tips on how to cope: dealing with your feelings, dealing with the consequences of self-harm in your life. share your ideas and maybe pick up some new skills, too. you don't have to want to stop to learn something new here.
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by Roxi » Sat Jul 19, 2008 8:13 pm
Something which I like to do as a distration when I feel triggered or when I am stressed out is to colour mandalas. They are nicer to colour by hand, but today my printer wasn't working so I used good old paint to do this one (below) ...it took ages (zooming in and colouring pixel by pixel) and I was feeling in a much safer space when I finially finished~!



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by Spidey » Sat Jul 19, 2008 9:23 pm
Colouring mandalas is great
I have a bunch of velvet boards with lions on them that I colour (you colour in the white parts, not the black velvet parts) when I get bored or urgy.
I've made lions some VERY INTERESTING colours (who's ever heard of a turquoise lion?!)
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by Ice_crystal » Sat Jul 19, 2008 10:20 pm
I like mandalas too.

I colored them a lot while I was in clinic, because there was a huge selection of different mandalas.
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by Roxi » Sun Jul 20, 2008 12:02 am
Ice crystal - funnily enough I first came accross them when I was IP too

I did one in pastels the first day I was there .
Spidey , Is this what you are talking about ?
...I had a really big one (A2 size) of a geisha



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by Priceless » Sun Jul 20, 2008 2:24 am
mandalas are wonderfull.
i got a mandala coloring book by my parents for my birthday
they are really good.
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by balletomane » Sun Jul 20, 2008 9:48 pm
I am OBSESSED with mandalas. I was so excited to see this thread. Yours is beautiful, Roxi.

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by Spidey » Mon Jul 21, 2008 12:17 am
Yeah Roxi, those!
I never use the markers that come with them though because I have a shiny and good set of my own

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by Candy » Mon Jul 21, 2008 8:08 pm
I love to color Manadala,if I spell that right. It helps me to relax and to keep myself from thinking about what is bothering me. I love them!!
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by Roxi » Tue Jul 22, 2008 8:55 pm
...and another one....



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by Ice_crystal » Tue Jul 22, 2008 9:29 pm
did you made this all by computer??
I tried yesterday, but it took me ages, and since I'm not very patient...
how long did it take?
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by Roxi » Wed Jul 23, 2008 5:54 am
I colored it on the computer...didn't do the outline if that's what you mean though - just got a template from a website. It took me about half an hour; I am not very patient either, but when I am stressed I need something to focus all my enegry on


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by Ice_crystal » Wed Jul 23, 2008 7:15 am
.didn't do the outline if that's what you mean though
yes, I know.

copied mine from a website too. But it took me ages anyway...
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by Roxi » Wed Jul 23, 2008 4:15 pm
at first they took me quite a while too, but I am rather nifty on paint now



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by styled_wrong » Mon Aug 04, 2008 12:16 pm
they have really helped me i love colouring them in
scars are tattoos with better stories
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by Beasty » Wed Aug 13, 2008 5:56 am
Haha I saw Tibetan monks make one in person, with the sand and everything! It was so cool. I even have a little vial of the sand they used

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by Spidey » Wed Aug 13, 2008 4:24 pm
Doing mandalas is about 300% more fun with my tablet

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by Roxi » Wed Aug 13, 2008 5:22 pm
tablet ? like meds> ? ooo- what kind ?


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