Sympathetic Ear
This week we focus on the concept of Nurturing. Today’s MotD reminds us that nurturing for both ourselves and for others can take on many forms, one of which is having a sympathetic ear: without judgment, advice, discipline, and so on.
When offering a sympathetic ear to others, it behooves us to just listen without trying to figure out what we’ going to say next or in response; or about how we’ve had a same experience; or try to offer ways we or they can fix it—no, just listen.
We can also offer a sympathetic ear to ourselves, regardless of how unconventional it may seem. For instance, I’ve been doing some inner work on my limiting beliefs. One of them that keeps popping up of late is “no one wants to hear what you have to say”. When it does, I tend to stuff it down or force myself to think of something else.
Today I realized that maybe I would be better served if I took the time to listen to the part of me that says that. I could carry on a conversation with it to hear its side because chances are it says that as a way to keep me safe. If that’s true, then why is that? Keep me safe from what? I’m ready to lend it my ear.
How about you? Are you able to offer a sympathetic ear to others as well as to yourself?
BTW…Here’s the before…the front and back view of today’s puzzle piece and the pretty ceramic box that holds all my numbers from which I randomly choose each day’s puzzle piece number:
Peace & Blessings,
Maureen
The Mandala Lady
Creating Mandalas 🔆 Awakening Inner Harmony
ABOUT THE 2025 Mandalas of the Day
Throughout the year, I’ll be building one large (48”x48”) Tibetan-styled Mandala one piece at a time…one puzzle piece at a time, that is. The mandala design and the reversed puzzle side were printed on artist-quality watercolor paper. The forward facing puzzle side was printed on a 48”x48” wood panel.
Each day, at random, I’ll be painting in watercolors one of the 365 watercolor puzzle pieces, that by the end of the year will become Archangel Mandala #4. Read more about the Archangel Series. The word/message for each piece will be inspired by Melody Beattie’s book “52 Weeks of Conscious Contact”.
Ultimately, the message of this mandala is about how we are all uniquely part of the one.
Mandala of the Day 