Meditation is everything! I was about to put on a big show, everything about it was never done here. When performing, I always become a bundle of tied up nerves while my outside appears perfectly calm. When going to bed the night before, my guides told me, “there’s not a single person there who can do what you’re about to do.” That totally cured the nerves. I never realized that. I also realized my nerves were stemming from fear of being judged...and by others who can’t even do it at all!
Man, I seem to be hopeless ! Even this video is making me slightly nervous. I get nervous because of fear of bad performance, but even more because I have fear of stage fright and its physical and mental effects on my performance, and so I get stage fright. It's like a vicious circle.
Hi, @MonsieurC64. Wanted to reach out to you to connect. 🙂 I’ve been a musician for over 15 years now and still experience stage performance anxiety symptoms. As a recent doctoral graduate, I wanted to dive into personal research as I connect with others who experience similar anxieties whether on stage, speaking and presenting in general. Would you be open to sharing some of your valuable insights with me? Just Looking for those willing to help with my research! Grateful to find a community here! 😊
Great advice Justin. I too discovered that nervousness before gigs was actually my mind and body telling me that I was “ready” to perform. So, by changing how I looked at those symptoms, I changed how I reacted to them thereby overcoming stage fright.
Hi, @frankortega4280. Wanted to reach out to you to connect. 🙂 I’ve been a musician for over 15 years now and still experience stage performance anxiety symptoms. As a recent doctoral graduate, I wanted to dive into personal research as I connect with others who experience similar anxieties whether on stage, speaking and presenting in general. Would you be open to sharing some of your valuable insights with me? Just Looking for those willing to help with my research! Grateful to find a community here! 😊
Heheh, When I saw the notification "Stage Fright? Check this out", I mistakenly assumed it was a How To Play video for The Band's song, Stage Fright. 🙂 But the actual the content of this vid is great. (Before becoming a parent, I spent 25 years acting on stage, and the advice to reframe nervousness as excitement is the very advice I give to fellow actors who are struggling with it. Great stuff!)
Hi, @StevenShults. Wanted to reach out to you to connect. 🙂 I’ve been a musician for over 15 years now and still experience stage performance anxiety symptoms. As a recent doctoral graduate, I wanted to dive into personal research as I connect with others who experience similar anxieties whether on stage, speaking and presenting in general. Would you be open to sharing some of your valuable insights with me? Just Looking for those willing to help with my research! Grateful to find a community here! 😊
Recently i've played and singed a song in front of about 70 people. Background, i'm 39, i play guitar since a year and sing along. Never played in front of anyone. We had a dinner and party at the gym with live performers, and they invited people on stage. I was the only one who accepted. Never played amplified acoustic or singed into a mic with feedback. It went kinda ok, people appreciate the courage :D . What i remember is that i basically went on autopilot, since i practiced that song like a 100 time in the past. I even forgot the verse in the middle of the song, but cycled a little and it came back. I think that with enough practice you simply have nothing to fear, and i respect anyone who goes on a stage to sing/play, whatever it is, because it takes courage.
Hey thanks for this Justin. This is great. I’ve been reframing anxieties in my life to be excitement for years, and it really works. Most of my life, I was afraid of heights. But when I lived on a sailboat, I had to hoist myself to the top of the mast sitting on a small board, practically swinging free (I had a safety rope tied to me). It was scary at first but wow! The view was amazing. Shortly thereafter, I tried a roller coaster that I had chickened out on several times. I love roller coasters but this one went super fast and then straight up and hovered at the top for second or two before coming straight down. Finally, I got the nerve to try it and wow … it was the best! I was a classroom teacher for years so I’m used to standing in front of crowds and speaking. But I do get anxious when I think of singing. But I’m not there yet really. Once I have stronger skills, I will try to sing and play at the same time and then try this technique of thinking of performance as play and anxiety as excitement! Thanks! Carry on!
Hi, @VinnieVeneer. Wanted to reach out to you to connect. 🙂 I’ve been a musician for over 15 years now and still experience stage performance anxiety symptoms. As a recent doctoral graduate, I wanted to dive into personal research as I connect with others who experience similar anxieties whether on stage, speaking and presenting in general. Would you be open to sharing some of your valuable insights with me? Just Looking for those willing to help with my research! Grateful to find a community here! 😊
So I just started to play a few months ago using your beginner program (which is fantastic BTW) I finally played a few songs last week to my coworkers. I felt all the physical and emotional traits you described in this video. I took myself to a place of calm peace, closed my eyes and played. After watching this video I know I'm on the right track using meditation to harness all the feelings before playing in front of a group of people. Great video and super helpful. Thank you Justin for all you have given to new guitarists such as myself!! Cheers and Merry Christmas!!
