Coloring Mandalas 2: For Balance, Harmony, and Spiritual Well-Being (An Adult Coloring Book)

I have had this book for two months and have colored several mandalas with high quality colored pencils. There is an excellent variety of mandalas from very simple to very complex. This has allowed me choose a mandala to color depending on my mood - sometimes I do want simple because the complex ones require a great deal of planning.Coloring these mandalas have been very peaceful experiences. The simpler designs I color at any time, but the more detailed ones are a spiritual experience for me, and I only color them alone with peaceful, meditative music playing.I removed and took one of the mandalas that I colored to be laminated because the design and the way I colored it is perfect for meditation, and I didn't want to risk any damage. Many will remain in the book, but I plan to laminate any that speak to me deeply.This would also make a great family shared book with the simple to complex designs. Younger children wouldn't have any problems with the simpler designs, and older children and parents would enjoy the challenges of the complex designs.I am so glad I purchased this book!

this was my first amazon purchase 12 years ago, when amazon was all books. oh how the world has changed. i cannot remember why i purchased this but i vaguely remember loving it and memories returned when i looked inside. you can now buy coloring mandalas at the dollar store, another cool way the world has changed. it is a gorgeous book with high quality paper and spiral bound makes for easier coloring. oh to be 29 again ... :) all the mindfulness though has made for a beautiful 12 years that has been a perfect spiritual, professional, emotional, personal and material blossoming. meditation has been a large part of this path, and coloring mandalas is a form of meditation.

It took a while to have the time to sit and get started, but once I did, I colored for 3 hours and didn't even realize I had been at it so long! It truly is like a type of meditation. Being creative with color combinations is very therapeutic and the result is so enjoyable to look at. I hope to complete some that are well done enough to frame. I can also see using them as patterns for a beading project or maybe someday stained glass (something I have always wanted to learn how to do)Buy a very good quality set of pencils, I would suggest 36 colors or more. I purchased a good set of 24 and feel like I'm lacking a lot of colors I would have enjoyed using.

Sometimes even as an adult I enjoy coloring wether with crayons or colored pencils, it is very theraputic, and your able to focus on something else for a while. This books illustrations are very beautiful, but you have the opportunity to use the colors you want, and on actual white paper instead of the off white-ish color of childrens books. It helps to have the spiral bound, I do have a few others without the spiral bound but this just makes it easier and more comfortable. It is like making your own stained glass pictures.

Great coloring book. The mandalas are beautiful. The first book gives more descriptions of the history of mandalas. The book is spiral bound which makes it easier to color in.

I purchased this specifically because I was looking for a mandala book with less intricate designs that can be less time-consuming. This book offers a decent amount of variety. Some of the mandalas are quite plain, but in a way that invites you to add your own details to them if you want to make them a little fancier. The paper quality is just okay, which is one of the reasons I'm taking off a star. The other reason is that, though the spiral binding is an excellent feature (and another reason I chose this book over others), the cover is such that you still can't lay the book quite flat even when folding it back. The cover is all one piece with the spiral running through it twice, and the little strip that makes the "edge" causes the pages to still have a slight hump on the left side when opened flat. The pictures go up quite close to the spiral binding, so this isn't much of an improvement over books with glued/sewn binding.

My initial introduction to mandalas was when my daughter colored one and gave it to me for a birthday present -- it sparked my interest so I looked on line at several. I chose this one, I liked the looks of them the best of all I've seen and it really is a therapy of sorts for me. This year, all my siblings, children, parents, etc., can expect to receive one on their birthdays! The sketches are on good quality paper, not too terribly intricate but enough so to make it interesting. The first chapter with information about mandalas, their origin, plus more, just gives me such an understanding. I very much recommend this book!

This was my first mandala book, as the designs are more basic and not as intricate as a lot of the books are now. Don't get me wrong, they are still intricate, you just don't need a magnifying glass to color them! It's actually a relaxing experience! The lines are clear and not "fuzzy" and copied looking like some books, so they look like a masterpiece when you're done with them. Love this book the most out of all the volumes and have given it several times as gifts!

Many to choose from

円形のマンダラが７２枚（いずれも白地に黒線）。末尾には何も線画が書かれていない白円のページが３P。冒頭の英字説明はよく読めませんでしたがシュリ・ヤントラの白図など説明があり、インド哲学や仏教由来のものであると推察。副題にFor Balance, Harmony, and Spiritual Well-Being と。

Nice book but expensive

I have recently 'researched' this market due to my latest fad and hobby interest, and got rather frustrated with reviews (and indeed the product descriptions on Amazon's website!) not giving enough factual information about such books.The purpose of this review is to remedy this and help others looking for good colouring-in books.I am pretty delighted with this book as the mandalas themselves are very good and attractive ones in my opinion, the quality of the designs amongst colouring-in books varies very much in this respect. I bought two previous mandala colouring-in books where I found the mandalas so unattractive-looking I didn't really feel motivated to colour them in.The designs in this book are mainly symmetrical, abstract or semi-abstract, and fairly precisely - but not machine-perfectly - drawn. They have quite a bit of detail, but are not too fussy/intricate, and the black lines are of very reasonable, medium thickness that varies within each design. One possible issue for some, depending on taste, is that they are really rather large, you have the dimensions, they go to little more than a centimeter, less than an inch, of the edge of the page.Very importantly, the back of the pages is (almost) blank, so if you were to take one out to say, frame it, you would not lose another image. There is just one descriptive sentence about the next mandala on the back of each mandala (so that the description is seen to the left of each mandala page). The ring-binding is good for removing pages, and for the book to lie flat.One gripe is that the paper is rather thin for a colouring book, so that you can see the next mandala through the page. This really isn't ideal, but is the only major drawback of this book. Otherwise the paper quality is fine, it is white and smooth, not coarse like some children's drawing books.The introductory text is not very long but rather dense and a bit unfocused I found. You can tell the author knows, and is serious about, her subject, but it could be more engagingly written, in my personal opinion. However, this is really a very minor point. I am considering buying the first book, and as apparently it covers the whole journey through all the self-development stages (this volume relates only to stage 9, Cristallisation) I imagine (and hope) the text might be a bit longer and more instructive. The text in this book is merely informative with little in the way of instruction, and informative in a way that covers broad ground, but only scratches the surface of each subject touched on.The cover is made of slightly thicker cardboard. Beware, the book is of a size and shape that makes it very vulnerable to postal damage, mine arrived slightly bent. Should really be posted in reinforced envelope, but what can you do. Our local Waterstones doesn't stock a single mandala colouring-in book, to my surprise in such a New-Agey city as Manchester.COMPARATIVE REVIEW: The other good colouring-in books seem to be by Monique Mandali, same size book, very slightly smaller designs, thumbs up for slightly thicker paper, which is more like the typical children's colouring-in book paper, i.e. off-white and a little coarse. In fact they are real, no-frills colouring-in books with hardly any text, and also have a blank back to the pages. Mandali's designs are a similar style (also mainly symmetrical, and either abstract or semi-abstract), but overall probably slightly more simple and less detailed. I probably slightly prefer Fincher's designs overall, but only just.

I took a basic design from here and used a modified version on a drum I painted for myself. These are really lovely and make you feel uplifted as you work on them.