Last night marked the first Full Moon of 2022 and here’s what it could mean for you and me :
It’s the perfect time to start thinking about what you want to let go of or release from 2021.
Ask yourself: what’s holding you back? What do you need to shake free of so you can move forward on your spiritual path?
I was woken up from my sleep at 5:45 am to go and watch her set from the balcony and I witnessed this phenomenon and felt very blessed and overwhelmed with joy 🤩
This year I’m going to focus on what brings me true and release anything that brings me down or weighs me down.
I’m letting go of those modalities and practices that helped others but did not bring my soul the true Joy and sparkle ✨ ✨ ✨ ✨
What are you ready to let go?
Decluttering challenge starts today ! Join me on a 21 day challenge to decluttering your home !
Mandala is a Sanskrit word that loosely translates to mean “circle” or “center.”
We often associate the word mandala with the circular designs that have repeating colors, shapes, and patterns radiating from the center. Mandalas can be precise, carefully measured, geometric, and perfectly symmetrical, or in contrast, free flowing, organic, and asymmetrical. Mandalas are often drawn in circles but they can also be drawn in squares.
Hindu and Buddhist Traditions
In the Hindu and Buddhist traditions, mandalas are an object of meditation to aid in one’s spiritual development. The imagery depicts the universe and the symbols represent one’s spiritual journey, the cycles of birth-life-death, and the interconnectedness of all living things.
The Hindu tradition focuses on the realization of the self as one with the divine. Whereas in the Buddhist tradition, the emphasis is on the potential for enlightenment (Buddha-nature) and the pictures within the mandalas illustrate the obstacles that one has to overcome in order to cultivate compassion and wisdom. Drawing mandalas in this tradition follows strict rules.
Mandalas help you to reconnect to your nature and the earth & cosmic nature. Perhaps the most important thing is that mandalas are a communication vehicle or tool for connecting to GOD,your higher self or your inner voice or the source-in other words that which is greater than yourself.
Several people use mandalas for meditation and contemplation , others use them for therapy and healing. Some people color in mandalas in order to feel relaxed and centre themselves and bring order within the chaos.
Mandala art for therapy and healing
Carl Jung – The renowned swiss psychologist extensively used mandalas with his patients,who would create them as a means to connect with their subconscious , enabling them to work through their issues. For a period , Jung created a mandala every day – an activity that he credits with his personal transformation and healing. Many psychologists like me and therapists in cancer centres today use mandalas as preventive healthcare and form of palliative therapy.
Exhibitions and Art for Cancer Care patients
This is me participating as a Mandala Artist during the ArtforCan Care exhibition exhibiting my healing mandalas. Both of them got sold and went to lovely souls.
I undertake Emotional management and creative problem solving skills through mandala art workshops
Did you know facilitating a mandala art workshop is equally immersive process and so therapeutic to the mind and to the soul as it is for the participants !
It gives immense satisfaction when I started on my journey- I never knew I would do art and design thinking workshops that was probably my calling to combine spiritual art and human emotions design and mandala art to help professionals and leaders to discover themselves better and their strengths through this method !
I feel super excited and grateful when I see these throwback pics and memories that is a reassurance to anyone who had never explored facilitation before !!
From a recent workshop with L&OD Sr folks on Gratitude Mandala art
I was into hard core digital biz operations and marketing roles and never imagined I could be doing something like this !
Today, as a thanksgiving week , I want to share six tips or hacks from my art workshops – how to manage self emotions through mandala art and see if it helps you !!
1-Think of a goal or situation at hand
2-Now evaluate in your mind or through journaling whether this can be solved by your own resources or you need someone’s help to understand or solve it ?
3-Now pause , reflect deeper and see whether it is a real problem or it was perceived that way? Is it a reality or was it a creation of your mind or emotions ?
4- Now draw a mandala or color a mandala and forget about the problem and situation
5-After colouring or drawing – check if you had any passing thought or feeling that aroused a solution or creative way to solve the problem / situation ?
