Occupational
Hazards: Dealing with Everyday Bad Voice
Habits
Written by Diana Yampolsky
I work with people
from a wide variety of professions and walks
of life, but I do find myself working with
specific groups of people more often than
others: Lawyers, Teachers, Admin Assistants,
Salespeople, Public Speakers, Professional
Voiceover Artists, Radio & TV Personalities
and Singers. Due to their chosen
professions, they often ruin their voices
because they have no knowledge of any sort
with respect to use their voices properly or
how to preserve their voices.
The majority of
time these people are speaking a lot and
never lifting their voices off of their
vocal boxes and giving them a rest. On the
contrary, they are pulling and pushing their
vocal chords, squeezing and twisting their
larynx and, moreover, engaging the muscles
in their necks and chest cavities while
using their voices -- even sometimes
developing muscle tension and fibromyalgia
on top of their vocal problems. In my
amazing discovery of over 34 years of
practice, I have created a methodology by
which you can actually save and protect your
vocal chords and practically your entire
vocal box by lifting the voice off of the
vocal chords into the facial muscles, which
function as a natural amplifier/resonator,
and putting them to use in full conjunction
and coordination with the abdominal muscles,
thus, minimizing and practically eliminating
the use the larynx, vocal chords, etc.
But since people
are not aware of what could happen to them
if they continue to use and abuse their
voices, the damage will come as a surprise
and they will become hoarse and raspy and
won't even know why. Often, these people
will need to clear their throats at any
given time, thus, causing more irritation
and dryness inside of their vocal box. All
of that can lead to nodules, nodes and
polyps, as well as even spasmodic dysphonia.
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