Relationship Mechanics

by Merci Gracia | Dec 31, 2021 | Self-Awareness

Maintaining healthy relationships requires sincere effort. The constant push and pull of different personal preferences naturally creates occasional tension. Each person must find a comfortable path that allows for compromise, while simultaneously honoring our own...

Self-Honesty

by Merci Gracia | Dec 30, 2021 | Self-Awareness

Our egos are so clever, they can fool us into believing stuff we’ve completely made up for a moment of convenience. Later, we might change our stories to embrace entirely different positions. We’ll likely convince ourselves that we’ve held...

Feel to Heal

by Merci Gracia | Dec 29, 2021 | Self-Awareness

When our minds get into agitated states, thinking one thing after another, it’s time to take control by sitting down, calmly breathing in and out several times and then dropping down into the sensations of our feelings in our bodies. As long as we nurture the...

Never Alone

by Merci Gracia | Dec 28, 2021 | Self-Awareness

Feeling lost and alone means we’ve lost touch with the truth of who we are. We are to life as a wave is to the ocean. Like the substance of every wave, the energetic force that animates us, animates every other living thing. Whether we’re a big wave or a...

Drop and Open

by Merci Gracia | Dec 27, 2021 | Self-Awareness

Old conceptions of ‘truth’ give way to new ones as discoveries are made. Attitudes and opinions change as we gain deeper understanding. Judgments pronounced with absolute assurance often prove inaccurate. Evaluations of people and situations turn out to be...

The Future Is Now

by Merci Gracia | Dec 26, 2021 | Self-Awareness

Any vision we have of the future ultimately revolves around the way we hope to feel. Each moment was once a previous moment’s future. But, the future can never be experienced because when it comes, it arrives as the NOW. That means that regardless of...