Mindful Anger can help us find our lower body power, stability and confidence.
Sometimes I encourage my singing students to “get angry” or “rage out” when learning to access their full voice. 🔥
Not because I want them to “be angry”, but because I can see they are holding back, hiding - I’m attempting to open the floodgates to their vast ocean of personal empowerment, creativity and imagination. 🌀
This takes skill and and a trusting relationship - and has to be phrased correctly. Sometimes a student shouting a hard palate “Hey” with a sumo stomp (my thing - engages the pelvic floor) is enough to wake up their full-body energy. 💥
Many of my singing students have found their inner superhero this way. They have directly accessed their personal vocal power, acting confidence and emotional resilience that was always there, underneath the “I’m-not-touching-my-anger” layer. Now they embrace it, transmogrify it into excitement and energy (which is all it was in the first place) and use it during their performances. 💪
It’s more funner this way. And they are healthier human beings for it. 🍾
So many avoid their POWER because it sub-consciously feels too close to anger. So they go limp... which feels safer. But then the anger festers because they KNOW something is missing... 🤨
I can see it often in those that aren’t using their lower body to live or perform. 😢
This avoidance strategy can go on for lifetimes without diagnosis unless they are in a good Performing Arts program, where you are forced to confront it... 😈
Find your Power. It’s time. There is room for you.