Be Present
This week we focus on “Presence”. Today’s MotD encourages us to be present…probably the most challenging thing we humans struggle to achieve…at least it is for me. The key reason to being present is that it’s the ONLY TIME we can actually DO ANYTHING. We can remember the past and wish we had done things differently or we can ponder the future and wonder what’s going to happen…yet only NOW can we DO something.
The other component to being present is staying focused on what we’re doing now, not what we’re going to be doing 10 minutes from now and not what we did yesterday.
For instance, in creating this post I almost obliterated yesterday’s MotD post. To keep these posts looking consistent day-after-day, I always duplicate the previous day’s post and edit with today’s content. Well today, while adding today’s content rather than being 100% focused, I was thinking about how I was going to edit the time-lapse video of today’s puzzle piece. Just as I was about to save the post, I WOKE up and realized I was editing yesterday’s post and not creating today’s!
From Melody Beattie’s perspective, she also encourages us to be present with each emotion we may be feeling rather than stuffing them down, ignoring them, or bulldozing right through them. Our emotions are telling us something about ourselves and letting us know that some part of us is needing our attention.
How about you ? How present are you throughout your day ? Ever wonder how, when driving, how you got from one place to another without noticing anything along the way ? Ever misplace something (keys, wallet, phone, etc) because you weren’t fully present when you put them down ?
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 