Focus, Balance, Confidence, Determination
What if we told you that you could perform with ease in any situation? Imagine if you could employ your skills with sharp focus, balance, confidence and determination whatever the arena… How would it be if you felt free to align with your passion…? What would it be like to be free from tension, to feel fully connected, and to be confident in your body and mind to be able to achieve what you set out to do…?
Is this something that you’ve already seen and heard many times before? Chances are you have. Maybe you’ve seen a mind specialist, for example to analyse or coach you through issues. Or maybe you’ve seen a body specialist, for example to release tension and build strength. Yet we know that the mind and body are intrinsically connected.
Just think: When you are stressed, you’ll probably start to feel it in your neck and shoulders. If you are anxious, you may feel it in your chest. When you are nervous, you’ll feel it in your stomach. When you are stuck, you may be disconnected from any feeling at all.
So, if mind and body are connected, when was the last time you had a mind specialist and a body specialist in the same room to speak about You?
Our programmes are for you if you like to do things right and are constantly pushing yourself to be better. If you feel held back, and you know it. Whatever you try, you cannot seem to move beyond some kind of blockage. And this leaves you frustrated, because you know you have it in you to be so much more – to work, to play, to be more free and more fun.
While people from all walks of life may encounter the issues we help with, musicians in particular can benefit from our support. On the mindset level, as a musician you may tend to err towards perfectionism, you may have a desire to perform publicly, and you may be impacted by the response of your audience. On the physical level, your playing may entail many repetitive actions, potentially awkward postures, and there may be physical stresses of carrying instruments and equipment and from you being on the road.
Yet comprehensive support for musicians is hard to find compared with, say, sports people. Why the difference? Because wider awareness of the full extent of musician’s injuries is still in its infancy. Because musicians generally haven’t been trained to look after themselves. Because musicians’ injuries are generally not as spectacular as those of sports people. And because “the show must go on.”
There are rarely any quick fixes in life. And particularly not when you are a person who has already tried “everything,” a person who has analysed the problem and tried to develop your own solutions, a person who has lived with the issue for so long that it needs some process to disentangle what is really going on.
Mastering the instrument of your mind-body connection takes dedication and focused practice, something that we hope is familiar to you! We work through programmes of varying intensity, depending on what you need. If you’d like to find out more, book a call with us to look at your options!
In order to take the first step, why not book in a complimentary 3-way discovery call with us, on which we will explore the issue you are trying to address, offer you some tips, and review your options for next steps:
When was the last time you had a mind specialist and a body specialist in the same room to speak about You?
Mats is a confidence specialist and Zoltan is a musculoskeletal expert. They met over the course of developing support for their respective clients, and realised that they both had an interest in performance and in musicians.
Mats specialises in helping people increase their confidence and alleviate their anxiety, and typically works with artists and musicians who might struggle with confidence and the belief in their ability to perform their creative art. Always mindful of the link between psychology and physiology, when Mats met Zoltan and they began discussing musicians and the mind-body connection, they felt compelled to join forces in order to provide an integrated approach.
You will often hear from Zoltan that he is “just a mechanic.” But over years of experience and of study, he realised the crucial role of mindset in the rehabilitation of musculoskeletal injuries and in the structural fine tuning of the body. “I was bowled over by one study,” says Zoltan, “showing how the outcome of shoulder rotator cuff injury was hugely different depending on whether the patient had a positive or negative mindset. So how you think impacts on how your muscles repair – how is that even possible?!” he says. Zoltan has also worked extensively with pain relief where there was no obvious mechanical source of pain, yet the pain was very real. This is what prompted the collaboration with Mats.
Mats and Zoltan’s common mission is to enable musicians and artists to play freely, confidently and effortlessly in all parts of their life.
“I am so very thankful”
“I am so very thankful to Zoltan for helping me to relieve the chronic pain in my shoulder. With a combination of gentle stretching, massage, exercises and discussion, we were able to correct a complicated problem that I had been dealing with for over six years. It took nine hours of therapy, plus dedicated efforts to do the exercises at home exactly as Zoltan suggested, but now I am pain-free and have wonderful mobility in my shoulder.” MJ
“I didn’t think I would come to understand my purpose within such a short period of time”
“I came to Mats because I had anxiety and severe doubts about my career mission and purpose. Through his constructive listening, outstanding empathy, gentle probing and guided reflections, Mats helped me see for myself how my skills/experiences/learning can be combined in one specific area that I feel very passionate about. He also helped me notice and eliminate some of the self- limiting beliefs that were unknowingly holding me back. I didn’t think I would come to understand my purpose within such a short period of time, and I certainly would not have been able to come to it using my own devices. Mats supported me in becoming more confident by helping me be more calm, focused, self-driven, self- motivated and self-disciplined, all while maintaining kind, empathetic and positive self-talk. Mats is very professional, approachable, empathetic and wise. I highly recommend him.” WH
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