Acknowledge Fear
Our focus this week — Aug 13-19: “Be Not Afraid”
Today’s MotD: Acknowledge Fear. This week we look at being vulnerable and brave. Since we tend to want to avoid being afraid, we also tend to avoid having a real, full life. As a first step towards creating a more fulfilling life, we’re encouraged to acknowledge our fear(s). Instead of running away from them, let’s face them.
To overcome them or at least be able to work with them, we need to admit we have them. By acknowledging them, it opens the door for us to heal or process through them. We can begin with easier fears and build up to the big ones.
For this week, and definitely beyond, we’re encouraged to adopt a mantra that happens to be the title of a book by Susan Jeffers, PhD: “Feel the fear and do it anyway” (highly recommend—not an affiliate). Another mantra from Dr. Jeffers that helps ? “We can handle it”…with “it” being whatever it is we fear.
Since I was about 8, I had a paralyzing fear of heights. It kept me from participating in anything that involved heights over about 10 feet. Then in my 40s we planned a trip to Europe. Tired of missing out on so much fun and cool stuff because of my fear, I vowed to overcome it so that I could go up the Eiffel Tower AND enjoy it. It took six weeks of hypnotherapy. Walking out on top of the tower was the most joyful experience I’ve ever had without that fear. Every once in a while a twinge of that fear will kick in and then I remember, “oh yeah, I got this.”
When it comes to fears, probably our biggest fears are more emotional-based and a bit more challenging to uncover: fear of losing something or someone, being wrong, feeling stupid, getting in trouble or yelled at, being disappointed, being a disappointment, feeling like we don’t belong, and so on. Of everything on this list, ALL of them apply to me on some level or to some degree.
This week, we’re encouraged to allow ourselves to take a peak at our fears, to let them come forward. So much that we can learn about ourselves can be found in our fears…they just want to help us if we’re willing to listen to them.
How about you ? Are you open to acknowledging your fears ? What are some of your more obvious fears ? What are some of your not-so-obvious fears ?
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 