Extensive practice and improvisation both deepen attention.
Extensive practice leads to the ability to replicate learned sequences, whereas improvising involves experimentation.
Both of these exercises turn off the fear circuit.
(quoted from Life Unlocked by Dr.Pillay)
This lines remind me of the recent incident about a person who is a man of honest and an English learner.
I will introduce an example of the man who entered speech contest to have got over all of his difficulties and finally won an unexpected prize, because he had thought that he made it a value to get an entry for the contest and keeping his tension for the preparatory.
He devoted himself practicing English speech to improvise all his sentences for two months. Though he got tired of memorizing and repeating the same activity every day on the half way, he never gave it up. He suffered from the resistance of his brain what he said... his brain persistently reset all his memory what he wanted to speak out when he tried to practice his speech.
He just tried to control himself to adjust to improvise his story by heart.
Then he gradually got back calm and peaceful mind and headed for the speech contest.
He spoke out greatly without any hesitation. The result was the best score and he won the first prize.
This shows me how you can get over fear in your mind.
I'm very impressed with his strategy to win the goal. He overcame himself.
2011年11月30日水曜日
2011年11月5日土曜日
What bothers your brain
I'm reading a book about psychology and brain of human ability and I found an interesting theory in it. I'd like to let you know a piece of episode of them for someone who needs to overcome difficulty by yourself. I refer to the lines from the book here.
I remember playing one of my own musical compositions on the piano at a school concert. I had practiced very hard for days, and on the day of the concert, as I took my seat after the introductory applause, I saw my music teacher in the front row. I started to play and things were going very well. The music flowed smoothly and my fingers raced across the keyboard without any strain, taking advantage of the automatically that practice confers. Suddenly, for a reason unbeknownst to me, I started to have this perverse thought that I did not what I was doing. I started to wonder where my fingers should go next, and I realized that I might not remember. I started to panic. For a few bars, it was touch and go. I thought I have to give up and walk out, but just in time, I looked up at my piano teacher, aghast with terror that I was not going to remember what to play. She smiled at me and closed her eyes, gently chopping the air above her lap with her palm downward, signaling that I should just lose myself in the music. So I did, and all of a sudden, my fingers found themselves and I could play again.
Much later in my life I came to understand what happened that day: I had practice the piece so much that it had become automatic. And I could play it well, as long as I let it be automatic. Starting to think disrupted the automatic brain processes and started to engage the slower thinking processes. This had worked when I was practicing, but wouldn't when I was playing. This was one of the startling realizations that I had ever had-that fear can disrupt the automatic processes of daily living and throw us into a paralysis of thinking that can stop the music of our lives. Moreover, fear can result from making what has become automatic deliberate once again.
( Quoted from Life Unlocked by Srinivasan S. Pillay, MD)
I remember playing one of my own musical compositions on the piano at a school concert. I had practiced very hard for days, and on the day of the concert, as I took my seat after the introductory applause, I saw my music teacher in the front row. I started to play and things were going very well. The music flowed smoothly and my fingers raced across the keyboard without any strain, taking advantage of the automatically that practice confers. Suddenly, for a reason unbeknownst to me, I started to have this perverse thought that I did not what I was doing. I started to wonder where my fingers should go next, and I realized that I might not remember. I started to panic. For a few bars, it was touch and go. I thought I have to give up and walk out, but just in time, I looked up at my piano teacher, aghast with terror that I was not going to remember what to play. She smiled at me and closed her eyes, gently chopping the air above her lap with her palm downward, signaling that I should just lose myself in the music. So I did, and all of a sudden, my fingers found themselves and I could play again.
Much later in my life I came to understand what happened that day: I had practice the piece so much that it had become automatic. And I could play it well, as long as I let it be automatic. Starting to think disrupted the automatic brain processes and started to engage the slower thinking processes. This had worked when I was practicing, but wouldn't when I was playing. This was one of the startling realizations that I had ever had-that fear can disrupt the automatic processes of daily living and throw us into a paralysis of thinking that can stop the music of our lives. Moreover, fear can result from making what has become automatic deliberate once again.
( Quoted from Life Unlocked by Srinivasan S. Pillay, MD)
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