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ARTArticle“The Long and Winding Journey to the Light.”“The Long and Winding Journey to the Light.”
Self Improvement Article by Shirley Carton ©.January 31, 2010.
It is a long journey from a poor, uneducated insignificant beginning in life and through the long journey to the end. The trials, the difficult times, the negative circumstances, and the trying, testing, unseen situations, that come against us along the way.ARTArticle"What would you rather believe?""What would you rather believe?"
By Rosetta Black, Owner of Winning Changes
What if beliefs & memories weren't real but simply manifestations of the meaning we have given to a specific event or thing?
A good example might be food, for instance. When did you decide to like or dislike a certain food? I love pepperoni pizza. The first time I ate it, I was 12 at grand opening of our new drive-in movie. It tasted so good. I swear it was the best pizza I have ate to this day.ARTArticle***3 Steps for a More Mature-Sounding VoiceThe number of adult voices I hear which sound like teenagers, preteens, or younger still is astounding. Add the familiar Valley Girl sound to the picture and you have an image which does not project maturity. I am not talking about sounding old. I am talking about a voice which you would call ageless.ARTArticle***3 Things You Must Do to Improve the Sound of Your Speaking VoiceIf you are looking for answers when it comes to improving the sound of your speaking voice, there are 3 things you should seek in your training because there are sseveral different approaches. You will find articles, books, CDs, and DVDs all promising to improve your voice. Which approach is the best?
Many courses in voice offer various exercises for you to practice in order to change or eliminate the characteristics which you don’t like.ARTArticle***5 Rules for Reading a Speech and Not Sound Like You Are Reading ItTorture is sitting through a long-winded speech in which the presenter is staring at his/her notes on the lectern, focused entirely on reading to the audience. My feeling is that if you are going to read something to me – and I’m not attending a reading at the library or Barnes and Noble – then why not copy it, pass it out, and we can all go home or back to work. Better yet, email it to me!
Public speaking means communicating with your audience. It is a live venue, the sole purpose of which is to speak to a group of people.ARTArticle***5 Tips to Enhance Your Self-EsteemIn psychology, the term self-esteem is used to describe a person’s overall sense of self-worth and personal value. When you have high self-esteem, you feel really good about yourself, including being madly in love with who you are!
“Self-esteem is theinte
al experienceof one’s own preciousness.” ~ Pia MelodyARTArticle***5 Ways Your Voice May Be Sabotaging Your SuccessSome years ago, Barbara Walters interviewed Kathleen Turner, commenting on Turner’s “low, wonderful voice.” The actress responded that she could not understand how a woman could spend thousands of dollars on her clothing, hair, and makeup and not spend some of that money on her voice, as she imitated a whiny, nasal sound in the process.ARTArticle***A Monotone Voice Does Not Sell in Public Speaking or Anywhere Else for That Matter!Speaking in monotone is more than just a problem. It is boring. There is no other way to say it. The problem with a monotone delivery is that it puts your audience to sleep and it does so very quickly. If actors were to speak in monotone, television, movies and theaters would not be one of our greatest forms of entertainment. The other problem if you speak in a monotone is that it gives the wrong impression to your listeners. It says that you do not care because no emotion is being seen, heard, or felt.
I worked with a lovely woman by the name of Dawn.ARTArticle***Allowing Nervousness to Work for You in Public SpeakingDry mouth, sweaty palms, heart racing, wobbly knees, jittery hands, stomach in knots, quivering lips. How many of these symptoms are typical of you before you even walk to the podium? Hopefully, at least one!
Yes, I want you nervous because if you aren’t excited, agitated, stressed, or panicky in some fashion, then I am. The best at public speaking get nervous when standing on the podium and they are not alone.ARTArticle***An Effective Health Care System Requires New BeliefsOnce you understand the power that beliefs have to shape behavior and limit possibilities, you can begin to see why so many of society’s problems seem insoluble. Societal beliefs prevent change in society just like individual beliefs prevent change in individuals.
