We have already established the importance of the human voice. Being aware of quality (timbre),  placement, and amplitude are necessary to sing but also apply to the speaking voice, perhaps even more. For the voice is the tool of cleansing, of manifestation, of communication, of emotion. In these capacities it is essential for the health of our whole being. To silence it or even compromise it has consequences that diminish your quality of life, your capacity to be in community, your capacity to share intimately, your capacity to pass on ideas, your capacity to express emotion, your capacity to connect with all living beings.

Thus, you are best served by using your voice to its fullness, in all circumstances.

Some thoughts about the Speaking Voice

The moments of living have impacted the voice, robbing it of its power, its, confidence, its passion. The relationship between the Second Chakra, where life’ s woundings are stored, and the throat chakra, can diminish the voice. Fear causes it to quiver. The specter of reliving trauma held in second chakra encourages silence, pushing us into turning away from healing and choosing the familiar and status quo instead. The cost…our joy for life.

In order to access and free the voice one must be willing to enter the frontier of the body itself. Doing so is a profound act of courage and will. It requires you to face down the programming and look behind the curtain to see what is really holding up the facade of the fears. The wizard of Oz simply appeared demonic…he really was an old man from Kansas who just wanted to go home. Let your own Toto peal back the curtain to reveal the illusions that have kept you silent.

And guess what?! The energetic shifts and vibrational clearings that have swept the planet over these last 25 years have created a remarkable new paradigm for us in 2013. To clear the woundings of the second chakra to free the voice is not like it was even ten years ago. The years of therapy on the couches, countless hours of telling the stories, bringing the wounds to light, giving sound to the unsaid…these are not as necessary anymore. The new vibration says take a step toward reawakening you and you will receive a great deal of assistance. Listen to the body and pay attention to the sensations in the physical. Those are the callings and the movements of letting go of the past holdings. Say yes to the callings and you will be assisted mightily in clearing. And each clearing leaves you in a higher frequency, closer to living in your power. So, do not hesitate to allow the release.

The voice is the vehicle. Let’s remember how to use it for the purpose of being our true selves.

What to do

Get comfortable with the sound of you. Explore the voice again like you did as a child. Again, like was suggested in the lesson on the voice. Do it more. Play with it until you know it intimately, until you feel it in your body, until you recognize its nuance and its power. Do not hesitate to express what comes up for you. Learn that to express is Divine. Also, realize that the expression is more powerful doing it in a safe place, not necessarily at the one to whom it is directed. For it is all energy here, stored in the cells and tissues, that shoots forth when the body says “enough”. Attempting to get “heard” by the ones who we are having issue with is likely to be unproductive.

So, do it on your own. Express in the car, at the beach, into the pillow, in the desert, in the forest, when you are alone in the house…just do it. Say the words that have been waiting to be said. Make the sounds that accompany the traumas, the pains, the frustrations, the abuses. Get it out…and see what life is like as You. It will happen once you give permission for it to do so. It is a high form of self love that steps into this process.

Your voice must be freed before you can be present to assist others in finding their own.  A Sound Alchemist can easily access their true voice, pulling it up from the depth of their inner being, calling upon the very energy of the Earth to sustain it, massaging every word through the Love frequency of the heart,  integrating the guidance through the third eye and crown, to be fully present for the one before him/her.

It takes a willingness to find that voice. Call upon your capacity to do so….without hesitation.

Reclaiming the Power

The voice gathers power from the body. You must get the voice back into the body. Here is one way: make an almost yawn. Notice how the back of the throat opens and expands. This is the gateway to the body resonance chamber, where your substance lies. Sound a long a (play) sound. Still vocalizing transform it into a short a sound (hat). Continue vocalizing to now form an aw (law) sound. The moment you make the aw sound the throat opens and the sound drops into the body. Feel it. Do this over and over until you can do it without the sequence.

Speak just in the throat and notice the sound and how it feels. Do the same for the sound in the head and sinuses. Notice how they are unique. Now with each add the body. It really is just bringing your awareness to the body that triggers it. Combine the throat sound with the body, the nasal sound with the body and finally be aware of all three in simultaneous expression. Here is where your full power lies. The voice calls upon the Earth and the Heavens and puts You in the middle.

Practice speaking this way. Call upon it when you desire. Notice the results and response of others.

When you have reclaimed the voice start working with placement. The full voice placed at the back of the throat is strong and projects well. It is rich and full of character. Place it in the front of the mouth at the tips of your lips. Notice now it brightens up and becomes very articulate. Experiment. Make statements playing with different voices. Feel their impact, their effectiveness, their capacity to communicate. Get some feedback from others about these different voices. Start to see how you can interchange them to support what it is that you are saying.

Using the Powerful Voice

When you have found your voice here are some ways you can use it to impact and imprint your life. When the voice is solidly in the body using all the resonance chambers the universe listens. Your intentions are more likely to become manifestations.

Emotional Literacy

The voice is emotion in sounded expression. Your voice is empowered by emotion. It clarifies your communication intention. It would follow that you become very aware of how emotion feels in your body, the symptoms that indicate its presence, the very sounds that naturally arise from the feelings themselves. Develop a vocabulary for each emotion, strictly using sound: happiness, fear, anger, sad, etc. Become able to communicate emotion with just the sound of your voice. Some require placement changes and some require volume changes. Notice where the emotions show up in your. Each has its own domain and habitat. Find it and become intimately acquainted with it. .

This is a lost art. Developing emotional literacy gives you your body back. It diminishes the likelihood of dis-ease. It gives you the greatest chance to be heard.