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Psychology ~Singing!

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I hope all of you are keeping well. Today I thought of writing about Psychology of Singing. I hope you all will like what I am writing. It is both Western and Kirtan (Devotional) Singing ❤

Singing, the production of musical tones by means of the human voice. In its physical aspect, singing has a well-defined technique that depends on the use of the lungs, which act as an air supply,, which have the function of an amplifier, as the tube in a wind instrument; and on the tongue, which together with the palate, teeth, and lips articulate and impose consonants and vowels on the amplified sound. Though these four mechanisms function independently, they are nevertheless coordinated in the establishment of a vocal technique and are made to interact upon one another.

Little boy singing with microphone in his hand.

Singing versus speaking

Singing is distinguished from speaking by the manner in which the breath is expended to vibrate the vocal cords. Singing requires more breath the louder, higher, and longer one sings. It also requires that the emission of breath be more firmly controlled. A pertinent analogy is the function of the instrumentalist’s breath in playing a reed instrument—e.g., a clarinet, an oboe, or a saxophone. The technique of singing depends ultimately on the coordination of the various anatomical mechanisms in order to produce a propulsion of sound in a steady flow. A further distinction between singing and speaking is the control that is required, in singing, of the movement and reflexes of the larynx. As one sings higher, the larynx tends to rise sympathetically and at a certain point becomes an interference causing the voice to break, or crack. Not much movement of the larynx occurs within a singer’s normal range, which is usually about an octave and a third. Beyond that range, either above or below, an element of technical accomplishment sets the professional off from the unschooled amateur.

young girl standing on stage holding microphone singing surrounded by musical notes

The character of Western singing

Western singing is distinguished above all by its volume. Singers of other cultures may have a wider range, particularly a greater upward extension; but it is doubtful that they have sung louder. Western singing is also distinguished by its concern with pure sound, with the tone quality, or timbre, and with colour, with what is felt to be the sheer beauty of the voice itself. Both singers and their listeners, in Western music more than any other, have tended to lose sight of song’s roots in language and to think of singing as a purely instrumental production. Modern Western styles of singing largely derive from the Italian bel canto, which had its origin in a style associated with the polyphonic music of the 16th century. Because this music expressed the significance or the moods of the text, a great range of expression was required from the singers, who, in these polyphonic works, assumed something of the function of a vocal orchestra. The art of singing accordingly evolved to allow the singers the maximum power and variety of expression.

THE CHARACTER OF DEVOTIONAL SINGING KIRTAN:

Kirtana (Sanskrit: कीर्तन; IAST: Kīrtana), also rendered as Kirtan or Keertan, is a Sanskrit word that means “narrating, reciting, telling, describing” of an idea or story, specifically in Indian religions. It also refers to a genre of religious performance arts, a musical form of narration or shared recitation, particularly of spiritual or religious ideas, native to the Indian subcontinent. A person performing kirtan is known as a kirtankara (or kirtankar, कीर्तनकार). With roots in the Vedic anukirtana tradition, a kirtan is a call-and-response or song or chant, set to music, wherein multiple singers recite the names of a deity, describe a legend, express loving devotion to a deity, or discuss spiritual ideas. It may include dancing or direct expression of bhavas (emotive states) by the singer. Many kirtan performances are structured to engage the audience where they either repeat the chant, or reply to the call of the singer.

A kirtan performance includes an accompaniment of regionally popular musical instruments, especially Indian instruments like the Indian harmonium, the veena, sitar, or ektara (strings), the tabla (one-sided drums), the mrdanga or pakhawaj (two-sided drum), flute (woodwinds), and karatalas or talas (cymbals). It is a major practice in Hinduism, Vaisnava devotionalism, Sikhism, the Sant traditions, and some forms of Buddhism, as well as other religious groups. Kirtan is sometimes accompanied by story-telling and acting. Texts typically cover religious, mythological or social subjects.

