
Honing Your Awareness Part 1: What is Awareness?
In this series I will be talking about what it means to have awareness and be helping you with practical ways to hone it. What does it mean to be more aware? "You need to gain more awareness." This is said so often, but often the process of going about it are blurry and the results sometimes felt and other times not so much. Let's focus on gaining awareness of your body for today. To be more aware is to have what is happening come to your attention and perception. E.g. when w

Impatience
Impatience, a state of wanting to get to the next moment in time/stage immediately or as soon as possible. Recently, a friend of mine talked about impatience being the reason why singers get injured. Competence in using your voice and your body to produce the sounds you wish to takes many hours of quality practice to achieve (as with any skill). Many singers rush through that process, wanting to get to the "end" (a voice they wish to get, a song they want to perform etc.) and