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When a person has been through a traumatic emotional experience, it can take a very long time for them to heal. People often rely upon medication but there are also other positive ways to help you to heal the disturbed feelings that may still be lingering inside after a devastating experience, such as separation, divorce and death of someone close to you.
Visiting a counsellor is another way of accessing the pain that a person maybe harbouring inside them or talking with a close friend or family member. Whatever you choose to do, it will take time to unwrap the many layers that need to be worked through before the deepest hurt is released and the wounds start to heal and a Mandala can help you to peel away some of your pain.
You don’t need to be good at art to benefit from a creative holistic experience. The creation of a personal Mandala can both theraputic and healing.
A Mandala takes the shape of a circle and by filling it with colours and symbols that represent how you are feeling at the time of it’s creation you are expressing self awareness, emotion and spirituality from within.
Making a personal Mandala can be like a journey where you are working out in your mind who you are and what is important to you. You may draw a Mandala one day and though it may appear balanced the marks may show some negativity. If you work on your Mandala again a few days later you may be able to explore in your mind ways of balancing out these negative emotions and resolving them with positive ideas to make you feel happier and better balanced.
To create your own Mandala you will need to find the space and privacy where you can allow yourself to relax first of all and then to open up the channel for your thoughts to spill out as a creative image.
There are many good books that will show you how to focus on your inner feelings by creating the kind of spiritual environment required for this kind of holistic experience. Meditation is one way that you can relax and free your mind and allow yourself to bring out your subconscious thoughts.
Music can also help you to create a spiritual environment in which you can allow your feelings to roll out onto paper. When you are in a relaxed state allow your mind to focus on a couple of words that you will have chosen carefully that may describe how you are feeling at the present time. Starting at the centre of your circle fill it in using crayons, paints, chalks collage whatever you feel comfortable using, selecting colours that may symbolise emotions and use images if you wish to represent your inner story or just use shapes and colour to represent your thoughts.
Mandala’s can be quite magical as they can help us to express what we might be unable to say but give us a way to express how we feel through an art form.
If you repeat your Mandala exercise regularly and begin to add positive words to each exercise such as love – caring – compassion – consideration and also releasing words such as peace – forgiveness – harmony – maybe reconciliation, then after a length of time you should feel more positive about yourself and your future and you will find it easier to lay the past to rest.
If you try only this one activity as a different approach to healing, then I’m sure if you persevere with it, you will be surprised at the positive results you’ll achieve.
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