Symptoms of performance anxiety:

• Weak fingers
• Shaking/trembling hands
• Sweaty hands
• Stiff muscles
• Heart palpitations
• Shortness of breath/shallow breathing
• Upset stomach
• Poor concentration
• Inability to focus
• Racing, out of control thoughts
• Negative/self-critical thoughts
• Lack of self-belief in your ability/low self-esteem
• Anxiety for making mistakes
• Fear of not living up to other’s expectations
• Feeling that the audience is being over critical towards you and doesn’t want you to play well
• Inability to be `at one’ with the music
• Fear of fast, technically demanding passages
• Inability to perform to your full potential
• Panic attack
• Memory loss
• Mental block
• Having to abandon your performance
• Flash-backs of negative experiences

If you have answered yes to two or more of the above questions, Mental Training can help you to overcome your problems and achieve your full potential.

We can offer:

• Techniques to eliminate negative thought patterns
• Understanding of the nature and origin of anxiety and how to channel its great energy into your performance
• Techniques to help stay focused, centered, and access your energy at the exact time you need it
• How to achieve a peak performance
• Work on self-confidence, grounding and breathing
• Structuring of practise – technically and mentally
• Work on meditation, visualization, and energy flow
• Focus on how much diet and exercise influence your playing standard together with training programme suggestions

The course will give you access to your creativity, intuition, technical ability, talent and musicality. You will learn how to perform to your maximum ability and how to become ‘one’ with the music you are performing.

• Have you experienced a mental block or suffered a traumatic experience on the concert platform?
• Have you had problems with fast technically demanding passages on the concert platform and do these problems still disturb you?
• Have you had to give up your career because of bad sub-standard performances?

During the course, it will be possible, on a private one-to-one basis, to remove quickly and effectively, any previous negative experiences.

Se also: Workshop · Mental Training for Musicians · An Holistic approach to Music Performance

Inger Murray is a graduate in psychology. She has developed a special concept for musicians after having studied for many years the problems performing musicians face in their work. She has travelled extensively with her husband Owen Murray, who is a musician, and that has given her the opportunity to observe professional musicians working in highly stressful situations and the problems they face. This research has also included studying the pressures students face during conservatory education and in examination and competition situations. She has had great success with her method and is in constant demand.
Inger Murray holds workshops for musicians and also gives individual therapy. She is employed by the Royal Academy of Music in London to hold workshops for Academy students and has been invited to do the same for the National Youth Orchestra of Gt. Britain. Inger Murray is Director of the Centre for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Her work embraces the treatment of people who have suffered a traumatic experience, people who suffer from phobias, mental block and psychogenic muscle tension and she also teaches people with neurological injuries and problems.
Inger Murray is also a qualified speech therapist. Her work embraces stuttering and voice therapy.

Owen Murray is a professor at the Royal Academy of Music in London. In 1994 he was awarded the Academy’s highest honour, Hon RAM (Honorary Membership of the Royal Academy of Music). He has an international career and has played with many of the world’s leading orchestras.
He is a regular member of juries in international competitions.

Inger Murray has thoroughly researched the subject and created a concept especially designed for musicians based on psychology theories and that of sports psychology. It is a holistic concept that embraces mental training, physical exercises- including stretching, and nutrition. The method has helped many musicians to realize their full potential on the concert platform and re-discover their joy of performing.

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