I follow often in what

seem like “small” things,

but . . .

For example, I follow Inspiration with
reaching into my purse or trunk and
sharing Pause Practice cards,
encouraging people on the spot,
traveling directions on a routine day,
choosing peace over strife in a
relationship by letting go of my need
to be right, and writing these Pause Shares.

BUT, I can be hesitant and tend not
to follow in those areas of life that
seem “BIGGER” or “MORE
IMPORTANT and CONSEQUENTIAL”.
I make-up stories in my mind about
all the horrible things that might
happen if I FOLLOW WISE, INNER
INSPIRED PROMPTINGS. How silly is
that?????

INSPIRATION WILL NOT LEAD US ASTRAY, EVER.

The REALITY IS, is that it’s ALL
IMPORTANT. Wisdom is not less
significant for one situation and
more for another situation.

Don’t be surprised that some people will

misunderstand you, judge you, and maybe not like you! It can come with the territory. Years ago, about to fall asleep one night, I heard within, “It takes a lot of courage to do what you’re doing.” That inner voice was CERTAIN and CLEAR. I wrote these words down on a post-it and kept them for those times that I doubt.

I am seeing how UNWORTHINESS

is a mistaken belief than I am not worthy of Inner Inspired Promptings and not
worthy of FOLLOWING and RECEIVING ALL they have to GIVE!!!

I Empty My Heart and Hands of this Error Into INFINITE
LOVE for Correction.
I am worthy and I learn this through following and
experiencing the results.

Your Bright Inspires HOPE

The Pause Crew says THANK YOU for pausing to open and read
these messages, and for being willing to learn how PRACTICING
THE PAUSE can be a way to

CONNECT WITH YOUR INNER RESOURCES so you can
GIVE and RECEIVE
WHAT YOU ARE TRULY WORTHY OF.

Welcoming Anew Year, A Fresh Start

By Natalie

Shared from the Pause Golden Book, Page 233:

Let our Inspiring Self Heart and Inspiring Self Mind bring us peace
and an understanding that raises us up out of the past, out of the cubicle
self, and into this very moment where we can begin anew ~

IF WE WANT TO BEGIN ANEW,
WE CAN’T TAKE THE PAST WITH US.

THAT IS A BAG YOU CANNOT AFFORD TO CARRY ON!!

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Grateful For No Reason

Mary Shares

Ahh, the feeling of IMMENSE GRATITUDE!!! Remember this feeling? It’s more
than a feeling really. More of a STEADY FLOW of PEACE, JOY, and BEING FREE
all stirred together creating SOMETHING MORE than the sum of the parts.

Do you remember an experience of GRATITUDE?

How did you feel?
What brought it on?
Has it been a while?

It’s not even that I am making a list of who or what I am thankful for, though
certainly, all this is a part of this Vast Gratitude.

How did this happen? How did this arrive?

EXPANDING, EXPANDING, EXPANDING GRATITUDE
I decided to take an extended pause. Try it >

“Nothing baffles
Inspiration. It extends
peace constantly in all
directions in every way
needed by each and every
heart. No willing mind
will be left unturned by PEACE.”

Pause Golden Book
page 171
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LEAN INTO A PAUSE
a practice

Give yourself permission to pause.
Leave all gadgets in another room.
Sit down in a quiet spot where you will not be disturbed.
(Put a sign on the door if you have to).
Now rest in a pause for 5 ~ 10 minutes.
If it helps, focus on your breath.
Invite a sense of Peace into the room
with you.

Allow a sense of spaciousness to enter your awareness.
Perhaps recall a prior experience of openness,
freedom, and relaxation to help get you started if that helps.

Give yourself some space.
As worries show up in your mind and
upsetting feelings, release them into PEACE.
Loosen your grasp. Rest.
Passing thoughts about nothing that can be distracting will arise;
Simply return to pausing.

Pause from judging yourself about how your pausing is going.
Just pause.
~
Congratulate yourself for pausing as a way to care for yourself and
others! Give thanks to PEACE for being present with you, whether you were
aware of PEACE or not.

Repeat as often as you know is helpful for you. Consider a daily Pause Practice.

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After practicing this for a couple of weeks, I began noticing being filled with
GRATITUDE. A depth and breadth of GRATITUDE RENEWING MY MIND.
I couldn’t even tell you what it is I am grateful for ~ LOLOLOL

Grateful for no reason.

Pause for Inspiration

is available in Spanish!

Pausa Para Inspiracion Practice Cards &

on our NEW “Pause For Inspiration” Mobile App!

In 2017 while in Mexico, John and I encountered Enrique De La Paz,
and what a truly Inspiring person he was to encounter.
His name means, Enrique of the Peace and
Enrique embodies the Peace of The Pause!

