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Natalie Lynn Roy on the Power of Meditation and Visualization

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Natalie Lynn Roy, co-founder of C.R.E.A.T.E., a workshop series designed to help artists break through their limiting beliefs.

Douglas Taurel: Do you wake up every morning and think of something specifically or is it on a general whole message trying to connect to?

Natalie Roy: Every person is different but the general rule of thumb for creating a Bhavana for yourself, so that it is successful is that you want to be positive, concrete and specific about what you want.

Douglas Taurel: Can you give an example?

Natalie Roy: Sure. For example, I’m going to visualize how great going to the gym will be today. “I woke up and I had so much energy out of nowhere. It’s like I never felt better. Everyone was super nice to me. I got a free towel, I had the most amazing workout. It was like my lungs kept expanding and growing.”

Douglas Taurel: This is before you even went to the gym?

Natalie Roy: That’s right. Before I even go to the gym. You talk and visualize how you want your workout to feel and go. You expect it to go the way you visualize it.

Douglas Taurel: It’s a leap of faith. You’re having faith that it’s going to happen.

Natalie Roy: That’s right. Interesting that it feels easy for us to expect negative outcomes but really hard for us to think of positive expectations and outcomes.

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A 7-point “How-To” Guide for Effective Mental Practice

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Drawing from research in sport psychology, cognitive psychology, and neuroscience, two British researchers developed a 7-point checklist of the key factors which influence the effectiveness of visualization.

1. Physical

Perhaps the most important of the guidelines, the idea is to make your visualization experience as physically similar to playing as you can.

2. Environment

If you’re doing visualization to practice a passage or solve a fingering issue, it may not matter so much where you imagine yourself playing.

3. Task

We all think about different things while performing; your imagery should reflect this too. Do you focus on your fingers? On the quality of sound? On phrasing? What toppings you’re going to put on your celebratory pizza?

4. Timing

Generally, it makes sense to do imagery in real-time. Not rushed, or slowed-down, but with the same exact rhythm and timing as the physical execution of every shift, bow change, and exhale.

5. Learning

As we continue to learn and grow, so too will (or should, anyway) the content of our imagery. Why? Because as we become increasingly skilled musicians, the level of detail and awareness we have about our playing continually expands.

6. Emotion

Most of us don’t perform in a relaxed, totally chilled-out state. So visualizing ourselves performing in the biggest audition of our life, supremely calm and relaxed, doesn’t prepare us particularly well for the reality that we’ll ultimately be experiencing.

7. Perspective

There are two perspectives or points of view we can use to “see” ourselves in action. An internal perspective is where you experience yourself playing as if you are looking through your own eyes.

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