by Merci Gracia | Apr 22, 2014 | Awareness
It’s easy to zip through your busy life, unconsciously spinning the events of your day. Unfortunately, when you don’t pay attention, you’re at the mercy of your conditioning. When you’re aware of how you frame what happens, you’re able to...
by Merci Gracia | Apr 4, 2014 | Awareness
Your mind loves assessing, judging, declaring and narrating everything that happens. That’s its nature. It’s just as capable of creating wonderful inventions as it is unnecessary anxiety. But you don’t have to be at the mercy of the bad stuff. Rather...
by Merci Gracia | Mar 26, 2014 | Awareness
Concerning yourself with issues that haven’t yet manifested is like designing a house before you know the lay of the land. You can never know the circumstances that will be surrounding a potential problem until it actually shows up. As problems arise, they are...
by Merci Gracia | Nov 1, 2013 | Now
Your mind is so powerfully creative that it can invent an endless array of enemies and obstacles. You’ll never be able to fight them all, but you can bring yourself to a place of peace by consciously focusing your awareness on your bodily sensations caused by...
by Merci Gracia | Aug 15, 2013 | Attention, interpretation, Perception
When a particular trend gains so much traction that it suddenly becomes widespread, it’s said to have reached the tipping point. This is a useful concept when trying to understand a variety of social and psychological phenomena. The ago-old expression...