Other Drama
This week we focus on how “Crazy People Make Us Crazy”. Today’s MotD reminds us that getting entangled in other people’s dramas helps no one. Our challenge becomes recognizing what drama is ours to manage and what dramas belong to others.
It doesn’t mean we can’t help, it just means that we need to be mindful of each other’s boundaries. And that sometimes, the best way we can help is by detaching and taking care of ourselves first, allowing us time to determine how best to help others, if at all.
Another perspective would be to assess our participation in other people’s drama. Is it conveniently keeping us from taking care of our own health and well-being? Is it keeping us from looking at (and healing) our own dramas?
It’s like when I catch myself doing my least favorite household chore (which is most of them). It makes me want to ask myself: what is it that I am so afraid to do right now that I’d rather be doing “this” instead? (cleaning my bathroom, dishes, refrigerator, clothes, etc). It’s worth listening to the answer.
How about you? Do you allow yourself to become embroiled in other people’s dramas? If so, why is that? And how is that working for you…and the others? Is it helping or enabling?
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 