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Want to show up to auditions and acting jobs brimming with confidence? If you are tired of battling your inner demons, psychology can help. Life as an actor brings out a lot of insecurities. Every time you go to an audition, begin rehearsals, or give a performance, the most personal things about yourself–your physicality, personality, and mannerisms–are put on display and critically evaluated. Given this ever-present scrutiny, your self-confidence can suffer, affecting your ability to perform. High-pressure situations, such as an important audition, a table read, or opening night, are often where your self-confidence may falter, resulting in missed opportunities, regrets, and sometimes m...
Do you want to have a successful acting career? Discover proven psychology techniques that will transform the way you approach all aspects of your acting work. One of the most challenging aspects of being an actor is how little control you have over your working life. If you are like most actors, you don’t know where your next acting job will come from, nor how much money you will be paid for it. However, you do have control over your mindset. In Psychology Tools for Actors, I introduce you to ten psychological tools that will help you take your acting career to the next level by working on your mindset. These tools address five aspects of your life as an actor: learning lines, going to au...
This book examines political conduct from a social identity perspective and covers a wide range of political topics.
Do you want to build momentum in your acting career? Discover psychology techniques to stop procrastinating and increase your productivity so you can take your acting career to the next level. Being motivated is essential to becoming a successful actor. Actors must often juggle bill-paying jobs and other commitments for years before getting their big break. If you are not highly motivated, you will get lost among the crowd of hopefuls, no matter how talented you are. Motivated actors are a joy to work with and energize everyone around them. They often start their own projects, so they don’t just rely on outside work, and they continuously develop their craft, making themselves more employa...
Imagine if you could learn your lines in half the time yet feel confident they will roll off your tongue when needed. Memorization for Actors provides you with a range of practical psychology tools and a bullet-proof memorization process that will put you miles ahead of the competition. Inside you will discover: · How to become a master at learning your lines · Simple tricks to learn more lines in less time · Advanced tools to turbo-charge your memorization process · Proven strategies to remember your lines in high stress situations · When to schedule your memorization sessions for maximum effect Short enough to read in an afternoon, yet jam-packed with practical advice, Memorization for Actors will transform your acting career. This is recommended reading for any actor, from acting students to experienced professionals. Alexa Ispas holds a PhD in psychology from the University of Edinburgh. The books in her Psychology for Actors Series provide actors with proven psychology techniques to thrive and build a successful career.
Want to show up to auditions and acting jobs brimming with confidence? If you are tired of battling your inner demons, psychology can help. Life as an actor brings out a lot of insecurities. Every time you go to an audition, begin rehearsals, or give a performance, the most personal things about yourself–your physicality, personality, and mannerisms–are put on display and critically evaluated. Given this ever-present scrutiny, your self-confidence can suffer, affecting your ability to perform. High-pressure situations, such as an important audition, a table read, or opening night, are often where your self-confidence may falter, resulting in missed opportunities, regrets, and sometimes m...
Emotion is a basic phenomenon of human functioning, most of the time having an adaptive value enhancing our effectiveness in pursuing our goals in the broadest sense. Regulation of these emotions, however, is essential for adaptive functioning, and suboptimal or dysfunctional emotion regulation may even be counterproductive and result in adverse consequences, including a poor well-being and ill health. This volume provides a state-of-the art overview of issues related to the association between emotion regulation and both mental and physical well-being. It covers various areas of research highly relevant to both researchers in the field and clinicians working with emotion regulation issues i...
Healing your chakras doesn’t have to be complicated, if you know what to focus on. Working with your chakras is known for leading to deep personal transformation. The chakras influence the whole of your life, from the most mundane matters to your highest spiritual values. But how can you assess the health of your chakras and offer yourself this life-changing healing? Do you feel confused about how to start healing your chakras and wish you could find some clear guidance? Would you like to learn practical self-healing techniques you can apply straight away? In Heal Your Chakras, energy healer Alexa Ispas teaches you how to identify and heal your chakra imbalances through easily accessible e...
Imagine if you could cut the time it takes learning your lines in half, yet feel confident that they will roll off your tongue when needed.In Memorisation for Actors - the first book on memorisation written specifically for actors - psychology author Alexa Ispas provides you with all the tools you need to develop a bullet-proof memorisation process that will transform your acting career.INSIDE YOU WILL DISCOVER: How you can become a master at learning your lines Simple tricks to learn more lines in less time Advanced tools to turbo-charge your memorisation process Proven strategies to remember your lines even in high-stress situations When to schedule your memorisation sessions for maximum e...
This book examines political conduct from a social identity perspective and covers a wide range of political topics.