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sound Almost everyone stifles the aryepiglottic folds leaving them underdeveloped in all but |
a meager portion of the population You may have never used yours but they have always |
been available to you By practicing the growl you will unstifle your aryepiglottic folds |
If you dont know what the use of aryepiglottic folds sounds like listen to Louis Armstrong |
sing What a Wonderful World Also channel Cookie Monster Barry White Marge Simpson |
and Batman Hold a deep note in a low loud growl throughout your exhalation After youve |
practiced the growl alone try singing with a growl After two to five hours of cumulative |
practice you should be able to unleash your inner monster permitting you to overlap a |
growl with your normal speech any time you choose |
Using portions of your throat to which you are unaccustomed in the exercises above will |
make you choke and cough Especially using the aryepiglottic folds will feel sensitive scratchy |
and achy as in a sore throat Utilizing these achy sections of the vocal tract will rehab them |
The soreness will dissipate and accumulated phlegm will clear Whole sections of your vocal |
apparatus only vibrate when you cough or scream but you can use diaphragmatic rehabbing to |
coax them to flutter with every word you speak Try using noisereducing earmuffs with these |
exercises so that you are not focused on the timbre of your voice but rather the rattling |
sensations in your throat |
Feel good about vocalizing forcefully Dont equate vocal power with discourtesy and dont |
inhibit it to be polite Model your favorite radio personality or disc jockey emulating how they |
can speak richly and deeply yet also congenially on the air |
PROGRAM PEACE Self Care Exercises to Reprogram Your Mind and Body |
Chin Lock |
Tucking your chin back into your throat firmly allows you to contract many muscles in the |
throat and vocal tract It is a great way to find and activate lengths of muscle that have gone |
dormant In yoga this position is known as a chin lock jalandhara bandha The muscles it |
strengthens include the underused longus colli and longus capitus both in the front of the neck |
alongside many others As you explore the chin lock over several weeks you will discover there |
are many layers to the dormancy in your laryngeal muscles As you gain the ability to contract |
and relax new portions of these muscles in addition to recovering your voice your neck will |
become straighter and your throat and jawline will become leaner |
When trigger points in dormant laryngeal muscles become active we feel choked up |
Most of us are familiar with the acute version of this sensation that accompanies crying but it |
can easily become a chronic problem The feeling of being strangled by the tension in my own |
throat was a daily occurrence After only a slight provocation my voice would waver as if had |
just been ina fight People around me could hear the strain in my voice and recognized it as an |
impairment and a clear indicator of uncertainty recovered slowly and with work through a |
gradual process of strengthening these strained weakened muscles |
You will find sections of muscles that ache intensely when contracted in a chin lock |
Stimulating them daily with contraction will reanimate the dormant muscle fibers clear up the |
trigger points increase circulation remove the achy feeling andeventuallymake this |
chakralike module steadfast and unfaltering Once this has been done it will be impossible for |
you to feel choked up |
Another technique to reach inaccessible dormant muscles is to swallow while holding a |
chin lock This will ensure that you are not unnecessarily engaging the swallowing muscles in a |
state of fear as many people do You have probably seen cartoons where the protagonist gulps |
after they are threatened by a bully Remove this tendency by using the exercise below |
Vocal Exercise Speaking and Swallowing Through a Chin Lock |
Bring your chin back to your Adams apple then toward your chest Visualize the tip of your |
chin reaching for your collar bones From that position flex the muscles in your throat as |
deeply as possible Search for sore muscles and contract them firmly for up to seconds to |
bring them to fatigue While you are holding this chin lock perform the following exercises |
To intensify the chin lock open your mouth wide Place your fingertips on your |
bottom teeth and pull your lower jaw down to flex your throat muscles more deeply |
Swallow while holding a chin lock This may be difficult or painful at first so do it |
gently and carefully |
Freeze your swallowing musculature halfway through the swallow action You may |
need to hold your breath This position will allow you to gently contract an array of |
laryngeal muscles |
Chew and swallow food maintaining a chin lock throughout an entire meal |
Speak or sing through the chin lock Does your voice sound foreign or strange At |
first it should sound deep and bold but muffled What you are hearing is your optimal |
vocal tone Your end goal should be to speak in this register all the time |
Chapter Release Vocal Tension |
a |
Illustration A Man performing chin lock B Man using fingers to accentuate chin lock C View of the muscles |
of the larynx from the back |
cannot emphasize enough that many of these exercises such as the chin lock and the |
isometric contraction of the diaphragm Exercise require months of explorative work but |
result in gradual progress that makes real and lasting changes to your quality of life It took me |
two years of practicing a couple of minutes a month but eventually used the chin lock to push |
into and break up the partially contracted lump in my throat Using the chin lock to reanimate |
dormant muscles in the larynx will instate your fullest most optimal voice and enable you to |
speak in deep rich tones |
Ujjayi Breath Fogging Up a Glass |
have spent numerous hours searching for an optimally relaxed throatvocal posture |
After trying countless configurations concluded that the ageold ujjayi breath pose is the |
best among them Ujjayi Sanskrit for one who is victorious breath is a common Taoist and |
yoga breathing technique which instructors usually describe as breathing while constricting |
the back of the throat This constriction is accomplished by complete relaxation and you can |
find the ujjayi posture by allowing your vocal cords to go completely limp Ujjayi breathing |
makes a hoarse throaty sound because when completely relaxed the vocal cords sit very close |
together and vibrate softly as air moves in and out |
When at rest the vocal cords should be separated by about eight millimeters of space |
During cardiovascular exercise that distance doubles to allow unimpeded breathing The space |
between your vocal cords also expands when you are under intense stress This response |
happens because your body assumes you are going to be breathing heavily For that reason |
a permanently widened vocal opening is a sign of chronic stress If you stop bracing those |
muscles though the opening will go back to its normal eight millimeters But how are we |
supposed to learn to relax a structure we cant see or feel Luckily the answer is easy |
Everyone knows how to do it To perform ujjayi breath simply breathe as if you were trying to |
fog up a glass |
PROGRAM PEACE Self Care Exercises to Reprogram Your Mind and Body |
Vocal Exercise Fogging Up a Glass |
Breathe as if you are trying to fog up a window or mirror Concentrate on relaxing your throat |
and the entire vocal apparatus Imagine all the tension in your voice box evaporating |
Even though you cannot fog up a glass by inhaling maintain this vocal posture even during |
the inhalation |
As long as your breath can fog up glass the deep soundproducing muscles should be |
completely relaxed You should find that after performing vocal exercise your fatigued |
vocal cords can be coaxed into this resting posture more readily This is because it is easier to |
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