• Jack talks about the incredible subtlety and power of the Key Sound... The incredible power the use of this sound can have at very_soft_ volume
• Exercises for loosening up your voice BEFORE practicing the Key Sound...
• How this practice may identify emotional blocks to expressing sound...How these sounds, and especially the Key Sound™, may at first trigger negative associations or memories...
• Use of term "furballs" not intended to diminish the power or importance of these painful feelings...
• Use of a mirror for beginning solo practice...

mike> Did you learn or
mike> define any part of the
mike> the process that should be addressed
mike> before anything physical happens ?
jack> I'd like to talk a little bit
jack> about the incredible subtlety and power of the Key Sound...
jack> I know this is where a lot of folks are getting blocked, or feel like it's not
jack> important, or silly, or whatever... nevertheless what I am continuing to discover
jack> is the incredible power the use of this sound can have at very _soft_ volume!
jack> Such as I describe
jack> in the Intro to Solo Practice and Intro to Practice with a Partner...
jack> For some people it might be better
jack> to begin by just sitting by themselves, and to spend a little time just
jack> loosening up their voice. So many of us, women and men, seem to have a LOT of
jack> blockage at the throat... a lot of trouble "finding our voice" especially when connected
jack> to powerful emotions. The Key Sound™ as I demonstrate in the audio seminars seems to have an
jack> unusually SUBTLE yet powerful way of opening this up! In fact, I would recommend
jack> EVEN to people who have learned how to experience MMO, that they spend at least
jack> SOME time practicing the sound VERY softly... Meanwhile, getting back to
jack> my suggestion, I recommend that you start loosening up your voice
jack> by making (for example) ANY sad sound... next a scared sound... next a confused sound
jack> next a relieved sound... then a confident sound... then a happy sound... then a
jack> brave sound, then a romantic sound... then a sensuous sound... then a flirtatious sound...
jack> then a really sexy sound... and so on... Just pay attention to the feelings that come up
jack> as you experiment with these different sounds... note which sounds you have trouble
jack> "thinking of" or have trouble making. What feelings or memories are coming up around these?
mike> So you can feel where
jack> In fact, near the first part of this exercise, also include an angry sound (about the ONLY sound a lot of men feel any permission to express!), then a little later in the exercise
jack> a _loving_ sound... go ahead pls... ovr
mike> your blocks are ?
jack> Yes, and get the help you need to move through them, through co-counseling, or
jack> with a counselor (prof'l), or whatever healing methods work for you.
jack> ovr
mike> Would you say
mike> that the sounds that intimidate
mike> me to make, may need some
mike> attention ?
jack> What's _your_ intuition about that?
mike> I think so,
mike> it would get me beyond
mike> my normal ranges, my safety as it were.
jack> Yep, that resonates for me! The idea is to
jack> use these OTHER sounds as a way of limbering up vocally AND emotionally!
mike> Shaking the emotional tree
mike> ,and getting your
mike> whole body involved !!!
jack> Yes, but it doesn't have to be done forcefully. I think it's real important to
jack> use the sounds I've suggested as a way to reveal the stuff. Then if you feel
jack> _comfortable_ doing so, maybe going a _little_ beyond your comfort zone to learn
jack> what you can, what you've locked up there... but if it still feels like a block, then
jack> "call on allies" to help you "calmpost the furball."
jack> For example,
jack> some people have mentioned to me
jack> that when they hear the Key Sound™ as I demonstrate in the audio seminar, even at moderate
jack> levels of energy, it triggers memories of their abusive family of origin... some people
jack> said the sound seems really angry to them, or very frightening, etc. So if this is
jack> part of your history, it's important to get the help you need in desensitizing yourself
jack> to these sounds. By that I don't mean "numbing out," or forcing your way through, but
jack> rather to get into some process which will help that wounded part of you recognize that
jack> this is a very different setting than your family of origin (or whatever the abusive
jack> environment was or is), and to learn (again, very probably with help) that
jack> these sounds, and especially the Key Sound, is _different_. In fact that's the
jack> core message to give to the wounded self, and it's important to "get" it no
jack> i.e. not intellectually but viscerally as well. So when I refer to these wounds
jack> as furballs, I'm using that metaphor to illustrate that this is a natural process of
jack> remembering these events in order to heal them! I'm not using "furballs" in any way
jack> to diminish or discount the severity or the importance of these life events. A
jack> VIP (Very Important Point) about using these sounds is to then set the stage, and
jack> get limbered up to begin using the Key Sound at _very low volume_ at first.
jack> And to
jack> do so with the intention that it is a loving, sensual sound. It can be VERY powerful
jack> to practice sending the Key Sound (in fact the warm up sounds too!) to yourself
jack> in a mirror. The challenge here is to make AUTHENTIC eye contact with
jack> yourself EACH TIME before you send the sound. In other words there can
jack> be a tendency when doing mirror practice to kind of let your eyes glaze into
jack> a pseudo contact. Don't sweat it! That's natural! Just _lovingly_ bring yourself
jack> back into AUTHENTIC FOCUS with your own eyes in the mirror, connect with
jack> SOME feeling of love or at _least_ compassion for this person you're seeing in
jack> the mirror, and THEN send the Key Sound! You will be very amazed at the
jack> results!!!
mike> WOW , great info JAck
mike> It really gives
mike> me something to work with daily ...
jack> Excellent, brotherman! Lemme know how it goes!
mike> I will, even
mike> in my busy day this gives me a tool
mike> rather a gift to give
mike> to give myself everyday. I must be on the
mike> road here soon .
jack> Copy re: gift! Yes re: road, I figured we'd about used our time slice! ;-) Meanwhile,
mike> Plz edit as you need
jack> This kind of practice can then lead very nicely into sharing this practice of
mike> Love you man,
jack> low volume, gentle use of the sound with a partner. Ok Bud, see you! Next
jack> chat will be next Tuesday at 4 pm, to give the east coast a little easier access. I'm
jack> also getting mail from europe and australia so I'll be offering some chats much earlier
jack> and then some much later... will try to hit most time zones on the Plan-It at least
jack> once every two months, if not every month. Thanks for checkin in Mike, be good
jack> to yourself and to your (other besides yourself!) loved ones! Bye for now!
mike> Bye Jack, talk at you soon !!