by Merci Gracia | Apr 3, 2019 | Story
We all create stories about our experiences that serve to uphold our current identities. Stories bring continuity and coherency to our sense of self and to our lives. However, some stories no longer serve us. Clinging to stories in which we are victims harms us....
by Merci Gracia | Nov 14, 2018 | Story
It’s not the actual work that we do that makes us tired, it’s usually our thinking about it that exhausts us. We can work ourselves into a fit of agitation or negativity in anticipation of doing something we don’t want to do. The amount of time and...
by Merci Gracia | Sep 2, 2018 | interpretation, Story
Our spin creates our emotional reaction to life. We are capable of weaving such complicated and compelling stories about anything and everything. Whether we’re telling them consciously or unconsciously, we believe these narratives and feel there’s no...
by Merci Gracia | Jan 6, 2018 | Story
The world we experience has more to do with our story about it, than it does with objective reality. This is obvious when we find two people who live through the same situation yet have vastly different experiences of it. The way we see is a result of our conditioning...