I recently watched this video and found it to be remarkable. She said so many things that I have recently concluded myself - not through a thorough research as Brown concluded, but from living my life. Please allow me to share a few of the highlights I loved from this video. Note: All of the following thoughts in italics come directly from the video and are as near as possible direct quotes from Brene Brown.
"Courage: To tell the world who you are with your whole heart.
"[People who live whole heartily have the] courage to be imperfect. They had the compassion to be kind to themselves first and then to others. They were willing to let go of who they thought they should be to become who they were. They fully embraced vulnerability. They believed that what made them vulnerable made them beautiful. They talked about it being necessary. They talked about the willingness to say "I love you" first. The willingness to invest in a relationship that may or may not work out.
"[Vulnerability] is the birthplace of joy, of creativity, of love.
"We numb vulnerability. We live in a vulnerable world and one of the ways we deal with it is we numb vulnerability. You cannot selectively numb emotion. You cannot numb those hard feelings [fear, hatred, discouragement, shame] without numbing those better feelings [joy, love, compassion]. When we do, we become miserable.
"Let ourselves be seen. Deeply seen. Vulnerably seen. Love with our whole hearts. Practice gratitude and joy in those moments of fear. Believe that you are enough."
These thoughts are powerful. Absolutely powerful. Internalizing these thoughts and realizing that we need vulnerability, that it is okay for people to see the emotional sides of our lives, helps us to live passionately. It helps us to experience true joy, to find true love, to understand human nature and become our best selves. I believe this is powerful.
Now, you may wonder why I would put something like this on a vocal blog. What does any of this have to do with singing? To risk sounding cliche here, I think we should ask, "what doesn't this have to do with singing?" Music is one of the strongest forces to drawing out emotion on this planet. It is powerful, it is strong. By singing, we have the power to ignite emotions in others. But most especially we have the power to ignite those emotions in ourselves and then share an emotional connection with an audience. However, doing so makes us vulnerable and if we can't live with vulnerability we cannot share the emotional connection with others. Without vulnerability, singing just sounds nice but it isn't powerful. To be powerful vocalists {on top of learning technical things} we must be vulnerable.
Enjoy this video! Please let me know your thoughts and what you learn from this.
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