“Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing”, Lao Tzu
In the morning, we open the windows to let new fresh air come in the room. But often we do not reserve the same attention to oxygenate our mind. In Italian there is a nice expression to describe it: “il dolce far niente”, the sweetness of doing nothing.
The soft light of the candles, the background music and the scent of the essential oils: laying down on the massage bed, I am ready to receive my treatment and I abandon myself to the relaxation and pleasantness of the hour ahead of me, knowing that I could get asleep along the way.
I met him the first time in Lipari, in the Aeolian Islands, a bunch of volcanic islands in the Mediterranean Sea, to the north east of Sicily. He already visited and lived in different islands at that time and among all of them the Aeolian archipelago was the one driving the strongest attraction and becoming a second home for long time.
The one with Sextantio in Santo Stefano in Sessanio has been love at first sight. A small fortified perfectly preserved medieval “borgo”, the majesty and the beauty of the nature of the Gran Sasso Natural Park, the finest conservative renovation of the houses of common people, supported by attentive anthropologic studies to build as truly as possible the life of old times.
From a work interview to a meeting with a client, from the presentation in front of a wide audience to public relations, the professional scenario of all of us is continuously testing our communication skills. Not mentioning all the personal relationships in our private life, whose success depends again in huge part from our communication capability.
The world of travel has always been linked with the one of photography. Even before the smartphones, who had not a camera, a compact, a disposable or a reflex one for experts, to take pictures of the places visited in a holiday? Pictures have ever been the most precious souvenir.
In 1948 The World Health Organization defined health as “physical, mental, and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity …”, already considering a subjective dimension in the assessment of the health status and highlight a global evaluation, not only a medical one, of the quality of life.
Shhh … some hotels write on the board that the guests hang on the door to inform the housekeeping not to disturb.
We have an intense life rhythm, our to do list gets longer, we think about the past, about the future, we always wish something new and more. We live in the noise, present in different ways outside and inside us, we are constantly overloaded of words, sounds and visual inputs.