For Burned-Out Touring Musicians, Mindfulness Helps (No Matter How Much the Term Makes You Roll Your Eyes)

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Ryan Dusick Ryan Dusick is an associate marriage and family therapist, a mental health advocate and an author whose book, “Harder to Breathe: A Memoir of Making Maroon 5, Losing It All, and Finding Recovery” (BenBella Books), is out now.

He is a writes regularly about wellness for Variety. The term “mindfulness” was a big turn-off to me for about the first hundred times I heard it.

As a classic over-thinker most of my life, I figured the last thing I needed was to become more “mindful,” or to concentrate harder on the things that were causing my anxieties.

Over-thinking, perfectionism and obsessive-compulsiveness contributed greatly to my breakdown as the founding drummer of Maroon 5, and my solution to most problems had been to try harder.