Ruby Rose Fox: Performance anxiety, how to handle it and how to connect with your audience

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Multi award winning singer/songwriter Ruby Rose Fox shares her new app for musicians called Muscle music .  Ruby has taught at Yale and Emerson and shares her techniques to help you understand the mechanisms that drive anxiety so you can learn to live in a dynamic body that unconsciously dysregulates for our safety and survival.  Instead of pushing away anxiety we accept it, understand what its asking for, and use techniques to find connection and emotional regulation for better performances!

Some take aways from today's episode:

How to tell which state you are in and how to regulate your feelings: Freeze or flight or fight

1. Fight or Flight

Notice and name your state

symptoms are:

Fidgiting

Forgetting lyrics

Face will go flat

Nothing will sound quite right due to inner ear attunement

Wanting to move

Just breathing doesn’t work because you are stewing on hormones, you can’t breathe them away

They have to be metabolized

Solutions:

• planking
• squats
• get the energy out
• Pressing against chest
• pushing
• plank/child’s pose/plank/child’s pose

Freeze State:

Symptoms are:

• Can’t fight or flee
• Imobilization
• Feeling tired
• Feeling out of it
• Face is still flat
• Disassociated

Methods to unfreezing are:

• Noticing and naming your state
• Including a safe co-regulator if possible. 
• Light shaking
• Light movements (qi gong, tai chi, light yoga)
• Scary movies, sad music——> any safe method to restore blood flow to the prefrontal cortex

*Once a person unfreezes, they move up the ladder and should employ the fight/flight method 

*These are broad approximations and it’s important to learn polyvagal theory and practice co-regulation BEFORE attempting any of these suggestions.

https://www.muscle-music.com
https://www.rubyrosefox.com

https://www.scarletkeys.com
https://www.instagram.com/skeys2021/
https://www.amazon.com/Craft-Songwriting-Music-Meaning-Emotion/dp/0876391927/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2PP55NU6E9ST6&keywords=the+craft+of+songwriting&qid=1659573139&sprefix=the+craft+of+songwritin%2Caps%2C153&sr=8-1

Engineer: Peter Sykes https://www.petersykesmusic.com

The show's theme song "What's in a Song" was co-written with Otto Gross
Recorded and performed by Otto Gross: 
@OttoGrossProduction (instagram)
@OttoGrossMusic (Youtube, facebook, TikTok)
https://biglink.to/ottogrossmusic 

Scarlet's website:

https://www.scarletkeys.com

Scarlet's instagram: https://www.instagram.com/scarletkeysofficial/

To purchase Scarlet Keys' book "The Craft of Songwriting:

https://www.amazon.com/Craft-Songwriting-Music-Meaning-Emotion/dp/0876391927/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2PP55NU6E9ST6&keywords=the+craft+of+songwriting&qid=1659573139&sprefix=the+craft+of+songwritin%2Caps%2C153&sr=8-1