How do you usually react when you’re being challenged when you’re acting? When you’re not in sync with your co-stars or the director or anything that’s happening that’s not going your way.
Usually actors say they retract and are blocked from doing their best work. Most commonly they say they feel their instrument closes up and they become unavailable for their characters.
That can be unfair because they were ready and prepared before an external obstacle interrupted them.
How about if you consider that the challenges that are happening to you are actually happening FOR you. When you watch my training you'll discover that they might be the radical opportunities that you’re looking for! The moments when things don’t go according to plan can be “magical accidents” for you where only you can deliver the scene in your authentic, unique way.
Play with the obstacle and don’t shrink from it. Integrate it for your character and you will have a one of a kind performance that no one could possibly do what you just did. Then the “problem” becomes a radical opportunity to create an Oscar-winning performance. This is when you go from good to genius.
The key is FREEDOM.
It’s about being free. You won’t be able to access your freedom because you’ve been conditioned to recoil when magical accidents arise. You were raised to follow a plan that will please others and that there are mistakes if you don’t do things the right way.
This has nothing to do with art.
If you’re still resistant to your instinct, your instrument is blocked. You can’t be in the moment when you act because you can’t surrender.
In the Reset Journey, actors are resetting their instrument in order to be fully present to whatever is happening, internally or externally. They uncover their incredible magnetic power of presence- being who you are at any cost, all the time.
You touch your genius when you can truly BE.
Watch my training below to hear all my thoughts on this topic.
I hope this was insightful. If this resonates with you and you’re ready to get out of the prison of that old conditioning, I urge you to check out the Reset Journey from Resistance to Freedom. Get in touch with us click here and write us an email with the word RESET BLOG and we’ll send you some info.
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Jo Kelly
Creator, The Reset Journey From Resistance to Freedom
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