Within the circle

It's my understanding that the psychotherapist and writer, Carl Jung, constructed one mandala each morning for a two-year period of his life. I'm not there yet, I'm just learning how to construct mandalas, period.

The circle is a symbol of completeness and wholeness. Last year, in the girls' therapy group at Juvenile Hall, for eight weeks I brought in every kind of circle art project I could think of so the girls would have a series of whole and complete symbols in their art journals. Each time I reminded them that this was a project they could do on their own on the "outs" to calm and comfort themselves instead of using drugs or getting themselves in some sort of trouble.

I have no idea whether this made any kind of impact whatsoever, but it calms ME, so I work within the circle often.