- Paperback: 144 pages
- Publisher: Voice Confidence (27 Mar 2009)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0955980518
- ISBN-13: 978-0955980510
- Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 15.2 x 0.9 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,949,967 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A growing body of evidence seems to indicate that singing, chanting and gentle vocal toning can be excellent for improving your voice, for racking up your joy quota, improving your general health and wellbeing, reducing your stress levels, and for helping to develop soaring self confidence. Would you like to tone up your voice? Begin to use it with more confidence? Enjoy the relaxing, stress-busting effects that singing, toning and chanting can have? Enhance your sense of inner peace and well being through mindful song and chant? Simply sing your heart out, no matter what anyone else thinks about it? Easy to read and packed full of simple ideas, tips and exercises, let this little book help you begin to tone up that most natural of communication tools and musical instruments and start to enjoy just what YOUR VOICE can do for you!
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Well, what a read. This is a truly useful book, on more than one level. The most obvious reason why someone might want to read it is to improve the quality of their singing voice: the author is an experienced singer and teacher, and her commitment and talent for teaching shows through in the book. The reader is guided step by step, through very simple instructions, to overcome any self-doubts and anxieties about singing, reverse everyday habits that get in the way of our best vocal expression, and exercise our voice. It does work. But this is just skimming the surface.
The author's interests are not just utilitarian ones: as she stresses repeatedly in the book, singing is one of the many ways to wellbeing. It is one of the species-specific traits that make us what we are, and not surprisingly appear very natural in young children, before competitiveness and the fear of judgement take over, and stump its development. In this book, we are shown (with evidence to back it all up) how singing improves our quality of life, at all ages, on a physical, mental and spiritual level.
Singing, chanting and toning can also be used as relaxing tools, and/or a form of meditation. We all know this, but once again, the author's talent for teaching means that we are led to discover these "side benefits" naturally as we follow her simple instructions. Her language is clear, the organisation perfect, and nothing is taken for granted. Her humorous style too makes the book a pleasure to read!
Trixi Field's holistic view of the healing power of vocal expression encompasses the physical sphere as well - for example, the quality of our singing fundamentally depends on our posture and way of breathing. Healing and wellbeing, guided by this precious little book, take place across the board.
This is a very good book to get practising on one's own, as everything is clearly explained, and its diary form, with questions and space for notes, encourages the reader to be aware and in control of the process they are going through. However, if you wish to take it further, the author also runs seminars and workshops across Britain, and information about these can be found on her website.
This is one of the most gentle and joyful ways I've come across to boost my well-being and self-confidence - and have fun in the process! Highly recommended to anyone.
The author's interests are not just utilitarian ones: as she stresses repeatedly in the book, singing is one of the many ways to wellbeing. It is one of the species-specific traits that make us what we are, and not surprisingly appear very natural in young children, before competitiveness and the fear of judgement take over, and stump its development. In this book, we are shown (with evidence to back it all up) how singing improves our quality of life, at all ages, on a physical, mental and spiritual level.
Singing, chanting and toning can also be used as relaxing tools, and/or a form of meditation. We all know this, but once again, the author's talent for teaching means that we are led to discover these "side benefits" naturally as we follow her simple instructions. Her language is clear, the organisation perfect, and nothing is taken for granted. Her humorous style too makes the book a pleasure to read!
Trixi Field's holistic view of the healing power of vocal expression encompasses the physical sphere as well - for example, the quality of our singing fundamentally depends on our posture and way of breathing. Healing and wellbeing, guided by this precious little book, take place across the board.
This is a very good book to get practising on one's own, as everything is clearly explained, and its diary form, with questions and space for notes, encourages the reader to be aware and in control of the process they are going through. However, if you wish to take it further, the author also runs seminars and workshops across Britain, and information about these can be found on her website.
This is one of the most gentle and joyful ways I've come across to boost my well-being and self-confidence - and have fun in the process! Highly recommended to anyone.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
I am a tutor from the College of Sound Healing and this book is an absolute gem. I recommend all my students go out and buy it as it gives sound practical advice and encouragement to both beginners and advanced students who want to use their voice for the healing of themselves and others. Lovely.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Trixi Field's book is an inspiration for would-be singers and even for those already singing. How often do people say they'd love to sing but have been humiliated at school by music teachers or "know" they are hopeless and would be so embarrassed to sing except in the shower? Although I've been in a choir for ten years, I learnt so much from this little book. I already knew that singing raises the endorphin level, makes you feel great, improves your breathing and gives you a glowing complexion. I didn't know that it's good for people with breathing difficulties such as asthma, nor had I understood why we sound different to ourselves on tape, and it never occurred to me that it would improve bad posture or that the facial workout can keep the face looking younger. There's a wealth of practical advice and exercises, and even experienced singers should be able to improve their technique and voices by following the many tips. For those still afraid to join a choir, they can in any event practise the singing, chanting and toning described in this incredibly helpful book. It is to be hoped that they will then build up the confidence to "go public" before too long and discover the thrill of singing in front of an audience. I am sure that many of us who have, despite minimal confidence, plucked up our courage to join a choir and did indeed flourish, are evangelical in our desire to `spread the word' and get more people singing! Trixi Field's charming book, full of humour, encouragement and commonsense, should be compulsory reading for all those afraid to sing.
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