Singing for health

Now, I have always sung! Even when I worked in an office doing accountancy, you
could hear me singing or humming. Working building and/or repairing homes,
I would be singing as I worked. Not all the time, but I would do it almost daily.

I have always enjoyed singing.

So when I had the opportunity, about 6 years ago, to attend a course on
'overtone singing' (throat singing) led by a Shaman from Tuva (Nikolay),
assisted by a medical Doctor and Ph.D from Kiev, Vladislav Matrenitsky,
I joined the course.

This I wrote shortly afterwards:



This was not simply learning a new singing technique. It was not only the
technique (which is used by Shamans for healing) but the exercises we
received, which I believe have been (and still are) the MAIN REASON
for my improved lung function and health generally.

and my reality is very simple:

1. I take no meds.

2. I have not involved myself with any other physical activities
(training, gyms, cycling, long walks,etc)
that I was not doing previously.

3. My general health has improved in the last 5 years.

4. My singing has improved and I now possess a voice range and power that
I have not known before in my life.

Now, unless I have been especially chosen by some mysterious
extra-mundane superpower to receive some special gift.....
then I must conclude that the overall improvement in my general health
and lung function
must be down to my singing activities in these recent years.