by Merci Gracia | May 9, 2019 | Joy
Our desires create internal motivation to expand our experience in the world. They drive us to sample new frontiers, develop skills, stretch our minds, challenge our bodies and help us grow and evolve. The skillful way to keep this aspect of our personality operating...
by Merci Gracia | Apr 28, 2016 | Joy
Our lives are like winding roads leading to the top of personally-defined mountains. Some of us yearn for accomplishment while others desire recognition. Many of the turns on the journey are blind and the pavement bumpy. We all hope that the ultimate destination will...
by Merci Gracia | Feb 19, 2016 | Joy
Attaining and maintaining a healthy emotional state should be a top priority for everyone. Doesn’t every goal pursued carry with it the hope that it’ll make you feel good? It takes a serious commitment to learn to feel balanced and peaceful no matter...
by Merci Gracia | Dec 7, 2015 | Joy
The most important question isn’t really ‘To be or not to be’, it’s How to be. When you figure that out, you can be with joy. Einstein said, “There are two ways to live life: As if nothing is a miracle or as though everything is a...
by Merci Gracia | Aug 25, 2015 | Joy
Almost everything we do, we do because we think it will make us feel good. But it’s not really what we do that affects how we feel. What actually determines how we feel is a decision to feel one way or another about something. Since we’re the ones deciding...
by Merci Gracia | Mar 20, 2015 | Joy
Though it may seem antithetical, honestly acknowledging our fears and actually feeling our unpleasant feelings is the path to inner peace. Anything that we avoid will simmer in the recesses of our minds and continue to disturb us. Once we allow our feelings to surface...