by Merci Gracia | Jan 31, 2017 | Suffering
At any given moment, you can find tremendous suffering in the world. In fact, it dominates the air waves because tragic news sells. Being informed about what’s happening is fine, but ingesting a constant stream of almost exclusively negative news gives you a...
by Merci Gracia | Jan 30, 2017 | Create Your Reality
Resisting what is creates stress because arguing with reality is exceedingly hard work. Not only does it make life less pleasant, it detracts from our ability to change things more to our liking. The play of forces across eons of time has resulted in this moment being...
by Merci Gracia | Jan 29, 2017 | Peace
Achieving goals is satisfying — briefly. Then new circumstances become routine and give birth to future rounds of objectives and desires, each of which brings new challenges, stresses and suffering. This encourages positive growth and evolution beyond the...
by Merci Gracia | Jan 28, 2017 | Emotional Breakthroughs
The way we respond to life affects our chemistry. The mind creates reactions in the body and then has new reactions to those reactions and the process continues on indefinitely. Emotions are excellent indicators of what’s happening in our minds and what needs to...
by Merci Gracia | Jan 27, 2017 | Self-Awareness
Every advancement in our personal evolution is followed by turmoil as the next lesson appears for us to acknowledge, own (rather than deny or project outward) and work on. When new chaos appears, it can feel like a step backward, but it’s actually a step...