More Than Relief

Deep peace is more than relief; it is a continuing presence.

Instead of having to come back to peace after a disturbance, the disturbance simply does not disrupt.

It is like stepping over a rain puddle instead of into it.

Without response to a disturbance, the disruption does not occur.

Peace continues.

The activity of peace increases, permeating everything it touches.

People feel the presence of peace and the deep experience of contentment which it brings.

Kindness produces peace which spreads to the next encounter.

Continuing to be kind despite disturbances cancels out the disruption.

Peace maintains itself.

A disruption requires a reaction, otherwise it dies away.

The challenge is not to be impressed enough by disruption to increase it.

Let it go by being kind instead.

Let peace be the norm of the day, through kindness, consideration and thoughtfulness.

With peace within, we are naturally drawn to pay attention to what is of value.

Our sense of contentment draws us to peaceful expression.

Our ability to express peace extends into conversation, business, and art.

We increase peace by spending time being peaceful.

Addressing the needs for expression through conversation and art and literature of an uplifting nature develops more peaceful expression.

Commitment to peace through consideration of all others brings the natural consequences of peace.

Our need to express peace is always present.

Peace is the deep desire within all of us.

The ability to express peace through art, literature, dance results in deep emotional satisfaction.

Developing emotional satisfaction through uplifting expression creates peace.

Building peaceful expression goes much deeper than relief.

© 2019 Kathryn Hardage

www.youngpersonsmentor.blogspot.com

A Made-Up Storm

I respond to my guidance within whenever I feel I am in the middle of a made-up storm.

Often, there are lots of opinions coming from multiple points of view.

Instead of trying to find my way through all the options, I listen calmly to my intuition.

Then, I walk my course right through the storm.

The storm may continue behind me, but once I am clear of it, it no longer confuses me.

I know what my direction is and I can focus on it and walk it.

There are many times that a path may draw criticism, so it is important to have a deep sense of purpose and direction.

Sometimes there are so many possible paths to take with advantages for each one.

In every case, your own inner guidance will give you clear direction.

You can bypass the confusion, criticism, options, opinions, (including your own), and take the calm path.

With so many people jockeying for position, it can seem that a particular path is surely the one to take.

Instead of following along with the excitement, it is much more valuable to become calm and to take a quiet path.

You are the person who can feel what is best for you.

No one else is standing where you are.

No one else can see what you can see.

It is your purpose and privilege to listen for the unique ideas and direction that comes to you.

No one else’s opinion or evaluation has any value whatsoever.

You attract the calm from within to create a balanced life-path.

The storm around you is just the confusion of lives which do not have the focus you do.

Let your life focus on calm and you can walk through the storm every time.

You will keep yourself productive and engaged with your life’s purpose.

The storm is not yours.

Calm is yours.

© 2019 Kathryn Hardage

www.youngpersonsmentor.blogspot.com 

Creating Your Own Life

By embracing and sharing the ideals which are most important to you, you are creating the best life for yourself and for those around you.

When you create a life based on truth and honesty, you can see clearly what you need to accomplish.

With genuine goals of self-fulfillment, you will participate in the kind of society which creates well-being for all of its members.

Your business creation to address social needs will feed the profits back into the business directly.

Your co-operatives will engage everyone in making decisions which benefit all members of the co-operative.

The interactions in your society will be inclusive and will solve problems from the ground up.

This grassroots process will remove many obstacles before they grow into obstructions.

Your own life contribution will be fulfilling and satisfying.

You will have interactions with all members in the community which are respectful and dignified.

The mutual respect and meeting of genuine needs will create communities and societies which are more harmonious, peaceful and secure than have ever been experienced.

Your individual contribution will blend with many to be unified and strong as it uplifts by meeting genuine needs.

Earth stewardship will be one of its characteristics.

People stewardship will advance with respectful use of resources.

Profit stewardship will be in proportion as business needs dictate.

Shareholders will become more and more investment partners who allow the business to profit as it fulfills its goals.

Your life will acquire more significance as you blend your efforts into being part of the process of creating well[-being for everyone in your community.

Your life will be satisfying in purpose and in outcome.

© 2019 Kathryn Hardage

www.youngpersonsmentor.blogspot.com 

Creating Happiness

The new committed direction to creating safety for students has unified young people all over the country and all over the world.

