Prioritize

by Merci Gracia | Dec 7, 2018 | Allow What Is to Be

Learning what’s important and what’s not is critical to having peace of mind. Most of what stresses us out isn’t worth wasting emotional or mental energy over. Usually, what weighs heaviest on us has to do with our attachment to personal beliefs or...

Trust Is the Answer

by Merci Gracia | Jun 6, 2018 | Allow What Is to Be

Even when you don’t like what’s happening in your life or in the world, trust that it has to be this way. The cosmos expands in cycles and consciousness always spirals upward. This means that, even when it seems the same unwanted issues or circumstances...

Accept Everything

by Merci Gracia | Jun 5, 2018 | Allow What Is to Be

No matter what’s happening in your present moment reality, accept it. It may be counter-intuitive, but resistance doesn’t stop what you don’t want, it amplifies it by making it a bigger part of your reality. Fighting against something means...

Go with What Is

by Merci Gracia | Jan 25, 2018 | Acceptance, Allow What Is to Be

Accepting life as it shows up enhances your well-being, while resisting blocks your energy and depresses your mood. Any energy used to complain about what has already happened is better spent creatively working to transform the situation to suit you. Accepting life...

The Messenger

by Merci Gracia | Oct 27, 2017 | Acceptance, Allow What Is to Be

The best thing to do with unsatisfying situations is to accept them. Resisting, denying, blaming or longing for the past only fuels discontent. Moving beyond any disagreeableness requires first acknowledging the reality of how things are. From this perspective we can...

Control Freak

by Merci Gracia | Oct 16, 2017 | Allow What Is to Be

We all have a natural impulse to try to control the details of our immediate environment. While this may come from a basic survival instinct, the impulse often extends beyond things that could be classified as our business. This is where we run into problems with...