Get In Touch With Your Feelings
Our focus this week — Aug 20-26: “Colors”
Today’s MotD: Get In Touch With Your Feelings. If we’ve blocked or numbed our negative emotions for any length of time, we may not have noticed that we’ve also numbed our positive emotions.
“We cannot selectively numb emotion. If we numb the dark, we numb the light. If we take the edge off pain and discomfort, we are, by default, taking the edge off joy, love, belonging, and the other emotions that give meaning to our lives.”
– Brené Brown in “Dare to Lead”
That’s why with today’s MotD we’re encouraged to get in touch with our feelings. How ? Number one it requires being in the present moment, allowing ourselves to be present in our bodies, and then giving our emotions permission to slowly come to the surface.
At first we can take an observer’s point of view. Just notice which emotions start to show up and maybe look at them like a scientist responding their experiment(s): “that’s interesting” or “I wasn’t expecting that” or “hello, what’s this?”.
Activities such as journaling, coloring mandalas, exercise, yoga, walking, watching a good movie, reading a good book, and the like are some of the ways we can use to coax our numbed emotions back to life.
Setting up a safe environment, allowing ourselves to be vulnerable, with a positive intention of truly wanting our feelings to come forth, allows these emotions to journey forward towards our recovery, healing, and ultimately joy and belonging.
How about you ? Have you noticed that because you may have numbered yourself to negative emotions, you’ve also numbed yourself to the positive ones ? Are you ready to get in touch with your feelings ? Are you ready to give yourself the gift of feeling again ?
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 