by Merci Gracia | May 2, 2021 | Feelings
When we feel disappointment, fear or anger, it’s worth examining the impulse to tell others about it. It’s understandable to want seek support from others, but sharing misery actually deepens discontent by intensifying the energy that feels bad. It lodges...
by Merci Gracia | Apr 26, 2021 | Anger, Feelings
Anger arises when our desires aren’t in harmony with what’s going on. Because it can feel threatening to ourselves and others, we sometimes suppress or internalize it. But we can only heal our feelings by feeling them. While it’s not always...
by Merci Gracia | Apr 1, 2021 | Feelings
When you experience disappointment, fear or anger, do you immediately want to tell others about it? It’s normal to seek support by sharing negative experiences, but it only results in deepening discontentment. Repeating stories of heartache, misfortune or...
by Merci Gracia | Mar 21, 2021 | Feelings
Every attempt to protect yourself from unpleasant emotions that arise, such as fear, sadness, loneliness, anger or any other feeling that you don’t like, keeps you from experiencing life fully, It causes you to close your heart and prevents you from feeling true...
by Merci Gracia | Mar 16, 2021 | Feelings
Each of us has a well of accumulated disappointment and hurt inside of us that’s waiting to be healed. When it rises to the surface of our awareness, it’s an opportunity to heal it. Because it’s uncomfortable, we often repress it, seek distraction or...
by Merci Gracia | Mar 7, 2021 | Feelings, Self-Awareness
Tuning in and really acknowledging our feelings helps us feel better when we’re sad, hurt, frightened, depressed or just in a funk. All our feelings are valid and worthy of feeling. They aren’t all necessarily based in fact, but they need to be felt. If we...