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Funny Mr.F

Published on June 18, 2013June 18, 2013 by Glorialana14 Comments

Hello God!

Thank You for my dreams I see every night. I love to laugh in my dreams. Last night I saw wonderful and happy dream. I had met on the sofa, oh la la, with enigmatic Mr. F. We were laughing aloud until I had awoken and opened my eyes. Funny Mr. F. makes my happy today. Ha-ha-ha, it seems the dream have predicted that I am going to read the article “Playfulness and Humor in the Psychoanalytic Relationship”.

“In 2001, Time Magazine referred to Mr.F. as one of the most important thinkers of the last century. And in 2006 Newsweek article called him “history’s most debunked doctor” I am surprised by so ambivalent approach. Could you guess who is funny Mr. F.?

My previous posts were about Vienna and you know to think and write about this legendary city is impossible without light of its intellectual stars. The brightest from them is “father of psychoanalysis“, everybody guesses, Sigmund Freud.

“Psychoanalysis is in essence a cure through love,” Sigmund writes about his brain child.

The aim of psychoanalysis therapy is to release repressed emotions and experiences, i.e. make the unconscious conscious. He believes that nothing you do occurs by chance; every action and thought is motivated by your unconscious at some level.

A Freud slip is defined as a written or spoken mistake that brings insight to one’s unconscious desires, idea, and drive.

I have seen this wonderful design of chairs in Austria. What is your “free association” about the photo below? I associate the picture with a place of meeting of fishes from different seas like important diplomatic mission or group therapy as in “Finding Nemo” cartoon.

Sigmund Freud developed the use of “Talk Therapy”.

In psychoanalysis, the patient typically comes four times a week, lies on a couch, and attempts to communicate as openly and freely as possible, saying whatever comes to mind.

I love this joke:

Neurotics build castles in the sky.

Psychotics live in them.

Psychiatrists collect the rent.

Freud Sofa is below.

“The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is ‘What does a woman want?'” Freud puzzled.

Prada, Prada knows the answer, dear funny Mr. F.

Thank you for your smile and happy mold (oh, Freud slip, I mean “mood”) :-)! I keep my happy mold (mood) because of you.

Chocolate Symphony

Published on June 14, 2013June 14, 2013 by Glorialana10 Comments

Hello God!

Thank You for my sophisticated tongue which is able to feel chocolate symphony by my whole existence. When I think about chocolate I can create a joyful poem devoted to your smile.

Pleasure lives

Where Sugar is loved.

Chocolate orchestra plays

When soul is full…

I am a conductor of

This Symphony.

It seems we are going to spend our weekend in the legendary city of pleasure. Vienna as unthinkable without music as unimaginable without its famous desserts.

Franz Landtmann opened Vienna’s most elegant Café in 1873.

Landtmann Cafe is known for many meetings of leading industrialists and politicians in Austria, and the preferred coffee house of, such as Sigmund Freud, Gustav Mahler, Peter Altenberg, Felix Salten, Emmerich Kálmán.

It is wonderful experience to listen and try conducting the symphony of desserts in Landtmann Cafe. I recommend.

And now, Ta Dam! Ta Dam! we are close to the culmination of Chocolate symphony: Zaher cake!

Sachertorte or Zaher (photo) cake is a specific type of chocolate cake, or torte, invented by Austrian Franz Sacher in 1832 for Prince Wenzel von Metternich in Vienna. The Prince have declared, “Let there be no shame on me tonight!” The torte created by Sacher have delighted Metternich’s guests, and the dessert received further attention.

I am reading the recipe as music scores for orchestra. Oh, I see the theme: chocolate, than crescendo Chocolate, than fortissimo CHOCOlate! I love that: “a layered chocolate cake filled with apricot jam is coated in Chocolate ganache and finished with a CHOCOlate glaze.”

Applauses and ovations to the orchestra and conductor are from grateful audience. Thank You for coming in my concert hall. I am grateful and happy to see you.

Hymn to Pleasure

Published on June 14, 2013 by Glorialana8 Comments

Hello God!

Thank You for Friday. Today is going to be your happy Friday because we will immerse in the city of pleasure. This is Vienna. I have been in Vienna and I must say this city is the hymn to pleasure and “the only city in the world which would have been unthinkable without music”.

