Audition Anxiety Workshop

01/11/2022

https://www.brainfacts.org/thinking-sensing-and-behaving/emotions-stress-and-anxiety/2018/what-is-performance-anxiety-102518

Cognitive psychologist Sian Beilock, explains performance anxiety, choking under pressure, and what we can do to perform our best.

01/07/2020

Don’t give final authority to your own ideas. You have to test the teachings, and your ideas, in the laboratory of your actions.

—Larry Rosenberg, “The Right to Ask Questions”

01/03/2020

Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.

— Meister Eckhart

01/02/2020

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

- James Clear -

06/17/2019

Fear is not the enemy—it is nature’s protector; it only becomes troublesome when it oversteps its bounds. In order to deal with fear we must take a fundamentally noncontentious attitude toward it, so it’s not held as “My big fear problem” but rather “Here is fear that has come to visit.” Once we take this attitude, we can begin to work with fear.

—Amaro Bhikkhu, “Inviting Fear”

05/21/2019

When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
— Cynthia Heimel

03/28/2019

Being free of fear is not a matter of never feeling it, but of not being flattened when we do. We can feel it and know it is a natural phenomenon, also an impermanent one, which will have its say and be gone.
—David Guy, “Trying to Speak: A Personal History of Stage Fright”

01/17/2019

Cultivating skillful effort, we learn to distinguish the “right” amount of effort. Not too little. Not too much. Just right. In tune. When we find the right pitch, our practice flourishes.

—Peter Doobinin, “Skillful Effort”

01/11/2019

Success is not final, failure is not fatal; it is the courage to continue that counts.

- Winston Churchill -

09/23/2018

Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is.

- -German Proverb- -

09/16/2018

You have no idea of the tremendous release and deep peace that comes from meeting yourself and your brothers totally without judgment. . . . . . The strain of constant judgment is virtually intolerable. It is curious that an ability so debilitating would be so deeply cherished.

— A Course in Miracles