Worry and expectations will kill any art, or person.
If you are talking about an art, please someone has no place.

Sorry, but #5 ??? My opinion is to gain as much knowledge as you can and then make a supreme effort not to live by that knowledge. Work back to natural. (With your guns loaded)

This next part got me crazy until I took a closer look. I’ll write in two ways.

Don’t think. Improvisation is about FEELING.
Don’t think Improvisation is about FEELING.

Wow, what a little comma can do. That sounds like a song.

OMHO John C.