Peaceful Alignment

 

Being aligned with your true work produces a peace unlike any other.

There is no conflict.

There is no separation between what you want to be doing and what you are doing.

They coincide.

They are exactly the same.

We have been pushed, prodded, educated, counseled, guided to go in certain directions which our civilization and culture consider to be good or necessary.

But are they contributing to happiness?

Mainly, I think, they contribute to earning a living and the ability to buy things, i.e. consumerism.

Making my true work my priority has been an interesting and quite difficult challenge.

I finally became determined to find out what it is.

Since there were so many obstacles, and since I had been following a different course for so many years, I decided it must be very important to make that discovery.

Now that I am doing it, it feels like the most natural thing in the world, which of course, it is.

It is natural to incline toward the work you love.

You will make the most contribution to society with it as you fulfill your own desires to serve in the way you are most capable.

You will be the richest you have ever known.

More and more avenues will open to you to be fulfilled and to enrich others.

Of course it returns to you.

But that was never the point in true work,now, was it?


© 2011 Kathryn Hardage

Betrayal and Forgiveness

This is the only answer I know for Betrayal.

It is Forgiveness.

I used to think that one of the benefits of betrayal was that you got to know who your friends really are.

But now, after several more years, I have found a much more comprehensive and far-reaching answer, Forgiveness.

I found this through reading Collin Tipping’s book, Radical Forgiveness.

In it, he states that if you are simply willing to look at the situation differently and then follow his worksheet, you can find yourself in a different place.

I was willing.

So now, I have a new approach and a new view and a way to move on and not carry so much of the old baggage.

And I can keep refining this process and drop more baggage each time I go through it.

I am so relieved to find a new way to forgive.

I was really tired of my unsuccessful efforts before.

Thank you, Collin Tipping.


© 2011 Kathryn Hardage

Tangible Peace

I am beginning to love the challenge of finding and contributing peace within and all around me.

This has taken a lot of research and development of new skills and tools.

But what I have found is that we are actually made of peace.

Our bodies are designed to operate at maximum performance when we are peaceful.

We are alert, gracious, ready to respond, inventive, imaginative and strong when we are peaceful.

Our minds are also made of peace.

When given the choice, we always revert to peace.

We may have been negatively emotionally impacted and have to learn our way back to peace, but peace is our native mental and emotional home.

When we establish this mental harmony and dip into our never ending spiritual source, we naturally find peace.

Surrounding ourselves with images and words and meanings of peace helps bring it into our hearts.

It helps make it more present to ourselves.

And it helps establish an atmosphere of peace all around us that others can actually feel.


© 2011 Kathryn Hardage

Chaos and Direction

In the midst of a large disrupting and frantic event, how do we acquire our peace?

The same way we acquire it when we feel sick or unhappy or depressed.

We listen for the deep direction within us.

It takes just a breath to remind ourselves that good is happening, that the grief and dismay all around us are from the outside view.

The view from the inside is always peace.

This view will lead us to take definite effective steps in the midst of chaos and danger.

It will make us effective and strong leaders.

The habit of trusting our intuition and the willingness to practice listening at any time becomes the habit that takes care of us and those around us in the best ways.

The peace and direction is always there, from the first time we ask for it until forever.


© 2011 Kathryn Hardage

Peace With My Life

I have received incredible wealth.

I didn’t know it would look like this.

Look at my wealth of experiences!

Look what they have taught me.

Look at the strength I have gained.

Look at how much I have to share now.

I am truly amazed.

This is a very different life from the one I expected.

If I had known to ask for this one, I am not sure I
would have had the courage!


© 2011 Kathryn Hardage

Independent Peace

Today, I realize my peace is not dependent on anyone else’s views.

It is completely dependent on my view alone.

I am able to cultivate my own view and to see it all around me.

My own view is very generous.

My own view is very positive.

I wish well for everyone.

I wish for all of us to reach our highest estate.

I am grateful for the opportunity to cultivate a new and higher view of peace for myself.


© 2011 Kathryn Hardage

Today's Peace

Today’s peace comes form the fact that
I know how to love myself.

At any given time, I can return to this new fact.

I am so peaceful in the knowing of this fact.

I love myself.

I, finally, do no need outside indicators of security.

I know that in listening for my love for myself,
I will be directed to whatever I need.

I will be able to fulfill my purpose.

I will connect effortlessly.

I will perform effortlessly.

Sincere friendships and community will appear
effortlessly.

I am in tune with who I am, and everyone who is tuned
truly to themselves and their Source is in tune with me.

That is my peace and my joy.


© 2011 Kathryn Hardage