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

Send us Fan MailMulti 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 fightFight or FlightNotice and name your statesymptoms are:FidgitingForgetting lyricsFace will go flatNothing will sound quite right due to inner ear attunementWanting to moveJust breathing doesn’t work because you are stewing on hormones, you can’t breathe them awayThey have to be metabolizedSolutions:plankingsquatsget the energy outPressing against chestpushingplank/child’s pose/plank/child’s poseFreeze State:Symptoms are:Can’t fight or fleeImobilizationFeeling tiredFeeling out of itFace is still flatDisassociatedMethods to unfreezing are:Noticing and naming your stateIncluding a safe co-regulator if possible. Light shakingLight 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.comhttps://www.rubyrosefox.comhttps://www.scarletkeys.comhttps://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=8-1Engineer: Peter Sykes https://www.petersykesmusic.comThe show's theme song "What's in a Song" was co-written with Otto GrossRecorded and performed by Otto Gross: @OttoGrossProduction (instagram)@OttoGrossMusic (Youtube, facebook, TikTok)https://biglink.to/ottogrossmusic Scarlet's website: https://www.scarletkeys.comScarlet'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