Help for Your Children

Even during the worst of your depression and helplessness, a Higher Power is lifting you up and providing for your children.

Ours each found mentors and confidants when they needed them.

They were able to take the best of what we had to offer them, and it was considerable, and to find the other help and support that we were unable to provide at that time.

When you see a child in a harsh environment and you are unable to do something directly for them, please know that your awareness and your desire are adding to their ability to find a way out.

If you are experiencing an insurmountable burden, even though you are willing to get involved, you do not belong there. 

Take care of your own burdens first.

Then, from a position of strength, you can help without being pulled down.

© 2013 Kathryn Hardage

www.InspiredPractices.com

Effects on Children

I am grateful for my courage and persistence.

I have hesitated to do the things that took care of me in the past.

I was taught that my desires and needs were not important, so I learned to compensate.

Now that I am learning that it is OK to take care of myself.

 In fact, it is required in order to express my divine purpose and individuality.

No one knows what the deep things are within, except the person living them.

When we take care of ourselves even in the smallest ways, we are aligning ourselves with our larger purpose.

We must work from comfort to comfort others.

We must trust ourselves in small ways in order to trust ourselves in large ways.

We must listen for small corrections and make them in order to arrive at our destination.

Otherwise, we will arrive somewhere off course.

I have spent quite some time correcting my course.

Now I have the courage and persistence to stay on it.

© 2013 Kathryn Hardage

www.InspiredPractices.com

Courage and Persistence

I am grateful for my courage and persistence.

I have hesitated to do the things that took care of me in the past.

I was taught that my desires and needs were not important, so I learned to compensate.

Now that I am learning that it is OK to take care of myself.

 In fact, it is required in order to express my divine purpose and individuality.

No one knows what the deep things are within, except the person living them.

When we take care of ourselves even in the smallest ways, we are aligning ourselves with our larger purpose.

We must work from comfort to comfort others.

We must trust ourselves in small ways in order to trust ourselves in large ways.

We must listen for small corrections and make them in order to arrive at our destination.

Otherwise, we will arrive somewhere off course.

I have spent quite some time correcting my course.

Now I have the courage and persistence to stay on it.

© 2013 Kathryn Hardage

www.InspiredPractices.com

Moments

There are up moments and down moments.

They are not there to be rated, just observed.

How I experience each moment can be both as participant and as observer.

When I glimpse a photo of an event, I am moved by the experience of that event.

I am also moved by the intensity of it and by what came before and what came, or will come, afterward.

It is not a judgement thing.

It is just a moment.

I return to where I am now and the moments I am creating at this point in my life.

I am creating new moments for myself out of what came before.

 I am directing myself toward the moments that will come after.

But right now, in this moment, I have all, and I am all, that I need to be.

© 2013 Kathryn Hardage

www.InspiredPractices.com

The Power of Self-Forgiveness

Have you done everything right?

I certainly have not.

I didn’t realize how certain events of the past were eating at my soul.

Even though I could see how they happened and I felt powerless at the time to do anything else, I still blamed myself.

Once I discovered how large a toll was being extracted from me emotionally and physically every time I thought about it, I realized I had to do something different.

I reasoned that since I was the one reacting, I had the power to change my approach.

First I started with loving myself.

That was a good place to begin.

Then, I explored the idea of self-forgiveness.

Even though things have worked out for the best, I still felt badly.

I decided to feel good about how things have worked out.

I decided I could feel satisfied and happy for others involved.

Perhaps that event had been a catalyst for the ways things are now.

Even with an uncomfortable rift, there are still many good things happening.

I decided my expectations were unfair and unrealistic, because it demanded that someone else fulfill them.

I decided to work with the action I could take and see what new directions I could devise for myself.

This feels like a much better approach.

© 2013 Kathryn Hardage

www.InspiredPractices.com

Relationship to Body

What you want to see as your body is possible.

By looking outward and finding ways you can serve, you begin to embody a better way of life.

Comparing yourself to others is only possible if you are looking at others first.

Our harsh culture of comparisons and evaluations based on superficial evaluations is harmful and unproductive.

By looking inward and finding more ways you can uplift, your concept of body will naturally follow.

As you seek fuller expression in serving others, you will improve your own concept of life.

You will improve in the ways you treat yourself and the body that carries you around.

You will be led to good practices within and without.

You will become willing to take care of yourself in ways that are most appropriate for you.

The only defects are actually defects of character.

As you endeavor to rise above your old practices, you will be led into new, positive ones.

Your body will stop expressing so much tension and stress.

When you start methodically appreciating one aspect of your body and truly love its service to you, you will add to your happiness.

As you let your appreciation of one aspect lead to appreciation of another aspect, you will lessen the tension and stress against that part of your body, too, and it will improve.

You legs carry you around.

Your joints allow you to sit and stand and to adjust your position.

You eyes allow you to see.

Build yourself a body of appreciation.

Relate to what you appreciate about yourself.

You will reshape your entire life, including your body.

© 2013 Kathryn Hardage

www.InspiredPractices.com

Luxurious Love

I know the comfort of a luxurious love for myself.

I have found it in adversity.

There is more than I ever imagined.

It is deep and it stretches in all directions, as far as I can imagine and beyond.

All this love for me, pouring out from every point in the Universe.

Billowing forth everywhere I walk.

I am greeted by luxurious love.

Deep appreciation and recognition.

Love, acceptance, and invitations

To speak, to comfort, to continually inspire.

© 2013 Kathryn Hardage

www.InspiredPractice.com