A while ago, I wrote about how you need to “be prepared” when it comes to planning your day out if you have a migraine. As part of the post, I was umming and ahhing about whether to include a photo of my emergency medical alert keyring. I took the photo… spent time blotting out my contact details… then started to catastrophize that some anti-migraine-blog-person might use digital-witchcraft to stalk me… I know, I know… it’s crazy but unfortunately random bouts of paranoia are a migraine symptom (for anxious-me anyway).
The point is, as I was playing around with the image, I kept noticing that as well as my medi-alert fob, my keyring also has a sky-blue disk covered in paisley patterns on it. And the more I looked at that sky blue paisley disc.. the more I started to imagine my healing mandala on my keyring…
This started my domino-thinking brain going, and I began to imagine all the things I could put my healing mandala on as Christmas presents for the extended family… would that be wrong!?!?
Ha Ha… here… Merry Christmas, may you be mindful!!
And whilst I know I should have left it there… I couldn’t help myself… so, off topic we go…
[Image source: screen shots from Zazzle]
There are a gazillion different places that allow you to customize items with your own image. I already have a mandala-mug, but I also quite liked designing anything that included a ’round’ design which the mandala fitted right into, such as the jacket-pin or the fridge magnet. I don’t love the pale timber surround that was the only option on the wall clock, but I did like the idea of combining a clock with healing… any time is healing time!
Anyway – if you have something – ANYTHING – that says “healing” to you (perhaps it’s a mantra, an affirmation, an inspirational postcard on your fridge, a figurine beside your bed), consider taking a photo of it and turning it into your healing “logo”. Then think about whether you could put it on a cushion or a coffee mug: Good morning! Rise and shine and let’s start healing in a super-personalized way today!
[You could even be a little bit sneaky, and have it made, then leave it somewhere strategic for your family to find so that they’ll gift it to you for Christmas… which is exactly ONE month away – eek!]
Take care colorfully, Linda x
[PS – I’m not entrepreneurial enough to set up a Mindful Migraine Blog Shop, but if you think your water would taste better out of a healing-mandala-water-bottle and that it will remind you that you’re not alone on your healing journey, send me an email from the contact page, and I’ll send you the mandala-image so you can make one yourself!!]
The Mindful Migraine 
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