by Merci Gracia | Mar 3, 2013 | Acceptance, Evolution of Consciousness
Feeling blamed can interfere with your ability to accept responsibility for your actions and cause you to take constructive criticism personally. But why hold yourself to some abstract standard? You’re an ever-evolving being who is, by definition, responding to...
by Merci Gracia | Mar 2, 2013 | Acceptance, Love
True peace of mind is a deep state of being in which you accept everyone and everything you encounter. It requires nothing. You might think that, in this state of complete loving acceptance, you could be taken advantage of, but the opposite is true. When you’re...
by Merci Gracia | Mar 1, 2013 | Acceptance, Feelings, Love
If someone’s behavior activates anger or frustration in you, you’re entitled to your feelings. But you’re not entitled to act out on them. Your feelings aren’t caused by their behavior, but rather your spin and intolerance of it. Deep down,...
by Merci Gracia | Feb 19, 2013 | Acceptance, Compassion, Conditioning, Forgiveness, Judgments, Truth
Because your subconscious mind doesn’t distinguish between thoughts you have about yourself and those you have of others, all your judgments are felt by you first and foremost. And since you are seeing others through the filter of your unique conditioning, your...
by Merci Gracia | Feb 15, 2013 | Acceptance, Create, Feelings, Focus, Solutions
Desires create evolutionary movement. Resistance keeps you stuck. You naturally have preferences and you’re never going to like everything that happens. But when you resist what is, your energy becomes fixated on what’s wrong, rather than creatively...
by Merci Gracia | Feb 10, 2013 | Acceptance, Authenticity, Love, Relationship
The attractiveness of the sparkly frills that bedazzle you throughout your early and middle years eventually fades. As you become wiser and more mature, you increasingly recognize the importance of developing heartfelt connections with the people in your life....