Your Body’s Instinctive
Need to Protect Itself
You can learn to control the use of your energy by understanding your body’s instinctive need to protect you physically. In order to protect you physically, the body keeps your life energy at a low frequency. By keeping your energy at a low frequency it senses it is keeping your energy in reserve. Your body is content as long as it feels your life energy is locked inside of you for possible physical defense. Don’t forget, the body does not care what you think. Your body is content in tricking you into holding on to useless thoughts of fear or worthlessness. It will support making illogical thoughts appear logical. Anything to control your energy for defense.
Mastering perception is the tool that you can use to take on this battle between your physical body and your mental and emotional states. You must decide that it is your desire to have the dedication and determination to control your states of mind. You also want to use discipline to take control of your state of mind. As an actor state of mind is very important. One of your main responsibilities is to play the different emotional states that make up the character’s life within the story. It is the actor’s responsibility to allow the character to behave badly within the story but not be required to behave badly himself to get to the characters physical and emotional states. As an actor you bring your best you so that in make believe the character can behave badly.
You may sometimes let your feelings, and resulting thoughts, be controlled by circumstances that come from outside of you. You may believe that something must happen in your life to make you feel good. You believe that you need to have a good audition to feel good or you might have to be working on a project that you think is valuable that makes you feel good. Or you believe the state of the economy determines how you feel. Or you believe that your emotional states are determined by how other people treat you. If this is true, it is not a good place to be.
If your thoughts are controlling your feeling, this is not what you want. No matter what situation or circumstance you find yourself in, from a feeling of lack or winning the lottery, you can control how you feel and how your emotional states respond to your life circumstance. This is because you can control the choices that you make. You can control your perceptions. Once you understand the brain and body connection you can control your emotional states by changing the vibration of your feelings. Once you gain this understanding, you will find many of the goals you have set for yourself, personally and professionally, will begin to happen almost like magic.
This is true because you will be tapping into the law of attraction. You will be using this knowledge to draw from the universe the positive energy that you desire. Note: There is a side effect that could come your way. Once this energy connection happens you can expect obstacles to come your way. The physical body will not give away its power with grace. It will recognize that its power is being controlled by your desire for growth. It will fight back.
Unexpected Obstacles
One good way to realize that things are really going well and that you are tapping into the universal flow of energy is the realization that certain areas of your life begin to become de-focused, often by seemingly unrelated situations. That is because once you have learned how to tap into the universal flow of energy by changing your perception and physical vibrations, many of your life fears will appear. These distractions in your life should be expected. It’s what I believe is your creature, that instinctive need inside you to survive, realizing your life energy is flowing out and making it feel vulnerable. This feeling by the physical part of you is being compelled to action.
Every time you decide to change your life and take action your own physical body will begin to work against you. It will make an effort to use your energy frequencies to attract negative circumstances. At this point, it may appear that life itself is working against you. Your emotional states may be challenged from every front. What is happening is you life energy is converting certain personal fears, which have been locked in your muscle tissue for safe keeping, by activating internal dialogue thereby putting the physical body in a fight or flight position. This unexplained de-focusing appears to be your choosing. It is not. It is illogical and therefore something that is working against you in your own reality.
When this happens some of the obstacles may be bypassed but others must be confronted right away. If you fall short and behave badly, the obstacles can defeat you and the universal flow of energy can be closed off. To prevent this derailing from success become aware that an obstacle can only defeat you by the way you respond to it. If an obstacle appears to be defeating you there are tactics you can use to remove the obstacle.
Why would you want to awaken a sleeping beast inside in order to find success? The answer is because it is part of life’s plan. Spiritual and professional growth requires that you go through this process. It is this process that separates those who will from those who won’t.
It is by addressing these obstacles that appear to be coming out of nowhere that will lead you to control. You will be confronted with illogical choices. You might even find that your illogical thoughts are becoming logical. If this happens you are running on a frequency that is controlled by your body and its desire to keep it away from progress. You are always capable of changing the frequency of your life energy transmission by addressing your internal dialogue and accompanying low energy feeling with focus, awareness, and accountability. The simplicity of the change is remarkable once understood. Remember, the only one who can change how you feel and think is you and you alone.
