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Would you like to know how to stop criticizing yourself when you sing? In this video we are going to learn how. I'm Madeline Harvey. Thank you so much for hanging out with me today. What I thought might be best for us today is to freestyle just a little bit just to get real on the topic of the critical mind. We all got one and it's not always pretty but what can we do about it so that our head stays clear and in the game and that we can move forward in a useful meaningful way in our creative lives. So it's my hope by the end of today's video that we both learn something about ourselves and then we both have the tools to bring to the job in just the making of art and the making of creativity. So I can feel the heaviness on this topic our critical mind as singers. It's it's a little out of hand guys. If I'm going to be honest with you it's a little it's a little much and it's out of hand but we can we can do something about this now as artists which just know that if you're here watching this video with me this is what I consider you an artist. And I do believe that it's the artist's job to be sensitive and to stay connected to their inner world that they used to create and they share in ways that are both meaningful for them and for the outside world. But when our creative mind not creative mind our critical mind gets a little too over dominant to the point where it's destructive. We are still demonstrating our sensitivity but in a collapsed non productive way. So we got to we got to find the tools that are necessary to keep us turning it around and using those thoughts that come in as a means to again gather experience gather insight but move forward because often. And we all know what this is like. Often times whether we're singing in a recording studio or on a stage or maybe even just playing around with our phone and we listen back sometimes. There is that whole god like we just recoil and pull ourselves in and it's just like the wait. Hot faces get really red. We feel hot and we feel the crushing weight of sometimes straight up disappointment. We feel we failed ourselves in one way. But it's what happens next that determines how we move forward or if we move forward at all. Usually we'll hear something in our mind that says something. I mean pick your poison. Who do you think you are. That was laughable. Yeah right. Nobody's going to take a serious if they're all laughing at you. You'll never be a singer. You're delusional etc. etc. We've all thought something like that before. That is a destructive critical mind and just know that we all have something in our psyche in our minds and our headspace that actually wants to cut off all life all creative life. All new fresh experience. So that's what's going on. And that's really helpful to know. But a healthy creative mind asks questions a healthy creative mind doesn't make judgments. It doesn't go. It asks questions like well how can you do that better. Or if you didn't like that tone try this. That might work better for you or that some ideas good. But let's change it to this. That might be better. So it makes suggestions and ask questions. If you are having a thought that says stop don't saying zip it lock it and put in your pocket for ever. You are not talking to the critical mind you're talking to that part of your psyche that just wants you to go back in your hole and never come out. And we know sometimes we eat some overdo that sometimes we do but we also know that we can't we just can't. We are creators that's what we do in life. So again the healthy critical mind will be one that asks questions. So as your recording as you're singing and you do something in hindsight of course I'd rather you not be thinking about it in the moment that you're singing but let's say after you've sung and you're watching and you're observing and you're assessing to ask questions like What would you like to see differently. What would you like to try. You want to try something new there. How about a nice ride. You know it's all the whole point is to move forward. New life you are already sensitive. You're here. You're watching this video you know what this feels like so don't demonstrate that sensitivity in a way that attacks yourself. Use it to learn something from. That's the big difference. There's this study and it's like a whole field of just thought leadership right now is just discerning the difference between mindsets right. There's like a fixed mindset and there's a growth mindset and that right there is what we're talking about a fixed mindset that's kind of obsessed with the result. The growth mindset is more of like using what you just did. Improving upon it. You mean always learning value value. Value there's value absolutely everywhere. That way you stay connected to Joy you stay connected to the fun and you're sort of aiming for that.
Would you like to know how to stop criticizing yourself when you sing? In this video we are going to learn how. I'm Madeline Harvey. Thank you so much for hanging out with me today. What I thought might be best for us today is to freestyle just a little bit just to get real on the topic of the critical mind. We all got one and it's not always pretty but what can we do about it so that our head stays clear and in the game and that we can move forward in a useful meaningful way in our creative lives. So it's my hope by the end of today's video that we both learn something about ourselves and then we both have the tools to bring to the job in just the making of art and the making of creativity. So I can feel the heaviness on this topic our critical mind as singers. It's it's a little out of hand guys. If I'm going to be honest with you it's a little it's a little much and it's out of hand but we can we can do something about this now as artists which just know that if you're here watching this video with me this is what I consider you an artist. And I do believe that it's the artist's job to be sensitive and to stay connected to their inner world that they used to create and they share in ways that are both meaningful for them and for the outside world. But when our creative mind not creative mind our critical mind gets a little too over dominant to the point where it's destructive. We are still demonstrating our sensitivity but in a collapsed non productive way. So we got to we got to find the tools that are necessary to keep us turning it around and using those thoughts that come in as a means to again gather experience gather insight but move forward because often. And we all know what this is like. Often times whether we're singing in a recording studio or on a stage or maybe even just playing around with our phone and we listen back sometimes. There is that whole god like we just recoil and pull ourselves in and it's just like the wait. Hot faces get really red. We feel hot and we feel the crushing weight of sometimes straight up disappointment. We feel we failed ourselves in one way. But it's what happens next that determines how we move forward or if we move forward at all. Usually we'll hear something in our mind that says something. I mean pick your poison. Who do you think you are. That was laughable. Yeah right. Nobody's going to take a serious if they're all laughing at you. You'll never be a singer. You're delusional etc. etc. We've all thought something like that before. That is a destructive critical mind and just know that we all have something in our psyche in our minds and our headspace that actually wants to cut off all life all creative life. All new fresh experience. So that's what's going on. And that's really helpful to know. But a healthy creative mind asks questions a healthy creative mind doesn't make judgments. It doesn't go. It asks questions like well how can you do that better. Or if you didn't like that tone try this. That might work better for you or that some ideas good. But let's change it to this. That might be better. So it makes suggestions and ask questions. If you are having a thought that says stop don't saying zip it lock it and put in your pocket for ever. You are not talking to the critical mind you're talking to that part of your psyche that just wants you to go back in your hole and never come out. And we know sometimes we eat some overdo that sometimes we do but we also know that we can't we just can't. We are creators that's what we do in life. So again the healthy critical mind will be one that asks questions. So as your recording as you're singing and you do something in hindsight of course I'd rather you not be thinking about it in the moment that you're singing but let's say after you've sung and you're watching and you're observing and you're assessing to ask questions like What would you like to see differently. What would you like to try. You want to try something new there. How about a nice ride. You know it's all the whole point is to move forward. New life you are already sensitive. You're here. You're watching this video you know what this feels like so don't demonstrate that sensitivity in a way that attacks yourself. Use it to learn something from. That's the big difference. There's this study and it's like a whole field of just thought leadership right now is just discerning the difference between mindsets right. There's like a fixed mindset and there's a growth mindset and that right there is what we're talking about a fixed mindset that's kind of obsessed with the result. The growth mindset is more of like using what you just did. Improving upon it. You mean always learning value value. Value there's value absolutely everywhere. That way you stay connected to Joy you stay connected to the fun and you're sort of aiming for that.
