Hi Timothy,
Funny, one of my coaching clients is a concert pianist who was telling me just the other day how odd it was to have surpassed so many of the pianists that she loved and admired as a younger woman and whom she had told were her inspiration and, as a result, received their guidance and encouragement in return. It can be amazing how odd life can be as your dreams come true, don't you think?
I guess she hadn't heard this from your friend so it doesn't apply to her. But you did, and now it's time to change what you're doing because of that.
I don't doubt that you feel this, because it's you in there producing those feelings so that you can confirm your belief.
It's the same way a person who believes that the world is full or trouble and strife sees it everywhere they look. And the person who feels the world is full of opportunity and chances of a lifetime sees only those. Pair up two of those kinds of people and have then describe what they see as they walk down a street and you'll know that they really live in and experience two different worlds.
So, you're (unconsciously) intertwining your energy with his and you hate that. I get that.
So do something else.
Energy flows where attention goes. All the experts know that to be true and will tell you that. it's a
many thousand-year-old principal.
So where do you want your energy to go
instead?
If you were to pull your attention off of this guy now, what do you want to pay attention to instead, so that you can notice what it's like to have your flow redirect as it's too occupied with one thing to be another, I wonder? You can't not think of something, you've got to think of something else instead. Same with energy.
And as you change the way you represent your energy to yourself (of course you can do that, you know, it's the first step
all energy schools and
all energy masters have ever taught for eons and eons now), changing the colour, the location, the temperature, the feeling, the motion, the pitch, the tempo, the highs, the lows of it, what configurations make it even easier to redirect in any way that you choose?
And as long as your at it, I wouldn't want you to accidentally discover that some of these changes are making you an even better musician now...

So go ahead and avoid the accident. Do it on purpose.
And after you see how well that's working for you, give me some feedback, will you?
Be Well,
Michael Perez