Thank you – it’s due to the support of people like you!

After starting into The Confident Mind in this month’s book club, I made a pact with myself to play in at least one Performance Lab weekly. Not an easy task for me based on my high level of performance anxiety.

But I dug right in and found pleasant, supportive and very understanding people, all of whom are working with some sort of difficulty themselves. What I’m learning to do is work with, in spite of, the anxiety, as is suggested in ACT for Musicians.

After each performance, I feel like a total failure, as if nothing went right. Later, listening to the recording, I find that’s not really true. Then, I heard a great suggestion from Jason Shafer in Noa’s interview (https://bulletproofmusician.com/jason-shafer-on-healthier-practicing-strengths-based-performing/).

Jason asks his students to record themselves, then when listening, write down comments, half of which must be about something that went right. After testing this on my latest “failed” performance, I found a…

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