Christmas concert
December 22, 2020, 8 pm (Romanian time)
under the patronage of the Italian Institute of Culture in Bucharest
in collaboration with the magazine Psychologies – Romania
in streaming from the Church of Nostra Signora Assunta in Ovada, Alessandria – Italy
on the Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/events/388715972403477
Giulia Medicina – mezzosoprano
Lorenzo Medicina – bas
Bruno Medicina – organ
Monday, April 13, 2020 at 10:00 AM CET (11.00 Romanian Time)
Virtual Easter concert
“Spiritual harmonies: the sacred voice of the Italian organ”
Organist: M° Bruno Medicina
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Fundatia Inocenti – Romanian Children’s Relief, in collaboration with the Italian Institute of Culture, is pleased to invite you to a special Bruno Medicina Piano Recital, to benefit Inocenti children and programs. The evening will include works by J. S. Bach, W. A. Mozart, F. Liszt and G. Gershwin.
How to achieve the incredible in 2019?
Well, go for the impossible and be in the flow!
Happy New Year!!!!!!!!!!
The instant the blade tore open his flesh…the bright disk of the sun soared up behind his eyelids and exploded…lighting the sky for an instant.”
A good firewalk is what it takes to ignite your life!
A nice experience with a lot of bright young people of #universitatealternativa, past week at Plaiul Foii, Romania.
Well, I understand that my opinion can’t be too unbiased … 🙂
but it seems to me that we have something here worth to listen.
Check for yourself…
“Ogni blocco di pietra ha una statua dentro di sé ed è compito dello scultore scoprirla” – Michelangelo
(Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it)
The work of a sculptor has always seemed to me extremely fascinating. Think for a moment: you have in front of you a block of marble and you begin to carve with a chisel. Little by little, from the stone a “form” begins to appear, the stone begins to have a “meaning”, and this form and meaning represent the materialization of an idea that was in your mind as well as the manifestation in the physical plane of your creative power. It’s something that makes us similar to the gods.
This process can appear trivial, but there are some aspects that deserve to be explored: the block of marble is a space of infinite potentiality, it contains an infinite number of statues of which only one will materialize. It is interesting to note that to sculpt a statue is a process that does not involve a real “creation”, as the statue is ALREADY inside the stone, but it implies the elimination of all that is unnecessary and prevents the statue to come to light and to manifest.
This space of infinite potentiality has practical limits: the most obvious concern the size of the stone. While it is true that every stone contains an infinite number of statues, it is clear that this statue that will be “liberated” will have inherent limitations due to the size of the block.
Other limits may depend on the technical capacity of the sculptor: it might happen that we can visualize a sculpture, that surely lies within the marble, but we are not able to materialize it due to our inability. Other limitations may appear due to errors in direction: maybe we started with one subject, but after a period of time our creativity has led us in other directions; unfortunately, the stone is not clay, and what has been removed, has now been removed forever. Surely, if we just start to chisel in a random way and we remove material without having in mind a vision, we’ll hardly be able to produce something of value.
What is certain is that at any time, regardless of the size of the stone or the deformed shape it has taken, due to mistakes in technique and direction, this stone will continue to contain an infinite number of potential statues, and – equally certain – it contains a sculpture that can become a masterpiece. Then, it’s the sculptor’s responsibility to choose between focusing on this potential masterpiece, or dispersing the attention to the statues that he can’t complete because of these limitations and therefore victimizing himself. It’s his choice, and the decision to focus on potentialities rather than on limits represents the true essence of free will.
We also have a block of stone to carve, that is our own life. At every moment we have an infinite number of possibilities to choose and to do whatever we want with them. Certainly, if we act in a random way, we’ll hardly be able to produce something that has meaning; and, as in the case of the sculptor, the manifestation of this value is not so much a creative process, but much more one of discovery and liberation of release of what we already are, however that remains hidden by emotional blocks, inhibitions, fears and limiting beliefs that prevent the full expression of potential.
Still, these potentialities are endless, yes, but still limited. There are a number of real limits, due to the initial situation, health, culture, past mistakes… but in spite of these limitations (which are often false and exist only in our minds, but that’s another story), regardless of how difficult, complicated, without any exit our situation may appear to us, we still have an infinite potential to manifest, and we have the chance to make something of our lives that can represent a masterpiece.
And the choice between focusing on the potentialities or on limits is something in which we are continually faced with in life: if, due to an accident, we find ourselves with legs amputated, it is clear that we are faced with a limit.
It’s up to us to choose whether to spend the rest of our lives complaining and victimizing ourselves thinking about what we can’t do, or choose to focus on the potentiality and to decide to make the most of the remaining resources, which continue to be endless. It’s our choice and – as in the case of the sculptor – it’s the true essence of free will.
There is, however, a fundamental difference between a block of marble to sculpt and our life, which makes the metaphor not completely comparable. While marble, when not used or when the sculptor thinks, waits, procrastinates,… it remains unchanged, our life – while we wait – still passes, and opportunities at our disposal diminish.
Picture the scene: you’re in front of your block of marble, and while trying to figure out what to do, the block becomes smaller and smaller. Until it disappears.
