Wired for Singing Video 1

Thoughts and Beliefs How They Can Negatively Affect Our Singing...Without Our Knowing! Hi, this is Michael Goodrich creator of the Wired For Singing Program. This is a program that is completely based on the latest neuroscience and brain research. Now, this is a four-part mini-course that means four videos. This is part 1 of video number 1. In this course I am going to show you how to identify any limiting beliefs that you may have about yourself as a singer or about your voice. I will show you how to change those beliefs into supportive ones that support your vision and propel you forward into the success that you deserve. Did you know that you have a vocal thermostat? And depending on where thats set, that is pretty much going to determine the success that you have with your voice and how far you will be able to take your voice and your singing. I will show you what that is and how to identity where it is set and how to recalibrate it high, so you can reach all the heights of your vocal potential. Now through a process I have developed called Focalization with an F, I am going to show you techniques that can dramatically accelerate your singing progress without actually singing any more than you currently do. And finally, I am going to teach you how to become your own favorite singer and not from a place of ego but from an authentic place where your really singing from your true nature, your true self, your own unique you will shine through. As I said, this is video 1 of a four-part series. There will be two parts to this video. The second part to video 1 should be just below this. I think thats where it is going to be. So as soon as you finish watching video 1, click on video 2 and watch that one. Video 2, meaning part 2 of video 1. I know it gets confusing. So this is video number 1. In video number 1, we are going to talk about thoughts and beliefs. What they are, how they are formed, and how they affect us in a very negative way, often times, and what we can do to change them? So lets get started. Are thoughts and beliefs same thing? Well, not really. The thought is just an idea that goes across the screen of your mind. How it becomes a belief is to become fortified with repetition and emotion, because belief is nothing but two neurons in the brain that fire together and then they create a circuitry. As they say neurons that fire together wire together. 1

So lets take a thought just for example, like lets say you have a thought like, I just dont like my voice, I dont like the sound of my voice something like that. You may not have that thought but for the sake of this discussion lets say thats the thought that you have. I just dont like my voice. So if that thought just goes across the screen of your mind and you are paying no attention to it or you even meet it with, oh! it is just my thought and of course I love my voice and you really dont take it seriously, then it doesnt take route. The neurons are not really firing and fortifying and becoming a strong belief. But if that is something that is charged with emotion and you really feel that oh! God I just cant stand my voice. You hear it back on a recording, or youre singing and its not going the way you want and you are really feeling ah! I just dont like my voice you really feel that and thats repeated over and over and over again, then those neurons through that emotion and repetition will fire together and they begin to create a wiring or a circuitry that begins to create a belief. The more often that is done, what happens is that begins to sink down into our non-conscious brain and when that happens thats when it starts to effect our behavior and our results on a level below our conscious awareness, and thats why this is so important to know. Lets see how that might affect us. Let us take for example that we have this belief and its filed away in the non-conscious brain. So how might this affect us? Lets just take this for the sake of the argument that you believe that and you get a call one day from a friend or somebody that can really benefit you and your singing career and lets say it is a great opportunity to do a singing gig, and keep in mind now you have this belief, I cant stand the sound of my voice, I just dont like my voice. So what might happen in that circumstance? You get the call, the offer sounds like a great opportunity but all of a sudden that belief kicks in below the level of your conscious awareness and what happens? Because that belief starts running the show just like a computer program that you dont know is in your computer, you know, an interfering program all of a sudden you start responding in ways that are being influenced by that belief, by that programming, and what happens is you begin to rationalize why you really shouldnt take this job. And what is rationalizing? Rationalizing, is you begin to tell yourself rational lies as to why staying in your own comfort zone and not stepping out and doing this gig, that could really benefit you, is really better. These rationalizations, or these rational lies that we tell ourselves keep us struck in our current non-conscious or unconscious beliefs that are really running the show. So then what happens? Your behavior is affected by that belief because you dont take the job and your results are affected by that belief because all the great magnificent things that could have come and unfolded as a result of you taking that job, which by the way you are fully capable of doing, I have to mention that you have to know that you are fully capable of doing this job, thats why it was offered to you, you could

