The Power of Your Thoughts

by Merci Gracia | Jun 8, 2012 | Advice, Appreciation, Attention, Beliefs, Conscious, Create, Gratitude, Health

You can give yourself an ulcer with excessive worry. You can cure yourself of disease with a strong belief in a placebo. You can lower the reading of a blood pressure test just by taking a deep breath. You can enhance your performance by visualizing playing a sport....

How to Cure Repetitive Thought Syndrome

by Merci Gracia | May 21, 2012 | Attention, Balance, Choices, Conscious, Freedom, Peace, Practice

You probably repeat a very small number of thoughts over and over again. Many of them are insignificant or harmless while others may be negative, self-deprecating or downright detrimental. You can dramatically improve your experience of life in two easy steps. First,...

Your Life is Cyclical, Moods Needn’t Be

by Merci Gracia | May 2, 2012 | Change, Create, interpretation

It’s a natural part of life’s ebb and flow to have some wonderful experiences and some difficult ones. How you feel depends not so much on what happens as it does on how you interpret it. Every thought and feeling you entertain weaves the fabric of your...

Master Your Monkey

by Merci Gracia | Apr 25, 2012 | Attention, Awareness, Choices, Conscious, Discernment, Focus

Do you find the same thoughts playing over and over in your head? That’s your monkey-mind at work. If you’re not paying attention, it can wreak havoc with its incessant chatter. However, it does obey quite nicely when you shine the light of awareness on it and...

Don’t Limit Yourself

by Merci Gracia | Apr 16, 2012 | Attention, Conscious, Create, Discernment, Focus

Have you heard the story of the man who drops his keys on the ground one dark night and is frantically searching under the streetlight? When his friend asks him where he dropped them he replies, “Over there, but the light’s better here.” Notice where...