This quote of Plato has been in my daily schedule book for years. This is my personal story how music helped me heal my soul. Music is a powerful therapy.- Music heals your mind & soul. Every family has bright side and also dark side as every human being. When I was a young child, my father lived abroad for years and came home regularly to visit. When my mother was a young girl, she was severely abused physically emotionally and mentally by her step mother. Unfortunately she abused her daughters(me & my sisters) as her step mother did to her. Being raised by a mother who beat & abused her children physically verbally emotionally pushed me over the edge...
(Photo by WikiJournal of Medicine/Medical gallery of Blausen Medical 2014) There are many benefits of breathing using a diaphragm that is also called belly breathing, abdominal breathing. Diaphragm is a big flat muscle which separates chest cavity and abdomen and it moves up and down pushing the air out especially as you sing or meditate or answer the call of nature. By breathing with using the diaphragm and focusing on the abdomen can improve your health and prevent illnesses free of cost. You just need to relearn how to breathe using the diaphragm. We are all born with the capacity of deep diaphragmatic breathing if you were a healthy child, but as we get older because of stress, pollution, smoking,...
There are several ways to maintain your voice in great condition and breathing using the diaphragm is one of them. Learn to breathe using your diaphragm. Breathing using the thoracic diaphragm is one of the ways to greatly improve your voice because it cleans your blood by getting more oxygen and removing the carbon dioxide in the alveoli of the lungs which is called as gas exchange. There are numerous side effects of shallow chest breathing, also called as clavicular breathing, lobar breathing. With shallow chest breathing you won’t be able to hold your breath long as with diaphragmatic breathing. With chest breathing your shoulders go up, chest becomes larger and tenser. The neck and the head also get stiffer...
Without the proper diaphragmatic breathing(belly breathing, abdominal breathing or deep breathing) your voice can sound unnatural, tense, forced & weak. The correct diaphragmatic breathing makes your voice more relaxed, more natural, more powerful and richer with more control in phrasing, which means that you will be able to hold your breath longer. Here are the 3 steps that are involved in creating your voice. 1. Breathing in (Respiration) With The Diaphragmatic Breathing -> 2. Voicing (Phonation) -> 3. Vibration (Resonance) And let's learn the 1st step, Respiration (Breathing in) with The Diaphragmatic Breathing in this blog~! [1] Breathing in: Respiration with the Diaphragmatic Breathing ; Your lungs store and filter air by exchanging gas between oxygen that is...
