Feel Our Own Feelings
This week we focus on how “Crazy People Make Us Crazy”. Today’s MotD reminds us when we stop trying to change or “fix” other people, we can start focusing on taking care of ourselves, which includes feeling our own feelings instead of figuring out theirs.
For most of my teens, 20s, and early 30s, I gave away my power and only worried about what other people were feeling and wanting. It became so bad that if someone asked me what movie I wanted to see or what restaurant I wanted to go to, my reply would usually be “wherever you want to go is fine with me”.
When I started working with a therapist, she had me set my watch’s timer to go off every 15 minutes (usually she tells people 30 minutes—that’s how disconnected I was). Each time the timer went off I was to stop what I was doing and ask myself “what do I want to do right now?” or “what do I feel like doing right now?” or “how am I feeling right now?”. I told her that if I do this at work, I’m going to want to leave each time. To which she said, “you can do that but the caveat is you have to take responsibility for your choices. So if you keep leaving the job, you may lose your job.”
This made me realize (and face up to the fact) that I need to do something about my job—either find a way to make the job more tolerable or change jobs. What did I do? Later that year, I quit and moved to Florida. It was the best decision I made in my life up to that time. Moving to Oregon 10 years later, was the BEST move I ever made.
How about you? Whose feelings are you feeling right now? Are you trying to fix or change someone else? What are YOUR feelings right now?
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 