Making Singing Easy — Part 1: Befriend Your Inner Voice

Singing with greater ease begins with how you feel inside. Join transformational voice coach Julie Blue to explore the connection between your inner voice and the voice you share with the world. Through deep body relaxation, practise shifting old inner messages toward encouragement and self-acceptance, creating space for your natural voice to express itself more freely. This is the first video.

Transcript

Hi, Welcome to Making Singing Easy. There's going to be three videos in this mini course. The first one about the inner voice. Now let's talk about the inner voice. The inner voice is that quiet voice that whispers in your ear, No, You can't do it. What are they going to think? I call this the inner critic. And you might think you're alone with the inner critic, But I tell you, After working with thousands of people, Some of them very high level musicians and singers, We all deal with that inner critic. Some of us just hide it a little bit better. I want to share with you some skillful hacks. For dealing with the inner critic. The first thing is identify what that voice is saying. Actually listen and go, Okay, I'm going to sing in front of people. Give me your best and listen to what that voice says to you. Listen to the quality of the voice and the words of that voice. Because once you, Once you take that on and call that voice out, What you can identify is that voice is not you. It's not the true, Beautiful essence of you. Usually it's there to protect you. And in the online course, Empower Your Voice, We're going to go right deep into how to move the critic out of the way for good and learn whatever lessons and teachings are there. For now, Because this is a mini course, We're going to do two things. The first thing we're going to do is we're going to say, Critic, Be gone. Now you've got to bring in some attitude. Remember, We're making singing easy. So get ready to play a little bit. Are you ready? Get your hands and your once you've listened to what that critic has to say, And join me in saying, Critic Out! Be gone, Beautiful. The next thing you can do with this critic is. . . You know, Once you've turned it up and you can hear what it's saying to you, Practice turning it down. Yes, You can turn the inner critic down. And when you turn that inner critic down, So I want you to envision a state-changing control panel in front of you, And you've got a couple knobs. One is the inner critic knob, And you're gonna turn it down. With some intent and determination. Give me some space to sing. And what you're going to turn up is the easy, Is the why sing so easy. And as you turn that up, I'm going to invite you to take a breath in through your nose, Into your belly, Feeling your belly expand. And let that go with a ah. The whole key is giving yourself enough space from the inner chatter that you can be present and embodied, That you can be what? Present and embodied. Once you are on the flow of the music and fully present in your body, That critic has turned down and you've got some space from any inner voice that tries to stop you. Now, A lot of people will start with you with a whole bunch of vocal technique and do this and do that. But what I know is if the inner voice doesn't get identified and dealt with, It comes up at you again and again. And this is no simple task. I'm not making light of this, But I am saying that we can shift the message of the inner voice. One of the things that I have in the online course, And this is exactly why I made it for you, Is I have audio blueprints, Which are deep hypnosis tracks, And go back and take you over your whole life to reclaim pieces of your voice you left behind, To reclaim those messages from whoever's said blah blah blah woof woof woof to you. And this is another really skillful tool. When you hear that on that voice, That inner voice, That critical voice, You're going to say to it, Blah, Blah, Woof, Woof. Turn it down. So these are a few hacks, And please know I've got more for you. Over the space of listening to one of the three audio blueprints for 21 days, I've had so many people tell me, I've changed the message of my inner voice. So know that there is help on the way for that. But in this moment, Let's just turn it down, Say critic be gone, Blah, Blah, Woof, Woof, Give ourselves some space to make some sound. Breathing in through your nose, Into your belly. Letting out a relaxing AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH That's it. And now let's bring ourselves into the body to prepare for the outer voice. What I'm going to show you now is the short version of what I call AVA, Authentic Voice Activation. And here's how we're going to start. Bring your attention to the bottom of your feet. That's it. Feel yourself grounded and anchored. That's the first thing you do. Anytime you're going to speak or to sing, You can tell as soon as you bring your attention to your feet, That these shoulders, That this goes, Ah, That's it. That's what I want you to do. Pull up everything, Pull it all up tight, Tight, Tight, And let it go with a, Ah, And notice when you're listening, Let it go, Your knees soften. Your hips release. That's it. And we come back one more time into the belly. As you breathe in through your nose, Feeling your belly expand. This time we're going to hiss it out for seven counts. Here we go. Beautiful. This is part of the series that you're going to learn. And once you learn them, AVA, Authentic Voice Activation, It becomes so automatic to be able to anchor yourself firmly into an embodied, Open, Present state. Now we're going to bring that energy up into your heart and take a moment and smile into your heart or send approval to yourself. Whatever those voices were from the past, They are not present now. I'm present with you right here. Yes, You can sing. Yes, You can let out your authentic embodied sound. And I want you to send in that support to yourself in through your heart, Bringing that up and letting your throat and your jaw release. The jaw is the big key for many, Many women. And what we're going to do with the jaw is we're going to open it up with an O sound. We're going to make this sound in through the nose, The belly. Now what you're going to notice is my knees are soft, My feet are grounded, I'm breathing in through the nose into the belly, And I'm making the exact O shape. Here we go. Oh. That's it. That's it. Let's keep going up and then we're going to come back to the jaw. Let's go up all the way to the top of the head. We're going to take four fingers on either side, Tap the top of your head and say these words, Bless the sound. Are you ready? Let's do it. Bless the sound. And what that means is. . . Since the inner critic is turned down, Whatever sounds you make, Bless them. Because I'll tell you, The key to making singing easy is to be able to relax enough into your body. Support yourself by breathing into your belly, Feeling it expand and create enough space in your jaw. And then out comes the sounds. Are you willing for your sound to be easy? Give me a big yes, I'm listening. All right, So let's go back to the O one more time. And how you can find the exact placement for O is imagine that you see something amazing. Oh my goodness, It's zebras walking across the road. And you're going to say, Oh, Just do that for me. Yes. Oh, And you can see how your lips are shaping a perfect. Oh, That's it. Let's do that sound together. Here's the pitch. Here we go one more time. OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH Beautiful. You've done it. You've got your first sound. You've turned down the inner critic. You know that there are tools to change the message of your inner voice to make singing easy. And we've gone, Begun the process of Ava authentic voice activation so you can be fully embodied and relaxed anytime you choose to. We've also opened up the space for you to make a beautiful, Oh, I'm Julie Blue. I'm here to make singing easy. I've got two more videos for you and I would say if you have a commitment level to expressing who you are in this lifetime, You've come for a reason, Then I will see you for the next video. Video. All right, Bye for now.