Case Study:

How Musicians, Producers & DJ’s can shape a productive, satisfying and sustainable professional Lifestyle, overcoming constrictive anxiety, worry and exhaustion.

The
Hassle

Music is an absolute present to humanity, right?

While its true meaning, impact and worth is often understated in todays materialistic world it actually combines some of the most important attributes of todays human life:

Community, Expression and Healing. 

For many of it’s creators the commitment to his beautiful and nurturing craft to comes at a high price though.

Being successful within todays musical World is very challenging as you can most likely tell by your own experience. 

Talent, hard work and even fortunate coincidences definitely are helpful to build a carrier, but in the long term only those who manage to bring all aspects of themselves and their life in alignment, will sustain their success while actually thriving as a human being. 

Stress is most likely the biggest threat to the health of creative professionals in our modern society. We face it almost 24/7 in all sorts of shapes surging from in- and outside ourselves and most of us never learned how to deal with it properly.  

Feeling frustrated, unproductive and exhausted is a familiar experience. Almost everybody knows days as such, but when these days become ongoing phases, you start to feel like you can’t find back into your groove and your body starts to show you its limits – then it is time to listen. What you are experiencing is an outcome of high stress exposure. 

As you probably experienced yourself – the impact of stress does not only affect productivity and satisfaction. Everything present in the life of the Artist is connected and influenced – family, finances, career, mental and physical health. 

What can i do?

The most important step is to find sustainable ways to compensate and regenerate the impact of stress, so you don’t end up in an even more complicated situation. Many professionals tend to compensate stress in ways that do not serve them in the longterm. Some manage to find their ways by trail and error, some manage to just keep the ship floating, but a big part really struggles.

Don’t be decieved by (Social-)Media and the spotless representations floating all over the place – Everybody has their own patterns, experiences and trauma to deal with. I point that out because once i used to feel depressed and alone with my struggles and throughout my own journey i came to realize that we are never alone and actually have everything we need within reach. 

The most deceiving and limiting aspects of ourselves are rooted within our conditioning, but to be able to break open the foundation and rewire the system we need to understand it’s structure and prepare body and mind for the process. 

All that is underlining why i see, hear and experience the need and demand for holistic health guidance in the music scene. Health is one of the most important but also a pretty unpopular requirement for our profession. I understand why – It takes self-responsibility and effort to maintain it on one hand and it’s gain is not as palpable as the various short-term pleasures and distractions that are ubiquitous in our lives. 

Of course there are people that manage their lives without putting energy and attention towards their health, however it’s not possible to predict how long that works out well since every body has a different capacity to compensate stress. 

One thing is sure though – Your quality of life stands and falls with your mental and physical health. So does your craft. 

Anxiety, Worry, Panic-attacks, Physical & Emotional Exhaustion, Feelings of Helplessness & Frustration

If you experience any of this regularily your Body and Mind are communicating very clearly  – Start to listen!