Emotion Mandalas: Finding Feelings Through Art

Emotion Mandalas: Finding Feelings Through Art
Author: Karen White Porter
Publisher: Emotatude
Total Pages: 34
Release: 2020-07-23
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781946785237

Mandalas that express emotion can give us time to pause and reflect on our feelings. Emotion mandalas are artistic renderings of feelings that take into account our inner and outer life. It is a fun way to process what is going on in your emotional life and gives us a chance to become more aware of how we feel. This is a jumping off point of expressing our feelings.Mandalas may vary, but there are a few things about them that are constant.They are circular, symbolic, spiritual, and focus on unity. We use these mandalas as a way to look at your inner life of feelings. Although, the mandala may be viewed as a religious symbol, here it is used as a tool to encourage social emotional awareness.Our tech focused world may distract us from awareness of what we feeling. These mandala sallow us to take time to contemplate our emotional life so we can better cope with the outside world.It is our hope that these mandalas will be a step to help us pause to feel, and acknowledge feelings so we can express what we feel.

Mandalive(R)

Mandalive(R)
Author: Pavol Rozloznik
Publisher:
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2020-11-19
Genre:
ISBN: 9788097352103

Embrace all of who you are! Work with both positive and negative parts of your personality to access mental energy, creativity and new possibilities. Mandalive(R) combines the benefits of coloring, mandalas, and shadow work all in one unique tool. It consists of mandalas that represent emotions, qualities and behaviors, both positive and negative. They are arranged in pairs; for example: happiness/sadness, success/failure, courage/fear. By coloring the mandalas, you'll learn to express emotions in a healthy way and gain access to mental energy and new possibilities that have - up until now - remained dormant in your unconscious mind. This innovative approach to inner work, self-exploration, and healing helps you gain balance, energy, clarity, and confidence to live a more authentic and fulfilled life.

Emotion Mandala Coloring Book

Emotion Mandala Coloring Book
Author: Martha Joseph Watts
Publisher:
Total Pages: 50
Release: 2020-08-20
Genre:
ISBN: 9781946785244

Coloring mandalas help us express emotion and can give us time to pause and reflect on our feelings. You can color these emotion mandalas which are artistic renderings of feelings that take into account our inner and outer life. It is a fun way to process what is going on in your emotional life and gives us a chance to become more aware of how we feel. This is a jumping off point of expressing our feelings.Mandalas may vary, but there are a few things about them that are constant.They are circular, symbolic, spiritual, and focus on unity. We use these mandalas as a way to look at your inner life of feelings. Although, the mandala may be viewed as a religious symbol, here it is used as a tool to encourage social emotional awareness.Our tech focused world may distract us from awareness of what we feeling. These mandala sallow us to take time to contemplate our emotional life so we can better cope with the outside world.It is our hope that these mandalas will be a step to help us pause to feel, and acknowledge feelings so we can express what we feel.

Draw Your Feelings

Draw Your Feelings
Author: Rukmini Poddar
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2023-10-10
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 0593539141

An interactive guide to help readers connect with, learn, and process their emotions creatively. Our emotions add color to our lives. Happiness can feel like bright sunshine. Anxiety can feel like a gray cloud. Even though it may be uncomfortable at first, it’s clear that sitting with your emotions, feeling them fully, and exploring their depths can teach you more about yourself and help you better anticipate and process big feelings when they come. In this mind-opening and beautifully illustrated guide, popular artist Rukmini Poddar guides you through the steps to creative self-reflection, giving your emotions a physical representation through lines, shapes, colors, and more. With exercises tailored to beginners and experts alike, readers will learn basic drawing skills and take them all the way to mapping their emotional landscape. Draw Your Feelings will stretch creative muscles you didn’t know you had. At the end of the journey, you will transform the way you interact with yourself and the world.

Using Expressive Arts to Work with Mind, Body and Emotions

Using Expressive Arts to Work with Mind, Body and Emotions
Author: Helen Wilson
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2009-08-15
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0857001892

Using Expressive Arts to Work with Mind, Body and Emotions combines theory, research and activities to produce practical suggestions for enhancing client participation in the therapy process. It surveys the literature on art therapy; somatic approaches; emotion-activating models; use of music, writing and dreamwork; and the implications of the new findings in neuroscience. The book includes step-by-step instructions for implementing expressive therapies techniques, and contains a wide range of experiential activities that integrate playful yet powerful tools that work in harmony with the client's innate ability for self-healing. The authors discuss transpersonal influences along with the practical implications of both emotion-focused and attachment theories. Using Expressive Arts to Work with Mind, Body and Emotions is an essential guide to integrating creative arts-based activities into counselling and psychotherapy and will be a useful manual for practitioners, academics and student counsellors, psychologists, psychotherapists, social workers and creative arts therapists.

