Hands of Peace

The hands of peace in my life are many.

I love reflecting on the different times they have appeared.

From when I was very little, I have been able to reach out in desperate situations.

The prayers I learned from a spritual healing tradition supported, and continue to support, me.

My cello teachers found me a willing and disciplined student and they provided positive structure in my life.

My women’s group of entreprenuers adds humor to the weekly times we get together.

My husband has been a constant nurturing and loving presence.

As we travel, we meet interesting and enjoyable people who appreciate our company and conversation.

As I consider what I can offer in a new business, I am receiving support and direction.

All of these are ways in which I experience the uplifting hands of peace in my life.

Through the constant presence of those who express peace in my life, I am encouraged to expand my expression of peace.

I include it in my daily practice.

I add peace to my conversation.

I watch for opportunities to go slow and be unharrassed.

I do things which I love to do in an expectant and joyful way.

I make sure I include light and beauty in my surroundings.

I attract people of an upliftng nature.

I meet new acquaintances who love me.

My practice of peace brings more happiness into my life in natural ways.

The many hands of peace throughout my life have created this peaceful atmosphere for me.

© 2019 Kathryn Hardage

www.pebblesofpeace.blogspot.com 

Speaking Up

Loving ourselves enough to speak up and give our opinion or to ask for an adjustment may require great courage.

We may have had negative experiences which disempowered us in the past and we have to relearn our rights.

As we gain confidence in being who we are meant to be, we learn to accompany ourselves with our rightful power.

We learn to speak up for our needs.

I am amazed, once again, at my habit of letting many of the little injustices that happen to me continue without saying anything.

It is taking a conscious intentional act for me to speak up to correct them.

I am learning to do this with some effort.

When I do, people are willing to take care of me.

It is natural for them to do so.

No one acts as though it is an imposition, simply a lack of awareness whch they are totally willing to correct.

I am grateful to discover this.

It is a simple way to empower myself once again.

As I speak up, I am using my voice to express my rightful needs.

I am able to take up the space in the world which has been provided for me.

I am intended to express the ideas whch are part of who I am.

My ideas are important enough to express.

What I know and what I feel are significant.

What I have to say is of value.

Speaking up allows everyone to make adjustments to everyone else.

We are able to interact with more awareness, kindness and compassion.

There is a place for each one of us.

Speaking up allows us to take our rightful place.

© 2019 Kathryn Hardage

www.lovedcherishedadored.blogspot.com 

Helping Hands

This morning when I woke up, I had the most wonderful feeling of helping hands leading me forward.

I had a sense of them reaching down to pull me up.

I have felt like I was battling to keep my head above water for so long that this was an amazing change.

The feeling of help being within reach, and even reaching for me is so novel, that I have been secretly revisiting that scene.

As I progress through the next several days, I am challenging the deep negative feelings from my early life.

I am able to access different feelings around me now.

I have been devoting myself to doing what I love and it is placing me within reach of those who share my love.

Whenever we express what we love, it attracts those of like-mind.

We encourage one another, share ideas, and lift each other higher in becoming excellent.

We extend those helping hands I mentioned.

Basing myself where I can be of help, I am receiving help.

This help is expanding into new areas where I can utlize my gifts for others.

The sense of helping hands is freeing me from a feeling of isolation.

I see that by connecting myself to what I love I am placing myself within reach of the help I seek.

The helping hands are with me whenever I take my next step toward freedom.

They beckon me on and are a promise of uplifting surroundings.

Helping hands let me know that I am moving in the right direction, since they come to me through doing what I love.

I know that what attracts me is the joy and happiness of creativity.

I love sharing that joy and happiness with others.

Together we are the helping hands which reach out to others.

As they do what they love, they, too, find their way to freedom.

© 2019 Kathryn Hardage

www.lovedcherishedadored.blogspot.com 

Creativity Always Directs

I love moving into creativity.

There are so many fun ways to play!

My favorite passion is fabric.

I learned how to make quilts and have never looked back.

I began making journal covers to feel productive with smaller projects.

I am taking very beginning steps exploring creative art with watercolor and markers.

All of these processes let me move into a freeing dimension.

It is fun to play with color and texture, shape and design.

I feel a creative flow of happiness, of joy and ecstasy when I am in that realm.

My greatest love is for sharing my creativity and seeing others come alive as they become involved in their own creative projects.

