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This blog explores the intersection between performance, mindfulness, and music, with a particular focus on the art and spirit of Gypsy Jazz. It’s a space dedicated to understanding how focus, awareness, and creativity enhance both artistic expression and personal growth.
Gypsy Jazz Interviews
Paulus Schafer Interview
Paulus Schafer is one of the most prestigious contemporary Gypsy Jazz musicians. A truly original Sinti community descendant from the Netherlands, he is the exponent for the Django Reinhardt musical tradition of the XXI century. It is an honour and a privilege to…
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Maximizing Perfomance
Top Performers Strategies: 2 – Maintenance and Improvement
Michael Jordan is probably the greatest sports performer of all time. Opponents often categorize him as “impossible to stop”. How can you stop MJ? You can’t! Well… there is a way: Don’t let him practice 🙂 Practice leads to skills maintenance and…
Top Performers Strategies: 1 – Handling Mistakes
After studying Top Performers at practice one can observe 5 different strategies used: 1 – Ability to handle mistakes; 2 – Maintenance and improvement; 3 – Focus on weaker areas of expertise; 4 – Mental resilience; 5 – Confidence strengthening. Let’s go through them…
3 – Varied Practice
Try multiple variations of the same exercise, weather in time, speed, rhythm, posture, fingering or anything it comes to mind. Real time performance implies unexpected stuff to happen. The perfect conditions to perform are only available in our heads so we should be…
2 – Random Practice
Re-order your topics and subjects in an interleaved fashion. This way you’ll prevent yourself from boredom and continuously trigger your brain to new things. In the long run switching randomly through subjects will improve your ability to acquire and retain…
1 – Spaced Practice
Spaced Practice is the process of using small numbers of repetitions spaced several times through the course of a day, week or month. Think about it this way. You ask a foreign friend how to say “I Love You” in their language. Will you repeat the expression…
Getting Results: Short Term Vs. Long Term
Proper practice prevents poor performances. Top performers aim to grow as human beings so they work their craftsmanship. Great performance is the main goal, so we practice to perform better. But the way top performers reach their peak and enhance their abilities is…
Mindfulness
I – Care for your mind
Exposure to novelty (new people, different books, diverse cultures) stirs your creativity, your vision and your habits. Question everything. Observe. Meditate. Nurturing your mind like a garden will make it blossom. Cultivate diversity and wisdom. Miles Davis and…
The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari – REVIEW
This one goes out to the ones seeking a life of simplicity, serenity and harmony. “Julian, I promise you that the time you have spent with me will not be in vain. I will dedicate myself to living by the wisdom of the Sages of Sivana and I will keep my promise to you…
How To Unlock Dharma
What’s the meaning of life? Why are we here? What is our purpose? Dharma means the right way of living, the path of righteousness. Since each and every one of us has specific natural abilities, talents and forms of expression we should focus on let that path be…
Unlock Your Safety Shackles
Letting Go can be a daunting task. But embracing the unknown Represents freedom from the past. I’m a poet, who would know! Wanting so bad does not work. Grab a hold to something or someone and you will see that the produced effect is the complete opposite from…
Unlock The Power Of Visualization
Visualization is described as one of the most powerful practical Meditation process. It is a common technique used by all sorts of Mindfulness masters and it was revealed to the public in the bestseller book “The Secret”. From a standard point of…
Unlock Mind And Body Tensions
How to overcome energy loss, burnout and apathy? Take an effortless worry free and non-resistance diet for your mind and body. Have you ever felt you’re working too hard, spending a lot of time on something, and investing your energy without getting desired or…