Creating Mandala Meditation Tool

Just making a mandala can be an active meditation.

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Today’s Contents:

• Making Mandalas for Meditation

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Active Meditation: Creating Your Own Mandala

Mandalas have been used throughout time as a meditation tool. It is a piece of art that you and your child can create on a poster board, within a drawn circle.

Mandala means "circle" or "center". The sacred circle can be seen everywhere in nature: galaxies, planets, flowers, etc. The energy of these powerful patterns is poured into Mandalas. They symbolize an aspect of nature and spirit. This energy can be used to help in the healing process, or transformation through meditation.

Making and meditating with mandalas can:

• be a healing tool for the soul

• merge body, spirit and mind

• uncover your own creativity

• help you discover yourself

• assist you in everyday life, making stress easier

• calm the mind and body

By creating the mandala, you and your child will be spending time very focused in the project (the whole idea of meditation is centered on focus). It is made just for you and the child; with everything you enjoy looking at and feeling. All the pieces chosen will blend in the circle of the mandala in a way that means something to you. By taking symbols, colors and geometric forms of interest you can create an instrument of transformation.

A few items you will need: old magazines or colorful ads and newspapers, construction paper and tissue paper in a variety of colors, poster board (20’’x20’’ is a great size), colorful fabrics and paints, copies of favorite photos, charms, flower petals, stick-on cutouts, safety scissors, glue sticks and double sided tape.

You can make several focused projects out of Creating the Mandala. Take your time; look around in nature; scour yard sales, until you find the right things needed for the mandala.

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Step One:

Decide what size you would like for the mandala. Prepare the poster board with a thin, light circle in the center of the board.

Step Two:

Choose a special picture or symbol for the center (focus) of the circle. It should be something that makes you smile: the sun, stars, something that connects you to the Creator or Divine Source. Tape or glue it to the center of the circle.

Your child will be attracted to special colors and geometric forms. When making a mandala, I prefer the circle to a square and will use it in different areas in my life. Also, I radiate towards purples, magentas and deep greens, instead of orange or red. We can be influenced by different colors and also use them in crafting a certain outcome.

Step Three:

After helping your child draw a large circle within the squared-off poster board, take pieces of colorful fabrics, papers or paints and create a backdrop on your board. This creates a foundation of the things you feel comfortable with or wish in your energy.

Blend them together, overlapping, if you wish, to mix them all together. Arrange them in a pleasing order. Add the different geometric forms to the poster, such as circles, triangles, paisley patterns, etc.

Your continued work with the project from the time you decide your symbols, colors and geometric forms, until you have finished, you will be imbuing it with your energy and start changing the frequency of your intentions.

After finishing your mandala you can use it to focus your thoughts on something you want in your life, such as love, peace, or joy. Or it could be used to heal something in your life.

How is this done? Here is how I've learned to do it: Find or make a Mandala that represents what you're trying to heal or meditate on.

Place it in front of you and relax. Focus on the center of the Mandala. Stare directly into it, blinking as little as possible. Breathe slowly in and out. After a little while you will notice a shift. The colors of the Mandala will become brighter or they may begin to move.

Let yourself open to the energy that comes from the Mandala. Feel it flowing into you and through you. Do this for as long as it is comfortable. After a while you will see the colors changing. Close your eyes. You can see the mandala with your inner vision (with your eyes closed.) Feel it as it changes. Part of the Mandala may become brighter and then fade. Imagine and feel the power and energy of the Mandala flowing through you. Feel as it calms you. This is a special meditative activity and be used anytime.

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Melissa Leath writes A Mystics Journal on Substack. She supplies outrageous metaphysical babble/rant from a modern-day mystic's viewpoint and provides workshops about empowerment and psychic/metaphysical development. Her books Psychic Integrity, The Respected Practice of Modern-Day Mystics (Balboa Press, division of Hay House Publishing) and Does Your Child See Sparkles? are available through Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Melissa’s long-term study includes years of group development, platform mediumship, meditation, becoming a spiritual medium and minister and a BA in Metaphysical Counseling. She has worked with 10s of thousands of clients in USA and other countries, taught development classes for 12 years and settled into online workshops.

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