For example, if you have the belief Relationships don‘t work, your options are limited. You can avoid relationships altogether, not work very hard to make them work because you already know they won’t, not leave a bad relationship because you’ll never find a better one, and so on.ARTArticle***Are You Losing Your Voice BEFORE the End of the Sermon?A frequent problem that is coming to my attention is the number of ministers, rabbis, those in the clergy, who get in touch with me because of voice loss. For many of these people, they are sometimes losing their voice before the end of the sermon. Unfortunately, microphones are not the answer because in most of these cases, they are using an amplification system.
The problem lies in their internal amplification system. Because most people use their voice box, pharynx, mouth and nasal cavities as their primary amplifiers, they place tremendous wear and tear on their vocal folds and throat.ARTArticle***Are You Nasal, Denasal, or Possibly Both?While everyone recognizes a nasal voice in which excessive sound is traveling through the nose while speaking, many are unaware of the opposite extreme known as denasality. When you are congested or if you suffer from allergies, often the result is a voice in which little or no sound is able to be carried through the nasal passages because they are inflamed and swollen.
Recently I spoke to a young man named Jason whose voice exhibited both characteristics. In addition, the pitch of his voice was unusually high for a man.ARTArticle***Can We Manifest Specific Things in Reality? “Occurring” Part 3During the past couple of weeks several readers have asked me: “What’s so new about this ‘occurring’ distinction? Haven’t you been saying for years that our beliefs and conditionings determine our behavior and emotions?”
Yes and no. I have said that our specific behavior and emotions are caused primarily by our beliefs and conditionings. But how things occur for us is a different phenomenon.ARTArticle***Compassionate PowerOwning my own personal power can feel really comfortable at times and other times quite the opposite! I gently remind myself I owe it to myself and those around me to allow the beauty of loving, compassionate power to be exhibited in my daily life.
Here are some affirmations that assist me in claiming my power in a lovingly assertive manner:ARTArticle***Discover a Means to Improve Dyslexia That No One Knows AboutThrough my many years teaching voice improvement, I have made some startling discoveries regarding dyslexia, stuttering and even spasmodic dysphonia. Because my approach deals with learning how to breathe with the support of the diaphragm, my clients have benefited in ways unimaginable; and, this has become very apparent with those who are afflicted with dyslexia.
Part of the material I use in my training is from Edgar Allen Poe’s, The Fall of the House of Usher.ARTArticle***Do Not Ignore a Persistent Sore ThroatIf a persistent sore throat or chronic hoarseness is something you are experiencing, your 1st step is to find out the cause. If left unattended, it will likely get worse and possibly result in permanent damage to your speaking voice. What I am talking about is known as vocal abuse and it is becoming more and more common in today’s hectic and ‘loud’ world.ARTArticle***Do we need to create new beliefs?“The Lefkoe Method is very effective at eliminating negative beliefs.ARTArticle***Does Your High-Pitched Voice Do Justice to the Rest of Your Image?When someone looks at you, your visual image is obviously the first thing they see. And, that image has an impact on the other person – your attire, your figure, your face, your hair – everything that is presenting the picture of you. But what happens when you open your mouth to speak?
Have you ever considered whether your speaking voice does justice to the visual image you project? Or whether the content of what you are saying is being well-served by the sound of your speaking voice?ARTArticle***Does Your LOUD Voice Make Your Listeners Cringe?Have you ever had a telephone conversation and the person on the other end of the line was speaking too loudly? What is your first reaction? Probably, to move the phone away from your ear. Talking too loudly is just as ineffective as speaking too softly except for one primary difference: the loud voice physically hurts your listeners’ ears.
If there is a problem with volume, I have found that it generally tends to be with those who are soft-spoken. In that case, others will often move closer, straining to hear what you are saying.ARTArticle***Does Your Voice Complete Your Profressional Image or Detract from It?As a people, we are conce
ed about the image we project. Certainly in business we want to project a professional image. Does your speaking voice complete that image or does it detract? By the way, I’m not talking about the voice you hear in your head. I’m referring to the sound you hear on your voicemail – the sound by which everyone else recognizes you.ARTArticle***Don’t Ignore Vocal Abuse – It Won’t Go Away on Its Own!A surprising number of people suffer vocal abuse and are unaware that it is a problem which will not go away on its own. There are no drugs or medicines a doctor can prescribe that will end your suffering because the abuse is being caused by misplacement and/or overuse of your speaking voice. In the long run, what this means is that as long as you continue with the same vocal habits which created the abuse, it will not go away and it will probably get worse.
