High frequencies & The Ears

The ears are the first sense to develop in the womb.

The fetus, curled up in the womb, is in the shape of the ear. They are the first sense to develop and the last to go. They are so very interesting. 

‘The bones of the ear are already adult size halfway through pregnancy…the fetus can differentiate the voice of its Mother from other Mothers voice.’ Norman Doidge (The Brain’s Way of Healing”

Over the years of teaching voice I have done countless voice exercises to help people ground and connect to themselves but nothing compares to the ears for their most direct connection to the whole of the body.

The ears help us to listen to the moment and what is really going on, not unlike a fetus curled up listening for the Mothers voice. 

The connection with our ears is our link to this moment and to our whole body. 

Another fascinating thing about the ears is that they act like batteries for the brain. (Alfred Tomatis) 

Using your voice to stimulate your ears can do many things including:

• Energize and stimulate your brain and body.

• Increase neuroplasticity (what!).

• Improve balance and posture of the overall body.

• Increase (and this is a good one) the muscle tone in the body.

• Increase overall well-being.

Singing is energizing and does all that good stuff if it promotes enough high frequencies inside of the tone of the voice, if it doesn’t then singing and listening to music doesn’t feed us it starves us.

Voice exercises increase the higher frequencies in your tone and literally lift you up.  

It is the same with listening to music.  If there are not enough high frequencies in the music then even the muscle tonus of the body will not have a sense of lifting up, but slacken and loosen. 

Building muscle tone or tonus through singing and the conscious use of singing is something I have been studying for many years. 

Learning voice exercises that increase the higher frequencies also has a neuroplastic component because of the brain mapping that happens when we are scanning for higher frequencies. 
It really is quite miraculous to sing!

(Partially informed by the book ‘The Brain’s Way of Healing’ written by Norman Doidge, M.D..)