by Merci Gracia | Jul 22, 2013 | Authenticity, Conditioning, Ego, Flow, Love
Your authentic self is the joyful observer of your life experience. When you’re identified with this part of yourself, you feel good and life flows. On the other hand, your conditioned self or ego continually makes up stories and narrates everything you witness....
by Merci Gracia | Jul 1, 2013 | Conditioning, Feelings, Healing
Your feelings are natural responses to life based on your experience, but they aren’t always appropriate to act on. While happy feelings are good for you, disturbing ones need your conscious attention. In order to heal, it’s crucial to acknowledge and feel...
by Merci Gracia | Jun 27, 2013 | Beliefs, Conditioning, Conscious
Your story about the world is created from your beliefs about what is real and true. Elements you draw on for your conclusions come from family, friends and society, but all of it is colored by your unique interpretation. Even though you know that your stories are...
by Merci Gracia | Jun 18, 2013 | Compassion, Conditioning, Discernment, Feelings
When you dislike another person’s behavior, it can be experienced either as a discernment or a judgment. Judgment happens when you view their behavior as wrong and the cause of your feelings. With discernment, you recognize that it’s your own conditioning...
by Merci Gracia | May 31, 2013 | Beliefs, Conditioning, interpretation, Self-Awareness
The emotional environment in which you live is based on a mixture of your conditioning and habitual thought patterns. It’s a made-up world created by your spin on the experiences you’ve had. Since this emotional ecosystem is your creation, you can change...
by Merci Gracia | Mar 29, 2013 | Beliefs, Conditioning, interpretation, Perception, Self-Awareness, Thoughts, Understanding
You see life through your filter and belief system. Until you put your spin on it, nothing is either good or bad. While you didn’t have control over your conditioning when you were young, you do have the freedom to change it now. There are many ways to look at...