Healthful Practices

Today, my day is about rest.

I will take a break from the excitement and harassment of the media.

I will breathe deeply in appreciation of the gifts which I can always express: compassion, hope, calm, receptivity to good ideas.

I will do things I enjoy.

I will continue to make beautiful things.

I will exercise my right to a relaxed, intelligent state of mind.

I will continue to be gently productive, with no rush and no pressure.

This is the life I choose for myself, even while chaos knocks at my door.

Internally, I know how to influence my body through my thinking.

I will not go that dangerous and unhealthful route again.

I will help find solutions through considered thought and dialogue.

We are all neighbors in our world neighborhood.

© 2016 Kathryn Hardage

www.lovedcherishedadored.blogspot.com

The Healing of Society

I am back on my emotional feet after experiencing a deep, depressive fog for the past two days.

This is a testament to the new life-giving practices I have learned to direct my life.

At first, I could only remember that there always had been solutions, but I did not have the strength to even lift my head to look around.

Then, I heard a gentle message that I was in a safe place, that I was in a place where I could not be hurt.

This was extremely reassuring.

Finally, as I took up a meditative practice I have of drawing, I began to hear some of the specific healing messages.

They came in the form of two videos. (And there are more!)

The first one is about biomicry, and the products which have already been developed and which  are being sold which counteract the dangerous effects of CO2.

http://us2.campaign-archive2.com/?u=e279fe84df9e84616ba60ea8d&id=794c41975f&e=d6e8054711

The following one is about twelve designs in Nature which all already being studied and utilized in developing cleaner, more effective practices in industry.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n77BfxnVlyc

So, even while I have been distracted by the horrific effects of ignorance and selfishness and greed and their destructive results, long-term studies which are extremely positive and useful and effective are already in the landscape.

My conclusion is that what we are witnessing is the clash which happens when the first steps of  conscious awareness begin to activate in the large body of society and civilization.

So many of us have already experienced it on an individual scale.  (Look at the companies which are already using positive practices. (Natural Capitalism written in 1999 documents even more of these.  

https://www.amazon.com/Natural-Capitalism-Creating-Industrial-Revolution/dp/0316353000/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1478803047&sr=8-1&keywords=Lovins+and+Hawken+-+Natural)

Now it is simply scaling up.

And we know, from personal experience, from watching Nature, and from healing from personal traumatic events, that we also will be active participants and observers of the healing of society.

© 2016 Kathryn Hardage

www.lovedcherishedadored.blogspot.com

Unbreakable Wholeness

Nothing that has happened or is happening or will ever happen has any effect on unbreakable wholeness.

How do you separate yourself from All-Good?

Even if your life has gone from bad to worse, there is always some little tiny piece of Good leaking back to you.

You may be overridden with emotional or financial disaster, and yet, you can blink your eyes for a new view.

You can turn you head to look in another direction.

You can go within to listen and see and hear and feel something else.

You can participate in the Unbreakable Wholeness at amy time.

You can turn your thought away from the disaster, no matter how overwhelming it is, to think of a little tiny thing that is untouched by it, a blade of grass, or your next breath.

Turn to what is untouched and you put yourself in touch with the Unbreakable Wholeness.

Live your life with Unbreakable Wholeness.

 © 2016 Kathryn Hardage

www.lovedcherishedadored.blogspot.com 

Our State of Grace

Celebrate innocence, purity, joy.

In the story of the Apostle Paul there is an account in the Bible where  a viper bites him, and that he “shook it off and felt no harm”. (http://biblehub.com/acts/28-3.htm)

We can behave like this toward any event which is poisonous.

We can take poisonous, depraved and destructive attitudes and behaviors and shake them off so that we, too, individually and as a nation, feel no harm.

We can all decide, despite the irresponsible leadership that has arisen, to have no toxic affects, behavioral, psychological, or societal.

We can go on appreciating one another and interacting in gracious and meaningful ways, with no aftershock, no residual inharmonies.

We are all capable of living in a state of grace.

We can live in a state of reaffirmation, a state of recognition of the gifts and contributions of all of us.

We can all experience the compensation of right livelihood by making our individual contributions to a wholesome appreciation of each of us, in a just and pure atmosphere.

© 2016 Kathryn Hardage

www.lovedcherishedadored.blogspot.com

I'm Worthy, Too

Uncertainty.

Doubt.

Ignoring our deep desires.

All are based on some type of fear.

This things that affect us from the outside are not important.

What is going on inside is important.

When we start clearing away all the chatter, we can finally hear more clearly.

We become certain of our direction.

We no longer doubt our abilities.

We listen to and honor our deep desires.

The mental noise that was blocking us goes away when we listen deeply within.

What we hear is a feeling.

A feeling of being loved, cherished, and adored.

We feel worthy.

Deeply worthy.

We feel safe.

We feel comforted and comfortable to be in our right place.

We coincide with good things.

Our life is freed up and we can move successfully in the direction of our desires.

© 2016 Kathryn Hardage

www.lovedcherishedadored.blogspot.com

Your Greatest Wealth

Your greatest wealth is your uplifting attitude.

You can draw upon it at any time in any amount.

You just have to not buy into the depressing or scary or agitating scenarios which are presenting themselves all the time.

Even it you get caught up in one that is tailor-made to push your buttons, you can get back out of it and regain your calm.

It will leak out of you and radiate all around you and help others to catch hold of a feeling they would much rather experience.

We are so tired of being pushed and prodded and manipulated and driven to react to all kinds of negative things.

Outrage, sorrow, hatred, revenge are not good feelings to incorporate into your body.

The body is designed to operate at its optimum in happy, relaxed and calm modes which energize us in productive ways.

So to get more productivity for yourself, cultivate ways to be happy and uplifted.

Your colleagues and family members will be so grateful.

They will enjoy being in your presence and will feel so relieved to be able to enjoy their moments with you.

With this kind of contagion of uplifting attitudes and thoughts, the whole atmosphere in your business and home can change.

Take the time to remember to draw on your unlimited account of uplifting feelings, thoughts and actions.

You will feel so good bringing such wealth into your life.

© 2016 Kathryn Hardage

www.lovedcherishedadored.blogspot.com

Do Not Judge

The idea of judging reinforces a negative picture of someone.

We validate it.

Later on, there may be a change in attitude or behavior.

Then, we find ourselves wondering which one is the real person.

We all go through changes.

Even judging ourselves is not helpful.

It is actually very unhealthy.

As we grow, we evolve into higher expressions of who we really are.

Our earlier practices were based on earlier experiences.

Not judging, not being attached, allows our natural upward evolution to occur.

Why be weighted down with useless opinions?

Why not make room to contribute to individual and world progress?

We all have the opportunity for growth.

Let’s encourage it by not judging.

© 2016 Kathryn Hardage

www.lovedcherishedadored.blogspot.com