Love Yourself

by Merci Gracia | Apr 26, 2012 | Attention, Giving, Imagine, Love

Give yourself the love and acceptance you need and the world will mirror it back to you. When you fill your own cup until it’s overflowing and give from the overflow, you never feel drained. You don’t look for others to reciprocate because you don’t...

Master Your Monkey

by Merci Gracia | Apr 25, 2012 | Attention, Awareness, Choices, Conscious, Discernment, Focus

Do you find the same thoughts playing over and over in your head? That’s your monkey-mind at work. If you’re not paying attention, it can wreak havoc with its incessant chatter. However, it does obey quite nicely when you shine the light of awareness on it and...

Don’t Limit Yourself

by Merci Gracia | Apr 16, 2012 | Attention, Conscious, Create, Discernment, Focus

Have you heard the story of the man who drops his keys on the ground one dark night and is frantically searching under the streetlight? When his friend asks him where he dropped them he replies, “Over there, but the light’s better here.” Notice where...

Rewire Your Brain

by Merci Gracia | Apr 14, 2012 | Appreciation, Attention, Balance, Feelings, Focus, Grateful, Gratitude, Heart, Joy

When you’re mentally healthy, your emotions ebb and flow modestly and appropriately. You rarely swing to either extreme, but if you do, you quickly return to equilibrium. You can make balance the norm by creating a sense of constant well being for yourself. Take...

Take Care of Your Own Life First

by Merci Gracia | Apr 12, 2012 | Attention, Authenticity, Discernment, Focus, Habits, interpretation, Perception, Self-Awareness

If you’re in the habit of stewing over the injustice in the world, it might be useful to take a look at what’s going on in your own life. You may be distracting yourself from what needs fixing a little closer to home. Getting worked up over events that you...

Don’t Lament What Is

by Merci Gracia | Apr 10, 2012 | Acceptance, Attention, Thoughts, Understanding

Focusing on something you view as wrong and then assigning blame is a waste of time. Reality is the precise result of everything that led up to this instant. The present moment can’t be other than it is, so lamenting it is futile. Instead, look for how...