There is a Japanese term known as Kintsugi. It is the art of fixing broken objects with the use of gold, and so literally it means “to join with gold”. It is a practice that was started in the 1300s. The objects usually end up with increased value. They can include anything from cups, dishes, saucers, vases, and many kitchen based items.
Yet here is what struck me to be most interesting. Nothing remains broken and once fixed it is of greater value. How does this apply to us as individuals and as a society as a whole? Are we not the same? When we end up feeling broken emotionally, mentally, physically, and we get “fixed” are we not of more value than before, to ourselves and to those around us?
In life each of us have experienced the pangs of feeling broken. Whether it is through a tough relationship that fell apart, the stress of a demanding career or even our own physical exhaustion during exercise or with suffering through an illness. When we work hard on putting ourselves back together again through all the pain and tears we become stronger. WE come back braver, wiser, with our heads held higher. All challenges stress us in some way or the other, but all challenges are designed to make us grow, even those that appear to break us. Under pressure even coal hides the beauty of a diamond. Break anything and it can be fixed.
But here is where I realized something beautiful. If the purpose of challenges are to help shape us to get better then does it not stand to reason that we are never really broken, but just like the art of kintsugi simply made whole and of greater value. It is going THROUGH the adversity that we become more. This leads to the only conclusion that I could come up with.
“ We are not broken and do not need to be fixed”. Let that sink in. Each of us simply is in the river of triumph and tribulations, ebbs and flow, peaks and troughs, support and challenge in our stages of evolution. So the closer we look at a heart breaking situation we find the sorrow, but as we observe the greater perspective we uncover the beauty within each of us where neither are we broken nor are we in need of fixing. Life is as it is. And each day our value truly is raised by the nature of our BEing authentic to ourselves.
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I love you
Dr Nitin Bhatnagar
Intuitive cardiologist
Life Architect
Metaphysician
www.theholisticheartdoc.com
