Come Alive — Book Three
All the MandalasChapter One
Your Relationships with Others
Your Parents
My Early-Life Mandala
The mandala is symbolic of the blank spots coming from my childhood. The mandala is also an outline to share the beginning of my life story. My childhood had a richness represented by the gold and silver, and the contrasts, from a family both healthy and dysfunctional, are represented by the black and white streaks. A big dark hole—the blank spots—forms the heart of it.
Do You Love Me Mandala?
The mandala is symbolic how the love in parents’ eyes can lift a child to believe they are worthy. The heart of gold represents the fullness of love that shines in a parent’s eyes. The other colors are how that love influences many aspects of a child’s life.
Who Am I to My Family Mandala
The mandala symbolizes your family roles. The gold web-looking circle represents the natural tendency for you to want balance. The gold represents the need for the unknown blank spot family roles create.
Am I Independent, Counter-Dependent, or Co-Dependent Mandala?
This mandala represents the connection between parents and children and whether it is healthy or not. The white of the web and its shape symbolizes mental clarity of where you “end” and others “begin.” You are separate yet woven together. The gray signifies the wisdom to know who you are, and the black signifies confidence in your own independence and individuality.
Am I a Victim or Victor Mandala?
The gold in the mandala is another instance of the pot of gold at the end of a rainbow. The hearts and gold circle are symbolic of the victory dance when you press on with love for yourself to heal those experiences of feeling victimized.
Is My Past Resolved Mandala?
The mandala represents letting go. Turquoise illustrates nurturing yourself and healing your heart. Black is the symbol of darkness and the unknown empowers you to move on. The swirling shapes show how letting go spins around all related experiences and heals them.
Chapter Two
Your Relationships with Others
Your Children
Raising Children Mandala
The mandala is symbolic of the challenges of raising children. The pink and yellow represents the thoughts and feelings you navigate to set the stage for a healthy environment, which is illustrated by the circle. The multi-color spikes behind the circle are the unexpected challenges of accommodating the diverse personalities of your children.
Awareness of Your Child Being Good Mandala
The mandala is a gold star used as an acknowledgement of excellence. The blue, green, and yellow represent success, growth, optimism and joy occurs when you find the good in your children.
Awareness of Your Child’s Vocabulary Mandala
The mandala is symbolic of your work with your children’s vocabulary to give them an understanding of life. The pink represents love and nurturing. The blue and turquoise represent growth, wisdom and self-expression, as well as success. The shell shape signifies truthful speech.
Awareness of Your Child’s Curiosity Mandala
The mandala is symbolic of your children’s growth when you stimulate their curiosity. The multi-colored heart-shaped circles represent the fun and joy of exploring their world with them. The purple signifies inspiration from their creativity and stimulation of their imagination, helping bring enlightenment of their evolving souls.
Awareness of Boundaries Mandala
The mandala illustrates the many circular layers of numerous types of positives boundaries give you. The heart layers are the inner structure and identity built within boundaries. The indigo conveys integrity and sincerity; blue brings order and direction; and silver is symbolic of respect, courtesy, and stability.
Chapter Three
Your Relationships with Others
Your Friends, Family, and More
Relationships Connections Mandala
The mandala of relationships connections is pink which is symbolic of love, nurturing, and gentle compassion. The circles represent all the different types of relationships we have.
Connection with Differences Mandala
The mandala illustrates the differences you find in others – their lifestyles, beliefs, values, perspectives, and more. The multicolored spiral symbolizes those differences. The gold circle in the background signifies how differences are a means to learn how to bring happiness and beauty into light.
Connections with Labels Mandala
The mandala is symbolic of the labels you use to define yourself and others. When you use labels and words that include love and growth, you open a world of growth and love. The green in the mandala shows the openness. The multi- colored circular shapes illustrate wholeness and unity. The multicolored heart shapes mean love.
Connections with Expectations Mandala
Expectations can leave a hole in your inner life as illustrated in the mandala. The pink and yellow are symbolic of your thoughts and feelings. The purple represents your consciousness. The ring of swirling pieces illustrates what you know and the grey pieces what you don’t know with your relationships—a caution for your expectations.
