Vitality of Voice (2)
June 20, 2010
This is what David Hasselhoff said of singer Kevin Skinner*, a contestant of ‘America’s Got Talent’ competition.
“There’s no reason to move your lips unless you tell a story. Everybody was moved because he was telling a story, and you could tell it was coming from his heart, and it touched everybody.
I don’t know what he did at the end of that song but it went right through me.”
That’s how I feel about our use of voice.
Why waste our breath, except to summon the most brilliant and moving feelings to come from the core of our being? – and to cause this response from those who listen to us.
Why speak, unless we wish to sense golden notes dancing in the air?
Why have a voice, unless it’s to explore and express the music that we hear through every part of us?
As I scribble these thoughts, I strive to understand more of what really happens when we tell a story.
Magic happens. I slip into the moment of connection and feel strong and powerful, unaware of thoughts, but aware of movement. I listen to that which has no language for my ears to decipher but yet I am able to discern the subtleties of the energy. It waits for me and I am ready to begin.
It seems to me that I’m not trying to do something. Rather I’m growing an awareness of what’s possible. An awareness of what is in me right now. An awareness of communing with more of life, simply from the intention of communing.
People talk about coming from the heart, yet this connection (of communing with life) takes place at an undefined space that has an undetermined dimensionality. In fact, through my experiences of singing, the richness of sound that can be produced depends on how relaxed you can be about giving yourself totally to the singing experience. So the whole of you is engaged.
The first notes come … announcing a story that ripples the field of consciousness, engaging the sensitivity of those who also know how to commune. And for those who hear the musical notes directly, they will also be touched by the power of the emotion of their own stories.
* America’s Got Talent 2009 competition winner – http://www.mahalo.com/kevin-skinner
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