…In the simplest terms, the more you breathe (or the more free your breathing is) the more you feel; the less you breathe (or the more unconsciously tightened your breathing is) the less you feel…An unconscious habit of tightening your muscles and your breathing doesn’t only limit your experience, it also limits your voice. That’s true for a lot of reasons. Perhaps the most central reason is this: breath is the energy source for your voice. No breath, no voice. Period…Tightening is human. Characters tighten all the time. An actor needs to be free to tighten whenever it’s appropriate. It’s just that you don’t want to tighten habitually, unconsciously, always in the same way. You need to have the option to be responsive to the situation you’re in. By helping you free and then manage your breathing, good voice training helps you increase the options available to you: to feel more, or to feel less; to speak more easily when stressed or to speak with more difficulty - all are useful to you, and all should be available to you…