25-155 Staying Open

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Mandala of the Day 25-155 Staying Open — after. painted front side of Puzzle Piece No. 346 with rainbow-like colors

Staying Open

This week we focus on “An Open Heart”. Today’s MotD encourages us to, as best we can, open our hearts despite all that may have contributed to its closing. The more our hearts are closed, the more we miss out on experiencing life to the fullest. The more our hearts are open, the more we live from our Authentic Self, without the filters and limiting beliefs.

I know that for me, I’ve been gradually opening my heart after years of shutting it down from major childhood woundings and trama and several disastrous relationships. Living numb is no longer an options for me. With lots of therapy and continued self help I’m allowing myself to live my life more fully. I have a ways to go and maybe that’s just part of the deal—it’s a life-long process.

I’m reminded of Brené Brown’s take on shutting down (greatly paraphrasing) how we can’t selectively shut our hearts down, when we shut one part down, we shut it all down. So our challenge becomes allowing our hearts to gradually open and stay open…even if it’s only for moments at a time.

How about you ? How open is your heart ? Do you find yourself feeling jaded by what seems like a cynical world ? Can you allow your heart to open ?

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:

Mandala of the Day 25-155 Staying Open — before. front side of Puzzle Piece No. 346
Mandala of the Day 25-155 Staying Open — before. back side of Puzzle Piece No. 346

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.

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My Mission: connecting with our Inner Light in delightful, inspiring ways For me, creating mandalas is more than just coloring pretty patterns in a circle. I do it because my spiritual evolution and creativity require it of me. My mandala designs come about within an active meditative state, connected with my higher self, my spiritual guides and nature spirits. Together, we bring into form, mandala art the allows me to re-connect with my own inner peace and joy, letting me explore and expand my own creative spirit to however far and in whatever direction I want to take it. As part of my own spiritual journey, I encourage, and hopefully inspire, others to explore their own creativity, to help them re-connect with their own inner peace and joy. As a means to that end, I make all of my mandalas available for people to color. Why should I have all the fun?

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