have been magnificent and all kind of things could have unfolded for you, but because of the belief operating below the level of your conscious awareness you were programmed to go in a different direction. So that belief influenced your behavior, which then influenced your results and you didnt get all those wonderful benefits that you could have gotten. Thats how this works. So you have got some more work to do thats going to be covered in part 2 of this first video. So you have a workbook to download. Go ahead, download the workbook and then go to part 2 of this video and we are going to go over your home work and what you can do to begin to identify and change these limiting beliefs that you may have, and it is so funny because so many of us have these and often we dont even know we have them. But Im going to show you how to get a little bit in touch with that. So thanks for watching part 1 of video number 1 and now and go and watch part 2 and dont forget to download the workbook. I will see you in just a minute. ________________________ Video 1 Part 2 Welcome to part 2 of video number 1. Did you download the workbook? Okay, good so you are ready to go. The first thing I want you to do is become aware of your thoughts. Youll come to notice what you are thinking with regards to your voice. Do you have any negative thoughts? This is the technique called mindfulness. So I just want you to begin to watch your thoughts. It is very important that you watch those thoughts without judgment. Just with curiosity like a scientist would watch thoughts. Lets say you have thought like thought like, I just dont like my own voice and lets say you begin to go into that process. Now at first when we have the thought and a belief now that is operating below our level of conscious awareness and we go into that we have to admit sometimes were just in it, sometimes we are like ah! I cant stand my voice or Why is that always happening with my voice whatever, we are just kind of in it, its like a program thats running and we really dont to feel any awareness that there is a choice to feel any other way or to believe another way. But as you become mindful and you start watching your thought process, a really interesting thing happens, it is sort of like a camera thats zoomed in on something; thats when we are in it, I cant stand my voice or whatever thoughts we might have thats when we are in it, thats when camera zoomed in and focused very, very closely on that. As we begin to watch our thoughts and become aware of them without judgment, we are going to get to the point that what happens is very cool, what happens is it is almost like the camera pulls back with a wide angle and there is tremendous amount of expansion and

we feel that and we notice that all of a sudden we have moved out of being run by this program to being in an awareness of this program and we are watching now our thought process and thought patterns. And this has probably happened to you when you have kind of been in a thought and kind of pulled back and said, Wow, Im kind of doing that again, or I am thinking that again, wow! we all have had that, but now as you begin to look at these thoughts these negative thoughts about your singing and about your voice, or you as a performer whatever, now as you begin to watch these thoughts, you are going to feel that expansion and feel the moment when all of a sudden, oh! I am no longer being run by this, I have moved out of this place where I can begin to watch this thought process and sort of see where it takes me, what road it is taking me down. And then we move into a place of choice where we can decide, do I want to go down that road with these thoughts, or do I want to make another choice. So I just want you, first of all, to become aware of these thoughts without judgment, just curious, ah! wasnt that interesting? Second, what I want you to do is I want you to pick one, two or three, if you dont have three just pick one and I want you to write it down, theres a place for you in your workbook to do this, and lets just take the belief, I dont like my voice, I dont like the sound of my voice, so youd write that down in the work book. On the opposite side I want you to write its exact opposite. Something that if it were true now would really get you emotionally charged and very excited. Beginning with the phrase: I am so grateful for the fact that. So lets take that, one belief I really dont like sound of my voice, I just dont like my voice. The opposite of that something like, I am so grateful for the fact that my voice is beautiful, I love the sound of it and singing is so much fun, or something like that. It has to resonate with you; it has to be something that gets you emotionally charged. If it were true you would be really, really excited. That would be just so cool. Then what I want you to do is I want you to take that new belief or the new truth as I like you to say, I want you to do to three things with it. The first one is I want you to write it down on a 3 by 5 card and I want you to pay some attention to it two times during the day. The first is in the morning when you are waking up and you are kind of groggy and you are still kind of sleepy, because you are in an alpha brain wave state, and that is where you can really influence the non-conscious brain without the conscious brain editing it. The second time is at night before you go to sleep. Before you fall asleep you take the 3 by 5 card Im so grateful for the fact that you fill in the blank and feel it and then off to sleep you go and then it goes to into your non-conscious brain because we want to get this new thought fortified into a new belief that then begins to influence your behavior and your results. The second thing I want you to do as you are aware of old thought coming in your mind and you are practicing mindfulness and you can pull back and you can

watch it I want you to interrupt that thought so the neurons dont fire and I want you to go right to the new truth. So youre just about to say, ah! I just cant stand , oh! I am so grateful for the fact that I love the sound of my voice and singing is so much fun! And as silly as this sounds, you have to be kind of an actor like in a movie, you have to really feel it, you have to really commit to that because by not going to that old place you prevent those neurons from firing and that belief will actually atrophy and youll fortify the new one. Lastly, I want you to record the affirmation in your own voice and listen to it over and over and over again. So, you have written it down, now you have done a pattern interrupt and instead of going to the old place with the old wiring you are going to remember the new one and replace it with a new one and then you are going to record it listen to it often. Just put it on a little bit of a loop. You can do it on a Mac in Garageband, or you can download Audacity, which is a free program for a Mac or PC. Its an editing environment and recording environment that is very, very easy to use. You can put it on a loop, put some classical music or Baroque music behind it and that will get you into the alpha state. Anyway, I hope this has served you. Do the work it really, really works. If you enjoyed this please leave your comments below. Please like it, share it, tweet it whatever. Lets get the message out and really help people reach the heights of their vocal potential. I hope you have enjoyed this, I hope it has served you. Look for video number 2 very soon. It is about your vocal thermostat. This is Michael Goodrich. I will see you soon. Thanks for watching, bye bye. ________________________________