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If You’ve Recently Acquired Tinnitus, we are Here to Help

July 23, 2009 3 comments

If you’ve recently acquired tinnitus, we are here to help. There is a lot you can do to start feeling better quickly. For some, a quick fix is possible, especially with the right advice. For others, tinnitus leads them to transformative, liberating, and relaxing life changes. In either case, no matter how stressful it might be right now, tinnitus can be reduced significantly. There is help and hope available, if you know where to look.

I am very sorry that an onset of tinnitus has brought you to this page, and I appreciate you stopping by.

The pivotal bit of information is the “fight or flight” response, and how it gets “stuck” in folks with tinnitus. The video tells you more, and our site is here for you.

Thank you sincerely,

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Dainis W. Michel
Founder CureTinnitus.org

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“I had major breakthroughs for all listening to you and Julian talk. Thanks so much for all your work.” –R

“Delighted, appreciate it beyond words…” –L

“…The conference calls are great as we can help each other” –R

…with the help of this site, I am learning to deal with [edited] and my -T- is becoming less and less noticeable. –B

I just want to add that you are truly an inspiration and I hope that more people find your website. I find your videos to be enlightening, and it really gives me hope, and I’m sure others too. God bless, –J

It is not coincidence that I saw your e-mail this am, right at the time I realized my tinnitus was gone. –E

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Only have 3 minutes to learn about curing tinnitus?

July 23, 2009

If you only have 3 minutes to learn about curing tinnitus, then place your name and email address in the form at the top right (under “subscribe and start liberating yourself of tinnitus now“), and watch the video below.

The video is about the curability or incurability of tinnitus. Kevin Hogan, Paul Tobey, Dr. Hans Greuel, Dainis W. Michel, and Julian Cowan Hill comment on the “curability debate” in this 2:22 video. Is it a really a debate if that many people are walking around who report having healed themselves?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2uLI4HrzCo

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Gently Go From Tinnitus to Liberation

July 23, 2009

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Liberate Yourself of Tinnitus, and we will Plant a Tree in Your Honor

July 23, 2009

Members who liberate themselves of tinnitus get a tree planted in their honor. What a wonderful goal! The road to liberation from tinnitus can be challenging, as many of us are stuck in our own ruts. Think of a tree being planted in your honor when you can finally thank tinnitus for having come into your life, and when you can thank it for having gone. Some people experience a rush of gratitude, when their tinnitus reduces to an “almost imperceptible” level. Give me a ring, if you get there, cuz I think good enough is good enough…we’ll plant that tree for ya!

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Look after yourself properly and your tinnitus will take care of itself.

March 14, 2009 11 comments

Look after yourself properly and your tinnitus will take care of itself. By Julian Cowan Hill R.C.S.T.

When you work with hundreds of people with tinnitus, certain patterns become clear. The core issue seems to be learning how to let go at a deep level, and once a person becomes able to do this, symptoms get better. In this article I want to show that if you receive the right kind of support, then the process of letting go takes place all by itself. I have had a lot of experience easing people with tinnitus out of a locked up state, and have witnessed great improvement not only with the noises in their head, but in their ability to be comfortable, positive, relaxed and healthy.

A person with tinnitus typically holds tension at the base of the head and along the length of the spine. Often the body feels like it is standing to attention or bracing itself. One man lay on the couch and claimed he was relaxed, and yet his head wasn’t even touching the pillow! He wasn’t aware of this, and when I told him, he needed to put his hand behind his head to check what I said was true. I have met literally hundreds of people with tinnitus who have not much body awareness because they are too locked up and numb to be able to feel what is going on inside.

Tinnitus people live in their heads spending most of their time living in hectic thought processes, planning, analysing, worrying, imagining, sorting out problems. There is always something to be achieved and there is rarely a prolonged period of just being happy with the way things are. Give a person with tinnitus a day off, and they will fill it with frantic activity, rather than sitting somewhere quietly and noticing the surroundings, without a care in the world.

It is always very revealing talking to people with tinnitus about how they relax. They might say they enjoy gardening for example. But when you look into it, rather than being aware of the positions of the body, what they can smell, or how the plants looks, that is, simply being aware of the present moment, it seems that they spend most of their time in their thoughts, only vaguely in touch with their body and sometimes miles away from what they are doing. People with tinnitus on a walk, for example, will be much less aware of the simple sensation of their feet on the ground than what is going on in their head.

As a Craniosacral therapist you can literally feel how people hold themselves and how open or closed their system is. Treating tinnitus I often find a moment when intense energy at the base of the head releases, and suddenly the spine relaxes and people reconnect with the body. When they get up at the end of the session they are much more aware of how their body feels inside, and they feel really connected to the ground. When this happens their head feels lighter, calmer and clearer.