Connection to Intimacy Mandala
The mandala contains multicolored doorways symbolic of the hope for intimacy in your relationships. The green is related to healing and represents giving and receiving of nurturing, compassion, and unconditional love is the foundation to intimacy.
Connection with Discernment Mandala
The mandala’s little boxes illustrate thoughts, feelings, challenges, and a desire to succeed. The desire is fueled by a passion to understand as symbolized by the colors of yellow, pink, green and blue. The black in the background signifies the unknown becoming known. Put together you have a useful view of judgement through the discernment.
Connection with Authenticity Mandala
The mandala symbolizes authentic openness. The white and gold heart shapes in the background signifies the warmth and richness as well as the courage to connect openly and honestly. The pink and gold ovals illustrate the spiritual structure of nurturing and has gentle compassion and unconditional love for others and yourself.
Connection to Self Yourself Mandala
The mandala is filled with multicolored hearts symbolizing love, acceptance, and forgiveness of yourself and others. The purple pulls these all together with the energy of spirituality, the consciousness and higher ideals. Compassion comes for the human condition when you love, accept, and forgive yourself.
Chapter Four
Your Relationships with Others
Your Marriage or Partnership
Relationships with Others Mandala
The mandala above represents relationship challenges. The green symbolizes the growth and maturity as you become an adult. The pink represents your search for identity. The five rings represent the challenges in your relationships. They are colored black to represent the unknown.
The Courage of Personal Honesty Mandala
The mandala illustrates the many benefits honesty gives you from your courage to be open represented by blue. The many layers are symbolic of the benefits of honesty—authenticity, freedom, connection, and success. The multiple circles represent the ability to keep centered and honest whatever the circumstances
The Courage to be Introverted or Extroverted Mandala
The mandala is entirely of gold as every extrovert, introvert and ambiverts are rich in their own ways. The inner layer of circles symbolizes introverts who enjoy their aloneness. The outer layer of circles symbolizes extroverts who enjoy being with people. The entire circle symbolizes an ambivert who is a little of both.
Courage to Find Your Voice Mandala
An interesting mandala because the yellow circle illustrates your thinking nature is fogged with some darkness. The symbolizes your attempt to try to guess what people are thinking before you try sharing your truth. The black, of course, represents you can’t truly know what people are thinking or feeling for that matter because it can’t be known unless you ask.
Courage to be Open to New Perspectives Mandala
The mandala’s circled layers are symbolic of how you grow as you re-visit life’s issues. Each time you are determined, illustrated by red, to learn more and be confident. You grow clearer and clearer as you dig deeper and deeper until, in the center, you come to new perspectives and awareness.
Chapter Five
Relationship with Yourself:
Your Inner Knowing
The Mandala of Inner Knowing
The mandala is symbolic of knowing yourself. Yellow represents courage and blue represents freedom. The circles illustrate wholeness. Put together the mandala is a symbol of taking courage to make changes in your life by digging deeper into your inner world. You then experience a new level of freedom, confidence, and peace.
Inner Knowing to Face Fear Mandala
These mandalas represent the two faces of fear—a huge unknown blank spot in many relationships. The left one illustrates fear itself; the unknown in black. The right illustrates facing your fear symbolized by the gold and white. They represent success knowing you have learned what you needed to learn to move out of fear.
Inner Knowing to Build a Case for Love Mandala
The mandala symbolizes your looking for the best in others even in the black darkness of the unknown. Others’ goodness is there waiting to be acknowledged as illustrated by the gold hearts. Finding the best in others clears away the negativity e distracting you from facing your own struggles, vulnerabilities, and insecurities.
Inner Knowing to Find the Real Issue Mandala
The mandala signifies the real issue hidden in your conflicts with others. The blue star represents the real issue. The fan shape is your search for it, represented by the blue/turquoise colors, is in your ability to open the door to spiritual growth and find emotional balance. The pink is symbolic of your feelings which lead you to the real issue and inner peace.
Inner Knowing in Building Trust Mandala
Trust is what is within you believing you are able manage whatever people say or do. The brown spiral symbolizes the peace, comfort, and reassurance when you look to trust.
Inner Knowing of Your Quiet Time
This mandala represents the sea of tranquility of your inner quiet. The blue is symbolic of the deep blue sea. It is peaceful, serene, and relaxed. The shape represents how this peace reaches out into all aspects of your life.
