Time Travel and Telekinesis: The Wonder of Your Voice

"Stay curious about what you are seeing and sensing," Catherine Fitzmaurice

Listening takes time. Not just the time you take to hear, but also - sound has a temporal nature -- it has to travel and refract so that you can receive and process it. Time is an essential component in the process of voiced communication.

This is, of course, at odds with the very human desire to get to the point. To get to the next thing. To keep moving.

We are all, of course, very busy these days. Busy trying to do all the things, while we ignore lots of the things, and try not to feel so many things. Listening can slow this down quite a bit because listening requires time. And time, creates the space for curiosity.

There is a lot written and said about speaking, a portion of which is available on this very blog. But as we consume possible solutions to our doubts and desires around speaking we sometimes miss an essential point. This curiosity - which we humans excel at when we allow ourselves the luxury.

Curiosity asks that we wonder why our breath works one way in this circumstance and another in that. It questions why you are feeling anxiety in this moment, rather than just observing (and potentially feeding) the sensation. It wonders about how the sound we are producing returns to our ear, and interacts with the ears before us. All of it, time travel. All of it telekinesis, as we move air particles with our will for specific ends.

It's a wonder really. And an invitation to play with concepts, to explore the senses in real space/time, to see/feel/hear the humanity in the room in which we are trying to seed our ideas.

Voiced communication is not a dry necessity for human functioning. It is instead the most glorious transportation for the way we want to enter the room and be in the world. That's the science of it, though I'll spare you the deeper dive, for now.

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Catherine's recent book about Fitzmaurice Voicework, is available now on amazon.com or wherever you prefer to acquire books.

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Gina Razón is a recovering opera singer, functional voice coach, keynote speaker, and founder of GROW Voice, a Boston-based voice and communication practice. She is recognized for being the calm voice of clarity as she helps others connect the intention behind their ideas with their desired goals. She speaks on the power of speaking and leading from a center of neurophysiological embodiment. Gina holds a BM from the University of Colorado, Boulder and an MM from the University of Denver both in Voice Performance.  She is an Appreciative Inquiry facilitator, an associate teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework and trained in Somatic Voicework. She has served as the voice coach for TEDxNewEngland, and speaks at national and local events on the power of embodied voice. Gina is a member of the The Voice Foundation, the Voice and Speech Trainers Association, the National Speakers Association, and the Center for Appreciative Inquiry. 

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For Gina’s TEDxCambridge talk click here.

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