Coloring

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Coloring

• Created By
• Erin Kaplan
• Robert McDonnell

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How Art Heals

• Scientific studies tell us that art heals by
  changing a person's physiology and attitude
• Art and music put a person in a different brain
  wave pattern, art and music affect a person's
  autonomic nervous system, their hormonal balance
  and their brain neurotransmitters
• Art and music affect every cell in the body
  instantly to create a healing physiology that
  changes the immune system and blood flow to all
  the organs
• Art and Music also immediately change a person's
  perceptions of their world
• They change attitude, emotional state, and pain
  perception
• They create hope and positively and they help
  people cope with difficulties
• They transform a person's outlook and way of
  being in the world
• For healing comes to us from within, our own
  healing resources are freed to allow our immune
  system to operate optimally and that is always
  how we heal
• This is the contemporary version of freeing our
  healing energies and is now recognized to be
  crucial to healing

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Terminology
Inner Dialogue Self talk The conversations going on in the mind Forms our attitudes and perspectives consciously or unconsciously Affects our bodies can cause up liftment or disease
Self Enhancement An empowered state of feeling great and getting better/evolving consciously Moves one further into advantageous , personal evolution and uplifts our whole life and consequently the lives of those around us
Mandala An archetypal image that represents wholeness of self Any design emanating to or form a center The designs used for therapeutic coloring in Coloring Therapy Part of the fabric of life
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Coloring Therapys Three Steps
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Mandala Coloring

• It is widely regarded as a symbol of healing and
  total well-being
• Mandala represents the journey on the one hand,
  and the result or destination in the other
• Like ourselves, no two are colored the same

• The Mandala is a symbol of the spiritual source
  or center inherent in everything
• Mandala coloring is gentle fun while the same
  time accessing a meditative state that leads to
  self discovery

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Discern the Inner Dialogue

• Inner Dialogue keeps our minds very busy and it
  can affect the body in the form of stress or
  upliftment
• Coloring pulls us into a state of mind where we
  can listen
• Every person in the world carries an ongoing
  dialogue with themselves, of 150 and 300 words a
  minute
• Coloring is an environment where we can improve
  our ability to listen and reprogram our inner
  dialogue

• Many people find meditation difficult to attain
  even though the benefits are well documented
• In Coloring Therapy, a state of meditative
  awareness is easily attained because the focus
  needed to suspend our inner dialogue occurs in
  the coloring
• Once you recognize your inner dialogue, you can
  begin to manage it and influence life in a
  direction that is decidedly beneficial

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Suspend the Inner Dialogue

• In Coloring Therapy, the attention we put into
  coloring creates suspended inner dialogue
• This is an objective state of awareness where we
  are able to view and review our thoughts as we
  have them
• In suspended inner dialogue we are open and
  receptive to higher knowledge, healing,
  creativity, and consciousness
• Suspension of the inner dialogue can occur within
  moments of coloring

• In this place, we are reminded that we are not
  who we sometimes think ourselves to be
• In paying close attention to our inner dialogue
  we begin to realize how much of our "identity"
  comes from external sources such as religion,
  culture, the media, etc
• Suspending inner dialogue provides access to
  opportune perspectives from which to heal and
  self-enhance

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Colors

• Color affects us all.
• We respond to the atmosphere which a color
  creates around us.
• Color is capable of healing us as well.
• Since ancient times, color and light have been
  used by healers.
• It is now thought that the reason we are so
  strongly affected by color is that the human
  energy system is very responsive to light.
• Light is made up of the full spectrum of colors -
  the rainbow.

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