Hi, @antonparas4782. Wanted to reach out to you to connect. 🙂 I’ve been a musician for over 15 years now and still experience stage performance anxiety symptoms. As a recent doctoral graduate, I wanted to dive into personal research as I connect with others who experience similar anxieties whether on stage, speaking and presenting in general. Would you be open to sharing some of your valuable insights with me? Just Looking for those willing to help with my research! Grateful to find a community here! 😊
Thank you so much for this Justin! You've even out effort in mixing her voice differently. I thought I heard some ever-so-slight reverse reverb at one point. Fright and fear have been strange and.unwanted companions for many years. This helps so much. ❤️
Hi, @rusellpeter. Wanted to reach out to you to connect. 🙂 I’ve been a musician for over 15 years now and still experience stage performance anxiety symptoms. As a recent doctoral graduate, I wanted to dive into personal research as I connect with others who experience similar anxieties whether on stage, speaking and presenting in general. Would you be open to sharing some of your valuable insights with me? Just Looking for those willing to help with my research! Grateful to find a community here! 😊
Hi, @chesterburnett3466. Wanted to reach out to you to connect. 🙂 I’ve been a musician for over 15 years now and still experience stage performance anxiety symptoms. As a recent doctoral graduate, I wanted to dive into personal research as I connect with others who experience similar anxieties whether on stage, speaking and presenting in general. Would you be open to sharing some of your valuable insights with me? Just Looking for those willing to help with my research! Grateful to find a community here! 😊
Justin & Crew, a truly stunning guided meditation from Cortney... with gorgeous guitar behind it?! The quality of your content recently is impossible to ignore 🤌🏽 My love and thanks at Christmas ❤️ Stay safe and I’ll see you in the New Year 🎸 Con x
Hi, @georgeborrego7483. Wanted to reach out to you to connect. 🙂 I’ve been a musician for over 15 years now and still experience stage performance anxiety symptoms. As a recent doctoral graduate, I wanted to dive into personal research as I connect with others who experience similar anxieties whether on stage, speaking and presenting in general. Would you be open to sharing some of your valuable insights with me? Just Looking for those willing to help with my research! Grateful to find a community here! 😊
I have stage amnesia... I can usually remember the chords for tunes but the words totally escape me. Drives me nuts... sometimes I'll just make stuff up and hope no one notices.
This is an AWESOME idea! I have used guided meditation for chronic pain for years. I learned how to practice a few techniques with a pain management doctor. It’s a unique idea to use it as part of our guitar journey. It makes a lot of sense for performance nerves, but it can also be used just to center one’s self before practicing at home. I bet meditation and relaxation can be used during the act of playing, even without the guided spoken audio - can you perhaps create some tabs (for different levels of playing, of course) where we can learn to play some songs that we can use to actively meditate to while playing? My thought is that we learn and internalize the songs. Once we learn them, we play them with our eyes closed and reflect or clear our minds while playing. We can play and do breathing exercises. There are many possibilities. Maybe you can explore those and help us accomplish them? I hope you’ll consider it. Thanks!
Hi, @MashaT22. Wanted to reach out to you to connect. 🙂 I’ve been a musician for over 15 years now and still experience stage performance anxiety symptoms. As a recent doctoral graduate, I wanted to dive into personal research as I connect with others who experience similar anxieties whether on stage, speaking and presenting in general. Would you be open to sharing some of your valuable insights with me? Just Looking for those willing to help with my research! Grateful to find a community here! 😊
Thanks Justin, this is really useful. It would also be really helpful to have a lesson on how to control excess muscle tension even when just practicing. I know the general advice is always 'just relax' but I'm sure there are techniques out there that would help.
Interesting topic, I do feel the performance Anxiety/Excitement if I have to follow any choreography or play it from my memory ( if I have not practiced enough) Strangely, if i it's free style dancing/ Zumba I feel excited to be on the stage😄 It's probably because dancing comes naturally since childhood, singing and playing Guitar has happened over the last few years, pretty late in life to become a performer 😄
Hi, @sujayanarula3913. Wanted to reach out to you to connect. 🙂 I’ve been a musician for over 15 years now and still experience stage performance anxiety symptoms. As a recent doctoral graduate, I wanted to dive into personal research as I connect with others who experience similar anxieties whether on stage, speaking and presenting in general. Would you be open to sharing some of your valuable insights with me? Just Looking for those willing to help with my research! Grateful to find a community here! 😊
Hey man! You're truly an amazing person who's continuously providing such an easy ways to play, learn,understand guitar. Glad to have a part of it💜 (: #Justin_Guitar
It’s just so strange and frustrating how playing a piece I know very well by heart gets butchered when I play it after pressing the record button on my camera vs not doing so.. wish is started this earlier, but now I make it a habit to always record myself when practicing
You forgot to put down CRY 😢 because in certain parts of song it has deep meaning. That happens to me i am very emotional because I feel the song. How can I STOP THAT.
