This quote could have easily been written by the great samurai warrior Musashi whose teaching was that the mind and the eyes should always stay the same; eyes open to all things and the mind relaxed but alert even in the heat of a battle.
For us many have never had to deal with life
threatening situations but we are still wired up in the same way as our
ancestors and therefore when small events happen we tend to over compensate for
them.
The levels of stress that people experience not only
cause problems with their health but also on a social front. In the past we
would have experienced something very physical such as fight or flight that
would have dissipated that stress, now we have to put up with Ofsted and other
small problems without the ability to burn off the stress. (Maybe there is a
business idea here of the ‘Ofsted inspector punch bag’ that could be a good
seller).
I have looked at using aspects of human emotional
energy in performance techniques such as using memories of sadness, anger and
happiness and it is very powerful; it is often the missing ingredient that
makes a reasonable performance outstanding. However to be the master of this
one needs to be aware of what you are doing and although to take people into a
trance one needs to go there first you need also to be aware and in control of
that power by being disassociated from it rather like an actor.
Anger is like fire and it will burn out of control
if not dealt with fully and fear stops all forward movement in life. So if you
feared standing up in public maybe you should get out and visit an open mic
event and step up to the microphone.
Vic
