Hi it's Elissa Weinzimmer, founder of Voice Body Connection, and it is time for
another How to Warm Up video. In today's How to Warm Up video we
are going to do an exercise that deals with the very first step of the How to
Warm Up sequence: impulse. The idea is that if you can connect your impulses
and express them authentically all the way into sound and language then you can
be more authentic. So, watch the how to warm up intro video if you want to check
in with how to use this exercise in your full warmup, but I will say it can come
right at the beginning. So this exercise is called sound that feels true to you
and in order to explain it I need to talk to you about something that I like
to call the truth-o-meter. So here is the truth-o-meter this is really really high
ding-ding-ding-ding-ding. That feels really true to me in my guts in my
reaction and then anywhere on the way down is moving towards wah wah that
doesn't feel true or truthful at all okay so essentially we're using the
truth ometer as a way to gauge for ourselves in our own experience whether
something feels true to us or not and you know you have a relationship to this
you've watched people perform on a stage before and gone wow that's amazing or
you probably didn't even notice how amazing it was because you were just
swept up in what was happening versus watching someone and going that person
seems like they're performing so that's the womp womp bullshit land okay so we're
gonna do that for ourselves and evaluate just simply making some sound. It's a
little bit scary but here's how it works. So sound comes out on an exhalation and
in this exercise we're going to make sound on every exhalation. This is a big
challenge because we don't often make sound that isn't language but this is
just gonna be a sort of nebulous sigh like fluffy sound if you will that you
make that answers the question how am I feeling right now where am I now what's
true for me so let me give you an example you'll just allow a breath in
and sigh out however you feel and then you'll ask yourself did that
feel true to me. For me that one just now felt pretty true that was the sound that
I wanted to make at this moment so ding-ding-ding high on the truth-o-meter.
Let me try one more. Huh um not quite as high for me that one and now let me give
you an example of one that is really not high on the truth-o-meter where I'm
pushing to make the sound happen. Huh. That is not the sound I wanted to make
in that moment. It didn't come from an authentic truthful place inside of me so
that would be a wah-wah bullshit land right. So what we want to do is we want
to be making sounds that feel true to us. Why is this important? Because we need to
connect our impulses, what we feel inside, to our ability to actually express them
and when you do this exercise as uncomfortable or weird as it might feel
it helps make that connection so when we do start speaking language we can do so
in a way that feels authentic and connected. So how and when can you do
this exercise? Well you can of course do it at the beginning of a warm-up just to
check in as you're moving you can combine it with any of your movement
stuff and just make sound as you do your body exercises and move around. Or if
you're feeling brave you can do it as you're walking down the street down a
crowded street and go oh and walk along and look at something else to go huh
right make sounds as you walk or you can do it in your car really anytime that
you're breathing you can do it and guess what? That's often. So I really encourage
you to practice this sound that feels true to you exercise because once you
get good at it it will make its way into your ability to express yourself in
every situation so enjoy practice until you get good and
I will see you in a future How to Warm Up video!