2 years ago, I started to fill out a 6-minute journal every day. Do you know it? It's 6 minutes a day to do the exercise of introspection and gratitude, using short questions like: "Name 3 things that made your day wonderful", or "Write your positive affirmation of the day". It's not always easy to stick to it, but when you integrate it into your routine, it's an interesting exercise.
After holding it for 6 months, I leafed through it, and I noticed that very often, I talked about nature. Poppies in the wheat fields, the sun on the mountain, a sunset in the car. A tiny part of my days, a few seconds or minutes at most, and yet, that's what I chose to put down on paper. Astonishing.
And then I read " When Beauty Saves Us " by the philosopher Charles Pépin . And I understood. Contemplating beauty is not anecdotal or superfluous.
# Think. 'We need beauty to dare to think differently. Think with our eyes, our ears, our sensitivity. Think with our body, think against our habits'
#Understand. Beauty offers us a happy experience of mystery; 'It teaches us to love what we do not understand'.
#Reinvent. 'to contemplate the way in which, in beauty, life reinvents itself is to fill oneself with the idea that we too can reinvent ourselves. (..) everything becomes possible again.'
“ A landscape can change your life ,” the author concludes. And he is right!
To immerse one's eyes in a landscape is to nourish one's capacity to take a fresh look, to exercise one's curiosity, one's humility and ultimately to cultivate one's humanity.
So, right now, right now, turn your head towards the window and admire…
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