SOPHY DAVIS-RUSSELL

16.02.16

 

Recently, sadly, everything has been very busy so I haven't had the time to focus on my meditation as much as I'd like, so it's important that I try and take some time to calm myself from my hectic life style in another way. For my birthday my housemate got me a colouring book called 'Mandalas Colour Me Calm,' by Elizabeth James which is made up of pages and pages of beautiful patterns to add colour to.The use of the mandala is not random - the mandala is a circlular pattern that is a spiritual symbol in Indian culture for the universe. They can be used in meditation to absorb the mind in an hypnotic way. Therefore when you're colouring you're also focusing on a meditative energy. In my teens I would have never thought that colouring books could be good for adults, but now I'm excited to try this and I think that after a hectic day a half an hour of creating beautiful designs is just what anyone would need to wind down.