“When I started reading it and translating it word by word, I realized the
different stages of making the right decisions. Sometimes we take that time
ourselves to reconstruct our ideas and put them in order to make really good
decisions for a good outcome. When I was translating, I was thinking, “wow,
this is actually true. Sometimes you just need to take your time, blank
everything from your mind, and start thinking of new ways of doing things
and coming up with new solutions for those times
when we need help.“

Enrique De La Paz
(Enrique of the Peace)!

Pause Translator
Nuevo Vallarta, Mexico

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The audio for the Spanish Pause Practice
is read by a young woman whose native
language is Spanish. Her gentle voice is
soothing and helpful.

Meeting and moving with these beautiful Spanish-speaking women whose hearts
and smiles melted my heart, was such a gift. Thank you, Eileen, for creating this event and translating!

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Receiving Joy Today & Everyday

By Natalie

As we head into the New Year, my goal is to
Pause to receive Joy in the moment,
to share my Inspired & Joyful Self with others,
and to hop, skip, and jump for Joy in the New Year!

I desire to Pause for myself, my friends,
my family, and everyone I meet
to bring my Joyful & Loving Self forward
in everyday life situations and circumstances.

Pausing for Joy is a PRACTICE that
truly works when it is Practiced.
I’ve seen it work in my life in many ways,
seen and unseen.

Won’t you join me in Receiving JOY today
by Pausing to bring forth our
Inspired and Truly Helpful Selves right now?

Shared from the Pause Golden Book, Page 63:

Be the light in the darkness. Be the fire of joy in your workplace
instead of waiting for someone else to crack a smile. Be the one
who is willing to see anew — notice the good job of your coworker —
not waiting around for someone to take note of your work.
Be the one doing your job to the tune of Inspiration instead of
simply admiring a colleague who is stepping to the rhythm of Inspiration.
Be the one who is Inspired to Inspire others instead of waiting for
someone else to Inspire you. Be the one who sees a customer
as an opportunity to experience what your Inspired Mind is up to,
instead of seeing the customer as simply a means to a paycheck
or an annoying gnat to swat! It begins with you.

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Hop, Skip, and Jump for JOY

in the New Year!!

Scrooge or Clarence?

In the movie “It’s a Wonderful Life” we meet Mr. Potter, Bedford Fall’s town
Scrooge, and Clarence, George’s guardian angel. A stark contrast indeed! Mr.
Potter is desperate to manufacture a worldly life that is all about satisfying his
vampire-sucking greed. Of course, he simply moved away from his True Self,
which we all do. Thankfully, HOPE IS NEVER LOST! Then there’s Clarence
who is WILLING TO RISE ABOVE THE NOISE and CLAIM THE PEACE THE
WORLD CAN NOT GIVE. Clarence’s goal is to remember his True Self!
He feels PEACE on the inside, expresses it, and gives it away.

What a WONDERFUL illustration of the “cubicle mind/me-character” versus
an Inspired Mind. Not suggesting that we become guardian angels,
but rather become aware, in a pause, of which way we are leaning ~
Dispiriting or Inspiring?

AM I CARRYING AROUND a shrinking heart?

AM I WILLING TO LET MY INSPIRED HEART BE A LIGHT?
LEND A HELPING HAND?

Mr. Potter “lives” in a RESTLESS MIND of his own making.

Clarence is truly living FINDING REST in an
UNWAVERING, UNCEASING PEACE.

Mr. Potter sucking the blood out of people.
Clarence emanating LOVE and GENEROSITY.

Hmm, would I rather be RESTLESS and DISTURBING
PEOPLE’S PEACE
or
FINDING and SHARING REST ON ANY ORDINARY DAY?

We will run up against the cubicle heart of Scrooge,
be it in ourselves, others, situations, and the world,
but we can always CHOOSE TO PAUSE for ANOTHER HEART,
ANOTHER WAY ~ THE WAY OF PEACE.

There is a Peace the world can not give
available to us all. We need not understand This Peace,
nor is This Peace require our understanding.
Simply, our acceptance.

So, it is my HOPE FOR US ALL TODAY and every day,
that we are willing to ~

PAUSE FOR INSPIRATION
PAUSE FOR WISDOM
PAUSE FOR PEACE,
PAUSE FOR LOVE.

Like Clarence, we may not know exactly how this all will transpire and
how it will take shape.
We may be quite surprised by how we begin to see people and situations differently because of our PEACE OF MIND. Or, we may be
directed to help others in ways seen and unseen. Simply being willing to step back from our critical judgments of others, and SEE their True Self for them when they forget,
is a GIFT BEYOND MEASURE.

That’s how ENTHUSIASM FOR LIFE grows on the inside!

Becoming awestruck children again, our
hearts peering into the night sky ~ on the
lookout for the JOY being reflected within
us.

