Make Peace With Yourself
Our focus this week — Oct 15-22: “Self-Acceptance”
Today’s MotD: Be Yourself. We’re encouraged to make peace with ourselves. Stop wishing or trying to be someone we’re not. Instead start accepting who we are, where we are right now. It doesn’t mean we can’t change, evolve, and/or expand from this place. It means to accept everything about ourselves as we are right now…knowing we have the option to change if we truly desire. Making peace with ourselves is also knowing that we don’t have to change, that we can be okay with the way we are, foibles and all (human), right now.
Unfortunately we tend to say things to ourselves like: “I’ll be okay with myself when I’ve released 40 pounds” or “I’ll be okay with myself when I finish this project” or “I’ll be okay with myself when I’ve made a particular amount of money”, and so on.
Making peace with ourselves is accepting how and who we are right now in this moment. If we want to be different, then we can think of full-on self-acceptance as a starting point. If we want to change, we need to know where we are right now so we can determine the next step or two in the direction we want to go…accepting that we are a work in progress, accepting ourselves along the way.
For me it means: looking in the mirror and being okay with the “morning sun shining on my face really showing my age”; getting on the scale each morning knowing that while the number is not ideal, it’s at least heading in the direction I want it to go…and I’m okay with that; it’s accepting that I have hearing loss along with tinnitus, being grateful for having hearings aids, and being okay with wearing them because they allow me to hear and engage with others better.
How about you ? What’s one thing you can accept about yourself that you wish was different ? Is this something you can change ? If so, can you accept where you are while you head in the direction you want to go ? If not, can you be okay with yourself about it ?
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 