Voice Activation; Learn to Use Your Voice
Your Higher Self is asking you to use your voice to express your true self and heal the darkness within. Be fully present to yourself and let your voice be heard in the world.
There is a desire within you to make a beautiful and confident sound in the world, but you have not found your true voice. At the moment your voice is being used ineffectively. All the old tapes of false humility, the voice of smallness, the sounds of ‘please like me’, ‘include me’, ‘I don’t deserve’, ‘I’m not good enough’, etc., are stifling, muffling, smothering, suffocating the sound of your voice as it is meant to be – creative, strong, confident, alive and present with all that is.
This card is the celebration of your voice. Voices are used to make beau-tiful sounds that are communicated to others. Our joys, satisfaction, sadness or fear can all be expressed through the use of our voices. We make loud sounds, muted sounds and a wide range of sounds in between. Our most sacred rituals of birth, marriage and death are recognised through the joining of our voices in prayer and hymn. The words, sounds and melodies we share with others join us together in the experience. You are now learning to acti-vate your voice and use it effectively. Once you do, you will create authentic meaning, set boundaries and connect confidently with others.
Your voice is the key tool for setting your boundaries. Your voice tells you so much about yourself and your relationship to the world around you. Through your voice you communicate who you are and what your needs are; you are communicating your identity, the map of you. Your ability to set those boundaries of self will be determined by how confidently you can use your voice to express your particular needs. If you find that you whine, constantly complain, argue, tell everyone your problems as news, then you are giving voice to your inner victim in life. If your voice is muted and meek, it could be speaking with a quiet confidence and authority, or it could be expressing a hidden fear or a silent rage. Whatever sounds you make, they are expressing your inner voice, setting the boundaries of your identity and creating the world you live in.
If you lack confidence in sharing your true and full voice, who you are, your needs, etc., there is an inner sound that only you can hear. If you listen to this sound it is dark, it is heavy, it is empty, it is pain. You suppress all of this dark sound within – oftentimes speaking over it – to avoid what it means and its power over you. This inner sound is the voice of the critic, of your fears, your insecurities, etc., filled with the echoes of your past from parents shouting at each other, the sounds of criticism, the hurtful words and laughter of others that created your humiliation. These sounds continue to scream inside your head. Your inner sound expresses a distortion within and if it goes unacknowledged it will build up and eventually spill out into the voice you use. Any attempt to create new sounds is unsuccessful because of the over-dominance from these dark sounds of your past, which, like a broken record, you keep voicing in the present. This card is showing you that your voice is creative, that you can use your voice creatively to heal the darkness and make new sounds. You are ready to activate this creative aspect from within so that you can experience the beauty of a world confidently expressed.
Awareness of how you use your voice is the key to change. Through your awareness you come to understand that sound is the structure for setting boundaries and that each moment you use your voice has the potential to be a healing moment in which you create your boundaries. Flow occurs when you align the true inner voice with your external voice. For instance, you want to create financial freedom and you express this to your world of business. Yet your inner dialogue has set a boundary that limits what you can receive. The soundtrack in your mind berates you with ‘I don’t deserve money, I’ve wasted money, I’ve wasted opportunities, I should have focused on saving for the future’, and so on. This dialogue also includes the internalised voice of your parents, ‘Money doesn’t grow on trees, who do you think you are, rich people are corrupt’. This inner voice sets a boundary of limitation and creates a sound barrier so that your outer voice has no impact to create what you want.
Essentially the inner dialogue is a to-do list of boundaries that have been unmet, unset, and unable to be voiced and released. This inner soundtrack highlights the rules by which you feel bound, by which you live. The change comes when you understand that the soundtrack inside your being is a form of direction; it is leading you to the actions your inner self wants you to take in order to move beyond the barrier/rules that you use to keep you safe. Think of your inner critic as the arrow pointing to an aspect of you that wants a voice of truth. For instance, a family member is critical of you in some way. Your normal response is to remain silent, to keep the peace. All the while, your inner dialogue is resentful, angry and will complain internally until you express what is true for you in your communication. The inner self through its resentment guides you towards setting the boundary of respect for yourself as an individual. In doing so you acknowledge and connect to the part of you that has been silent. Your freedom comes when you give voice from this place. Once you have acknowledged the signal that the inner dialogue has given you then the inner critic will dissolve. Once you take action on what your inner dialogue is asking for, you are then able to align your inner and outer voices.
It is sometimes confusing to understand what your inner voice wants you to know because of a competing voice that creates a split within you. In the split you are unable to give voice to one part of yourself that knows what it wants. The overlay of voices from your past confuses you. The messages from your parents, church, friends, etc., that say ‘Do it my way’, overpower your true voice. Their way or their will is not the same as yours and yet you listen. This is because you have not fully taken ownership of your life. The result is you neutralise what you do, you sit at the crossroads unable to act on the true inner voice or you give voice to choices that don’t suit you. Later on you say, ‘I wish I had followed my intuition’. In the moment you sway between one voice that says leave this job, relationship or invest here and the other voice that says the opposite. The key here is that you are now being asked to make a commitment and a connection to who you really are and give your true desire a voice. When you activate this voice, the rush of energy from flow will return.
The first sound you make is breath when you are born. This sound is the flow of life. Activating your voice is a rebirth and the restoration of flow. Your true voice brings you back to the journey of connection that you seek both within and with others. Being confident in your own expression, you make the sounds of acceptance that soothe the soul. Think of your true voice as music. You uplift those around you by the music and timbre of your voice. There is a beauty in the voice that knows itself, it sings from your core and is melodious with the sounds of love. The voice in the absence of judgement connects one heart to another. A voice of compassion contains the balm of soothing words and will, like a beautiful piece of music, alleviate pain and its hurt. In that moment of healing where forgiveness and acceptance live, absolution occurs. In using your true voice you will discover the silence within, a peace and serenity in your spirit. Give voice to your dreams and you will celebrate the sound of life around you.
