Morgana O'Reilly

This is a practice.

We have to keep reminding ourselves.

I even realised the other day, I was like, I like the word gratitude.

I haven't done lots of gratitude practice of being like, what am I grateful for?

I'm trying to be better at that.

I walk up a lot of maunga in Tamaki, getting to the top of a maunga and just naming a few things I'm grateful for.

For a little while I was naming things I was thankful for but I realised if I said thankful it made me feel really small.

Oh thank you, thank you.

And the power of just changing it to I feel grateful felt like the difference between awe and wonder.

I felt open chested and like proud to be grateful for something versus thankful I'm minimising myself.

Say things out loud.

Watch your charge.

And say things out loud to somebody who's paid to listen that you don't have to feel like, should we talk about you for a little bit?

You don't have to feel guilty.

That's my trick to enjoying an audition is they have to watch.

They have to watch.

No one else in my life has to watch.

That's not entirely true.

They don't have to watch later.

But while you're auditioning, they have to watch.