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Using Mandalas with Students with Autism By Kelly Jean Sullivan

  <script async src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1763189992875486"      crossorigin="anonymous"></script> Coloring, in particular, mandalas promotes well-being at all ages. For children is an activity that  helps develop hand-eye coordination, trains the mind to recognize shapes, develops creativity, stimulates the sense of patience and attention, helps the development of intelligence and reasoning What do mandalas teach children? Carl Jung said that a mandala symbolizes "a safe refuge of inner reconciliation and wholeness." One of the reasons we enjoy making mandalas with children is because of their ephemeral nature. Like most nature art, ephemeral nature art can teach your child that  not everything we value has to be material Mandalas are traditionally used in many eastern spiritual traditions as a tool to aid meditation. In western culture, mental health counselors often use mandalas  as a f