The symptoms of vocal abuse may be chronic hoarseness, persistent sore throats or even loss of voice by the end of the day.ARTArticle***Don’t Know What to Do with Hands in Public Speaking?A problem for many novice public speakers is what to do with their hands during a presentation. Standing at a lecte
giving a speech is the not the same as addressing an audience for 20, 30 or 40 minutes without benefit of a scripted text or lectern. The presentation is a different animal than the speech. Those who deliver presentations usually take advantage of the entire stage upon which they stand or the front of the classroom or the head of the boardroom table.ARTArticle***Don't Push Your Voice - Empower It!One of the difficulties people have with their speaking voice is that they have no control over it. They push hard from their throat and vocal cords to speak instead of allowing their sound to be powered by their chest cavity. And the difference between these two practices can be quite extreme.ARTArticle***Follow Your Own BeatThe other day I was in a setting that I was not familiar with and frankly felt a bit out of element. As I stood in this feeling, I gently reminded myself you are safe to be you. It sounds so silly to grown women but sometimes a gentle reminder to myself that I can be ME and allow myself to beat my own unique drum as I like the sound of my drum.
Here are some affirmations to support being true to who you are:ARTArticle***Free Neville Goddard Lesson - Prosperity ThinkingHey mate,
Maybe you've noticed it's the subtle things that matter most. Get the subtle things wrong and you end up far far away from where you wish you were going.
Today's article will help you get where you are going so you have Rock Solid Success. Let's dive in.
Maybe you've noticed....
Poor people tend to be obsessed. - Prosperous people tend to be absorbed.
Poor people tend to be painfully obsessed about money. They tend to obsess about getting what's owed to them. They tend to obsess about what they would do - how they would feel - if THEY had the money.ARTArticle***Get Your Elevator Speech Ready Today!Do you know how many opportunities are missed by not striking up a conversation with someone in an elevator for example? How about when you are waiting in line at a popular restaurant? Maybe you are sitting at the airport in preparation for your flight. Perhaps you are waiting for the doors to open at a football stadium or hockey arena. You could be one of thousands of people taking the subway in New York or the El in Chicago.ARTArticle***Greet Life with an Open HeartLearning to greet your life with an open heart makes life experiences a bit more vulnerable and emotional. Living life connected to how your heart feels about life choices brings a sense of inner peace with your life choices.
Here are some affirmations to support you as you open the heart chakra:ARTArticle***GuiltGuilt can come wrapped in all kinds of packaging. As I continue to grow in awareness of self, I realize the immense power this five letter word can have. No matter how this emotion shows up in my life experience, I recognize it, own it at that moment. I explore it to better understand it and accept and forgive myself.
Here are some affirmations to assist cultivating a healthier perspective as you process the feeling of guilt:
I am a genuinely good person filled with love and compassion for all things and life experiences.ARTArticle***Had Enough of Chronic Hoarseness or Persistent Sore Throats?Are you experiencing chronic hoarseness or a persistent sore throat and you are not sick? If so, it is called vocal abuse and it will not go away on its own. In fact, it will more than likely get worse. There are some who suffer with these symptoms to the point that they even lose their voice by the end of the day.
Vocal abuse is caused by misplacement of your voice. While that may sound strange, what is happening is that you are placing too much wear and tear on your vocal folds (cords).ARTArticle***Higher ConsciousnessA friend shared with me a wonderful thought pattern that I have incorporated into my thinking vocabulary, "There is no right, wrong, good or bad." I like this sentence because it forces me to interpret the situation, to the best of my ability, from a non judgmental space. I try to view life from a higher consciousness, notice I said try.