Master your Vocal Confidence

It is only the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.  Antoine de Saint-Exupery. The Little Prince

• Confidence is when passion and intention meet achievement!
• Lack of confidence: when your passion is overlaid with fear/panic.
• This is the ‘how to’ when you have tried everything to improve, but NO thing changes.

Speak up!

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I have been told this so often; my voice it too soft, I don’t project myself enough!

Can you turn your voice up like a radio? Or will it crackle and croak?

Could the missing link be…confidence!

I actually developed this habit over years.  You see, underneath I didn’t want anyone to hear me in case I made a mistake, forgot what I was saying or singing; sang the wrong thing; looked stupid.  Not that I was consciously aware of this.

When we are born we are already musical; it is also the last memory that goes.

What do you want when you go to a singing teacher? Most people want to sing better.  You learn techniques and skills to help you shape the vocal folds; encourage more sound; shape the words of the song; sing the right notes; align the voice to the song and most of all practice, practice and more practice. Address your posture.

That is what my students tell me who have had lessons before.

Often it seems confidence is illusive even so.

My confidence journey came indirectly when I trained to become an Alexander Technique teacher.  Over the three years training, my painful back gradually lengthened and strengthened, and repaired itself.  Depression slowly lifted.  Best of all I gained inner skills that make every action easier.

And my inner confidence grew and grew.

Singing in a choir has been my vocal expression over years.

I love singing.  The louder the better!

My amazement now is in knowing the intricate functioning of my voice/body.

I am always the master of the results.

The ‘how’ of how I prepare to sing.

I notice stress has tensed my neck up!

Gently I let it free to ease the co-ordination.

My spine ’grows’ as the ease filters into the corners of me.

My breathing releases in spite of no conscious effort from me.

I sing!  Easily!  Effortlessly!  Joyfully!  It’s so simple.

Self-belief grows and grows!

F M Alexander was a self taught man….. He seems to have arrived at a truth.  Everything we need in order to speak, sing and stand well is already there within us.  All we have to do is stop interfering with the process.  Ron Murdock – Born to Sing.

Finding how we interfere with the natural process restores natural confidence.

Confidence!  It’s time to go deeper, find the source of all beginnings.

Time to pause the journey!

Change direction.

Look at what causes melt downs.

Explore other ways to do this.

And finally try out,

Discover what works better.

And voila!  You have a skill for life.

Put natural back into singing and singing back into passion.

Have you had a moment of fearful lack of confidence while you were doing what you love doing?

Want to share this moment with me?  I won’t publish it, but you will get a reply from me.

Interested ?  Discover the mechanisms that support your ultimate confidence – everywhere.

Happy days
Jann

P.S. I give you my core life experiences here so you can benefit from my ‘roadmaps’ AND set your own inner joyful singer free.  If you enjoy my articles, sign up for Natural Vocal Freedom tips, articles and advance notice of upcoming classes
P.P.S. Building your Confidence class starts in the new year, click for details. Anybody who has ever been in any of my classes is welcome.