Actors, It is not about being in a flow state!

Actors, we are not looking for “flow state”.

Because that’s a kind of state of oneness and kind of calm and ease or I’m moving fluidly and easily from one thing to the other.

You’re human.

You’re not Gods or Goddesses or kind of made of fully water.

You are human and there’s jagged things inside you, and there’s complicated things, and there’s things that feel uncomfortable, and there’s things that explode as well as things that flow.

You ebb and you flow as a human being.

Here we become curious about the tightness.

We become curious about the tension.

We become curious about the thing that feels resistant, because that’s interesting.

We become curious about the paradox.

Acting is paradoxical.

It’s about being with your own paradox.

Inviting both of those as part to be incorporated as paint that you include in the painting of this world that emerges from you with character.

And then it’s just getting used to them being welcome and accepted as part of that process because it’s not a comfortable process.

Discomfort is part of your job.

Feeling all these kinds of opposites inside you is part of bringing complexity to who you are and what it is you’re offering.