Your new journey

At the moment I am writing these lines a fine rain falls on the other side of the window. I make a break in my present moment and I remember how all this time has passed since I started in the world of professional singing and the evolution that has taken place in my life. The study of the song began and it was proceeding according to the classic teaching canons, a teacher who is guiding you and telling you what you have to "do" so that your voice is projected in a way that is considered natural. I went through several professors and in each one of them the pattern of evolution was similar, appearance of progress at the beginning and appearance of backsliding or stagnation as time passed.

As the years went by, the feeling of failure at the professional level reached such an extreme that there was a day when I asked myself: "It is not possible that life be a continuous suffering, an unstoppable succession of obstacles ... It does not make sense, I do not believe it, If the events that happen to you in life depend on your thinking, on your level of beliefs, what I will be doing wrong, it seems that everything is an accumulation of obstacles without end. " After this question I began a journey towards the search for what was happening. Books, videos, lectures, talks, etc. were appearing and they fulfilled their work of opening my mind to new perspectives of seeing life, with everything that occurs around it. And finally came to my hands A course in miracles (ACIM). 

ACIM teaches us several things, many things, but in relation to the voice I think we have to bear in mind a fundamental thing: we are part of a whole, which is in relation to everything that exists, everything that is, that we are one in our being although different in its expression. I'm going to try to explain this a bit: 

We can not separate the voice, the body, from our mind. There is a basic error in traditional teaching, derived from the collective belief, that we can treat the voice independently of our being and our mind. Curiously some 5,000 years ago (about 3,200 BC) the human being already realized that the basis of human evolution and growth was based on the balance of three basic pillars: mind, body and spirit. It was the so-called triskele that has come to us through the Celtic culture. Well, interestingly, to say this today seems to sound "modern", as esoteric or as not credible or acceptable to most humans. Either it is known but it is not accepted because it is far from the preponderant canons of thought. Why deny that we are not only a body, why not unite the capacities of the mind with those of the body, why not attend to our being and find who we really are. Only then we can begin to understand a little how things work, what we're doing here. 

The thinking about we are only a body who acts independently andt is capable of everything by itself, means that we're limiting our possibilities. Precisely what ACIM says is that the body by itself is NOTHING, it is not capable of anything by itself, it is a mass, of matter, of atoms that are moved by an external and at the same time internal will, that is to say , our mind and our being. The body does not get sick if our mind does not get sick. The body is a faithful reflection of what our mind is, it is a witness of our thoughts, of our beliefs. There is nothing alien to this that can permanently alter it. Do not start a diet of thinning if in your thoughts there are still thoughts of lack, of keeping, of preserving, of not pulling, of holding on to both material things and thoughts, because the body what it does is precisely reflect those beliefs, stores fat like someone who stores objects in a storage room, because in the mind there is a constant thought of lack, of fear of not having. How many slimming diets are not durable or are based on a slave-style eating, putting food on the "throne of our salvation" instead of our own mind.

How to translate that to the voice? We can not exclude in the singing teaching the mental part, the thought and the beliefs, and the spiritual part. With the spiritual part I do not mean that we have to be part of any religious, philosophical, esoteric or cultural group, but to be aware that we are an active part of this world, of nature, and that we act in relation to everything, that we are all part of the same. Nature provides us with everything we need to live and develop, because we are the expression of itself, of everything, of unity. Today there are many resources at hand, via books, internet, etc. to begin to open the mind and start thinking about who we really are, without fear of change, without fear of a different vision, without fear of losing the idea we had of ourselves, of our environment. You have to let go the old and embrace the new. All the answers are within you, it is an individual path but you will not perform alone. If you ask for help, it will be given to you. And because of that aspect of individuality I can not explain what steps you have to take, like "3 classes of assured success" that many books pray. Ask, ask and start listening to the answers. You will not receive them in a direct way, but through your daily experiences, your intuition, through the voices of the people around you, through the sudden restlessness for the search of certain topics, through the "casual" appearance of books, videos, etc. that will cross your life and that you should not disdain, because those are the answers you need to hear and that will be part of your new journey.