Pilgrimage of Healing and Consciousness
For 2025, we’re embarking on a 52-week pilgrimage of inward healing, growth, and self-discovery…and ultimately, peace…regardless of whether the healing is related to addiction, grief, or any other challenge we seek to overcome.
The twelfth “mile” of our pilgrimage encourages us to have an open mind about circumstances, situations, people, and most importantly about ourselves. It serves us best to drop assumptions and judgments so we can open our minds to learning something new (about others and ourselves), recognizing opportunities, and gaining new perspectives.
For instance, if we’ve established for ourselves that we “can’t do something”, well then we just closed our minds to ever making it a possibility. For me, I’ve heard myself say to myself and others that “I can’t draw animals and people”. Because of that, I’ve closed my mind to ever being able to draw them, including exploring any opportunities to learn—as if to say “why bother?”
My challenge becomes allowing myself to open my mind to the possibility. I know what I have to do; I’ve even bought online classes that I have yet to take! It’s going to take a mindset change on my part. Writing this all out makes it seem so silly to me and yet I’m amazed by the power of having a closed mind—it’s keeping me from something I truly want to do.
So right, right now, I’m declaring my new mantra: Even though it feels like it would be a struggle, I allow myself to learn how to draw animals and people—I can handle it.
How about you? Is there something you’ve struggled with that you’ve told yourself it’s something you can’t do? Are you ready to have an open mind about allowing yourself to be able to do it or at least try?
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Peace & Blessings,
Maureen
The Mandala Lady
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Creating Mandalas 🔆 Awakening Inner Harmony
About the 2025 Mandalas of the Week
Each week I will create a new mandala design to color, along with my coloring of it, and a weekly message and prompt for us to continue on our quest throughout the year. All of which is inspired by Melody Beattie’s book entitled “52 Weeks of Consciousness Contact”.
I will be breaking down each week’s topic into daily insights and images (inspired by Melody’s book) on my blog site: MandalaoftheDay.com where I’ll be creating/building one giant mandala (48”x48”), one puzzle piece of it each day.
Mandala of the Week 