Your Feelings Are Valid

by Merci Gracia | Jul 1, 2013 | Conditioning, Feelings, Healing

Your feelings are natural responses to life based on your experience, but they aren’t always appropriate to act on. While happy feelings are good for you, disturbing ones need your conscious attention. In order to heal, it’s crucial to acknowledge and feel...

Discernment Vs. Judgment

by Merci Gracia | Jun 18, 2013 | Compassion, Conditioning, Discernment, Feelings

When you dislike another person’s behavior, it can be experienced either as a discernment or a judgment. Judgment happens when you view their behavior as wrong and the cause of your feelings. With discernment, you recognize that it’s your own conditioning...

Your Emotional Environment

by Merci Gracia | May 31, 2013 | Beliefs, Conditioning, interpretation, Self-Awareness

The emotional environment in which you live is based on a mixture of your conditioning and habitual thought patterns. It’s a made-up world created by your spin on the experiences you’ve had. Since this emotional ecosystem is your creation, you can change...

You Can’t Know For Sure

by Merci Gracia | May 7, 2013 | Awareness, Conscious, Feelings, interpretation, Perception, Self-Awareness

Symptom 11 of Conscious Awakening: A loss of interest in interpreting the actions of others.  Your experience of life is a result of the way you interpret what happens. Your particular spin is created by your conditioning and belief system that formed before you were...

Life Is What You Make It

by Merci Gracia | Mar 29, 2013 | Beliefs, Conditioning, interpretation, Perception, Self-Awareness, Thoughts, Understanding

You see life through your filter and belief system. Until you put your spin on it, nothing is either good or bad. While you didn’t have control over your conditioning when you were young, you do have the freedom to change it now. There are many ways to look at...