Over and over again I see the same thing:
- my life gets really bad
- my life gets an order of magnitude better than it was before it was really bad
Why is it always like that?
After my Nutcracker freak-out, I played 3 of the best performances I'd ever played, and felt great. I was totally focused, calm, relaxed, had good mobility. All of this was thanks to the exercise that I created on Thanksgiving. This week I've tried it with 6 of my violin students, and it's like a miracle pill. Every single student made amazing improvement in less than 2 minutes. I just wrote about it on Violin Alchemist.
I really need to start talking to a neuroscientist about some of my weirder teaching techniques. With this one, I experimented a lot and discovered that this exact sequence of eye movements is the one that gets me the most relaxed. I have no idea why. I'm sure there's some interesting explanation for it.