Feel the Feels
Our focus this week — Aug 20-26: “Colors”
Today’s MotD: Feel the Feels. We start a new week with a new theme: “Colors”. To quote from this section of Melody Beattie’s book “52 Weeks of Conscious Contact” “All experiences are rich colors that make a full life.” Some of us would prefer a more black and white (with a hint of grey) emotional life…how boring would that be, though ? Thus we are encouraged to allow ourselves to feel ALL the feels…to have a vibrant, colorful emotional life.
We’re also reminded, per Brené Brown, that if we shut down one emotion, we shut them all down to varying degrees. It’s not like a buffet where we can pick and choose which emotions we want to have…no…we come with a full set, with only one on/off switch.
I suppose for most of us, if we really looked at it, we could easily figure out which emotions we’d like to do without and which ones we’d like to keep. Since that’s not an option, then it behooves us to look at each of these emotions that we would like to eliminate and ask ourselves: why ?
Similar to what we did with our fears last week. We acknowledged them, looked at them, listened to them, and so on. We’re encouraged to do the same with our least favorite emotions.
How about you ? Which emotion(s) would you like not to feel ? Why is that ? What is it about each of these emotions that turns you off to them ?
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 