Your throat is the gateway of all you want to express. Whenever you were hungry, tired, frightened, angry, lonely as a baby, you expressed these feelings through your throat via your larynx. Your mother became well trained (if she wanted to be sensitive to your needs) in interpreting what your cries meant. Everything was clear and truthful.
However, as you started growing up, sometimes you expressed things that weren't socially acceptable. Maybe you embarrassed your parents with your honesty - " Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained wisdom". Maybe your family evaded emotional outbursts or denied or suppressed their feelings. So they greeted your feelings with disapproval or worse, laughter. Immediately this sets up tension within you. It's as though that expressive gateway has been closed.
If that gateway gets closed, then your voice gets distorted with tension. If this gateway keeps on closing, it gets stuck. Emotions will be trapped behind that half closed gate. Your shoulders, your diaphragm, your jaw, your throat will carry that tension too. Your posture will become cramped and misaligned. Your body language is inhibited. You learn to be self conscious. You are out of touch with your feelings.
However, to trained ears, your voice and body betray everything.
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