For many of us, listening to a recording of ourselves speak is a truly cringeworthy experience. This phenomenon is so common that the negative reaction even has a name: voice confrontation. When recorded, our voices don’t sound like we think they should partly because a recording removes the sounds we hear internally through the bones in our head, which produce deeper and lower frequency vibrations.
As such, our recorded voices can sound higher in pitch than we’re used to, which can be surprising and not entirely pleasing to our ears. In general, however, the more we listen to recordings of ourselves speaking, the more accustomed we become to how we sound to other people, and the less it makes our skin crawl.
Structural Integration can help transform your voice into a fuller, richer sound because the diaphragm is open. This allows the air to fill the diaphragm producing a deeper more grounded voice. And hopefully one that is more pleasing to yours and other people’s ears.