I can’t stop pointing to the beauty. Every moment and place says,
Put this design in your carpet! – Rumi
I can’t stop pointing to the beauty either since I fell in love with the Grand Tetons! I left the summer’s camping trip to Jenny Lake with an imprint of the raw, jagged mountain chain in the corneas of my eyes and emblazoned on my heart. When I recall the beauty, I feel inspired and uplifted! It’s like being in love…
I’ve been back from the Tetons for a couple of weeks, and I keep coming back to the question – Why do we point to the beauty? And why is beauty so important? Most likely, you make a point of making things beautiful, yourself, or maybe you are attracted to beautiful things. I know I love beauty and I can’t resist making things as beautiful as I can. In fact, making things beautiful and being around beauty is something that drives me.
Why all the fuss about beauty?
And then I remember the Negativity Bias (See recent blog about the Negativity Bias – Feeling Positive About the Negativity Bias, Blog 92).
We know that the hard stuff in this life is inevitable. As sure as we breathe, we have worries, burdens, traumas, and sorrows. Our nervous system is hard-wired to be on the lookout for these hard things – for danger. That is how it protects us – by proactively focusing on what might hurt us.
Sometimes danger is real and thank goodness our nervous system makes us aware of that very real danger. But sometimes, our nervous systems become hypersensitive looking for danger everywhere, all the time.
If we are always on the lookout for danger, we can’t really be in the present moment and we can’t really enjoy life.
So, then there is beauty.
Beauty is the counterbalance to the negative.
Someone recently reminded me that beauty nourishes us.
It brings us peace and joy. It consoles. It sustains.
I will point to the beauty over and over!
