You may be familiar with Chromotherapy, a therapy in which color is used to establish balance and harmony in the body, mind, and emotions, but what you may not know is that you can use all the energy of colors in the design of a mandala.

Mandala is a Sanskrit word that means circle. Each mandala creates an intense field of energy and magnetism, in which by working the colors we can seek self-knowledge, well-being, balance, and relaxation.

If we look around us, we can find mandalas everywhere, in flowers, in shells, in stars, in fruits like a kiwi or an orange for example. Do an exercise and observe everything around you, mandala shapes are everywhere.

In the East, the Tibetans believe that the mandala brings the knowledge to reach enlightenment in this life, while the color represents a state of mind and brings to the individual a meaning for that moment of his life.

What colors do you need at this moment?

Many emotional states are demonstrated in the colors of a mandala, by the work of observation, meditation, or painting of the mandala itself. We bring to our consciousness answers to our questions or quiet our mind, thus improving anxiety and stress states.

Many emotional states are demonstrated in the colors of a mandala

And how to get a mandala or even draw it and know what colors you are needing in your present moment of life? You can learn to draw and paint a mandala through a course, look for mandala images in books or websites, or buy them in Indian or esoteric products stores.

How you color it is up to you: with colored pencils, colored pens, crayons, or even computer software, if you are skilled at it. You will find that it is like being a child again, playing with shapes and colors.

If you bought the mandala or created it, note the meanings of the colors that caught your eye at the time of purchase or that you used to color it:

1. Red: It is the color of conquests, passions, and sexuality. When the color red is in a mandala, it needs to be used well, for it can make you sleepy or irritated.
2. Yellow: Yellow is activating and dynamic, it acts on the mental processes. Yellow drives away fixed ideas and increases the reasoning capacity. It is the color of intelligence, study, and creativity.
3. Orange : it is restorative and regenerating, it brings recovery after a destructive process and the ability to remake what is not right. It is the color of courage, reconstruction, and improvement.
4. Green: Green improves any negative physical state and energizes body and soul. When a mandala has the color green, its vibrations are always energizing, and at whatever level it is, it is beneficial to everyone.
5. Blue: brings balance, patience, harmony and serenity, calms body and mind, helps in cases of insomnia and stress.
6. Indigo: works on the energetic balance, intuition, protection, cleaning, and purification of environments.
7. Violet or Lilac: Violet acts on those who are spiritually unbalanced, unbelieving, and without connection to the divine forces. When a mandala has the color violet or lilac, it cleanses and isolates the environments in which it is.
8. Pink: works on affection, love, harmony, union, and helps to balance personal and professional relationships.

   What benefits can a mandala bring? As you saw above, there are many, depending on the colors chosen: concentration ability, creativity, decreased anxiety and stress, physical and emotional balance, improved self-esteem, among others.