I like to color mandalas. No, I love coloring mandalas! I became interested in them a long time ago, when this activity was not a fashionable hobby or a tribute to fashion, but at the call of my soul. Of course, I don’t have the nerves to draw by myself. I go deep, erase, draw again, erase again, start a new pattern, want more and more perfection, and in the end I end up with a sheet set aside or torn. And I paint them for as long as I like... Diligently, patiently, slowly, as if savoring the colors and lines, transitions, transformations. I am completely immersed in this wonderful magical world (which is only mine and filled only with my light), of course, I make some adjustments to the finished ornament, but after 1.5 - 2 hours at least, in a maximum of a couple of days, in front of me is an image that pleases me. An image brought to perfection (in my subjective opinion, of course) and complete. Now I don’t want to change anything in it, there’s nothing superfluous in it, it doesn’t need any additions. Why am I doing this? The most banal answer is that I like to color and draw. Expected - to restore mental balance and self-expression, concentration and energy charge of my space in space, facilitating the materialization of my thoughts and desires. Standard - now everyone is doing this, I tried it out of curiosity, and got carried away. But these answer options are not about me. I color mandalas in order to hear myself and put things in order in my “house in the heart.” I think that everyone will agree with me, because in fact it is very important that we have order not only in our heads, but also in our hearts. “A house in the heart.” I really love this figurative expression. I'm happy to use it at work. This allegory is especially effective in practical work with children, adolescents and completely lost adult clients from ordinary hard workers who do not have not only a higher education, but sometimes even a secondary specialized education. Who, unexpectedly for them, were overtaken by an existential crisis, and in confusion and complete confusion, feeling awkward and guilty of something, they turned to a psychologist for help. Soul and spirituality for me are not empty words or pathos, it is our important component part. In my work I place special emphasis on them. But these simple earthly people, who have been engaged in hard economic labor almost since childhood, then working in industries, working on the land, are so “killed” morally and no longer believe in anyone or anything, so “entangled” in the networks of hopelessness and monotony of life, who have not learned to live in the modern world, who have not kept up with it, not that they have forgotten how to live in pleasure or with joy, but who have not had time to feel what it is like, not up to higher matters, which is not only explainable and justifiable, but quite natural and predictable, after all. But “a house in the heart”... that’s another matter. He helps out and saves. It helps not only to start putting things in order in yourself, to understand what is happening to you, but it rekindles in your soul first a spark, then a flame, and then a hearth of resurrected faith, hope, and love. Renovated, well-groomed, needed by its owner, it is filled with life. We live in surprisingly interesting and difficult times. Oversaturation with information, easy access to it, its constant influence on our brain with the aim of shaping the thinking of a modern person makes many people feel “driven”, “pushed” into a corner. It is difficult to separate the wheat from the chaff, it is difficult to understand this diversity and all-accessibility, what is yours, what is really important for you, what contributes to your development and preservation, what has an invisibly destructive effect on you. Modern man is slowly but surely losing the ability to hear himself, to hear his heart. And if you can’t hear yourself, if you’re afraid to be alone with yourself, if you don’t know how to enjoy external silence, if at any time of the day you “jam” yourself with constantly working TVs, phones, computers, etc., then very.