“Less is more”: it is a concept often promoted as a precious key to improve the quality of life, and at the same time is often very difficult to be applied in the daily routine when the abundance of inputs – on the professional, personal, educational level … – can be oppressive.
“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.