Tag: mental health
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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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Actor in Isolation: A Survivor’s Guide
Mentor Charlotte Thornton’s guide to keep actors positive and entertained while they’re isolating. Yes, you are isolated, but you can still reach out… Socialise virtually with those you love. Charlotte Thornton It’s exciting that the industry is moving again, and any actor who has a gig is naturally pleased about it. But the prospect and…
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Five Steps to Set Effective Career Goals
How many times have you set career goals that never came to fruition? I’ve fallen into this trap myself in the past, from monologues left unlearnt to dream jobs not landed. But why is that? Review your long-term goals at least once a year. Are they still relevant to you? It’s likely that what you…
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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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10 Inspiring Quotes On Dealing With Knockbacks
Sometimes you need to get knocked down before you can really figure out what your fight is and how you need to fight it Chadwick Boseman “Sorry”, “no”, “not this time”. Ahhhh, the familiar sting of rejection. We’ve all felt it. But rarely do people choose a profession where it’s built into the very foundations.…
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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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Using Social Media as an Actor
Actor Glenn Adamson asks if being present on social media is necessary as an actor and if so, how involved should you be? There’s a part of me that can’t distinguish where the line is drawn between self-promotion and narcissism. I recoil at the thought of being seen as that ‘selfish’ actor I was so…
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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: Presence
In this meditation we explore the feeling of presence and the impact it can have on our bodies and our minds. When we feel present we also feel more grounded and joyful. We are most ourselves when we are in the present moment. So the aim of this meditation is simply to invite you to…