If tinnitus could talk, as a symptom, it would cry out, “Listen to your body and learn to let go.” Although this condition actually forces you to listen to your body, most run away and hide in frantic activity, desperately trying to divert their focus away from themselves and their inner world. Sometimes tinnitus makes people run away from themselves even more. They cannot accept the way they are inside. The only place for them to go is into their thoughts and activities.

In my experience it only becomes possible for the central nervous system to let go and switch off when genuine support is offered. When this sense of support is felt through direct contact, and the nervous system experiences a calm, clear and manageable contact, this brings in a very real possibility of transformation.

We can only let go when we feel safe, and someone is there to hold us. As a practitioner you become very used to meeting people who are carrying too much and do not let themselves be supported. Consequently they spend most of their life in a permanent state of overwhelm.

When this support strengthens into a help network reaching out over several weeks or months at a time, this can have a profound effect on a person’s sense of well being, and what they are able to manage. This can provide the platform for them to let go much more deeply than they are used to, on a mental and emotional and physical level.

Craniosacral therapy also brings sensitivity and energetic awareness into contact with your body. This gradually helps you develop your own awareness of how you really are inside at a deep level. In my mind it is one of the best therapies for bringing the nervous system back into a state of manageable calm. This is a very real, palpable experience that you gradually develop over the course of a few months, and years, depending on how far people want to go.

People with tinnitus have a deep need to be heard and understood. Because I had tinnitus myself for 16 years, of which 4 years was so severe I couldn’t hear the phone ring, I am in the fortunate position of being able to understand what people are going through. People find great solace in knowing that I have healed my own tinnitus, and this gives them not only a positive sense of hope, but also motivation and inspiration to start looking after themselves appropriately.

In a society where people are often told devastating news that there is nothing they can do about their tinnitus, and need to learn to live with it, I find providing hope, guidance and a means of being able to let go has proved to be a powerful antidote to this negative “spell.” When a person is in need of support and feels they are losing control, it has very serious consequences when a practitioner they go to for help leaves them feeling hopeless and with no way out. This shows very little understanding of this condition and how to meet people’s needs appropriately.

In circles where there is a lot of awareness and experience with the relationship between practitioner and client, it becomes clear that practitioners needs to care about their clients and be open to be affected by their suffering. Deep down we all know that if the person we go to for help doesn’t really care, then there is only a limited amount of value in what they are offering and their ability to resolve deeply held issues.

It is commonly accepted that tinnitus appears when someone’s nervous system becomes stuck between “fight or flight” mode (sympathetic hyper arousal) and the freezing response (parasympathetic overwhelm).

When we move into a state of red-alert the way we hear changes radically. Normally we happily monitor background noises just below the level of consciousness and can focus sharply on important information when needed, e.g. hear one person’s voice in a noisy pub. In red-alert mode, which includes most people with tinnitus, you listen out for any sign of danger most of the time and as a result you notice background noise.

In fact your hearing becomes so sensitive that you hear the noises inside as well as outside the body. Nervous impulses along the auditory nerve can sound like a buzz or hiss. Movements inside the head such as changes in pressure can sound like crackles and pops. For some, the sound of the heart beat becomes noticeable, and for many it can becomes hard work trying to distinguish what’s important from all the cacophony going on in the background.

The cerebral cortex also becomes highly activated and so the part of the brain that remembers sound, recognises it and can conjure up any imagined sound becomes over-amped and too switched on. This means that our sound imagination can take over. I can remember, when my tinnitus was bad, listening out for the doorbell and often swearing that I heard it, when in fact it was just my auditory cortex being very active. It was very confusing.

When I take on a client with tinnitus, my aim is to help bring them back into a switched off, not-a-care-in-the-world mode. As they move more and more into that state, people commonly improve in the following way:

The first sign of relief comes as you stop being bugged by symptoms so much. This often happens fairly quickly, after 4 to 6 sessions or so. The tinnitus is there but it is not nearly such a big deal. I find that knowing others have got better really helps at this stage, as well as understanding that tinnitus is just a central nervous system reaction to having too much undigested life experience going on behind the scenes. This helps the whole condition feel less and less threatening.

Then, as you genuinely start learning how to let go, you start paying less attention to it and forget about it. You can spend a few days without bothering to notice how it is. This can be a milestone of progress, as it gives you proof that you are going in the right direction. This in turn can help you let go even more, creating a positive circle of progress. To get to this stage may take anything from a few months to a year or two depending on how much people need to process and release.

Gradually symptoms become harder and harder to notice, and although people can readily find the noise again if they look for it, tinnitus has really started to play a minor role in that person’s awareness.

It is at this stage, that something vital happens. Tinnitus will often come back if there is acute stress, tiredness, anger, illness etc, but people start to learn that how they are has a huge effect on symptoms. As a result they start to take more responsibility for their own health and really start to look after themselves. They notice that their usual habit of getting twitched up about things doesn’t help, and may well take this into therapy.

