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– When were you interested in mandalas, what did they attract?
– I started drawing mandalas three or four years ago. A friend donated a coloring book. I colored myself, colored and then somehow I thought it was silly. The feeling that my brain is drying up doesn’t work. Suddenly I realized that I was just sitting and coloring weird pictures, what nonsense.
So I started thinking, what if I started to draw mandalas myself? Maybe I can? Well, and I started. He was so involved in the process itself, drawing, coloring that he couldn’t do anything else. I used to draw at night for the third hour, although the next day I went to lectures and a child to kindergarten …
When people draw, they initially complain about something, but there comes a time when they can even hear a fly. It happens that when you bring tea, you dip a brush in it. When drawing, a person simply falls into himself.
Then I started delving into what makes mandalas so different. I researched the meaning of the colors until it became clearer. I found information that Carl Gustav Jung had his own theories about mandalas. He thought that a man who drew 100 mandalas changed his personality. Well I don’t know how we can check here because there are no measurements, but my life has changed a lot.
– Maybe you have already drawn 100 mandalas? What has specifically changed?
– I actually drew more than 100. When I started, I couldn’t stop. Some manic purchase of different watercolors, the search for shades. I became more and more immersed in the meaning of colors and shapes. When you have a lot of interest in something, all the dots come together.
When I found out that there was a mandala drawing course, I went, and there the girl just read from the page: “If you have more of this color, it is serious, if others have it.” I thought, “Okay! I really know more.”
Constantly interested in the subject, I discovered that man draws a self by drawing a mandala. In particular, the fact that I started teaching mandalas myself has changed my life.
Section: Each spontaneously drawn mandala reflects the condition of the person who draws it at that moment. From a series of mandalas it is possible to describe the character of a person, identify psychological problems.
– Let’s say I’ve never drawn a mandala before and I have no idea where to start. How you teach
– I give him a square sheet, pencils, a ruler and a ruler. Then the person just draws the center, makes a couple of circles and everything – it works, draws. It is very common for people to draw everything (lines, circles) and then sit down and ask, “What to do now?” This job requires a creative flow.
The best example is children who sit and draw. They don’t need a subject, they don’t have to say what to draw, they just do it, and the adult sits on the sheet and is afraid of damaging it.
– I’m scared too, because I can’t draw very well. Isn’t that necessary when creating a mandala?
– No drawing skills required. Even the artists who come draw knowing what will be beautiful. It is not as exciting as seeing a man who has never really drawn, but who takes a paintbrush and creates a masterpiece of art.
Many think that they supposedly cannot draw because they were never appreciated as children. This happens due to psychological trauma. I can’t be surprised every time how well people draw and how unique we are. He looks up and thinks, “How could I not think that?”
What I like the most is that you bring back the opportunity to feel light again. We get so complicated in life that we can no longer make mistakes. What are you going to ruin? Just a sheet of paper, nothing more.
– What kind of people come to classes? Are they just complicated?
– It comes of all kinds. When we use creative energy, it is easier in all other areas. Coming to draw and relax is great fun.
I remember one of those businessmen who is really a very serious and complex person. Said, “I know what I’m going to do when I get home. I’ll buy a watercolor, a brush. I need that kind of break.”
When people draw, they initially complain about something, but there comes a time when they can even hear a fly. It happens that when you bring tea, you dip a brush in it. When drawing, a person simply falls into himself.
– You are a teacher, specialist in mara technique, you practice yoga and meditation. It also performs mandal diagnostics. What is the mara technique, the mandala diagnosis? Where did you learn that?
– Marma Massage – Ayurvedic therapy that harmonizes the bioenergetic network of the body. By stimulating the jam points, the bioenergetic channels are cleaned.
Mandal diagnosis helps reveal a personality, a new look at yourself and your life. First, I explain to them what they see in the mandala, I ask people, what would they like to change? The first step that can be done, at least in a mandala, is to change the color. Clearly, this is not enough to make life change. It takes some real action and life to do. First of all, it happens here (points to incense).
