Category: Lifestyle & Wellbeing
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Powerful Pause Meditation: Inner Leader
If you’re feeling like you need to take some time out to pause and reset, then this meditation is for you. When we’re faced with challenges, stress or uncomfortable situations, our saboteur or inner critic can be activated. The saboteur or inner critic’s purpose is to ensure our survival by keeping us safe, but we…
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Powerful Pause Meditation: Light
A meditation to support you to slow down, to listen to your own needs and to be receptive to change. In this meditation we take our inspiration from the soothing, receptive and cooling qualities of the moon. So on days when you’re feeling depleted or overstimulated, this meditation will help you to tap into a…
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Powerful Pause Meditation: Silence
In this meditation we spend some time getting grounded and centred by relaxing the whole body before going on a short journey to a place of inner-silence and calm. In this meditation we explore our relationship with silence. Is silence something you welcome into your life? How does silence make you feel? Can you think about…
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Powerful Pause Meditation: Pre-Audition
This guided meditation is designed to listen to before you’re going into an audition to help you feel calm and confident. As well as listening to the meditation pre-audition, you may also find it helpful if you’re about to do a self-tape or simply want to take a moment for yourself on set. In fact you…
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Powerful Pause Meditation: Reignite
This meditation is themed around the idea of reigniting something that is important to you and features a gentle body scan. Reigniting something important to you might be reconnecting to your passion and purpose as a performer, or it could simply be rediscovering what is important to you. This meditation can help support you in…
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Powerful Pause Meditation: Home
This meditation is themed around the idea of ‘home’ and uses the breath to anchor your awareness in the present moment. If you’re feeling like you need to take some time out to pause and reset, Bea, Spotlight’s Mental Health and Wellbeing Manager, has recorded this 20 minute meditation for you to listen to at…
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How to Handle Rejection
Rejection is unfortunately part of being an actor. We explore practices and resources to help you handle that “no”. Connect and share your feelings with another. Acting is a community and since 90% of our community are unemployed at any given time, a lot of actors are dealing with rejection too. Anyone pursuing a career…
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Dealing with Jealousy
Richard Sutton has been acting for 20 years and has had his fair share of career envy. Here he shares some techniques for how he deals with moments of jealousy. Do you remember the Roadrunner cartoons? A scabby coyote feverishly trying to kill a cocky little emu thing in all manner of sadistic and imaginative…
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10 Tips for Managing Stress and Anxiety
Tips to help actors manage stress and anxiety from mental health and wellbeing coach to performers, Bea Grist. Things like work, home life, family situations etc. can all contribute to feelings of stress or anxiety. Of course, the problem happens when the stress becomes too much so we asked wellbeing coach Bea Grist for some…
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Practical Self-care Tips for Your Mental Health
Tips to help take care of your mental health during these uncertain times. There is no doubt that the acting industry has seen significant changes throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. The closure of theatres has left many performers out of work and stipulations surrounding government financial support packages have meant that many actors have lost a…