Ego Versus Authenticity

by Merci Gracia | Jul 22, 2013 | Authenticity, Conditioning, Ego, Flow, Love

Your authentic self is the joyful observer of your life experience. When you’re identified with this part of yourself, you feel good and life flows. On the other hand, your conditioned self or ego continually makes up stories and narrates everything you witness....

Attention Creates

by Merci Gracia | Jul 8, 2013 | Attention, Create, Flow

Knowing what you don’t want helps you know what you do. The magnetism of clarity attracts in alignment with your desires. Fighting what you don’t want energizes it and keeps you stuck. Helping others fight their fights only strengthens what they’re...

Problems Are Good For You

by Merci Gracia | Jun 29, 2013 | Acceptance, Awareness, Challenges, Flow, Problems

If you aren’t experiencing challenges in your life, you may be on autopilot. Life has a way of presenting you with one after another and that’s actually good news. Since a problem is defined as something for which you don’t know the solution, in...

Problems are Opportunities

by Merci Gracia | Jun 24, 2013 | Authenticity, Conscious, Create, Evolution of Consciousness, Feelings, Flow, Inner Guide, Now, Present moment, Problems, Solutions

Life gives you constant feedback about the path you’re on. When you’re living in alignment with your authentic self in this moment, life flows joyfully like a gentle river. If you feel like you’re stuck in a log jam or about to go over the falls,...

Listen

by Merci Gracia | Jun 8, 2013 | Attention, Authenticity, Conscious, Flow, Honesty, Natural, Relaxed

When someone really listens to you with the desire to understand, rather than just waiting to reply, not only does it feel good, it makes you want to speak honestly from your heart. Try it out yourself in your next conversation. Notice if you’re truly listening...

The Recipe for Flow

by Merci Gracia | Jun 5, 2013 | Flow, Focus, Forgiveness, Gratitude

In order to live in well-being, you need to focus on all four aspects of your life: mental, emotional, physical and spiritual. Your mental spin causes your emotions. Negative ones get lodged in your physical body causing dis-ease and spiritual angst. The good news is...