Audition Anxiety Workshop

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

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

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”

Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.

— Meister Eckhart

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

- James Clear -

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”

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

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”

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”

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

- Winston Churchill -

Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is.

- -German Proverb- -

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