The Mindful Musician: Mental Skills for Peak Performance

I love this book! Dr.Cornett has created a fully comprehensive and superb book to mindfully help and guide musicians as well as non-musicians. I am a certified mindfulness instructor and piano teacher. "The Mindful Musician" has been an indispensable source of engaging activities, resources and information to consciously help me "get to know myself better" as a performer and as a teacher. It has been invaluable in guiding me to prepare my students for performances. I highly recommend this book for musicians, non-musicians, music teachers and music students who are interested in self-reflection, self-discovery, and mindfully creating from the heart.

For anyone that is interested in the mental aspects of musicianship, this is an 'all you need to know' kind of book. The book is very well written and complete with a wide range of topics to enhance anyone's enjoyment of playing music and taking on its obvious mental challenges. For me, the mental aspects are just as important to consider as the skill of performing. As a beginning acoustic guitar player (1 1/2 yrs), I recommend that you not miss the opportunity and the gift of adding some valuable tools to your learning, practice, and performance of music.

This book will be a classic and should be in every music teacher's and student's library. Carefully written with charm, grace and meticulous attention to the challenges of music performance and preparation, it makes use of the wisdom of the ages to create a practical yet holistic and visionary approach. It is inspirational as well as greatly informative.I highly recommend it.

It is an excellent book. Perfect for any music teacher who is guiding a student planning to do an audition or performing.Very well written and wonderful detail is given!

Dr. Cornett offers a wide array of techniques to provide calm focus and clarity for the performer. Anyone who has or teaches students with performance anxiety will find this practical and helpful.

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Incredible book & resource for musicians and non-musicians alike. Dr. Cornett does an amazing job distilling a huge amount of valuable information in a way that is efficient, humorous, well-written, well-organized, and allows her personality to come through. (Some books of this nature can read like a dry text-book.) I have been a music teacher since 1991 and host Enhance Life with Music podcast. While Dr. Cornett wrote this book primarily for musicians, she also explains the application of the material to all vocations and areas of life, whether music-related or not. I do a LOT of reading and have no problem setting a book aside and moving on if it isn't resonating with me. I thoroughly enjoyed this book from start to finish, and it is definitely a new favorite.  Way to hit the ball out of the park, and THANK YOU for putting this resource out into the world.

This book is just boring. It could have been written with half the words. So much of it is old news and it is visually dreadful. Little that is tangible to try without going to website.

Amazing way of approaching Mindfulness and Music. The first time I read a book with so much information about musical performance.And all exercises are helping me a lot with my performance anxiety!