Overcoming Your Acting Fears
Summary
TLDRIn this insightful video, the speaker introduces 'TAG', a creative technique to confront and overcome fears, particularly in the context of auditions for actors. TAG stands for Truth, Acceptance, and Go, encouraging individuals to face their deepest fears through a process of self-reflection and writing. The speaker shares personal anecdotes to illustrate the power of recognizing and challenging old beliefs that hinder personal growth and performance. The technique involves identifying fears, tracing them to their roots, and replacing them with empowering truths, ultimately leading to a more authentic and fearless approach to life's challenges.
Takeaways
- 📝 The TAG Technique: Introduced as a method to confront and overcome fears by creatively engaging with them, symbolized by 'playing tag'.
- 🎭 Embracing Fears: Encourages actors to face their deepest fears head-on, as they are not as threatening as they seem, and are safe to explore.
- 🤔 The Paralysis of Fear: Shares a personal story of avoiding action due to fear, highlighting how fear can immobilize even when action is necessary.
- 🔑 Uncovering Old Beliefs: Suggests that beneath surface fears lie deeper, often irrational beliefs that have been internalized over time.
- 📉 The Illusion of Control: Points out that many fears stem from a desire to control outcomes, which is not always possible or healthy.
- 🌟 The Power of Acceptance: Advocates for accepting one's fears and old beliefs as part of the process, rather than trying to ignore or suppress them.
- ✍️ The Writing Exercise: Recommends a writing exercise to uncover and confront old beliefs, suggesting that writing by hand can be more effective.
- 💡 Moments of Clarity: Describes pivotal moments that lead to self-realization and the importance of acting on these insights before they fade.
- 🌈 Crafting a New Truth: Encourages the creation of a new, empowering belief that contradicts the old, unhelpful belief, to foster a healthier mindset.
- 💭 Feeling the Feelings: Advises to acknowledge and feel the emotions associated with old beliefs, as they are a part of the process of change.
- 🛠 Taking Action: Suggests that identifying the next right action, based on the new empowering truth, can help in overcoming fear and taking steps forward.
Q & A
What is the acronym TAG stand for in the context of the script?
-In the script, TAG stands for Truth, Acceptance, and Go. It is a technique to help individuals confront and work with their fears.
What is the purpose of the TAG technique as described in the script?
-The purpose of the TAG technique is to help individuals creatively work with their fears and obsessional thoughts, particularly in the context of auditions and acting, by uncovering and addressing deep-seated beliefs that may be hindering their progress.
What does the speaker suggest is the relationship between old beliefs and auditioning?
-The speaker suggests that old beliefs can block an individual's ability to audition effectively. By addressing these beliefs through the TAG technique, one can improve their audition technique and overall approach to acting.
Can you explain the story of the speaker's experience with their agent regarding headshots?
-The speaker recounts a story from their early acting career when they received a voicemail from their agent requesting new headshots. Despite the urgency, the speaker avoided this task for over a year due to fear and old beliefs, which highlights the impact of such beliefs on one's professional life.
What does the speaker mean by 'old beliefs' in the context of the script?
-In the script, 'old beliefs' refer to deep-rooted, often irrational fears and assumptions that individuals hold about themselves or their abilities, which can limit their actions and potential success in various areas of life, including acting.
How does the speaker describe the process of uncovering old beliefs using the TAG technique?
-The speaker describes a process where one starts by identifying a current fear or obsession, then writes down a series of 'because of that' statements until reaching a core belief that is clearly false. This process helps to bring these subconscious beliefs to the surface for examination.
What is the NET acronym mentioned in the script, and what is its purpose?
-NET stands for New Empowering Truth. Its purpose is to help individuals counteract their old beliefs with a new, empowering statement that reflects a more accurate and positive understanding of themselves and their situation.
How does the speaker suggest using the new empowering truth to change one's behavior?
-The speaker suggests that once the new empowering truth is identified, individuals should own the feelings associated with the old belief, contemplate the truth, and then consider what actions they would take if they truly believed the new empowering truth, thus guiding their behavior accordingly.