@@justinguitar It went really well after the first song. I started relaxing. Everyone said my first song, What Child is This, was played beautifully. Thank goodness for stereo chorus! Lol
Why be anxious? It’s too late for that just before you go on stage. Either you are A./ prepared or B./ not. If it’s A./ enjoy it. If it’s B./ learn from it. The show must go on. The notes go out and are they aren’t your anymore. Relax.
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🎁 Free AUDIO for the Guided Meditation here: www.justinguitar.com/guitar-lessons/how-to-overcome-stage-anxiety-cm-001
Meditation is everything! I was about to put on a big show, everything about it was never done here. When performing, I always become a bundle of tied up nerves while my outside appears perfectly calm. When going to bed the night before, my guides told me, “there’s not a single person there who can do what you’re about to do.” That totally cured the nerves. I never realized that. I also realized my nerves were stemming from fear of being judged...and by others who can’t even do it at all!
Man, I seem to be hopeless ! Even this video is making me slightly nervous. I get nervous because of fear of bad performance, but even more because I have fear of stage fright and its physical and mental effects on my performance, and so I get stage fright. It's like a vicious circle.
Hi, @MonsieurC64. Wanted to reach out to you to connect. 🙂 I’ve been a musician for over 15 years now and still experience stage performance anxiety symptoms. As a recent doctoral graduate, I wanted to dive into personal research as I connect with others who experience similar anxieties whether on stage, speaking and presenting in general. Would you be open to sharing some of your valuable insights with me? Just Looking for those willing to help with my research! Grateful to find a community here! 😊
Great advice Justin.
I too discovered that nervousness before gigs was actually my mind and body telling me that I was “ready” to perform. So, by changing how I looked at those symptoms, I changed how I reacted to them thereby overcoming stage fright.
This mindset really makes a huge difference. Thanks for sharing. Cheers :)
Hi, @frankortega4280. Wanted to reach out to you to connect. 🙂 I’ve been a musician for over 15 years now and still experience stage performance anxiety symptoms. As a recent doctoral graduate, I wanted to dive into personal research as I connect with others who experience similar anxieties whether on stage, speaking and presenting in general. Would you be open to sharing some of your valuable insights with me? Just Looking for those willing to help with my research! Grateful to find a community here! 😊
Such a great video. The power of reframing is so simple, yet so effective!! Thank you for helping musicians on their path
Heheh, When I saw the notification "Stage Fright? Check this out", I mistakenly assumed it was a How To Play video for The Band's song, Stage Fright. 🙂 But the actual the content of this vid is great. (Before becoming a parent, I spent 25 years acting on stage, and the advice to reframe nervousness as excitement is the very advice I give to fellow actors who are struggling with it. Great stuff!)
Hi, @StevenShults. Wanted to reach out to you to connect. 🙂 I’ve been a musician for over 15 years now and still experience stage performance anxiety symptoms. As a recent doctoral graduate, I wanted to dive into personal research as I connect with others who experience similar anxieties whether on stage, speaking and presenting in general. Would you be open to sharing some of your valuable insights with me? Just Looking for those willing to help with my research! Grateful to find a community here! 😊
Recently i've played and singed a song in front of about 70 people. Background, i'm 39, i play guitar since a year and sing along. Never played in front of anyone. We had a dinner and party at the gym with live performers, and they invited people on stage. I was the only one who accepted. Never played amplified acoustic or singed into a mic with feedback. It went kinda ok, people appreciate the courage :D . What i remember is that i basically went on autopilot, since i practiced that song like a 100 time in the past. I even forgot the verse in the middle of the song, but cycled a little and it came back.
I think that with enough practice you simply have nothing to fear, and i respect anyone who goes on a stage to sing/play, whatever it is, because it takes courage.
this made me cry 🥹 and release the nervousness I was carrying 😊 thanks a lot!
