Most people have heard about the fight or flight response when faced with a threat, real or imagined…
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Category Archive: Performance Anxiety
Your stress response does not end with invisible changes to the neuro-chemical processes in your brain…
Did you know… that you cannot “try” to relax?
One of the most unsettling, but valuable, discoveries you will make on stage is that you will suddenly start asking yourself questions that you never asked, much less answered, during your study-practice sessions…
We may not be able to choose our thoughts directly, but we can certainly choose our attitudes.
The most absolutely worthless and destructive advice regarding anything unpleasant or undesirable is this: “Try not to think about it.”
To a larger extent than we care to admit, we do not have direct control over our thoughts…
Anyone who suffers from stage fright knows that anxiety is not just something you merely think in your brain…
One way to tame the stage fright monster is to laugh at it!
Before continuing our exploration of the many cognitive-behavioral antidotes to stage fright, I feel compelled to share my perspective on the use of Beta-Blockers…