A year ends and a new one begins. One way or another, we summarize what we have done and plan the next goals and tasks during this time. Someone simply contemplates it by looking at the stars, a candle, or the flames of the fireplace. Others write a gratitude journal or make vision boards. Winter is meant for that – for contemplation and planning.
To make this process as easy, accurate, and productive as possible, I have prepared a special mandala for you. It’s based on the Wheel of Life and includes all five elements – earth, fire, water, air, and ether. Variations and interpretations of the Wheel of life are often used in coaching. Mostly the presence of these elements is taken away and transformed there, thus losing much of its magical power. As soon as you follow the correct scheme, these elements will arrange themselves in a correct and harmonious interaction in your life also. If you arrange your room so everything finds its right place, your daily life becomes simple, smooth, and productive. The same is happening on a larger scale. When you organize your mind and align it with the needs of your subconscious, your life becomes simpler, more productive, and more successful.
“As above, so below; as below, so above”– The Kybalion.
This mandala helps you do it by working on both the mental and subconscious levels. You organize and transform your reality, as you go through the process. That’s magic. The relevant colors and symbols come to your aid.
The lack of vision boards and similar methods is an opportunity to focus too much on one sphere of life, thus creating disharmony. Without reflection and a certain concentration, you can approach the issue too superficially or get carried away by external settings and clichés. I remember how, many years ago, when I was young, my girlfriends and I had a tradition of getting together around Christmas and cutting pictures from magazines to make vision boards for the next year. Maybe it started with a special desire held close to the heart but always ended with various colorful pictures that suddenly just jumped out from a magazine.
The advantages of this Mandala coloring method are:
– Easy entry into a meditative state for better communication with the subconscious.
–Harmonious inclusion of all aspects of life
–Contain both evaluation and creation
–Turn out according to individual experience and needs
–Have a harmonic symbolic structure for precise activation.
Preparation for Coloring Ritual
Print the mandala on hard paper. Here are two PNG images. The first one is with a colorful mandala if you have a color printer available. The second file is a monochrome image if you are printing on a black-and-white printer.
Prepare your favorite coloring supplies and writing tools. I recommend you choose some finer supplies such as gel pens, pencils, and felt-tip pens too since there could be a lot of information that you want to put in the mandala. Arrange a pleasant place where you can concentrate and work easily. You can use candles, music, essential oils, or anything to help you relax and focus on the process. The more you will be in inner peace and balance, the better the process will go. This is exactly why mandalas are a very valuable tool because creating them puts you in a meditative state automatically. The other things are just additional.
The Center of the Mandala
Start with the center of the mandala. It is a place for you, your Higher self, the ether. Say it to yourself in your own words for a short while, or just be aware and start coloring. Don’t think about it anymore, just enjoy the process. Colors are guided by your inner voice, and intuition without thinking much about it.
The First Circle of the Mandala
The first circle of the mandala is for contemplating the current situation and the past. Think about how each of these eight areas has manifested in your life so far. Consider a period of about a year. Start one at a time. Think about what would be valuable, what to be grateful for, and what might have been difficult or painful. Represent it in the appropriate segment with colors, transcription, and/or symbols.
Loved ones and family sector think about relationships with those closest to you. These are your relatives, ancestors, children, spouse, or a life partner.
Friends and community such a relationship will be different than with the closest ones. It’s your social life.
Education – It doesn’t matter what your age is, a person learns all his life. It can be a course, a book, or a specific topic that you want to learn more about.
Spiritual Growth – Its Self-Development sector. Spiritual and mental health.
Career – Alternative labels include Work, Business, Motherhood, Fatherhood, or Volunteering. It is the area where your developed skills are realized.
Finances – sector includes money, financial security, or financial well-being.
Health and Rest – Think about how you take care of your body.
Heart and Soul – Think about things that fulfill and make you happy. From small everyday joys to bigger dreams.
Decorative Belt
Every experience is valuable whether we call it good or bad. If we accept it and recognize it as necessary, without clinging to it, but with understanding and awareness, it is easy for us to move forward. As long as we have suffering, doubts, non-acceptance, or other disturbing emotions and thoughts that don’t allow us to let go of the experience, moving forward is hard. The more unresolved contradictions, and fears, the more complicated it is for us to move forward in our lives. That’s why it is said to be like a child. It’s because they don’t have that big, heavy baggage. Have you ever wondered why baby Jesus Christ was born on that particular day? It is also the best time for us to be born again, to purify, to transform so that we can move on with the lightness of a child.
Well, you already know in which areas you need this transformation more and where less when the previous step is done. If you find something that needs more work, take note. Color the decorative belt with the idea in mind that with every color you give yourself the necessary blessing, relief, love, and/or forgiveness so that the further path will be as easy as a child’s.
The Outer Circle of the Mandala
This is where you plan and envision your future goals and scenarios in each area. What you would like to do, experience, and accomplish in the coming year? You can express it in words, symbols, or even in specific images. There can go the same things as in the first circle. If you are satisfied with it and you want to continue the existing experiences, keep it. There could go something completely new also. Life is made by choices.
You need to be strong in spirit to make choices and stick to them. You ARE so, you ARE at the very center of the mandala!
What a magic 🙂!
Color the outer petals, If you printed the black and white version of the mandala. Do it with the idea in mind that you bring to life each of the elements so they help in your goals. Choose red tones for the Fire element, green ones for the Earth element, blue for Water, and yellow or light blue for the Air.
May your will be strong and your heart light!