Accepting Perception as Choice
Many people who have had success in the acting profession still end up tragically. This happens because they never learned to control and manage their own emotional states. They most likely were not aware of how their feelings were working against them to attract disaster. Most people do not understand why they are filled with thoughts of doom and gloom. In their despair many turn to drugs, alcohol, sex or a combination in order to produce temporary states of positive feelings. These techniques are used by millions of people in all walks of life. These people are looking in all the wrong places to find the answers to their negative emotional states. Using outside stimuli to change internal states will always fail. You must know how to avoid being a victim of your own fears. This is done with your understanding of the vibrations that you use to operate your life energy.
Here’s an example of someone who changed her internal dialogue which was supporting a low frequency, fear induced, body controlled energy base. She changed her perception in order to take control of her energy. Taking over her energy vibration then dictated the frequency of her life transmission. She began to use the law of attraction to work for her and as a result changed her life and circumstance in a more positive direction.
I met Mary Warren when I first moved to New York City after finishing graduate school in theater. She was introduced to me as a speech teacher by Joan D’Incecco, the casting director for the soap opera All My Children. Having been raised in the south, and getting my BA and MA degrees from a southern university, it became clear to me, after many uncontrolled emotional states, that perhaps I should work on a more mid-American speech pattern.
I became her student and while studying with Mary we also became friends. I learned that she, as a young woman, had come to New York to become an actress. At the age of 20 she married a young actor and, after several years of trying to survive in New York, they moved to Philadelphia where he became successful with an advertising agency. After 30 years of marriage and two grown children, Mary found herself being left behind for a younger woman. For over ten years after her divorce she was bitter and self-pitying.
One day she decided she did not want to continue being unhappy. She was fed up with the loneliness and self loathing that filled her internal dialogue. She decided to change her perception and began to figure out what she wanted to do with the rest of her life. She then took the actions necessary to do it. She changed the vibration of her life energy.
At sixty years of age Mary sold everything she had and moved back to New York City. She took an apartment in Manhattan and set out to teach speech, a passion she had acquired over the years. I was her first student. She later became successful within the acting and corporate communities. She has had a play produced and sitcom pilot designed from her life. At 80, she completed and marketed a book and a tape series based on her techniques for the voice and the power of speech in today’s world.
Mary had obstacles, to be sure, but she made the decision to change her perception of life. She made a decision to take control of the internal dialogue that was draining her of the pleasures of living. With awareness, she was altering her feelings and changing her energy vibration. She was making the law of attraction work for her. She was now transmitting and receiving at a frequency of energy that had the potential of growth and achievement. She began creating the feelings she wanted rather than letting her negative feelings trick her into negative thoughts. She stopped letting her feelings drive her behavior and instead engaged her desired beliefs by action.
During a serious bout with her eyes, which left her blind in one, Mary drew on her knowledge that she had the choice to turn this obstacle into an experience of strength or let it be the end of the line. Needless to say, she chose the former. When we were celebrating her 80th birthday at Sardi’s in New York, I was reminded of her battle to take control of her destiny and choose zest for life as her motto.
Mary is just one example but many people have found the reason they needed to change come to them from some catastrophic event. I think Mary and many others would tell you that they wished they had taken control years earlier.
It’s difficult to behave well all the time and it is even more difficult to ignore that other people and situations are getting the best of you. There are times when behaving badly appears to be the only option left. That is not true. Behaving badly or being the best you is, and always will be, your choice.
By understanding the concept of the law of attraction and how it physiologically applies to the human condition, you, too, can manage and control your emotional states.
First, however, you have to have the desire to change. Success is going to come from discovering what you want and what it takes to make the changes necessary to get it. The changes begin in you. Your career actions, once you have identified these, will be more effective and the results will be bigger and more impacting. You will be thinking and feeling at the same level of expectation. This requires that you begin to understand your life energy and how it works with the rest of the world.
Over the next week spend time being aware of your physical feelings. You will do this by becoming aware of your internal dialogue. When you are having thoughts of unhappiness of distress stop the thought and become aware of how your body feels. Those slumped shoulders and listless arms and legs are responding to a low physical vibration. Change it. Up your voltage. Move faster. Get up and do something that needs to be done. Clean your apartment in record speed. Reorganize your closet. Do anything that forces your body to work at a higher frequency. What you will notice is that your internal dialogue changes. You stop talking to yourself about things that can only keep you sad. You can stop the internal dialogue that is keeping you from controlling your life energy.
