What is Real

What is real is how you feel.

If you violate how you feel, you are interrupting the flow of who you are.

You know where you belong, what you love to do, and what you want to surround yourself with.

You have all the ingredients to make yourself successful.

You must trust yourself.

You must listen inwardly.

You must take the tiny little steps and do the things you love.

You must gather the materials around you which let you create your beauty.

You must use the skills which allow you to demonstrate your strengths.

Then you will be a success.

Until that happens, you may be someone else’s idea of success, but it will not be your own.

You will never, ever be satisfied until you express your talents, your gifts, your creations.

That is what is real.

That is the life you must strive to live.

© 2017 Kathryn Hardage

www.lovedcherishedadored.blogspot.com 

Saved

Saved by remaining true.

Do not let the temptation to participate in the world’s economy in the world’s way take you off your path.

You love yourself and your idea more than that.

It is appropriate to devote yourself to the path which identifies you, which makes you unique, which enables you to make a valuable contribution to society and civilization. 

No other path will satisfy you, and it will only delay your ability to be fulfilled and happy.

So, deal with the obstacles and challenges and demons.

Deal with the doubts, the convictions, the terrors.

And then, do it anyway.

That is what you are here for.

Take the first tiny step.

The love you have for what you are doing gives you all the resources to do it.

Trust your intuition.

Trust your vision.

Trust.

Be true.

Be saved by remaining true.

© 2017 Kathryn Hardage

www.lovedcherishedadored.blogspot.com 

Name the Terror

A nameless terror works very specifically and gains energy by having no identity.

Once you name the terror, you can look at it and disassemble it.

With a name, you can identity where and how it works, and you can defeat it.

A terror out of the past operates off your embedded emotions.

As you bring the intention of the terror to light, you can defeat it by realizing that there is no longer anyone to perpetuate it in your life.

Your memory of terror can help you identify it, name it, and dissolve it.

The next time you feel the terror, you can remember how you named it, and how you released it.

Your happiness keeps growing once you find it and start cultivating it.

Your happiness is so very much more powerful than the terror.

Your happiness carries you along, and even when the terror sneaks in, you can name it, and release it once again.

As you build up your happiness and your practice in releasing the terror that plagued you in the past, you will get better and better at your happiness.

You will be able to deal with other terrors from the past, and you will accomplish your goals and dreams as you continue to name and release your terrors.

What once stopped you has grown weaker.

You have named it, you can see how it works, and you can release it and give yourself happiness and accomplishments.

© 2017 Kathryn Hardage

www.lovedcherishedadored.blogspot.com

Trusting the Contrasts

Contrasts are sweet and powerful.

Life’s challenges, agonies and betrayals, resolved, become pillars of constancy.

Unshakable confidence results.

Unchallenged self-assurance simply builds on the ever-available supports.

The desire for security in one’s own mind begins a different kind of search.

The search moves from without to within.

The contrast in resources is extreme.

The visible is useless.

Only the invisible has integrity.

The discovery of the infinite resources within has immeasurable power.

Listening for guidance and experiencing the sure and certain evidence of timing and connections creates immense manifestation.

There is no way to describe this.

You have to be compelled to take the first step.

It is a development like any other and requires devotion, commitment and practice.

It is a development unlike any other in that you must listen to the call.

If your life has tuned you to this frequency, you will experience it.

Listen for the contrasts.

Watch and observe when things do not work out.

There may be higher work for you.

© 2017 Kathryn Hardage

www.lovedcherishedadored.blogspot.com

Valued From Within

All the controversy that is being stirred up is because there is a deep truth which we are being compelled to discover.

It has to do with living in one world and making sure that everyone has access to the resources they need to take care of themselves.

Living in cooperation and respect is the best way to insure this state of existence.

We all have immense abilities to be inventive and to share our resources and solutions.

Our best is a mix of all available ideas and applications.

As we refine them, the most workable ones remain to be implemented.

In reading about cooperatives, I am impressed by how everyone’s contribution is valued all the way from administration to implementation.

The folks making things are as valued as the folks taking orders.

The folks designing advertising are as valued as the sales force.

The folks designing the products and services are as valued as the managers and administrators.

Everyone’s effort is seen as equally valuable and necessary.

So everyone is valued in making decisions for the company.

Cooperatives are seen as one of the most stable kinds of companies.

The most widespread demonstration of this is in the Basque region of Spain, in Mondragon, where even during the harshest economic times, Mondragon and its many cooperatives have continued to thrive for decades.

We can all begin to look at one another as valued community members and find ways of governing ourselves which include a good way of life for everyone.

© 2017 Kathryn Hardage

www.lovedcherishedadored.blogspot.com 

Every Day a Healing Day

Every day of calm is a day of healing.

I have learned not to get too excited, either through happiness or sadness.

It can trigger an emotional level of overstimulation which leads to pain and the remembrance of trauma.

I used to feel that I had to become strong enough or accomplished enough to overcome my pain and PTSD.

Now, I feel relieved to know that the more I keep myself in a state of calm, the more I am healing.

I allow myself time to heal when old memories trigger unbearable pain.

I respect the time it takes to bring myself back into a feeling of well-being.

I am compassionate toward myself and I no longer bury nor trivialize the pain.

I respect my power and what it took to diminish it.

I respect how I am being helped and guided to build it up to much more than it was when I was a helpless child.

I can do this for myself.

I can comfort and protect and love and nurture that child within me.

She is worth it.  I am worth it.

We are precious, she and I.  We are one.

And I am calm once again.

© 2017 Kathryn Hardage

www.lovedcherishedadored.blogspot.com 

My Life is not Rushed

My life is no longer rushed.

Partly, it is because I am no longer in the “rat race”.

I am doing the things I love, and I am doing a lot of them.

I go to several groups every week, where I learn and practice.

But I don’t rush to them.

I don’t hurry myself through my projects, unless I decide I particularly want to.

I no longer have “too much” to do.

The more I look at my past experiences rising a large family in a large metropolitan area, the more I see solutions which are built on the idea of a small community.

A small community can exist within a large metropolitan area defined by the people and ideas within it.

Being assured of the services and things we need being in close proximity helps alleviate rush.

We can provide the services we need for each other.

We can share transportation or work from home.

Our cottage industries can provide some of the things we need.

Right where we are, right in front of us, are solutions to redefine our lives to get rid of the “rush”.

© 2017 Kathryn Hardage

www.lovedchersiehdadored.blogspot.com