The Right and Healthy Modality of the Vocal Behaviour for Non-Singers.

Being in the music/voice business for close to four decades, I've met a lot of people with good voices, bad voices and also, so to speak, broken voices.  Some of them were singers, some of them had nothing to do with singing. Those who had nothing to do with singing, however, had a lot to do with a lot of speaking and sometimes forcing their voices and purely screaming, which was also quite often associating with their professions. We're talking about fitness instructors, martial arts instructors, teachers, lawyers, crown attorneys, public and motivational speakers to name a few.

Due to their occupational in a manner of speaking hazard, they're forcing their voices to serve others and one day, someday, their once precious voice seizes on them "unexpectedly and out of the blue", as they all think. Does it happen out of the blue in a real sense? Not really.

Some of them admit that they lost their voices before several times, but always to at least a reasonable degree, gained it back. Then it came the time that they pushed it the very last time and now their voice has been drawn so low that it's almost unrecoverable. At least it's not recoverable by their own efforts. That's where they begin to seek for professional help.

What kind of help you would think they're searching for? You would never guess. They're trying to perfect themselves, i.e. now they're doing yoga, staying upside down on their heads, eating raw fruits, exercising like mad, employing all alternative natural and homeopathic remedies and looking and feeling like a million bucks, except the voice is still not working. How so, you may ask?

This is my answer:

Let's imagine that the Mercedes I drive does not take me places anymore and stalls upon every time I'm turning the key on. Should I wash it, make it shine and work on its body to look good and prestige? Or should I rather look in its mechanics and define what exactly is not intact? Most probable issue would be with the mechanics defaulting in that wonderful, shiny Mercedes. And until I put all internal parts in that Mercedes intact, it will remain to be shining and beautiful, but will never bring me places.

Similarly, instead of or along with perfecting their physical bodies and all other organs associated with it, however not related to singing mechanics, these people should look a little closer to the cause of their voice loss and identify it accordingly.

The fact is that these people have been brutally misusing their voices throughout a prolonged period of time, not realizing that their vocal cords are not "made from steel", so to speak. Some of them finally clue in after feeling great and looking good, that there is perhaps something else they need to be doing to actually fix their voices. And now finally comes the time when we need to restructure their wounded voices to a different set of muscles (their facial muscles) and put them to work in conjunction and coordination with their abdominal muscles to minimize and practically eliminate the use of their throat, larynx and vocal cords. Once the pressure of the sound is removed from the vocal box, the whole vocal anatomy has to be treated with natural herbs and remedies and sometimes even homeopathic remedies, if needed. The voice health finally will be addressed and the whole modality of the proper "vocal behaviour" will be changed and employed.