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Mandalas

Mandalas

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What is a Mandala?;)

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What is a symbol?•A picture that means many things

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What is a Mandala?•Originated in Tibet 2000 years ago

•Tibetans use it to calm themselves and think about the meaning of life

•Intricately illustrated •Used for meditation•Show individual or cultural uniqueness•Many cultures use it

•Aztec•Asia•Native Americans

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Aztec Calendar

•Timekeeping

•Religious uses

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Taoist Yin-Yang Symbol

•To show opposition and interdependence

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Native Americans

Medicine wheels

Sand painting

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Why a circle?•What are some things a circle can symbolize or represent?

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Why a circle?•Represents harmony and wholeness of life

•Universal shape: eye, sun snowflake, moon, circle of friends, the atom, cells, nucleus

•A simple representation of WHO YOU ARE•Using symbols that represent you

•Peace, love, friendship, etc

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You are going to create your own symbolic picture representing aspects of your life.

Your own mandala

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Visualizations•Close your eyes

•Picture the scenes I’m going to describe

•Open when I say

•Write or draw what you thought about

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Visualization #1•Think about a significant day in your life.

•Who was there?

•Where were you?

•What was happening?

•Why is the day so important to you?my sister,my brother in law , and my new born niecei was in the hosptialmy niece was born and she was handed to methis day meant everything to me because i got to witness everything before she was born her first ultra sound her first hearing of the heart her first 3D ultra -sound her first kick i was there for everything and when i finally got to hold her it meant everything to me and that day will always be the best day of my lifean image i would use to represent this day was when i was holding her.

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Visualization #2•Think about a series of favorite locations of your childhood. •Why is each place special? What does it represent?

•it would be kenneth haun because when i was 4-6 my dad would take me every friday when he had the day of to the pound where they had ducks and i looked foward to that day all week this place is special to me because it was when i usto daddys little girl. a picture of ducks in a pond

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Visualization #3•Envision the people closest to you.

•Who are they?

•See their faces

•View their actions

•What have they done or what do they do that makes them special?

•karla,ricardo,chris palma,danny,yesso•they have always been there for me told

when im right or wrong they have helped me threw some really tough times in my life and without there help i dont know where i would be.

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Visualization #4•Think about the objects in your life that are most important to you.

•What are they?

•Feel yourself holding them

•How do they make you feel?

•Where did you get them?

•Why are they special?

an object that is important to me is my phone. i got it from the tmobile store. it is special because it has music my pictures and when i feel down i just turn on music and it just makes everything better x)

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Visualization #5•Think about a difficult time in your life.

•What was going on?

•Why were you struggling?

•Who was there to help you?

•How did you respond to the challenge?•a difficult time in my life was when my mom was in the hospital and she was on the border line

of life and death and i was at the last quarter of freshman year. i had to wake up everyday at 6 go to school leave at 3 go to the hospital and leave at 1 am then do hw and study and go to sleep around 4 and do the process again and again for a month or two. not alot of people were there for me it made me realize who truely cared for me. how i responded i stopped living for myself and started living for my mom.

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Visualization #6•See your life as a journey.

•What does it look like?•Bumpy road•River

•Where did the journey begin?•Where has it led you?•Where is it heading?•How has the trip been?•What part was really important, a defining moment?•my journey would be a bumpy road because ive faced challenges ive had some falls but ive also had some

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•Most important symbol in the middle

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