What does the speaker mean by 'feelings are workable' in the context of auditioning and old beliefs?
-The speaker means that even though feelings associated with old beliefs can be intense, they can be managed and worked through. This allows individuals to act despite these feelings, rather than being paralyzed by them.
Can you provide an example of how the speaker's personal old belief affected their acting career?
-The speaker's personal old belief was that if they were not successful as an actor, their life would have no value or meaning, and they would be crushed by regret. This belief affected their acting career by causing them to avoid certain actions, such as calling their agent, due to fear.
Outlines
📝 Embracing Fears Through TAG Technique
The speaker introduces a technique called TAG, which stands for Truth, Acceptance, and Go. It's a method to confront and work with deep-seated fears, particularly those related to creative pursuits like acting. The speaker shares a personal story about avoiding contact with his agent due to fear, illustrating how unrecognized fears can paralyze action. The TAG technique is presented as a tool to safely confront these fears and integrate them into one's creative process, ultimately enhancing audition techniques.
🔍 Unveiling Old Beliefs with TAG
This paragraph delves deeper into the TAG technique, emphasizing writing as a means to uncover unconscious fears and limiting beliefs. The speaker suggests that by identifying a specific fear and exploring its root causes through continuous writing, individuals can reach a core belief that is often false but deeply ingrained. The process involves writing down fears and their consequences until an irrational belief is revealed, which is a crucial step in addressing and overcoming these internal barriers.
🚫 Challenging and Replacing Old Beliefs
The speaker discusses the importance of challenging and replacing old, limiting beliefs with new, empowering truths. After identifying a false belief, one should create a new belief that is positive and empowering, even if the old belief still holds emotional weight. This process involves acknowledging the old belief, feeling the associated emotions, and then consciously choosing to act in alignment with the new, empowering truth, which can lead to a more fulfilling and less fear-driven life.
💡 The Power of Acceptance and New Truths
In this paragraph, the speaker stresses the significance of acceptance in personal growth. By accepting one's feelings and the reality that old beliefs are not true, an individual can begin to live by new, empowering truths. The speaker provides an example of how they reframed their own belief about the necessity of acting success for a meaningful life, demonstrating how this new perspective can lead to a more peaceful and contented existence, regardless of external achievements.
🎭 Applying TAG to Auditioning and Acting
The speaker relates the TAG technique back to the context of acting and auditioning, suggesting that understanding and applying the technique can transform the audition process. By recognizing and working through fears and old beliefs, actors can approach auditions without the pressure of needing them to define their self-worth or happiness. This approach allows for a more authentic and less anxiety-driven engagement with the craft.
🧘♂️ Living Principles and Emotional Workability
In the final paragraph, the speaker reflects on the importance of living by principles and the workability of emotions. They share a personal story about a traumatic experience and how recognizing the temporary nature of the situation allowed them to navigate through it. This concept is connected back to auditioning and acting, suggesting that by understanding the impermanence and workability of emotions, one can act despite fear and emotional turmoil, leading to a more authentic and connected performance.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡TAG technique
💡Obsession
💡Fear
💡Old Beliefs
💡Empowerment
💡Audition
💡Creativity
💡Self-tape Audition
💡Clarity
💡Authenticity
💡Vulnerability
Highlights
Introduction of TAG technique: An acronym for 'Truth, Acceptance, Go' to creatively engage with fears.
TAG technique as a creative game to confront and understand deep-seated fears.
The importance of safely exploring fears to prevent them from hindering creative auditions.
Incorporating acceptance of old beliefs into audition techniques for better performance.
A personal story of avoiding agent contact due to fear, illustrating the impact of unaddressed fears.
The realization that old beliefs can paralyze action and the need to confront them.
The process of writing down fears to trick the unconscious mind into revealing deeper blocks.
The significance of writing by hand to access truth in a different way.
The challenge of avoiding distractions and the importance of focusing on the exercise.
Identifying the trigger of obsessive fears and starting the TAG process.
