Happy New Year! January is usually the time when we set resolutions for the year, but let's face it, most of us aren’t going to see them through a couple of weeks let alone a whole year. So this week on Singing Teachers’ Talk, Alexa is joined by BAST founder Line Hilton to discuss how you can be more resilient in 2023, how you can improve resilience in your students, and what you can put in place to make sure you achieve your goals.
 
KEY TAKEAWAYS

One of the problems with resolutions is that people set them and then don't do them. So it's much better to set goals throughout the year and then follow up with whatever strategies or tools that you can to maintain them.
When working on self-improvement, if you haven't dealt with the beliefs that are feeding into the thing that you're trying to stop or forcing yourself to do, then your mind will just go back to what it's comfortable with.
It can take around four weeks to form a habit, which involves repeating the thing you want to do daily for it to be imprinted in your brain as part of your routine.
Low resilience can be mental or physical. It could be related to work or our home life. Often, when you physically learn resilience, it will affect everything. Sometimes with mental resilience, that only happens in particular settings.
As a singing teacher, you need to be aware of the things that can affect your students from a psychosocial point of view. It’s not all about asking what's wrong with the voice, it’s about asking what other factors may be at play. Maybe someone has really low energy, or something has happened at school and they’ve brought it with them into the lesson.
Usually, When somebody has severe anxiety or response to a negative experience as a performance, it's because they've attached a meaning to it. So it means I'm not good enough. It means I'm a failure. It means that I'm being judged. It means that I've disappointed others. It means that I can't make it. Help the student to reframe their thoughts and understand that it's just a thought, it's not a fact.

 
BEST MOMENTS
‘We have the resolution, but we don't put a plan in place or have support.’
‘Physical things are just a little bit more obvious than with mental low resilience’
‘The singing teacher quite often is privy to a lot of stuff that other people are not in that person's life’
 
EPISODE RESOURCES
Guest Website:

basttraining.com

Social Media:

@basttraining

Relevant Links & Mentions:

Singing Teachers Talk Podcast - Ep. 32 The Bio-Psycho-Social Model with Stephen King: https://linktr.ee/basttraining?utm_source
Duncan Rock: https://duncanrocknutrition.com/
Rock On Ruby (slogan clothing): https://rockonruby.co.uk/?gclid=Cj0KCQiA7bucBhCeARIsAIOwr-8qNWJZranfBEK3TqAmO02l_ujYUkszuAWssDHgxhcZd2Z7HFgkjVgaAiQzEALw_wcB
Marisa Peer: com
Mel Robbins: com
Instagram: @linehilton
British Association for Performing Arts Medicine (BAPAM): https://www.bapam.org.uk/
Dr Mark Hyman: https://drhyman.com/
Dr Rangan Chatterjee: https://drchatterjee.com/
Mind Charity: org.uk
Help Musicians: https://www.helpmusicians.org.uk/
Mindset by Carol S. Dweck
Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker
Insight Timer App
The Chimp Paradox by Professor Steve Peters
Singing Teachers Talk Podcast - Ep. 33 The Chimp Paradox by Professor Steve Peters Book Review: https://open.spotify.com/episode/05XH8aZkXCrSq4rKsLIwCs?si=366951a969514cb4
The High Five Habit by Mel Robbins
Norman Doidge: https://www.normandoidge.com/
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks
Lifetime by Russell Foster

 
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