Tram-pa-pa Tram-pa-pa, of course, we are feeling the rhythm and joyful motive of Waltz. And I am sure in 99% we are singing some melodies from Johann Strauss II masterpieces. Strauss wrote over 400 waltzes, one of them mirrors the mood of Vienna: “Wine, Women and Song”!

“Wine, Women and Song” is a hendiatris that endorses hedonistic lifestyles or behaviors. In modern times, it is usually seen in the form “sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll.” (Hendiatris is a figure of speech used for emphasis, in which three words are used to express one idea. (from wikipedia)

The Waltz King Johann Strauss II was born in Vienna, the son of Johann Strauss I, another composer of dance music. His father did not wish him to become a composer, but rather a banker. Nevertheless, Strauss Junior studied the violin secretly as a child. Vital force and Inspiration are stronger than parent’s will and, fortunately, we have a happy chance to listen and sing the wonderful and light motives from Johann Strauss the Son now.

Vienna’s centrally located Stadtpark features a prominent golden statue of Strauss playing the violin. Everywhere there is song and sound.

“It was the city of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert; of Brahms and Bruckner, Gustav Mahler and Arnold Schoenberg. From it had emanated the Strauss waltzes which flowed around the world, everywhere preaching the gospel of life’s enjoyment in three-quarter time,” Max Graf writes in “Legend of a Musical City”.

And, as in all fairy-tales, life there is easier, more brilliant and more exciting than anywhere else.

The waltzes Johann wrote for Vienna’s glittering balls, or for its charming cafes and gardens, made the waltz the world’s favorite dance, and made Vienna itself the most romantic of cities in the eyes and ears of the rest of the world. Vienna is the city of pleasure we are immersed now.

I do hope your today’s Friday is happy because the waltz’s motive in your head. My today’s Friday is happy because of the hymn of pleasure I am singing now. Thank You!

“Who does not Love Wine Wife & Song will be a Fool for his Lifelong!”

Royal Power

Published on June 11, 2013June 11, 2013 by GlorialanaLeave a comment

Hello God!

Thank You for our perfect antenna to receive and send a signals to the Universe. Once by the signal I had recognized my personal place of power. I am lucky to send my signal to you to empower your life and thoughts now. So we are here. We are in Linderhof, Bavaria.

This magic place is one of three castles of the King Ludvig II. We have met him in his Neuschwanstein castle already. Today we are sharing pulsating fibers of Power of this place in the moment of “now” in whole its essence. We have to be frozen for a while to feel the sharpness of our Personal Power.

The Great German philosopher Goethe says that architecture is frozen music. What’s a magic sounds we are listening now!

Renaissance architect Leon Battista Alberti said that the same characteristics that please the eye also please the ear.

Musical terms such as rhythm, texture, harmony, proportion, dynamics, and articulation refer both to architecture and to music.

Rhythm in music is patterns of sounds in relation to a beat; repetition of elements – openings, shapes, structural bays- establish regular or irregular rhythm in architecture.

Musical texture refers to layers of sounds and rhythms produced by different instruments. Architectural texture appears in different materials.

Harmony is balance of sound or composition and balance of parts together. Proportion is relationship between parts; in music it is distance between notes or intervals.

Dynamics is the quality of action in music or in a building’s facade or mass.

The French Sun-King Louis XIV was an idol for Ludwig. Linderhof was built by inspiration of Versailles.

The symbol of the sun can be found everywhere. Sun is golden. We all are the Kings and Queens of own monarchy. For Ludwig French notion of absolutism was the perfect incorporation of his ideal of a God-given monarchy with total royal power.

Our Total Royal Power, as music and architecture, demands rhythm, texture, harmony, proportion, dynamics, and articulation. Our heart’s beating is rhythm. Full accepting of life in its diversity is texture. Feeling beauty around by every cells is harmony. Keeping the balance is proportion. Moving toward dream is dynamics. Manifesting our unique ways is articulation.

Yes, I am feeling my Total Royal Power.

I was so frozen with you for a moment later that I have forgotten about my coffee. Now it is cold, and it does not matter. I am empowered now without usual dose of caffeine, because of you.

Thank You for your Power to change me and the Universe and make us better and better every moment of our heart’s beating.

