Accept Life As It Shows Up

by Merci Gracia | Jun 19, 2012 | Acceptance, Choices, Conscious, Feelings

Your circumstances don’t cause the way you feel, your thinking does. No matter how appropriate a feeling may seem for the situation you’re in, it’s very empowering to realize that it’s your interpretation that created the feeling. If you could...

Live Life Now

by Merci Gracia | Jun 10, 2012 | Awareness, Choices, Conscious, Focus, Happiness, Now

You only get to live this lifetime once. Find out what you love to do and do it. Spend time with your favorite people. Don’t delay gratification until some future date when all your preconditions are satisfied. If you don’t practice loving this moment, you...

Happiness Beneath the Judgement

by Merci Gracia | Jun 5, 2012 | Choices, Conscious, Feelings, Happiness, Understanding

Beneath any critical opinions you have of others, you are pure love. Your natural accepting, kind and generous impulses may have been clouded over by certain experiences. When you focus on the negative aspects of life, your positive attributes recede farther from your...

You’re the Narrator of Your Life Story

by Merci Gracia | Jun 2, 2012 | Appreciation, Choices, Conscious, Discernment, interpretation, Perception, Thoughts

If you think of your life as a film, the predominant nature of your stream of thoughts creates the script and genre. You are the creator, producer, director, casting agent and costume designer. Do you focus on opportunities, joy, miracles, growth…or do you...

Stories That Hurt

by Merci Gracia | May 23, 2012 | Choices, Feelings, interpretation

Your narrative of life creates your experience of it. If your version is causing you pain, remember that you have complete freedom to change it. While it does require some effort to create a new story after years of telling it the old way, it is rather simple. All you...

How to Cure Repetitive Thought Syndrome

by Merci Gracia | May 21, 2012 | Attention, Balance, Choices, Conscious, Freedom, Peace, Practice

You probably repeat a very small number of thoughts over and over again. Many of them are insignificant or harmless while others may be negative, self-deprecating or downright detrimental. You can dramatically improve your experience of life in two easy steps. First,...