6-Note the thoughts or feelings down in a paper or diary and sleep over it !
You will notice you may get inspirations over the day or week to the same situation or problem as you detach or divert yourself and your mind from this situation ! That’s the magic of creatively solving problems and staying detached !
Are you geared with your “Inner-preneur mindset & skill-sets” before you become an “Entrepreneur” !
Meditation for an IOT Analytics startup – Inner Engineering or Inner-Preneur
So many engineers and Software product / service led entrepreneurs undertake e-learning courses and certifications for building humanised robots & cool apps & develop software.I realised if you want to build for humans then understand the human psyche and energy psychology. #Spiritual Technology is the art of seeding the ‘energy in the mind’ before you set out to design or code anything in the external world.
“Begin with the end in the mind” – 7 Habits of Highly Effective people
During 4 years of my entrepreneurial journey,I have been able to accomplish at least a dozen energy psychology related and holistic wellness & 21st Century aligned skills certifications than I had ever imagined in my life !
The biggest lesson learnt so far is to Get your ‘inner’ emotional issues and mental strength and resilience working as an ally for you , before you get out there and be the change in the world! Time to upgrade your minds software & install new Program codes!
Expressions and reflections from a participant of Virtual Mandala workshop
Mandalas also help in re engineering the mindsets and change the code of your DNA software ! Talk to me today to explore this further!
How Mandala Art Therapy Blends in with Other therapeutic treatments?
Mandala Art therapy can serve as an additional therapy for the residential treatment. The parts that are affected by the brain during any art therapy are different from other therapeutic methods. It opens up the creative lobe in the brain. Which is relaxing, fun, and soothes you from inside. It can be an excellent end-of-the-day activity, where patients can positively construct and embrace things they learned from other activities. It will speed up their recovery.
It is very effective in easing of the mental and emotional exertion that is common to happen during the psychoeducational and process group sessions. This can keep them engaged in a constructive manner and will help them go forward in their quest.
Photography Credits : Oncohappy event in collaboration with Srishti Vataa Arts and Lahe Lahe *event partner
How does it work?
Mandala therapy uses patterns and different coloring methods that opens up the creative side of the brain and provides them a new dimension to grow. But most importantly, the colors and patterns help them understand their biggest fears and prepares them to creatively work on them to restart their life with new energy and positivity.
A person drained out of positivity finds it difficult to cope with the fast-coming changes that come along addiction rehabilitation or palliative care. There are physical and mental both challenges. They fear change and this decreases their efficiency to work with the therapy. Self-motivation comes from the art therapy.
Also, for people, specially, the difficult patients with real issues and problems can have separate sessions with mandala art therapist that uses color psychology to understand their problems and reach out for help in their coping process.
Art therapy sessions become their safe space to cocoon in and find their way back to the world of hope. It soothes them and encourages them to work on their issues themselves. Not many people are open up, this challenge is easily fought by art therapy and has proven effective.
Mandala making connects them to spirituality. Even for a general population, meditation and spiritualism can make things positive and wonderful. It teaches self-love and to spread light around you. Someone in darkness, like people in rehabilitation process need it the most. It doesn’t need hours, plus helps them meet the wholeness, or cosmos. It balances them with the nature, promotes mental health and self-development. They can make their own mandala or they can use online mandala designs available online to color it and talk about their experiences.
Post-rehab or palliative care art therapy sessions and their effects
Keeping up the process and curbing the urge to again leap on to the darker side is what the addition fighters fear all the time. The process of self-healing doesn’t end as they walk out of the rehabilitation center. It is actually start of the actual problems, like acceptance.
Mandala art strengthens them from within and prepares them for the harsh world and unacceptance. But most importantly, it makes accept themselves first. To meet with the wholeness is a joyful experience, it completes you in many ways. It generates a new perspective towards life. It helps you understanding your priorities and keeps you on track. Patients are needed to be encouraged to keep on going with post-rehab mandala art therapy. It calms people down after they have had a hard day, rather then going back to drugs or alcohol, it is something which is constructive, positive and full of life.
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