Download or read book Mental Practice For The Amateur written by Gala Lorensen and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-05-15 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Make a positive formulation of what you want to achieve. Then imagine in great sensory detail what your evidence would be for having achieved it completely. What images, sounds, and physical sensations would be the signs of a perfect outcome? Then imagine stepping into your own skin and feeling from the inside what it's like to do it perfectly. When you are practicing, you run a series of pictures through your mind as you play music, and it is changing those pictures that change the way you play. This book is a physical practice to enhances practice time, optimizes performance, and helps prevent physical injury in music. The vital characteristics of effective mental representations are discussed, and a step-by-step program for training mental skills is presented. To enhance music skills, this content will help you: - How can mentally recreating the sights, sounds, and sensations of playing music help musicians improve their musical learning and performance? - How can creative images be used to enhance music-making? - Is the usefulness of mental work supported by scientific research?