{"id":14,"date":"2015-05-07T10:52:18","date_gmt":"2015-05-07T10:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/communitychoirs.wordpress.com\/?p=3"},"modified":"2015-05-07T10:52:18","modified_gmt":"2015-05-07T10:52:18","slug":"so-why-do-i-do-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.community-choirs.co.uk\/wordpress\/2015\/05\/so-why-do-i-do-it\/","title":{"rendered":"So, Why Do I Do It?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\n  (function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){\n  (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o),\n  m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m)\n  })(window,document,'script','\/\/www.google-analytics.com\/analytics.js','ga');<\/p>\n<p>  ga('create', 'UA-74309659-1', 'auto');\n  ga('send', 'pageview');<\/p>\n<p><\/script><a href=\"https:\/\/www.community-choirs.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/singing-on-the-brain.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-32 size-medium\" style=\"margin:15px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.community-choirs.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/singing-on-the-brain.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"singing-on-the-brain\" width=\"300\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.community-choirs.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/singing-on-the-brain.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.community-choirs.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/singing-on-the-brain-300x233.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.community-choirs.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/singing-on-the-brain-768x598.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I spend a lot of my working week singing for a living. Mind you, if I&#8217;m honest, I also spend an awful lot of my week singing for no reason other than &#8220;I love to sing&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I recently bought a new CD by one of my favourite artists (Kate Rusby, if you are really interested) and have had it on continual play whilst I work. Because I&#8217;m not paying much attention to the words whilst I concentrate on other things, I couldn&#8217;t really tell you what many of the words are, but I sing along nonetheless. It&#8217;s a good thing that I have an office door I can shut because the one day a week that I work in an open plan office, I have to be *very* careful not to let my bad habits spill over. I hum, sing and vocalise made-up sounds *all* the time whilst I am typing. They go a bit like this:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Come all you lovely lahyeeehah, ladadah warning. Oooooooo, sterry bield of hay&#8230;..&#8221; etc. Occasionally, I get the right word sound in the right place, but more often than not, I&#8217;m just singing a lot of rubbish, but still vocalising and enjoying it. The vibrations from my voice get faintly meditative after a while, and I find it very restful. I&#8217;m not singing to be heard, or for anyone to think that I&#8217;m wonderful, I&#8217;m just singing because I love to sing. And that is precisely the sort of singing that I wish more people did. Not to sound clever, not to get rich, but just because it is so much more fun than simply staying quiet.<\/p>\n<p>Because I am lucky enough to lead a number of choirs, I get the feedback from lots of other people as to why they enjoy singing, and that is a very motivational thing. I&#8217;ve people in all of my choirs who have depressive issues, and find singing incredibly helpful in lifting the spirits without medication, or to help smooth out the transition into a new medication. I have met several people in my life who claim that singing has saved their lives by providing them with an outlet for emotions that simply couldn&#8217;t be channelled any other way. That&#8217;s pretty major.<\/p>\n<p>But it doesn&#8217;t have to be the big stuff. Maybe you just feel tired, and need a little bit of a lift? Suffer from social anxiety, and find talking to new people difficult? Choirs and singing are perfect for both of those &#8211; one of my favourite sounds in the whole world is the sound of people leaving choir, still singing together as they walk away. I know that they feel so good singing that they don&#8217;t want to stop &#8211; best sound and best feeling in the world, that! And the social anxiety thing is difficult &#8211; but in a choir you don&#8217;t have to make small talk. And there is a ready built subject to talk to the person next to you &#8211; the music that you are singing!<\/p>\n<p>You probably already know that it sounds great to sing in the shower. I&#8217;m here to tell you that it also sounds great to sing in the kitchen, the garden, the living room, the bedroom and the office. The pub is perfect &#8211; other people generally join in, as well&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Go on &#8211; have a bit of a warble!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spend a lot of my working week singing for a living. Mind you, if I&#8217;m honest, I also spend an awful lot of my week singing for no reason other than &#8220;I love to sing&#8221;. 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