As artists we are highly emotional. That that is a good thing unless emotions are running your life. HTT welcomes Julie-Anne Black to share some tools to help manage our emotions and help us avoid being paralysed by emotions.
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John Paul: Hi, I’m John Paul Fischbach. I’m the Chief Alchemist here at the Auspicious Arts Incubator and for this Hot Tip Tuesday it’s my pleasure to introduce you to Julie-Ann Black. Julie-Ann is our producer here of bold and irresistible communicators. It’s great.
Julie-Ann has been a top TV producer. Producing shows including ‘Who Wants to be a Millionaire’ and she was also Production Manager for the Sydney Olympic Games Opening Ceremony but since she’s retrained herself as a mindset, body language and NLP trainer. We are really thrilled to have you on board. We’ve been working together with artists to deal with this huge, burly, prickly topic of emotions and how emotions can come over and they can run our lives, rather than us riding the emotion. So you find that a lot?
Julie-Ann: Yes, absolutely and feeling also that emotions control you rather than you being in charge of your emotions. Who’s had a day when they’ve completely lost it? I’m just in such an emotional state that I’m paralyzed to do any action. As an artist what I find is a lot of people want to have their emotions because it allows them to go deep within their artwork however sometimes as I said you can get paralyzed by your emotions and it can stop you dead in your tracks.
John Paul: One of the things that I learned from the Native American traditions was that you have to let emotions flow. That emotions are designed to come, be resident, to teach you something, help you understand something, make you aware of something and then flow but that you don’t hang on to an emotion, good or bad.
Julie-Ann: Yes because the moment we go into trying to white knuckle something, if we go in wanting to hang on to happiness we want to have the happiness. It’s not happiness. it’s not happy and what I also noticed is that emotions are naturally occurring so whether it would be anger or happiness or sadness it’s all naturally occurring but we haven’t been taught how to channel emotions creatively and use it to actually guide us through because an emotion is our unconscious mind saying ‘hello this is something for us to look at not something to be scared of’.
John Paul: As artists we tend to be comfortable going into the place of emotions but you will say to a lot of artists is that’s great for your art but we’re talking about the other part, the relationships…
Julie-Ann: The business, right? We can’t run a business from the emotional side of things because that’s how we end up being broke, struggling artists. Been there, done that.
John Paul: What’s one of the tips that you would give people to understand how to work with their emotions?
Julie-Ann: When an emotion comes up for you, recognize that it’s present and that go inside it and feel it completely because when you get into the heart of the emotion you’d be able to actually find out what its purpose is and when you know that you’ll be easily able to go is this something that’s going to help me move forward towards my dream or is it going to prevent me from getting my dream. Then what action do you need to take or who do you need to become in order to overcome it?
John Paul: Awesome. You know what? I think there’s a bonus tip. It’s one of the things that you said to one of our artists which was that you can change that emotional state. If you want to find a place, if you’re particularly stressed or something is not going well, you have a way that you can just anchor that particularly positive thing. Share that one. That’s a great one.
Julie-Ann: If you remember a time, go and remember a specific time when you felt happy and confident what did you see, what did you hear, what did you feel in that particular moment and then replay that exact scene over and over again and when you need it, it will be there for you in the time. The trick here is that you’ve got to remember that you have felt happy and confident in the past and that you can feel happy and confident right now in the present and once again in the future.
John Paul: If this Hot Tip Tuesday was helpful please like this video. If you know someone who needs some help wrestling with their emotions or riding this emotional flow please share the video. We’d love to hear comments about your struggle with emotions or the power that emotions have in your life so please leave us comments or questions below. That would be awesome. The things about us here at the Incubator is we want you to more than survive we actually want you to thrive. The best way to thrive is to subscribe. You’ll get lots more Hot Tips and more from Julie Ann so ciao.
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