Source: RELAXING MEDITATION MANDALA - Earth - YouTube
For reasons of searching for therapies to support mental stability, a friend recommended meditation or initially that I draw mandalas and color them, almost like a task for a small child, but trying to surrender with passion to what I was doing, giving up distraction and freeing my mind from problems that would not be present at that moment.
Well, what she, my friend, said sounded good ... if it weren't for the fact that I have a tendency to analyze all kinds of things ... I noticed that to draw a mandala there was some apparently simple mathematical idea, the idea of the fractal as a element with strong iteration, but in essence, a simple element from the geometric point of view.
Then I noticed that due to my tendency to draw in the drawing, I had chosen to work with those mandalas that could go through all their lines without lifting the marker from the surface on which it is drawn.
As you can imagine, my tendency to rationalize and overthink led to the exercise being somewhat of a failure from its mystical and spiritual aspects, but it certainly distracted me and put my thoughts out of my head for a long time. problems that I cannot solve on my own in the short term.
So ... should I judge that the exercise was a success or a failure?
For now...
My friend wrote to tell me, I imagine that with a smile on her face and trying to be patient, that there was no success or failure, there was only the moment of "peace" and communion with the mandala.
That sounds nice.
I'm not really given to drawing, but I may do one of these again on another occasion, by the way, like other works I've done with selfish motives, because when I finished I saw it for a moment and then I took it to the fire. This is how many of my stories have ended, but it is not for anything bad, it is like a kind of ritual to release what the work represents.
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