My voice :(

Thank you for your help, fellow Jedi! It is very much appreciated.

And do not fret, for what events have no beneficial opportunities and reason? A time given for rest is a time well worth it to regain strength, energy, and clarity.

Be careful using lemon, it is acidic and in larger amounts can worse the irritation. Honey added to earl grey (bergamot) tea or rose hip tea. nothing too hot or too cold. And as my mother always told me..."for god sake shut up!" :evil:

Yeah, not using my voice has proved much harder than I thought. Being a guy, not talking comes so much easier, I thought. I don't even have to talk much at all doing massage for a living. Yet, since I can't use my voice, it makes want to talk that much more! Sucks, I find I can't even listen to music cuz it incites my envy! It's been pretty depressing.

The throat chakra is the healing one, it vibrate on the green frenquencies... You should meditate and reactivate it properly. Do a proper grounding and while doing a meditation focused on green things (as plants and trees, emerald-pure green things). While thinking to it, open your throat chakra and let the green light "filtering" through you. After, think to your vocal cords, and imagine them surrounded in this green and pure light... Let the light healling them.

It's a simple chakra technic, a reiki form or a biofeedback technic (many names for the same technic). If you are already trained to meditations/chakra... you'll heal in "no time" or real extra fast.

MTFBWY

Several internationally renowned vocal coaches have told me that steaming is the best method - boil some water, put it in a bowl/open container in front of you, cover your head and the bowl with a tea towel or something similar to trap the steam and inhale the steam for a while. It works best if you do it in the evening before bed, and if you do it every day until your voice is better.

If you try to sing whilst still recovering ease your voice into it by warming up with some humming and doing some exercises on vowel sounds really really quietly, starting in the lower parts of your range where it should be easier and then only going higher once you feel comfortable. It will make things a lot easier, promise!

Hope your voice is feeling better soon

Yeah, I have some bulk eucalyptus leaves I did that with. Unfortunately I think I blew out my voice pretty bad. It's never been this bad! So its scary. Makes me think I did some permanent damage. We shall see!

Just go for the booze. It will:

-disinfect
-increase blood flow
-Make you pass out, preventing you from using your voice.

:woohoo:

Unfortunately it also drys the vocal chords of the essential thin lining of mucous! Oh believe me, if it would help, I'd be downing the single malt since I can't partake of my sweet sweet ganjika!

Does it? I always have a grog, it never seemed to have a negative impact.

Eat the ganja instead of smoking it. That is, if you still care about your voice