• 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 !!

Gold Nugget

1. Exercises for loosening up your voice BEFORE practicing the Key Sound

2. Jack talks about the incredible subtlety and power of the Key Sound (tm)... The incredible power the use of this sound can have at very_soft_ volume

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Old forum threads of mine :
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http://tiny.cc/mt9sd - letting go of anger
http://tiny.cc/wR7Hb - multiple orgasm success-insight

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