Writing down fears using 'and because of that I have fear' to uncover deep-seated beliefs.
The difficulty of reaching the core of old beliefs and the resistance encountered.
The process of developing a new empowering truth (NET) to counter old beliefs.
Articulating the new empowering truth as a response to the old belief.
Owning the feelings associated with old beliefs and new truths.
The contemplative dialogue to understand the logic behind fears and emotions.
Determining the next right action based on the new empowering truth.
The analogy of drug-induced hallucinations to understand accepting and acting through fears.
The final step of the TAG process: acting in alignment with the new empowering truth.
Transcripts
[Music]
and so I'm gonna go over with you guys
now this little written technique that I
call tag it's just a fun acronym to
remember what it is
it stands for truth acceptance go tag
it's a fun way to remember it and it's a
great way to think of it it's like you
want to play tag with your fears tag
fear you're it I'm gonna play this
creative game with my worst fears the
fears that are blocking me because it's
safe to play with them it's safe to look
your deepest fears
these old belief fears straight in the
eye it's safe it's scary as but
it's safe to work with them because
they're not what they appeared to be and
if we don't creatively work with them
we'll never get a shot at creatively
working on the actual audition what I'm
going to talk to you guys about here
first is how do you creatively work with
that obsessional fear and make that a
creative project and arts so that then
you can get to the art of the audition
or actually a better way to put it I
think is to have this acceptance and
owning your own old beliefs as part of
your audition technique itself that's
what I would encourage you so this
example I often give when I talk and I
won't go to this hole I'm gonna shorten
it for our purposes here but a true
story that when I was in New York in the
in the mid-90s as a young actor I had a
good agent that were getting me good
auditions big auditions and one point my
agent gave me a voice mail message and
the message was Greg were out of
headshots we need you to drop off new
headshots they didn't want new pictures
they just wanted new copies of my
headshot and this was back in the day
where if you didn't if your agent didn't
have actual tangible headshots
there was no audition happening this is
hard for many of you to envision but
there was no email
there was bike messengers been peddling
all over town giving agents packages of
headshots so anyway when I got this
voice mail message I knew there was no
shot at me getting an audition again
until my agent until I left my agent
these headshots
and I knew all I had to do was drop them
off just go to
get copies of them drop them off didn't
even have to talk to my agent this is a
true story I did not make copies of the
headshots or call my agent back or go to
the office or do anything for over a
year this is a true frickin story but I
thought about it every day now if we
were to go back in time and encounter
this young Greg a couple months let's
say or even a couple weeks after not
doing this after getting the voicemail
message and just like doing nothing and
we were to say to him like hey man why
are you terrified to contact your agent
the young Greg would probably say what's
weird meeting my future self and some
other people but besides that you're
wrong I'm not terrified of talking to my
agent it's just been a weird two months
you know I had the thing with the girl
and that was weird and then suddenly it
had been a month that I'm like oh man
I'm the guy who hasn't called his agent
back that's weird to be that guy but I'm
about to do it a Tuesday I'm about to do
it I'm gonna call my agent and square
this up right because that's what we
tell ourselves now on Tuesday I'm gonna
do the self table audition on Tuesday
I'm gonna hunker down on Tuesday she's
not right now well retrospect is a funny
thing because I know that young Greg was
paralyzed with crippling fear but he
didn't know it or only knew it in
moments and I'll never forget one day I
finally called him back a year later and
I was changed smoking Marlboro Lights
this is a pay phone these be pay phones
back then I was chained smoking Marlboro
Lights as I was want to do and I called
that agency back and of course it was a
totally new receptionist to answer the
phone because it's been over a year and
I'm like this is Greg Sam is calling for
whatever my agents name was and he's
like Greg who and I go and I
slammed the phone down and my hand was
shaking as I lit another cigarette and I
had this doorway of clarity that opened
up and I think of these moments in life
especially in regards to to seeing our
old beliefs for what they are they're
like these doorways of clarity that open
up if you've ever seen Raiders of the
Lost Ark which I will reference again
later for another reason but if you've
ever seen Raiders the Lost Ark there's
that classic scene where Harrison Ford
rolls under the door