Inner Knowing About Fun Mandala
Yes, the fun mandala. The white feathers in a circle represent having fun!! The mandala illustrates awakening awareness fun is part of coming alive. The sequined multicolored hearts are symbolic of the love and joy Coming Alive brings. The gold is related to success, prosperity, wisdom, and tapping into courage to grow and face blank spots.
Chapter Six
Your Relationship with Yourself:
Your Authentic Self
Your Authentic Self Mandala
This mandala is about openness to your authentic self. The white and gold heart shapes represent purity and goodness. The pink and gold ovals are symbolic of the structure of your identity which is about nurturing, gentle compassion, unconditional love.
Being Open to Seeing Your Authentic Self Mandala
The openness mandala is about your trust to be true to yourself symbolized by the turquoise. The blue represents honesty in your relationships. The shapes in the background are hearts illustrating how your authentic self comes from our heart. The ovals flow around your authentic self as support.
Being Open to Being Vulerable Mandala
This being open mandala is about being open to heal by walking into your vulnerability. Healing is illustrated in the colors green and yellow which are healing energies. The heart shapes in the background illustrate your courage to heal. The ovals protect us as we learn to heal in your vulnerability.
Being Open to Being Wrong Mandala
The openness mandala is about openness to being wrong illustrated in with black, white and gray. Nothing in your lives is totally black or white. The heart shapes in the background illustrate your inner spirit fully living in the gray of life. The ovals allow us to be able to stay strong and be objective.
Being Open to Speaking Honestly Mandala
This openness mandala is about speaking your truth. The indigo hearts in the background represent your inner thoughts seeking the truth and the fundamental goodness and generosity within you. The amber represents the acceptance of truth. The ovals symbolizes being able to stay strong in that truth.
Being Open to Your Essential Goodness Mandala
This openness mandala symbolizes people are essentially good. The red heart in the center represents love, awareness, and confidence of others being good. The shooting colors represent how you find goodness in what comes to us. The black is your power to turn your life experiences into good.
Chapter Seven
Your Relationship with Yourself—What
Gives Your Life Meaning?
What Gives Your Life Meaning Mandala?
This mandala is about finding your purpose in life. The white is the purity of that purpose. It is through the gold of the heart which is symbolic of the richness that comes from knowing your mission in life.
Life’s Meaning Gives You Direction Mandala
The yellow in this mandala represents your thoughts giving you direction. The pink is symbolic of the heart getting excited about the journey you are on. The yellow single streak represents looking into our life for meaning.
Life’s Meaning Comes from Your Heart Mandala
Knowing what gives your life meaning comes from a loving heart represented by the pink and yellow hearts. The crescent shapes are the smile that will always be on your face living what gives your life meaning.
Life’s Meaning Comes from Interests Mandala
In this mandala the eyes are symbolic of you looking at the things that you enjoy doing. They can be as variety as the colors of the rainbow. They are also representative of what is giving your life meaning.
Chapter Eight
Relationships with Yourself: The Personal
Empowerment Process® (PEP)
Relationship with Yourself Mandala
When you recognize how beautiful the different parts of you are, you will see as symbolized in this mandala, how versatile you are. Each color, when acknowledged and worked with is a big part of Coming Alive.
Personal Empowerment Develops Your Intuition Mandala
When you trust your inner voice – your intuition – you can begin to see the richness of your life’s path. The gold is about bringing warmth and richness to your life and inspires your courage and ambition.
Personal Empowerment Takes Some Reflection Mandala
Regular moments of reflection as symbolized by the yellow and pink in this mandala can bring clarity, calmness, and empowerment.
Personal Empowerment Brings New Understanding Mandala
The yellow in this mandala symbolizes new understanding in the many boxes. When you seek new understanding in every challenge you face, you are laying the foundation and empowerment of Coming Alive.
Personal Empowerment is Coming Alive Mandala
This is my personal Come Alive Mandala. It is filled with power and passion. What is your personal mandala look like?
Conclusion
So Enjoyed Our Journey Mandala
This mandala represented through the purple is about the mystery and magic of life. May you find wealth, wisdom, empowerment, luxury, and everything your heart desires in your enlightenment and evolving of your spirit.
