Our voice conveys a lot about our state of mind and our confidence. A deep, rich, resonant voice clearly conveys competence and authority. A breathy high pitched fast speech conveys nervousness and uncertainty. And it's well understood who the DPO voices for more authority you can convey. But the reality is that not everybody has a deep voice. This simple unwritten rule condemns at least half of the population to being less authoritative than the other half, and therefore we need to move beyond it.
What's important is not the depth of your voice, but the way people perceive it. And what people need to perceive is not deep, profound, low pitch push like this, but a rich, confident, mellow voice. And we can generate that my breathing deeply by pausing to take a breath, and letting our voice settle to the bottom of its natural register. When you're comfortable and at ease, when you stand upright and straight, when your throat is straight, and your mouth projects your voice straight towards the listener, this enables the natural frequencies of your voice to come through and gives you a voice, the richness and the quality that it has. And that is the most important aspect in gravitons. So what can we do to help your voice find its natural richness?
Well, the first is simply relaxing. A good relaxed posture allows everything in your system to relax it and enhances the throat muscles. He runs, hence the chest and allows you to breathe more deeply. And secondly, you can practice your breathing. Before you speak, take a few deep, slow breaths. And in fact, if you want to slow sexy mon will help.
Ah Don't forget the muscles around your face, get them moving, getting limits moving, do something like this. Remember, that itself has a course very little gravitas. But what you're doing is you're preparing your facial muscles for action. And of course, to access The deepest tonality of your voice, as well as exercising your lips and facial muscles, and as well as relaxing and breathing. You can get vocal muscles, the vocal cords themselves relaxed by humming. There are other things you can do with your voice as well.
And I'm not a trained vocal coach. But choices about how you end words can be particularly important. And some people undermine their gravitas by inventing this sentence on an output inflection, she see what that does that output inflection? It raises a question because when we ask questions, we have an up inflection. Therefore, if I say when we raise questions, we have an upward inflection. I appear to be asking you that rather than confidently asserting it, so I'm undermining my gravitas.
When we raise questions, we have an upward inflection. When we want to demonstrate gravitas, we have a downward inflection. So lower the tone of your voice just at the end of the sentence. And finally, your overall posture. Remember the puppet string, imagine as a puppet string coming out of your head, lifting you lightly off your feet, settle back down. Allow your shoulders to relax.
Everything will come into alignment. A deep, resonant voice is a great asset. But freeing the natural richness of your natural voice is all that is important.