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Psychoanalyst Carl Jung saw the mandala as "a representation of the unconscious self," and believed his paintings of mandalas enabled him to identify emotional disorders and work towards wholeness in personality. 

Actually it's completely free.  Heh.  Sorry about that. 

Feeling frazzled folks?  This could be the distraction you've been looking for!  

I can't pretend to know anything much about Mandalas, but can see that they're a very good idea.  To gaze upon, to make, to contemplate the beauty and the order of them.  Indeed, I don't doubt there are thousands of people taking soul-numbing drugs who could probably 'cure' themselves much more effectively, even improving on the current model, through mandala appreciation and application.  The aim of any psychotherapy should be to enrich, awaken and enlarge your spiritual life not simply return you 'back' to 'normal' i.e, mediocre or average.

I have no idea why I decided to go looking for Mandalas;  I used to play a game when I was fourteen, with a friend and we would track back through our thoughts to work out where a particular thought originated.  I think we proved to each other that it could be done. But the discovery of the birth of what led to what led to what wasn't particularly enlightening or interesting.  For some reason I have an image of pine trees when I remember us playing this game.  

I am at fear of digressing wildly today, so I will stick to the topic at hand even though I know not from where it sprung.  I'll remember later.  

Teh Tao of Mandal. I've never drawn a Mandala, because I'm fairly sure it involves a certain amount of ruler-work and mathematics. Any mandala I've drawn tended to be more like this below.

Drawn usually quickly with a biro on a piece of white A4 maybe with the help of a saucer. Done when bored or something and not necessarily as a spiritual exercise.   (In other words I did draw one once and it actually looked nothing like this one).  but you get the picture.  I'd recommend a googling of mandala images to find the ones you like. Or better still draw your own.

They are truly beautiful and particularly ordering to a disorganised, post-eclipse, waiting on Mercury moving-on type mind.

As the saying goes, physician heal thyself.