Need to Protect Itself
You can learn to control the use of your energy by understanding your body’s instinctive need to protect you physically. In order to protect you physically, the body keeps your life energy at a low frequency. By keeping your energy at a low frequency it senses it is keeping your energy in reserve. Your body is content as long as it feels your life energy is locked inside of you for possible physical defense. Don’t forget, the body does not care what you think. Your body is content in tricking you into holding on to useless thoughts of fear or worthlessness. It will support making illogical thoughts appear logical. Anything to control your energy for defense.
Mastering perception is the tool that you can use to take on this battle between your physical body and your mental and emotional states. You must decide that it is your desire to have the dedication and determination to control your states of mind. You also want to use discipline to take control of your state of mind. As an actor state of mind is very important. One of your main responsibilities is to play the different emotional states that make up the character’s life within the story. It is the actor’s responsibility to allow the character to behave badly within the story but not be required to behave badly himself to get to the characters physical and emotional states. As an actor you bring your best you so that in make believe the character can behave badly.
You may sometimes let your feelings, and resulting thoughts, be controlled by circumstances that come from outside of you. You may believe that something must happen in your life to make you feel good. You believe that you need to have a good audition to feel good or you might have to be working on a project that you think is valuable that makes you feel good. Or you believe the state of the economy determines how you feel. Or you believe that your emotional states are determined by how other people treat you. If this is true, it is not a good place to be.
If your thoughts are controlling your feeling, this is not what you want. No matter what situation or circumstance you find yourself in, from a feeling of lack or winning the lottery, you can control how you feel and how your emotional states respond to your life circumstance. This is because you can control the choices that you make. You can control your perceptions. Once you understand the brain and body connection you can control your emotional states by changing the vibration of your feelings. Once you gain this understanding, you will find many of the goals you have set for yourself, personally and professionally, will begin to happen almost like magic.
This is true because you will be tapping into the law of attraction. You will be using this knowledge to draw from the universe the positive energy that you desire. Note: There is a side effect that could come your way. Once this energy connection happens you can expect obstacles to come your way. The physical body will not give away its power with grace. It will recognize that its power is being controlled by your desire for growth. It will fight back.
Unexpected Obstacles
One good way to realize that things are really going well and that you are tapping into the universal flow of energy is the realization that certain areas of your life begin to become de-focused, often by seemingly unrelated situations. That is because once you have learned how to tap into the universal flow of energy by changing your perception and physical vibrations, many of your life fears will appear. These distractions in your life should be expected. It’s what I believe is your creature, that instinctive need inside you to survive, realizing your life energy is flowing out and making it feel vulnerable. This feeling by the physical part of you is being compelled to action.
Every time you decide to change your life and take action your own physical body will begin to work against you. It will make an effort to use your energy frequencies to attract negative circumstances. At this point, it may appear that life itself is working against you. Your emotional states may be challenged from every front. What is happening is you life energy is converting certain personal fears, which have been locked in your muscle tissue for safe keeping, by activating internal dialogue thereby putting the physical body in a fight or flight position. This unexplained de-focusing appears to be your choosing. It is not. It is illogical and therefore something that is working against you in your own reality.
When this happens some of the obstacles may be bypassed but others must be confronted right away. If you fall short and behave badly, the obstacles can defeat you and the universal flow of energy can be closed off. To prevent this derailing from success become aware that an obstacle can only defeat you by the way you respond to it. If an obstacle appears to be defeating you there are tactics you can use to remove the obstacle.
Why would you want to awaken a sleeping beast inside in order to find success? The answer is because it is part of life’s plan. Spiritual and professional growth requires that you go through this process. It is this process that separates those who will from those who won’t.
It is by addressing these obstacles that appear to be coming out of nowhere that will lead you to control. You will be confronted with illogical choices. You might even find that your illogical thoughts are becoming logical. If this happens you are running on a frequency that is controlled by your body and its desire to keep it away from progress. You are always capable of changing the frequency of your life energy transmission by addressing your internal dialogue and accompanying low energy feeling with focus, awareness, and accountability. The simplicity of the change is remarkable once understood. Remember, the only one who can change how you feel and think is you and you alone.
Accepting Perception as Choice
Many people who have had success in the acting profession still end up tragically. This happens because they never learned to control and manage their own emotional states. They most likely were not aware of how their feelings were working against them to attract disaster. Most people do not understand why they are filled with thoughts of doom and gloom. In their despair many turn to drugs, alcohol, sex or a combination in order to produce temporary states of positive feelings. These techniques are used by millions of people in all walks of life. These people are looking in all the wrong places to find the answers to their negative emotional states. Using outside stimuli to change internal states will always fail. You must know how to avoid being a victim of your own fears. This is done with your understanding of the vibrations that you use to operate your life energy.
