I
am still surprised at how often I experience this, both in my studio
with students and I must confess, for myself, as well. Someone comes to
me for lessons, or they start coming to the Singer's Salon, or they are
pursuing their artistic dream in one form or another. They are perhaps
just starting to make headway, they are getting deeper, they are
starting to confront the real “issues’ - and they stop. The process of
developing your artistic skills, mining your gold as an artist, so to
speak, is somewhat like therapy in that sense. We find the real goods
and fear wells up and we run screaming from the lesson, session,
workshop, audition process or --fill in the blank. We run from the
studio, the blank page, the collaboration when things get going, when
things get DIFFICULT. And of course this is just the time to hunker down
and get to work, for here is where we will find our true dilemma and
our true voice. We must write through, sing through, work through this
discovery process but fear- fear overtakes us? Why?
What are we really afraid of?
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