Your Relationships with Others
Your Parents
My Early-Life Mandala
The mandala is symbolic of the blank spots coming from my childhood. The mandala is also an outline to share the beginning of my life story. My childhood had a richness represented by the gold and silver, and the contrasts, from a family both healthy and dysfunctional, are represented by the black and white streaks. A big dark hole—the blank spots—forms the heart of it.
Do You Love Me Mandala?
The mandala is symbolic how the love in parents’ eyes can lift a child to believe they are worthy. The heart of gold represents the fullness of love that shines in a parent’s eyes. The other colors are how that love influences many aspects of a child’s life.
Who Am I to My Family Mandala
The mandala symbolizes your family roles. The gold web-looking circle represents the natural tendency for you to want balance. The gold represents the need for the unknown blank spot family roles create.
Am I Independent, Counter-Dependent, or Co-Dependent Mandala?
This mandala represents the connection between parents and children and whether it is healthy or not. The white of the web and its shape symbolizes mental clarity of where you “end” and others “begin.” You are separate yet woven together. The gray signifies the wisdom to know who you are, and the black signifies confidence in your own independence and individuality.
Am I a Victim or Victor Mandala?
The gold in the mandala is another instance of the pot of gold at the end of a rainbow. The hearts and gold circle are symbolic of the victory dance when you press on with love for yourself to heal those experiences of feeling victimized.
Is My Past Resolved Mandala?
The mandala represents letting go. Turquoise illustrates nurturing yourself and healing your heart. Black is the symbol of darkness and the unknown empowers you to move on. The swirling shapes show how letting go spins around all related experiences and heals them.
Your Relationships with Others
Your Children
Raising Children Mandala
The mandala is symbolic of the challenges of raising children. The pink and yellow represents the thoughts and feelings you navigate to set the stage for a healthy environment, which is illustrated by the circle. The multi-color spikes behind the circle are the unexpected challenges of accommodating the diverse personalities of your children.
Awareness of Your Child Being Good Mandala
The mandala is a gold star used as an acknowledgement of excellence. The blue, green, and yellow represent success, growth, optimism and joy occurs when you find the good in your children.
Awareness of Your Child’s Vocabulary Mandala
The mandala is symbolic of your work with your children’s vocabulary to give them an understanding of life. The pink represents love and nurturing. The blue and turquoise represent growth, wisdom and self-expression, as well as success. The shell shape signifies truthful speech.
Awareness of Your Child’s Curiosity Mandala
The mandala is symbolic of your children’s growth when you stimulate their curiosity. The multi-colored heart-shaped circles represent the fun and joy of exploring their world with them. The purple signifies inspiration from their creativity and stimulation of their imagination, helping bring enlightenment of their evolving souls.
Awareness of Boundaries Mandala
The mandala illustrates the many circular layers of numerous types of positives boundaries give you. The heart layers are the inner structure and identity built within boundaries. The indigo conveys integrity and sincerity; blue brings order and direction; and silver is symbolic of respect, courtesy, and stability.
Your Relationships with Others
Your Friends, Family, and More
Relationships Connections Mandala
The mandala of relationships connections is pink which is symbolic of love, nurturing, and gentle compassion. The circles represent all the different types of relationships we have.
Connection with Differences Mandala
The mandala illustrates the differences you find in others – their lifestyles, beliefs, values, perspectives, and more. The multicolored spiral symbolizes those differences. The gold circle in the background signifies how differences are a means to learn how to bring happiness and beauty into light.
Connections with Labels Mandala
The mandala is symbolic of the labels you use to define yourself and others. When you use labels and words that include love and growth, you open a world of growth and love. The green in the mandala shows the openness. The multi- colored circular shapes illustrate wholeness and unity. The multicolored heart shapes mean love.
Connections with Expectations Mandala
Expectations can leave a hole in your inner life as illustrated in the mandala. The pink and yellow are symbolic of your thoughts and feelings. The purple represents your consciousness. The ring of swirling pieces illustrates what you know and the grey pieces what you don’t know with your relationships—a caution for your expectations.
