Meisner Help: Reasons Behind Doors

the culmination of these techniques is to do, every performance/take, reliably and consistently, what our subconscious does the first time naturally. ie: strip away all the big thoughts, actions, ideas, constructions, that we think we need to "act better" and let subconscious be our guide. Technique example: find yourself in a state of ease, let the thought "i'm late" drift into your head a couple of times. Let the thought "i'm late" be enough. Repeat it to yourself, "i'm late" then package everything you know about the upcoming scene close your eyes and throw it out of our head. Take two to three seconds of blank empty head space (cuz we can't be empty for any longer than that really), open your eyes, and start the exercise. the thought "i'm late" will surely come through your had at some point or another, be patient, when it does, respond with that first feeling, or physical sensation that arises in your body and do the exercise. Without overthinking it, reflect on what it was that you were late for, chances are it will reveal itself out of your subconscious. Once that it done, don't judge it. Whatever it is was important in that moment which is all that matters. People have done crazy urgent things for events that rationally make no sense, but in the heat of the moment, nothing else matters but that thing.

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