Come Alive — Book One
All the MandalasIntroduction
This mandala, made many years ago, is still my favorite. It is a symbol of my coming alive. Prophetic in its symbolism, the flames of passion and persistence led me to my come alive world. The many colors and circles represent the many aspects of my personality now that I have come alive.
Chapter One
Problems, Problems, Problems All Day Long
This mandala is symbolic of the acknowledgement of your problems and challenges as well as your journey to find solutions. The black represents the unknown and the red represents a passionate energy to get to solutions. The points in the circle signify how you probe into the unknown and cut through what you misunderstand.
Chapter Two
What do You Mean I Have a Problem?
The mandala is symbolic of the blank spots that came from my childhood. My childhood had richness represented in the gold and silver, contrasts in the healthy and dysfunctional behaviors in my family life, represented in the black and white streaks, and a big dark hole in the heart of it all.
Chapter Three
The Path to Change
This mandala, made many years ago, is still my favorite. It is a symbol of my coming alive. Prophetic in its symbolism, the flames of passion and persistence led me to my come alive world. The many colors and circles represent the many aspects of my personality now that I have come alive.
Problems, Problems, Problems All Day Long
This mandala is symbolic of the acknowledgement of your problems and challenges as well as your journey to find solutions. The black represents the unknown and the red represents a passionate energy to get to solutions. The points in the circle signify how you probe into the unknown and cut through what you misunderstand.
What do You Mean I Have a Problem?
The mandala is symbolic of the blank spots that came from my childhood. My childhood had richness represented in the gold and silver, contrasts in the healthy and dysfunctional behaviors in my family life, represented in the black and white streaks, and a big dark hole in the heart of it all.
The Path to Change
These three mandalas represent the change process. The left one is clarification of what you want to change. The middle one is sorting out new information. The right one is success. The pink and yellow are symbolic of your thinking, feeling, and physical natures and purple is symbolic of seeking enlightenment.
This mandala represents successful change. The pink and yellow are symbolic of your thinking, feeling and physical natures and purple is symbolic of seeking enlightenment thus pulling them together in balance and wholeness.
Chapter Four
Step One on the Path to Change
Acknowledge and Ask
This mandala represents the beginning of your expedition into change that brings success in your goal to come alive. The blue in this mandala is symbolic of intuition, inspiration, and higher purpose. The blue flower-like shape signifies the blooming of new concepts and understanding.
This mandala is symbolic of focusing on what you want. The gold represents success. The pink and yellow illustrate our thinking and feeling nature support that success.
In this mandala the black is symbolic of the unknown blank spots that create discord in relationships. The pink and yellow represent your thinking and your feelings that could contain blank spots. The center rings are symbolic of when you make changes within yourself. The outer ring shows how that change influenced another.
This mandala illustrates acceptance of what you can’t change. The gold is symbolic of enlightenment that can give you that clarity. The black is unknown understanding being categorized into boxes to help you decide what possibilities could work. The circle is symbolic of your endless pursuit of growth.
Chapter Five
Step Two on the Path to Change
Launch Your Inner Detective
This inner-detective mandala is symbolic of setting your mind to the task of exploring and understanding your challenges. The multicolored wedges illustrate the many areas that open up when you set your inner detective into motion—leading to those personal aha! moments. The pink/blue background represents you thinking and feeling natures used in your search.
This mandala is symbolic of the concept there is transformation information in all challenges. The purple represents the evolving soul. The gold illustrates the courage and passion to clear away the negative and create balance. The multicolored spires represent cutting through appearances and seeing the transformational information.
This mandala is symbolic of your unconscious mind releasing blank spots so you can consciously deal with them. The black represents the unknown blank spots. The little yellow circles in the middle is the process of the unconscious releasing those blank spots. The large yellow circles on the edges represent the conscious ready to become aware.
Symbolic of the pieces of your lives that will eventually come together when you come alive, the rainbow colors and shapes in this mandala represents the diverse paths on your journey. When your life is revealed in more detail, the black of the unknown becomes known.
Chapter Six
Step Three on the Path to Change
Initiate Your Personal Solution-Finding Process
Our personal solution-finding process mandala is representative of a search for awareness. This what blue symbolizes. The white symbolizes mental clarity, enlightenment, and new beginnings. The open circle of points illustrates your openness to solutions.
The purple in this mandala is symbolic of balance between the spiritual world and the physical world. This is what radical acceptance provides. The flowing spiral represents allowing yourself to experience your feelings without judgement. You allow your feelings to flow over you.
This mandala in this context is symbolic of being true to myself.
This beautiful mandala illustrates how feedback is life-changing. The pink illustrates the giving and receiving of care. The blue is symbolic of a true and trusted part of you reaching out to trusted friends. The turquoise is the door opening to spiritual growth. The fan-like shapes signify a dance of growth, swirling and whirling with joy as you share your life with others.
Chapter Seven
Step Four on the Path to Change
View Life with Emotional Strength and Mental Focus
Your come-alive journey starts with learning emotional strength and mental focus. The yellow represents your thinking nature. The red heart symbolizes your intention to create a change coming from your heart/feelings. The green represents growth and healing. The spiral boxes signify the many thoughts that need clarification.
Often we don’t know how we feel. This mandala is about learning how we feel and still being able to stay mentally focused. The various shades of gold, yellow, and red symbolize courage, power, and success.
This mandala symbolizes the critical concepts in manifesting—visualization of the result. The orange signifies a blend of enthusiastic happiness and fiery passion which has an uplifting and invigorating effect on your goals. The shape represents the pieces from your visualization that float together.
The tremendous power to manifest change comes with strong emotions. The red in this mandala represents intense desire, energy, determination, and is full of action. The blue supports this energy with confidence and quiet strength. The layered shapes are the layers of deeper and deeper emotions that keep you on point.
This mandala represents your responsibility for your lives. Silver is associated with patience, self-control, responsibility, and dignity. The circled layers represent layers of love, acceptance, integrity, strength, authenticity, and openness within us. Those layers buffer you from feeling you’re a victim of anything or anyone.
Chapter Eight
Step Five on the Path to Change
Experience the Change
These three mandalas represent the change process. The left one is illustrates clarification of what you want to change. The middle one is when you sort out new information. The right one is success. The pink and yellow are symbolic of your thinking and feeling natures and purple is symbolic of seeking enlightenment.
This mandala is symbolic of the aha! moments you have when you hit on a new concept that deeply resonates with you. The blue represents intuition, inspiration, and higher purpose. The many colored points in the explosion of thoughts, feelings, and even your feelings within your body when an aha! moment happens.
The mandala above represents your feeling nature. The motion and movement represents you moving through obstacles and challenges. Yellow and pink are symbolic of balance of thoughts and feelings.
Persistence is one of the important tools in your journey to coming alive. The silver is associated with self-control, responsibility, and determination. The blue illustrates quiet strength and determination. In this mandala, the persistence comes together in the fan shape, cutting away any thoughts that lead you astray down a different path.
In the bigger picture of life, living in your success is as important as becoming successful. This takes practice. This mandala represents living in your success with green being symbolic of growth, wealth, abundance, money, and luck as well as symbolic of healing, good health, freshness and renewal.
Chapter Nine
Conclusion
The mandala above is another one symbolic of blank spots. Your blank spots are varied, thus the many colors. The black is symbolic of the unknown becoming known. The circular spiral represents the circles of growth in your life as you spiral up to come alive.
Most of these mandalas were made on the software of Alan Goodwin’s Mandala Maker™.