Aligning Your Voice Of Power To The World

Welcome, fellow travelers down the mindfulness

path. Today, we have a great opportunity to interview and

speak with a Grammy nominated opera singer who is on stage in

front of large audiences, and all the things that go together

to be successful in that arena. Especially accessing to a

mindful sense of consciousness. And she has the ability to allow

people to get in touch with that mindful quality within. And so

when they project out the sounds that they sing, the sounds come

from a deeper level of consciousness and mindfulness.

And therefore the quality of the formulation of the note is just

wonderful. So it's with a joy in my heart to welcome Monique

McDonald to the mindful you podcast. Well, welcome to the

mindful mindful you podcast money.

Thank you very much.

I am, I am in prime impressed with singing.

And I read a little bit about your singing and your singing

career, just the ability to sing. And then the ability to

want to be heard, which means voting up and down is already a

breakthrough in confidence. And I also noticed that you, you

talk you talk about, well, where do you sing? Well, you sing on a

stage, don't you? Oh, yes, I do. And, and I would imagine that

leads into stage presence. And that's, that's a very important

concept, because a lot of my listeners are professional

speakers who want to get better at the game of professional

speaking. And so having someone like yourself, who is a

professional speaker on stage singing is act like one step

above professional speaker. And so that's like, I can't wait to,

to to have you share some of your wisdom, of experiences and

stories, and mindfulness and presence and, and to be to be in

the moment in front of the audience. And how do you get in

the moment in front of audiences. So that would be the

ballpark of my first question, and you can enter into it any

way you want to?

Well, I'm super excited to be here,

because awareness is one of the most important first steps to

being on any stage, whether you're singing or speaking, I

find that speakers in particular, and singers as well,

don't spend enough time priming their energy to be seen and

heard. So they just walk out into onto the stage or in our

case, for example, on with a microphone and just start

talking. And they haven't prepared so that they're not

coming from their most powerful or most centered place within

one of the reasons why I call myself the magnetic voice

mentor, is because I help speakers and singers learn how

to tap in to that presence and passion within and the line

their voice to it. So that that energy is unleashed into the

room. Before you even say a word you have prepared by one of my

little tricks is I send love into the room before I even get

there. I imagine all of the faces of the people that are

going to be receiving my message or my song so that I'm already

connected both within and without, before I walk into the

room.

Oh, boy, oh boy, aren't they sweet words? That's

very, very nice. Very, very, very nice. To be to visualize

the love going into the room, the the being present and aware

is very mindful. And I know from my experiences that that often

people don't realize and you you can you you're the you're the

professional here that that when you speak it's a form of singing

and And when you sing, it's singing. And in there is a space

between the sounds, and are the notes that I believe is that

that sorts of power that allows you to become present and

energized, the note that follows the empty space, which accesses

mindfulness and that infinite space of I'll call it

consciousness? Are we? Are we on the same page here?

Alan, I couldn't have said it better

myself. That's exactly right. And, and in my studio, we were

taught that singing is just elongated speech. So what we're,

what we're literally doing is connecting to that source of all

there is that every one of us, you bet, and literally tuning

ourselves to that power or energy. So that what ever we say

is imbued with that. So we don't have to worry so much about what

we're saying. Because when you're tuned in like that, you

can make mistakes, forget your place, you can be as powerful as

you can be, you can be your most authentic self. And it is more

than enough. Because you are connected to everyone within the

sound of your voice.

All right. It's, you touch a space, then you're

speaking, which touches a space in me. That space of, of

emptiness, of ego free judgment free zone. Yes. And, and that's

the definition of mindfulness. Mindfulness is to be able to be

24/7 and a judgment free zone. And so there's no thoughts

there. There's no judgments there is just pure forgiveness.

And, and I hear you talk about forgiveness. And letting go is a

is a deep mindfulness journey. Because that's that's to to to

relinquish the grip, somehow that ego has on your actions, is

a tremendous source of freedom. And Lily Allen,

and that particular grip translates into

the body and the breath, so that your voice literally becomes

blocked. It's almost like you're driving your car with the brake

on.

One analogy, that's great,

right? It doesn't flow. And we all know

people that speak that way. And we don't, the thing is, we're

not trained, our ears aren't trained to understand what's

going on, physically, it within the voice itself, but our bodies

understand the energy and feel the block. So we don't know why.

But some people we aligned to immediately and some people,

there's a little bit of distance that's necessary. And that's

what I help speakers do. I help Pete speakers, release that

grip, reclaim those moments where they gave up their voice.

And trauma happened, or because trauma happened, they gave up

their voice, and they're always remnants of emotional and mental

debris left over, no matter how much work we do on it. And I'm

one of 12 coaches that practice this particular healing

modality, of reclaiming your voice in those moments. It's a

very powerful thing. And it's, it's, it's I'm so grateful that

I get to do it. And what I call it is I helped clear the

instrument so that it can flow in the way that we were talking

about because true connection can only happen if we're

breathing in our bodies fully present fully present.

The the term that I like from the boot This

tradition is if you follow your thoughts, it's a disembodied.

