Handling Emotions Wisely

by Merci Gracia | Dec 7, 2016 | Feelings

Our emotional responses have consequences. Stoking and harboring anger and disappointment not only disturbs our wellbeing, the unbalanced energy actually magnifies problems in our mind. Relief comes once we reconcile ourselves with what is and remember that the outer...

Feedback Is Your Friend

by Merci Gracia | Jun 7, 2016 | Change

If you look at every interaction, event, opportunity and challenge as information providing you with important insight on what you’ve been doing, are doing and could be doing, everything that ever happens will help guide your growth. Doing the same things...

Look Within to Discover

by Merci Gracia | May 27, 2015 | Solutions

If some aspect of your life isn’t going just the way you want it to, try looking within for the cause. You’re the one defining success and failure. Why not try accepting what is, as it is. Resisting makes you feel bad and puts you in a vibration...

Exit the Merry-Go-Round

by Merci Gracia | Feb 28, 2015 | Fear

It’s difficult to escape the powerful orbit of ingrained habits. Though the middle of the merry-go-round makes you slightly dizzy and uncomfortable, it still seems safer than exiting the spinning platform. The worry that the stronger force of rotation outside...

The Only One You Can Change

by Merci Gracia | Feb 13, 2015 | Acceptance

Wanting others to change to fit your tastes is a mission doomed to failure. They have their own trajectory in life to complete just as you do. Even at times when their actions feel uncomfortably out of alignment with your preferences, they are simply dancing to the...