What are mandalas and how can these symbolic images affect the human psyche?
Mandalas affect the right brian hemisphere, of intuition and creativity, unhooking the logical, ego centered, thinking left brain. Whilst staring into the mandala, and by fixing the gaze only upon the centre with no eye movement, the right brain is free to create visual imagery and therefore release endorphins and induce a medative state. Through the practice of viewing mandalas regularly one may heighten conscious awareness and allow insights and creative awareness grow, thus enhancing one’s inner life, and therefore by creating a more harmonious outer life.. Thank you , Tio Paco, you are quite correct……I have many painted and drawn mandalas and spiral images of my own, by my own hand, and which flew from creative intuition which, when viewed, automatically create a “let go” and swirl the senses away from mind and into glorious superconscious states.