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Bringing Your Voice to Life
War or no war, all who align our lives with Life clearly need
daily practices for sustaining/restoring the voices of true democracy
and peace. Singing can help. The following excerpt from Divine
Daughters gives you several suggestions for how to begin bringing
your voice to life.
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Is there some word or phrase, descriptive of some quality of being,
that you are ready to more fully live?
Bring your voice to the longed-for qualities of Life you sense
becoming amplified in your being. If you feel something tickling
the back of your throat, it already has you; perhaps it’s
a chant.
What if your longing to live certain songs echoes a longing of
Life for your voice? What if Life calls you so strongly to sound
to help our entire species come 'round to restorative living?
Begin simply to bring what you hear to your lips. One note is
tone enough for many birds. Try walking down the street with a
friend, singing conversationally, adding an extended tone here,
a repetition here. Perhaps others will think your sung talk is
somebody’s radio, or be so accustomed to unhearing ambient
sound that they allow the two of you to pass uninterrupted, playful
moments in pedestrian sound.
Begin even more simply. Begin by extending one word in an otherwise
normal conversation.
Begin more simply still. Begin by being quiet and still, still
enough to feel your heart beating under your hand-skin touching
your own chest-skin. Begin as close as possible to being as naked
as the day before you were born; naked in all of your senses.
Quietly, curl up into a fetal position and feel the pulsing of
your cells. Notice if there are differences between pulses felt
in different spots on your body. Begin simply by touching your
heart with your hand and with a deeply felt humm.
Make it a hum you can feel clear down to your feet. Remember the
humming that comes with an insight. Remember the humming of being
well fed. Remember the humming of deeply loving another, of generosity
given or received.
Attend free, open-air concerts (live!) in mixed conifer forest
blown through by winds. Match your breathing to a young pine tree's
swaying. Then give the length of each out breath a tone. Begin
your tone with a humming that vibrates the bones of your face
and neck. Finding that tone will take pecking around a bit, trying
first one note and then one higher or lower. Do this in patience
and solitude, or with a trusted, also experimenting friend. But
stay with the tone that allows you to feel your breath's resonant,
full-bodied dimensions. Then hum that tone again and again.
What is the tone of beliefs and intentions to which you devote
your breath every day? What relationships exist between your body's
rhythms — pulsing of adrenaline, the tightening or opening
of your heart — and the thoughts cycling around and around
in your mind's ear? What are the chants of your lifetime?
Sing them.
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