is the doors closing and then he like
jauntily grabs his hat but he's got you
know it's closing he's got to get
through it I think we can have these
moments of awakening in our life where
we suddenly realize a great and profound
truth about ourselves but we have about
two minutes to physically act to do
something that is in our power and if we
don't the awakening gets submerged again
it goes back into the unconscious so for
about two minutes i sat there smoking
thinking i'm eft i am supposedly
fulfilling my lifelong childhood dream
of being a professional actor and I'm
too terrified to call my agent back to
work on an audition I'm too terrified to
get outside of my comfort zone in any
real way and it suddenly became clear to
me that all the work I was doing in
regard to auditioning in my acting
career was fantasy work I was playing at
it
it's as if my office this office here
were a total filthy mess and I came to
work every day to clean it but I just
lifted up my couch up and down for three
hours and then left and said it's a hard
day at work I'm exhausted but I wasn't
addressing the mess and I wasn't doing
anything real that's what my life was as
a young actor now what that young Gregg
didn't realize that the old Greg knows
older old her Craig knows is that there
were old beliefs at play that we're
blocking me so this little written
technique that I'm going to go through
here in a compact way you can ask me
more questions about it later but it's a
it's a simple way to trick the
unconscious mind into spilling the beans
on what's really blocking us and as soon
as you do this and you can do it on a
notebook on a napkin on a sheet of paper
you can do it on your notes well you
know whatever app on the phone it's
better to do it by hand if at all
possible because there's something about
using a pen or a pencil and actually
writing that seems to get to the truth
in a different way plus if you're using
the phone you're probably not going to
fit
the exercise because you're gonna check
insta or the New York Times or just
distract yourself because what I'm
talking about here a large part of you
doesn't want to own your obsessional
fears a large part of you wants to stay
in the comfort zone wants to die in the
comfort zone that's just human nature I
don't fully understand it of course at
all I don't fully understand anything
like Indiana Jones I'm making it up as I
go along like we all are whether we
pretend to or not right but I do know
from my own experience and witnessing it
and others that part of us wants to stay
part of us doesn't want to grow part of
us doesn't want to enter the
vulnerability of real creativity of
really being in what we actually have
power over so what you can do is when
you notice you're an obsessive fear
meaning you're about to start work on
yourself tape audition are you about to
call the agent or you're about to do
whatever it is but if we're setting self
tape right like you're about to start
working and suddenly you are an
obsessional fear your mind is going like
well wait am i doing the right scene am
I not doing the right scene is anyone
really gonna watch this what's the point
of doing this and it's gonna be good I
don't think I'm gonna be any good what
if it's not good if any kind of
obsessional fear hits what you want to
do on the paper is start by writing what
the trigger seems to be what is the
thing you're obsessing about right now
so let's use myself as an example that
young Greg if he knew this this tag
technique let's say he got that
voicemail message and his agent said
drop off new headshots and he could
acknowledge oh my god I'm obsessing
about calling my agent back I'm an
obsessive fear I am scared to call my
agent back what he would write at the
top of the page is I have fear about
calling my agent back or I'm obsessing
about calling my agent back and if
you're about to work on your self tape
audition and you're like why am I not
working on it because I'm obsessing
about the audition I'm obsessing that
it's not going to be any good you would
just write I have fear that this
audition won't be any good or I have
fear about working on the self table
audition and then what you want to do is
write without thinking let it vomit on
the page and the linking phrase that
works for like
95% of the people that I work with and
if it's not we you know we can tweak it
but this almost always works is some
version of and because of that I have
fear and because of that I have fear
meaning you just keep answering that
question without thinking and write what
comes out and you don't stop until you
see in black and white on the page
something that is a hundred percent
false not only for you but for any human
being because if we go deep enough we
see this as I said earlier the old
beliefs that are blocking us are a
hundred percent of the time not true but
we believe them they are
misapprehensions
not only about ourselves but about the
human condition and as we'll see here in
a moment or we'll talk about we can't
unbeliev them and when we try to we get
all gummed up because we're attempting
