THE FATHER WAS HELD WITH HIM ABOVE FATE - and that's what came of it

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

His diagnosis sounded like a sentence. Mitochondrial disease of the muscular and nervous systems presupposes dementia, learning disabilities, gradual fading of the body's muscular functions, and complete paralysis. Such children live up to a maximum of 11 years.

But today the entire musical world knows the Ukrainian virtuoso performer Nikolai Miroshnichenko. At the international competition, the teenager performed with the State Academic Pop Symphony Orchestra. A boy who cannot learn the multiplication table, who was predicted to be completely paralyzed, plays the most complex pieces of music from sight. In addition to the piano, he mastered the violin, cello, guitar, domra.

He was born with a bilateral stroke. The mother's heart stopped during childbirth, and had to urgently undergo a caesarean section. The newborn had extensive hemorrhage in both hemispheres of the brain. He was literally resurrected. Then complications began: epilepsy, paralysis, abnormal development of internal organs … Then they diagnosed a rare genetic pathology - mitochondrial disease. This means that the body does not have enough energy to live. The energy source of cells is mitochondria, and in this case they could not produce energy.

There is only one prognosis in such cases: first, the child walks, then rides in a wheelchair, then just lies, and eventually death occurs. No cure has been invented yet. Nicolas's left side of his body was shrinking, and convulsions began. He also had a wrong calcium metabolism. The slightest awkward movement could lead to fractures. Due to hemorrhages, the son had no neural connections in the cerebral cortex. And then the father developed a set of exercises that allows you to restore energy exchange.

As a very young boy, Nicolas squatted a thousand times. At the same time, it was important that he did not get tired. We tried the technique on ourselves. Father, Nikolai Georgievich, did 10 thousand squats. His wife squatted a thousand times in five minutes, and also lifted a kettlebell two thousand times.

My father reasoned like this: why, for example, does an Arctic petrel fly 500 kilometers, catch fish, then return, feed the chicks and fly back again? Or a polar bear who does not know swimming techniques and has not learned to swim from anyone. But he is able to swim at a speed of 6 kilometers per hour. Animals do not sweat, do not strain, do not get tired. People, on the contrary.

It is believed that after training, there should be a sore throat. But dyspnea is when lactic acid is produced in the body, which washes out calcium. And without calcium, bones are destroyed.

Therefore, the methodology was based on exercises that help restore energy and lymph metabolism. Scientists argue that a person is unable to do more than two and a half joint movements per second, this is impossible. Chopin played 13 notes per second, the great composer Cerny - 14 notes per second. And Nikolay plays 20 notes per second! It turns out that he is the most technical musician on the planet. This is what it means to train without fatigue and stress. At the same time, his parents did not set the task of teaching him to play the piano or violin. His father just knew that memory is not related to brain size, memory is the sum of skills. What we can do and remember. Skill, the sum of physical actions. With age, memory deteriorates, because motor skills deteriorate, we do fewer movements. The body needs constant movement.

To develop motor skills, the father decided to teach his son music. He was then seven years old. The fingers practically did not move, only the index fingers on both hands remained mobile. First, he put on his son tight mittens without fingers, and so he taught his hands to press the keys. Over time, the fingers began to move a little. So, with the help of movements in his brain, new neural connections were formed.

They did not want to take Kolya to the music schools at which they knocked. They just didn't know how to deal with such a child. In one of the schools my father was told: you need to study not here, but in the Donetsk region. He asked why? “In Donbass,” they answered, “there are mines one and a half kilometers deep. Nobody will hear you there. Then the father himself took up the development of a special technique.

To do this, I had to study the works of all the great teachers. Makarenko and Sukhomlinsky relied on the confidence of their students in their techniques. The teacher is called upon to see abilities in each student and turn them into skills and desires. The child must want to learn himself, and the teacher is obliged to help him in this. Three main conditions: desire, repetition and skill. But desire is always more important than knowledge.