The Best Thing to Listen to Backstage for Reducing Anxiety?
Managing pre-performance nerves on the day of a performance or audition can be a real challenge. And it can get even more difficult backstage as the moment draws nearer.
Should we study the score some more? Listen to music? Read a book? Try to meditate or do some deep breathing? Color or doodle? Do some expressive writing? Visualize?
The best answer is that it's probably a combination of things that's most effective, but a recent pair of studies suggest that listening to one thing might really help to calm you down and put you in a better headspace.
Get all the nerdy details here:
The Best Thing to Listen to Backstage for Reducing Anxiety?
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