel the presence of gentleness.

The hurry and rush of deadlines and assignments is irrelevant in the presence of a higher and better way.

I know to trust gentleness instead of fearing pressure.

It is a new way to live and work, and I like it a lot.

© 2018 Kathryn Hardage

www.inspiredpractices.blogspot.com 

Keeping My Thought Close

It is easy to jump in on someone else’s emotional track, but it is more important to keep my own thought distinct and close to me.

I have learned how it feels to be calm and to not react, and I have to be sure to practice this as consistently as I am able.

My spiritual study and work with a counselor have taught me the difference between my own thought and the thoughts the are so deeply implanted by parents and by society.

I can choose the thoughts which I prefer.

I prefer the happy ones.

I prefer the ones which allow me to listen deeply for good ideas.

I prefer to be able to act on the good ideas without getting bogged down in negative habits and influences.

That is what I do now.

All day, I do things that I love.  Setting that up was the first step.

Being so very kind to myself was the second, in recognition that this was something I needed very much.

Acting on all the many projects which I love, in various sequences and combinations is the third step.

I am looking forward to sharing them as they get completed.

They are happy expressions of my life and I want other people to enjoy them.

I love that I can keep my thoughts close and still enjoy sharing my rich expression of doing the things I love.

© 2018 Kathryn Hardage

www.inspiredpractices.blogspot.com 

The Heart and Happiness

The divine connection is through the heart.

It is very important to do heart-felt things.

That is the way to discover and support your spiritual individuality.

Notice what makes you happy and decide to create that for yourself.

You deserve a gift of happiness that only you can bring to yourself.

Figuring out how to redirect your life toward happiness builds your skills in creating delight for yourself.

This delight spills over and delights those around you.

They feel the happiness in your work.

You connect through your heart to the world of happiness. 

Happiness begins to define your divine life.

The more happiness you express, the more divinity you express.

Happiness is a divine right which can be expressed right now in your present state.

The more you cultivate happiness from within and express it, the more you cultivate your divinity.

At some point you not that your happiness is unstoppable, and so is your divinity.

Your heart connection is forever, always, and now.

© 2018 Kathryn Hardage

www.lovedcherishedadored.blogspot.com