Looking out the window, letting his gaze hang beyond a window is not synonymous with wasting time. For sometimes, those who look beyond this threshold do not seek to see the outside world. He / she simply wants to cross his reflection to navigate through the waves of introspection and reach inner worlds in search of new possibilities. In fact, there are few mental exercises that can be healthier than this one.

Anyone who knows the work of Edward Hopper will probably remember all these works in which he presents a woman alone in front of a window. Sometimes it's a window in a hotel room, next to a bed, in a café ... The image is always the same: a feminine look that seems to transcend the window and to be kilometers away away from this small space that surrounds it.

Few puzzles have aroused such a pictorial interest. What are these women looking at? The answer is simple: nothing and everything at once. Hopper was an expert when it came to creating moods and atmospheres to convey emotions difficult to define. The light, the shapes, the colors, everything had to lead to a certain sensation. He often used a window next to his characters.

Windows are thresholds for the human mind. They are often this indispensable resource for any dreamer. Or for that person who needs rest after a day of stress and who is pressing his head against the icy window of a window in the subway. It is at this moment that the gaze relaxes and our imagination starts. At that moment, we begin to dream awake and our brain finally finds relief, freedom, well-being.

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Looking out the window, an introspection exercise

In any primary or secondary school classroom, it's easy to find a child looking out the window. They are absent, disconnected from the world around them but have established a link with their ramblings, their dreams. As we grow up, this behavior, far from being corrected, persists furiously. However, he continues to be frowned upon. Because looking out the window is synonymous with unproductivity, it means not being present in the immediacy that surrounds us, in the responsibilities that await us.

Let's admit it: we are rarely allowed to dive into our mental states to know what is happening there. For whoever acts in this way remains motionless, generates nothing, demonstrates nothing. And this, in a results-oriented society, is nothing but sacrilege. Perhaps this is why looking out the window is an exercise we prefer to do when we are alone. It is a matter of putting one's eyes on this limit fixed by the glass to look at (and not see) what is happening in the outside world.

It's like an inverted trip. What is outside does not interest us because we already know all the agitation that takes place there: circulation, people who walk, city that moves in the same routine ... Our brain pulls us like the Anchor that is lifted from the depths of the depths to make us dive into the sea. There, something wonderful and useful to our emotional and psychological development takes place.

We live in a world obsessed with productivity, we know it well. Perhaps this is why we have forgotten the enormous potential that lies in the act of dreaming awake. Sometimes, the most important things, the essential decisions arise in front of a window. It's almost like a rebellion in our minds that tells us to do something different. It's about making contact with our wisest "me" - but the best hidden - to listen to what he has to say to us.

Therefore, let's learn to set limits and join this pane from time to time. Let us go and see this reflection that contains our dreams, this place from which we can distinguish our inner beauties and this world full of infinite possibilities ...