And where I learned that, I can’t answer.
– Is it innate?
– It is a certain sensory knowledge and of colors and shapes. Some people are more sensitive to it, others are less sensitive. I have been working as a marmoset masseuse for many years, which requires sensitivity towards the human body. I honestly believe that we all have the ability to feel each other, we just don’t cultivate that.
– What makes a mandala symbol special? Could you also say something about the person in a different drawing?
– I could not say anything about a simple drawing. It is the representation in a circle that reflects the interior of man. There is a certain system.
The mandala that we see every day. Look the person in the eye – it is a mandala. The point around which a circle of repeating shapes passes. All cultures have some kind of mandala expression. For example, Lithuanians have sunshine. I was recently at a conference saying that this flower is a Catholic symbol, but that is not true. The sun is certainly a much older symbol in Lithuania, not of Catholicism. It symbolizes transformation.
In India, there is a region where women get up every morning early in the morning to draw a mandala with colored chalk on the first bowl for the goddess of well-being Lakshmi to come home.
In all cultures there is some kind of representation in a circle. It is not accidental. When a person draws a mandala, you see everything about it in that drawing. Man cannot go through pain, so all experiences are visible in the mandala.
– You sell a mandala, right? Don’t they lose their meaning when they enter other houses?
– Yes, I sell. I draw what is relevant to a person, so that it does not lose meaning. It happens that sometimes people write messages in which when they get up every morning they look at the mandala for the first time.
Sometimes it happens to me that I sit down, draw quickly and then I investigate and see what came out. In other words, I feed my eyes with those colors.
For example, we prepare according to certain standards. I personally don’t like yellow, but I happen to paint the whole mandala yellow because I don’t use it anywhere else in my life. The mandala feeds us with what we lack.
At first, it was shy for me to draw for others, but when I received feedback, I realized that it was possible for someone else to create them as well. Of course, I still have to get to know the person a little bit, because I wouldn’t dare to draw blindly.
– You said that mandalas came into your life relatively recently. I wonder if your profession has something to do with drawing. What would you become when you finish school?
– I didn’t want to become anyone after school (laughs). My parents said that I had to study somewhere, so I learned to weave art with wicker. I’ve never done this job, it doesn’t interest me at all.
When I was a kid, what I wanted most was to work in a press shop. I loved the smell of newspapers and paper. I thought: “How good it is to work there, you can read all the magazines for free.”
My career as an artist has been held back by criticism. So I thought I would never really draw. For example, my son is eleven years old. For him, drawing is sadness. 90 percent. the children I have seen do not know how to handle art tools. I feel like the mission is to show how a brush can become a friend.
– How do your loved ones view your activities?
– I think it’s neutral. The sister supports me a lot. The time has come when I no longer care how others value me. I value myself, and also the calmest.
– More and more people are learning about mandalas. Are you feeling more interested? If so, what determines this in today’s culture?
– Now is the time when a person inevitably has to return to himself. Bread and butter are no longer enough. We are no longer at the level where we just need to survive. The time has come for man to begin to delve into himself. It seems correct to me, because it is a great shame in life if you do not understand through it who you are or what you are doing here. Didn’t you just work for retirement? After all, they may not succeed. It’s fun for people to delve into others rather than others. Even many books try to find yourself.
– That you’ve already talked about books … I’ve seen you share book quotes on social networks, so I conclude that you enjoy reading. What book would you recommend reading to someone who is interested in mandalas?
– It’s very individual. Each of us is at some stage, a leg of life’s journey. I can’t tell if a person is in the first or 101 kilometers because these two people would need different books to read.
People are more lost in idealization. There must be a perfect person, the other side is also perfect, an ideal home, a family, a job. This makes no sense. Women, and often men, are involved in major depression because things do not go as they imagined and planned from childhood. In this popular case, I would suggest reading Alexander Svias’s book The Wise World.
The greatest luxury in the world is living sober in every way. The reality is not as scary as is often imagined. This book is about that, so it is the first step you can resist.
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