Put gold in your life!
How many times have you felt that you lost the direction of your life? Do you remember any particularly difficult or traumatic moments? We have all experienced one existential crisis : an unrequited love, the death of a loved one, a friendly breakup, an illness, a dismissal... As always, the Japanese have an effective response for everything.
Legend has it that the Shogun Ashikaga Yoshimasa (1435-1490) had a favorite bowl or chawan for celebrate the tea ceremony . One fine day the bowl fell and broke into pieces, so he sent it to China for repair, but the result was not to his liking: they had repaired the bowl with ugly staples that completely disfigured it and caused it to leak liquid through its cracks .
However, he did not lose hope and he had it fixed by some Japanese craftsmen who used lacquer to join their pieces and finally seal "his scars" with gold . The object was not only useful again, but had increased in value. He was born kintsugi !
Kintsugi will help you transform.
mend our wounds , take advantage of them and take advantage of them to resurface Phoenix is the metaphor that is extracted from the kintsugi, and that deals in depth with the French writer Celine Santini in his new book 'Kintsugi. The art of resilience' (Dome, 2019).
"I was going through a difficult time, my second divorce. That day, I bought a magazine that said: "How to get out of a divorce successfully." The article evoked the kintsugi . I felt an inner signal and I investigated about this practice and it was quite a revelation," the author tells Traveler.es.
Immediately she decided to write a book about everything she had learned after doing this practice. Céline's life is an example of survival: two weddings, two divorces, facing alone the upbringing of her baby, leave a job for a dream and create your own wedding planner company...
She knew perfectly well what pain was, how to overcome it and emerge stronger, so what better way than to capture it in a book. " This book is for anyone who has suffered , be it a physical injury (an accident, an illness...) or an emotional one (divorce, depression, loss of a loved one, dismissal...) . It's for anyone with scars, or something to fix," she outlines.
You will be reborn from your ashes.
HOW TO MAKE YOUR OWN KINTSUGI
What is the resilience and what does it have to do with this Japanese ancestral practice? Resilience is the ability to absorb shocks and bounce to rebuild . Kintsugi is the perfect metaphor for resilience because not only is the object repaired, but it even becomes more beautiful, stronger and more valuable," the author tells Traveler.es.
Through resilience, she proposes in the book a series of exercises -it is not necessary to do them all-, which, adapted to each person, allow cleanse the soul , rebuild it and do a good interior retrospective.
Exercises can be done in the same book and in parallel they can be carried out with the reconstruction of a valuable object.
"When someone undergoes a test in their life it is never pleasant, of course. But most of the time when we go back, a little later (sometimes years), we realize that, paradoxically, it has opened doors for us or even It has strengthened us," he concludes.
Break, reflect and rebuild.