The best voice coach through hypnosis

The voice is a revealing sound. Naturally, you say things that people interpret as meaningful, and you have a certain tone when you speak. However, that tone isn’t always what you want it to be. Tension and emotion can distort your voice, causing it to no longer sound like the voice you identify with.

For voice coaches, it won't be news that the emotion someone is having can be heard in the sound of their voice, but how can you deal with this as a voice coach?

What else can you do to get relaxation in the voice besides recommending Hmmmm exercises and the LaxVox? How do you help people who suffer from stuttering or neurological problems that prevent them from speaking properly?

In that case, you can also do a lot with just a few hypnosis exercises to help people relax their throat, neck, and shoulders, making their voice sound as natural as possible or helping them find the words they’re looking for more easily.

Hypnosis for Voice

You might think it’s a bit strange to talk about hypnosis for the voice right now, but hypnosis is nothing more than a (mental-emotional) state in which a person is relaxed and focused on the person giving suggestions. If, as a voice coach, you use hypnosis with your clients, they’ll focus more on you and the advice or suggestions you give them.

When someone is in hypnosis, they are still in control, but are more likely to take what you say, hypnotic suggestions, for truth.

In the case of coaching, this can be very helpful. In the process, the client - when in hypnosis - is better in touch with the subconscious mind, allowing hypnosis techniques to have a quick effect on beliefs.

If someone has limiting beliefs to use the voice properly, such as when someone suffers from globus symptoms, you can use hypnosis techniques to remove or change these limiting beliefs.

With some knowledge of hypnosis and hypnotic suggestions, you can already say something during normal conversations that helps your client release certain emotions or tension that affect the voice[1].

In addition, there are specific hypnosis techniques you can use to help people who have voice problems.

Visualizing Tension Away

For example, a guided visualization can help someone relax the neck again. This is a technique that can also be used for whiplash symptoms.

If people feel their neck is in knots, you can help them with a visualization to untangle the neck again.

Another way is to visualize clearing a blockage in the throat, such as when someone suffers a lot from an unexplained tickle in the throat. For example, by a cleansing light or something similar.

Pinpointing the cause of tension

Another technique frequently used in hypnotherapy is regression. Through regression, you help the client go back to the first time in their life when they experienced a particular feeling that is now causing problems.

This allows you to identify the belief that was formed at some point and is now the cause of the problem. You can then help the client “update” that memory with new information, thereby removing the limiting belief or transforming it into something that actually helps the client achieve a relaxed neck[2].

Emotion Anchoring

Sometimes, as a voice coach, you want a certain emotion to be evoked during certain situations, such as while giving a speech or while singing a song.

In that case, you can use regression to bring up that specific feeling and then help the client link this feeling to a certain small movement. This is also known as “anchoring .”

You then help people retrieve the feeling and then you have to be quick to get people to make a movement at the right time and to repeat it. So that during a performance or giving a speech, that movement triggers them to feel that emotion.

While giving a speech or performance, they can then use that small movement to ensure they feel the right emotion with a particular part of the music or speech.

Eliminate stage fright

In addition, you can be hired as a voice coach when someone first starts speaking somewhere. Like at an event, or even as a speech for a wedding. A person may then suffer from so-called stage fright. These kinds of fears can be easily eliminated with hypnosis[3].

For example, when it comes to Muscle Tension Dysphonia (MTD), also known as muscle tension dysphonia, a condition that affects the singing voice, hypnosis can certainly be used to remove that muscle tension.

With hypnosis, you then remove the underlying problem[4].

Hypnosis for neurological problems

Hypnosis can also be used for neurological problems that require people to relearn how to talk, for example. A study of voice coaches who had been trained in hypnosis found that they used hypnosis techniques most often with people with neurological problems and in making speaking more fluent.

At that time, hypnosis was primarily used to help clients relax and to improve their self-confidence[5].

One reason hypnosis can help with neurological problems is because hypnosis helps create new connections in the brain. In fact, hypnosis can be used to strengthen the connection between the body and the brain, nerve signals and other physical processes can be influenced by hypnosis[6].

Motor control can be improved with hypnosis[7]. Ideal for people who have lost control due to an accident or stroke and need to regain it.

Hypnosis for stuttering

For stuttering , you can do many exercises and you can also combine them with hypnosis. For example, research shows that combining hypnosis with diaphragmatic exercises, for more control of the diaphragm, helps reduce stuttering.

In the study, participants had to work with weights and do certain speech exercises while lifting weights. They also had to do the exercises at home without the instructor.

In the study, hypnosis was used to improve self-confidence and motivation to perform exercises properly and to work on them at home. There was a group with hypnotic support and a group without. The group with hypnotic support had the best progress in terms of reducing stuttering[8].

In addition, hypnosis can be used to strengthen the ego and reduce anxiety in people who stutter. Anchoring can also be used to evoke a calm emotion during stressful situations, and there are other subtle self-hypnosis techniques that people can use during times of stress to prevent them from reverting to stuttering behavior[9].

Post-hypnotic suggestions for the voice

In addition to techniques that are effective during hypnosis, you can also give post-hypnotic suggestions. These are suggestions that continue to work in the subconscious even after hypnosis.

For example, you can suggest that people start to notice that they are much more relaxed in their voices. Have a more normal voice volume and talk or sing more relaxed.

This ensures that they retain the effects of the therapy well after hypnotherapy.

You can also give them homework, just like the voice exercises or homework to get started with the LaxVox. For example, you can then give them the guided visualization for relaxing the neck as homework, so that that relaxation remains good throughout the day and so that one feels normal while they are blowing bubbles with the LaxVox.

Hypnosis is for all ages

In addition, hypnosis can be used with people of all ages. Children can also be helped with hypnosis, though it must be adapted to the child’s level. With children, hypnosis is actually easier because they are naturally closer to the hypnotic state—or, if they are very young, are essentially always in that state.

Hypnosis for the voice coach

Whether you are a voice coach for giving presentations, singing, or helping with problems - such as stuttering or neurological problems with speech - knowledge of hypnosis is an incredibly valuable addition to your knowledge to help people be even better with their voice.

Would you like to learn more about how knowledge of hypnosis can benefit you as a voice coach? Then join us for the free online masterclass.

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