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\"Performance<\/a>What to learn how to conquer them?<\/p>\n

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Shakespeare (Hamlet, Act 2, Scene 2)<\/p>\n

\u201cfor there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so\u201d<\/p>\n

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Cognitive Behaviour Therapy<\/p>\n

The following information was adapted from:<\/p>\n

Burns, D. D. (1999). Feeling good: The new mood therapy. New York: Collins.<\/p>\n

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Cognitive therapy is a method of mood modification that helps change our negative thinking patterns.\u00a0 It teaches us how to understand and change our moods and negative abnormal emotions.\u00a0\u00a0 Thoughts that are negative, discouraging, and self-critical create feelings and moods that can halt your productivity, self-esteem, and happiness.\u00a0 Cognitive Therapy can help us learn coping strategies to help us change our negative thinking patterns, reduce anxiety, and prepare us to play better.<\/p>\n

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More on how we think negatively<\/p>\n

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Your moods are created by your thoughts or \u201ccognitions.\u201d\u00a0 These thoughts are based on how we perceive and interpret things.\u00a0 This includes what we say about someone, something, or to ourselves.\u00a0 We feel the way we do because of our thoughts and the dialogue we have with ourselves.\u00a0 Our emotional reactions are based more on our thoughts than the actual things that are happening to us.\u00a0 Your thought creates the emotion and the emotion can have a positive or negative effect on your mood and the resulting ability to be positive or negative and continue.\u00a0 Negative thoughts and moods can make playing or practicing music seem impossible and it therefore becomes impossible.\u00a0 Negativity leads to more negativity and those thoughts start to become believable and crippling.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI\u2019ll never get into an orchestra\u201d<\/p>\n

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– You stop practising and create a self-fulfilling prophecy from the negative thought<\/p>\n

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\u201cI\u2019m the worst person for playing in tune.\u201d<\/p>\n

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– You avoid fixing it and putting in the time because it makes you feel even worse.\u00a0 What if I prove myself right?<\/p>\n

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\u201cI\u2019m never going to be good enough to be a professional.\u201d<\/p>\n

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– You are frustrated and down and can\u2019t focus on practising.\u00a0 This simply blocks you from getting any better and fixing those things that would make you a professional.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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