The Only Time is Now

by Merci Gracia | May 11, 2012 | Attention, Awareness, Conscious

Are you waiting to enjoy yourself until certain conditions are met? Don’t believe the voice that keeps telling you that you’re not enough. The part of you that denies your actual worth won’t magically go away. It will continue to impose one condition...

Use Your Body’s Intelligence

by Merci Gracia | May 9, 2012 | Attention, Awareness, Change, Conscious, Focus, Perception, Self-Awareness

One of the reasons your body is attached to your head is to give you sensory input about your environment. When something raises the hair on the back of your neck, you know to proceed with caution. When your body hurts from sitting still for too long, you know...

True Alchemy

by Merci Gracia | May 1, 2012 | Appreciation, Attention, Awareness, Control, Focus, Grateful, Gratitude, Joy, Miracles

The most profoundly magical power you can develop is the ability to discern how every circumstance in your life serves you. If you can learn to flip the perception switch and view even the most unappealing situations as a part of your wonderful, expansive,...

Everyone Is Doing Their Best

by Merci Gracia | Apr 29, 2012 | Awareness, Compassion, Grateful, Judgments, Self-Awareness

Your consciousness is totally unique. You may be highly evolved in certain aspects of your life and less so in others. Be grateful for your level of understanding and compassionate for those who lack it. It opens your heart to remember that every person you meet is at...

Don’t Let Fear Make you Play Small

by Merci Gracia | Apr 28, 2012 | Awareness, Conscious, Discernment, Fear, Imagine, interpretation, Judgments, Perception

Fight or flight can be an appropriate response to immediate danger. But the mind can trick you into thinking there’s danger when there isn’t (like when you see a snake–but it’s only a rope.) When that happens, the fear impulse can impede your...

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...