Let the Bad Moments Go
Hello internet, it's Kodi here and I'm back after yet another incredibly long break from blogging. Basically, I learned a great lesson at the end of last week and just felt that it was something that should be recorded/shared with anyone who is listening. It was something that after the fact seemed SO obvious, but sometimes as humans those lessons are the hardest to actually put into practice.
Lesson Learnt: You cannot let a bad moment or a collection of bad moments ruin what comes next.
Last week, I was just having one of those weeks where one bad thing after another just kept coming at me. After the first few times, I just started sulking and expecting everything else to be horrible as well. We've all been there and we've all been in those moods where you just want to wallow in self-pity. But, who is that helping? It makes you dreadful to be around and it certainly isn't making you feel any better. So, walking home after my last class on Friday with my brain just spiraling downwards with all of the negative buildup from the week all I wanted to do was complain to my flatmates once I got in.
Then I had one of those movie moments where in a split second, I saw my flatmates on the couch, took in how exhausted they were, played out how the scene would go if I did start complaining, and all of a sudden it was like the chemicals in my brain had shifted. So, instead of complaining, I flopped onto the couch, took a few deep breaths and let all of the bad moments just fade away. At that point one of my flatmates asked me how my week was and I just said that it had been horrible, but it wasn't going to be anymore. I wasn't about to let all that negative residue filter into a nice evening or the rest of the weekend.
Now that isn't to say that if you are sad or angry about something that you should just push it away and decide to be happy. By all means, fully feel and experience the emotion that you are having, it's incredibly cathartic. But once you've felt the emotion let it go. Continue to live moment to moment and let every second of your life surprise you. You never know what's coming next. Finding happiness in this life comes through knowing that there is an unsaid amount of joy to be found in every moment that we spend on this earth.
Funny enough, I've then found this lesson directly affecting my scene work and approach to some of my acting classes in the following week. I never realized how important the skill of leaving negative emotions behind is for an actor. I'm currently working on a very emotionally taxing scene that always leaves me absolutely exhausted and full of gross yucky feelings. And that's not a healthy version of myself to bring home.
In order to lead the happy and healthy life that I want to while working as an actor I need to be able to let a role or what has happened on stage go. It is so important to be grounded in yourself and let any negativity that came from the performance or rehearsal just drain out of you, so you can step back into yourself and continue on with your life.
Try it. The next time you feel upset about something, breathe it in, feel it, then breathe it out and decide to let it go and find joy in the next moment of your life.
Lesson Learnt: You cannot let a bad moment or a collection of bad moments ruin what comes next.
Last week, I was just having one of those weeks where one bad thing after another just kept coming at me. After the first few times, I just started sulking and expecting everything else to be horrible as well. We've all been there and we've all been in those moods where you just want to wallow in self-pity. But, who is that helping? It makes you dreadful to be around and it certainly isn't making you feel any better. So, walking home after my last class on Friday with my brain just spiraling downwards with all of the negative buildup from the week all I wanted to do was complain to my flatmates once I got in.
Then I had one of those movie moments where in a split second, I saw my flatmates on the couch, took in how exhausted they were, played out how the scene would go if I did start complaining, and all of a sudden it was like the chemicals in my brain had shifted. So, instead of complaining, I flopped onto the couch, took a few deep breaths and let all of the bad moments just fade away. At that point one of my flatmates asked me how my week was and I just said that it had been horrible, but it wasn't going to be anymore. I wasn't about to let all that negative residue filter into a nice evening or the rest of the weekend.
Now that isn't to say that if you are sad or angry about something that you should just push it away and decide to be happy. By all means, fully feel and experience the emotion that you are having, it's incredibly cathartic. But once you've felt the emotion let it go. Continue to live moment to moment and let every second of your life surprise you. You never know what's coming next. Finding happiness in this life comes through knowing that there is an unsaid amount of joy to be found in every moment that we spend on this earth.
Funny enough, I've then found this lesson directly affecting my scene work and approach to some of my acting classes in the following week. I never realized how important the skill of leaving negative emotions behind is for an actor. I'm currently working on a very emotionally taxing scene that always leaves me absolutely exhausted and full of gross yucky feelings. And that's not a healthy version of myself to bring home.
In order to lead the happy and healthy life that I want to while working as an actor I need to be able to let a role or what has happened on stage go. It is so important to be grounded in yourself and let any negativity that came from the performance or rehearsal just drain out of you, so you can step back into yourself and continue on with your life.
Try it. The next time you feel upset about something, breathe it in, feel it, then breathe it out and decide to let it go and find joy in the next moment of your life.
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