The Voice of Emotion

I have been noticing when I am listening as someone is speaking that fear will sometimes creep into the vocal cords and display its self. Often the speaker is guarded and not aware that they are sending out those signals. There seems to be a pattern in the subtle tones of the voice that give away the emotions and intention in the body language that follows, confirming the signal is clear.

The change in the vocals in the voice happens so slightly that the emotions start to stir in the receiver, kind of like turning a knob on a radio tuner as the body lines up with that person's feelings. It seems to happen so naturally that I don't believe that most of us are even aware of the slight change.

I guess it could be called empathy or connecting with the other person but it becomes a process of learning how to define the line of who's emotions are whos. I bring up fear because fear and love are the two categories that my Teachers taught me that all emotions can line up under.

The only reason that I became aware of this is that I noticed as people were speaking, the emotions in my own body were starting to change ever so slightly as I listen to their words. But it was the vocal changes in their voice that moved me to action or set of the alarms.

Thinking more about this I remembered that when we are in the womb we don't understand the language that our mothers are speaking but it stands to reason that we could pick up on the vibration of the voice and the vocal changes expressing the emotion. Maybe this is the reason we can sway each others emotions not only by the power of our words but the vibrations of the vocal cords. Just something to ponder....

Ana