8IGGER, 8ETTER, 8EAUTY
PATIENCE

The white iris is a symbol of PATIENCE.

Remember when we talked about words
and the personal charges that we create around them,
based on society’s defintitons or our own past experience?

WHAT DOES PATIENCE MEAN TO YOU?

For me, it is, as the expression says, a virtue.
It feels warm and positive. However, when I
looked up the definition, I was surprised to see
a definition that made me feel very negative:

“The ability to suffer without complaining
or becoming annoyed.” Wow.

So, all this time, when we were taught
that patience is a virue, has that been yet
another toxic program, telling us we should put
others ahead of ourselves and suffer in silence
while we live a life of people-pleasing?

Of course, I’m going to stick with the positive
definition – being able to stay calm during difficulties
and wait them out without stress – and now this word
actually has another positve charge for me.
Now, the word patience, will also remind me
that I have the ability to consciously choose
a positive perspective over a negative one.

Now, I set the intention that, every time I
get the urge to people-please, I will have the
patience to take a step back and to choose to 
please myself instead!

8IGGER, 8ETTER, 8EAUTY
CHOICES

Today, I chose to give myself permission
to rest, relax and do some colouring.

I chose to explore a new technique,
drawing curved lines in every shape I had
created in my original neurographics design.

I chose to give myself the freedom to reserve
judgment on whether I even liked this technique
until I finished the whole thing.

I chose to feel excited, the whole way through,
about the process and allowing myself the patience
to wait and see what I felt about it once it was done.

When I saw the finished product, I decided
that I liked it and I chose to make this piece
a mandala about patience and positive choice.

Even though this is not a mandala in the sense
of being symmetrical art, it is a mandala in the sense
that I consciously imbued it with meaning as I created it.

Now, every time I look at it, it remings me
of my power to choose patience and make
positive choices!

DOUBLE MANDALA
8EAUTY FUEL!

Choose this new colouring page,
or any other one from past weeks,
and create your first DOUBLE MANDALA.

A Doublle Mandala is both a symmetrical
art piece AND a piece that you have
consciously imbued with a significant meaning.

Mandalas are used as spritual growth tools
that help us focus our attention, achieve balance
and act as physicsl representations of our goals.

Which goal or 888eauty concept will you choose
for your mandala?

Feel free to take your time with this colouring page.
Maybe it will be something that you colour
a little bit at a time, each time focusing your energy
on the attainment of your goal and/or pondering
what needs to shift in order for it to become reality.

ENJOY!!!