Connection to Intimacy Mandala
The mandala contains multicolored doorways symbolic of the hope for intimacy in your relationships. The green is related to healing and represents giving and receiving of nurturing, compassion, and unconditional love is the foundation to intimacy.
Connection with Discernment Mandala
The mandala’s little boxes illustrate thoughts, feelings, challenges, and a desire to succeed. The desire is fueled by a passion to understand as symbolized by the colors of yellow, pink, green and blue. The black in the background signifies the unknown becoming known. Put together you have a useful view of judgement through the discernment.
Connection with Authenticity Mandala
The mandala symbolizes authentic openness. The white and gold heart shapes in the background signifies the warmth and richness as well as the courage to connect openly and honestly. The pink and gold ovals illustrate the spiritual structure of nurturing and has gentle compassion and unconditional love for others and yourself.
Connection to Self Yourself Mandala
The mandala is filled with multicolored hearts symbolizing love, acceptance, and forgiveness of yourself and others. The purple pulls these all together with the energy of spirituality, the consciousness and higher ideals. Compassion comes for the human condition when you love, accept, and forgive yourself.
Your Relationships with Others
Your Marriage or Partnership
Relationships with Others Mandala
The mandala above represents relationship challenges. The green symbolizes the growth and maturity as you become an adult. The pink represents your search for identity. The five rings represent the challenges in your relationships. They are colored black to represent the unknown.
The Courage of Personal Honesty Mandala
The mandala illustrates the many benefits honesty gives you from your courage to be open represented by blue. The many layers are symbolic of the benefits of honesty—authenticity, freedom, connection, and success. The multiple circles represent the ability to keep centered and honest whatever the circumstances
The Courage to be Introverted or Extroverted Mandala
The mandala is entirely of gold as every extrovert, introvert and ambiverts are rich in their own ways. The inner layer of circles symbolizes introverts who enjoy their aloneness. The outer layer of circles symbolizes extroverts who enjoy being with people. The entire circle symbolizes an ambivert who is a little of both.
Courage to Find Your Voice Mandala
An interesting mandala because the yellow circle illustrates your thinking nature is fogged with some darkness. The symbolizes your attempt to try to guess what people are thinking before you try sharing your truth. The black, of course, represents you can’t truly know what people are thinking or feeling for that matter because it can’t be known unless you ask.
Courage to be Open to New Perspectives Mandala
The mandala’s circled layers are symbolic of how you grow as you re-visit life’s issues. Each time you are determined, illustrated by red, to learn more and be confident. You grow clearer and clearer as you dig deeper and deeper until, in the center, you come to new perspectives and awareness.
Relationship with Yourself:
Your Inner Knowing
The Mandala of Inner Knowing
The mandala is symbolic of knowing yourself. Yellow represents courage and blue represents freedom. The circles illustrate wholeness. Put together the mandala is a symbol of taking courage to make changes in your life by digging deeper into your inner world. You then experience a new level of freedom, confidence, and peace.
Inner Knowing to Face Fear Mandala
These mandalas represent the two faces of fear—a huge unknown blank spot in many relationships. The left one illustrates fear itself; the unknown in black. The right illustrates facing your fear symbolized by the gold and white. They represent success knowing you have learned what you needed to learn to move out of fear.
Inner Knowing to Build a Case for Love Mandala
The mandala symbolizes your looking for the best in others even in the black darkness of the unknown. Others’ goodness is there waiting to be acknowledged as illustrated by the gold hearts. Finding the best in others clears away the negativity e distracting you from facing your own struggles, vulnerabilities, and insecurities.
Inner Knowing to Find the Real Issue Mandala
The mandala signifies the real issue hidden in your conflicts with others. The blue star represents the real issue. The fan shape is your search for it, represented by the blue/turquoise colors, is in your ability to open the door to spiritual growth and find emotional balance. The pink is symbolic of your feelings which lead you to the real issue and inner peace.
Inner Knowing in Building Trust Mandala
Trust is what is within you believing you are able manage whatever people say or do. The brown spiral symbolizes the peace, comfort, and reassurance when you look to trust.
Inner Knowing of Your Quiet Time
This mandala represents the sea of tranquility of your inner quiet. The blue is symbolic of the deep blue sea. It is peaceful, serene, and relaxed. The shape represents how this peace reaches out into all aspects of your life.