to do something we don't have power over
but we can accept that we have a
delusion and we can practice acting
contrary to the delusion we can practice
acting on what's true even though
emotionally psychologically we're still
tied to the old belief so I'll give the
example right so again if the young
Gregg were to start with what that
surface fear is and he wants to keep
going until he gets to something that is
clearly untrue so the young Gregg my go
I have fear about calling my agent back
because I have fear that it will lead to
an awkward conversation and because of
that I have fear they'll drop me as a
client and if they drop me as a client I
have fear I'll never get great audition
opportunities and if I get if I don't
get great audition opportunities I have
fear I'll never be truly successful as
an actor okay and a lot of the tags you
take around self tape will probably get
to something close to what I just said I
have fear I'll never be truly great as
an actor that's what came up for me and
this is where the mind part of the mind
wants you to stop
when you get right right on top of the
real old belief because I look at these
old beliefs as one way to look at them
as they're invading organisms they're
fighting for survival they're not real
but they don't want you to get there
this is why all these images from
fairytales and beautiful stories the
wizard in The Wizard of Oz don't look at
the mountain behind the curtain thunder
lightning don't look hey it's just me
I'm not a wizard
Rumpelstiltskin the boogeyman and so
many you know stories when you know the
boogey man's name when you look him in
the eye
he shrivels up and goes because he ain't
really real but the closer you get to
that truth oh my god you will try to
convince yourself don't dare look don't
dare look so part of me wants that to be
my old belief though I wanted to be the
old belief that know my old belief is
that I will never be truly successful as
an actor but I just need to tell myself
I will be or we may think like I think I
won't do good at this audition but I
just need to to tell myself I will do go
to this audition but that's not in our
power I can't control result and it's
subjective as an mf'er
it's like what does that even mean good
it's changing in my mind all the time
but the idea of like I can self well
myself into being a successful actor
again what's happening in the world
right now shows us that ain't true or
people have known this in different
parts of the world for a long time
people that live in a ravaged war-torn
country they can't will themselves into
material success tell the person whose
spouse just got killed by a drunk driver
gosh if you guys would have believed
better you could have created a new
reality no hell no the rain falls on the
just and the unjust I may never be a
successful actor because I may get hit
by a bus in five minutes I may not get
the part because it went to the the
guy's cousin it is not in my power to be
a successful actor so we haven't gotten
to the old belief until we get to
something that's not true but you know
you're close to it when you want to stop
when
I just like don't go any further please
please please but if that young Gregg
went further it might look like this if
you took it all the way down I have fear
about calling my agent back because I
fear it will be a upward conversation
because that I feel that dropped me as a
client if they drop me as a client I
hope there'll never be a great audition
opportunities and if I never get great
audition opportunities I have fear I'll
never be truly successful as an actor
and if I'm not truly successful as an
actor my life will have no value or
meaning I'll be crushed by regret and
I'll be annihilated
it's not true if I'm not a success as an
actor my life will have no value or
meaning I will be crushed by regret and
I'll be annihilated that is actually was
one of my core beliefs and still is
today it changes around a little bit but
the most important thing is I have a
whole different relationship with it
than I ever thought possible but I think
many of you if you try this exercise
you'll find similar old beliefs around
auditioning that at the bottom is often
something like if I'm not as success my
life will have no value remaining I'll
be crushed by regret now be annihilated
I will never experience real love I'll
live and regret for the rest of my life
I'll have an unhappy life I'll be
miserable none of this is true right and
what I ask you to do is part of this tag
process is once you get to that old
belief the next step is to write out
another little fun acronym net the net
the net is the thing that catches us the
net is the new empowering truth the new
empowering truth because if we're saying
the old belief is not true then what is
true what's something that we can
articulate that we don't believe about
ourselves but deep down we know to be
true and it's phrased in such a way that
empowers us personally and it's not
Pollyanna new-age thinking it's like
based on our assessment of reality we
can say no I believe that to be true but