Pregnant by Success

Published on June 10, 2013June 10, 2013 by Glorialana2 Comments

Hello God!
Thank You for the promising belief that we are on the right way and success is on. I love the Universe and my life. As the result of our love, successively, on the New Mood period I have caught the Seed from Universe’s Inspiration and now I am pregnant by success. What’s a miraculous sense of happy waiting!

Even my cactus believes and helps me.

I am a woman and I know what to be pregnant is. When I had received desired two stripes on the test I was on the seventh skye of happiness. “Nature keeps its job in the perfect way. My only task is to keep my mind and body in happy state”, I though. But, and I am sure every mother confirms it, it was not as easy as it sounded.

You know that “just waiting in natural way” is a hard job. Hormonal rebuilding makes tears and troubles like “Is my body comfortable enough for my baby?” or “Am I going to be a really good mother?”. Now I know what silly this fears and doubts were.

The same troubles I have now on my way to Success. My advantage is I know my doubts and fears are silly.

“Everything has a gestation period, a time period that must pass before things will come into form. If you plant a carrot seed, it takes about seven weeks for the sprout to make its above-dirt entrance. Bamboo, which can grow up to thirteen feet in as little as one week, takes up to seven years to break through the surface of the ground. But for seven long years it looks like absolutely nothing’s happening,” I am reading in “Harmonic Wealth” by James Arthur Ray.

I welcome my every tears because of crisis is a good stage. I am growing. I meet my fears with smiles because fears want to keep me in the safe place.

“Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force its sap and stands confidence in the storms of spring without fear that after them may come no summer.” Rainer M. Rilke motivated.

I do not know what my success is about. Will is boy or girl born? Am I on the red carpet with Sharon Stone or playing the grand piano in Carnegie Hall? I do not know. At this very moment I have only belief in the vital force which leads me and my heart beats because of this force. What I am sure about is everything is possible. If I can imagine it I can archive it. My life is extraordinary because I am Masterpiece of God and I have no other choice to live my life.
Maslow said: ” If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.”

I know the time of birth of my Success is coming. I let you know, of course. I will be more than happy to inspire you by my life and my Success as I am inspired by yours now. I believe in you. Thank you for your belief in me. We are Success!

Fox and Lion

Published on June 8, 2013June 26, 2013 by Glorialana2 Comments

Hello God!

Thank You for a wonderful time we are spending our lives in. We live in fantastic time when we have a possibility to learn Renaissance, to walk in Florence and to share our impressions worldwide immediately. We are lucky to live now.

“The lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves,” Machiavelli wrote in “The Prince”. “It’s a handbook for gangsters.” Francis Bacon said about Machiavelli’s “The Prince”.

The Lion’s side of Machiavelli is well known. But what about fox’s side?

Fifteenth-century Florence was an exciting place to be. Renaissance is blooming and beauty is the ruler. Nicollo Machiavelli is a student of human nature, “a witty man and a very ordinary husband and father who enjoyed love affairs and filles de joie,” Miles Unger writes in “Machiavelli: A biography”.

O,la,la it seems we see a fox’s side in him!

Everyone knows Niccolo Machiavelli’s status as a great politician, but few are also aware that he was a first-rate playwright and satirist.

His play Mandragola (probably written around 1519) is one of the outstanding comedies of the Italian Renaissance stage.

The plot centers around a wealthy doctor of law, Nicia, and his beautiful wife Lucrezia. Callimaco, a young man, hears about Lucrezia’s beauty, and decides that he wants to become her lover. He learns of the couple’s inability to produce a child, so (with the help of his servant Ligurio), he disguises himself as a doctor and informs Nicia that he can produce a potion from the mandrake plant that, if taken by Lucrezia, will enable her to conceive. However, as Callimaco warns Nicia, the first man to have sexual intercourse with her will die from the effects of the potion. Luckily, Callimaco knows a man who will consent to have sex with her and bear the punishment of death. Nicia consents, and (along with Frate Timoteo) persuades Lucrezia to do the same. Callimaco disguises himself yet again, and is able to have his way with her.

The play is a brilliant comedy. It is also amazing to learn that it was performed successfully in 1520 before Pope Leo X in Rome. The fact that the play celebrated sex and seduction, and totally ridiculed the clergy as frauds, bothered him not at all. In fact, the Pope liked it so much that he asked Cardinal Giulio de Medici to award Machiavelli a commission as a writer.

