It Doesn’t Matter if You Can’t Sing!

Hi I’m Helen – MD of Music for Health and I can’t sing! Initially Music for Health was just a local endeavour as further research into how the correct sound frequencies can enhance our lives. We – that is alongside David, we chose to continue our research with Residents in Care Homes especially with elderly Residents whose instinctive re-balancing is now usually more limited. (We are all instinctively re-balancing ourselves continually. Maybe chatting to a friend, listening to music, taking a walk etc.) David and I had the joy of working with hundreds of people in Residential Homes around the Chichester Area – the success of this was beyond our wildest dreams. The staff and management in these homes were amazed to see the difference in their Residents. One Manager said “What do you do next, walk on water?” – but what happened at this particular home, Royal Bay in Aldwick, is too long to share here.

Homes were spreading the word and what had initially been an extension of research became a life enhancing company for real. We were getting more enquiries than we could cope with and too far away in distance. Amazingly this was solved by the Express Newspapers who had heard what we do and gave us a lot of coverage, so suddenly people from all over the country also wanted to help people in their own area and amazingly make an income at the same time.

I had been delivering all these initial years of hundreds of workshops despite the fact that I have a terrible singing voice (though I love to sing). When my four children were little they used to hide in a big cupboard we had to get away from the voice – I must add they were being very cheeky. Anyway, it has come to my attention that some people think that they would not be good MFH team members because they can’t sing! If that was the case you can gather Music for Health would never have got off the ground, never mind been a huge success. There is only one section of many in Music for Health workshops that involve singing and that is involving the whole workshop (between 6- 20 people) joining in, all with song sheets. I always used to say to them that I couldn’t sing so they would have to make an extra effort. Later on the Residents got to know me and got cheeky and if I said I couldn’t sing – they would yell back “we know you can’t”. Strangely it was part of the bonding – as almost all of our Residents become as family.

Don’t let the voice get in the way of Happiness.

Obviously if you can sing – how lucky are you! You would also be made welcome as part of the Music for Health Team.

Helen X