Compassion vs Overcaring
Our focus this week — Dec 10-16: “Compassion”
Today’s MotD: Compassion vs Overcaring. With compassion, we’re encouraged to know where to draw the line. Too much compassion and understanding towards someone can lead to them not being held accountable for their actions. Not enough compassion and understanding towards someone or even ourselves, can lead to not being allowed to feel the feelings they or we are having.
Essentially the idea of compassion is to offer enough support to help them through whatever they’re going through while allowing them process what they need to process. Us doing all the work for them or trying to gloss over it, fails to give them the opportunity to grow from and through their experience.
Metaphorically speaking, we can be their training wheels, but they have to ride the bike. Once they can maintain their balance and ride with ease, we can remove the training wheels (ourselves) from the bike and the rider is free to move forward on their journey.
How about you ? Are you able to discern the line between compassion and overcaring ? Do you tend to lean one way more than the other ? When it comes to showing compassion towards yourself, do you allow yourself to feel what you feel ?
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
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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.
Mandala of the Day 