Finding your voice...

Finding your voice...Finding your voice...Finding your voice...
  • Voice & Body
  • The Mind
  • Positive Prime Project
  • About VPS
  • Intial survey link (18+)
  • Youth Study Survey Link
  • More
    • Voice & Body
    • The Mind
    • Positive Prime Project
    • About VPS
    • Intial survey link (18+)
    • Youth Study Survey Link

Finding your voice...

Finding your voice...Finding your voice...Finding your voice...
  • Voice & Body
  • The Mind
  • Positive Prime Project
  • About VPS
  • Intial survey link (18+)
  • Youth Study Survey Link

Join the project--pRIMING THE Voice FOR SUCCESS-- physically

The voice is an internal instrument the body and everything attached to it is a necessary part of the production….

 We can  practice hours a day have a fabulous well-trained voice, but if  our body and our minds aren't up to playing their part  our vocal  performance may not be what we had hoped.  The holistic voice coach considers the whole singer: physical fitness with special attention to posture and alignment, and health and wellness including a mental & emotional focus; something which many singers feel is missing from their current education but is a huge topic in modern vocal pedagogy. 

Your brain is like a computer—it can’t take a joke! Whatever information you feed into it is what it has to work with…. (MK Mueller)

 Everytime that we let anxiety run wild with our imagination  of what could go wrong in a performance or visualize other negative thoughts of failure,  the brain imputs those images.  If you spend time thinking about the mistakes you might make  or the problems you might have when you are performing,  you are training your brain.  For example if you think "I am nervous about hitting that high note"   when the high note comes, your brain will feed you back the data it has:  "you are nervous" 

The Positive Prime Project: studying a new intervention

Treating MPA: From Meditation to Medication

Practice and training have been considered by many as a way to help alleviate Vocal Performance Anxiety,  but sometimes practice isn't enough.   For a century there have been studies on the mental aspect of sport performance, but only recently has the mental aspect of  performance of vocalists and musicians been approched in the a similar manner.   Dianna Kenny,  Professor of Psychology and Music  and the  most prominent researcher of Music Performance Anxiety in the 21st century  has 59 pages devoted to treatments of MPA in The Psychology of Music Performance Anxiety (2011) That range from meditation to medication.  The bottom line: although our biology may be similar,  no two people are alike, no two voices are like. Everyone has different vocal experience and the human psyche is still much of a mystery and different for each individual.  What works for one person may not work for another.  Therefore a holistic vocal approach  is tailored to the individual.

A New Possibility --- Positively Priming your brain

 Although there are many different types on interventions, studies show that therapies that address the emotional as well as the physical responses of MPA can successfully lower levels of performance anxiety.   Positive Prime is like multiple therapies built all into one. It is  is a web-based visual mental training tool that uses science, positive psychology with carefully designed that combines multiple therapies into one:  Phototherapy, Mastery Therapy, Chromotherapy, Color Psychology, Music Therapy and Success imagery. The neuroscience/psychology-based  online program claims it is designed to “prime” the brain for receptivity, optimism, and resilience by activating transformation on a neurological and psychological level through “positive” media to prepare the mind for flow state.  

Join the Research Study

I am looking for singers  join  a short research study to assess the effectiveness of the Positive Prime virtual vision board  in combatting music performance anxiety in singers.  

No cost to participants

This study is being conducted to satisfy the requirements of  the Master of Arts in in Vocal Pedagogy.  Participation in this study is voluntary and at no cost to the participant. You may withdraw at any time without any consequences or penalty. If you choose to withdraw, any data collected from you up to that point will be retained and used in the study unless you request otherwise.

All data is kept confidential

Your privacy is important to us. All information collected during this study will be kept confidential, which includes data collected from initial and final surveys, interviews and program data usage collected from the website during the study. Your data will be stored securely and only accessible to the research team. Your identity will not be revealed in any reports or publications resulting from this study. 

Approved Research both minors and adults

 This research project is approved through the Voice Study Centre in partnership with the University of Essex and is fully approved Voice Study Centre in partnership with the University of Essex and must follow all ethical requirements for educational research projects as defined by AERA (US), BERA (UK) and AARE (AU).

I would like to join the Positive Prime Project!

Please fill out the initial questionnaire for either youth or adult participants and  we will reach out to you with more information shortly.

Youth Survey Link (under 18)

For participants over 18 use this link:

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Initial Survey Link (Over 18)

Link to the full participant informormation

This research study  has full ethics approval for both adults and minors. Full information sheet and consent form is available here.

Particpant full information sheet

See it, Believe it, Achieve it!

 By feeding positive imagery into our brains that  helps us visualize our goals.  Think of Positive Prime as a daily mental warm up. It uses short visual meditations to help your brain default to helpful, optimistic patterns instead of old automatic ones. 

For an in-depth look at how Positive Prime works-- click here

8 steps to Great

 8 to Great is a patented step-by-step formula  that was developed by singer and actress MK Mueller. I am proud to be one of the over 4,000 coaches worldwide  teaching the program that the  happiest and most successful people use every day.  Our goal:  to take you from wherever you are in life to where you want to be.  A an 8 to Great certified instrutor I teach the program in  group/classroom or individual coaching sessions  and  it is an integral part of my methodology  for mental training for success.

8 to Great-- MK Mueller

For More about the Voice Study Centre

Click here to visit the Voice Study Centre:  international vocal "think tank", Practiononer Research center, Musical Theatre Research Alliance,  ITOL continuing education for singers and Postgraduate programs through as an asscociate college of the University of Essex .

Voice Study Centre

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