Comments on: How Lack of Confidence Affects Work http://marylutz.com/2010/02/how-lack-of-confidence-affects-work/ Family, Faith, Love, Life Wed, 10 Aug 2011 04:42:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Shannon Rae http://marylutz.com/2010/02/how-lack-of-confidence-affects-work/comment-page-1/#comment-1696 Shannon Rae Wed, 03 Feb 2010 03:07:57 +0000 http://marylutz.com/?p=928#comment-1696 Dear Cousin, I can relate to this topic. Even though I have spent many years studying voice (in actor training we call it Voice Production) much can be said for getting in our own way when it comes to speaking with our authentic voice. On the technical side yes, like a singer you can train and improve your instrument, you build and develop muscles, tone sound, improve the quality and quantity of breath that supports the voice and you will hear and feel improvement in your speaking voice. I feel an even greater hurdle to overcome is the psychology behind the voice- the vulnerability some feel and the fear of what being said will not be good enough, or right. As I contend with my own struggles with self confidence I find relief, direction and focus when I simply ask for guidance, when I admit I am not running this show or writing this script- I am a vessel. I remember reading in one of my voice-for-the-actor books, an interview with a women who was a blues singer, she had gone through a period of time of great fear of performing, was not able to do it, and when asked how she got past this she responded: "God doesn't mind a bum note." Ah yes we are human. What a relief. Thanks for the thoughts. :) Dear Cousin, I can relate to this topic. Even though I have spent many years studying voice (in actor training we call it Voice Production) much can be said for getting in our own way when it comes to speaking with our authentic voice. On the technical side yes, like a singer you can train and improve your instrument, you build and develop muscles, tone sound, improve the quality and quantity of breath that supports the voice and you will hear and feel improvement in your speaking voice.
I feel an even greater hurdle to overcome is the psychology behind the voice- the vulnerability some feel and the fear of what being said will not be good enough, or right.
As I contend with my own struggles with self confidence I find relief, direction and focus when I simply ask for guidance, when I admit I am not running this show or writing this script- I am a vessel.
I remember reading in one of my voice-for-the-actor books, an interview with a women who was a blues singer, she had gone through a period of time of great fear of performing, was not able to do it, and when asked how she got past this she responded: “God doesn’t mind a bum note.”

Ah yes we are human. What a relief.

Thanks for the thoughts. :)

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