For a good summer night I would like to recommend the movie “La mandragola” (1965) by Albertto Lattuada. The film quite deservedly was Oscar nominated for Costume Design but also deserved a nod for its excellent cinematography. You will enjoy it, I promise!

Thank you for living your moment with me now.

Jeanne est Jeune

Published on June 7, 2013 by Glorialana15 Comments

Hello God!

Thank You for a beautiful meetings with a beautiful people on my Way. Today is a wonderful day because I have met and inspired by a French Woman. “Like a rose, a woman is a woman is a woman. And the French woman enjoys being just that,” said Veronique Vienne.

All my mornings are magic. As usual after my morning piano class and before my first cup of coffee I read something like “365 interesting facts”. I was stumbled by the fact of today: Jeanne Calment acted in a film at the age of 114 and gave up smoking at the age of 117!!!

“Jeanne est jeune” in French I named this post means “Jeanne is young”. I think Jeanne Calment as a truly French woman would love the compliment I said. By the way at age 121, she released her two CDs, one in French and another in English titled, Maitresse du Temps (Time’s Mistress).

What’s a pleasure to immerse in French charm, elegance, vividness, and share with you my mood by accompaniment of beautiful photos by John French!

What did Ms. Calment do, that you and I can duplicate for health and longevity? “She never did anything special to stay in good health,” said French researcher Jean-Marie Robine. Calment herself credited an occasional glass of Port vine, diet rich in olive oil and chocolate.

She also recommended laughter as a recipe for longevity and jokes that “God must have forgotten me.” ( L’Oubliee de Dieu?). “I’ve only got one wrinkle and I’m sitting on it”. (Je n’ai jamai eu qu’une seule ride et je suis assise dessus.)

For skin care, she recommends olive oil and a dab of make-up. “All my life I’ve put olive oil on my skin and then just a puff of powder. I could never wear mascara, I cried too often when I laughed.”

Internationally, researchers are fascinated with Calment for both her longevity and her vitality. They attribute her longevity to her immunity to stress. She once said “ If you can’t do anything about it, don’t worry about it.”.

She took up fencing lessons at 85 and rode bicycle until 100.

She quit smoking only at 119, but her doctor said her abstinence was due to pride rather than health — she was too blind to light up herself, and hated asking someone to do it for her.

The next story I am amazed by is fascinating and charming, only French woman is able to do it. “In life, people sometimes make rotten deals,” said Jeanne about this deal.

Mrs. Calment left no heirs. She also outlived Andre-Francois Raffray, a lawyer who 32 years ago, when she was merely 90, bought the apartment she used to live in on a contingency contract. He would pay her 2,500 francs (now about $400) a month until she died, and then the apartment would become his.

Mr. Raffray died a year ago at 77, after paying Mrs. Calment more than $180,000, better than double the apartment’s market value. His family was still paying when she died.

Quote on her 120th birthday: I took pleasure when I could. I acted clearly and morally and without regret. I’m very lucky. I am happy to share with you this light touching of Jeanne’s life. Thank You for your smile.

Photographer John French

River of Joy

Published on June 6, 2013June 26, 2013 by GlorialanaLeave a comment

Hello God!

Thank You for the river of joy which our life is. Every moment of my life I swim and am immersed in the flow of this river.

I would like to share with you a magic waves of joy and invite you for a walking along a beautiful mountain river somewhere in Italy. We are going to listen the sounds of nature and I tell you about my favorite movie of month.

It is “Samsara” movie. The movie is undoubtedly a masterpiece by Pan Nalin. There would be hardly 100 dialogues in this film spread over 2 hour 20 minutes but every word from the movie is great wisdom.

“Everything you contact is a place to practice the Way”

“I want you to tell me what will happen to that stick? -It will drown! -Suppose it doesn’t. -It will get stuck in the rocks! -Suppose it doesn’t get stuck. – It will stay in the water and rot! -No. It will get stuck in the whirlpool … or it can go down with a waterfall and crash! -Suppose even that doesn’t happen. What then? Do you give up?

The answer is simple. The stick will reach the sea!

The water in the river is crystal clear.

… you will be able to tell me what’s more important: Satisfying one thousand desires or conquering just one?

Thank you for sharing with me this moment of happiness. I do hope I inspire you to watch the movie. It worth to spend 2 hours of life.

