Peaceful Results

Instead of feeling so driven by fear, effective work has been done by the grass roots to reclaim much of the election process.

The peace of mind thus gained, gives impetus to more work.

It is immensely gratifying to see that the same kind of intense concentrated work that can change a personal life is now visibly changing our national life.

Our collective awareness is defeating ignorance.

Our desire to see everyone represented is overcoming ignorant consensus of the “leadership”.

Leaders are strongly emerging from within the grass roots, where they should.

Representation is gradually becoming more widespread.

This kind of peace of mind is not complacent at all; it is enormously energizing.

I am so grateful and relieved that the guidance and follow-through for this work has been so consistent.

The new feeling of local power is energizing people to participate in ways that have been neglected.

The feeling of futility is gone, as people have come together to create new local, state and federal possibilities.

The disturbances of polarizing attitudes still has to be dealt with in ways that include even those who opt for elitism and exclusivity.

With the energy generated by positive attitudes for change, which benefit everyone through social and environmental programs, we have a chance to deal with the critical issues.

It will be gratifying to see this country rejoin worldwide efforts to address and elevate what we continue to have in common.

© 2018 Kathryn Hardage

www.pebblesofpeace.blogspot.com 

Peace and Direction

I feel as though I am on two tracks simultaneously, what is going on in my personal life, and the barrage of news and other media.

I find I can live more positively when I listen within for a peaceful sense of direction.

I know I am making progress on my projects and my personal development.

I feel a sense of peace when I think about this fact.

When I look at what is going on in the news, I remember that we are all part of an infinite Universe of ideas.

The same way I can access the ideas which are relevant to me, so can everyone.

This makes me feel that the good ideas are within reach of everyone who wants to find them.

As I keep searching, so can others.

The search takes me within, and then from my peaceful point of view, whatever I need appears.

I welcome that sense of direction and guidance.

I feel as though the spiritual work of so many is elevating certain issues so that healing can take place.

As more of us begin to see solutions, there is a shift in the entire atmosphere around us.

Just the fact that solutions exist means that we can find them.

This is a helpful direction for me to follow.

I feel less and less attached to my opinions from the past and more able to move in the direction of helpful solutions in the present.

Regardless of the upset and disturbance around me, I can direct myself to look within and to notice and act on the peaceful solutions which appear.

© 2018 Kathryn Hardage

www.pebblesofpeace.blogspot.com 

Listen for Direction

I listen for direction and notice what appears.

Everyone I know listens for direction and notices what appears.

Everyone I don’t even know, all over the planet, listens for direction and notices what appears.

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As I make plants to carry out the next step, I notice what does and what does not appear.

Even though I have an opinion, if things do not go in that direction, I realize that I must listen more deeply.

When a consistent direction appears, even though it is not the one I had in mind, I know that it is the one I am being directed to follow.

The steps are taken with ease, when I am willing to be in harmony with the direction and guidance which comes to me.

It is okay for a path to be easy.

It is just fine for a direction and resources to be available without fear or fighting for them.

It is all right for things to gently open up and appear and for us to take steps in that direction.

A clear path may be seen as we habitually practice listening.

As we become better at removing the obstacles in our mind, action based on our limited knowledge, we become more efficient at finding our way.

Being willing to receive direction and to take action is the best way of moving forward.

I am willing for it to be easy to listen and then to act.

© 2018 Kathryn Hardage

www.takethreedeepbreaths.blogspot.com 

Create a Safe Space Within

When there is turmoil and a heavy emotional atmosphere around us, it is important to create a place of calm and safety within.

We can do this by listening quietly as we take our deep breaths.

From a place of calm, we can proceed about our day.

Each time a feeling of urgency or panic tries to interrupt us, we can return to our inner calm as we breathe deeply and slowly.

The enrichment for our day begins here.

As we enter into our peace and calm, we can be surrounded by the ideas we need to complete our project, our shopping list or our day.

We are enriched by ideas for the next step or simply a good route through the traffic.

Our safety depends on calm, alert thinking when we feel pressured or disturbed.

