Be Yourself
Our focus this week — Oct 15-22: “Self-Acceptance”
Today’s MotD: Be Yourself. We’re encouraged to be ourselves, which seems rather strange since who else would we be ? However if we were to delve deep within our psyche are we REALLY being ourselves or are we
the selves our parents told us to be,
the selves our friends want us to be,
the selves are co-workers want us to be,
the selves our children want us to be,
the selves society wants us to be ?
Part of self-acceptance, our topic for this week, is taking a good look at ourselves so that we can assess who we are, what we value, and what we are all about.
This reminds me of the movie “Runaway Bride” with Julia Roberts. Yes, I know it’s a rom-com and some would see it as light-weight fare. And yet, it beautifully demonstrates how her character, unknowingly, changes who she is and her preferences based on her current future husband. For instance, she always orders her eggs the same as they do. When this comes into her awareness later in the movie, she makes every style of eggs you can think of and proceeds to taste each one to find out which way SHE prefers her eggs. (You’ll have to watch the movie to find out which one she prefers most).
The point of sharing this is to give us a starting point in looking at “self-acceptance”. Where are we making choices based on what others expect of us or want us to make ? Are we being true to ourselves or are we appeasing someone else to make them feel better about THEMselves.
As we look at self-acceptance this week, we start with noticing when or if we’re following someone else’s lead as to how we are “being ourselves” or are we being truly ourselves ?
How about you ? How do you prefer your eggs ? Do you like them the way everyone else does just to fit in or however they make them OR do you declare your preference ? Or probably a better question might be: do you even like or eat eggs ?
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 