by Merci Gracia | Jun 19, 2012 | Acceptance, Choices, Conscious, Feelings
Your circumstances don’t cause the way you feel, your thinking does. No matter how appropriate a feeling may seem for the situation you’re in, it’s very empowering to realize that it’s your interpretation that created the feeling. If you could...
by Merci Gracia | Jun 16, 2012 | Fear, Feelings, Love, Perception
There are moments in your life when you’re in danger and fear helps to keep you safe. But most of the time, the fear you feel represents a threat to your sense of identity. You may worry that others won’t see you as you’d like them to and you might...
by Merci Gracia | Jun 9, 2012 | Create, Feelings, Thoughts
Your feelings are the result of your thoughts. When you investigate the nature of the thoughts you cultivate, you see how they color your experience of life. Watch your thoughts and keep your mind focused on what you want to create instead of what you’re...
by Merci Gracia | Jun 5, 2012 | Choices, Conscious, Feelings, Happiness, Understanding
Beneath any critical opinions you have of others, you are pure love. Your natural accepting, kind and generous impulses may have been clouded over by certain experiences. When you focus on the negative aspects of life, your positive attributes recede farther from your...
by Merci Gracia | May 24, 2012 | Feelings, Freedom
While all feelings need not be acted on, they do need to be felt. Notice when you have the urge to push or escape from the unpleasant ones. They won’t just go away because whatever you resist, will persist. However, when you experience them with your conscious...
by Merci Gracia | May 23, 2012 | Choices, Feelings, interpretation
Your narrative of life creates your experience of it. If your version is causing you pain, remember that you have complete freedom to change it. While it does require some effort to create a new story after years of telling it the old way, it is rather simple. All you...