For these people tinnitus now has become a healthometre acting as a happy warning system telling you to calm down, get help or have a few early nights. People know that if they have a bad week, that it will soon balance itself out again. They also start to becoming much more self-sufficient in their own management and are motivated to look after themselves. They know what they need, and have ready access to that help.

Eventually, as the nervous system strengthens more and more, it takes more and more resistance, stress, illness, trauma etc to bring the symptoms back. For example, just a couple of years ago, I found coffee and wine made my tinnitus come back, but these days I can get away with coffee and wine every day (not something I encourage!) and still be free of it.

I believe craniosacral therapy is particularly good for tinnitus as it works very specifically on the parts of the central nervous system that switches off the stress response. It helps people come out of the freezing response, pass through fight or flight, back towards the ideal and calm state of homeostasis. It is important to note that some people may never have experienced this ideal state of calm and well being and it can come as a real surprise and new experience, as it was for me!

I have tried to capture some of the main qualities of these states in the chart below:

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Tinnitus Patient Personality Characteristics

March 12, 2009

Care and Concern

It might be tough to accept, but research shows that people with tinnitus exhibit similar behavioral characteristics. A logical thing to ask then, is whether the characteristics actually cause the tinnitus, instead of the trigger or event that tinnitus patients often associate with tinnitus (the concert, the loud noise, the stress, etc.).

The following translation is not available anywhere else in the world. I personally translated the German text of the scientific study for you.

Here is my translation of Dr. Greuel’s “Die Biomentale Therapie.” (p. 39)

“…
Tinnitus Patient Personality Characteristics

In the course of treating several thousand patients, including the group for this study, a fairly uniform personality of tinnitus patients became apparent.

* Conscientious, duteous, strong sense of duty
* High-effort and diligence
* High demands of self
* High ambition
* Perfectionism to the point of being pedantic
* Compuslive and depressive
* Tendency to overextend, overwork, overburden, and exhaust oneself
* Lack of ability to relax, reduce the load of burdens, and regenerate

Most patients say that they can’t “turn off,” that they think constantly, they complain, and are mentally very active. (Note, the German “geistig ständig aktiv” also implies high emotional and spiritual activity along with mental activity).

Rest, relaxation, recuperation, vacations, being lazy, etc. are completely foreign to most tinnitus patients.
Also, the boundaries of one’s own capacity to cope with pressure tend to be either ignored or not honored. As such, the symptoms of tiredness and exhaustion that register themselves to our bodies in the form of temporary tinnitus, dizziness, pressure in the ears, headaches and migraines get ignored. The symptoms are not understood as warning signals anymore, they are dismissed or suppressed with medications.
…”

Footnotes
Dr. med Hans Greuel Die Biomentale Therapie: Ergebnisse eines wissenschaftlichen Forschungsprojektes am Beispiel einer Psychoneruroimmunologischen (PNI- Therapie) des Hörstüres, Morbus Meniere, und Tinnitus, ISBN; 3-9801449-4-1 ,p. 39.

JULIAN COWAN HILL R.C.S.T., TINNITUS, FROM TYRANT TO FRIEND: How to Let Go of Ringing in Your Ears, p. 10.

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Describes me	Characteristic
	Give you a day off and you'll fill it with activity
	Quite critical of yourself and others
	Take on too much - can't say no.
	Have a point to prove
	Highly achievement orientated
	Need success and results
	Perfectionist that frets about the tiniest things
	Need to understand exactly what is going on
	Need to know why why why, and how
	Not the best listeners in the world
	Cerebral - lives in thoughts
	Meticulous
	Tell everyone about your problems
	Tendency to be highly strung
	Always things to do that need ticking off a list
	When you supposedly relax, you are still in your thoughts
	Tendency to blame people or external things as cause of your problems
	Look after everyone else but yourself
	Need to be heard, recognised, noticed, acknowledged
	Very good at doing, not good at just being

Describes me	Symptom
	Focussed in your head and not in your body
	Racing thoughts
	Tense body
	Not able to settle and switch off
	Can’t do nothing – it’s a waste of time!
	Constantly worrying
	Not able to feel body clearly
	Accelerated
	Never satisfied
	A driven approach to life
	Highly reactive to people around you
	Oversensitive to moods, atmospheres
	Always doing too much, working to lists, deadlines and achievements
	Easily angered, irritable
	Gets hot easily but hands and feet are cold
	Digestion is sensitive, bloated, irregular
	Forgetful
	Sleep is light and you wake easily
	Collapse in a heap at night, groggy in the morning
	Prone to anxiety and panic attacks
	Distracted by everything going on around
	Hard to focus on one thing
	Moody, up and down
	Crave sugary foods, coffee and other quick fixes
	Breathing is centred in upper chest rather than belly
	Breathing tends to be shallow and quick
	Eyes dart about
	Ears pick up all background noise
	Background noises are irritating and distracting
	Sensitive to smell
	Sensitive skin
	Heart beat is quick, too strong, accelerated or irregular
	Prone to anxiety

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