you don't believe it for yourself
because the old belief is still probably
really with you and maybe for the rest
of your life and that's actually okay so
it's a fun game have fun it's a game we
can play
ultimately it is and can be but imagine
a loved one set that old belief to you
how do we come up with a new empowering
truth because a lot of time when I work
with people they're like okay you're
right I believe that I believe if I'm
not a reoccurring guest star on
Westworld my life is gonna have no
meaning or I'll be miserable I'll be
crushed by regret or whatever but yeah I
believe it so I can
tell myself that no it doesn't matter
well imagine a loved one said that to
you what would you say to the loved one
because deep down we know what's true
and when I imagine my beautiful
five-year-old daughter grown to be a
twenty-one year old woman and if I
imagine her saying to me daddy I just
have fear that if I'm not a successful
ballerina my life will have no value or
meaning I'll be crushed by regret and be
annihilated if she were to say that to
me I wouldn't go maybe yeah you better
get you a better teacher because that
could be we don't want that to happen
let's work harder come on do better yeah
I don't do that right immediately when
we think about a loved one saying that
to us something true and loving begins
to happen and we connect with the truth
right away I would comfort my daughter
and speak of the truth and this can take
practice sometimes to really begin to to
articulate and the great thing is your
old beliefs will come up a lot
especially once you start sniffing them
out so you can take this tag a lot and
the same ones will come up and you can
just keep embracing them and working
with them so for time over me the new
empowering truth that answered my old
belief which again was if I'm not a
success as an actor my life will have no
value or meaning I'll be crushed by
regret now be annihilated the new
empowering truth became whether or not
I'm ever a success as an actor has no
bearing at all on anything that has a
real and lasting value in my life as
long as I am perfectly practice my
ever-expanding principles my life is
guaranteed to have value and meaning
beyond measure
I will never be crushed by regret
and what's most real about me can never
be annihilated
now that resonates really true with me
it doesn't always move me so much as it
just did but it always resonates is true
and if you say something like that to
the mind the mind goes
okay then technically that is that is
technically true what you just said
whereas if you say the mind we're going
to book this job the mind goes how you
know you look the last one the last five
the guy in the waiting room looks like
you're better looking younger brother
why isn't he gonna book a job huh how do
you know how self-hatred spiral but when
we speak the truth to ourselves part of
us can't argue but the feelings around
the old belief are still probably going
to be really prevalent especially when
you're first doing this so the next step
I asked the individual to do is you've
got the old belief you've got the new
empowering truth then write down and own
what you're feeling it can be helpful to
write it down but most importantly feel
it be honest with yourself I just wrote
that old belief I just wrote the new
empowering truth now what am I feeling
right now sad a little faith a little
positivity maybe from that you know new
empowering truth but maybe it's fear
self-hatred shame and to just sit with
the feelings and own them and just be
with your feelings for a couple minutes
and then have this contemplative
dialogue with yourself where in essence
you say hey Greg if since early
childhood you thought that if you
weren't a success as an actor your your
life would have no value or meaning
you'd be crushed by regret and you'd be
annihilated doesn't it make sense that
you would be terrified right now to call
your agent back or to work on this
audition because it's not really about
the audition it's about that deeper
thing doesn't that logically make sense
that you'd be feeling these intense
feelings yeah actually that does make
sense but Greg can you admit that you've
had it ass-backwards your whole life the
feelings aren't evidence that the old
belief is true you just thought the old
belief for so long that it's generated
this emotional state so can you own the
feelings not try to change them but
practice acting as if the new empowering
truth is true what we can do that
so if the young Gregg were to do this
exercise right when he got the message
to call his agent back what might a next
right action be and this is the final
step of the tag process is after owning
the old belief and owning the new
empowering truth and feeling the
feelings what might the version of you
do not your actual version could you
still believe the old belief but the
version that really believed the new
empowering truth what would they do
and so that young Gregg might go well
they would call their agent back or you
might go well I would start working on
this audition not because it's what's