Traditionally Kirtan is a “Call and Response”” of chanting experience. The word Kirt is to name to Communicate, to Celebrate, to Praise, and is derived from the Bhakti Yoga. The path of union through Devotion that uses the Repetition of Sanskrit Mantras to invoke the Energy and Attributes of the Devine.

The singing of Bajans is also a part of Spiritual Music, Tradition of India and singing of songs in Prayers. Its Root Bhaj means to Worship with Deep Respect (Revere) and to Love. Both are Devotional music and have been practiced since ancient times. In more recent times Devotional music has been incorporated (To include) in to many modern musical styles so that they can like to so many around the world. and all voices are united (together) with others without needing and skill or practicing. It is wonderful way to play because it is free and is energized and takes us in a relaxing journey ❤

Happiness is needed and anything that gives us Happiness to the Heart need to be encouraged that raises the flow of Energy. In this increasing unnatural society with so much of stress singing is the medicine that help Relax and Energize us. Such a practice can help us face stress of modern life just by using ones own voice in song. Ah!! almost immediate relief of Healing to make Happy people and community 🙂

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I hope what I have written and The Knowledge will be Useful and You have learnt new facts. And also You will be able to Enjoy going through The Picture Quotes as I have done quite bit of Making them more colourful and Attractive ❤

I am in Good Health and as, “I have been able to, “Receive Healing Energy into My Hands” since “Beginning of 2016” All my Hard work and Praying has been rewarded. Healing Energy can go to others too, and wherever it is needed to be received with a Clear Mind and Lot of Loving Kindness ❤

 I am Moving on as usual with “My Own Journey of Wellness, Encouraging and Healing” So that Everyone can have “Faith, Hope and to Heal” To Lead a Better Life of Good Health, Happiness and Joy”. If you click on the Link, you can Read This Post: The Therapists Voice Forward!

The Topics in Green, if you “Click” on them “Will take you to My other different posts which you will be able to find more information and even Pronunciation”. I have another website with “My own little Poems and Pictures of some of My Hobbies” if you are interested on seeing, “What else I am doing” during my spare time you can have a look at: https://deepanilamani.com/

Thank you for Reading and The I net for the picture quotes I have shared and to https://www.online-image-editor.com/ for the Quotes I have done Myself. ❤

As always, it is all free”. You can share and pass it on also for others who can benefit from this post. I hope All those who Read will be able to make the maximum use of all these facts and make, “Your Lives More Healthy and able to Lead Better lives in Happiness and Peace”. I wish it to be so as,” Peace which is our Ultimate Goal in life ❤

Sending Love, Light and Healing Energies to You ❤

May Gods Blessing Be Upon You ❤

Deepa Nilamani ❤

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Psychology ~ Happiness!

Hello To, All My Readers Followers and Blogging Friends ❤

Hope you all have started the New Year well and in Good Health. I thought of writing about Psychology of Happiness very fitting to begin the New Year, 

Happiness, in psychology, a state of emotional well-being that a person experiences either in a narrow sense, when good things happen in a specific moment, or more broadly, as a positive evaluation of one’s life and accomplishments overall—that is, subjective well-being. Happiness and also from other positive emotions (such as affection, excitement, and interest). This emotion often co-occurs with a specific facial expression: the smile.

The different meanings
People from around the world tend to have a similar concept of happiness and can recognize happiness in others. As a result, the specific emotion of happiness is often included as one of a small number of basic emotions that cannot be broken down into more fundamental emotions and that may combine to form other, more complex emotions (in fact, it is sometimes the only positive emotion that is considered to be basic). Thus, happiness is an important concept for researchers who study.

An entire field of research has developed around the more inclusive concept of subjective well-being, which is characterized by a broad collection of happiness. As one might expect, people who are happy in this way tend to experience frequent positive emotions. This broader form of happiness is not purely emotional, however: it also has a cognitive component. When happy people are asked to think back on the conditions and events in their lives, they tend to evaluate these conditions and events positively. Thus, happy people report being satisfied with their lives and the various domains in their lives.
Interestingly, these different components of happiness do not always co-occur within the same person. It is possible that someone could acknowledge that the conditions of his or her life are good ones. and experience satisfaction with life because their work is worthwhile. Similarly, people who spend lots of time engaging pleasures may experience frequent momentary positive emotions Subjective well-being researchers are interested in the various factors that influence these distinct components.


