Can growling be used as a therapeutic or stress-relief technique? - Thoughts On - Aliki Katriou
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- Опубликовано: 16 окт 2024
- Here are some thoughts on the question of growling being used therapeutically and/or for stress-relief...
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it is very enjoyable for me that you include the critical thinking part (when you talk about placebo), this is as rare as important and gives a very powerful exemple on how to approach such subject with intellectual decency
Thank you. I try.
Such a quality video, thanks for that. Just some time ago I begun learning growls/screams under the eye of a teacher and I must say it is very interesting experience. I sing and I always wanted to be able to scream, never knew how and tried with some materials from internet to no avail. Yet it seems finding a teacher was what I needed.
Btw great channel you have here, I really enjoy listening to you. Your language and choice of words is very pleasing. I like how precise and cautious you are not to make a statement you feel you cannot fully be sure of or is debatable. Happy to have found your channel. I personally think, but this is only an opinion, that any work with your voice is a work with yourself as our voices are us, so it potentially can be very therapeutic.Especially If we are willing to commit to it and allow ourselves to be open for what we come across. Also the frequency and vibration of our voices can positvely stimulate our vagus nerve which calms us down, regulates emotions and switches us into regeneration mode as it is a part of a parasympathetic system. Oh that became a huge post and was supposed to be just a short comment:D. Lots of everything good to you :)
I try to walk the line between good information, which will usually be lacking in some way, and some thoughts or suggestions that might help one feel less lost in the decision-making process...
You're so amazing
Screaming has def helped me with anxiety and chronic fatigue 💙
Ooooo nice! I understand the anxiety aspect, I'm curious about the chronic fatigue and what it might be doing. I wonder if it's an adrenaline rush or if the system is being used with more force/effort, which is helpful, or if it's something else...
Speaking of swimming with sharks, I've recently learned of Cristina Zenato. The fun part is that she's not necessarily the one receiving therapy but the sharks she comforts and removes hooks from 😁Amazing woman.
Oooo, interesting...
I love this, nuance is so rare in online discussions. I've had both positive and negative experiences - the HELLYEAH of being able to make the sounds and all the fun ways to use it as a party trick and freak out unsuspecting humans (and sometimes get paid! voice acting and scare acting!), but also the epic self-doubt when I'm trying something new with it and just it isn't happening, or when another band rejects me for being female or not going for fry screaming. It can relieve stress, but it can cause it too, depending on the circumstances.
I am definitely not going swimming with sharks O_O;
Nuance, I'm always looking for it...
It helps me but it's less about really unleashing into a mighty growl like I'm howling at the moon. I work from home and sometimes when I get annoyed I will growl to myself with my mouth closed. I think it's more of a meditative thing for me: my breathing slows when I do it, I focus on the sound and how it feels as I do it and how different things I do can change the sound. I also find singing in general to help for the same reasons.
Generally speaking I agree with your sentiment that if it works for you then great but I wouldn't recommend someone learn this technique as a way to cope with stress because of the other factors you mentioned.
Yay, happy to hear that it works for you :D
Thank you for the video! I've got a random request haha :> Can you please make an explanation of some of the techniques such amazing artists as Onielar, Hulder or Alissa White-Gluz use? They sound so unusual and it's hard to figure out (for someone who is not a professional) just what they are doing exactly with their voice (especially onielar lol)
Hi! Maybe, possibly, I always worry about the educational value of things like that - it can go wrong easily and become a "reaction" style video, which is the quality of content I am hoping to avoid making. That being said, I can tell you that my best guess is that Onielar is doing light false vocal fold vibration over a falsetto setting, probably at a moderate volume with a high larynx. Alissa is always harder because it shifts a bit from song to song. If we're talking old The Agonist stuff, it's cleans and fry, both on a neutral-ish larynx position. Then with Arch Enemy a lot of it sounds like fry, and some fry + false fold combo distortions. I feel like she might be using her false folds a bit more in recent months/years, but it's difficult to say...
I actually think that if you connect too much emotion to the sound it becomes more damaging to the voice.
Just my opinion.
This has been my personal experience with my voice and my brain. It works well for some people, but then again, statistically, most things will work for someone at some point XD
I really appreciate that you're taking the emotional perspective into account 🤌🤌
^.^ I try to...