Make the Unacceptable Accessible
This week we focus on the concept of “The Dark Side”. Today’s MotD encourages us to move aside anything that keeps us from approaching what we consider to be our unacceptable self (our shadow side), or what we deny about ourselves.
Continuing with the analogy from yesterday of being at the top of the stairs of the basement of our psyche, getting reading to step down. Today, we’ve gone down the stairs and we’re now in the basement. Even though the overhead light is on, we still need a flashlight to look into the dark corners of the room, to see behind the stuff blocking our way.
This may seem like a scene from a horror film. It feels scary and yet what I have found to be true when I’ve been “down here” is that hidden in a dark corner is usually a small, crying, terrified, child who just wants to be heard and nurtured.
So why does it seem so scary? My understanding is that on some level, if we heal that part then it will go away or die. The reality is, we’re not harming that child, we’re actually helping it to grow up to its full potential…to rise above its fear and soar like the one it is meant to be…like the one we are meant to be.
How do we do this? Whatever way works best for each of us. For me, I like doing visual meditations, imagining I’m carrying on a conversation with it—and listening to what it has to say. You may find journaling, dreamwork, coloring, walking in nature, or meditating silently to be more helpful.
How about you? What’s keeping you from making the unacceptable accessible?
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 