What are you waiting for, to make a masterpiece of your life?
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“When we are relaxed, focused and determined, we enter in a mind state where success is inevitable” – Bruno Medicina
A very short – and partial – presentation of the F.L.O.W. system, my model to achieve peak performance based on the flow state:
Find the Source
Liberate your Energy
Outstand by Mastery
Wake up your Inner Performer
“I would say that anyone who acts without paying attention to what he is doing is wasting his life. I’d go as far as to say that life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece.” Nadia Boulanger *
Have you ever heard “Besame mucho”? Of course you’ve heard it: it’s one of the most famous songs in the world and, apparently, the most recorded of all time. And of course you know the refrain words: “Besame, besame mucho, como si fuera esta noche la ultima vez… ” and consequently the feeling of sensuality and passion that they suggest: indeed, how would you make love with someone you like, if you know that it might be the last time?
An interesting aspect of this song – which in turn is less known – is that both text and music were written in 1940 by Consuelo Velasquez, a Mexican girl not even 16 years old at the time and who – according to her statements – had not even kissed another man… Just to say how powerful art and imagination can be…
By the way, I think it’s worth discussing a bit about this. Yes, we all agree that when we know that a certain experience – for whatever reason – is rare, limited or unique, it suddenly turns into something precious that deserves all our attention and that we try to enjoy to the most possible intensity.
And this happens even if it’s about something apparently very trivial: if, due to a car accident you found yourself stuck down in plaster, how much do you miss those beautiful times when you could go out for a walk? And if, after being locked at home for months and a difficult rehabilitation period, you become able again to take a little walk in the neighborhood, wouldn’t it fantastic to feel to be back on your feet? How much would you enjoy the experience? How wonderful it would you city seem? With how much pleasure would you look at any detail?
All this is of course due to a simple psychological principle by which our minds tend not to give too much value to what we have at hand, to treat it actually as a kind of “right” and to give more value to what we don’t have. So, we often need a loss – or the awareness of the possibility of a loss – to understand how precious anything that we consider “normal” is.
In fact, in our opulent society, we live a true paradox: we have increasingly more goods and experiences but because we consider them ordinary and normal, they do not offer us any joy.
Only two of many possible examples:
– When I was a kid, strawberries and cherries were eaten in May, grapes in September, oranges in December, and so on, and every time Dad brought fresh fruit at home, it was a source of happiness for the whole family. I still remember with how much impatience I waited for May to come, just to get the first bite of strawberry. Now I can go to the supermarket and I can have any fruit at any time of the year. Yeah, very comfortable, but… where is the happiness?
– Today, everywhere we go we are surrounded by music: in theaters, discos and bars obviously, but also in shops, in subway, in the street, at home… there is always a radio, a TV, a stereo… and if there is not, we have iPod and headphones. It’s about impossible for us to conceive a world without music. And yet… not more than one hundred years ago, so it was. The world was silent. Can you imagine this? If you wanted to listen to music, you had to find someone who played it. If you lived in a little village you could stay months or years without listening to any song, except for some folk songs or religious music on Sunday at the church. Can you imagine what fantastic effect it would have on someone the simple fact to listen to a symphony or an opera? What unbelievable and unique experience, more over that you knew that every thing that you hear would be lost forever, because it couldn’t be fixed and it would still exist only in your memory? With how much attention and focus would you listen to every note? (I can think of, as a matter of fact, that Wagner received the score of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony when he was 20 years and finally managed to listen it only when he was 40… )
What is interesting in all this discussion is that what is changing is not the experience itself (no matter if we’re talking about sex, music, food, etc.), but only our perception; then it means that to live a fantastic experience, filled with joy and passion, there is no need for a specific experience, but only a simple shift in our perception: that is, to give our full attention to the present moment!
I know we live in a society where we have everything, the phone is always ringing, hundreds of thousands of daily chores more or less important struggle to attract our attention, advertising is screaming “Watch me” and our minds are always busy with “something other”, we feel that happiness is always “somewhere else”, with the result to be constantly in a state of apathy and boredom.
The mobile phone is a perfect example to illustrate this constant distraction of attention, to cherish more a possible “other” than the present situation: how many time did it happen to you to go out with friends, and then in the group there was always someone talking on a cell phone with “someone other”?
Someone wrote that heaven is here and now and if we don’t have this impression, this is because we are never really here and now, and only when circumstances require us we can realize how precious every thing is, every moment we live and that we neglect by our lack of attention.
I have written elsewhere that when we focus our attention on something we give it power, and when we offer our attention to someone we raise his energy levels (actually any magic ritual is just a way to focus attention) and then, as attention is what raises and directs energy, it’s the great power in the universe, on what our perceived reality depends at last.
So, next time you make love, eat something, play with your child, talk to someone, look at something, walk in the wood or simply… “stay”, why not try to participate “como si fuera esta noche la ultima vez”?
If we can do this, it means that we made another step – large, this time – to understand magic.
A greeting
Bruno
Note: Nadia Boulanger, though little known to the general public is undoubtedly one of the most extraordinary women of the last century. For those who want to know more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadia_Boulanger
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