Tell Someone How You Feel
Our focus this week — Aug 20-26: “Colors”
Today’s MotD: Tell Someone How You Feel. We are encouraged to tell people how we feel (unless we fear for our safety) rather than keeping it to ourselves, especially feelings of hurt, anger, resentment, and the like. Otherwise these feelings fester and eat away at us and in the end who’s the worse for it ? We are. And here’s the irony, there’s an excellent possibility that the person we claim to be responsible for our hurt, anger, resentment, and the like hasn’t a clue that we feel the way we do.
When I was about 10 or 11, I was a bully to my then youngest brother. My oldest brother and I had been the only siblings in the house for at least three years until he invaded our space. After a heated lecture from my mother, I let up and focused on helping him rather than hurting him.
Years later, after several years of therapy, I realized I held onto a lot of guilt because of the way I treated him. As adults he and I have a great relationship. So one day, to appease my guilt, I approached him and apologized for the way I treated him when we were kids. He looked at me confused. Turns out he didn’t even remember any of it.
While it didn’t seem to make a difference to him, for me, telling him how I felt, lifted the heavy guilt I was carrying around. Talking about how we feel may not resolve whatever feelings we may have but at the very least it’s a starting point towards some form of resolution.
How about you ? Are you able to tell people how you feel ? What inspires you to do so ? What holds you back ?
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 