Have you ever been prone to procrastination?
I know that I’ve been guilty of it many times.
But I’ve come to realise that procrastination isn’t always bad. In fact, I’ve come to see it as an opportunity, rather than something to beat myself up about.
Let me explain…
This week’s Inspiration Mandala is titled “A Safety Buoy in a Sea of Change”.
This week’s mandala was inspired by a friend’s request for some support during the upcoming planetary upheaval over the coming months. She was aware that there will be a lot of ‘mutable’ planets this year, which means that there will be a lot of shifting rather than things being fixed. She wanted support to be able to move with the changes rather than being fearful and clinging to what was. Her preferred attitude was “We’re on a bumpy journey and it’s a bit scary, but there’s something exciting and inspiring ahead.” She used the metaphor of having a safety buoy in a sea of change.
I am not an astrology expert by any means. A lot of it goes over my head. So I just sat down with the intent of creating a ‘a safety buoy in a sea of change’.
This is the mandala that emerged from following my intuition.
Here we are at Week 3 of my mandala play adventure!
After having such an experimental and rewarding time in Week 2, I began to face some creative blocks in this week. I was starting to feel scared that I wasn’t going to be as innovative or as exciting as I was the previous week.
The big insight that I came across this week related to facing my creative fears, taking risks and allowing myself to be vulnerable.
When I started this play adventure, the reason that I decided to post my completed image on Facebook was to create some form of accountability for myself. I really wanted to make sure that I would create a new mandala each day. And it definitely worked as a motivator for me, especially when I was feeling less than enthused, or had left it as the last thing on my ‘to do’ list for the day. (Luckily I always ended up enjoying it once I started.) So it was a positive, knowing that there were people that would see what I had created at the end of the day.
But, it was also scary to think that there were going to be people who would see what I’d created at the end of the day. What if the mandala isn’t any good? What if people don’t like it? What if it gets boring? What if people dislike my mandalas so much that they ‘de-friend’ me? and so it goes… Continue reading