going to give me the meaning of my life
and it's going to it's gonna save me
from regret no because this is my job
and this is the thing I'm choosing to
work on or maybe we've suddenly inspired
to call a friend back or to share what
we just discovered with someone else
which is a great thing to do to share
all this with a trusted friend but maybe
we're called to do something that really
connects us with our principles in a
real direct way before working on the
audition so we can get more like kind of
mainline attached to our principles or
maybe we just work on the audition but
we're working on it for the sake of
working on it and even though
emotionally psychologically that feeling
is there and this is a great segue and
now actually you know the working on
these auditions but we come to see that
whatever we're feeling is actually
workable we can act through it we don't
have to get rid of these feelings and we
can't because they've been with us for a
long time part of the reason that I
worshipped my acting career for so long
was because I had some abuse in
childhood in an early age from not the
family from outside the family but it
led to very terrifying feelings and soon
after this this event of abuse I got on
stage for the first time and like at the
age of six
and it was this beautiful experience I
remember it right and it it made me feel
safe I definitely felt it was a
spiritual calling to act and I wouldn't
describe is at the time but but I felt
safe and in the flow and connected and
at peace and those things are all great
but this young boy erroneously developed
the old belief that if I wasn't involved
with great acting and people didn't
think I was great I would never be safe
I could never have peace
I could never experience tranquility and
meaning it's not true but I developed
that old belief and today as a man
sometimes acting still does give me
connectivity and deep meaning and
tranquility and sometimes it doesn't but
the most important thing is I don't
worship it or if I catch myself
worshipping the audition or worshipping
my career I have tools to help me
surrender and get back in touch with
what's real and I have a way of living
as a man where I'm engaged with some
principles and actions in a real
tangible literal way on a daily basis
that assures me a modicum of meaning and
flow and connectivity and tranquillity
and peace so I'm not drawn to worship
acting as much as I once was
right so the feelings are workable okay
the feelings are all workable and real
quick another way to say it and then I'm
gonna you know we're gonna really do
some acting here I'm going to
demonstrate some stuff I have some
volunteers that I've randomly chosen
semi-random hey before this that we're
gonna we're going to play with some
people here and talk about the the ways
that I find it very helpful to approach
the audition but everything I've been
talking about is is so important from my
point of view because if you're not
beginning the audition process with an
understanding of what I've been talking
about the whole audition ends up being
about trying to control result or
feeling and the image I wanted to say to
describe this relationship with old
beliefs and really to describe the
audition itself when I was like
I'm a recovered drug addict and
alcoholic I've been sober for many years
now but I used to be way out of control
and when I was like 22 or something I
was at a party and I was on five hits of
really really bad LSD and if you've ever
been on really bad illusions it's not
fun I was at this party and I felt like
I was seeing my dead grandmother come
out of the walls everybody's face was
melting I was a really insecure um young
man I felt more insecure than ever had
in my life I felt like I was watching
atoms of my body just drift away and go
into space and I was about to turn to a
friend and say take me to the hospital I
cannot live the next seven hours like
this when all of a sudden an another
friend of mine sat on the couch opposite
me and I don't know where these guys
come from the guy that when you're in
your early 20s there's someone who's
like 21 and was a drug shaman like a 21
like what is this guy been doing right
but I had one of those friends and he
set across for me because he could tell
what I was going through and he looked
me in the eye and he said hey Greg
remember it's just the drugs
and I thought oh wow it's just the drugs
and I actually began to enjoy the party
and enjoy being massively insecure
because I was in touch with the truth
that it was the drugs I didn't try to
not feel the feelings and not see the
hallucinations I accepted them and
realized I could have a different
opinion about them and act through them
or along with them so this is what we're
looking to do when the old beliefs get
triggered and it's what we're looking to
do with the audition in general okay so
hopefully that makes sense and you can
relate it to other stuff I'm going to
talk about now but it's very important
for my point of view which is why I
spend so much time talking about it
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