Gathering energy (BLICK-05-EN)

Gathering energy

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This exercise focuses very strongly on the inner attitude. It is about concentrating positive power within oneself and staying concentrated and focused. This requires practice and patience, patience with oneself. And it requires discipline to keep at it. Many people give up very quickly when they realise that they cannot maintain this concentration. Explain to your participants that it is a great personal success when they notice that they digress, think about other things, or simply become unfocused. Because that is a big step towards a more conscious lifestyle: to become aware that you are digressing and not focused. For many people, thinking has taken on a life of its own: the same thoughts keep circling through the head. Thought highways in the brain ensure that we think the same thing over and over again, day in and day out, without really being aware of it. However, many of these thoughts are not particularly helpful, and can even have a destructive character and hinder us in our motivation. That is why it is a great success when you realise that you have not stayed with it, but that your thinking has - once again - taken on a life of its own. It is the first step towards a more conscious life.

This exercise is about making a decision. So it is not enough to express an intention. Decisions differ from intentions in how much one wants to achieve something.

At this point it is important to ask yourself the following question: What is my level of commitment? How much have I really made a decision to achieve something new or to end or let go of something old? If you express an intention, your commitment is not very high. This person will wait on his path and hope to move forward. So making a decision means that I not only want something, but that I want it badly. A person who has made a decision will follow his path and also return to it if he should ever stray from it.

This is exactly what the following exercise is about: At the beginning there is the conscious decision to fully engage in this exercise and to persevere.

Through this method/action, these benefits are achieved:

• This exercise illustrates the power that decisions can have.
• This exercise helps you to stay focused.
• This exercise increases your motivation to implement important plans.

Step 1

To be able to gather energy, you must ensure that you will be absolutely undisturbed. Therefore, take precautions: Switch off your mobile phone, go to a place where you will be completely undisturbed in the near future. Also make sure that you are not distracted from what you are doing by excessive noise.

Step 2

Now artists build up the energy they need for the performance evening. You personally do this now by mentally preparing yourself for the task you have to accomplish. Build up your personal concentration space with an imaginary protective wall that shields you from all everyday problems and banalities.

Therefore, make a conscious decision to enter into a deeper energy and leave things outside that keep you from entering this space.

Affirm your conscious decision: "I am now entering a space where nothing is holding me back."

Step 3

Now start to build up positive energies. The best way to do this is to recall memories of moments that strengthen you personally: so-called strong moments. Every human being has such strong moments. Some of them may have happened a while ago. Now simply try to remember a particular moment in your life that can now support you in what you are about to do. It is also okay to bring different sensory modalities into play: What do you see when you relive this powerful moment now? What do you hear? Where are you right now? How does it feel right now?

Step 4

Artists maintain this concentration space until the performance begins so that they can be fully present on stage. Therefore, stay in your concentration space. This requires practice, concentration and perseverance. But it is worth it to keep at it. Artists show us how to do it every day. Keep building up the energy you need for your intention.

Kristiane Kaiser

http://www.kristianekaiser.com/en/

https://www.volksoper.at/volksoper_wien/ensemble/solisten/Kaiser_Kristiane.de.php 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aV6D0-AQUrY

My name is Kristiane Kaiser and I am a soprano. Born in Vienna, I studied singing at the Mozarteum in Salzburg and with Kammersängerin Margarita Lilowa at the Vienna Music University. Guest performances as Konstanze (DIE ENTFÜHRUNG AUS DEM SERAIL) brought me to the opera houses of Dresden, Berlin, Munich, Hamburg, Düsseldorf, Karlsruhe and Frankfurt.

Now I can be heard regularly in concerts in Paris, Brussels, Rome and Montpellier as well as at the Vienna Musikverein.

Since the 2004/05 season I have been an ensemble member of the Volksoper Wien.

Music, Performing Arts

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