Kyle is a young technical professional who also plays bass guitar in a Seattle band. Before the band's first show last March, Kyle came to me with a serious case of stage fright. It was so bad, he had to play with his back to the audience, facing the drummer. I worked with him over three sessions in just a few days, a total of six hours to map and liberate the full set of nine feeling-nodes.
When the band played their opening show later that week, they felt, looked, and sounded like superstars. One MySpace blogger who had seen them struggle in practice two weeks previously wrote that the group "floored" him with their progress. He said that if you didn't know better, you'd swear they'd been on stage "a thousand times" before, playing with relaxed, confident poise and looking like polished professionals.
I was there too, and was impressed as hell at their debut. I think they have a great future ahead of them, and they're regularly getting booked into the big Seattle clubs already.
Immediately below is an overview of all the feelings we mapped on the left, with the liberated feelings on the right. Click any feeling name or image to go to a detail page for that feeling-state.
