Another high consciousness ebook by Lucy
The kingfisher chuckled to himself. “Just remember this,” he continued, “your performance creates you”.
A couple of years ago, a friend of mine was preparing for a rather important performance. She is a pianist with several years experience under her belt, yet she was getting more and more anxious as the day of her performance approached. She came for some meditation sessions that I ran and found them useful.
After one of those sessions, she told me that she felt she had found the key to unlock this problem that had dogged her for as long as she had been performing. I was pleased for her, actually more than pleased. I was thrilled!
Performance anxiety can be so debilitating, paralyzing us by drawing our energy from where we want it to go to where we absolutely don’t want it to go and that is to our fear of failure! It can thus rob us of the enjoyment of our greatest passions!
As I reflected on my friend’s breakthrough and on the many people I’ve known and coached for stage performance (I used to teach Speech and Drama once upon a time) and on my own experiences in performance, the unlikely story of a duck who wanted to sing streamed into my mind. Before I knew it, I was deeply immersed in the trauma of his experience and, fortunately for both of us, his eventual triumph!
What I discovered as I kept agonizingly close to Moby Duck’s experience was that the key to a good performance is in fact surrender. This surrender is unbelievably simple and painless, costing you nothing but your permission to allow yourself certain luxuries!
I know I am being a little mysterious here, but to be honest, this revelation did emerge from a under a veil of mystery! And incidentally, the same surrender is required in any kind of performance, whether in public before five people or five hundred or in our private and personal endeavors like writing or cooking or being with a loved one…
Anyway, here is the story of Moby Duck and The Spirit of Grace as an ebook that I am selling for the princely sum of USD$4.60! If you think you can afford it, your purchase will be greatly appreciated. If you think you can’t afford it but would still like to read it, send me an email and I’ll happily send you a link. If you like, you might write me a review or just send me some feedback.
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Oh Lucy! Moby Duck! Sounds just too funny. And knowing your writing style, I’m sure it will be full of wonderful insights. Good luck and much happiness.