The Importance of Self-Awareness and Respecting Personal Limits for Musicians.

As a musician, it is very important that you are able to study yourself, your nature, and the kind of person you are. There are times when our brains are unable to program something, and that is as a result of the stress that we have given to our brains. This won't allow you to play good music whenever you try to play. Someone once said this, and I was not really believing it until I had an experience with it. Then I realized the person was very true about what he said.

In the middle of our discussion, it is said that whenever you want to do music, he prefers to do it before sleeping sometimes because whenever he is asleep and woken up to play music, he might not be able to deliver to his own expectations, but when he is doing it while he is still active, he will be able to perform very well, and not that when he is still active he will be able to perform very well, and not that when they wake him after sleeping, he won't be able to play something, but it won't be like when it's still had the zeal and his brain is not really stressed.

Actually, when you sleep, it is normal for you to be able to do something meaningful, but we all have our own ways of doing things. For instance, I had been away since morning, and then I came back in the evening. I was supposed to have some personal rehearsal sessions before going for rehearsal at night, but my brain was really disturbed, and I tried thinking of what to do to create something meaningful, but I couldn't. I tried to sleep and rest my head, but the sleep was not coming at all, and I feel that was what resulted in the headache.

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To some people, even with the level of stress they might have gone through, they will still sit and be able to do music, and you won't even think they are being stressed at all. Come to think of it, what kind of people can we call this kind of people because I know they will exist somewhere? The way we have some that can read under pressure and be able to assimilate whatever they are reading is still the same way we have those that can assimilate under pressure.

But as it is, I had to just drop everything with me and rest my head for some minutes so that I wouldn't think too much about what to play to the song I wanted to rehearse so that it could flow, and my brain could work very well. Whatever we do as musicians, always be able to know what your limit is, and don't just say you want to go beyond your limit when you know breaking the limit will result in something harmful.

As far as music is very paramount to do and understand, our health is also very paramount, because it's only when you have sound health that you will be able to do good music. So always stay safe, be wise and choose what you know is the best fit for you in whatever you do.