Inner Knowing About Fun Mandala
Yes, the fun mandala. The white feathers in a circle represent having fun!! The mandala illustrates awakening awareness fun is part of coming alive. The sequined multicolored hearts are symbolic of the love and joy Coming Alive brings. The gold is related to success, prosperity, wisdom, and tapping into courage to grow and face blank spots.
Your Relationship with Yourself:
Your Authentic Self
Your Authentic Self Mandala
This mandala is about openness to your authentic self. The white and gold heart shapes represent purity and goodness. The pink and gold ovals are symbolic of the structure of your identity which is about nurturing, gentle compassion, unconditional love.
Being Open to Seeing Your Authentic Self Mandala
The openness mandala is about your trust to be true to yourself symbolized by the turquoise. The blue represents honesty in your relationships. The shapes in the background are hearts illustrating how your authentic self comes from our heart. The ovals flow around your authentic self as support.
Being Open to Being Vulerable Mandala
This being open mandala is about being open to heal by walking into your vulnerability. Healing is illustrated in the colors green and yellow which are healing energies. The heart shapes in the background illustrate your courage to heal. The ovals protect us as we learn to heal in your vulnerability.
Being Open to Being Wrong Mandala
The openness mandala is about openness to being wrong illustrated in with black, white and gray. Nothing in your lives is totally black or white. The heart shapes in the background illustrate your inner spirit fully living in the gray of life. The ovals allow us to be able to stay strong and be objective.
Being Open to Speaking Honestly Mandala
This openness mandala is about speaking your truth. The indigo hearts in the background represent your inner thoughts seeking the truth and the fundamental goodness and generosity within you. The amber represents the acceptance of truth. The ovals symbolizes being able to stay strong in that truth.
Being Open to Your Essential Goodness Mandala
This openness mandala symbolizes people are essentially good. The red heart in the center represents love, awareness, and confidence of others being good. The shooting colors represent how you find goodness in what comes to us. The black is your power to turn your life experiences into good.
Your Relationship with Yourself—What
Gives Your Life Meaning?
What Gives Your Life Meaning Mandala?
This mandala is about finding your purpose in life. The white is the purity of that purpose. It is through the gold of the heart which is symbolic of the richness that comes from knowing your mission in life.
Life’s Meaning Gives You Direction Mandala
The yellow in this mandala represents your thoughts giving you direction. The pink is symbolic of the heart getting excited about the journey you are on. The yellow single streak represents looking into our life for meaning.
Life’s Meaning Comes from Your Heart Mandala
Knowing what gives your life meaning comes from a loving heart represented by the pink and yellow hearts. The crescent shapes are the smile that will always be on your face living what gives your life meaning.
Life’s Meaning Comes from Interests Mandala
In this mandala the eyes are symbolic of you looking at the things that you enjoy doing. They can be as variety as the colors of the rainbow. They are also representative of what is giving your life meaning.
Relationships with Yourself: The Personal
Empowerment Process® (PEP)
Relationship with Yourself Mandala
When you recognize how beautiful the different parts of you are, you will see as symbolized in this mandala, how versatile you are. Each color, when acknowledged and worked with is a big part of Coming Alive.
Personal Empowerment Develops Your Intuition Mandala
When you trust your inner voice – your intuition – you can begin to see the richness of your life’s path. The gold is about bringing warmth and richness to your life and inspires your courage and ambition.
Personal Empowerment Takes Some Reflection Mandala
Regular moments of reflection as symbolized by the yellow and pink in this mandala can bring clarity, calmness, and empowerment.
Personal Empowerment Brings New Understanding Mandala
The yellow in this mandala symbolizes new understanding in the many boxes. When you seek new understanding in every challenge you face, you are laying the foundation and empowerment of Coming Alive.
Personal Empowerment is Coming Alive Mandala
This is my personal Come Alive Mandala. It is filled with power and passion. What is your personal mandala look like?
So Enjoyed Our Journey Mandala
This mandala represented through the purple is about the mystery and magic of life. May you find wealth, wisdom, empowerment, luxury, and everything your heart desires in your enlightenment and evolving of your spirit.
