Performance Anxiety: Worthless Advice
The most worthless advice regarding anything worrisome is this: “Try not to think about it.”
Performance Anxiety
A rich collection of simple, practical, healthy, and proven ways to change the way you think about, feel, and behave in response to performance anxiety…
Performance Anxiety: The Power of Positive Thinking
How to apply the power of positive thinking in a meaningful way for overcoming performance anxiety…
Performance Anxiety: Not the Time and Place
One of the most unsettling, but instructive, discoveries you’ll make on stage is that you suddenly start asking yourself questions…
Performance Anxiety: Proven Relaxation Techniques
Did you know that you cannot “try” to relax? Did you know that you cannot command yourself to relax?
Performance Anxiety: Body Language
Stress has the power to adversely effect your entire body posture… often without your permission and sometimes without your awareness…
Performance Anxiety: The Third F
Most people have heard about the fight or flight response when faced with a threat, real or imagined…
Performance Anxiety: A Fresh Perspective
One way to push our performance anxiety all the way to the back row is by reframing what playing music is really all about…
Performance Anxiety: Self-Consciousness
A great way to manage the self-consciousness part of our stage fright is to place our center of attention where it belongs…
Performance Anxiety: Having Fun
Let’s take a moment to fully appreciate the verb used to describe the making of sounds with a musical instrument: PLAYING!
Performance Anxiety: Mistake Proofing
Studying and practicing with the hope of never making a mistake in performance is not a good plan for at least two reasons…