Hey thanks for this Justin. This is great. I’ve been reframing anxieties in my life to be excitement for years, and it really works. Most of my life, I was afraid of heights. But when I lived on a sailboat, I had to hoist myself to the top of the mast sitting on a small board, practically swinging free (I had a safety rope tied to me). It was scary at first but wow! The view was amazing. Shortly thereafter, I tried a roller coaster that I had chickened out on several times. I love roller coasters but this one went super fast and then straight up and hovered at the top for second or two before coming straight down. Finally, I got the nerve to try it and wow … it was the best! I was a classroom teacher for years so I’m used to standing in front of crowds and speaking. But I do get anxious when I think of singing. But I’m not there yet really. Once I have stronger skills, I will try to sing and play at the same time and then try this technique of thinking of performance as play and anxiety as excitement! Thanks! Carry on!
Hi, @VinnieVeneer. Wanted to reach out to you to connect. 🙂 I’ve been a musician for over 15 years now and still experience stage performance anxiety symptoms. As a recent doctoral graduate, I wanted to dive into personal research as I connect with others who experience similar anxieties whether on stage, speaking and presenting in general. Would you be open to sharing some of your valuable insights with me? Just Looking for those willing to help with my research! Grateful to find a community here! 😊
So I just started to play a few months ago using your beginner program (which is fantastic BTW) I finally played a few songs last week to my coworkers. I felt all the physical and emotional traits you described in this video. I took myself to a place of calm peace, closed my eyes and played. After watching this video I know I'm on the right track using meditation to harness all the feelings before playing in front of a group of people. Great video and super helpful. Thank you Justin for all you have given to new guitarists such as myself!! Cheers and Merry Christmas!!
Very happy this might help Seth! Good luck and best wishes :) J
thanks for the mental health awareness justin!
Hi, @antonparas4782. Wanted to reach out to you to connect. 🙂 I’ve been a musician for over 15 years now and still experience stage performance anxiety symptoms. As a recent doctoral graduate, I wanted to dive into personal research as I connect with others who experience similar anxieties whether on stage, speaking and presenting in general. Would you be open to sharing some of your valuable insights with me? Just Looking for those willing to help with my research! Grateful to find a community here! 😊
Thank you so much for this Justin! You've even out effort in mixing her voice differently. I thought I heard some ever-so-slight reverse reverb at one point. Fright and fear have been strange and.unwanted companions for many years. This helps so much. ❤️
Thanks for listening - I'm glad this might help you! Good luck, and happy holiday.
Hi, @rusellpeter. Wanted to reach out to you to connect. 🙂 I’ve been a musician for over 15 years now and still experience stage performance anxiety symptoms. As a recent doctoral graduate, I wanted to dive into personal research as I connect with others who experience similar anxieties whether on stage, speaking and presenting in general. Would you be open to sharing some of your valuable insights with me? Just Looking for those willing to help with my research! Grateful to find a community here! 😊
Wow. Thanks so much for these thoughts. I really feel that they will help. Cheers, and Happy Holidays.
Really happy you found this useful - you got this! Happy Holidays :)
Hi, @chesterburnett3466. Wanted to reach out to you to connect. 🙂 I’ve been a musician for over 15 years now and still experience stage performance anxiety symptoms. As a recent doctoral graduate, I wanted to dive into personal research as I connect with others who experience similar anxieties whether on stage, speaking and presenting in general. Would you be open to sharing some of your valuable insights with me? Just Looking for those willing to help with my research! Grateful to find a community here! 😊
so glad you are addressing this, thank you
You are so welcome! :) Happy holidays!
Thank you both so much, it might help some day😊🙏🏽💐
Thank you for addressing this topic Justin, it has definitely helped me... And thanks for all you do!😃🎸
Glad to hear it! Rock on :)
Justin & Crew, a truly stunning guided meditation from Cortney... with gorgeous guitar behind it?! The quality of your content recently is impossible to ignore 🤌🏽 My love and thanks at Christmas ❤️ Stay safe and I’ll see you in the New Year 🎸 Con x
Great tips! Thanks!
You're so welcome!
Thanks, for that I enjoyed that session. And the meditation. I'll have implement that on my next open mic. It was very informative.
Glad to hear that! Cheers :)
Hi, @georgeborrego7483. Wanted to reach out to you to connect. 🙂 I’ve been a musician for over 15 years now and still experience stage performance anxiety symptoms. As a recent doctoral graduate, I wanted to dive into personal research as I connect with others who experience similar anxieties whether on stage, speaking and presenting in general. Would you be open to sharing some of your valuable insights with me? Just Looking for those willing to help with my research! Grateful to find a community here! 😊
I have stage amnesia... I can usually remember the chords for tunes but the words totally escape me. Drives me nuts... sometimes I'll just make stuff up and hope no one notices.
