by Merci Gracia | Jan 25, 2018 | Acceptance, Allow What Is to Be
Accepting life as it shows up enhances your well-being, while resisting blocks your energy and depresses your mood. Any energy used to complain about what has already happened is better spent creatively working to transform the situation to suit you. Accepting life...
by Merci Gracia | Oct 27, 2017 | Acceptance, Allow What Is to Be
The best thing to do with unsatisfying situations is to accept them. Resisting, denying, blaming or longing for the past only fuels discontent. Moving beyond any disagreeableness requires first acknowledging the reality of how things are. From this perspective we can...
by Merci Gracia | Oct 16, 2017 | Allow What Is to Be
We all have a natural impulse to try to control the details of our immediate environment. While this may come from a basic survival instinct, the impulse often extends beyond things that could be classified as our business. This is where we run into problems with...
by Merci Gracia | Oct 10, 2017 | Allow What Is to Be
The more we let relatively insignificant events bother us, the more negative our world becomes. There are occasions when it’s necessary to speak up or take decisive action, but allowing minor events and circumstances to get under our skin only disrupts our own...
by Merci Gracia | May 8, 2017 | Allow What Is to Be, Suffering
Do you ever start thinking about someone’s behavior and get so aggravated that you lose focus on what you’re doing? Stirring up negativity in this way robs you of energy and keeps you agitated. Since you can’t ever really know where their behavior is...
by Merci Gracia | Sep 24, 2016 | Allow What Is to Be, Understanding
The thought that something shouldn’t have happened is like thinking there shouldn’t be clouds in the sky. Each moment shows up the only way it can given everything that precedes it. The vision you deem superior isn’t possible at this point in...