Timelapse Video of a Mandala for Groundedness*
I created this mandala for groundedness because at this time of year, it is said that the veil is thin between this world and the world of the spirits. I wrote about All Hallow’s Eve and Day of the Dead in which I explain that in more detail.
Around this time, I start to feel like change is needed. I started this website in October 2016. Three years later, it’s true again. I have been wanting to journal more, be more creative and I’m noticing my thoughts fluttering in all directions. I have that unsettled feeling.
Creating a mandala and using colors that promote groundedness were in order.
The process of creating this mandala
As is always the case with my mandalas, I didn’t plan this one out. But I know that I’m not feeling entirely grounded. It’s for several reasons. The first is because of this time of year, as I mentioned above, but also as I research the business of meditation and being a “spiritpreneur,” I’m exploring ideas and topics for this site, cultivating my creativity, and focusing more on the business end of things even as I honor my creativity.
In order to address these feelings, some root chakra and sacral chakra tuning might be in order, too.
To that end, I noticed immediately as I created this mandala, that I used a lot more of the color black than I usually do. I also felt the need to use more reds and pinks – both colors that speak to being more grounded and in tune with basic needs. For me – and this is different for everyone – these all speak to my unsettled thoughts and the need to reign them in.
I also listened to some tongue drum music – which gave me ideas for when I’m teaching about creating mandalas and meditation. But that music is incredibly calming. So calming, in fact, that I think I will use my own tongue drum in future classes!
The Mandala for Groundedness:
Here’s a timelapse of the mandala (and I admit: I’ve been teaching myself how to create these in Adobe Premiere and I’m grateful to how it makes life easier…once you get the hang of it).
What can you do with this mandala?
The thing I love about mandalas is that they are versatile when it comes to meditating with them. You can watch this video. You can purchase this mandala and gaze at it for your own meditation. You can create your own with this Mandala for Groundedness as inspiration. I also have an I & S shop over at Zazzle with the mandalas I’ve created:
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Absolutely love how your Mandela turned out. Plus, seeing it in action in your video above was also so much fun, too. That said, thanks for sharing and wishing you a glorious Monday and week ahead now, too!! Hugs xoxo <3
Sweet Janine – thank you – ALWAYS – for your sweet comments, big smile, and lovely words. You are a gem. I hope you have a wonderful Monday and I’m so glad you liked the mandala. Sending you big hugs across the mountains… 🤗🤗🤗🤗
You always deliver, Lil Sis, not only some beautiful and functional mandelas, but also a general atmosphere of love and peace. This world needs about ten million more people like you in it, spreading the peace message, helping people to find their true core and thus make this world a better place. Keep doing what you are doing. You are needed.
Thank you, Big Bro. I do love making those mandalas. 🙂 And love and peace? Why yes, yes, you have me dialed in. 😁 Thank you for that compliment. I think the world needs a lot more Introverts and iNtuitives (those personality types from the Myers-Briggs personality types) who crave peace – I think you’re an “IN” type, as well. True core. Yes. This is what I am about. The true-blue, real deal because I don’t know how to be any different. Thank you for your thoughts and wisdom – always. Sending hugs from Cackalack.
I love the handpan music and could listen to it for hours. Very soothing and meditative. I’m glad you’re continuing to make and enjoy your mandalas.
Brad – oh yes, the handpan music was a discovery I’d made early this summer when I wandered into a bookstore in Edisto, SC and you know how some people just have the “vibe” – I knew he’d want to talk about meditation. We struck up a conversation and he asked if I’d ever heard of the hangdrum. He showed me some music videos and I was hooked. Since then, I’ve looked at different variations and have the tongue drum in the mail right now. I can’t wait to experiment with it. 🙂 Thanks for your awesomeness, friend!
I also love this soothing and soulful music, dear Cynthia.
Heading to your I & S Zazzle store soon – how exciting! Your mandala work is beautiful and this is an awesome way to share it with others.
Love you lots and big hugs too, Maria
Sweet Mar – oh, friend! I’ve been thinking of you. I hope you’ve been well. Had a look over at your blog and I am looking forward to when you post again. But in the meantime, I know you’re cultivating your highest self and doing the good work with your students. 💜 When I put music into videos or otherwise have something musical, I often think of you. Yours is a musical soul, sweet friend. You are an incredible human. Hehe…I’ve posted over at Zazzle before, but incorporating mandalas (as opposed to photography) is a whole different thing. But it’s a good learning curve. 🙂 Sending you big hugs sweet friend! xox🤗🤗🤗
Beautiful mandala, Cyndi and I love your time elapsed videos. Nice background music for the vid. Very soothing.
