Stop time, reflect and live in consciousness: why do we need rituals so much?

To remember, we have to go back three years. March 2020. Normal life stops, put on hold by the pandemic and confinement. Suddenly, our daily lives are turned upside down. Our routines, our habits, are put to a standstill. Gone are the commutes to work, the first coffee before sitting down at the office, lunch at that brewery at the end of the street or the workout between noon and two. Time stretches like one and the same long stretch, which it is important to chant again.

Some garden, knit or bake their bread. Others get into sports through online courses. Thierry Janssen, surgeon turned psychotherapist, founder of the School of Right Posture, launches a daily meditation session at 19 p.m. "I realized later that I needed both to come back to myself and to stay connected with others," he says. These appointments structured my days and gave meaning to my life, because I felt useful." From this experience, he...

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