Your voice isn’t just what you say.  It’s the vehicle through which you posit your whole presence and stand in the world.

How you broadcast your brand, consciously or unconsciously, You.  From rappers to singers to speakers to lovers, your voice is your whole message, your whole communication.  And if you want to speak in tongues, well ok.  But clarity, authority and style are much more useful and much more real.

A colleague of mine made a documentary film in a Monastery.  He was drawn to document the voice and purpose of the place and it’s people.  And of course they didn’t say much.  He brought all his TV and Media skills to the job, looking to create excitement, interest, drama etc, for viewers.  Nothing worked at all for about 5 years.  The monks didn’t like what he was producing, nor his friends, nor even him, until one day he got his head out of the way and actually listened with his ears and his whole being.  He got it.  The silences, actually full of the sounds and feelings of the place and it’s activities.  The spaciousness, the discriminations and differentiations, the rhythms and patterns he wouldn’t or couldn’t normally notice, started to come through, and he fell in love with that space.

In the process he found his True Voice, his true vision and mission, his way of going to work, his true way of being.  It’s taken a few years to let this voice emerge and inform his work and even his family life.  But now, this man with a restricting, inhibiting background and a myriad of obligations and problems to deal with, has set forth to let that voice shine.  He has a purpose, a mission, a passion in his life and his film work now.  And nothing will stop him.  He’s found his place and the endless cycle of going in and out of personal hells and purgatories and attempted rebirths and redo’s is over!  His light is really shining because he knows where he’s going and what he wants to say.

Big topic.  Much to say on it in the future