Our Inner and Outer Selves If you will resolve to work each day for self-realization, your whole world can change…The two women you are, they can make you over. –Ponds Cold Cream Advertisement, Good Housekeeping, December 1947 A new voice student, a woman I’ve known for many years, yet hadn’t seen in about a decade, came to me recently for her first lesson. She had experienced increasing difficulty with her voice in recent years, to the point where she was unable to cheer for her beloved Ducks or be heard well in her own home. After learning the basics of the Transformational Voice® Cycle of Breath-Based Vocalization, she wrote and told me how empowering the lesson had been for her. Sue is a self-aware woman, and recognized she first began to lose her voice in her prior marriage of 27 years. I remember my teacher, Linda Brice, saying when I was in apprentice teacher training with the Transformational Voice Institute, that the voice is a double mirror. What did she mean by that? What’s within is reflected in the voice, and the voice reflects what’s going on within. Working with our voices raises consciousness. As the voice changes, the person changes, and as the person changes, their voice changes. Also, as teachers, we become mirrors by expecting our students to succeed. We become our own mirrors by expecting ourselves to succeed. “Many women feel in their hearts that they have missed full self-realization,” another advertisement for Pond’s Cold Cream in the March 1949 issue of Good Housekeeping advised readers. “Yet they need not accept this—help is within themselves. You can feel it within you—an inner drive for happiness. The close interrelation between this Inner You and this Outer You, the almost uncanny power of each to change the other—can change you from drabness to joyous self-fulfillment.” When I first discovered this “New Age” series of beauty advertisements from the late 1940’s, I was amused—and then grateful. For one of the most marvelous lessons you learn on a path of personal transformation is that when your heart is open to change, you’re able to recognize the personal signals of encouragement your authentic self is constantly sending, no matter how unlikely the source. –Sarah Ban Breathnach, Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy Authentically Yours, Laura
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