Thank you Sally,
The basics are as you state below. www.themodernvocalist.com/group/detense May I add a few more matters:
How a problem originates and how to solve these may be strangely different. And in dealing with people, we’re also dealing with areas such as compulsion and the subconscious–these affect posture in unexpected ways as well. VocalPosture.com will explain how many of the suppressed emotions are manifested in and can be corrected by posture alignment methods.
Having said this, and agreeing with you on the basics–here’s what I’m suggesting are to be added:
1. Eastern therapeutic arts are good at restoring posture–they’ve been doing this for thousands of years.
2. If the posture is tilted, the sound travels to the ear through the bones and oral cavity differently– one doesn’t hear oneself accurately when the posture is not optimal. You may be correct in that one doesn’t also hear oneself accurately in relation to other people in all cases. I haven’t got to the stage where my posture is good enough that I can hear a recording and say that’s exactly the way I heard myself without the recording. However, as I straighten my posture, my self-hearing accuracy constantly improves.
Notice it is not possible to hear accurately just by simply straightening up one’s posture. The prior posture had excessive tension and looseness– and when one postures up, the tonicity of these change. The tensions should be gotten rid of first. At least, this is my current hypothesis.
Also, much of hearing oneself is mental. What I’m suggesting is that by correcting the posture to change one’s emotions, one can even mentally hear better. In Hindu and Buddhist thought, this is alike seeing reality by getting rid of emotional bagge. Instead, I’m suggesting hearing reality by getting rid of emotional baggage.
3. I don’t see good singing as comparable to speaking. There are lots of speaking skills used in singing that can create all kinds of effects, particularly subtle effects skills learned from daily speaking. However, in my personal case, a full voice is rarely used in my speaking. My opinion is to first create a good resonanting cavity, then add singing skills, and then add talking nuances.
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