by Merci Gracia | Sep 2, 2012 | Acceptance, Anger, Awareness, Compassion, Discernment, Love, Self-Awareness
The intensity of the charge you feel when you judge others actually shows you where you don’t accept yourself. Little or mild emotion indicates that you’re discerning. When you have no trace of the behavior yourself, you’re likely to feel compassion....
by Merci Gracia | Aug 30, 2012 | Acceptance, Forgiveness, Love
When you truly forgive yourself and others, stress melts and life begins to flow. Do it by letting go of anger, resentment, blame, judgment, shame, guilt and unworthiness. It doesn’t actually matter whether you can think of the specific things you need to...
by Merci Gracia | Aug 21, 2012 | Feelings, Focus, Love
It’s important to feel your feelings, but talking about them keeps you in your head, thinking rather than feeling. This can actually fuel the situation and make matters worse. When you’re suffering, sit down, scan your body and feel your physical...
by Merci Gracia | Aug 20, 2012 | Acceptance, Appreciation, Control, Ease, Freedom, Giving, Harmony, Love, Relationship
Assuming ownership of your mate or children, decreases the likelihood of having healthy and satisfying relationships with them. It also sets you up for problems in the future. When you think of them as extensions of yourself, you box them in with expectations that...
by Merci Gracia | Aug 19, 2012 | Happiness, Joy, Love, Relationship, Self-Awareness
The way you feel about yourself determines the kind of relationships you have with others. They are merely external reflections of what’s going on inside you. When you love and respect yourself, it’s mirrored in everyone you meet. Trying to change others...
by Merci Gracia | Aug 13, 2012 | Awareness, interpretation, Love, Perception, Reality, Solutions
According to the ancient Hawaiian healing technique Ho’oponopono, you are the creator of all you see. You perceive the world out there through your heavily filtered and conditioned mind. This explains why people experience the world in dramatically different...