Palate cleanser.

If you’re working and your brain jams - take a break.

Learn when to stop.

And find mechanisms that can relax you quickly if you’re on set shooting. Or in acting class. Those short reset pauses.

Doing something different or opposite from what is stumping you can be useful. For example, if you’re stumbling over an accent try doing Thai dancer finger exercises.

Like a palate cleanser. The ‘internet’ says, ‘The right palate cleanser can help reset your sensory perception, stimulate the appetite, or remove any lingering aftertastes.’ Sounds like what you need when your scene isn’t going well.

When you get blocked.

Baseball pitchers do it pitch after pitch. They look for the sign from the catcher and once they get it they – palate cleanse – breathe out and pitch. Basketball players do it before every free throw, football players before a penalty kick.

Develop this habit as it suits your particular brain.

The between courses analogy could apply to acting as in between scenes or between takes. You go and you pause.

The stop is key as it allows you to go again.

The next time your taste buds feel unsavoury - cleanse your palate.