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Circle time: an opportunity for connection and expression
In this article, Johanna Smith shares how circle time can be used to meet, engage and connect with children as a way to support their learning.
Teenagers, Self-empowerment, Performance anxiety, Overwhelm, Teachers
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Why do we get stage fright? (part 1)
Sweaty palms, trembling knees, and a constricted throat. How is it that stage fright takes hold and where does it come from? And could the answer to understanding stage fright have nothing to do with the stage at all?
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Playing Live
Musician Daniel Bennier shares how it was playing live in the music scene and what has changed since. “The buzz back then was seeing how the power of music could control the audience.”.
Musicians, Emotions, Energy in music, Performance anxiety, Music
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How to free yourself from performance anxiety and stage fright
Most people say they would rather die than face this. But how bad can it be? From shattering nerves to knowing her full voice, Jenny James writes of her own experience in overcoming stage fright.
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Co-dependency aka ‘Pretzelling’ or the compulsion to comply
Watch this entertaining video on co-dependent relationship problems
Acceptance, Behaviour, Performance anxiety, Rejection, Relationships, Tension, Awareness
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Serge Benhayon – a life of detail
Serge Benhayon lives his life with an extraordinary attention to detail and inspires others to live that too.
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Everyone is born with a beautiful voice – Singing and speaking
In re-discovering the amazing voice that we are naturally born with we can all sing, speak and express freely!
Communication, Confidence, Performance anxiety, Raising children, Self-esteem, Tension, Expression
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Do you have a fear of singing? Me too.
It is possible to overcome a fear of singing. After a life of being scared to sing, holding back her voice a life changing singing lesson gave Gayle the confidence to find her true voice.
Music, Confidence, Performance anxiety, Connection, Brotherhood, Expression
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Performance anxiety – an everyday experience?
Is performance anxiety an everyday experience that is simply a stronger manifestation of the stress we are living with all the time? Do we unconsciously set our children up to live with this tension from their earliest years?
Performance anxiety, Conscious presence, Body awareness, Confidence, Anxiety
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The road back to music and educating children
From the pressure to be top dog and prove himself as a musician to bringing music alive with children in the classroom, musician and teacher Daniel Bennier shares what shuts us down to our natural joy of music and what restores us.
Education, Musicians, Performance anxiety, University, Self-worth, Teachers
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Jenny James
Jenny James writes music that asks us to look deeper, beyond life that we accept or ‘know it to be’. Her songs are Universal, her voice has a purity that brings clarity, beauty and depth to any style and supports the sacredness that is within us all.
Harmony, Musicians, Music, Presence, Expression, Connection, Performance anxiety
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How to support mothers in dealing with anxiety
Have you noticed the way that anxiety is creeping into the mothering sphere more regularly these days? Let’s consider taking a fresh approach for understanding mothers experiencing anxiety!
Anxiety, Motherhood, Parenting, Pregnancy, Performance anxiety
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Confidence is natural
What if confidence is something we are naturally born with and not to be ‘acquired’? Serge Benhayon turns around a debilitating belief about ‘finding’ confidence and presents how we already have what we are searching for.
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OMG… I got it wrong again!
Imagine if Fleming, the person who discovered penicillin, had thrown out his mouldy petri dish, thinking he had done his experiment wrong!
Children, Education, Intelligence, Performance anxiety, School
