The first step to “Star Power!” is to value yourself. This is the job for your Authentic Self, not your Ego. Judgments and opinions are the Ego’s yardstick – valuing and appreciating who we are and all we go through constitute your Authentic Self.
It takes a long search before you can answer the question, “Who am I?”, through identifying with your Inner creative Authentic Self; that is, the you that hears the question and responds spontaneously…as you really are and feel it, when the lid is off.
The one you see in the mirror is the one others like, judge, don’t like, talk about, praise, insult. It’s the same YOU that judges how you look, and if you are acting in a way others will like. That YOU present yourself in a way for other’s approval and has little value for who you really are and in fulfilling your own desires and purpose.
On one remarkably transformative day, I realized that I wasn’t blond, blue-eyed, tall with broad shoulders. (The look I’d always wanted.) Now, although not all the actors I coach are remarkably beautiful – I seemed to have cornered the market on every gorgeous, blond, blue eyed, broad shouldered model and actress, just to taunt me. Mirror, mirror on the wall…
Lesson learned. Everyone is working it out and everyone has an immeasurable gift. If it’s up for a vote by your Inner creative Self, “You’re a Gem.”
So let’s get down to it: you were born You. You were given it. It’s Yours. It’s You. Value it and get on with your life with this new perspective.
Sande Shurin 30 year veteran acting coach developed her own technique, Transformational Acting (Her first book) and has coached/directed such names as Mathew Modine, Sylvia Miles, Anthony Rapp, super model Shalom Harlow and music legend Method Man. On Broadway she directed The Price Of Genius also directing at such venues as BAM, Playwright¹s Horizons, Carnegie Hall & Lincoln Center. Her two films Museum Scandals and True Love have garnered accolades in film festivals. She was celebrity acting coach on America¹s Next Top Model and cuts of her were seen on OPRAH from the TV show Faking It. She has lectured at many Universities. The results of some of her coaching has been seen in Nobel Prize winning play Anna In The Tropics and in Tony winners Gypsy, Rent, Mama Mia, The Drowsy Chaperone and Spamalot as well as scores of films and TV shows. STAR POWER! (release: Fall 2009) was written to develop actors into stars. However Shurin discovered that these same principles that work for actors also work for non-actors. She has developed two new workshops: "STAR POWER! For Actors": How to become a star of stage, film and TV and "STAR POWER! for the People": How to become a star of your own life.
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