Using Mandalas

[zenmaster]

How do you guys attempt to understand what these symbol/image mean to you or how do you make sense of these patterns that form?

Generically, you try to have an eye for a balanced state and look at where a concept or theme suggests some condition of imbalance and what investment is involved in maintaining that. It's usually due to some misunderstanding.

How then do you use this information for healing/understanding purposes?

For yourself, you first acknowledge and accept the imbalance in some manner and then figure out the correct disposition, which can be done instantaneously or over time depending on how acceptable the healthier condition is to your idea of self. For another person, you usually have already done this work and so the blockage and a viable disposition will be readily apparent (i.e. black dot on an ovary for example). So you just offer them a new circumstance (i.e. merely remove the dot) without thinking about it at all. Doesn't take much at all to get sorted out if you are compatible with the "patient".