Ruby Rose Fox: Performance anxiety, how to handle it and how to connect with your audience

Send us Fan Mail Multi award winning singer/songwriter Ruby Rose Fox shares her new app for musicians called Muscle music . Ruby has taught at Yale and Emerson and shares her techniques to help you understand the mechanisms that drive anxiety so you can learn to live in a dynamic body that unconsciously dysregulates for our safety and survival. Instead of pushing away anxiety we accept it, understand what its asking for, and use techniques to find connection and emotional regulation for better performances! Some take aways from today's episode: How to tell which state you are in and how to regulate your feelings: Freeze or flight or fight Fight or Flight Notice and name your state symptoms are: Fidgiting Forgetting lyrics Face will go flat Nothing will sound quite right due to inner ear attunement Wanting to move Just breathing doesn’t work because you are stewing on hormones, you can’t breathe them away They have to be metabolized Solutions: planking squats get the energy out Pressing against chest pushing plank/child’s pose/plank/child’s pose Freeze State: Symptoms are: Can’t fight or flee Imobilization Feeling tired Feeling out of it Face is still flat Disassociated Methods to unfreezing are: Noticing and naming your state Including a safe co-regulator if possible. Light shaking Light movements (qi gong, tai chi, light yoga) Scary movies, sad music——> any safe method to restore blood flow to the prefrontal cortex *Once a person unfreezes, they move up the ladder and should employ the fight/flight method *These are broad approximations and it’s important to learn polyvagal theory and practice co-regulation BEFORE attempting any of these suggestions. https://www.muscle-music.com https://www.rubyrosefox.com https://www.scarletkeys.com https://www.instagram.com/skeys2021/ https://www.amazon.com/Craft-Songwriting-Music-Meaning-Emotion/dp/0876391927/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2PP55NU6E9ST6&keywords=the+craft+of+songwriting&qid=1659573139&sprefix=the+craft+of+songwritin%2Caps%2C153&sr=8-1 Engineer: Peter Sykes https://www.petersykesmusic.com The show's theme song "What's in a Song" was co-written with Otto Gross Recorded and performed by Otto Gross: @OttoGrossProduction (instagram) @OttoGrossMusic (Youtube, facebook, TikTok) https://biglink.to/ottogrossmusic Scarlet's website: https://www.scarletkeys.com Scarlet's instagram: https://www.instagram.com/scarletkeysofficial/ To purchase Scarlet Keys' book "The Craft of Songwriting: https://www.amazon.com/Craft-Songwriting-Music-Meaning-Emotion/dp/0876391927/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2PP55NU6E9ST6&keywords=the+craft+of+songwriting&qid=1659573139&sprefix=the+craft+of+songwritin%2Caps%2C153&sr=8-1