And if you tune into your body, it's embodied. And so the dance

is between the creation of the sound, which is a disembodied,

and then the creation of the embodied experience requires you

to be able to one foot here, one foot there, boom, boom, though,

when you when you listen to lovely, sweetheart, come on

baby. I love to sing, I loved I loved I sing all the time, I

just, and I make up the words, excuse me. I love it, I make up

the words because I don't know the words, but I just, I just

start just to sing. And part of the of the speaking is the

creation of the silence that allows you to think about the

next note. So the note comes from a thought that you have

about the what's the quality of this of the thought form.

Absolutely, I want to create right here and this.

Absolutely. And the voice works. In waves.

Sound works in waves. So there's the flow, the ebb and flow, the

time when the the voice is making sound and the silence.

It's as our breath, we inhale, inspiration, the divine

connection, and we exhale, my voice teacher used to tell me

when God is in charge, we are in charge of the inhale. And God is

in charge of the exhale. And what that meant to me was, we

prepare through our inhalation for what we are about to say.

But the actual saying of it, we must release and trust that it

will go out into the world as it's meant to be because we are

truly connected and aware.

So many things, Say that one again, the inhale

and the exhale, one.

We are in charge of the inhale. And God is

in charge of the exhale. So we inhale, what it is that we want

to be. And we release the exhale, trusting that God is at

work within whatever we're saying, or speaking. God, the

source of all there is whatever word you'd like to put there

that you're comfortable with. But what I know is, there is an

invisible force that breathes us that beats are heart that

connects us all. And our voice and our breath that supports our

voice is the most ancient way to connect to that force.

It's beautiful, um, it's like it is like you're

singing a song and I'm listening to the song and letting it

vibrate in my body. Another word has come up a few times. Last

year, we're talking as the word harmony. And when you watch

someone speak, or someone's saying, Is it Is there a

fluidity or a harmony of flowing into that that ebb and the flow

the ebb and the flow? Is the ebb long enough for the flow that

just happened is the RS the flow too long for the ebb and as you

become more present you how long you hold the sound? And how long

you hold the silence becomes natural and and then then you

have a balance or harmony? Does that make sense?

I love the way you've put it Alan, it's a it's

a really beautiful thing. In in, in our voice class and I and I

do with speakers as well when we're working in person where I

have them say the same words into each other's mouths.

Obviously when COVID happened that stopped but there are when

you're singing to sing the same notes. What what happens is

without realizing it, and with very little effort, we tune

ourselves to the other because It is a natural desire, it is a

natural desire to unite a natural desire to be in harmony

with each other. Because of many things about the way the world

is right now, most people are using their voice to disturb

that harmony, to break it up to interrupt it, because their

intention is to control. But natural power that comes from

the source within, that affects each and every one of our

voices. And each and every one of our souls doesn't need to

control it just is. And when I help see a singers and speakers

connect and speak from that place, they they are always the

favorite speaker, wherever they go. And I am on a mission, Alan

to M power 10,000 voices. For that, yes, because we are living

in a time where the world needs authentic, connected voices,

speaking the truth, more than ever, creating that harmony,

vibrating the world with their voice. I have a gift for your

listeners with that wonderful

gift. And also, how can my listeners connect

with you?

Well, they can go to the magnetic voice.com.

And they can sign up for a discover your magnetic voice

session. And we can have a chat. And or they can go to this link

that I'm putting in the chat right now.

And we'll also include all this in the show

notes money.

That's right. The magnetic voice.com/v O P,

which stands for voice of power. And this is one of my favorite

things that I get to do. i It's a live assessment, I'm going to

meet you and we're going to talk about your voice. And what is

your voice of power? What does that sound like? And how do you

you want to align your voice of power with your blessing good

message to the world that is only yours. The Native Americans

believe that we each one of us have medicine for the world. And

I believe that medicine flows through our voice into the

hearts of humanity. So please remember, your voice matters.

And what would you say, if you truly understood that your voice

can vibrate the world

it's just so sweet. The sweet things that you

say it's being a cheerleader for more for God. And I'm a believer

and a follower of the Course of Miracles and is full of stories

and one of the sayings is, God cannot do for you what God

cannot do through you. And so when you speak you're speaking

for God and you speak for yourself you're speaking for

God, you speak for the being energy that that that space of

the of the infinite and full of compassion, grace and

forgiveness. Whereas the ego speak for attacking and if you

can catch that too, and go in that direction of the harmony

for God is like wonderful and you speak for you. You speak for

a greater vision and you have the gift of articulation and

you're able to articulate the the infinite in a way that's

very, very sweet. And I really it's a pleasure talking to you

and I'll be signing up for that that session with you.

Fantastic. Really beautiful so much Alan

for having me. On your show, I feel so grateful and blessed

that I get to help singers and speakers speak from that divine

place, so that their message is always heard. Thank you for your

time. Thank you for your voice, Alan, for reminding us how

important awareness is.

Thank you. Thank you very much. It's been a it's

been a blessing to be with you. Thank you. Good luck on your

talk. I'll be watching. You're talking about five or 10

minutes. All right, thanks a million. All right. Bye Bye,