The information you provided in this video and the meditation were extremely helpful. Thank you so much for sharing! 💙
Thank you Justin, wow💖💖♥♥
So helpful. I get so nervous when I'm about to perform that my fingers don't work right on my guitar. Crazy!!
One of the most helpful videos I’ve seen! Thank you so much
Amazing man thank you for sharing good tips there..great teacher 💯👌🤘🤘🤙
This is an AWESOME idea! I have used guided meditation for chronic pain for years. I learned how to practice a few techniques with a pain management doctor. It’s a unique idea to use it as part of our guitar journey.
It makes a lot of sense for performance nerves, but it can also be used just to center one’s self before practicing at home. I bet meditation and relaxation can be used during the act of playing, even without the guided spoken audio - can you perhaps create some tabs (for different levels of playing, of course) where we can learn to play some songs that we can use to actively meditate to while playing? My thought is that we learn and internalize the songs. Once we learn them, we play them with our eyes closed and reflect or clear our minds while playing. We can play and do breathing exercises. There are many possibilities. Maybe you can explore those and help us accomplish them? I hope you’ll consider it. Thanks!
Hi, @MashaT22. Wanted to reach out to you to connect. 🙂 I’ve been a musician for over 15 years now and still experience stage performance anxiety symptoms. As a recent doctoral graduate, I wanted to dive into personal research as I connect with others who experience similar anxieties whether on stage, speaking and presenting in general. Would you be open to sharing some of your valuable insights with me? Just Looking for those willing to help with my research! Grateful to find a community here! 😊
Enjoyed it.
Thanks Justin, this is really useful. It would also be really helpful to have a lesson on how to control excess muscle tension even when just practicing. I know the general advice is always 'just relax' but I'm sure there are techniques out there that would help.
I'm fighting back the urge to start cracking jokes as this is a family channel. 😆
Interesting topic, I do feel the performance Anxiety/Excitement if I have to follow any choreography or play it from my memory ( if I have not practiced enough) Strangely, if i it's free style dancing/ Zumba I feel excited to be on the stage😄 It's probably because dancing comes naturally since childhood, singing and playing Guitar has happened over the last few years, pretty late in life to become a performer 😄
Interestingly, I had no problem teaching dance fitness classes, but get crippling stage fright with the guitar 🤦🏽♀️
Hi, @sujayanarula3913. Wanted to reach out to you to connect. 🙂 I’ve been a musician for over 15 years now and still experience stage performance anxiety symptoms. As a recent doctoral graduate, I wanted to dive into personal research as I connect with others who experience similar anxieties whether on stage, speaking and presenting in general. Would you be open to sharing some of your valuable insights with me? Just Looking for those willing to help with my research! Grateful to find a community here! 😊
Hey man! You're truly an amazing person who's continuously providing such an easy ways to play, learn,understand guitar. Glad to have a part of it💜 (: #Justin_Guitar
I appreciate that! Cheers :)
Hey, I've come 💔💔💔💔💜
Great video! Thanks. I'm a classical flutist and found this very helpful :)
THAT'S A REALLY GOOD MEDITATION IF YOU HAVE PERFORMANCE ANXIETY BUT THAT IS SOMETHING I HAVE NEVER HAD.....
It’s just so strange and frustrating how playing a piece I know very well by heart gets butchered when I play it after pressing the record button on my camera vs not doing so.. wish is started this earlier, but now I make it a habit to always record myself when practicing
Wow Thanks bro
You're very welcome!
You forgot to put down
CRY 😢 because in certain parts of song it has deep meaning.
That happens to me i am very emotional because I feel the song. How can I STOP THAT.
MASSIVE ECHOOOOOOO
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Welcome
Ok, I'm more nervous and I have 40 minutes until I perform for our Christmas show
Help
How did it go, Tim?
@@justinguitar It went really well after the first song. I started relaxing. Everyone said my first song, What Child is This, was played beautifully. Thank goodness for stereo chorus! Lol
Why be anxious? It’s too late for that just before you go on stage. Either you are A./ prepared or B./ not.
If it’s A./ enjoy it. If it’s B./ learn from it.
The show must go on. The notes go out and are they aren’t your anymore. Relax.
Its horrible trying to play guitar with shaky sweaty hands
Option 2: play in a sloppy punk band. No pressure 👌
Dude I know some of the punkest punks… and they get nerves too!!
@@justinguitar They should use this guided meditation then 🤔 Merry Xmas!
Envision everyone has pig masks on