25-260 It’s Okay to Receive Help

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Mandala of the Day 25-260 It's Okay to Receive Help — after. painted front side of Puzzle Piece No. 260 with pastel colors of yellow, magenta, green, blue, and purple plus some yellow ochre

It’s Okay to Receive Help

Our focus this week — Sep 17-23: “Letting Someone Help”

Today’s MotD: It’s Okay to Receive Help. For this week we look at letting others help us. We start with giving ourselves permission to receive the help. Most of us would rather be able to do things for ourselves for a myriad of reasons: don’t want to feel indebted, don’t want to look helpless, don’t want to appear to be stupid, don’t want to appear weak, don’t want to have to show someone how they need to help me—when it would be faster for me to just do it myself…and so on.

I know for me, from an early age, I determined (mostly subconsciously) that I’m more lovable and worthy the more I can do things for myself and figure things out for myself. The less I bother my parents the better. That mentality carried me through Catholic school where I made sure I learned things quickly so I didn’t bother the nuns with “stupid” questions.

To this day I still catch myself not wanting to receive help for some of the same reasons I listed above. Intellectually I know this is a ridiculous habit and deprives me of allowing people to show how much they care about me and want to help any way they can.

Ironically, I love being able to help other people. It gives me great joy when it’s accepted and it makes a positive difference in their lives. So this week I’m accepting the challenge to allow myself to receive help from others.

How about you ? How are you with receiving help from others ? Would you rather do things yourself ? Or would you welcome all offers of help ?

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:

Mandala of the Day 25-260 It's Okay to Receive Help — before. front side of Puzzle Piece No. 260
Mandala of the Day 25-260 It's Okay to Receive Help — before. back side of Puzzle Piece No. 260

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.

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My Mission: connecting with our Inner Light in delightful, inspiring ways For me, creating mandalas is more than just coloring pretty patterns in a circle. I do it because my spiritual evolution and creativity require it of me. My mandala designs come about within an active meditative state, connected with my higher self, my spiritual guides and nature spirits. Together, we bring into form, mandala art the allows me to re-connect with my own inner peace and joy, letting me explore and expand my own creative spirit to however far and in whatever direction I want to take it. As part of my own spiritual journey, I encourage, and hopefully inspire, others to explore their own creativity, to help them re-connect with their own inner peace and joy. As a means to that end, I make all of my mandalas available for people to color. Why should I have all the fun?

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