What is it?

Melholistics (melolistica) is an Ontopsychological instrument that uses music - performed by a melholist - and dance - performed by the participants. It aims at restoring and strengthening the potential of organismic health, psycho-physical wellbeing and psycho-emotional functionality.

The term "melholistics" was coined in order to stress the difference between this discipline and other music-based therapies used in the medical field. Melholistics addresses (preferentially, not exclusively) active operators in any field - business, politics, art, sport, etc.

Melholistics is a way of exploiting music and dance which enables the participants to achieve a state of health, in aesthetic and creative terms.

Thus, melholistics determines a heightening of all primary organic activities, from psycho-emotive to physiological and motor. The objective is to enable the subject to invest his health in the social environment.

Conceived as total psycho-physical activity with the function of aesthetic pleasure and strengthening of the person, melholistics realigns the whole physiological and emotional ecosystem. Additionally, it facilitates swiftness and transparency of the intellectual and volitional functions.

The music is performed with drums and other percussion instruments by a trained melholist, while the participants have sufficient space to dance alone. Initially, there is a phase of maximum convergence and concentration in the focal point of the viscerotonic apparatus. Once consciousness and movement have reached this point of reference, an expansion occurs: the body moves aesthetically and spontaneously. Essentially, what happens is a movement of concentration and expansion in the univocity of the viscerotonic centre.

It is a primordial rhythm that unifies the heart, the stomach, the diaphragm and the muscles. No stress or repetition is involved. Everything evolves according to a congenital rhythm based on percussions and the expansion of the diaphragm, which is the natural drum of the organism. The number of participants in a group ranges from five to thirty.

This musical experience makes it possible to recover the musicality that is naturally present in the organism, rediscovering the sense of circular harmony of the psycho-emotive-somatic whole.

Fields of Application

• Health psychology (holistic wellbeing)
• Aesthetics and Creative Expression
• Sports
• Schooling and Education
• Music and Arts

School of Melholistics

The School of Melholistics is supported by the national Associations of Melholistics present in various countries (AIMO, Italy ; Brazilian School of Melholistics; Russian Association of Melholistics).

The School aims at training melholists: operators capable of acting upon the participants and restoring their organismic and psycho-emotive vitality. This increased vitality can then be invested by the subject in creativity in his social operativity. The requisites for admission are: musical sensibility, intuitive capacity and existential sanity, and admission protocols comply with the legal norms of each country. Additional information is available from the International Ontopsychology Association and from the various national Ontopsychology Associations.

Contacts

Marcello Bruognolo
(+39) 335 586 3360

Reference texts

• A. Meneghetti, Manuale di melolistica (Melholistics handbook)
  Psicologica Editrice, 1988-2000.
• A. Meneghetti, Manuale di Ontopsicologia (Ontopsychology handbook)
  Psicologica Editrice, 2003.
• A. Meneghetti, Residence a Mosca (Residence in Moscow)
  Psicologica Editrice, 1995.