ALUNA TEMPLE MAGAZINE EDITION No5 'ALCHEMY' | Page 86

Twenty years ago I started having an urge to paint. It was a profound period in my life - I wanted my life to be colourful again. I always loved colours but never considered myself as a painter. I remember saying to myself: ’’Let’s try to make a pattern and then just play with colours.’’ As I drew lines and dots in concentric circles patterns built themselves. I didn’t know that I was drawing mandalas. I didn’t even know that mandalas existed. But I had something to focus on: a line and another line, a dot and another dot, following the moment with my pencil. When my mind went into “Dark waters”, I asked myself: “Where are you going!? Draw the line and make a moment meaningful!” My mind became more stable, more focused and suddenly I became aware of my own thoughts. That’s how I discovered that LIFE/MANDALA IS what YOU DO with every moment of Time given to US here on Earth. It becomes a pattern of spent moments, thoughts, feelings and doings. And then you colour it. Oh, those colours, how they were spilling over the silk... It was like a cuddling to my soul. Positive Thinking; I combine the healing power of the Letters of Light with energetic treatments that were presented to me by Avigail Mor. Mandalas I’ve done in that period didn’t have any plan or special meaning. I just drew and painted on the silk for the purpose of enjoyment. But then I made a mistake, which I thought I could not repair: there was a line and she was not in the place I intended it to be. I asked myself: ’’Will you throw away the whole picture because of this one line? Will you stop doing what your Heart enjoys the most? No. Let’s try to do something with it.’’ So I did, and I came to wisdom: you cannot just throw away the picture/situation/event/Life, because of one mistake. Do something with it. 86