Deep Peace in the Mojave

Driving with husband in his new over-the-road bus to be converted into a PinewoodDerbyWorkshop...

There is deep peace and deep isolation as we cross the Mojave Desert.

the mountains and sparse vegetation vie a sense of largeness, with lots of spaces for the eye to wander.

During our long ascents and descents, my husband adjusts to a lower gear in our 47-passenger bus (soon to become a mobile woodshop).

The changes in greens, whenever there is a little bit more of it, are dramatic.

The gray-greens, sand-browns and lava-blacks outline long stretches of contour.

The cacti that are beginning to appear feel like a celebration.

There is room for contemplation over the geologic upheaval which caused the Pacific Basin to recede to what is now the California coastline.

Big changes across eons of time.

© 2014  Kathryn Hardage

www.InspiredPractices.com

A Spiritual Message to Make Me Feel Good

That’s what I am listening for.

The message that will make me feel good is this:

We are not at war.

We respect everyone and everything that lives on the earth.

We choose to share our resources widely so that everyone can live well.

We choose to respect that everyone has rights and needs.

We choose to respect that those needs are fulfilled in different ways for different people.

How can I help?

Do I just need to stay out of the way?

I feel I need to share these ideas in all the ways that I can express myself, through  blogs, children’s songs, conversations.

Let us all evolve and develop and grow in the ways that let all of us live well.

© 2014 Kathryn Hardage

www.InspiredPractices.com

Soaking Up More Peace

I have been spending whole days, several in a row, on our land, just looking at the trees across the meadow, the meadow itself, and up the hill where I can see more and more as the leaves fall.

I simply prefer to be there.

I can read, reflect, and write.

Looking through my most recent spirals, I see a lot of creative work which I am transcribing now that I am in an internet cafe and have access to electricity.

We will add solar power and I will have electricity out in the country sometime, as well.

That will save me transcription time, but for now this is a wonderful opportunity to keep soaking up the peace.

There is always more peace as I watch “Deer Theatre”, “The New Vulture Hour”, and observe how the meadow is reestablishing its grasses and flowers now that we are not mowing it.

The succession that we read about in Nature is actually visibly happening in front of me.

This morning, we watched three deer playing in the meadow, running around and leaping for several minutes.

As they disappeared into the forest at the South end of the meadow, a young buck entered it from the North end and walked across.

This is the first buck we have seen in the meadow.  We usually just hear his “huff” as he warns the does to leave.

I take care of what I need in order to carry out a normal days’ activities, but oh, it is so very pleasant out here breathing in the normal rhythm of Nature’s day.

© 2014 Kathryn Hardage

www.InspiredPractices.com

Consistent Peace and Desire

My peace is in the consistency of my choices for it.

I choose not to accept disruptions, within or without.

Past experiences are not relevant except as stepping stones.

Present cultivated consciousness is what keeps me in peace.

It guides all my decisions.

No detail of good living is left out.

There is no need to compensate.

I want and deserve all good.

I live in uninterrupted peace.

My security for all this good is from my in dwelling consciousness of good.

I take the next step in consciously realizing my good each moment that I recognize my desire.

My desire leads me to know that it is possible, and that I can live in it.

I move peacefully and abundantly in each and every step I take toward my desire.

© 2014 Kathryn Hardage

www.InspiredPractices.com

To Feel Good

After being surrounded by lies, it is good to filter them out.

Hearing what is good matches our vibration with the Universe.

In all the self-improvement literature, it stresses walking away or getting out of situations which act to our detriment.

It is important that we surround ourselves with positive environment, both within our own thoughts, and all around us wherever we work, do business, socialize, and with family.

I am learning more and more to do this for myself.

In certain cases, because I have a preferred outcome, I don’t do so well.

But the more I learn about feeling good within the body I occupy and the life I am living, the more consistently I come back to the inevitable conclusion to let go of my preferences.

I am gaining more insight on my real role in this world and the importance of carrying it out.

Everyone else is also involved in discovering their role and carrying it out as well.

We all have all the resources of the Universe.

These resources are being bestowed richly and are all helping raise the consciousness of all of us.

Yes, I am back to the important step in order to feel good of always, always trusting the Universe.

© 2014 Kathryn Hardage

www.InspiredPractices.com

No Conflict of Interest

The conflict of interest we are seeing currently is an evolution, not a revolution.

Although we are used to seeing it as a fight over resources, whatever ideology is used, it is actually happening through a growing awareness.

Since there have always been solutions when generosity and compassion are at the core we will see this happen.

As we embrace the idea of compassion and generosity with insight in our individual lives, we will be drawn to others who practice in this same way.

Our conflict of interest will dissolve, and we will discover paths which take all parties into consideration with their real needs.

When we stop seeing ourselves in competition for limited resources, and start seeing all of us as both precious and important, we will act differently.

We will find different kinds of solutions and we will take care of all of us.

© 2014 Kathryn Hardage

www.InspiredPractices.com

More Than Survival

All I wanted was to survive.

And I did.

I used every resource that I had, and I made it.

Not until much, much later, did I learn something more than survival was possible.

Until then, no matter how hard I worked, and there was quite a bit of abundance, it always came out to survival.

Now, I have new tools and I have been practicing them.

I embraced the possibility of more than survival, and practiced what I was learning.

Several years of practice have transformed how I think and act along with my expectations.

I now live on large acreage in the country, surrounded by beauty and peace and content. (From “The Song of the River” in The Blue Cat of Castletown)

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blue_Cat_of_Castle_Town

I have room to expand my practice, to give more, and to release “my hidden splendor”.

(See Invisible Supply, by Joel Goldsmith)  

http://www.harpercollins.com/web-sampler/9780062502773

I am truly living beyond survival.

© 2014 Kathryn Hardage

www.InspiredPractices.com