Psychologists are interested in happiness for two reasons. First, psychologists study happiness because laypeople are interested in happiness. When people from around the world are asked to list the things that are most important to them, happiness consistently tops the list. People rank attaining happiness as being more important than acquiring money, they can help people achieve this goal of being happy by studying the factors that are associated with happiness.

A second reason why psychologists study happiness is because a person’s evaluative responses to the world may provide information about the basic characteristics of human nature. One of the most basic principles guiding psychological theory is that people and animals are motivated to approach things in the world that cause pleasure. Presumably, this behavior results from adaptive mechanisms that guide organisms toward resources and human beings have a basic need to experience strong and supportive social relationships. They point to evidence from the field of subjective well-being to support their claim—a person’s social relationships are reliably linked to his or her happiness. Thus, cataloging the correlates of happiness should provide important information about the features of human nature.

Perhaps more importantly, is when you try to assess happiness in a variety of different ways, these measures all seem to converge on the same answer. For instance, when researchers ask people to provide self-reports of happiness, they tend to agree with informant-reports of happiness—that is, ratings provided by friends and acquaintances. Furthermore, psychological tests—such as those that ask subjects to list as many positive memories as they can within a minute—may also determine who is happy without even asking for an explicit judgment of happiness, and, again, these measures tend to agree with self-reports. When You track people’s levels of happiness, most people report being in mildly positive moods most of the time. people to rate their overall life satisfaction, most people report scores that are above neutral. This research finding is not limited to relatively well-off samples (like the college students who are often asked to participate in psychological studies). Instead, it has been replicated in many different populations in many nations around the world. Thus, when one study the correlates of happiness, they are usually looking for factors that distinguish the very happy from the mildly happy.

Predictors of happiness

Psychologists have arrived at several surprising conclusions in their search for predictors of happiness. Many of the factors that may first come to mind do not seem to play a major role in happiness.


Health also plays a role in subjective well-being, Subjective reports (such as a person’s own evaluation of his or her health) tend to correlate more strongly. factor that has been most closely linked to high levels of happiness is social relationships. Research consistently shows that people who have strong social relationships tend to report higher levels of well-being. As with other domains, subjective reports of relationship quality and relationship satisfaction tend to exhibit the highest correlations with subjective well-being. But even more objective measures, including the number of close friends a person has, the number of social organizations to which the person belongs, and the amount of time the person spends with others, all show small to moderate correlations with happiness.

Other determinants

Religious people tend to report greater happiness. Factors such as intelligence, education, and job prestige are also only slightly related to well-being. Happiness does not seem to change dramatically over the course of the life span.

People who are outgoing, assertive, and sociable tend to report more intense and more frequent positive emotions. The links between happiness and traits (including factors such as optimism and self-esteem) show that personality plays a strong role in people’s subjective well-being.

Functions

Although people tend to think about happiness as an outcome that they desire rather than as a tool that can be used to achieve additional goals, psychologists have begun to ask what function happiness serves. One of the best-known theories, 1998, that the function of happiness (or more precisely, the function of positive emotions) is to broaden one’s thinking and to build one’s resources. According to this theory, positive emotions lead people to think creatively and to try new things. As a result, happy people can develop new ways to approach the world, new interests, new social relationships, and even new physical skills. All of these effects lead to positive outcomes in people’s lives.

