 Nervous when we're not sure of ourselves or we've just formed bad habits from a lot of different things in life We become chest breathers So you might even notes in yourself or see people where literally they inhale and they go and Literally they're using about the top 10% of their lung capacity Which has no chance of fill a space like this instead of breathing down to their bellies The good news is if you're a chest breather or if you've noticed other people you can retrain yourself to be a belly Breather yeah with your diaphragm muscle, and I say the good news because when we lay down at night. Yeah, our body naturally knows How to breathe correctly So tonight when you go to bed just take a feel down here, and you'll feel as you inhale the belly goes up as you exhale The belly drops down if you'll just put your hand on your belly And as you inhale just feel how The belly expands as As you exhale It goes down And remember looking at that that center idea earlier So the three fingers at the bottom of the belly button Then you put your finger there below if you can go find that spot and make sure your hands are there And just as you're inhaling just say it to yourself just say this is my voice. This is my voice So we can start to think about our breath is breath our voice is breath support Our voice is not anywhere near our throat The more we can retrain ourselves and think about our breath down here because these muscles won't wear out Yeah, we might have like sore ab muscles. That's fine But that's completely different than having tension in our throats that's doing damage to our vocal cords Having a little muscular tension here in our abs. It's great. That's fine So a little more body mapping with those hands as you inhale you should be feeling the belly come up But if you slide your hands down to the sides of the belly You should also feel Those sides kind of expanding. Yeah, especially in that lower floating rib. We have that one rib. That's not attached Yeah to our spine at all. It's just that floating rib that as you inhale You can feel your sides expand as you exhale you feel your sides collapse inhale they expand Exhale they collapse So one way to think about your breath support is I always sometimes picture like this big wine barrel Now you might even laying on the back here be able to feel your back should also as you inhale Your back expands and touches more of the floor as you exhale that natural lumbar curve comes up off the floor as you inhale The back expands and makes more connection with the floor You exhale and you can feel that Come off the floor So Just take a few breaths here and try to think about that four dimensions Yeah up back side side like a big barrel that you're just filling with each breath and Every time you inhale see if you can expand the barrel more got that image of the wine barrel in your head You know how they have those metal bands around them try to inhale and kind of like Like you can hear those metal bands creaking Like they're gonna explode because you've got more and more breath in there So again, the good news is your body knows how to breathe naturally how to be able to lecture All we have to do now is keep this good natural body habit alive Let's identify this feeling of on support and off support So you're doing this deep breathing so you can understand what vocal support feels like all this breath So the more breath you have the more vocal support you have the more vocal dynamics You can create in a space. Yeah But there's a specific feeling that you'll feel when you go off support where you're no longer using all this breath and that diaphragm muscle to support your voice and you then start to add tension in your throat to kind of eke out the last thought Okay, you'll feel it you'll hear it and we're gonna use this exercise where you're just gonna use an s sound And you're just gonna maintain it for as long as you can and you'll feel when you run out of breath And then you keep making a sound that Continuation from that moment when you're off support when you're no longer making it from your diaphragm from your stomach And it starts from your throat. That's when you do vocal damage So I want you to listen to it a couple of times and I'm just gonna use my hand to mark when I go off support So you can also kind of hear it. Yeah, so it's like this You're that little at the end That's what we do when we lecture all the time where we're trying to finish the thoughts So we keep going we keep going and that keep going is all about this no longer about this You do that just a few times and you've got that tired throat feeling that tired voice So we're gonna try to read we're gonna try to train ourselves to know exactly where that moment is When we're on support right before we go off support and then try to retrain ourselves to say at that moment I'm just going to like one little tiny moment before that I'm gonna inhale again and get a new full breath. So I'm always speaking on support if I need a Breath fine. I'll stop my thought take a breath. So I'm speaking on support. So I'm speaking from here not from here Okay, so can you can you do that and use your hand? There's something about, you know, kinesthetic learning Just mark it with your hand when you go off just make that little it's like a slash there I'm off. So you're gonna take a big breath in use the s sound off you go when you mark it mark it Feel a really compressed core and like I can't push with my stomach anymore and Then I push up here in my shoulders or up here in the throat or up here in my chest Hopefully it kind of feels icky should feel discomfort Can we do the exact same thing? But this time as you're going and I know here it comes where I'm gonna be off support Right the moment right before I get there. I simply just inhale and I continue on So it's important to that we train ourselves to come right up to the moment before going off support because we don't want to come here and inhale inhale inhale, right? We want to be able to Elongate our length of thought So it's important that you learn right in that moment right before I go off support That's where I inhale and get a fresh breath and continue. So can we try that? So you're just gonna maintain the s until I say to stop So don't let yourself go off support off you go So this time we're gonna allow ourselves to go off support mark it feel what that's like now Let's do that thing where we inhale again right before we go off support and continue the s So you'll just keep making an s sound until I say a good stop, okay? So we'll make sure our knees aren't locked and again our shoulders are relaxed our jaws relaxed our throats relaxed Remember this thing we talked about if my head's jilt tilting forward I'm gonna put tension in my throat or his back so try to float your head on your spine and here we go ready with a sustained s and Keep going keep going keep going just so you feel that lot of breath Lot of breath going out. Okay Good and then let that go There should be no negative connotations associated at all with taking a breath when you need to take a breath If you're always speaking from your diaphragm again, this muscle You know, it might feel like you did a hundred crunches or something like that But that's fine if this guy is tired, but if this is tired, that's where you're doing damage And it will take you much longer to recover you can lecture the next day with tired abs Yeah, because I was vocally supporting so well all day yesterday that my abs are tired fine I'm good to go tomorrow But if I was pushing with my throat and then I go to bed and I can talk like that and I'll wake up in the You know without our voices wow, that's our that's our job