23-158 Embrace Your Future #4

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Today’s Mandala Message: Take Steps to Forgiveness

This week I’m working through Principle #29 from Jack Canfield’s “The Success Principles” entitled “Complete your Past to Embrace the Future”. I set my intention today to ponder the idea of taking the necessary steps toward forgiveness.

Continuing with the forgiveness theme of the past couple of days, Canfield offers 6 steps to forgiveness: essentially, 1) acknowledge the resentments, then 2) the hurts and 3) fears/self-doubts they created, then 4) own your part in it, then 5) acknowledge what you were wanting but didn’t get, and then 6) release it, forgiving the person. He suggests making a list of anyone we feel has hurt us and how. Then, give yourself the time to go through the 6 steps with each one. He didn’t suggest it but I would think adding ourselves to the list would be beneficial as well.

He offers this reminder: “All people (including you) are always doing the best they can to meet their basic needs with their current awareness, knowledge, skills, and tools they have at the time. If they could have done better, they would have done better. As they develop more awareness of how their behavior affects others, as they learn more effective and less harmful ways to meet their needs, they will behave in less harmful ways.”

A good mindfulness practice towards forgiveness would be to start with acknowledging the resentments.

So how about you? Are you ready to take the steps to forgiveness? Can you make a list of anyone who you feel has hurt you and how? What would it feel like to release them?

“There is no revenge
so complete
as forgiveness.”

— Josh Billings

Blessings,

Maureen
The Mandala Lady
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An Invitation

I invite you to color along with me this year as part of what I’m calling “The Year of Self-Exploration and Expansion” with all of my “Mandalas of the ___” (day, week, month, year). If you’re interested in more of a self-exploration approach to coloring, check out my “Coloring Mandalas as Meditation”. You can download this mandala at MandalaoftheWeek.com.

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My Mission: connecting with our Inner Light in delightful, inspiring ways For me, creating mandalas is more than just coloring pretty patterns in a circle. I do it because my spiritual evolution and creativity require it of me. My mandala designs come about within an active meditative state, connected with my higher self, my spiritual guides and nature spirits. Together, we bring into form, mandala art the allows me to re-connect with my own inner peace and joy, letting me explore and expand my own creative spirit to however far and in whatever direction I want to take it. As part of my own spiritual journey, I encourage, and hopefully inspire, others to explore their own creativity, to help them re-connect with their own inner peace and joy. As a means to that end, I make all of my mandalas available for people to color. Why should I have all the fun?

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