Calm, focus and confidence - the Attitude of a Virtuoso

Virtuosos Don't Get There by Accident!

Virtuosos set the scene for success in everything they do, think and believe. Of course, they’ve put in the hours, but they have something else: a Virtuoso’s Mindset. They think like a Virtuoso, they talk like a Virtuoso, they walk like a Virtuoso. They take on The Attitude of a Virtuoso. Believing you can succeed – believing you are a Virtuoso and that you deserve success – produces results.

Ursula not only works with singers and musicians for optimum performance, mental toughness and confidence. She also works to improve focus and pre-performance nervousness, remove mental blocks, regain confidence after setbacks, increase motivation, regain the joy of making music, perform like you practice and negative thought-stopping.

While her main focus is on musicians, the same tools and session structure work equally well with other high-performers.

Engage Your Unconscious Mind to Win

Many professional musicians spend a meaningful amount of their practice time working on their MINDSET. Visualization is often used to imagine the desired result. For each component of a performance, the musician will visualize the perfect movements, seeing and feeling all of their muscles, each minor movement and adjustment through each step. By repeatedly visualizing these perfect movements, the body will be able to accomplish just that during a performance. Hypnosis and self-hypnosis are tools to make visualizations more powerful.

Self-talk and affirmations cement the goals and desired results in the mind of the musician and maintain focus and positive mindset. These translate to unconscious actions during a performance. Mindset work helps improve focus, concentration and resilience. It relieves the stress and pressure of performance. Self-hypnosis is the core tool that allows a musician to become their own Mental Toughness Coach.

Mental Toughness Training Program:

Deep Mindset Shifts in 4 Simple Sessions

This unique 4 session structure of hypnosis sessions with reinforcement tasks in between has elevated hundreds of musicians to virtuoso status and maintained them at that level

Session 1

We explain what hypnosis is and how it's particularly effective for musicians and other high performers
Learn the four categories of mental skills that you'll be learning and practicing to get that critical mental edge that allows you to excel
Brainstorm specific goals and develop positive statements for them
Learn how to monitor your self-talk to recognize what you need to shift in order to reach your Peak Performance
Create your personal, customized Mental Toughness Training Program

Session 2

Review negative self-talk and how it affects the way you perform and practice
Master a powerful thought-stopping technique to address negative self-talk
Explore the importance of "carrying yourself like a Virtuoso" and how that gives you the mental edge
Use hypnosis to reset and rewire your doubts into beliefs
Create a personalized audio for you to listen to at night and reinforce everything we worked on in the session

Sessions 3 & 4

Learn simple self-hypnosis and use it to reinforce the tools and techniques we applied in our sessions
Use these tools for the rest of your life in music AND other life contexts
Master a valuable mindset training technique to create powerful mental toughness blueprints in your inner-conscious mind
Reinforce the mental training and performance enhancement techniques through the power of hypnosis and self-hypnosis using your inner-conscious mind

Just a few of the Techniques we use in the Mental Toughness Training Program

Direction

Goals: Clear, stretchy yet achievable, "I" goals stated in the positive with time frames. Handwritten, reviewed daily.
Goals: Long term and Short term, performance goals and mindset goals.
Goals: Review and update your goals every few months.
Visualization: Vividly real actions and outcomes. Must include all senses.
Visualization: All rehearsed frequently and before competition.

Attitude & Mindset

Attitude: Believe, Act, Walk, Talk and Think like a VIRTUOSO
Attitude: A Virtuoso performs to communicate something to an audience.
Mindfulness: Notice when you have difficulty acting like a virtuoso and change those situations.
Positive thinking and clear, well visualized goals create the motivation to continually move towards them. The clearer the goals, the greater the motivation.

Positive Thinking

Mindfulness: Awareness of moods, emotional states, beliefs, negative thoughts and how they impact your performance.
Mindfulness: be aware of negative thoughts and STOP them early.
Affirmations or positive statements keep you focused on your goals. This is the heart of your mental practice.
Resilience: The mental toughness to STAY in positive mindset even when setbacks happen.

Intense Focus

Relaxation: this is getting yourself to just the right balance of muscle tone & limp and just the right balance of alertness and detachment to be ready for YOUR performance.
In FLOW: Regular, successful practice at getting into FLOW.
Resilience: Stuff happens. you'll learn visualization techniques to get back your focus.

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