Here’s an example of someone who changed her internal dialogue which was supporting a low frequency, fear induced, body controlled energy base. She changed her perception in order to take control of her energy. Taking over her energy vibration then dictated the frequency of her life transmission. She began to use the law of attraction to work for her and as a result changed her life and circumstance in a more positive direction.
I met Mary Warren when I first moved to New York City after finishing graduate school in theater. She was introduced to me as a speech teacher by Joan D’Incecco, the casting director for the soap opera All My Children. Having been raised in the south, and getting my BA and MA degrees from a southern university, it became clear to me, after many uncontrolled emotional states, that perhaps I should work on a more mid-American speech pattern.
I became her student and while studying with Mary we also became friends. I learned that she, as a young woman, had come to New York to become an actress. At the age of 20 she married a young actor and, after several years of trying to survive in New York, they moved to Philadelphia where he became successful with an advertising agency. After 30 years of marriage and two grown children, Mary found herself being left behind for a younger woman. For over ten years after her divorce she was bitter and self-pitying.
One day she decided she did not want to continue being unhappy. She was fed up with the loneliness and self loathing that filled her internal dialogue. She decided to change her perception and began to figure out what she wanted to do with the rest of her life. She then took the actions necessary to do it. She changed the vibration of her life energy.
At sixty years of age Mary sold everything she had and moved back to New York City. She took an apartment in Manhattan and set out to teach speech, a passion she had acquired over the years. I was her first student. She later became successful within the acting and corporate communities. She has had a play produced and sitcom pilot designed from her life. At 80, she completed and marketed a book and a tape series based on her techniques for the voice and the power of speech in today’s world.
Mary had obstacles, to be sure, but she made the decision to change her perception of life. She made a decision to take control of the internal dialogue that was draining her of the pleasures of living. With awareness, she was altering her feelings and changing her energy vibration. She was making the law of attraction work for her. She was now transmitting and receiving at a frequency of energy that had the potential of growth and achievement. She began creating the feelings she wanted rather than letting her negative feelings trick her into negative thoughts. She stopped letting her feelings drive her behavior and instead engaged her desired beliefs by action.
During a serious bout with her eyes, which left her blind in one, Mary drew on her knowledge that she had the choice to turn this obstacle into an experience of strength or let it be the end of the line. Needless to say, she chose the former. When we were celebrating her 80th birthday at Sardi’s in New York, I was reminded of her battle to take control of her destiny and choose zest for life as her motto.
Mary is just one example but many people have found the reason they needed to change come to them from some catastrophic event. I think Mary and many others would tell you that they wished they had taken control years earlier.
It’s difficult to behave well all the time and it is even more difficult to ignore that other people and situations are getting the best of you. There are times when behaving badly appears to be the only option left. That is not true. Behaving badly or being the best you is, and always will be, your choice.
By understanding the concept of the law of attraction and how it physiologically applies to the human condition, you, too, can manage and control your emotional states.
First, however, you have to have the desire to change. Success is going to come from discovering what you want and what it takes to make the changes necessary to get it. The changes begin in you. Your career actions, once you have identified these, will be more effective and the results will be bigger and more impacting. You will be thinking and feeling at the same level of expectation. This requires that you begin to understand your life energy and how it works with the rest of the world.
Over the next week spend time being aware of your physical feelings. You will do this by becoming aware of your internal dialogue. When you are having thoughts of unhappiness of distress stop the thought and become aware of how your body feels. Those slumped shoulders and listless arms and legs are responding to a low physical vibration. Change it. Up your voltage. Move faster. Get up and do something that needs to be done. Clean your apartment in record speed. Reorganize your closet. Do anything that forces your body to work at a higher frequency. What you will notice is that your internal dialogue changes. You stop talking to yourself about things that can only keep you sad. You can stop the internal dialogue that is keeping you from controlling your life energy.
Your life energy is what you sell as an actor. Therefore, you must know how it works; both for and against you.
Have a good week and energize yourself with knowledge; physically and mentally.
I wish you well,
Russ
Have a good week and energize yourself with knowledge; physically and mentally.
I wish you well,
Russ
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