Why Mental Rehearsal Is a Powerful Tool for Artists

Savvy Painter Podcast with Antrese Wood

Your brain automatically runs scripts on repeat. But are those scripts helping you or playing like mini horror movies in your head? With the right mental rehearsal approach, you can create scenarios that help turn around any unsatisfactory results of your art practice.

In this episode of The Savvy Painter Podcast, we’re going to get into what mental rehearsal is and why it’s one of the most powerful, yet underutilized tools for artists. You’ll discover how you’re always mentally practicing something repeatedly, how your current results are proof, and what happens when you change what you’re rehearsing in your brain.

2:24 – What mental rehearsal is and some ways you’re probably using it wrong

7:05 - Why the brain makes mental rehearsal so effectively powerful (with a client example)

12:42 – The effect mental rehearsing might be having on your art practice right now

14:33 – Another example of what can happen when you switch your mental rehearsal

17:19 – The difference between artists who succeed and those who stay stuck

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1. Why Mental Rehearsal Is a Powerful Tool for Artists (00:00:00)

2. What mental rehearsal is and some ways you’re probably using it wrong (00:02:24)

3. Why the brain makes mental rehearsal so effectively powerful (with a client example) (00:07:05)

4. The effect mental rehearsing might be having on your art practice right now (00:12:42)

5. Another example of what can happen when you switch your mental rehearsal (00:14:33)

6. The difference between artists who succeed and those who stay stuck (00:17:19)