Pausing, listening, and following the inner
promptings of Peace.

Enthusiastically Absorbed In PEACE.

Start the New Year off right.
FIND REST

PAUSE FOR LIGHT

Even in the greatest darkness, there is an even Greater Light.

Sharing by Mary

PAUSE FOR LIGHT

PAUSE
There is a LIGHT that shines upon you,
A LIGHT that IS Always with you.
No matter what.
Pause and simply be with this LIGHT.

OPEN TO LIGHT
There is nowhere this LIGHT is not.
Open to receiving this LIGHT.
Let this LIGHT share Itself with you.
Pause and receive this Gift of LIGHT.

LIGHTEN UP
Pause and ask this LIGHT, “Show me how I am blocking my
awareness of this LIGHT in me?”
Whatever it is you are shown, be willing
to give it into the LIGHT.
Pause. Let it go.

SHARE YOUR BRIGHT
Share your brightness and now see the
brightness in others.
Let others see your brightness, and
they will be Inspired to share their brightness.
Pause for Brightness. Take it all in.

LIGHT ON YOUR WAY
How many people does it take to screw in
a light bulb? None, because the light is within.
Let this LIGHT lighten your load and
soon you’ll be shown which way to go.
You’ll be shown how to shine your bright,
whom to help, and when,
and best of all you’ll realize that this
LIGHT IS OUR FRIEND.

EVERYONE IS WORTHY OF THIS LIGHT.
You are worthy of this LIGHT.
I am worthy of this LIGHT.
No matter what.

MERRY CHRISTMAS

HAPPY HANUKKA

HAPPY KWANZAA

Peace be with you,
Mary and The Pause Crew

YOU are LOVE

I am Love, WE are Love

By Natalie

Inspiration Within is nudging me this morning to
remember that I am LOVE, that You are LOVE,
and that our True Inspired Selves embody this Love,
radiate it and share it with each other.
This Love sees beyond appearances and behavior
to the Truth of who we are. 
We just have to be willing to check-in
with our True Selves and Follow…
~Pause~
This holiday season and into the New Year,
I desire to Pause and remember
the Truth about myself and others.

See what the Pause Golden Book has to say about Love,
pages 4 & 5:

Love is the epitome of who and what you are and yet,
Love is so much more.
Love is whom you live in and who lives in you.
Love is the Vast Nature from whom you come,
the Pure Spirit in whom you live,
and the Door of Awareness into Love itself.
It is my deepest desire that you enter into
this experience for yourself!
For only then is Love all that Love is meant to be.

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The Riches of Inspiration

Mary shares

You will be rich when you stop clothing your mind in rags.

Rags =

the little thoughts of the dispirited
cubicle self causing dispiritedness.
To be dispirited is to be unaware
of your True Nature.

Are you tired of having raggedy
thoughts ~ “rags”? What do YOU
do with your RAGS?

Collect them?
Store them?
Sort them?
Give them as gifts?
Gee, thanks!

RAGS are USED FOR DIRTY JOBS.
Are you a DIRTY JOB?
(I think not)

IS your life such a mess that now
you are going to clean it up with
RAGS?

Do you NOT VALUE YOURSELF
enough to TRADE IN the rags for
RICHES?

If a pile of rags was placed before you OR
a calm flow of PEACE of MIND came
over you and you could choose which
you wanted to spend the rest of your life with,

WHICH WOULD YOU CHOOSE?

It is this choice we are making every moment.
Where are you resting your mind?
Pause Golden Book, pg. 306-30

Trade in your rags

Inspiration Inspires Real Abundance.

No need to deny these rags, for they feel very real to us and appear to be very important and we believe they must be attended to, fertilized, and disseminated.

When you rest in your Inspired Heart~Mind,

you will be rich because you will be WITHOUT YOUR RAGS!

YOUR RELATIONSHIPS

will be RICHER too, for you will now be SHARING

REAL ABUNDANCE!

Pause Golden Book, pg. 308

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There Will Never Be Another You

I will always remember when I was 19 sitting with friends in our college
cafeteria, noise buzzing about and people perusing the college catalog
trying to figure out what major to declare. To this day, I distinctly remember
falling into a pause, and hearing the thought in my mind,

“There will never be another you.”

This thought and the impact it had on me would change the trajectory of
my entire life. I would never be satisfied with the status quo, letting others
choose for me, going along with the crowd, or
cramming myself into the cubicle mind.
Instead, I would pause, step back from inner and outer voices telling me
whom I must become, dive into listening to an inner Knowing,
and sometimes I would follow, and sometimes not.

Years later I am still learning the value of taking the time to
listen within to this Wisdom and Peace that is greater than what I am thinking,

yet still within me.