Thrive State Podcast

EPISODE 59: Breakthrough Method of Breathing and Speaking to Enhance Heath & Longevity

Episode 59: Steven Harms

You’ve probably heard: Laughter is the best medicine.

There’s truth to that of course. Not only because it fosters positive thoughts and emotion, induces happy hormones, exercises your face muscles and so on.

I’ve written about this in my book, Thrive State, as part of the 7 bioenergetic elements for optimum health and longevity.

But many of us used to overlook one of the most important aspects of laughter: breathing.

Laughter yoga, through laughing, breathing, and movement, have been shown to increase health, and lower inflammation. And of course, as I always say, lower inflammation means higher immunity, less chance of getting chronic diseases.

This week’s episode guest of the Thrive State podcast, Steven Harms, found and developed a way to literally do this all day long.

Sounds crazy? Laughing, smiling all day long, while speaking, while singing?

Call it one but doing so can help you live longer simply because it trains you to be intentional about how you breathe.

Being a total mess on voice, speech, rhythm and coordination, everybody thought: this guy will never sing despite desperately wanting to. But all his perseverance and support from people who believed paid off.

Steven Harms, who’s now a professional opera singer and CEO of V.O.I.C.E., is with us in this really enlightening episode to teach us a few techniques on breathing and speaking to enhance health and longevity.

Watch the full episode of the Thrive State podcast with Steven Harms and grab a limited chance to enroll on his amazing program when you reach out to 51688-VOICE and steven@voiceofintention.com!

Show notes

11:00

Classical singing is not a style. Classical singing is the most efficient, effective way for the body to produce sound before the invention of the microphone a hundred years ago.

13:42

If you breathe as if you’re singing classically, then by thinking about what you want to create, the breath stays the same as if you’re singing classically and then you can create whatever sound you want. Breathing differently to create different sounds is a myth.

19:56

ST to the power of 3: When I make a sound, I make sure that I start with my mouth open. Then as I continue to speak, I stay open. And when I finish a phrase, I stop open. But you don’t know that I’m doing that because I’m smiling. I am literally in a constant state of a deep breath.

22:08

Nobody in the opera world will admit that the ability to create bigger sounds is because you’re bigger. I learned how to physically copy what a fat person would have naturally done which is basically staying in that constant support.

24:46

Learning to deep breathe more: Hold a yoga plank, leave your mouth open and make sounds while you’re doing a plank. Because you have to hold your core to hold the plank, you automatically take a deeper breath and breathe into your back. Copy that deep breath when you stand up. And that’s how a skinny person sings as loud as a fat person.

26:48

Isolate and choreograph, isolate, and choreograph—this leads to coordination. The body will figure out how to do that as you do it.

30:22

The body keeps you alive by making sure that you take another breath. We just don’t know as the human race that we can be intentional about what that breath looks like. But now that we know that we can literally train ourselves to breathe a specific way, we can take command of giving ourselves a better shot.

32:24

Awesome Technique. If you want to be awesome in life, then you have to be intentional about being awesome. It’s a three-step isolation exercise to make a sound specifically in awe, which is the biggest sound that a human being can make.

40:18

Why talk this way? You have to be intentional and take ownership and authorship of your own life rather than being the editor of your life. And you have to be able to stand up to them and say, I’m going to do this, it’s going to make me healthier.

41:50

Stephen’s best medicine: Awareness is the best. Starting with our awareness is the key to everything.

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