Overall Body Pollution...to the client's dismay, results in the full blown Non-Surgical Voice Repair
HOLISTIC Approach to the Vocal Cure!!!
Throughout the last 30 somewhat years, I'm bombarded with phone calls and e-mails from people who experience voice or vocal problems.
Some of them think that it happened to them out of the blue and without anything suggesting that it may happen.
A lot of them attribute it to some colds or viruses and only some agree that their lifestyle is not exactly "clean and shiny"...
However, the severe cold, virus or strep throat could be a trigger to a voice disorder, which, nevertheless, would have happened sooner or later anyways.
They eat a lot of fast foods, tons of dairy, which produces a lot of mucus, consuming a lot of salty and spicy foods, which affect the throat flora, and evidently, also smoking, drinking and even use drugs.
Some of them, on top of that, do not know how to conduct their voices properly, while speaking or singing, for that matter.
They are using the voice incorrectly, pushing it out of their necks and chests, while concurrently very poorly and wrongly conducting their posture.
They're putting the pressure onto their pelvises and their upper back are pointed backwards, while the whole weight is mainly distributed to the lower back.
And surely enough, the majority of them have lower back problems, and some have signs of scoliosis or already full blown spinal disorders.
Almost all of them have no idea that they have to breathe before they say or sing a word and between the phrases - speaking or singing.
In other words, if the plane, God forbid, runs out of fuel, it will evidently crash.
I have numerous examples, where the person comes in, in complete despair and having no clue why the voice is stuck in their throats or thyroids and what to do about it.
The thyroid, according to holistic teaching, represents suppressed emotions and hurts.
So almost 100 out 100 voice repair clients experienced some mild, or even severe, emotional distress.
They also don't associate the voice problems with the poor diet and constant chemical pollution of their bodies.
They go to the conventional doctors, or even the specialists, and they are advised to do all kinds of nasty procedures, such as a Botox injection into their necks and throats, or their own fat injections, derived from their stomachs or whichever other parts of their bodies, or injection of teflon into their vocal cords, and my recent client from the US had a synthetic device installed in his right vocal cord, which completely paralyzed it and nevertheless, would prevent him from ever singing again.
How sad is that?
Nobody looks into the approach to the person as a whole.
You are what you speak and you are what you sing, nevertheless, you are what you eat!
You need to have a clean "instrument" and you need to know how to operate it to its fullest capacity.
Now, this polluted and broken instrument has to be cleaned, tuned and repaired, while concurrently, the "player" (speaker or singer) has to be re-taught how not to damage that precious "instrument" they own, again and again.
The knowledge provides confidence and mainly, safety, health and longevity of one's voice.
Diana Yampolsky is the Master Vocal Coach, Studio Vocal Producer, and Non-Surgical Voice Repair Specialist at The Royans Professional Vocal School in Toronto, Canada. She is also the creator of the Vocal Science ™ method and Talent Scout and Director for the 4 A.M. Talent Development and Artist Management Group Inc.
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If you find yourself struggling with vocal performance or are in need of voice repair, you can reach Diana by email or phone, Toll Free in North America, at 1-888-229-TUNE (8863)
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