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Restoring Harmony

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Kintsugi is the Japanese art of restoring broken pottery or glass with gold lacquer. The fine crystal cup does not return to its original state but, thanks to the gold, is transformed into something of greater beauty and value.

Life experience inevitably produces breaks in our psyche of different kinds and degrees: our harmony is broken. Emotional or mental suffering fractures our identity, insecurity and doubt invade us and the meaning of our life seems to dissipate. Restoring homeostasis, the balance of our person, requires taking a step back from the tumult of the crisis to gain a level-headed perspective on what is happening. Our personal mask has been broken and putting it back together requires a good dose of gold as well as the hands of a mask craftsman, a connoisseur of the human soul. The gold lacquer for the reconstruction-transformation of the personal mask is the word.

The word is the instrument. Not only the ordinary scientific word that provides methods, processes and contrasted theories for the reconstruction and healing of the wounded soul in its masks, but the inspired word of the great human souls that bequeathed us immense treasures of wisdom, treasures for the harmonization of our hearts. in this life. The word is the instrument, the goal is harmony, whether restored or discovered for the first time.

The concept of harmony has Pythagorean origin and refers to the union, agreement, congruence between two entities: the union through the golden thread of the musical or inspired word.

Harmony is therefore an action, a process of mediation with the inclusion of a third element (musical gold) between the other two that want to be harmonized, a process in which an emergent meaning is generated: something new emerges from the broken fragments, from the ashes, something greater and more beautiful, a renewed and transformed soul, stronger and more splendid.

Therefore, we can say that in psychological terms, harmonizing is the generation of an emerging state of homeostasis. This emerging state of homeostasis occurs in a “Symbolic Space” contiguous and broader than that symbolic space in which the fracture of the mask occurred. Through the word, a bridge is enabled towards a Symbolic Space capable of sustaining a firmer and more flexible homeostasis.

 

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