Alchemy of Performance Anxiety: Transformation for Artists

This book provides a new perspective on anxiety by applying psychological alchemical practice to address, explore, and examine its nature and cause. It emphasizes the importance of scientific, artistic, and spiritual understanding, along with practical application, in eliminating anxiety and gaining personal control, liberation, and fulfillment. The book is designed as a personal development tool for 18–30-year-olds and serves as a source book for further investigation into various disciplines and practices. It suggests that alchemy can be a way of life for anyone.

Format: Paperback / softback
Publication date: 30 August 2018
Publisher: Free Association Books

With mental health receiving increasing attention, this book presents a fresh perspective on anxiety. The primary focus of this book is on applying psychological alchemical practices to address, explore, and examine the nature and causes of anxiety, with the aim of overcoming it. It is highly relevant to showcase that a combination of scientific, artistic, and spiritual understanding, along with practical application, possesses the potential to eliminate anxiety and achieve personal control, liberation, and fulfillment.

The first half of the book identifies the key issues to be considered, while the second half provides explanations and illustrations of the alchemical practices that can be employed to address them. While the book emphasizes musical performance, it is made clear from the outset that the contents apply universally. Music serves as a clear example.

Rather than being a scholarly work, this book is designed as a personal development resource, with a primary target audience of 18-30-year-olds due to the apparent and growing necessity. It serves as a source book that can be explored at any point or used as a starting point for further investigation into the various disciplines and practices covered. Alchemy has the unique ability to bring these diverse elements together, and the alchemy of performance can become a way of life for anyone.

Weight: 260g
Dimension: 128 x 197 x 11 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781911383192