Releasing
Our focus this week — Aug 20-26: “Colors”
Today’s MotD: Releasing. When we experience negative emotions (anger, jealousy, resentment, frustration, and the like), we are encouraged to release them in a healthy way so that we can move towards forgiveness and goodwill. Otherwise, these emotions cement into our psyche making it challenging to see beyond them. Everything will be filtered through these cemented emotions, forever keeping us from our joy.
Chances are we maintain these negative emotions out of some form of feeling justified because maybe we feel we were being unfairly treated in some way or hurt in some way. Unfortunately, there’s nothing in the “Life on Earth Rule Book” that says everything has to be fair (this is a challenging (and annoying) concept for me).
Sometimes when I’m caught up in anger or resentment, my husband will usually ask me: do you want to be right or do you want to be happy ? To which I cheekily tell him, I’m happy when I’m right. Anyway, this is where we have to get over ourselves. In the big scheme of things is it really worth it to hold onto these feelings that block us from our peace and joy ?
Probably one of the biggest life lessons I’ve had to work through is the idea of waiting for people to apologize or acknowledge how they hurt me…especially from some important people in my life. Because of that I’ve held onto some resentment towards them and found it difficult to be my true self when I was around them.
A couple of them have since passed on…without offering any apologies. I’ve realized that it’s pointless to wait for an apology from people especially when, more than likely, it’s not even in their awareness to do so. For me, I focused on how I loved them and let go of the resentment in order for me to be at peace with myself and with them.
How about you ? When dealing with negative emotions, to you allow yourself to release them in a healthy way ? Or do you hold onto them, feeling justified in doing so ? What would it take for you to let go ?
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 