Letting Go
Our focus this week — July 16–22: “Stepping Into the Unknown”
Today’s MotD: Letting Go. Letting go of anything is probably our biggest challenge in life. We get comfortable with what is, even if it’s painful in some way. It’s that old saying “better the devil we know than the one we don’t know”. Essentially, it’s the fear of the unknown. Well, quess what, were being encouraged to let go anyway.
Let go of limiting beliefs, self-sabotage, self-deprecation, fears, anything, really, that keeps us from living our full potential while existing in our limiting human forms.
How do we let go ? This is a question that has bogged me down for years. Recently, though, the idea of monkey bars came to mind. And that in order to move forward on them, we have to let go of one rung and reach forward for another…left side, right side.
That’s when it occurred to me that in order to grab hold of something we want, we have to let go of something we’re holding onto. For instance if we want to write a book, we need to let go of whatever limiting beliefs we have about writing it, so that we can grab hold of actually writing the book. We can’t hold onto both things at the same time, so which one are we going to release ? Hmmm ?
We can start by re-framing the limiting belief(s). If our limiting belief is “No one is going to want to read my book”, then reframe it as something like: “Someone is going to want to read my book”. Other reframings: “Someone is going to want to buy my painting”, “Someone is going to want to hire me”, and my favorite: “People are wanting for what I have to offer.”
How about you ? What’s your biggest challenge about letting go ? What’s one thing you know you need to let go of but have yet to do so ? Why is that ?
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 