Embarking Upon a Life Worth Living

Mary Shares

Be an alive and well human being living your purpose.
Be who you truly are, and do what is yours to do.
Helping and Healing yourself and others,
all in a pause.

USE A PAUSE PRACTICE TO ANSWER QUESTIONS LIKE THESE:

1) How am I setting up ROADBLOCKS in my life?

2) Who can I ENCOURAGE today?

3) Who may be a WISE FIT for this team, project, or endeavor?

4) What ideas, beliefs, and concepts am I CLINGING to that are
keeping me trapped in stuck mode?

5) What can I DELEGATE?

6) Am I trusting thoughts that tell me I am UNWORTHY? Am I willing to listen to
and trust the thought: I AM WORTHY BECAUSE LOVE LOVES ME?

7) Am I willing to experience a TANGIBLE CONNECTION to THIS LOVE?
Even though it may mean changing my daily choices
and how I relate to others.

8) Whom is inner Wisdom showing me needs my HELP TODAY?

9) Name a person or situation that could benefit from me
GETTING OUT OF MY OWN WAY.

10) What’s CLOGGING MY HEART? Can I Pause to Open my Heart?

11) On a scale of 1 – 5, 1 being “Not at all” and 5 being “100% Willing Now”,
How willing am I to EXPERIENCE A CHANGE OF MIND from my
cubicle mind stuck in the box, to my True, Inspired, & Wise Mind?

There are lots more questions where these came from!
They came from my Inspired Heart~Mind.
What questions is your Inspired Heart~Mind asking you
to ask, and listen to Inspiration Within for the answers?

Go ahead, you can do it. CLICK ON THE CARDS, ASK YOUR QUESTIONS,
and
LISTEN FOR THE ANSWERS.

Pause Golden Book page 99

WHAT Is Pause for Inspiration?

An in-the-moment expression of INSPIRATION.
The Pure Spirit of Peace and Helpfulness
is pervading the universe as you connect
with your INSPIRING SELF MIND and
your INSPIRING SELF HEART.

How?

By BEING TRULY HELPFUL.

Say, “So long,” to your cubicle self who is busy thinking on its own in its
cubicle, unable to see beyond its cubicle world.

Say, “Hello,” to your Inspired Self who is patiently
awaiting your attention and willingness to listen.

Pause For Inspiration
is a mission that begins in the
heart of every willing mind.

Being Truly Helpful is seeing through, above, and
beyond the cubicle self and into the Inspired Self.

In this presence of heart and mind, you experience
INSPIRATION. Allow Inspiration through you to
Inspire the dispirited and experience your
Inspiring Self Heart and Mind.

As we give help in ways seen
and unseen, so shall we receive help.

Remember,

YOU ARE A LIVING EXPRESSION
OF INSPIRATION IN THE WORLD!

Help extend Inspiration

to others!

YOU make it possible with your support!

Every little bit helps.

Thank you!

Don’t just take our word for it!

Read what others are saying about

Pause For Inspiration!

“It is a joy to share the Pause for
Inspiration cards with others.
I have found that in helping
others, you help yourself
to be inspired. And when I am
feeling down, dehydrated,
and suffering from fatigue,
in need of a blood transfusion,
or just saying, ‘Why me?
Why me with this cancer?’ I
take the time to read the
Pause For Inspiration card and
feel like I get control of my life.
Why don’t you take the time to
Pause For Inspiration and
change your life?”

Laverne Holliday
Popular Jazz Radio Host

“It is a MUST and a PLUS!”

Vanessa White

Zion Travelers

“Continue to provide tools that
help people connect with their
helpful self. The ability to do so
is beneficial for self and others.
The cards you provide are
helpful. We look forward to
having the School Nurses
create Pause cards of their own
with your guidance! Thank you.” 

Surilla Shaw, RN, MSN
School Nurse Coordinator, Saint Louis Public Schools

Being Held Free

Mary Shares


Grace is something that is hard to put into words for it is beyond anything
words in the world have to offer. Grace is an experience of being free on the
inside. Something is holding you and yet, you are being held without restraint.
You want to be held, you do not mind being held ~ for somehow in being held
you are free.

This being held free holds out no hoops for you to jump through. Grace is
offered. Offered for your acceptance. Acceptance of Grace brings immediate
freedom. It is the Catcher and the Net even when it seems there is no Catcher and no Net.

So, in your cubicle self you will fall from Grace, but Grace
has not fallen away from you.

Such is Grace. The offer stands.
“Living Health” In The Pause Golden Book page 75

UNWIND ~ RELAX ~ LET GO
CLICK THE CARD FOR
PRACTICE ON THE BACK ~

TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF ~
CLICK THE CARD
DO THE PRACTICE

Android users please pause as we are working on the app being available for you!
YOU CAN Download The Pause FREE App to your PC:
https://app.pauseforinspiration.org/

Kids Can Pause and Parents, too!

Get to know your Helpful Self.

Have you heard

of this book?

