by Merci Gracia | Oct 23, 2014 | Choices
Five star restaurants, luxury cars, famous friends, chic clothing and well-heeled zip codes are alluring objectives that you can spend a lifetime trying to accumulate. But after you’ve chased them down and experienced the cold impersonality of the gold in the...
by Merci Gracia | Oct 20, 2014 | Choices
Your amazing mind can instigate miraculous healing or generate enormous stress; produce profound works of art or keep you stuck in a box. It can exhibit generosity, kindness and compassion or cause limitless pain and suffering. It can conjure up unreal boogie men or...
by Merci Gracia | Mar 7, 2014 | Choices, Freedom
Some people are reluctant to embrace the fact that they are completely responsible for their experience of life. Many believe that outer circumstances like their job, where they live, their friends or their finances are the factors that determine how they feel....
by Merci Gracia | Nov 24, 2013 | Choices, Conscious
Life will inevitably present you with a variety of experiences. All you can control is the way you react to what transpires. This response creates the overall emotional environment in which you live. Developing a balanced perspective helps you stay afloat in...
by Merci Gracia | Nov 1, 2013 | Choices
Even if you feel a lack of control over some external aspects of your life, it’s beyond question that you’re totally in charge of the primary factor that informs your experience of all that happens: how you respond. Do you view obstacles as opportunities...
by Merci Gracia | Sep 13, 2013 | Acceptance, Choices, Perception
When you acknowledge that your personal belief system determines not only your preferences but the way you see life, you have the capacity to accept the reality that your notion of right and wrong & good and bad are subjective. Once you cross the bridge departing...