{"id":33525,"date":"2020-05-18T16:05:23","date_gmt":"2020-05-18T20:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/totalbrainhealth.com\/tbh-quiet-the-mind-calm-with-color\/"},"modified":"2023-11-07T10:32:05","modified_gmt":"2023-11-07T15:32:05","slug":"tbh-quiet-the-mind-calm-with-color","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totalbrainhealth.com\/tbh-quiet-the-mind-calm-with-color\/","title":{"rendered":"TBH Quiet the Mind | Calm with Color"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Creating art can be a balm for the brain. Engaging our creative selves boost focus, cognitive nimbleness, and other skills such as planning and reasoning, as well as opportunities to feel calm and positive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mandalas, part of a Buddhist tradition, are thought to be a gateway to mindfulness meditation for many of these reasons. Popular as a coloring activity for adults, creating your own Mandala will engage your mind and your spirit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Try coloring the Mandala provided here, or download the wonderful Mandala coloring book from Kripalu, a yoga education center in Massachusetts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Coloring book PDF: <a href=\"https:\/\/kripalu.org\/sites\/default\/files\/pdfs\/kripalu_mandala_coloringbook.pdf?fbclid=IwAR34M-Gj-WJG61WOaz0Oe_IIUIU7S6smiTrLrhfXvH7lFJMBJVy3oWWoooI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">https:\/\/kripalu.org\/sites\/default\/files\/pdfs\/kripalu_mandala_coloringbook.pdf?fbclid=IwAR34M-Gj-WJG61WOaz0Oe_IIUIU7S6smiTrLrhfXvH7lFJMBJVy3oWWoooI<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Creating art can be a balm for the brain. Engaging our creative selves boost focus, cognitive nimbleness, and other skills such as planning and reasoning, as well as opportunities to feel calm and positive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":33526,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[252],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quiet-the-mind"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totalbrainhealth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totalbrainhealth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totalbrainhealth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totalbrainhealth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totalbrainhealth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/totalbrainhealth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totalbrainhealth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totalbrainhealth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totalbrainhealth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totalbrainhealth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}