Negative thoughts about yourself and your abilities can be detrimental to a performance. If a musician thinks they will have a horrible performance for a variety of reasons, those negative thoughts can cause anxiety even before the performance. In his article, Don't Call It Stage Fright! New Ideas on the Treatment of Musical Performance Anxiety, Patrick Gannon argues that when someone is fearful of the outcome of their performance, “MPA can occur days or weeks before the performance, compound long-term, and carry on in a cycle of escalation in front of the musician steps on stage” (Gannon,16). Due to excessive thinking and low expectation of how the actual performance will turn out, some individuals experience anxiety during practice in anticipation of the great performance and this leads them to become more