Look For What’s Right

by Merci Gracia | Jun 15, 2011 | Attention, Balance, Create, Focus

If 85% of your life is going well, how do you increase this percentage? Most people dissect the 15%, focus on it, analyze it, and spend a disproportionate amount of time trying to fix it. The trick is to focus on the part that’s going well. It expands with your...

What Loops Are You Running in Your Head?

by Merci Gracia | Jun 9, 2011 | Attention, Create, Gratitude, Joy, Present moment

Are your thought patterns serving you? Do you habitually judge and criticize yourself and others? If so, you can easily change that habit to one that serves you better. A simple way to do this is by employing a non-religious and non-dogmatic mantra. Try just repeating...

Thoughts Give Birth

by Merci Gracia | May 28, 2011 | Attention, Beliefs, Create, Perception

Everything begins with a thought. Whether consciously or not, desired or not, you give birth to your reality by the thoughts you think. Use protection and conceive on purpose. Gestate consciously and deliver through a labor of love. Thought control begets desired...

Pick Your Battles

by Merci Gracia | May 25, 2011 | Acceptance, Change, Create, Fear, Natural, Present moment, Understanding

Everything you encounter in life is for you! Your interpretation and response create your experience moment by moment. Whether you accept, resist, love, or fear what is, life is going to do it’s thing. In the meantime, you get to be with your experience. Choose...

The Leading Edge of Evolution

by Merci Gracia | May 16, 2011 | Appreciation, Attention, Create

Every person on this planet is the most evolved version that has ever existed of their particular DNA, culture, conditioning, and experience. Whatever the specifics of their adaptation, their characteristics have survived and been optimized to show up just as they...

Rise After Falling

by Merci Gracia | May 15, 2011 | Attention, Create, Effort

Japanese proverb: fall seven times, get up eight. What matters most, falling or getting up? It depends on how many times you get up. Rise and shine. Merci