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ne of the college classes I took while completing my degree in Theater was a group voice lesson. Most of us were experienced musically, but there were a couple of students who were considered non-singers because of their inability to—sing! When it was their turn, they stood next to the piano, moving their mouths, but all that anyone heard was the accompanying music.
“Sing badly!” the instructor told them, explaining how their fear of sounding bad, rendered them incapable of making any sound at all. The students took the suggestion and began to sing—badly of course, but at least they had a place to start.
Whenever I sit down to write I have to remind myself to “sing badly,” because only then will I find the story is that I’m supposed to be telling. When my perfectionism gets the best of me, I end up doing something other than writing and I am left with a feeling that my song—the one I sing well— is still inside me.
About a year ago I bought Summer McStravick’s book and CD called, Flow Dreaming. By practicing the guided visualizations, I hoped that I would manifest abundance, but even more importantly, a blissful, mind-stimulating career. I also wanted to improve the relationship I was having with a particular negative person. After about a month of daily practice, nothing in my life had had changed, in fact, my relationship with that negative person had only gotten worse!
One day, I had barely closed my eyes to begin my guided visualization, when a voice in my head said, “You’re stopping the flow—you’re not writing.” Within that fifteen second message it was very clear to me that when I wasn’t doing the activity that I loved, which was writing humor, I was getting in my own way—I was stopping the flow of abundance.
I wish that I could say that after that “divine insight” I became prolific, self actualized, successful, and rich, but I am still in the singing badly stage of my life and that is why I’ve created a new category called, “How to Sing Badly,” for those who—like me— seem to take two steps back for every one forward.
It’s interesting that I would pick a metaphor that represents one of the few things that I can do well—sing. I suppose I could call my site “doing math badly,” but then everyone would think my blog was about numbers—well, wrong numbers—and no one would want to read it. In my blogs I hardly ever even mention math. Instead I talk about other things that I do badly and I think that’s a good place to start.
Contact info: dawn@singingbadly.com
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my voice lessons were given to me by my aunt who also teaches some amateur pop singers to improve their voices .-`
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