Introduction
I realized that a story I often tell during my classes and trainings had never been written down as an article on RelaxMore.net. Time to set that straight!
In an episode of a TV program called Het uur van de wolf (“The hour of the wolf”), focusing on Russian piano prodigies, an extraordinary moment occurred. It could easily have gone unnoticed, so casually did it happen—yet it expressed the very essence of mindfulness with perfect clarity. It appeared almost in passing, amidst the stories of endless practice sessions, prestigious competitions, and precocious virtuosity, during a conversation with one of those young pianists.
A pearl of wisdom
In that conversation, the interviewer asked the young prodigy if he ever felt nervous before performing. A simple “yes” followed. The next question—“and how do you deal with that?”—was met with a few seconds of silence and a slightly puzzled look into the camera, as if the question itself was odd. The boy…