Here’s how others are using the book and

how it has been helpful to them…

“I have shown so many the book you gave me at the last Missouri
Parents ACT summit. I have read this book to families and shown it to
my new coworkers, and they just love it!“

Carrie Ragsdale
Intensive In-Home Specialist
Family Facet

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Sharing a Pause

By Natalie

I wish someone would have shared a Pause Practice card
with me in my younger years. I certainly needed to Pause.
My mom has told the story many times of how I came home
with my school papers one day with the name
“Lori Taylor” written on them. She was confused and
asked me where were MY papers. I told her they were my papers
and that I wanted my name to be Lori.

This may sound like some sort of identity crisis,
but what my younger Self really needed
was to be reminded, in that moment,
that there was a Love that loved me, no matter what,
and that I could Pause, listen to Inner Wisdom,
and receive this Love, then, and now.

Practicing the Pause Practice and
sharing the Pause Practice with others
is a gift of remembrance
that we are all worthy of a Pause.

Shared from the Pause Golden Book, Page 43:

Ways to share the free Pause cards with others:

Thank you for helping yourself, helping others,
and helping the world by your being willing to
Pause for Inspiration.

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Everyone
is
Worthy
of a
Pause!

I owe him an apology!

Shared by Lisa

I was certain we had mice move into our house for the
winter and I asked my husband to take of it.
He keeps insisting that there are no mice
in our house but I can hear them at night.

As I was waiting for sleep to come last night, I heard
“them” again. I felt myself starting to get angry and
wanting to wake my husband to prove that I was right.
Instead, I Paused. In my Pause, I heard
to “really” listen to the noises to discern what they truly were.
So, I calmed my breathing and just listened.

As I cleared my perceptions of what I thought I was hearing,
the noises became clearer. I could hear that the source
of the noises was not inside the walls but inside the room.

As I continued to Pause, I listened more intently
and was able to pinpoint the source of the noises.

Funny thing ~ turns out it was not mice after all but a small picture
being disturbed by the wind of the fan I run at night
as I sleep. HA! I am so happy that I took the
time to Pause and did not wake my husband.
I owe him an apology!

Pause Golden Book pages 70 and 71

What a relief. What a relief to pause.

Pause instead of judge.
Pause instead of talk.
Pause instead of analyze.

The greatest obstacle to pausing is judging.
Judging is to place my cubicle beliefs, perceptions,
and experiences upon another and compare them to
what I perceive are that person’s cubicle beliefs,
perceptions, and experiences. Judging is full participation
in a cubicle affair. We all have a love affair with judgment
because we are having a love affair with our
cubicle self. The cubicle self walks a tightrope of
judgments, falling with each one and paying a great cost:
the ongoing experience of dispiritedness.

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Pausing During Conversations with Others

By Natalie

When I’m in the midst of a conversation with someone is a
Helpful time to Pause. I realized this the other day when
I was talking with a very good friend. We have such wonderful conversations, but I noticed that I was not Pausing.
As I was “listening”, I realized that I was planning
my response to her and I also noticed that I became
distracted after she told me a personal story.

These moments are my favorite times to PAUSE
because they can provide help in the moment.
When I Paused and asked Inspiration Within to help,
it brought a calmness into my mind that helped me relax
and reset my focus so that I could be present in the moment.

When I’m Pausing and being Present
in the midst of conversation,
I can become a better listener.

Shared from the Pause Golden Book, Page 40:

Pause is a specific Practice to be used While on The Move; such as,
during a conversation — listening requires pausing within
your own mind, thinking, feeling, and acting — do not miss out on
what is being said — truly respond versus a habitual reaction.

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It’s okay to

take a moment

to Pause.

Everyone is Worthy of a Pause.

Is Pause Useful In Business?

we are all one another’s customers

Mary Shares

PAUSE IS FULLY APPLICABLE IN COMMERCE

Pause Golden Book, page 62

Business cannot be held apart from Inspiration Within. Well, it can, but look at
the result. Cubicle “partnerships”, “takeovers”, “liquidations”, “bail-outs” etc.
Sounds like a bad night at sea. Tummy upset?

Do business differently? How?
With your Inspired Self.

Customers want to be Inspired. Any good business person knows the power of
Inspiration. Unknowing business people try to use seduction, persuasion, and
even temptation instead of Inspiration. “Buy this car from me and I’ll take you for a ride.”

The result is a customer feeling used and not returning to close the deal
or make another purchase.
The business person winds up feeling used too.
A user will eventually feel used because he has misused his mind.

“Pause for Inspiration” has been a life-changing
experience for me. I was introduced to “Pause”
a year or two ago and I practice this method in
my everyday activities, and in managing
my people at work.”

Richard A. Matt

Senior Supervisor of Operations
Commercial Property Services

“It takes so little to Stop and Pause a moment and experience a clear mind when making management decisions, but the results are outstandingly beneficial. I truly believe if our elected officials would consider practicing this method we could change the world.”

Words from The Business Wise

“I see what Pause does. It keeps you
from doing something stupid.”
Jay Woodside, Entrepreneur
Scottsman Coin and Jewelry


It is very refreshing on the 40
minute drive into work to listen to
the Pause audio before 10-12 hours
of the stress and anxiety of work.”
Michael M.
Automotive Industry