There is some good advice that you just want to oppose to until you get an idea what was actually meant by it.
One of these things you hear in acting a lot is called “moment to moment”.
Now the mother of my friends therapist. No, the therapist of my friends mother, anyway some dude proposed a scientist, who researches since the sixties on the effect of meditation on the brains right hemisphere.
She sent me the link and I decided to try it out a couple of weeks ago. Now in the video the term “moment to moment” seems to be a mantra or something.
After a couple of sessions I realized that what they call the minds constant chatter is naturally there and you learn to observe it and let it go and it feels good and so on.
But the most exciting revelation was that I got a hint of what this “moment to moment” thing is.
I was in the middle of a show standing behind the curtain before my entry on stage, waiting for my cue. It’s a a stressful moment most of the time. Sometimes I wonder if I fucked up the scene before, if the show is good, if the audience is awake, if I know my lines and that it will be soon over.
But then suddenly the sensation of the meditation came back. And I kind of saw or maybe felt myself in this moment behind the curtain and life was happening right there. And yes I would go out any second but it wasn’t more important than this moment. It was equally important or maybe equally not so important. And I thought what if there is no hierarchy in moments and everything is just there, alive?