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...
by Merci Gracia | Apr 20, 2012 | Appreciation, Conscious, Freedom, Grace, Gratitude, Joy
If you were at peace with every aspect of your life and all the people in it, imagine how much you’d enjoy yourself. One way to cultivate a love affair with life is to drop the stories you’re telling yourself about how people and things should be different...
by Merci Gracia | Apr 19, 2012 | Choices, Conscious, Control, Create, Discernment, Focus, Intention, Perception
On the path through life do you embrace difficulties as opportunities to grow or do you get upset and blame others? Do you regret the past or understand that you made the best choices you could at the time? Do you realize that you’re in charge of your own life...
by Merci Gracia | Apr 18, 2012 | Conscious, Flow, Focus, Love, Mastery, Present moment, Understanding
Time flies when you’re having fun. When you’re not, it crawls. If you’re distracted, it vanishes and robs you of what might have been. When you’re present and accept what’s happening in this very moment, time moves like a gentle river...
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...
by Merci Gracia | Apr 8, 2012 | Abundance, Appreciation, Attention, Awareness, Conscious, Focus, Perception
Feeling good is the result of focusing on the details in your life that are going well and not obsessing about the relatively few that aren’t. If you always place your attention on the squeaky wheels, you’ll be forever trying to oil them and not enjoy the...