Archive for June, 2010
Improve Your Singing with Healthy Speech
Your singing voice is affected by your speaking voice By taking good care of your voice when speaking, you are improving your vocal health. You can improve your speaking habits by: Talk at full volume when you want to be heard, but don’t scream. If you tend to speak loudly all the time, turn down the volume. Speak with no tension, for example in the tongue or jaw – pay attention to articulation to prevent tension. When talking on the telephone, apply your knowledge of breathing. Don’t talk so long that your voice hurts from lack of breath support.
Maintain a Healthy Weight
Though it may not be your personal issue, a body that is too lean may have trouble finding the stamina to sing and sustain the higher pitches. Make sure you’re nourishing your body on a regular basis for stamina. There are singers that don’t eat until late in the day, but the body needs nourishment to get started. Try to find a routine that enables you to get food in your body early in the day, so you aren’t snacking well into the night when your body finally feels hungry.
Keep Yourself Properly Hydrated
The human body is composed of 50% to 60% water. The lungs need water to keep tissues moving easily. Muscle tissue contains up to 75% water. This means that your singing voice works better when your body is hydrated properly.
Many people don’t drink enough water because the taste is boring to them. However, other liquids can help you balance your hydration levels as long as you remember that sugar content in drinks won’t you’re your waistline and caffeine in beverages can dry you out. Caffeine is a diuretic and causes your body to get rid of excess water which means you can’t rely on that cup of coffee to keep your voice in good shape.
Get Plenty of Sleep
Not getting enough sleep doesn’t give the tissue in your throat enough time to heal. If you continually deprive yourself of sleep, you voice begins to feel sluggish. You need to allow yourself to regenerate and recoup during the night. Allow yourself to sleep more for a few nights in a row and see the difference it can make in your singing.
Be Sure You’re Well Nourished
You should always eat a balanced diet. Adhering to the guidelines of basic nutrition means your getting the right amounts of whole grains, fruits, vegetables, dairy products, and meats. Within this balanced diet you find proper amounts of protein, carbohydrates and fats. Because singing often requires extra energy, you may want to add some extra protein to your diet to enhance your ability to last through long rehearsals.
Prevention of Sore Throat or Infection
Keeping a few basic remedies on hand can make a huge difference for the times you feel a bit of a tickly coming on. One item to keep on hand is a bottle of saline nasal spray which is a solution of water and salt. When you spray the solution up your nose you effectively wash away germs that may be waiting around, ready to attack your immune system.
You can also gargle with warm salt water. Adding a few teaspoons of salt to a half cup of warm water and then gargling helps wash away any germs that can lodge in the back of your mouth. Simply mix about a half cup of warm water with a few teaspoons of salt and gargle, washing away germs that are lodged in the back of your mouth. People that get frequent infections around their tonsils find that saltwater is a good friend. When you swish the saltwater around in your mouth, you can stop any painful canker sores in their tracks.
I hope this info was helpful to you. To learn to sing like a star and discover more about maintaining the best posssible vocal health, I recommend checking out the Sing With Freedom vocal training program from Per Bristow.
With EFT Tapping, you can improve the quality of your life.
You can feel better, more upbeat and joyful, and have an easier time functioning and succeeding in every aspect of life. Emotional Freedom Tapping has the power to dramatically improve your life by changing the way you think and feel, both at the conscious and unconscious levels. These mental and emotional processes play enormous roles in determining your success, happiness and well-being.
Disturbing Emotions
Sadly, on a daily basis, limiting emotions such as fear, anger, guilt and hurt limit our capability to create lives of joy, fulfillment and success.
Every day we are affected by these limiting emotions – whether we’re aware of them or not – negatively influencing our words and actions. And keeping us from doing and saying things we wish we could.
These constricting emotions block your ability to create the life you want.
Stop the Pain
In the process of trying to release the damaging effect of these painful emotions, We often turn to alcohol, drugs, food and a variety of life-destroying behaviors. Without fail, these actions exacerbate our problems and we feel worse about ourselves than we did before.
That’s the worst of it.
Ready for the Good News?
You don’t have to live with the limiting effects of these old, destructive and negative patterns. You can get free from them yourself, using a simple, that you can easily learn called EFT tapping.
When you use Emotional Tapping…
– You can clear your anxiety in just a few minutes.
– The negative impact of disturbing events can often be resolved in one or two sessions.
– Angry thoughts and feelings can be settled.
– Performance and success in sports, on stage, in school or in business can be dramatically increased.
– One at a time, you can single out and heal complicated and interconnected issues.
– At times, physical or health issues can be resolved – even when other treatments have failed.
– When underlying causes of anxiety are resolved, extra pounds are often lost.
When Your Brain Changes, Your Life Changes
EFT Tapping has been shown to change brain chemistry. Accompanying changes in the brain, you can experience accelerated improvement in emotions, thoughts and behavior. With help from a skilled and experienced practitioner, the life changes can be extraordinary.
You Have the Power
One of the most impressive aspects of emotional tapping is that you can do the process yourself to bring about changes in your own life.
The Result?
– EFT tapping can noticeably reduce negative emotions, such as fear, anxiety, frustration, anger, guilt.
– Tapping can decrease or remove limiting habits and behaviors.
– Emotional Freedom Tapping can increase your power to appreciate life, love and succeed.
Everyone who learns and uses Emotional tapping regularly, can have increased success, ease and joy in life while increasing inner peace and the capacity to clear negative emotions.