Your Personal Mandela

1. Your Personal Mandela Mr. Arizmendez

2. What is a mandela? • In Tibet, mandalas for peace are created in sand. • Navajo create similar sand paintings to heal sickness • In many different countries people create mandalas - special circle pictures - as part of making kind of wish. This wish is sometimes called an intention. The intention can be anything you need to have or want to achieve. • A simple definition: a geometric pattern that symbolically represents the universe from a specific person’s perspective.

3. What should make up your mandela? • A mandela is sometimes called a life map. • People often use them to meditate • The more geometric detail you can put into your mandela the better. • The center of a personal mandela is often made to represent the person’s core or core values.

4. What should make up your mandela? • Colors-select colors for each section of your mandela. Remember what colors represent. • Lines-Lines should bisect each part of your mandela. Each line should represent something in your mind. • Various parts of your mandela should represent parts of your life, personality, future, career, moods, family, dreams goals. • Images should not be necessary. • Parts of your mandela should look similar. • Parts of your mandela should look different.

5. Mr.A.’s Color Selection Association and lines • Love: purple and red • Running: Yellow • Me (my personality): Green and Blue • Family (my kids): red and pink • Kayaking: orange Swimming: Blue • Kareoke: silver • I will use both curved and straight lines. • Areas you may want to include might be… • Hobbies • Friends • Pets • Future career goals

6. Aspects of your life Personality and values are reflected by lines and color What type of lines will you use? Will you use straight and geometric? Will you use curved lines ? Orwill you use both?

7. Envisioning the colors that should make up your mandala. ◦Get comfortable and close your eyes. ◦Take three slow, deep breaths in through your nose and out through your mouth. ◦Keep breathing slowly, concentrating only on your breathing. ◦Forget about anything that may have happened today and pay attention to your breathing, letting it calm you and make you feel good all over. ◦Imagine a light flowing all around you… starting at the top of your head and going all the way down to your feet. ◦This light is warm and healing and protecting. It makes you feel really safe and happy. ◦The light covers you and everything, spreading this warm, fuzzy feeling to everyone in the room. ◦See the light streaming toward you. What color is it? ◦Now imagine the light coming together and forming a circle. ◦Imagine this light breaking up into circles of different colored lights. What colors are they? ◦Imagine that each circle of light is a specific powerful color – one is healing, one is protective energy, one is family, one is friendship, one is career, What color is the most powerful circle? ◦Imagine there are patters in each circle. See the patterns. Remember what each looks like ◦When you’re ready, open your eyes and recreating these personal circles that make up your mandala. ◦You can draw your mandala anyway you want. There is no wrong or right way to do it. Don’t worry about making mistakes – there are no mistakes. Trust that whatever you put on your paper is what is supposed to be there

14. Building a Mandela

15. Building a Mandela

16. Building a Mandela