How can one prevent a drop of water from ever drying up? By throwing it into the sea…

Music of Air

Published on June 6, 2013 by GlorialanaLeave a comment

Hello God!

Thank You for creating this possibility to breath. I am breathing in and feeling magic scents of summer. Scent of jasmine flowers is the symphony of perfection! Under white bush of jasmine I close my eyes and I am breathing in its air by my whole lungs. I am dancing a beautiful waltz by this perfect rhythms of the universe. Happiness is full accepting by our every cells the Beauty of now.

My heart is singing to you poem Jasmin Flower by Alan Michael DeCara now.

A flower so appealing to the
senses and eyes.
Fragrance so sweet, beautiful,
upon the air it lies.
This Jasmine flower in
the palm of my hand
Brings me such joy that I cannot, in truth, understand.

I am reading Sonja Lyubomirsky’s book The How of Happiness. Sonja believes that our individual level of happiness springs from three primary sources: 1) A natural “Set Point” that you are born with (50%), 2) Life Circumstances (10%), and 3) Intentional Activity (40%).

Of these three, the one area that we have the most power to change is the last one: our behavior.

Happiness activities described as “evidence-based happiness-increasing strategies whose practice is supported by scientific research”:

1. Expressing Gratitude

2. Cultivating Optimism

3. Avoiding Overthinking and Social Comparison

4. Practicing Acts of Kindness

5. Nurturing Social Relationships

6. Developing Strategies for Coping

7. Learning to Forgive

8. Increasing Flow Experiences

9. Savoring Life’s Joys

10. Committing to Your Goals

11. Practicing Religion and Spirituality

12. Taking Care of Your Body: Meditation + Physical Activity + Acting Like a Happy Person

I am happy to share with you my today’s happiness activity and this moment when we are breathing in Air together and whirling in the dance of the Universe. Let’s remember the moment! Thank you for making my today.

Not Brook but Ocean

Published on June 4, 2013June 26, 2013 by Glorialana2 Comments

Hello God!

Thank You for creating music we are able to listen. I love music by Johann Sebastian Bach. “Bach” is the German word for “brook”.

“Not Brook but Ocean should be his name” said Ludvig Van Beethoven.

I am lucky because I have had a possibility to be in Leipzig and walking to St. Thomas Church where Bach worked as a cantor from 1723 until his death in 1750.

I play the piano and the first piece I begin with my morning lesson is something from “Well Tempered Clavier”. Bach gave the title to a book of preludes and fugues in all 24 major and minor keys, dated 1722, composed “for the profit and use of musical youth desirous of learning, and especially for the pastime of those already skilled in this study.”

Bach makes my mornings. Every preludes and fugues are challenge for my fingers and enigma for brain and soul. I love to think that I am playing and listening the harmony of the universe.

“First, he was an intensely spiritual man. Second, he devoted his massive talent to the God he believed graced him with it,” Rick Marschall wrote in “Johann Sebastian Bach”.

“You want to discern a personality in my music?” we can perhaps hear him asking. “Listen closer and you will find one – the Lord Jesus Christ,” Rick said.

Below Johann Sebastian Bach’s 1722 seal, used throughout his Leipzig years. It contains the letters ‘J S B’ superimposed over their mirror image.

“In 1723, Bach was appointed Cantor of the Thomasschule at Thomaskirche in Leipzig, and Director of Music in the principal churches in the town, namely the Nikolaikirche and the Paulinerkirche, the church of the University of Leipzig. This was a prestigious post in the mercantile city in the Electorate of Saxony, which he held for 27 years until his death.”

His remains are buried under a bronze epitaph near the altar.

Another notable feature of the Thomaskirche is that it contains two organs. The older one is a Romantic organ by Wilhelm Sauer, built from 1885–89. Since this organ is considered “unsuitable” for Bach’s music, a second organ was built by Gerald Woehl’s organ building company from 1999–2000. This “Bach organ” was designed to look similar to the old organ on which Bach had played in the Paulinerkirche.

A statue of Johann Sebastian Bach by the Leipzig sculptor Carl Seffner that stands next to the church was dedicated in 1908.

I am reading in “Glory and Honor” by Gregory Wilbur: “Ultimately, Bach opens a vista to the universe. After experiencing him, people feel there is meaning to life after all”, said German organist Helmunt Walcha.”

This words are true for me. Thank you for sharing this moment with me!

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