What These Three Great Men Have In Common

I’m happily sitting in my studio at home listening to the autumn rain. Having traveled and spoken at seminars for the past two weeks, I am enjoying some quiet time.

Last week I learned how the power of a voice can sway multitudes to action. Every day was graced by people who spoke from the stage with power and compassion.

I heard the great Olympic Gold Champion Dan Gable talk about overcoming incredible challenges with courage and conviction. His voice just crackled with electricity and laser-like focus. It stirred me to the core.

I laughed as another speaker, Bob Wall from ‘Enter the Dragon’ fame, brought me to tears with his humor and compassion. His voice imbued me with lightness and happiness.

I heard my mentor Matthew Furey guide hundreds of his students through powerful visual exercises. For six straight days, Matthew’s voice rose and fell - at times sounding like a gentle breeze, and other times resonating to a deep and strong call to action. Always glowing with fire and joy, this great man made me cry each and every day.

So I got to thinking about the effect a voice has on us every day. Especially our own.

Every time we talk, the sound of our voice reveals our gender, age, geographic background. But most importantly, our voices tell others about our emotional state as well as our relationship to the people or person we’re speaking to.

When someone you know phones you, you recognize them by their voice. But you can also tell how they’re feeling, what kind of person they are, and what they really mean – as opposed what they might be saying.

This ability to sense a person’s state of mind applies equally to friends or strangers.

Even the tiniest fragments of how you say things reveals subtle, or not so subtle clues about you. Your voice is like an open book.

So this can only mean that your voice is an extraordinary instrument.

Speaking isn’t just a string of words. It’s also the 1000s of ways those words can be said. How you say what you’re saying reveals intimate details about you. The way I see you - and the way I am seen by you—depends to a large degree on what I hear in your voice.

Just like posture. How you stand and walk shows others your emotional state, level of confidence, age and health.

Most people naturally gravitate towards voices that are imbued with passion, love and graciousness. A voice that sounds listless and dull isn’t what I would call attractive. Not only that, this kind of voice is unhealthy to listen to.

A calm and confident voice is a beautiful thing to hear.

Positively charged music has the same immediate effect on you. What you hear instantly affects your subconscious mind. This is why positive music allows you to access your innate sense of joy and calmness easily and naturally.

Order your personal 5 CD set of The Secret Power of Words and Music now. As you listen, pay attention to how your voice changes.

Warm Regards,
Tania Gabrielle

Your Plants Are Listening

Have you ever noticed that birds stop singing during summer – except at dawn or midnight.

Assuming you don’t live full-time in a city, that is. If you’ve gone on a hike or had a picnic in the woods or spent time in your back yard in the last few months, you wouldn’t have heard much birdsong. Unless you began hiking or picnicking at dawn.

Here’s why birds quiet down in the summer.

Sound vibration. Yes, when birds sing, they create a really specific symphony of sound, which promotes the growth of young leaves in trees, plants and flowers.

This sound environment is critical for your flowers and plants to grow. It’s why you hear a plethora of birdsong during the months of Spring. The time when all plants, trees and flowers, are still blossoming and growing. When seeds germinate and sprout.

Come summer leaves are fully grown. And birds mostly stop singing during the day. Mission accomplished.

Well, not quite.

Birds still sing at dawn and twilight during the summer. Because at night every living plant breathes IN carbon dioxide. In the morning, plants switch to breathing OUT pure oxygen.

Dawn and dusk are changeover periods. That’s when birds are needed to stimulate the plants with sound vibration. The sound becomes a cue.

Incredible how our little feathered friends let the grass, trees, plants and flowers know when to grow. They produce sound vibrations that elicit a chemical activity in plants, allowing them to follow nature’s cues.

Nature consists of a myriad of sounds and vibrations, even chords of music - including the birdsongs. Once again we see how sound has an immediate visceral and chemical effect.

Exactly like music affects us humans. We feel sound instantly too. Yesterday I treated myself to a Thai massage. Much needed, I must add. During the 90 minutes, the masseuse played a CD of some ethereal flute music. It calmed me down in seconds. What a blessing positive sound is. Without it, who knows where we would be right now.

More reason then to surround yourself with high frequency music and sounds. You thrive when placed in a good aural environment. Go and experience the power of positive words and music Now.

Warm Regards,
Tania Gabrielle