Heading over to your All Hallows Eve post 🙂
Sweet Denise! So wonderful to see you. I hope you’re having a great start to your week. Thank you for your expert ears on the music. You, too, are a musical soul – I can tell it’s something that really resonates with you. I can’t wait to try the tongue drum. I’m getting it in the mail today. I think once I learn, I’ll be able to have some great music in my videos that I create. 🙂 So fun! I hope you had a great Halloween and Day of the Dead, too, hehe. Sending hugs!🤗
This was a very interesting post. I’ve never seen a drum such as the one you were playing. Liked it..I’ve also never seen a mandala made. You are very good at that. I got a little dizzy watching it but it’s fascinating. It’s probably not something I’ll ever do because that kind of thing plays tricks with my eyes and brain. Funny the things I can’t look at anymore. Love the soothing music very much.
Marlene – thank you for sharing that about the mandalas. When I’m teaching about them, it helps me to know where different people might be coming from and the effects of it on the eyes. And you haven’t seen a mandala made? Oh, that’s exciting because it just goes to show that we never stop learning. 🙂 You do your own form of incredible meditation: quilting and embroidering. Those two things are just incredible and I admire anyone who knows how to do them. 💜 I hope you’re doing well, my friend. Sending you hugs! 🤗
(Don’t tell anyone, but…) there is something about time-lapse ‘movies’ such this, that makes me want to believe that I become the person that I might be. Counter-intuitively enough* it is not the sense of speed of the process that resonates, its more a feeling of non-uncertainty**. An ease and totality of commitment. (One of my affirmations is ‘to engage the world, without reservation’.
Maybe that’s behind the sense of proper action.
* yeah, like that state of mind ever occurs in my life, lol
** not a ‘real’ word
Clark – time lapse movies…yes, they draw you in, and mesmerize you (or at least they do me) and I find myself wanting TO ACTUALLY strive to be more like whatever the theme is for those time lapses. Have you seen those ones with the accumulation of snow? They give me such a sense of peace and a need to connect to nature. So yes, there is an underlying uncertainty for sure. For some reason, I am thinking of Castaneda, it seems like he references something like this – engaging the world without reservation – in one of his books.
*I hope that I reach a state of mind, one day, where I’m like this enlightened being. Though as much time as I spend interacting with the world and with screens…haha…I need some ‘desert solace’ time, me thinks.
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Loved your creation dearest Cynthia.. And the handdrum I have loved and explored for several years.. Your handdrum video is soothing and I had not seen one like that before..
Here is a group I follow, called Hang Massive https://youtu.be/nvmOoSFhhJ4 I love their music a video scenery..
I am delighted Cynthia that you are exploring new options and reading your comments.. I hope the tongue drum arrived safely and you are enjoying creating beautiful sounds.. I am sure we will be hearing it accompany some meditation videos you upload very soon..
Thank you my friend for your patience with me also..
I have just withdrawn into my own cocoon a little right now.. Following my own inner flow of logging in and out of my blog..
I cannot as yet say I am fully back in WP.. As I just want to keep the WiFi turned off most of the time..
I cannot put into words..
Yet at the same time I am driven to communicate and enlighten.. Yet I feel I want to switch off from the world.. Does that make sense.. NO..
But Sigh… I am gradually catching up and still have comments pending to answer on my blog, yours included my dear dear friend whom I resonate with so well..
Know you are so loved dear friend..
And I so am in ‘Tune’ with all you say and do..
Love to you and enjoy your weekend dear Cynthia…
You really are a Light in the world..
Take care of you.. <3 Hugs
Sweet Sue – Thank you for your thoughts here and I appreciate you coming by. 💜 Of COURSE you’ve explored the hand drum and such. I LOVE the Hang Massive duo. Their music is so soothing. I often listen when I’m working at the computer.
As for your comment about exploring options…oh yes. I am always doing this. Just this weekend, I have been trying to decide what direction to go next: make a coloring book (in which I need to learn about creating vectors in adobe illustrator), explore the tongue drum, continue making my regular mandalas, make the tao te ching mandalas, and…and…hehe. I’m so thirsty to do all the things and it has this effect of making me feel like I’m not grounded. I wonder if it’s this time of year…I seem to have this feeling each October/November. The time away and the weeks I spent NOT creating posts were good for me. Now that I’m back with more regularity, whew, it’s like my mind is wanting to catch up on EVERYTHING. Ah well…I continue to spend time meditating and I will after I complete this comment. An afternoon session will do me good. 🙂 And you getting away from the screen is so good. I haven’t yet figured out how to completely get away from it, unless I’m traveling. My job at the school and my job here on the website both necessitate it so much. I think it’s important to be mindful of balance. I went out for a long walk around the lake this morning, worked for a couple hours, cleaned the house for an hour, I’m working for another hour, and then I’ll take another break. I definitely try to rest betwixt all of the activities I’m doing, but whew…sometimes I do want to turn it all off to relish the silence and doing NO-THING.
You truly are a gem, my friend. As I continue to find my path, you are a wise soul whom I think of often. 🙂
YOU are a light. YOU are incredibly loved and share such wisdom with all of us.
Sending you many blessings from across the Atlantic…
-C