23-09 Responsible

The Mandala Lady,

Download to Color Section 09 of the 2023 Mandala of the Year

Continuing with honoring the Chinese Year of the Rabbit which started on January 22, Section 9 of the 2023 Mandala of the Year is now available. This month’s characteristic associated with Rabbit energy is “responsible”. With this month’s section of the MotY, we are encouraged to take 100% responsibility for our lives. Yes things can happen to us that are out of our control however we are 100% responsible for HOW WE RESPOND to them.

Author Jack Canfield of the “Chicken Soup for the Soul” books and “The Success Principle” states that “If you want to create the life of your dreams, then you are going to have to take 100% responsibility for your life as well. That means giving up all your excuses, all your victim stories, all the reasons why you can’t and why you haven’t up until now, and all your blaming of outside circumstances. You have to give them all up forever.”

Yikes! Tall order while also being spot on. From WhatsMySpiritAnimal.com regarding the Rabbit and responsibility, it states; “Rabbit-born people appreciate manners and sincerity. They will give 100% when they commit to something. … In Business, these people are persistent and generally achieve admirable success.

“Freedom makes a huge requirement
of every human being.
With freedom
comes responsibility.
For the person who is
unwilling to grow up,
the person who does not want to
carry [their] own weight,
this is a frightening prospect.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

An Invitation

I invite you to color along with me this year as part of what I’m calling “The Year of Self-Exploration and Expansion” with all of my “Mandalas of the ___” (day, week, month, year). If you’re interested more of a self-exploration approach to coloring, check out my “Coloring Mandalas as Meditation”.

Feel free to share you colorings on social media with the hashtag #2023MotY. I’d love to see your colorings. I’ll be posting my colorings on the MandalaoftheYear.com blog as well as on FB and IG (@themandalalady)

Blessings,

Maureen
The Mandala Lady
All Things Mandalas

ps: I would love to see your colorings and your progress. if you post these at all on social media use the hashtag #MOTY2023 I’ll be posting mine on FB (themandalalady) and IG (@themandalalady).

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My Mission: connecting with our Inner Light in delightful, inspiring ways For me, creating mandalas is more than just coloring pretty patterns in a circle. I do it because my spiritual evolution and creativity require it of me. My mandala designs come about within an active meditative state, connected with my higher self, my spiritual guides and nature spirits. Together, we bring into form, mandala art the allows me to re-connect with my own inner peace and joy, letting me explore and expand my own creative spirit to however far and in whatever direction I want to take it. As part of my own spiritual journey, I encourage, and hopefully inspire, others to explore their own creativity, to help them re-connect with their own inner peace and joy. As a means to that end, I make all of my mandalas available for people to color. Why should I have all the fun?

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