We See Things as We Are
Our focus this week — Dec 3-9: “Perspective”
Today’s MotD: We See Things as We Are. How we see things is based on how WE are, not necessarily how they actually are. And how we see things right now, can change how we see them a year from now, and then again two years from now. And it could very well be that nothing has changed about a situation but how we see or interpret the situation can change because WE have changed in some way. Maybe we have a better understanding of the situation or had an experience that gave us a different point of view to the situation.
For instance, as I was coming into my teenage and early adult years, my perspective of my mother was that she was never happy about anything I did, I was never good enough in her eyes. For my father, I saw him as someone who needed to be treated with care so as to keep him from being triggered into one of his rages. With both of them I saw them as two unhappy people who should have gotten divorced.
When I started going to therapy in my mid-20s through my early 30s, I started seeing them and my experience of them in a whole new light. The stories I told didn’t change but how I saw them, how I perceived them, and how I interpreted them changed.
In one particular session I complained about me having to change with regard to my relationship with my parents. “Why do I have go change ?” I begged of my therapist. “Why aren’t then being made to change ?”. “Because you can. It’s not even in their awareness to change,” she patiently replied. I had to stop for a moment to take in what she just said. I gained a major shift in my perspective of them and our relationship. A few years more of therapy, my dad happened to say in passing one day, “You’ve gotten a lot better. You used to be so angry all the time.” If he only knew.
As we spend the next seven days exploring perspective, we are encouraged to have an open mind and a willingness to see things from different perspectives as part of our healing and quest for well-being-ness.
How about you ? Are you open to seeing things from different perspectives ? What stories do you tell about yourself could be told from a different perspective ? If you’re stuck in one perspective, in what way(s) could you see it differently ?
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
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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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