How Healthcare for The Voice Contributes to ones’ Balance and Health in General?
Vocal Science™ Technique advocates not only healthcare for the voice, but also for the human being as a whole.
In order to structure, place and project the voice to its aimed
destination, the alignment between the subconscious and conscious mind has to
take place. In a nutshell, Vocal Science™ method is about the
integration and synergy between mental, physical, physiological, emotional and
vocal components.
When the subconscious and conscious mind are aligned, the
person is more inclined to think and to act upon thinking. Unfortunately,
(especially lately and due to enormous stress), people often act irrationally
and without thinking first. Some, instead, are thinking forever and never act
upon their thoughts.
Both statements suggest the complete imbalance of the above
aforementioned components. That said, addressing the above aforementioned components
could have a positive effect on the person while their voice is being fixed
and/or trained. Those people who suffer from upper or lower respiratory
infections and/or asthma could also benefit from proper voice training via the Vocal Science™ method.
The female population of the world could definitely benefit
from intensive work with facial muscles, which (no doubts) provide the toning
of such muscles and significantly reduce facial wrinkles.
While working with the abdominal muscles (for the support of
the height and body of the sound), the stomach muscles become much stronger and
the tummy is constantly “tucked-in”; which (by itself) makes the person look
and feel trimmer, slimmer and more beautiful.
Once the person feels and experiences all of those benefits,
he/she (by osmosis) would want to execute a healthy diet; stop bad habits (like
smoking, drinking, drugs), and rather, instead, engage in physical fitness,
lose or gain weight (whichever needed) and overall, become a more healthy and
fit human being...
The conventional vocal coaching, however, suggests to stick
the stomach out and fill it with air for, so to speak, “better breathing”; and
thus, look and sound like a “pregnant ballerina”, nevertheless.
If you refer to my book (Vocal Science – Flight to the
Universe), you would find a chapter, which describes such an ordeal.
It also falls into a key chapter which is called “How Not to
Become a Singer and Work Harder at Doing it”. Now you can draw the conclusion
from there…
In the past, I personally got across the new student who’s
demeanor appeared to be skinny, but her “quite ballooned” stomach suggested
that she might have been pregnant for at least 5 to 6 months. When I inquired
about it, she was very surprised and revealed to me that she wasn’t even
sexually active!
Go figure!
She also revealed to me that she had been taking
conventional singing lessons for the last 10 years, and was suggested by her
coach to “stick her stomach out while singing, at all given times”. So her
abdominal muscles were warn out and became weak; and thus, she indeed resembled
a woman who would be in her second trimester.
To conclude:
The Russian proverb is such:
“In a healthy body, there is a healthy spirit”.
Since I always advocate that the voice is your spirit and is also a reflection of the state of your being, (not to mention an identification
of who you are), then (without a doubt) the healthy voice should be in perfect
“Marriage” with a healthy and sound body.
