A Sewing Meditation

Each stitch is a moment in conciousness. 

It shows a connection whch connects to the next stitch and the next.

The path of stitches creates a type of visual and practical organization.

The stitch-path may sew a hem or a seam.

The stitch-path may embroider a pattern.

The stitch-path may create a quilt.

Stitching creates a texture.

It is the decisions which we make on the fabric of our lives.

Different aspects of our life-path emerge.

Some are straight paths.

Other paths are more meandering.

We may follow one path for a while, then change to a parellel path, or go in another direction altogether.

As we become more aware of our life and the decisions we make, we become more observant.

We watch where our decisions take us.

Often, our decisions have unpredictable results.

We may have to backtrack or go the long way around to pick up the thread of our lives.

As we begin to listen more deeply to our intuition we find ourselves making decisions which are in alignment with our ideals.

As we move in the direction of our core values, we find greater success.

We are able to meet the challenges which occur on our path.

We find ourselves becoming more satisfied with the rewards and results of our decisions.

We may be able to add decorative stitches and embellish our life-path with more beauty and grace.

We may attract more compatible relationships with people who share our core value.

We find ourselves building a life which is satisfying.

Our life-path becomes more fulfilling.

We become happier and move oursleves into a life which we love.

© 2019 Kathryn Hardage

www.lovedcherishedadored.blogspot.com

Be a Vector for Light

As we receive light, we are impelled to release it to expand into the atmosphere around us.

Our abilbity to see and feel the good in the Universe requires us to express it.

Others who are waiting for some good news can catch a ray of light as we release it, and benefit from it.

They, too, are drawn to the light until they can feel and receive it for themselves.

Because so many are yearning and looking for the light, we who have been gifted to see it at this moment in time, have a responsibility to stay tuned into it.

We conciously cultuviate our relationship with the Universe in order to receive the light.

We maintain our awareness of infinite good and look for its expression through us in our daily lives.

As we continually uplfit our viewpoint of the world around us, we are contributing to more enlightened practices of oneness and community.

When we get overwhelmed, it is necessary to redirect our thought toward the uplifting feeling that everyone in the Universe is precious and valued.

As we feel this for ourselves, we can share it in our daily interactions.

The feeling of uplifting light comes to us in our quiet and deep listening.

In our release of our own and others opinions, we make room to receive ideas which lead to positive action.

We recognize the good in others and do not limit it in any way.

We accept all others as worthy of consideration and compassion.

We participate in activites which broaden communication and acceptance.

We do not try to keep all the light for ourselves because it is coming from an infinite Source.

This light is inteneded to expand into everyone’s life.

We are all intended to be full of light and to let it overflow and uplift our communities.

Our part is to be a consistent receiver of light and to let it permeate our own life.

Through our expression of light, we are calm and happy.

We are successful and satisfied.

We continually give back to our community until all are lifted into dignity and security.

We add to the balance in our communities through pouring in so much light that our community becomes known for its stability, safety and productivity.

When well-being for all is achieved, we know that we have been successful receivers and sharers of light, as we let it flow and overflow.

© 2019 Kathryn Hardage

www.lovedcherishedadored.blogspot.com 

Letting Creativity Flow

The overarching divine presence harmonizes our daily life.

As we go within and discern the deep peace, we feel guided to listen and to take note.

In the quiet, we feel creative joy rise up and flow through us.

It explodes outward in ecstasy and we rush to keep up with it.

The forms change as we are drawn to different topics.

The topics may come from deep within and result in our daily observations.

The topics may have a quality of mysticism.

Their forms may be representational, or abstract, and may show up as painting, weaving, dancing.

Creativity flows in whatever form suits our nature the best.

Whenever we draw upon it, it is there, ready to inspire and move us.

Creativity begins with a thought, a feeling.

It persists until we sense it, and then, using us as its messenger, it flows outward.

I sense creativity as an active presence within me.

It impels me to express it.

It translates itself into my preferred forms.

It is how I express my individuality.

As I feel impelled to learn new skills, creativity expresses itself in new and diverse ways.

I find that the message of my individuality and perception adapts to different ways of expression.

I am always open to growth and expansion as my skills increase.

I can share my message in more distinct and defined ways.

I gain courage in sharing my message as my skills expand in new directions.

As I grow spiritually within, my message flows outward in increasingly creative ways.

I incorporate the joy of creativity in my message and it flows more feely.

Every step I take within is parallelled in creativity without.

I have discovered a constant flow by listening within.

I feel the presence of my Source and I am happy and satisfied and secure in it.

I know that the message of my creativity is being received.

© 2019 Kathryn Hardage

www.lovedcherishedadored.blogspot.com 

Growing into Leadership

I am growing into leadership as I develop the skills which I need in order to overcome trauma.

I am becoming very knowledgeable in the healing of trauma.

What is out of control is becoming controllable.

The triggering effects of intense emotion are being dissipated.

I am making room for happiness by expanding my capacity for it.

I am able to make progress on my own behalf.

I am able to direct and shape my own life.

I am able to do what I love and to follow my own priorities.

I am able to live in beautiful surroundings.

My life is becoming my own.

This is propelling me into leadership.

Others can experience what I am experiencing.

What I am doing, others can do.

