Come ti senti? [From disconnection to inner and collective re-evolution with Bruno and Carole].

“I’m always afraid when the moment to write has to go on. It’s a kind of a strange situation because I really love writing and I know it’s part of my inner nature. On the other hand, I have this feeling that my body can’t be focus; it wants to do other things instead of writing. It’s strange, right? OK, maybe it’s not that strange. Maybe the fear and the movement inside my body are natural, and the only thing that I have to do is be present, write, and see what happens next.”

What you have just read, dear readers, has been an exercise in imagination. I wrote it in English because if Bruno and Carole had asked me, “Come ti senti?” or “How do you feel?”, I would have expressed myself in English. It came out without thinking; I connected with the idea of accepting what was happening before I began to write. This is one of the things I take away from the four days spent experimenting with them: taking moments to check how I’m feeling in the present moment, to internalize what is happening, or to make conscious things that perhaps I wish to choose never to be a part of me again.

“You can choose, and that is your power.” It may seem like an obvious statement, but in reality, it’s not something that we, as a society still asleep in the matrix, experience deeply—the power of choice. Imagine yourself in a situation where you are doing something that you have consciously chosen to do. Whether it’s making breakfast, doing some exercise, going to work, hugging your partner, or having a spontaneous conversation with another human being. Whatever it is, imagine it, with all the innocence in the world, a situation that could happen in your daily life.

Do you have it? Good. Now, imagine that in that very moment when you are doing what you’ve just imagined—let’s say, for me, I’ll imagine that I want to make myself a nice breakfast to start the day —suddenly, other thoughts, sensations, or emotions “intrude” into the present moment, preventing you from fully enjoying the experience. Does this sound familiar? I’m sure it does. Alright, now imagine that you have the power to decide. To choose whether to stay in the present moment or identify with your emotions. “How do I do that?”—you might be asking yourself. By making conscious what is happening to you—just as I did at the beginning of this writing—honoring it and telling yourself: “I accept what is happening to me,” and then deciding: Do I stay observing what is happening to resolve it, or do I choose to live in the present moment and pay attention to those “things that intrude” at another time? And then you decide. There you have it. Normally, those types of thoughts or emotions don’t repeat once you choose to be present. Unless it’s something you truly need to pay attention to. If that’s the case, your being will show it to you again at another moment.

“Everything is information. And emotions are the channels we use to understand ourselves,”—I remember Bruno saying. The fact is, we tend to identify with, categorize, and judge everything that happens to us instead of simply observing ourselves. “Nothing is right and nothing is wrong; things simply are. Then there’s us, who give them a label,”—Carole used to say. To which Bruno would add: “Here, nothing that happens is wrong, understood?” How can I explain the beauty that those two people inspired in me? Do you know what they called the workshop we did? “From disconnection to inner and collective re-evolution.” And they couldn’t have been more right. At the time the course was happening, I didn’t realize, but those two make a perfect tandem as teachers. Although, to be honest, the word “teachers” doesn’t do them

justice in this context. I would call them: people who transmit knowledge to other human beings.

And they make sure that it happens: from human to human, from heart to heart. I remember they mentioned this all the time, and they were the best example: “Speak from the present, with what’s happening now.”

I often say that if you weren’t there, I can’t explain what happened. Fortunately, I have the channel of words to express myself, but still, even I can’t come close to truly telling you what we lived those four days, together, creating a community where you could express yourself in the freest way possible.

One thing I love doing is reviewing my notes. Right now, I feel inspired to share some of them with you, the ones I always mark with a red heart or underline in some way. I’ll put the date for you so you can see how things transformed for me day by day. Oh, and I love “out of context” notes because, in that way, each person, from their place, can add their own understanding, experience, or imagination.

Here they go:

[Day I. Wednesday, May 28, 2025]

“To make a deal with ourselves to be ourselves.”

“We are always guided by our bodies, but we have forgotten this.”

“What does it mean to be present for yourself?”

“ For artists, in any kind of art: Inspiration comes from the unknown.”

[Day II. Thursday, May 29, 2025]

“I take him—> he makes the movements.

If he takes me—> I make the movements.” —he continues saying—: “And

we are equals.” —he pauses and finishes—: “Sometimes, in our culture it is: ‘I take him—> and I make the movements,’” he said, trying to explain how our desire to control works.

“What do you feel?” —he pauses briefly. I think at this moment some of my classmates went out to experience what it’s like to answer the question in front of the whole group.

At some point, he added—: “When we choose to release ourselves, it happens.”

“The best lesson I take away is that: a big heart is so good.”

“If we feel emotionally stuck, move!”

“Whenever we need to know, our physical body will tell us.”

“We need feelings to live, otherwise, we are dead.”

[Day III. Friday, May 30, 2025]

The following note was said in Italian, and I don’t want to change it because the sound of those words was so beautiful that it wouldn’t do justice:

“L’amore è alla base dell’instinto.”

“Tears are the soul sweating.”

“Be grateful for your questions. Remember that we don’t need to have a

quick answer.”

“Ho’oponopono: I am sorry. | Forgive me. | Thank you. | I love you.”

“Stagnant water, water that does not move, becomes bad water. However, the most powerful and energetic water is that which flows freely, such as in the waterfalls.”

“Strength is a flow that we feel throughout our body.”

“If you use the flow of your energy, you will never be tired.”

[Day IV. Saturday, May 31, 2025]

“Not all of the fruit on the tree ripened at the same time.”

“In the creative mode, you control the craziness.”

“The experience of walking in the world we want to live in.”

“We have the power to create the world we want right now.”

“It’s up to you to choose to be in life.”

“And we breathe” —they used to say constantly, and that’s what, naturally, my body has needed to do after revisiting the notes from this journey we lived together. Breathe to process, to integrate, to calm, to accept.

Nothing more. I’m left with nothing else to say, so I’ll close here. When you feel it you feel it. My body has told me so. I think Bruno and Carole would be proud of me for this. I think Bruno and Carole would laugh at the sentence I just wrote. I laugh too.

See you on the way.

Bacio,

R.