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Focus On What YOU Can Control
If you are a performer who struggles with performance anxiety or you can’t seem to perform as well as you practice, you may want to take a look at to what and where you are paying attention. Most...
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Strategies for Becoming a Mentally Tough Performer
You, like many musicians, may have heard things like, “You gotta be tough!” “You have to grow a thick skin!” or “Don’t wear your feelings on your sleeve!” At the same time, performers are supposed...
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Your Self-Talk—Friend or Foe?
Everyone has an inner dialogue of little voices—that steady stream of on-going thoughts and images—that constantly goes through their minds on and off the stage. This dialogue can be your most...
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The ABCs of Self-Talk for Musicians
As we discussed last time in Self-Talk—Friend or Foe?, chatter constantly runs through our heads as automatic thoughts, or as conscious thinking playing inner critic or inner coach to bolster our...
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Freedom From Performance Anxiety
When was the last time you felt anxious about an upcoming concert or audition? When was the last time you backed down from a challenge? Most performers have experienced these butterflies or anxiety...
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The Audition Illusion
What are illusions? Illusions are tricks our eyes and minds play on us. They trick us into perceiving something different from what actually exists. What we see often does not correspond with...
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What Is Your Performance Anxiety Trying to Tell You?
Does your heart race or do your hands shake prior to an important performance? Do you get into your head and wonder what the audience or judging panel is going to think of your performance? Do you...
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Do Your Performances Hit or Miss?
I ran across a quote by Holocaust survivor, Viktor Frankl, that really spoke to me. Frankl was an Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist who spent three years in a concentration camp. When released,...
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What’s Your Destiny? You Decide!
Have you ever felt stuck after a less than successful performance? Why did this happen? Again! What about that audition that didn’t go the way you expected? We often focus on the fact that the...
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Daring Greatly—The Vulnerable Performer
I recently watched Brené Brown’s 2012 TEDTalk called Listening to Shame. I am one of 2,785,867 people who have viewed this video since. I don’t know how many of those nearly three million viewers...
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