The Importance of Vocal Freedom
There is a reason people have silenced others for so many years. Inherently we know how potent the voice is. Sure, we see how powerful it is to communicate with words. When a voice sings an emotional song, wow, it is moving BUT in our American culture, we seem to stop there. We tend to not use the voice to process emotions, move dense energy, or reboot our negative-filled subconscious.
True vocal freedom is to use the voice to heal and commune with your Source self. You can heal past wounds, shift vibrationally, and remember the being you truly are all through your voice. So yes, there is a big reason people silenced you – to keep you small and from remembering your greatness.
Vocal freedom is not something only priestesses, performers, or yogis get to have. If you are hearing the call to remember who you are, it’s available to you too. It is not religious, or woo woo, or new age. Your voice is a part of your physical, emotional, energetic, and spiritual body.
How many times have you heard that the appendix has no function in the body? Well, it does but the medical field does not recognize it. Same with the voice. The voice is a part of the body but its full role is not recognized. Today, I want to share about the power of voice and how it brings not only vocal freedom but also emotional freedom, energetic freedom, and spiritual freedom!
5 Ways Your Voice Offers you freedom
Vibrational Reality
Every cell, organ, thought, emotion, and memory has an energetic vibrational frequency. This is what makes up physical reality, yet vibration is not physical. Physical reality is an illusion, a very convincing illusion. The reason I tell you this is that it lays the foundation for how important the voice is. Everything you have lived has a vibration that comes through your voice. People receive all of you every time you speak, sing, or sound out your voice. Do you think inherently we feel that? Do you think that perhaps this may be one of the reasons people feel so vulnerable about sharing their voices?
But what do we have to hide? What is so vulnerable? Perhaps the shame and guilt that we have cultivated for not being enough for someone in our family. Maybe it’s the fear that we will be rejected and left alone to survive that plagues us unconsciously. These are very deep early wounds that come in before we are even verbal, yet they sit deep in our subconscious prohibiting us from getting to know the fuller version of ourselves. Many mental and emotional wounds keep us inhibited from true freedom of being lived and sung by the Source of ourselves.
The Healing Journey
Vocal freedom is a journey to your Source self through processing, integrating, and healing these energies. The journey is worth taking, yet it is not an overnight process. It takes consistent, repetitive, and committed voice and meditation practice to learn to align and sustain the true essence of you as Source.
Can you be tuned or activated into this?
Yes and no. There are ways to be attuned and activated by a seasoned practitioner who can share their vibration with you. Think of it like Chutes and Ladders. You may land on the space that takes you higher in vibration, but you have to do the work to move on. It’s like putting whipped cream and a cherry on a dirty garbage can. As inviting as it looks, eventually, the dirty can starts smelling. There is no way around it. Early childhood wounds and the negative subconscious require processing.
The five ways your voice can support you with this is:
- Vocal awareness
- Vocal empowerment
- Energy processing
- Integration
- Vibrational Alignment
What’s The Practice of Vocal Freedom
Vocal Awareness
I came to these 5 aspects of voice through decades and decades of singing, yoga practice, energy healing work, and metaphysical tools. My voice has been on the journey with me through all my shadow work. Back in my 20s, I realized after I practiced yoga, my voice would sound more open. It felt more free to sing. When I started to sing live in front of audiences I noticed that there was a sensation of being “sung” and I felt the sensation of flying. During every growth phase of my life, I noticed that my voice would shift and become more and more smooth, pure, and open. And when I had harder days my vocal tone shifted. I started to call this vocal awareness. My voice gave me an awareness of what was happening to me physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. I started to learn how to address each thing that came up either with vocal sounds, meditation, supplements, food, or movement.
Vocal Empowerment
When I noticed I felt small, not good enough or my thoughts started to sabotage my ability to speak up or sing out, this is when I worked on vocal empowerment. I would look at my habit thoughts and what triggered my subconscious negative programming from being activated. Singing Mantra is a wonderful tool for vocal empowerment, as well as meditation and vocal toning afterward.
Energy Processing
When I started to become aware of these sabotage energies, then I started to use the voice to do energy processing. The voice is analogous to an animal shaking off their tension or stress. Vocalizing neutralizes the nervous system and activates calming hormones. It also moves energy so the body and being come back to its natural resonance of wellness.
Integration
Integration is possible once awareness, empowerment, and processing happen. Integration happens when we talk to the parts of ourselves that tried so hard to help us survive. Those parts become settled, at ease, and integrated into the healthy adult self. The voice shifts into integration naturally after energy processing. Usually, the sound gets more pure. It is a fascinating process.
Vibrational Alignment
Once integration happens the voice is a potent tool for intentional alignment. Vibrational alignment means we consciously align to the vibrational frequency we desire. I like to align and sing with pure Source frequency, but it all is a choice. You may have heard people talk about light language or ET channeling with their voices. Your voice at this point opens to “being sung” and this teaches you how to “be lived.” All this can happen through your voice. This is vocal freedom. You can see as YOU become more free, your voice becomes more free, and vice versa.
Do You Have to Be a Singer to Start the Path of Vocal Freedom?
You do not have to be a singer to start this path, but it will give you the trust in yourself to use your voice as a singer or with any other path you choose. The path of vocal freedom is the path to personal freedom and eventually, the path to your Source Self. Personal freedom is usually called self-empowerment. Healing your triggers, traumas, and wounds, brings you to your healthy ego and natural personality. But there is more to you than that.
Once the personality is brought back to its natural state, then there is a beautiful journey to remembering the deeper space of your being -that of Source. Singing from this space of being is ego-free and the frequency of high vibration comes through. Stepping out of the way and letting voice be a path for pure Source consciousness to come through is delightful. Your voice can teach you how to live in that space as much as you desire. This has been my path with voice and a path I share with others through vocal energy healing sound baths and awakened voice training.
What’s next
There are a lot of voice teachers and sound healers out there these days. It is exciting that it is becoming so popular. The one thing I would caution you on is the “quick fix” approach. This is a path that can move more swiftly with a mentor but it is a personal discovery path not a “fix me instantly” weekend. You can take an online course or weekend workshop to get some tools but it is important to know that it is a long-haul journey. It is worth it and you will discover so many wonderful things about yourself, your potency, and your voice through the journey.
- Rebecca Abraxas, Singer, Certified Sound Therapist, Vibrational Wellness Consultant
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