Detachment
This week we focus on how “Crazy People Make Us Crazy”. Today’s MotD reminds us that practicing detachment is difficult…especially the first time we do it. Yet, with it, we start gaining back our sanity and a clearer path for us opens up. And, per Melody, “When we let go of what we cannot change, the other person begins to experience his or her own consequences”.
While married to my first husband, he created (and I participated in) a pattern I call “The Divorce Game”. Whenever I didn’t do as he wanted, he would play the divorce card by saying “well, then we might as well get divorced.” Because I was a devout Catholic at that time, he knew how important it was to me to stay married. He also knew I didn’t want to face my parents about it either. Thus, as always, I would cave.
So I continued to unconsciously let him control me…until he declared that I needed to go for therapy…because I was “such an awful wife”. Again, he threatened divorce if I didn’t go.
Long story short and 2 years later, his strategy backfired on him. I woke up. He didn’t like it. So one more time he initiated the divorce game. This time I said “okay”. Yes, it was scary. At the same time, it was also empowering. And 42 years later, it was the best decision I ever made.
How about you? Is there anything or anyone in your life from which you need to practice detachment? If so, what’s a step in that direction that you can take today?
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 