Finding Balance
This week we focus on “An Open Heart”. Today’s MotD encourages us, as we open our hearts after having it closed for so long, to find a healthy balance between being healthfully open/vulnerable and being consciously closed so as to not allow people to walk all over us. It takes practice…and trusting our inner knowingness to help us get better at it.
For the longest time I was closed off to everyone. I had been hurt so often that it didn’t feel safe to be open, vulnerable, or authentic. Over time, I’ve been able to gradually open up. The key for me was being able to recognize when I went too far one way or another. From there I could make the adjustments.
How about you ? Are you able to discern when to be vulnerable and when to hold back ? Do you tend to do one extreme or the other ? What helps you to better discern the two ?
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 