Creativity releases fear, accesses the imagination and allows play right where we are.

We are able to operate without limitations as we delve into our creativity.

Our involvment in creativity often opens the way to receive inspiration and help.

We extend our own helping hands as we open to the creativity in our own heart.

We are uplifted, and we uplift others.

I am a postive uplifting force through creativity.

I attract those who are willing to learn how to uplift themselves through creativity.

In creativity, I am always directed through joy and happiness.

It is a rush, a flow, a delight.

Creativity runs counter to despair and lets us look at things in a new light.

When we are willing to uplift and be uplifted, creativity flows into us.

 It flows through us in ways where it can be received by those who can most benefit.

© 2019 Kathryn Hardage 

www.lovedcherishedadored.blogspot.com 

Getting in Touch

I am meeting myself for the first time.

In so many ways, I am just getting in touch with who I am along with my right to exist.

I am discovering a new way to live after carrying around “hidden drivers” from an abused childhood.

In little ways, I am standing up for myself.

Although I did not know it, by taking up the space I am entitled to, I am just beginning to live without fear.

It has been my choice all along, but, first, I had to know I was safe.

I no longer attract bullies.

I am appreciated and respected in new settings of my choice.

The places and people I enjoy and appreciate find my company charming and desirable.

We find common ground in the things we love to do.

Gradually, my feeling of safety is expanding.

I am able to go places and do things which were out of my range before.

I am able to find the things which nurture and interest and excite me.

I am able to participate without fear.

I am welcome.

I am living in a new world where being in touch with what I love allows me to live more completely.

© 2019 Kathryn Hardage

www.lovedcherishedadored.blogspot.com 

Living in Safety

When I look around me, I feel safe.

When everyone I know looks around them, they feel safe.

When everyone I don’t even know, all over the planet, looks around them, they feel safe.

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I have discovered a new dimension of safety for myself.

I can look around me now and realize that no one means me any ill will.

Everyone is going about their own business and taking care of what is important to them.

I am not the object of anyone’s anger or authority anymore.

I am safe.

I can look up and not fear that I am doing something wrong.

I can trust myself.

I am in a place where it is normal to feel safe.

Wherever I go, I can take my feeling of safety with me.

I no longer fear triggers and memories at every turn.

I have removed myself from fear by my own assessment of the situation.

I am living a normal life in normal and safe circumstances.

The sick people who caused me so much fear are out of my life.

I have my own thoughts and they are strong and calm.

I no longer attract bullies.

They stay away from me.

I am living an honest and uplifting life which strengthens me and attracts those of like-mind.

I am glad to share my feeling of safety everywhere I go.

May we all live in well-being and safety.

© 2019 Kathryn Hardage

www.takethreedeepbreaths.blogspot.com 

Self-Guidance

When you are trying to sort things out and feeling a sense of confusion, it becomes neccesary simply to stop.

Take a deep breath and listen for inner guidance.

Once I stop repeating the series of thoughts whch are causing the confusion, my inner guidance is always available.

To help me sort out the problem, sometimes I write the thoughts down.

Then I listen for the message from my Inner Guidance.

I may write out several confusing thoughts, making a list of everything I am thinking about.

Then, line by line, thought by thought, I listen for the message from my Inner Guidance.

When I get to the end of the list, I read my messages and listen deeply for solutions.

I find that as I move out of the confusion and open myself to the messages of guidance, I am able to take a good course of action.

I have helpful ideas which direct me to the next step in my project.

I receive calming ideas about my role in relationships.

I am able to improve my own course with new, tiny steps, in the right direction.

Listening within, I am filled self-compassion for my misunderstandings and misinterpretations.

I am able to take steps to look in helpful and uplifting directions.

I am able to contribute my new found calm and inspiration to my current situation.

I feel relief, once I get off the roller-coaster of confusion.

I can hear my own direction and steer my own course.

The Inner Guidance which is always avalable is part of myself.

It is part of my innate identity and individuality.

I have access to all the resources I need.

They are always present and available as I calm myself with inner listening.

Even though I can sometimes see the way forward, I cannot take the steps until my inner listening sorts things out for me.

I find that I am right where I need to be.

I can feel the calm pervading my being.

I can sense what I need to do and I can do it.

© 2019 Kathryn Hardage

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