Forks in the Road

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...

Don’t Limit Yourself

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...

Take Care of Your Own Life First

by Merci Gracia | Apr 12, 2012 | Attention, Authenticity, Discernment, Focus, Habits, interpretation, Perception, Self-Awareness

If you’re in the habit of stewing over the injustice in the world, it might be useful to take a look at what’s going on in your own life. You may be distracting yourself from what needs fixing a little closer to home. Getting worked up over events that you...

Your Mind is Like a Camera

by Merci Gracia | Apr 4, 2012 | Attention, Awareness, Discernment, Focus, interpretation, Perception, Understanding

If your mind is a camera, your attitude is the lens and filter. What you see is unconsciously processed in a unique way in order to make sense of the world. You interpret new experiences to fit in with previous ones. But you always have the choice to decide how you...

New Meaning Revealed

by Merci Gracia | Mar 29, 2012 | Attention, Compassion, Conscious, Discernment, Fear, Feelings, Perception

Even dismal situations can reveal valuable new insights that improve your life. Some remind you how resilient, capable and adaptable you are. Others teach the temporariness of all experience. Still others remind you to appreciate moments you might otherwise take for...

Grow Yourself

by Merci Gracia | Mar 9, 2012 | Attention, Awareness, Choices, Conscious, Discernment, interpretation, Perception

When the same problem shows up in your life repeatedly, think of it as a signal from the universe that something you’re doing isn’t working. Take a sincere look at how your thinking or behavior might be creating the situation. Even though this can be...