{"id":33334,"date":"2022-09-10T20:44:48","date_gmt":"2022-09-11T01:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/4-tips-for-protecting-your-voice\/"},"modified":"2022-09-10T20:44:48","modified_gmt":"2022-09-11T01:44:48","slug":"4-tips-for-protecting-your-voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/4-tips-for-protecting-your-voice\/","title":{"rendered":"4 Tips for Protecting Your Voice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A wise carpenter takes care of his tools. A gifted surgeon cares for her instruments. A pilot makes sure the aircraft has been well maintained.<\/p>\n<p>As a preacher, your most important physical tool is your voice, and it is important to protect it. Speaker\/Voice Coach Joni Wilson shares some tips that will help you care for your communication tool, your voice.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Never whisper if you are losing your voice. You risk damaging your vocal cords.<\/li>\n<li>Excessive heat and air-conditioning will be dehydrating to your vocal cords.<\/li>\n<li>Use of decongestants when you have a cold will dry up mucous. This will make your voice sound rough and scratchy.<\/li>\n<li>Don\u2019t clear your throat \u2013 instead, sip water to relax your larynx.<\/li>\n<li>Have a cough? Don\u2019t use cough drops with menthol. The cooling factor in menthol will freeze your cords. (<em>Monday Morning Mindfulness<\/em>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style='clear:both'><\/div>\n<div class='the_champ_sharing_container the_champ_horizontal_sharing' data-super-socializer-href=\"https:\/\/www.preaching.com\/articles\/4-tips-for-protecting-your-voice\/\">\n<div class='the_champ_sharing_title' style=\"font-weight:bold\">Share This On:<\/div>\n<div class=\"the_champ_sharing_ul\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style='clear:both'><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A wise carpenter takes care of his tools. A gifted surgeon cares for her instruments. A pilot makes sure the aircraft has been well maintained. As a preacher, your most important physical tool is your voice, and it is important to protect it. Speaker\/Voice Coach Joni Wilson shares some tips that will help you care &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/4-tips-for-protecting-your-voice\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;4 Tips for Protecting Your Voice&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}