{"id":87,"date":"2007-08-02T23:25:02","date_gmt":"2007-08-02T22:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elementally.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/2007\/08\/02\/uh-uh-huh\/"},"modified":"2007-08-02T23:25:02","modified_gmt":"2007-08-02T22:25:02","slug":"uh-uh-huh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/uh-uh-huh\/","title":{"rendered":"Uh?  uh-huh!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We live in a high stress society.  To prove it, drop your shoulders: if you can drop them, you&#8217;ve probably got a bit of a tension issue &#8211; unless you&#8217;re in a situation that justifies stress, of course.  One of the things that goes wrong when you&#8217;re stressed is that your voice shifts up in pitch.  In short, it gets higher than it &#8220;should&#8221; be.  What&#8217;s worse, we get so used to this that we think this is our &#8220;normal&#8221; voice!<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Stewart Pearce\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stewartpearce.com\/\">Stewart Pearce<\/a> is a voice coach of considerable reputation and he suggests that one way to find your &#8220;true&#8221; voice&#8217;s pitch is to say &#8220;uh-huh&#8221;. If you say it as though you&#8217;re confirming something you probably go down on the second syllable and if you&#8217;re using it to ask a question you probably go up on the second.<\/p>\n<p>Either way, he says, the higher of the two is typically the pitch you <em>usually<\/em> use &#8211; and <strong>think<\/strong> is your voice &#8211; but the lower of the two is the &#8216;true&#8217; voice you <em>should<\/em> be using&#8230; the one you&#8217;d use if you weren&#8217;t anxious about something or stuck in a bad habit.<\/p>\n<p>Check it out and see if you shouldn&#8217;t be making your presentations at a different pitch&#8230; it&#8217;ll make you sound (and feel!) a lot less anxious about whatever you&#8217;re saying.<\/p>\n<p>S<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We live in a high stress society. To prove it, drop your shoulders: if you can drop them, you&#8217;ve probably got a bit of a tension issue &#8211; unless you&#8217;re in a situation that justifies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-presentation-tips","category-voice-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}