Speaker 1: Creativity is an addiction, unplugged because we will always say
yes to creativity, totally uncut because we all make mistakes.
So turn it into a tool. This is arrow unplugged,
hey Zaro, And this is vocal dfrag.
Speaker 2: Vocal defragging is having a physical conversation where you can
go back and listen to your emotions, your inflection, your pitch,
your volume, your tones. I strongly suggest vocal defragging because
you can write in a journal all day, but when
you come back to it to study it, you don't
hear your voice. You just see a bunch of words
and your interpretation in the days ahead.
Speaker 3: You know what. It makes up its own storyline.
Speaker 2: So even though I've been a daily writer for twenty
nine years and I've been basically defragging in a different
journal since twenty seventeen, I go back to those pages.
I don't hear my voice, I don't hear the emotion
or the physical questioning and how I come up with
answers and then come back and question those answers. So
that's what vocal defragging is, and I do invite you
to pick up that journey. And I know people are
so afraid of getting caught for opening up their hearts.
Speaker 3: I get it.
Speaker 2: But you know what, though, sometimes those people on the
outside have nothing to do with the person inside of you.
That's why I suggest, and I do encourage you to
vocal defrag. Today's subject who Man. It came to me
really hard, and it's been something worth researching. It actually
started when I went to I'm getting ready for a colonoscopy.
Speaker 3: Oh my god. He said that word. Oh my god.
Speaker 2: I wish everybody would have a colonoscopy. But the doctor
was concerned with this thing called invisible reflux. And invisible
reflux is not like acid reflux, but it is. And
you know you've got invisible reflux when you have something
to eat and then you get post nasal drip. Your
voice is hoarse, and there's other things that are going
on inside your mouth, like bad taste and stuff. And
so I sat there and I thought about, Wow, invisible reflux,
which is called silent reflux. That's kind of like the
official term of it. And it's like, okay, if most
people don't realize they've got this silent reflux, and it
is doing damage to your mind, body, and soul, especially
your throat. What other things in our life are invisible.
So in my de fragged journal writing, I asked the
question do I have invisible anger? Is there such a
thing as invisible anger?
Speaker 3: What about you? Do you?
Speaker 2: I mean, you've got physical anger, we all have that,
but what about invisible anger? And I had to do
some research on that and believe it or not, invisible
anger does exist.
Speaker 3: People who have.
Speaker 2: Invisible anger don't really know they've got it, or if
they do, they try to hide it. Invisible anger is
covering things up and always being happy because we're always
told that, hey, look man, it takes just as much
energy to be positive as it does to be negative.
People who have invisible anger actually bring damage to others
around them, and they.
Speaker 3: Don't know it. That was the part that shocked me.
Speaker 2: They don't know that they've got invisible anger and they're
using it on other people. Some of the ways that
you can identify in visible anger, it's sarcasm. If you're
very sarcastic or cynical to our different things that are
happening in life, you actually could have invisible anger. Ways
that you can get around this or to learn from it,
or even to help heal it is that you have
to become aware of it. You have to know how
you are setting yourself up with others in conversation. There
are many times that you know, being a radio guy,
you know, we do get a little cynical. We do
get a little sarcastic, because you know, in radio, when
you're jocking it up over a song or you're doing
it on talk radio, you know, people tend to laugh
at stuff like that, and sarcasm is one of those
things where people go, ah.
Speaker 3: God, almighty, I've been there before.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, I like listening to this person because
they talk about this and this and this and this
and so. But that's one of the things that you've
got to learn. If you are being sarcastic or cynical,
and you are aware of it in a present conversation,
maybe we should step back from that because the after
effects of what you're doing may not be a positive
outcome in your presence.
Speaker 3: Remember, what we say, what we write, what we do.
Speaker 2: In our everyday life has an after life and an
after effect on something. And then we wonder why we
feel like crud. We wonder, well, why aren't things happening
the way that I want them to? What is going on? Well,
the question is is that what did you do before
you got here? Were you locked inside some sort of
invisible anger and without even knowing it? But now, because
of how you're handling things, you might actually see yourself
as an invisible angry person. Your body language is showing
it invisible angry people. Now once again, those that suffer
from invisible anger do try to hide it by being
happy all the time, and they don't realize what they're
doing to other people. So, if you're facing those moments
in your personal life and you're using awareness as a key,
the thing is is that it's not going to take
just one shot at Hey, today I was aware, Tomorrow
I'm going to be fixed. Yeah, that's not true. I've
been a daily writer for twenty nine years. I know
what's in those journals, and I know what I have
put on those pages in order to help free the
anger or the pain from my mind, body, and soul.
As a broadcast instructor, I have to coax people to
put on the earphones. I don't like the way my
voice sounds. Well, if you don't like the way your
voice sounds with earphones on, how do you like your
voice without the earphone?
Speaker 3: I guess it's okay.
Speaker 2: Yeah, But what about that inner voice that really doesn't
have a physical sound. Ooh, an invisible voice. Because we're
talking about invisible things. What is your invisible voice saying
to you that the rest of us can't hear. Is
it feeding the invisible anger? Is it causing invisible reflux?
Because you know, when we get worked up, oh my god,
the acid is flowing inside our stomachs and ride up
that esophagus. So I ask about your invisible voice. I
ask about your invisible anger. I just want to hear
what your interpretation of self is. And that's what vocal
defragging is all about. And I put so much love
and interest in the physical conversation because you've got to
hear your emotions as they are being freed from your innercore.
Because if you put it on paper, like I said,
then when you come back to it, it's just another
day of reading. And oh my god, this guy, it's
been in a bad mood that particular day. So to
hear the way that you present your words is so
soothing to your soul. It's almost like you're telling yourself.
I'm listening, what are your questions. I'm listening. Try it sometime.
I know it's going to take some confidence, some courage,
and I know we all fear challenge and change, but
you know what, the new you is looking at you
in the mirror every day.
Speaker 3: I'm MARYL. And that's vocal, D fragging