Mindful Art Activity

Mindfulness

Mindful Art Activity

Being mindful is a mental state achieved by focusing one's awareness in the present moment, while calmly acknowledging and accepting one's feelings, thoughts, and bodily sensations, used as a therapeutic technique.

In this blog Mindful Art Activity I will be concentrating on how to achieve mindfulness or calmness, stillness of your mind (which is constantly chattering) through colouring and drawing.

For this art therapy you will have to take a single colour of your choice and colour a picture in different tones and shades. 

Pink flowers

An example of the picture is given below.

The colour pink is used here. Pink colour represents youthfulness, caring, happiness.

A person who is mindfully colouring a picture using the chosen colour will immediately feel the emotions at a deeper level associated with the colour.

Here is the visual representation of mindful colouring. Only single colour is used. 

Now each colour has a meaning. I have mentioned the meaning of pink colour for the example picture.

As you use a single colour, or the moment you pick a colour and start colouring, colours will indirectly reveal what emotion you are feeling.

Here is a quick snapshot of meaning of colours.

Red - Energy, Orange- Safe, Yellow-joy, Green-Balance, Blue-Communication, Violet -Intuitive, Black-Diplomatic, White-Peace, Pink-Caring.

The method of colouring shown in the picture and in the video is colour value method. 

Here is a visual representation of How do you create a color value gradient scale.                      

Conclusion : 

Colours plays a major role in  creating and enhancing  up our moods. It impacts the human aura and, indirectly the human body. Over the centuries, many cultures around the world have used colours to restore mindfulness in the being.

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