The exciting thing about The Power Connection Process is that, once you have mastered the physical and vocal exercises, you will automatically have an incredibly expanded emotional accessibility.
Remember that, if you have a problem expressing an emotion, it is never because you don t know how. You may no longer use the excuse that, because an emotion is outside your actual life experience, it is inaccessible. Whether you are playing a serial killer or a saint, the emotional truth of that can be available to you.
You know how to produce every known emotion, every subtle nuance of feeling, no matter how far removed from you daily life it may seem to be.
As a child, you effortlessly went outside your own experience on a daily basis. Remember how easily you created new worlds from your imagination? Can you remember the emotional richness of that world?
I do. I used to play "Panther Girl" and hunt for panther meat. It was dangerous and I felt that danger as I ran from tree to tree, hiding from the big black cats.
You have access, by virtue of being human, to the core of all existing knowledge. I mean that literally. Anything that has been felt, ever, is available because everything experienced is also recorded.
This phenomenon is known in metaphysical circles as The Akashic Records, which some can liken to an impossibly vast library. The internet is a third-dimensional representation of the Akashic Records.
There are no limits to what you are capable of feeling. Your willingness to consider this possibility of unlimited knowledge starts a process whereby new knowledge will become available to you.
To begin to grow in your emotional accessibility for acting, try accessing a fresh viewpoint about anything at all; you may be surprised at the ideas that just seem to pop into your head. You may awaken in the middle of the night, as have many creative geniuses, to a completely new approach to a problem.
One reason many actors have a problem in expressing certain emotions is that there is an underlying, personal revulsion to that particular feeling, a fear of looking foolish or of being vulnerable.
Regaining access to blocked emotions requires a safe atmosphere - this is one of the best reasons for attending a good acting class and the very best reason for walking out of one that makes you feel, in any way, emotionally unsupported.
In a progressive class, an actor can work on specific problems without the pressure of performance.
The only way I ve found to clear an emotional block is by confronting the limitation and working through it. This requires courage and is one mark of a dedicated artist. The Force of the Familiar