Your Stories

by Merci Gracia | Feb 4, 2012 | Beliefs, Create, Empowering, interpretation

Are you conscious of the fact that you’re making up the stories you tell yourself and others? It’s your interpretation of any situation that creates its meaning for you. Your overall feeling about life is determined by the cumulative effect of your...

Wounds Are For Healing

by Merci Gracia | Feb 1, 2012 | Attention, interpretation, Natural, Perception

Everyone has emotional and psychological wounds. Healing them is what growing and evolving is all about. The best way to do this is to look at every experience as an opportunity to become more self-aware. Rather than repressing, avoiding or distracting yourself from...

Problems

by Merci Gracia | Jan 23, 2012 | Habits, Honesty, interpretation, Problems, Self-Awareness, Understanding, Victim Thinking, Wisdom

What you call a problem is just your resistance to what is. Life doesn’t get it wrong. Next time you identify a problem, ask yourself if you can really know that it shouldn’t be happening just the way it is.  If you’re honest, you’ll admit you...

Take Responsibility

by Merci Gracia | Jan 20, 2012 | Feelings, Happiness, Health, interpretation, Perception, Self-Awareness

Any negative feelings you have are the result of your interpretation. That doesn’t mean your interpretation is wrong or inappropriate, it’s just yours and caused by no one else. If your buttons get pushed, you have many options. The most effective, for the...

You Can’t Fail

by Merci Gracia | Jan 13, 2012 | Choices, Focus, Gratitude, Happiness, interpretation, Perception, Success

If you make one, vital adjustment to the way you view yourself and the world, you’ll never experience failure again. Look at every situation as if it’s happening for you. You’ll increase self-awareness, find value in every experience and never feel...

Life Stories

by Merci Gracia | Jan 6, 2012 | Create, Empowering, interpretation, Victim Thinking

It’s never too late to change your life story. Find the tales you tell that make you feel like a victim and stop telling them. Either drop them from your repetoire or tell ’em the way you wish they’d happened. Those memories were created by your...