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I am in Good Health and as, “I have been able to, “Receive Healing Energy into My Hands” since “Beginning of 2016” All my Hard work and Praying has been rewarded. Healing Energy can go to others too, and wherever it is needed to be received with a Clear Mind and Lot of Loving Kindness ❤

I am Moving on as usual with “My Own Journey of Wellness, Encouraging and Healing” So that Everyone can have “Faith, Hope and to Heal” To Lead a Better Life of Good Health, Happiness and Joy”. If you click on the Link, you can Read This Post: The Therapists Voice Forward!

The Topics in Green, if you “Click” on them “Will take you to My other different posts which you will be able to find more information and even Pronunciation”. I have another website with “My own little Poems and Pictures of some of My Hobbies” if you are interested on seeing, “What else I am doing” during my spare time you can have a look at: https://deepanilamani.com/

As always, it is all free”. You can share and pass it on also for others who can benefit from this post. I hope All those who Read will be able to make the maximum use of all these facts and make, “Your Lives More Healthy and able to Lead Better lives in Happiness and Peace”. I wish it to be so as,” Peace which is our Ultimate Goal in life ❤

Thank you for Reading and The I net for the picture quotes I have shared and to https://www.online-image-editor.com/ for the Quotes I have done Myself.  ❤

Sending Love, Light and Healing Energies to You ❤

May Gods Blessings Be Upon You ❤

Deepa Nilamani ❤

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Psychology ~ Blogging!

Hello To, All My ReadersFollowers and Blogging Friends ❤

Hope you all have started the New Year well and in Good Health. This the 1st post and I thought very fitting to begin the New Year, as although I started with my journey it became a a almost lifetime of work and very much more. Much more than I can imagine. And I have achieved my Goal of giving Faith and Hope for so many people around the World 🙂

Blogs have become a potent platform for people to share their ideas, knowledge, and expertise with the world in the age of digital communication. Potential theories of blog psychology may include the readers’ perception, cognition, and humanistic components in regard to their experience to consuming blogs. Blog psychologists may also draw upon developmental and narrative psychologies and emerging findings from cyberpsychology. The theories and research in psychology could be used as the backbone of blog psychology and guide the discipline itself.

Above are some of the different Blogs as you see. Some can be used to earn money too!

Can you see above how many types of different Blogs people do and can do? So many types as shown in the pictures!

1.Self-Expression: At its core, blogging is a platform for self-expression. Humans have an innate need to share their experiences, ideas, and emotions, and blogs provide a space where they can do so freely.
2.Building a Digital Identity: In an increasingly connected world, personal branding and digital identity have gained immense significance. Blogs allow individuals to shape their online persona by curating content that reflects their values, interests, and expertise.
3.Therapeutic Outlet: The act of writing has long been recognized as a therapeutic outlet. Blogs offer a platform for individuals to externalize their thoughts, and hopes, which can be particularly valuable for those who might find difficult with traditional forms of self-expression. Sharing personal stories of overcoming challenges, mental health issues, or simply navigating life’s ups and downs can not only be helpful for the writer but also provide solace and relatability to readers facing similar situations.
4: Creativity and Growth: Blogging is creative research, and the art of storytelling. The process of translating thoughts into blog posts encourages critical thinking and problem-solving. Bloggers often find themselves learning new skills, from honing their writing style to mastering basic website management. The journey of maintaining a blog can be for personal and professional growth, pushing writers out of their comfort zones and helping them evolve.
5: Connecting with a Global Audience: Finally, the internet has geographical boundaries, enabling connections between people from diverse cultures and backgrounds. Blogs provide a means for individuals to connect with like-minded people who share their passions or challenges. The comments section of a blog post can become a virtual community where readers engage in discussions, offer support, and share their own perspectives. This sense of belonging can be deeply fulfilling and motivating for bloggers, encouraging them to continue writing and fostering these connections.

 Bogging can serve as digital time capsules. Bloggers often write with the intention of preserving their experiences, knowledge, and insights for future generations. Just as diaries from centuries ago provide us with glimpses of life in different eras, blogs offer a contemporary way of leaving behind a legacy. Whether it’s a how-to guide, a collection of family recipes, or a documentation of social issues, blogs can have a lasting impact on the collective memory of society.

