| If you've ever kept a diary, you know how | | | | The whole idea behind the mandala drawings are that |
| therapeutic the experience can be. There's something | | | | you are invoking the side of your brain that is |
| really wonderful about being able to go back and see | | | | normally in the background: the right side. This is the |
| the changes over time as you grew as a person, and | | | | side that deals with the creativity, imagination, and |
| the act itself is healing. Did you know that you can | | | | the arts. The left side of the brain is what our |
| do journaling using mandala drawings too? Or, try out | | | | society in the West normally uses, and it deals with |
| some mandala coloring books. Jung was famous for | | | | logic and linear thinking. The right side of the brain |
| doing a mandala journal where he kept many | | | | engages when we are doing mandala drawings or |
| mandalas and they would later influence his | | | | even just coloring in mandala coloring books. This is |
| understanding of psychology. Jung believed that the | | | | important if you want to get in touch with the part |
| mandala was a symbol of the whole Self, and that | | | | of you that is normally silent. By opening to the right |
| the various stages of individuation could also be read | | | | side of your brain, you allow the left side to take a |
| within the symbol of the mandala. | | | | small vacation and can dig into deeper, richer, |
| Get Acquainted With Mandala Coloring Books | | | | storehouses of personal and spiritual information that |
| If you want to try this novel way of journaling, you | | | | might be overlooked otherwise. |
| may feel a little intimidated at first. Mandala drawings | | | | A Transpersonal Experience |
| don't follow any rules, but we are very accustomed | | | | Unlike writing a diary, doing a mandala journal invokes |
| to always listening for direction outside ourselves | | | | the transpersonal in its non-verbal form, which is a |
| instead of listening to the still voice within. Don't let | | | | very powerful way to connect directly to your |
| that worry you. Susanne Fincher, a noted art | | | | spiritual essence. The right-side of your brain, for |
| therapist, has many great mandala coloring books out | | | | once, does not interfere as much and you can have |
| there for anybody to use. You can try her Coloring | | | | insights and flashes of inspiration, which come into |
| Mandalas 1 or Coloring Mandalas 2 books. They come | | | | greater focus by doing mandala drawings or even |
| with beautiful designs that range from Native | | | | coloring within mandala coloring books. It's this |
| American to Escher-like modernism. After you've | | | | transpersonal aspect that makes a mandala journal a |
| unwound a little and want to attempt your own | | | | very meditative, transpersonal, experience which will |
| mandala drawings, not just coloring someone else's, | | | | produce unique revelations to each individual that tries |
| you are ready to start doing a mandala journal. | | | | these exercises. |
| Getting Into The Right Groove | | | | |