Jennifer, Calvin and I reveling after a magical concert.
In the Larksong Trio concert on Nov. 30, I learned something very important – performing from my full personal and musical power is thrilling, grounding, and a gift. Performance anxiety often stems from this limiting belief – “I need to be perfect. I can’t make a mistake.” Or the flip side – “I need to keep myself a little smaller than I am. If I am too good/powerful, people may not like me.”
I have seen this belief play out in myself and countless students. This is fundamentally about being who we are, expressing all of who we are through the voice – both on stage and in life. This is vulnerable and uncertain, but also open-hearted and generous. As Marianne Williamson famously said, ” We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn’t serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you.”
When we stand in our full voice and our full, radiant presence, we give ourselves the gift of being fully who we are. We give others the gift of freedom to do the same.
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