20 min
Treating performance anxiety PerfActionist - Take action to find healthy perfectionism!
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In this episode with Dr. David Juncos we discussed a new method that can help musicians to reduce the suffering that performance anxiety causes. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is more a way of thinking than a therapy, so it is perfectly adoptable in musicians’ practice. What really happens by doing ACT is that you increase your ability to be with anxiety and tolerating the stress in the concert situation.
By doing ACT you learn that thoughts are like language: they are symbolic as they refer to things but they are not the same thing that they refer to. And this is they key to diffuse or in other words, detach yourself and your acts from your thoughts.
Food for thought:
1. List your values as a musician! (e.g. connecting with the audience, expressing yourself, executing perfect technique)
2. Now try to recall whether you are aware of your values at a time when you experience performance anxiety! What’s your answer?
Dr. David Juncos’ practice:
https://www.hptherapy.com/our-psychotherapists#DavidJuncos
His book:
http://www.comptonpublishing.co.uk/ACT-for-Musicians.php
More info:
https://www.perfactionist.org
In this episode with Dr. David Juncos we discussed a new method that can help musicians to reduce the suffering that performance anxiety causes. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is more a way of thinking than a therapy, so it is perfectly adoptable in musicians’ practice. What really happens by doing ACT is that you increase your ability to be with anxiety and tolerating the stress in the concert situation.
By doing ACT you learn that thoughts are like language: they are symbolic as they refer to things but they are not the same thing that they refer to. And this is they key to diffuse or in other words, detach yourself and your acts from your thoughts.
Food for thought:
1. List your values as a musician! (e.g. connecting with the audience, expressing yourself, executing perfect technique)
2. Now try to recall whether you are aware of your values at a time when you experience performance anxiety! What’s your answer?
Dr. David Juncos’ practice:
https://www.hptherapy.com/our-psychotherapists#DavidJuncos
His book:
http://www.comptonpublishing.co.uk/ACT-for-Musicians.php
More info:
https://www.perfactionist.org
20 min