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🎉 Congrats! Meanwhile I am getting Congratulations from WordPress. I am My Path is getting noticed. 361 other websites have started receiving updates.

I am in Good Health and as, “I have been able to, “Receive Healing Energy into My Hands” since “Beginning of 2016” All my Hard work and Praying has been rewarded. Healing Energy can go to others too, and wherever it is needed to be received with a Clear Mind and Lot of Loving Kindness ❤

I am Moving on as usual with “My Own Journey of Wellness, Encouraging and Healing” So that Everyone can have “Faith, Hope and to Heal” To Lead a Better Life of Good Health, Happiness and Joy”. If you click on the Link, you can Read This Post: The Therapists Voice Forward!

The Topics in Green, if you “Click” on them “Will take you to My other different posts which you will be able to find more information and even Pronunciation”. I have another website with “My own little Poems and Pictures of some of My Hobbies” if you are interested on seeing, “What else I am doing” during my spare time you can have a look at: https://deepanilamani.com/

As always, it is all free”. You can share and pass it on also for others who can benefit from this post. I hope All those who Read will be able to make the maximum use of all these facts and make, “Your Lives More Healthy and able to Lead Better lives in Happiness and Peace”. I wish it to be so as,” Peace which is our Ultimate Goal in life ❤

Thank you for Reading and The I net for the picture quotes I have shared and to https://www.online-image-editor.com/ for the Quotes I have done Myself ❤

Sending Love, Light and Healing Energies to You ❤

May God’s Blessings Be Upon You ❤

Deepa Nilamani ❤

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Success ~ My Path!

Hello to, All My Dear Readers, Followers and My Blogging Friends ❤

Hello how are you. I Wish You Good Health, Happiness and Prosperity as always. It’s been almost 8 years since I began My Path in 2015.And see how it has grown. From simply Author to:

ultimately step by step to have achieved master’s degree in the field of science. Master of Science MSc, M.Sc. is a master’s degree in the field of science awarded by universities. The Master of Science degree is typically granted for studies in sciences, engineering and medicine and is usually for programs that are more focused on scientific and mathematical subjects, It ultimately depends upon the specific program, earning a Master of Science degree typically includes writing a thesis.

And then, A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD, Ph.D.) is the most the highest academic level, awarded following a course of study and research. PhDs are awarded for programs across the whole breadth of academic fields. Because it is an earned research degree, those studying for a PhD are required to produce original research that expands the boundaries of knowledge, before a panel of other experts in the field.

A thesis is a document submitted in support of candidature for an academic degree or professional qualification presenting the author’s research and findings. In some contexts, the word thesis or a cognate is used for part of a bachelor’s or master’s course, while dissertation is normally applied to a doctorate. This is the typical arrangement In other contexts, such as within most institutions of the United Kingdom, the Commonwealth Countries,. The term graduate thesis is sometimes used to refer to both master’s theses and doctoral Degree.

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I am Moving on as usual with “My Own Journey of Wellness, Encouraging and Healing” So that Everyone can have “Faith, Hope and to Heal” To Lead a Better Life of Good Health, Happiness and Joy”. If you click on the Link, you can Read This Post: The Therapists Voice Forward!

The Topics in Green, if you “Click” on them “Will take you to My other different posts which you will be able to find more information and even Pronunciation”. I have another website with “My own little Poems and Pictures of some of My Hobbies” if you are interested on seeing, “What else I am doing” during my spare time you can have a look at: https://deepanilamani.com/

As always, it is all free”. You can share and pass it on also for others who can benefit from this post. I hope All those who Read will be able to make the maximum use of all these facts and make, “Your Lives More Healthy and able to Lead Better lives in Happiness and Peace”. I wish it to be so as,” Peace which is our Ultimate Goal in Life ❤

Sending Love, Light and Healing Energies to You ❤

May Gods Blessings Be Upon You ❤

Deepa Nilamani ❤

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