Finding Meaning with Mandalas-A Therapist's Guide to Creating Mandalas with Children

Finding Meaning with Mandalas-A Therapist's Guide to Creating Mandalas with Children
Author: Tracy Turner-Bumberry LPC, RPT-S
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2015-06-07
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0996419918

This book will give therapists valuable insight into the history and meaning of mandalas, as well as common shapes, colours and themes surrounding these designs. Fifty mandala interventions are included for clients to complete, as well as guidelines on when to use this intervention and how to introduce, create and process each mandala session. Mandala creations are fun, meaningful and beautiful works of art for clients of all ages.--back cover.

The Art of Emotional Healing

The Art of Emotional Healing
Author: Lucia Capacchione
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2006-01-10
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1590303067

Feelings either flow naturally, like a river, or get dammed up. If our emotions become blocked, we can become tense, unhappy, anxious, or depressed. This book offers simple techniques for using art to embrace, understand, and release our emotions so that we can experience a greater sense of well-being in our lives. In The Art of Emotional Healing, Lucia Capacchione presents the simple yet powerful methods she uses in her internationally acclaimed workshops, showing us how to reach inside and let our feelings out through drawing, painting, journal writing, collage making, sculpting, drumming, dancing, mask making, and more. No artistic talent or skill is required, only a desire to let go of self-criticism and discover how we really feel.

Mandala Symbolism and Techniques

Mandala Symbolism and Techniques
Author: Susan I. Buchalter
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2012-11-01
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 184905889X

This book outlines practical exercises for using mandala creation with a variety of client groups, to elicit discussion about issues such as depression, anxiety, relationships and goals. Mandala design is presented in a variety of ways, allowing the therapist the flexibility to gear sessions towards clients' specific needs and capabilities.

She Explores

She Explores
Author: Gale Straub
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2019-03-26
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 1452167672

For every woman who has ever been called outdoorsy comes a collection of stories that inspires unforgettable adventure. Beautiful, empowering, and exhilarating, She Explores is a spirited celebration of female bravery and courage, and an inspirational companion for any woman who wants to travel the world on her own terms. Combining breathtaking travel photography with compelling personal narratives, She Explores shares the stories of 40 diverse women on unforgettable journeys in nature: women who live out of vans, trucks, and vintage trailers, hiking the wild, cooking meals over campfires, and sleeping under the stars. Women biking through the countryside, embarking on an unknown road trip, or backpacking through the outdoors with their young children in tow. Complementing the narratives are practical tips and advice for women planning their own trips, including: • Preparing for a solo hike • Must-haves for a road-trip kitchen • Planning ahead for unknown territory • Telling your own story A visually stunning and emotionally satisfying collection for any woman craving new landscapes and adventure.

The Mandala Way

The Mandala Way
Author: Eitan Kedmy
Publisher: Watkins Media Limited
Total Pages: 423
Release: 2023-01-10
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1786787288

With gorgeous artwork, practical meditation exercises and accessible drawing guides, this is the only mandala book that offers a journey of self-discovery by showing how to create your own mandalas. Discover the power of mandalas with this drawing guide designed to help you look inward and give expression to your inner world of thoughts, feelings and experiences. Accessible for both artists and beginners, The Mandala Way acts as a gateway to the rich, multi-dimensional world of the mandala. Working your way through 16 mandalas, Eitan Kedmy offers an introduction, step-by-step line drawings, full-colour mandala art and a meditation for each mandala. The first eight lessons introduce you to basic templates, such as the Seed of Life and the Star of David. In the final eight lessons you will embark on a personal journey through the body’s chakras: Sacral Chakra Mandala to help you feel more present. Heart Chakra Mandala to aid you in finding unconditional love within yourself. Throat Chakra Mandala to sharpen your self-expression. Combining creativity and fun with self-discovery and spiritual growth, the act of drawing mandalas helps to ease anxiety and insecurity, bring about clarity of thought and enhance our feelings of self-worth and self-confidence.