Not only are they seeking to insure safety in their schools, they are actively involved in seeking solutions to deal with the environment and with climate change.

Stewarding the environment deals with creating a policy to nurture and protect plant and animal life.

It deals with implementing proven sustainable agriculture policies such as agro-ecology and dryland practices.

Facing the reality of climate change involves policy to reduce carbon emissions.

Policy to support renewable energy is a key goal.

These are some of the ways that young people’s awareness and action are taking hold all over the world.

The millennials are facing a tough situation and addressing it in vigorous and creative ways.

Creating happiness involves recognizing each individual as valued and able to contribute to society.

Micropreneurism allows individuals to create jobs for themselves where they see a need.

Social businesses are another way of doing business where all the profits are fed back into the business.

Those who work in social businesses have the benefit of the job and others receive the benefit of the product and services.

More happiness is possible where the energies of everyone can be applied to what is important to them in ways which benefit the community.

People have the dignity of choosing their work and doing it.

More creativity and imagination is applied to real needs and the improvement of everyone in the community is addressed.

As young people turn their attention to solving problems in new ways, people who have been neglected traditionally and currently can be benefitted.

© 2019 Kathryn Hardage

www.youngpersonsmentor.blogspot.com 

The Wholeness of Society

Young people are leading the way through their shared experiences.

They are seeking and creating connections in a completely different way than previous generations.

Their desire for community is creating a unified approach.

By seeing everywhere as whole, the right steps can be taken to allow all of us to participate in the lifting up process.

As we move collectively toward caring and sharing, we are demonstrating our care for the wholeness of society.

Utilizing the power of communication, the shared emotions of young people are making a powerful impact.

Instead of allowing society to continue to fragment around them, young people are taking unified action.

The conscious forces within leadership are fearful of this kind of action.

The betterment of the whole society is challenging the previous power of selfish action.

Perhaps we are tired enough of the instability caused by selfish action on a large scale.

Perhaps we are moving toward a sense of wholeness where everyone is valued.

Perhaps this idea of the wholeness of society is also a good way to steward the earth and its resources.

Perhaps this is the time we have been waiting for.

© 2019 Kathryn Hardage

www.youngpersonsmentor.blogspot.com 

Service Through Expansion

The idealism of young people is being translated into action through valuing themselves and their ideas of how they want to live.

They are not accepting the guidelines, nor the limitations, of the previous generations.

They are viewing the situation clearly and are organizing to influence events in a more positive direction.

They are concerned with that which serves everyone instead of just special interests.

They are translating their ideals into practical and effective action.

Instead of thinking just of themselves and their peers, they are embracing the need for positive action which affects everyone.

They are not playing to a small base, but to the needs of everyone as human beings.

They are actively concerned about their safety and the safety of their environment - physical, political, economic, and ecological.

Never before has this idealism had the scale of tools to be put into motion.

The demonstrations of the sixties used the available tools.

Through social media, today’s tools are more far-reaching.

The wealth which is available to so many young people is being utilized to support their action on behalf of a much larger population.

By allowing their sense of self to expand to include all of their generation, they are benefitting those of other generations.

Using their economic and social tools, they are carrying out the steps which are needed to change society.

© 2019 Kathryn Hardage

www.youngpersonsmentor.blogspot.com 

Youth Engagement

Today’s youth are getting their motivation and inspiration from within.

More likely, it is just becoming more apparent to the older generations.

Taking the tools of social media and social engagement, the accomplishments of youth are very powerful.

They have registered large number of new voters and this has had a significant effect on the mid-term elections.

Youth are cherishing their power to vote and using it in a unified way.

They see clearly the corruption which has gradually overtaken the will of the people and they are turning it around amidst substantial opposition.

Empowered by the intelligent and comprehensive use of resources, young lives are generating better policy for all of us.

It is the help many have been waiting for and it is contagious.

Th early policies, even poorly enforced, have allowed more people to participate in voting.

They have allowed students to interact with all races, religions, and cultures.

Normal friendships have evolved.

People are able to see and experience ordinary friendships across racial and cultural ties.

This allows a consolidation of interests in policies which benefit everyone, even those who are locked in a long-held tradition of racism.

The current which is now running is one of compassion for all of us.

Even the ignorance of a small world view is having to give way to one which allows all of us to create the resources to take care of ourselves.

© 2018 Kathryn Hardage

www.youngpersonsmentor.blogspot.com