Today’s Mandala Message: Time to Recognize
This week I’m working through Principle #30 from Jack Canfield’s “The Success Principles” entitled “Face What Isn’t Working”. I set my intention today to ponder the idea of recognizing my denials about what’s working and what’s not. Canfield states: “A big part of getting out of denial is to get good at recognizing bad situations and then deciding to do something about them. … [and know that] defending and justifying a bad situation is really just a form of denial.”
Probably my most obvious denial would be that I am artist with my own self-run business. Financially, it’s not working for me. But here’s the thing, I don’t do anything to help it. I have a web site, several blogs, and do social media…and yet I haven’t put anything out there to sell. A part of me says “why bother to put anything out there, no one’s going to buy it”…well yeah, no one can buy anything if there’s nothing out there to buy. I know it’s time to do something about it…what? Not exactly sure.
I do have this big window display event in downtown Corvallis coming up for the month of October where I’ll display all 365 MsotD from last year along with some other mandalas, mandala meditation stones, and at least one of my oracle decks that I’m working on right now. I’m thinking that would be a good opportunity to promote and make available for sale everything in the window…as well as putting them online. It’s doable. I can do it. I can handle it.
A good mindfulness practice would be to recognize denial for what it really is.
So how about you? Are you open to recognizing situations that aren’t working in your life? Do you tend to defend or justify them? Are you ready to do something about them?
“It is of no use to pretend
— Quintus Curtius
that something is not
what it clearly is;
to live in denial
is to live with a
suspended sentence
hovering over
one’s head.”
Blessings,
Maureen
The Mandala Lady
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