Allow the natural world regulate your nervous system!

Actors, allow the natural world to be the thing that regulates your nervous system.

You’re not looking at it from another person or another group of people

The career itself is destabilizing because there’s
no structure to it and it’s changing all the time and it’s very unknown.

And if you allow that to be your stability from the outside, it’s going to derail you.

And this is where I see addiction issues start to happen and the spikes and the dysregulation of the nervous system and then the actor becomes disoriented 10, 15, 20 years into their career.

Because now the environment on the outside has got inside.

Now we know there are tools you can learn so that you establish a consistency and a stability in your life that then the career can kind of go wherever it wants.

Meisner spoke about being a gardener in your life or a potter or a carpenter because the career itself is so intense.

Because actors have a day job and they have a career.

Most people just have a job and their life.

But the actor has the job to support the career and then there’s also friends and family.

So there is an extra dimension there that the actor has to have the capacity to be with.

And therefore it demands discipline and structure, practice and process to boundary around that so that it can be enjoyable in a way.

If you want to join us on our next retreat, we’ve got two exciting retreat opportunities coming up:

🌳 5-Day Acting Retreat in Tuscany ITALY
Taught by Helena Walsh
🗓️ May 19-24

🏄7-Night Acting & Surfing Retreat in IRELAND
Taught by Helena Walsh & Benjamin Mathes
🗓️ September 19th - 26th

https://www.helenawalshempowermentstudios.com/actingclasses

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