We can find safety as we immerse ourselves in inspired listening and as we take calm and effective action.

We can move ourselves to our mental safety and then to our physical safety whenever needed.

As we practice our response on the little things, it becomes a natural way to handle things when they escalate to a crisis.

By removing ourselves from irritation, taking our deep breaths, and acting from a calm frame, we build up a safe way to proceed.

As we habitually listen for inspiration in our daily lives how to be of service and how to be kind, we are connected with the calm and safe havens we need for ourselves.

We can live in safety whenever and wherever we are as we continually surround ourselves with the calm atmosphere which we choose for ourselves.

© 2018 Kathryn Hardage

www.lovedcherishedadored.blogspot.com 

Speak Up to Protect

Most of us grow up with a desire to nurture and protect what is close to us.

It may be family, it may be Nature, it may be a cause that we are involved in.

We must make sure our voices are heard in cases where there are infringements.

No where is this more evident than in today’s politics, so more and more of us are speaking up to protect, defend, and expand the practice of democracy.

The feeling of crisis as we see commercial and corporate interests taking away physical safety, as well as food, water and ecological safety is extreme.

So, many groups and individuals have become involved as we take part in correcting egregious practices.

We are all valuable and precious in our appreciation of our freedoms.

We are all valuable and precious in what we have to contribute to civilization and society.

In order to make those contributions, we must be free to live and to vote.

Our decision-making ability is most harmonious through unrestricted voting for all members of our communities.

Without a peaceful method of making our voices heard, more stringent methods become inevitable.

By releasing all to vote and respecting and valuing their right to do so, we create a society which is fair and balanced.

Such a society can progress within and without.

Such a society can address problems with solutions to benefit all of us.

The narrow-minded thinking of greed is trying to erode the benefits of a representative government for such a pitiable reason, personal control of resources.

Such selfish motives have no place in a democracy which exists to benefit all her people.

I am grateful to hear so many voices speaking up to protect and defend all of us.

© 2018 Kathryn Hardage

www.yougnpersonsmentor.blogspot.com

Some Projects are Slow

When projects move slowly, they are taking the time they need to become mature in your own thought.

Sometimes, when I start a project, I think I know what I want to do with it.

But something will get me off-track, and then I know there is more that is developing.

At times, the idea will slip into place within a few days, and I will be able to proceed,

Other times, it may be months, or even years before I return to finish the project.

Many times, I have grown beyond what I thought I wanted to do, and so I release the project even though I did not complete it.

I acknowledge that I have grown, and that it is time to make room for the current expression.

Since I acknowledge my growth in my spiritual study, I can acknowledge my growth as expressed in my creative projects.

I have recently acquired many new skills, some of which I had been longing to learn for some time.

I have learned them on a beginner level and discovered which ones I love.

I do not have to continue the ones I do not love, so I am release them.

What I love will continue to grow.

It has been good to discover what is worth doing in terms of what I love.

The slowness of some projects has been a gift.

Either I matured enough to finish them, or they were not something I loved so much that they had to be finished.

I am learning to release my attachment to delightful things which no longer figure in my creative growth.

Slow is good, and so is release.

© 2018 Kathryn Hardage

www.inspiredpractices.blogspot.com

What is Needed at the Time

For a long time, I needed comfort in the form of creative projects.

These combatted the feeling of being pushed into a straight line.

If I could create something, I had room to breathe.

Or course, I have ended up with many more materials than I could use to create projects.

I have also had the satisfaction of saturation with comfort.

I have joined many communities of creatives.

The warmth and acceptance on common ground has been consistent.

I feel completely comforted through my association.

Now, as I release so many of my materials and move into following another dream, I move with complete security.

My feelings and memories largely replace the dissociation of being forced into a straight line.

There is room for newness from the basis of a new foundation, a new way which I have had of experiencing the world.

I have the comfort of moving on and releasing many of the props which helped me in the past.

Aspects of moving on are difficult to deal with, but on the whole I am grateful.

I had what I needed at the time.

Now, it is a new time.

© 2018 Kathryn Hardage

www.lovedcherishedadored.blogspot.com