I am sharing my steps of progress so that others may benefit from my experience and inspiration.

I am so grateful for the writers and workshops, counselors and friends who have given me the support, tools and techniqes to continue taking my next steps.

My leadershp is evolving through sharing my work.

People who read my blogs and take my Meditation Drawing courses and read and listen to my meditations will be uplifted.

Consistent practice will begin to rewrite their vocabulary to lay the foundation for a sound and inspired life.

My desire to help others is expanding my vocabulary for helping myself.

I can anticipate even more support as others receive the benefit of my work.

Their healing and appreciation will generate more happiness and others will seek me out as a result.

As I add to the harmony and balance of the world, others will add to my harmony and balance.

I will attract what I am sending out.

I will be a leader in increasing the well-being of those who join my community.

© 2019 Kathryn Hardage

www.lovedcherishedadored.blogspot.com

Building Connections

Recently, I was unable to post my inspirational blogs.

Even though I had written them, I was unable to release them to the public due to lack of an internet connection.

I feel a connection when I share my good ideas.

When I was unable to do that, although I had many ideas ready to share, I did not feel the connection.

I am leaving a long isolation due to habits formed in early childhood through child trauma.

I am learning to connect with others on a deep level.

I am having to develop this ability step-by-step since I have no foundation to build on.

As I redefine and rebuild my life, my connections are being built.

Finding safe connections is a challenge for me.

My new connections are built on awareness of good character and sincerity.

I value honesty in my connections.

My childhood innocence seeks purity and sincerity in my connections.

I am careful to look for these qualities.

As my search widens, I have learned that I can sense a core-identity.

Most people are wonderful, and it is safe to get to know them.

Bad experiences are rarer now that I know the difference between my early influencers and that I can trust the motives of most others.

I am gradually finding safety to explore deeper connections as I continue to expand my outreach.

I am grateful for the many opportunities which I am finding to break out of my habitual isolation.

Although I enjoy my introspection, it is very speical to find safe and supportive connections.

I am enjoying the opportunity to explore different communities, locally, as I travel, and on-line.

There are many wonderful ways to build connections, through activities, conversation, and through releasing strong and valuable ideas.

I am grateful that I have the opportunity to participate and contribute to all of them.

© 2019 Kathryn Hardage

www.lovedcherishedadored.blogspot.com 

When Someone Gets It Right

There is a deep peace and a feeling of alignment when someone gets it right.

In reading Even Ensler’s latest book, “The Apology”, I respect how she defines the exact nature of her father’s abuse.

As she searches for a way to understand his background and to write the meaningful apology which she never received, she reconciles the disparity of her life and its meaning.

Reading her book, I was struck by how many points of insight she revealed to me about my own father and his background.

I am immeasurably grateful for the tools which I had and which I used in order to guide my life after the cruel misdirection which I received.

Ensler’s ability to communicate so accurately and directly tells the story in a way that gets it right.

This shows her immense compassion for herself as a little girl and gives all of us permission to see ourselves in a compassionate way.

She releases the guilt and wrongful sense of responsibility we may have been carrying about our childhood abuse.

She allows us to see our own situations through the eyes of a disturbed adult male.

She allows us to see the shifting family dynamics which fell into line behind him.

Each of us who has found her way out has deep strength and resilience.

We can continue to release ourselves from bad practices against ourselves.

We can begin to act in our own good self-interest.

We can develop healthy ways of treating ourselves.

We can practice positive ways of self-affirmation.

We, too, can look at the background of our abuser and get it right.

We can move ourselves off our misaligned foundation and rebuild it.

I feel so strengthened by Ensler’s revelation through her book.

I have worked my way through and out of so many bad influential factors from my backgroud.

I see this book as a redirection of all our efforts.

Men have the opportunity to look at their privilege and its innate authority and how they are using it.

The possibility and necessity of reform includes many of the hidden drivers of our society.

I am so grateful for this book, “The Apology”, and how it presents the possibility of serious reform in our worldwide awakening conciousness.

© 2019 Kathryn Hardage

www.sharedglobalvision.blogspot.com 

Acting on My Own Feelings

I am recently discovering that I have my own feelings.

They have been buried for decades due to coping with early childhood abuse.

Acting on my own feelings is a new thing to do.

It is an entirely new approach to my life.

I can actually take the time to think about how I feel about something.

I have not built the automatic connections which come with the freedom of being safe.

I am analysing each situation in terms of how I feel.

Usually, I have an automatic reaction of numbing inward focus, although few, if any, have ever noted it.

My ability to observe and move into my own feelings is an entirely different experience.

I am exploring it carefully.

I am discovering a whole range of feelings which I never knew I had.

In between the extremes of despair and jubilance are thousands of other nuances.

Each tone is appropriate for a different situation.

These tones and nuances of feelings move gracefully across the spectrum of emotions.

With a range of feelings, there is room for expression.

A range of feelings precludes a build up of frustrations and emotional outbursts.

A range of feelings can be experienced before dipping down to depression.

A whole appropriate range of feelings is available for many wonderful kinds of expression.

What a joy to discover this rich resource of feelings and to gain access to it.

© 2019 Kathryn Hardage

www.lovedcherishedadored.blogspot.com