Improve your breathing and you will improve your sound. That’s a fact. It is a good bet that the sound you typically produce is higher, thinner and less resonant than your true and natural tone. You and everyone around you have come to accept this as your normal voice. It isn’t.
How you sound strongly influences the way people respond to you and remember you. This is more than just an aesthetics exercise. To find your true pitch say “uh huh” a few times as if you are agreeing with someone. That sound is close to your true pitch.
A relaxed face (remember your sinus cavities resonate your sound), relaxed tongue and jaws, “tall” spine and a slow deep breath are the strings on which this instrument, your voice, is played. Each rich full exhalation is incredibly important as it flows through your vocal chords. If you doubt this, try speaking while you’re are breathing in!
Take your time when you have something important to say. Actually if it isn’t important then why are you saying it? When you rush, you don’t have time to take a full breath and you will sound like a badly tuned cheap violin when you are actually a well-tuned priceless cello.
Be well. Breathe beautifully.
