The Sweetness of Doing Nothing: Live Life the Italian Way with Dolce Far Niente

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All too often, when we are too busy rushing through life, we fail to notice the simple pleasures and certainly don’t make time for them. Going for a walk in the woods can sometimes clear your mind just as well as a good meditation session. There’s no English term to capture the restorative effect of immersing yourself in nature, but the Japanese call it shinrin-yoku. 2. Charmolypi (Greek) watching a feel-good film like ‘Eat Pray Love’ which was based on the book by Elizabeth Gilbert. Who remembers the scene in the Barbers when they talk about the concept of ‘il dolce far niente’? The problem with measuring our worth by our output is that we feel we can only have a break when we "deserve" one, instead of having one simply because it's impossible for anyone to be 'on' for eight straight hours. In fact, there’s been extensive research on how daydreaming and mind-wandering—the inevitable effects of idleness—makes us more creative, better problem-solvers, and more imaginative with new ideas.

The term "dolce far niente", or the "sweetness of doing nothing", was a subject popular with late Victorian painters, and captures the bliss of doing nothing for a moment. In fact, anything that requires visualising hypothetical outcomes or imagined scenarios – like discussing a problem with friends, or getting lost in a good book – also helps, Immordino-Yang says. If you’re purposeful, you even can engage your DMN if you’re looking at social media.Lost souls are not that different from those in the zone. The zone is enjoyable but when that joy becomes an obsession, one becomes disconnected from life.” Perhaps most importantly of all, if we don’t take time to turn our attention inward, we lose a crucial element of happiness. What if we just trusted that those embers are so hot, we can walk away, someone can throw a log on and it’ll burst into flames?” Take a pause sometimes on some home chores. For instance, you don’t have to clean the dishes immediately after a meal! Skip the dishes and even go out and stare at the stars. Unwinding comes with health benefits, like reducing the levels of stress. It is not a crime to skip a chore even for a few hours just to have a Niente moment! Find your inner artist Dolce far niente – or the sweetness of doing nothing – from the Latin dulcis meaning “sweet; facere, meaning “to make or do”; and nec entem – literally “not a being.”

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