by Merci Gracia | Sep 17, 2012 | Create, Focus, Grateful, Gratitude
Being a master at life means being happy. Like mastering anything, there’s only one way to get there: practice. Life presents you with an infinite number of ways that hold the promise of making you happy, but you really don’t need any of them. You can take...
by Merci Gracia | Sep 12, 2012 | Appreciation, Attention, Focus, Grateful, Gratitude
If you’re not in some way employing strategies to gain approval from others, you probably feel good enough about yourself to just be. Feeling deeply satisfied simply because you exist is somewhat of a lost art amidst the constant barrage of messages that sell...
by Merci Gracia | Sep 8, 2012 | Attention, Feelings, Focus, Suffering, Victim Thinking
When life presents you with a huge challenge, do you resent the well-meaning and encouraging words from people you know? If so, check in to see if you’ve actually felt your feelings yet. You may have skipped that step and gone straight into creating an identity...
by Merci Gracia | Sep 7, 2012 | Attention, Awareness, Focus, Perception, Self-Awareness, Thoughts
Next time you’re in a bit of a funk, be mindful of the tendency to interpret everything to fit your mood. When you’re not paying attention, your mind will often look for anything it can find to make you feel even more out of sorts. Consciously recognizing...
by Merci Gracia | Sep 4, 2012 | Challenges, Ease, Feelings, Focus
Grief, pain, hardship and sickness are part of life. The way you choose to deal with what life brings is really what determines your experience of it. You can develop a compelling story, elicit some juicy sympathy, even create an entire identity around your grist. Or...
by Merci Gracia | Aug 31, 2012 | Attention, Beliefs, Feelings, Focus, interpretation, Understanding
What you hear is interpreted through the filter of your beliefs. Your mind rearranges what others say to fit into your understanding of the world, your beliefs or what you want to hear. A clear example of this is the game ‘Telephone,’ in which a simple...