Get Out of Our Own Way
This week we focus on “Sweet Surrender”. Today’s MotD encourages us to get out of our own way. What does that mean? It’s those times when we’re trying so hard to make something happen, the equivalent to banging our heads against a wall, that we fail to acknowledge the reality of our situation and thus stop any movement forward.
Essentially, we’re trying to control something that is not ours to control. And yet our ego self, says we can. Therein lies the suffering. In order to move past it, we need to surrender (not condone) to what is. From this space/place, we can connect with our HP and ask to be shown another way.
For most of my 71 years on this planet I sought the approval of my father, thinking and behaving in ways that I’d hoped would finally “make him” give his approval; that maybe now I’ll be good enough in his eyes. Which meant I was doing things that were contrary to what my True Self wanted…ie, I was getting in my own way.
It took me a long time to surrender to the fact that I may never get that approval, that it might something he was not able to do. I had to stop the people pleasing behavior and aim for Maureen-pleasing behavior. Twinges of it pop up now and then, but at least now I know what it is and I can let it go.
How about you ? Do you feel like you’re beating your head against a wall, getting nowhere fast ? Is it because you’re trying to control something that’s not yours to control ? Are you open to surrendering to it ?
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 