Al Fuentes Mental Coaching

ACTING MINDFULLY

There are many challenges actors face in the industry. Most of them have to do with their mental/emotional state and the energy they are putting into their work. My system is specifically customized to fit today's challenges actors confront in achieving success.

What challenges specifically? Your entire success is based on being judged by an individual or group of people. Because you know you are going to be judged by others, you heavily judge yourself in every little thing you do.  Soon, the programming sets in that you are never good enough. To complicate matters, you are an artist and society has made it an industry standard that you will suffer and struggle as a "starving artist" before you will become successful. This creates a mindset that pain is your muse and motivation to become something. You befriend pain and think it is what inspires you to do great work. Essentially you are using negative fuel to try to create a successful career. This actually might even work on some level but at the cost of your confidence and security. Furthermore, if this isn't enough of a challenge, you then have to be able to project your inner energy outward to the casting agent, director, or camera; you have to have that "it" factor on command. With all of the emotional chaos firing in the body, this is virtually impossible.

My system teaches a better way, a more efficient and effective way--one that uses positive fuel to help you achieve success. A system that helps you tap into the "it" factor and so much more!

PURE PERFORMANCE

Clearing The Mind - In order to have a performance that is free of all outside thought, positive or negative, you must have a clear mind. One that is completely connected to each moment of each line, to the emotion needing to be felt, and to the people or things in the scene. This takes so much energy, more than people could understand.

My system allows you to instantaneously stop the firing in the brain and completely get present in the moment. This is only possible by using the physical body to stop the firing of the mental body. This creates a cleaner, more pure performance.

Tapping Into Emotional Frequencies -  As an actor, you are asked to play a range of emotions for each character. Traditionally, you only have your own reference to what each emotion feels like. For example, when you are asked to play sadness, you reference the sadness that you have experienced in your life. Tapping into just your reference of sadness limits the emotion to your own experiences. It also keeps old emotional wounds very present in your life, not allowing you to let them go. It is a main contributor to drug and alcohol abuse because all the negative emotions and characters you play just build up over time. Limited to the forms of releasing, many turn to substances to numb the negativity.

One of my mental techniques for actors is to tap into the frequency of an emotion from the collective consciousness. This isn't an emotion that you have to own, and it is not limited to your own experiences. Take sadness for example, instead of having to drudge up your old painful sad experience in order to emote sadness, imagine tapping into the sadness from the entire world. A sadness that is so powerful, so pure, that it would resonate through you and to everyone, all the way to the audience. My system makes it possible, and the great thing about it is that you do not have to keep the emotion once you are done playing the part. With a simple exercise you can release all the emotions and reset yourself back to your center. 

The "IT" Factor - This is nothing more than understanding how to generate and send your inner energy outward. To create a feeling in others that makes them want to cast you, be around you, connect with you, and watch you. Some people naturally have the "IT" factor, but it is something that can be learned and my system can show you how. You will be surprised at how quickly you are able to access this once you understand the principles of generating energy using the theta and delta frequencies in the brain while conscious.

There are many more techniques in my system that help actors every day to achieve success in their life. Contact me today to learn more 323-786-3693 or info@alfuentes.com.

Brain Science

The majority of your brain's firing is done in the subconscious. Every emotional pattern, behavioral trait, fear, doubt, and worry lies in the subconscious mind. This means every limitation you have comes from a space you cannot control under traditional emotional coaching. 

Most traditional psychologists or counselors will try to effect change in the brain by using the conscious mind to reprogram the subconscious mind. This means talking out the problems to get a new perspective on a situation, belief, or ideal. As a result, changes in the subconscious mind often take years--if at all--because not enough energy is being generated in conversation to reprogram the subconscious mind. 

The body already bypasses the conscious mind on a regular basis. The ability to deliberately use the body to tap into the subconscious mind takes very little effort, just an awareness and understanding how to use it. By using the physical body, you can generate the appropriate energy needed to actually change how the subconscious mind fires. This is what allows for such powerful results in Al Fuentes' Coaching System.

By learning how the body does this, you too can create real change of long term programming just like many of Al's diverse clients have. Here is some of the subconscious rewiring that can be done:

• Self Sabotage
• Anxiety
• Panic Attacks
• Fear of Lack
• Money Issues
• Choosing the Toughest Path
• Emotional Roller Coasters
• Lack of Self Confidence
• Never Being Good Enough
• Self Doubt
• Insomnia
• Substance Abuse
• Creativity Blocks