This is more of an activity challenge instead of something to ponder.  Believe me, it may take all of your concentration and willpower to do it, though.

Find a picture, preferably a mandala picture or something with an obvious pattern.  Grab a box of crayons or markers or colored pencils.  Next, begin coloring the picture as randomly as you can manage.  If the picture has a sky, color it something other than blue.  If the picture is a pattern, force yourself to NOT make the pattern show up through use of color (don’t color all the same points in the pattern the same color).  See what you end up with.

You will be able to tell how comfortable you are with the idea of “order” or “pattern” by how easy it is for you to surrender control in this experiment.  You may discover a new idea of beauty.  You will open up new areas of your mind by not playing into the pattern at hand.  You will also discover by process that order is something that comes fairly naturally to the human mind and is pleasing to us.

This is actually a spell technique for when you are feeling blocked, stifled, or “locked into” a reality from which you wish to break free.  By coloring “outside the lines” of what is expected to be there — breaking the automatic response or not following the pattern — you open up your mind to new ways of seeing and doing things.  You allow old “forms” of actions, habits, and thoughts to ease up and release.  It’s a good way to prep your mind and calm it before doing transformative spellwork or meditation on a problem as it activates the creative part of the brain to move beyond the set pattern.

Give it a try!