“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.
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.